Beautiful Trance

~Prince Randall ~

I wasn’t expecting her to be so soft towards me, especially not after what she saw last night. But when she came up to me in the river, the way she looked at me, spoke to me, and even touched me would forever be a surprise to me.

‘I am not used to anyone being nice to me, and now she’s acting this way, I don’t know how to act around her. I need her to keep being harsh and mean to me. That’s the best way we can relate to each other.’

I fetched some wood from nearby trees to make firewood for the last activity on our list which was ‘make a campfire’.

“We are supposed to fetch the woods together.” She said from behind me, smiling widely and waving her cutlass in the air.

“I didn’t want to bother you about it. Also, I thought you’d prefer reading your novel.” I answered, striking the log of wood with my axe, splitting it into two.

“The novel can wait, okay? I’ll just continue when we get back home.” She added, and I heaved a sigh.

“Fine. You’d help in carrying the