The moon dance

Chapter 10 Eclipse

It’s the afternoon now, the night of the moon dance was a lot and now I'm . . . ENGAGED!?!?! To a king nonetheless… What did I get myself into? I sit in bed trying to gain the inspiration to get out of bed this morning. “Eloise, come on. The king is here and there was a delay with his carriage so he was a bit late… Why are you not up and ready?” I groan in unwillingness “I’m truly sorry I am coming” I say this in slight defeat and lack of energy. I get up in reluctance and get dressed into a light purple iridescent gown, with lace at the bottom of the skirt and a lace bow on the waist. I exit my room after I finish brushing my hair so it isn't tangled to see Eclipse but my question is why arent I drawn to the forest anymore right now? I enter the main entrance and see the gold lining of the door shining more than yesterday. I look down the stairway and see Eclipse. W-why do I feel drawn to him? It’s the feeling the forest gave to me to draw me towards it. I step down till I reach him. “It’s a pleasure to see you again, Eclipse. . . I-I mean your majesty” as I say his name the room stopped to look at me to retreat what I was saying. “Eloise if I am to call you, your name then you can call me by mine if you wish to” “thank you Eclipse” I give him a shy smile, he smiles back “So where is your favorite place in your manor” “it’s the gardens I feel at peace there” “is that why you were in the gardens in our meeting?” good he isn't bringing up the forest. “Indeed it was” “can I see your gardens with you?” “of course follow me” we walk outside making our way out to the gardens when I see rosaline, she turns her head away as she notices me. . . she is still mad at me. I look down, we never fought much and when we did it was never this bad. I try to hold back the tears but one tear decides to shed, making everything harder. I can't let him see me cry the first time we try to get to know each other. He looks over to me almost like he knew right away something was wrong. “Hey Eloise, are you ok, you seem upset.” I look up at him and my eyes betray me shedding more tears. “I-I’m sorry” “for what?” “I-I’m s-sorry I-m crying” “hey, hey, hey why are you apologizing for showing emotions, crying is good. Do you trust me enough to tell me when you regain control of your voice?” “I-I think s-so” at this point I'm sobbing trying to get my words through. Eclipse turns towards me and pulls me into him, my head in his chest as he embraces me “it will be okay, I will protect you” “t-thank you” I feel safe I want to stay in this moment he is calming, comforting like the thought to be in the forest. It's not curiosity but the calming feeling of finding what the magnetic pull is. I always thought that the magnetism I felt would have led me to a safe feeling. The feeling I am feeling now. My crying subdues making and starts again but not for the same reason though I haven’t overcome the feeling of sadness from fighting with my best friend but the feeling of safety, peace and comfort was what made me cry for the only time I felt this was both from trying to follow the pull towards the forest and when I was in the garden at sunset watch the sun fall surrounded by flowers of many kinds but one flower made me feel such a way with the sunset a certain type of rose the Juliet rose the same type of rose Eclipse picked for me. The same type of rose that surrounded us that night, lit by the moon surrounding the fountain. “I am ready to tell you” I say looking up at Eclipse's face. “Alright then” he said as he wiped the tears away from my face. “You see I wasn’t exactly very thrilled about going to the moon dance. For the reason it is being held my best friend Rosaline is also my only friend and we usually don’t have any super intense fights, she was excited and I was happy for her excitement but I wasn’t excited for myself, I also have a history of feeling trapped here. So she used that against me saying it was from that reason other than my opinion. She called me selfish and I started feeling bad then she said we should take a friend break, I got teary from that and we left for the rest of that day’s activities to finish, she has been ignoring me since that day.” “It will turn out ok if you are truly meant to stay friends so don’t worry” he looks at me with kind and caring eyes while saying that. We walk further into the garden. “Eclipse I have a question” “ alright what’s the question?” “What made you decide to ask me to be your future queen, when there were so many others there that are so much better than me?” “Well you see since we are getting married I am going to tell you something that you must keep secret and not tell anyone. Can you promise to never speak of this to anyone other than me?” I look up at Eclipse, into his sparkling red eyes “I promise to never speak of your secret to anyone but you, Eclipse”.