"Oh," she dragged me again and I didn't get a chance to get my shoes or to put shoes on her. When I open the door, she looked around and breathed the fresh air. "Wow." She said mesmerized and slipped off her hands as she walked around and admired everything around her.
Different kinds of exotic animals are around her even butterflies are big, colorful, and beautiful. That cannot be seen outside our world. Bees are also around her and the very amazing thing is they didn't sting her but followed her every move instead. She lifted her right forefinger in front of her nose and a big pure white butterfly like a snow perch on it.
"It's amazing here, I wish not to leave this place." She said happily. My Adhiti, this is another time that I saw her smile so pure and so innocent. Catastrophe can be an antagonist but both of them always make my heart skip a beat. "Should we always eat our snack in your garden?"
"Anything, love. Besides, my garden is your garden, too."
"But you are going to leave this house soon. Since you are the crown prince. I am right, my Prince?" she smiles as the butterfly flies away and she gently put down her hand. She never failed to make me fall in love all over again.
"I never pray to be the crown prince, having you with me is where I am contented." She walked towards me and gently took my right hand. "My life has never been so magical until I found you." I gently took her cheek by my left hand.
"You never failed to make me flatter in your pick-up lines."
"God, I miss you so much." I murmur. I never opened up and asked her how she became Catastrophe. I don't care because the very important of all is, she's safe now and she's with me. "I wished that this dream never ends." Everything is very magical that makes me think that being with her is just a dream. I was taken aback when she punched my jaw hard. Wow, that was painful but she's more in pain than I am. "Why the hell did you do that?"
She groans as she held her right fist. I took her hand and heal it if there is any broken.
"Damn you! I am punching you for you to wake up from thinking that this is a dream. This is not a dream and as much as I wanted to believe in all of this I can't. Because you are too unbelievable." She babbled. I love the way she babbled. I smack her lips and yes, it is not a dream. "You know how hard your jaw is?" she asked when I pull my lips a little away from her. "My fist felt like cracking."
I sigh and chuckled in amusement.
"Next time, don't punch me. It will hurt you a lot." I massage her slender small hands. It looks small to me but beautiful and has long fingers. The hand of a musician.
"I wanted to punch you again. Do you know how much I wanted to fucking punch you and beat you up when every time I heard from the girls you fuck how good you are?"
Wow, she's something. It scared the hell out of me. However, it is my fault for breaking her heart. Yes, I did entertain girls a lot but never enjoyed it that much. She always came into my mind and because of my depression, every girl that I have intercourse with, all I see is her.
"You can beat me up." I pull up her hands and kisses all of it. "But don't hurt yourself."
She sighed like defeated and I guess that she surrenders. But I know that she's peeved on those girls. She doesn't have to get insecure because she's all I love most. She gently stroked the strands of my hair that almost cover my eyes.
"Why is your hair always disheveled?"
"I am not paying attention to it."
"A prince always looked well-groomed. That's all I know since I met the Princes in the Kingdome of Pyr and two Princes from Hydōr." She fixed my old dirty white shirt, unbuttoning it except to the last one on top.
"A prince should always look well-groomed, but a real prince doesn't have to be that way." She giggled and smacked my arm. Ow, she's really hard on hitting me. Since when did she become a hitter? I smack her back with my lips on her neck almost leaving a mark. She gasped sexily and complained about it. "A real prince had empathy. And mostly, a real prince never hurt his lady physically."
"Hmm," she just hums like she's not even convinced on my words. "How did Falcon become a prince?"
"He's Prince by blood."
"That also means that he's a real Prince." She smirked at me. Oh goodness, she's a smartass. I almost forget about that. Damn, it is exhausting when she started pulling an argument. "He's a pervert, I will come back to him soon."
"Come on, love. I can take care of him. You don't have to put yourself in danger." We all stop even the animals when a sound of complaining stomach interrupts in the middle of silence. I didn't stop myself to laugh.
"That's my stomach!"
"A-alright…" It is really hard for me to stop laughing when she looked that adorable blushing about it. I kneel in front of her and kissed her stomach then, I wrapped one arm around the back of her thighs and pulls her until she's on my arm like a sack of rice. She shrieks in very long high pitch sound. "I am going to feed you, so your stomach won't complain anymore."
"Put me down!" I did not put her down. Instead, I walk straight to the kitchen and I put her over the counter for her to sit. She breathed and hold her head. I smiled at how adorable she is and I massaged her temple. She moans and closes her eyes. "Don't do that again if you don't want me to puke."
"Do you still feel unwell?" she just nods. I walk towards the basket of oranges and took the wooden chopper and slice all the oranges in the basket. "Are you going to make orange juice?"
"I am going to make cocktail juice. What else do you want to eat?"
"Can you prepare my foods right away? I am really hungry." I toss a ripe mango.
"Eat this. Do you want lobster and prawns? Or what's your suggestion to eat, love?"
She smiled at me like she's mesmerized on me. However, I was more mesmerized on her. Her smiles make me fall in love all over again. Her smiles make this lovesick heart skips a beat.
"Should I be the one to practice kitchen cooking? I will be Mrs. Gregory."
"It's Mrs. Erā, sweetheart, Gregory is my surname outside world. I get it from Marissa's father." She grimaced on the unfamiliar information from me. I just chuckle and walk towards her and gently kissed her forehead.
In our perfect candlelight dinner, I told her everything she doesn't know about me. Instead of being a crown prince, as the firstborn of my father, I have control over nature around. I can heal the injured, I can talk to animals, I can grow plants, I can heal plants, but I cannot bring dead plants back into life.
She also did love my cooking and I told her that I get the recipes from her mother. I also told her that I am always in their home when it is the weekend and tried to avoid Eliza. I felt very guilty whenever I am with Eliza that's what I am telling her father. I did regret everything I did wrong before when I and her best friend are making each other happy while she's suffering. And instead of me to find her and to rescue her, I drown myself on my depression.
"Please forgive me." That's all I asked of her. I squeeze her hand and gently rubbed my thumb circled her knuckles. "There are only five women in my heart." She raises her eyebrows on me. "My mother, Princess Amanda, Marissa, Almira, and you." She pouted.
"Who's Princess Amanda? Is she your first love?" I giggle and kissed her hands.
"You can also say that. You can also say that she's my puppy love when I was little. Princess Amanda is like a mother to me. She and my mother are best friends. My father was so in love with her back then, but since Princess Amanda loved someone else, not him, he has no choice but to marry someone else."
"Princess Amanda? Not a Queen?"
"She's the only daughter of the highest majesty, King Arthur, King of Psychē. She's the one that I told you before, a Princess who falls in love with a human. And her dreadful wish stays as a curse to both of them."
"What's the dreadful curse?"
"If one of them is injured the other one is injured as well. And if one of them dies, both of them never make it to live."
"That's sad. So, what is it that makes you fall in love with her."
"She's like a mother to me. She always took care of me and care for me always and I considered her my mother when my mother died. She told me that I shouldn't be sad and get depressed because my mother died. She considers her death as a freedom so that she'll be with her soul mate. And they could live in another time."
"Oh, I thought that you are already in love with someone else before me."
"I told you, you are my one first great love, Adhiti. And if you still doubt my love for you, you could always smack my face." She laughs at me.
"Why smacks your face?"
"With love and kiss, dear." I grin at her. She laughs at me and did smack my face with her palm. She's really strong but not strong enough today to make me fall down my seat.
We laugh happily at that moment and then she finally sighed, and worriedness is around her face. I know what that means.
"I missed my family." Of course, she missed them. If she only knew how much they missed her too and mostly, the mysterious one that always misses her.