"She's me!?"
"I remember you telling me before that you dont have any memories from before you were eight right? Those are you're memories from when you were a kid. They are coming to you in form of dreams. That family you said you keep seeing was yours. How can you not see all this Taty, they are all about you! That's why don't see the girl's face. That's all I can tell you. For more answers, you need to look for that Booker dude." He said whilst taking a bite of his steak. Tatyana sat there, with her food untouched.
That's who I keep seeing? Myself? Could that family that I keep seeing possibly be mine? If that is so then this could all make a lot of sense. But, what about father, mother, brother? Are they not my family as I always thought they were? How is it that this is getting more complicated the more I think of it?
Booker was leaving the market with his children on each of his hands. They kept pulling him forward for their excitement of getting to know the new place they were in. It was their first time leaving their house since they arrived, since their father had a day off today, they asked him to take them out.
"Kids, I get your excitement, but your gonna break this old man of yours! .... How about we grab something to eat? Does that sound good little ones? But dont tell your grandma about this. No one wants to miss her food right?" They both nodded their heads.
He walked into a hotel and was shown a seat. He sat down and ordered. After a short while, their food was served. The kids started scarfing down their food since they hadn't eaten since breakfast and it was now in the evening. Booker just played with his food but didn't even eat it.
I said I wanted to find Annabelle but, where am I even gonna start? This kingdom is humongous! I can't just go everywhere saying that I'm looking for a certain girl, people would see me suspicious for no reason. What am I supposed to do?.. I guess the first thing I should do is at least eat this food and let it not go to waste.
He looked up and started examining the hotel's interior. Hmm, this hotel reminds me of some of the oldest hotels back in Aruza. Small, vintage but homey. Those paintings must be of the founders of it. There aren't many customers. Most of them are probably from the cinema across the road.
He continued looking around until he saw a very familiar face sat across the hotel. "Is that Annabelle sitting next to a...blue haired guy?" He got up and started walking towards her. His children followed behind him as well. The more he got close, the more he going.
"Ah! Just the man we were talking about! Please take a seat. My name is Lukas James by the way." Booker slowly sat down his eyes never leaving Tatyana. "Hey brother,stop eyeing my date like that or else Im going to have to ask you to leave." Luke said with a humorous glint in his eyes. Booker just nodded his head and gave him a small smile. They sat in an uncomfortable silence for some time till Tatyana finally broke it.
"I remember you saying that you know me right?" She looked at him and he did the same.
"Yes, Annabelle. I know you like the back of my hand."
"That day, you called me Bells. Why are you calling me that?"
"Cause that's you're name."
"No. My name is Tatyana." She said with a firm tone.
"I never said it wasn't. You're name is Tatyana Annabelle Perkins. It always has been Bells."
"No! My name is Tatyana Jones! I dont know who you're talking about!" She said while standing up from her seat.
Luke stood up and walked to her. "Tats, you're gonna have to trust what his saying for you to get your answers. Let the man talk." He held her shoulders and looked into her greens. Tatyana looked at Booker with a lot of hesitation, then looked back to Luke who was nodding his head at her. She sat down and started calming herself. Luke took his chair and placed it next to her so that he could sit there.
"I keep having these dreams lately. You were in it in the last one. It showed you dancing with a little girl who was wearing the exact same dress as I was on the day you saw me. From the dream, you two were best friends. It was on her eighth birthday.
Another one, was her getting prepared by her mother and her going to see her father. It was the morning of that birthday.
And the first dream I had,....was her father getting killed...she was on her mother's shoulder when she saw that. Later on her and her mother were trying to escape but....she was shot with an arrow. She died while holding her child." She finished the last part with tears flowing from her eyes. She started heaving very heavy sobs. Booker's eyes were also lined with tears. Luke felt so sad looking at her crying like that. He wanted to go and give her a warm hug but he was beaten to it by Booker. He hugged her and Tatyana responded by hugging him back. "Bells, please don't cry. I dont want to see you like this." Her sobs started to subside.
"I look for you everywhere around the city to find you with stupid chef and dungeon guy?" Daryl was standing infront of them while huffing. His face was glistening with sweat, showing that he had been running. Tatyana looked up and saw Daryl. She immediately got out of Booker's hold and jumped on him. He wrapped his hands around her without even needing to know why she was doing so. He looked down at her only to see her eyes all puffy from crying a lot and her cheeks flushed. He glared at the two men sat on the table.
"Which one of you did this to her?"
Next up on Hidden Princess:
"Why didn't you tell me Tats? Am I really youre friend if I dont even get to know what's bothering you?"
"You looked so busy so I didn't want to pester you with my silly dreams!"
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