A red haired young woman, lay on a small wooden bed covered with a thin off white bedsheet deep on slumber.
'Arggghhh' the young lady painfully groaned in the middle of night, tossing and turning suddenly in her sleep. 'ARGGGGHHH', her groans became louder.
Thrashing on the bed, she looked and sounded to be in immense pain. Slowly opening her eyes, she cried,
"Please no, not again please no" tears gathered in her eyes because of the pain she felt erupting in her body especially her back."ARGGGHHH".
Florah squeezed the bed sheet in between her fingers as she painfully cried, standing up on her two shaking legs, she supported her self using the wall.
'Thud', she collapsed on the hard wooden floor "please stop,please please stop" she begged "haaaaaaa" she screamed as the pain intensified.
'AAAAAHHHHH!!' her screams got louder in the quiet eerie night.
Her vision blurred with tears running down her oval face as she cried in pain, 'Haaaaaaa' she gasped for air as she felt her body changing, 'please no stop' she kept on crying and begging , but the pain didn't stop instead it became much worse as time passed.
Her frail body started to heat up, sweat staining the worn out cotton night gown she was clothed in.
'AHHHHHHHHHH' her screams became louder as white scales started to appear all over her body. 'ammmmmmhhh' painful whimpers escaped her mouth as the pain tripled, her whole body felt like it had been set ablaze, feeling like she was going to pass out.
Her vision was darkening, 'Crack'she heard her bone breaking 'crack' she heard another, laying limp on the floor she felt like something was growing out of her back.
'ARGGGGHHH' she screamed louder as another wave of pain ran through her nerves, her body had grown very weak as every nerve was strained.
Laying weak and limp on the ground, she was on the brink of passing out when saw 'a dark forest ,small crumpled huts, indistinct whispers were carried by the wind and all of a sudden a deafening painfilled scream erupted in the air' and just like that she blacked out.
A gust of wind blew in the cold night, a red haired girl shivered as she lay on the cold hard wooden floor.
Florah opened her heavy lidded eyes to be met with her dark small room, her body still wet with her sweat she tried to remember wat happened, only for a banging headache to bring back all the painful memories of what she had to endure moments ago.
'Why do I have to go through this ' she wondered, a lone tear trickling down her right cheek.
Shivering from the cold air that passed through the multiple holes in her small abode, she attempted to get up before she would catch a fever and worsen her already miserable state.
'Mmmmmhh' she whimpered as all her nerves were sore from being over strained, grabbing a wooden stool near her bed, she used it as a stand to pull herself up.
'Huuh' she let out sigh of relief as she had succeeded. 'If I do not stretch my limbs, I won't be able to work tomorrow more so lift a finger' Florah thought.
Forcing herself up, she painfully limped across the small room moving back and forth to stretch her sore limbs. After a few minutes,her walking became better even though she was still limping a little. Deciding to change her night gown into a fresh one and go to bed as the sun would soon come up to indicate a new day.
Silence ensued between the two as Florah had answered Jeremiah's question.
Standing up, Jer went over to remove the meat that had been roasting for awhile over the fire that had dimmed, cutting the meat in to pieces and placing them on the metallic plates that Florah had brought.
Moving back to sit with his friend, he saw tears gathering in her eyes. Pulling her up with him, he took her in his embrace and said softly,
"I know l can't change anything but am always going to be here with you, so never feel alone "I have you and you have me".
Soft whimpers and sniffles escaped Florah as she tightly hugged him back.
The two hugged for awhile until Florah tears subsided, "Jer" Florah called, "The meat is gonna get cold" "You glutton" Jeremiah said
Florah let go of him and protested " No am not" ,the two burst out laughing and went ahead to enjoy their meat.
Putting back the used utensils in the house, "Oh Good Lord!!" Florah exclaimed "it is almost three, I should be heading to Mr. Humphis' house".
"What for?" asked Jeremiah,
" I promised to assist him fix little Willie's shed" "Little willie?" Jeremiah asked again "Yes, Mr.Humphis' little lamb" Florah answered.
The nonchalant Jeremiah just yawned and made himself comfortable on her bed.
Florah seeing this said " You know, it's inappropriate that you are sleeping on an unmarried maiden's bed" Florah said with her arms placed on her hips to emphasize her argument.
"Do you plan on getting married soon?" Jeremiah bluntly asked, leaving an open mouthed Florah who was awestruck by her ill mannered friend.
"Do you think I plan on dying a spinster!" She asked defensively.
"I just don't think a sane man would be willing to marry, he paused, glanced at her and made a disgusted face, well you know"he said with certainty.
By now Florah was fuming upset, she grabbed a used plate and asked "KNOW WHAT?" she asked through gritted teeth.
"Go help that Mr. Humph something, he might find it in his heart to propose..." he teased "ARGGGH" Florah threw the plate at him, which he swiftly caught with his eyes closed and yawned.
The upset Florah stormed out of her own house, to which Jeremiah chuckled. "I don't know why, I got a rude idiot with unfiltered manners for a friend" Florah muttered to herself on her way to Mr. Humphis' house.