Leap Dream (Love From Another World)
ARSENIC
“Nona, Your Majesty is looking for you” said one of the guards at my doorstep
“Where is he now?”
“In your room miss.”
“What?” I went straight into the room. ‘that's right! Where can a man go into a woman's room!’
“Where have you been?” ask the emperor without further ado
“Why did you enter my room? Can't you just wait outside?”
Emperor approached me “I asked first.”
“From the jungle looking for cures” I said casually
“Not that I have said, take care of your attitude, behave like a queen, your status is now a future empress! You have to remember that”
“I know.. no one saw me ..”
“What did you say? How do you explain your loss at palace”
“Tell me that I was contributing to society” I said as I stepped forward as the emperor continued to step forward towards me
“Now you should answer my question. Why are you waiting in my room?”
‘sial I've stuck to the wall’
“Is there still a reason for me to meet my future wife?”
‘His face is too close!’ I felt my face heat up
“Ki.. We are not married!” I said while pushing his chest away
“Then stay married.” he said relaxed, which makes my heart pounding.
I got away from my position, and stood where there was more room.
“What do you need to look for me?” ask me to divert the conversation
“Don't I tell you if there's any other reason for..”.
“You know that's not the answer I want.” I cut him off
“Pfft..”
‘sial! What's he laughing at?’
“How come you don't like clothes in this closet?” he opened my closet
“It's not polite to see the contents of a woman's closet!” I closed the closet
“I'll bring in a tailor tomorrow, you can tell him the clothes you like” I nodded in understanding.
“And from tomorrow there will be teachers teaching you from the bottom”.
‘good after being able to write and read, I will make my contract as bait so as not to be harmed!’
”All right I understand. Once I can write and read, you will be the first person I show you my writing later!” say spirit
The Emperor silently heard my words, his ears reddened. ‘what did he blush? Though I want to show you the contract I made for his signature later’
“It seems that I did not wrongly choose you as bait to expel Maura and the emperor's Vera” concubine to divert the conversation. He made me remember how lonely Calista was in this palace.
“Your Majesty, can you let go of Calista? Did you know that while in this palace she was lonely?”
“Do you know what you said?” his serious face appeared “Didn't I tell you? If outside will be more dangerous for him?”
“Your Majesty, isn't being at the palace the same? Especially if she is used as a concubine.”
“Then you mean I better let go? And let him find his own life without family?”
‘haa.. complicated also’
“You can make him an honorary guest or friend.”
“If it's as easy as you say I've done it”
“Will he be confined in this palace forever?”
“No.. once the mastermind of the hostilities is caught, I will release him, he can go wherever he wants.”
‘means I have to speed up the plan of exorcism’
“Yang Mulia.”
“What?”
“What's your name?” ask me. Well from the beginning of the meeting until now to be a future empress I do not know her name. ‘wife like what does not know the name of her own husband’
The Emperor just silently stared at me ‘what's wrong if I ask?’
“Arsen” said
‘Arsen? Like the name I've heard. However, I don't know where’
“Alright Your Majesty, from now on I will call you by the name”
“What? Not polite”
“Why? Rey and Zee who are princes alone don't mind if I call them by the name”
“So you will call me an emperor by name? Where's your manners?”
“uh whereas by calling each other names can look closer”
“Ha?” the Emperor still did not understand my words
“Whatever is clear from now on I will call you Arsen”
“You'll call me that?”
“Hmm, no I will call you with one syllable” the emperor is still silent hearing my words
“Sen!”
“What?”
“Well I'll call you Sen. Let's just say it's my dear call to you, then we'll look closer”
“Do you always want to decide?”
“hehe is not that better than I should call you His Majesty” I said with a smile, finally I can eliminate His Majesty's call for him.
“Alright, I will also choose my dear call for you”
‘why when he says my dear words moved. Damnit damnit! Is there still not enough experience of pain that I have ever felt? Turns out my heart is still weak’
“Nana..” Sen said gently to make me speechless. A familiar name in my ears, unexpectedly my tears flowed as if the longing that had been locked away.
“You why?” tanya Sen holds my sobbing shoulder “Did you not like her nickname?”
I'm auctioning “No Sen, I like it.”
‘somehow when I heard Sen call me that there was a vibration of longing in my heart, a name I missed so much’
“Good.. Now you rest, you must be tired because of the commotion you made” Sen said as he rubbed my head and came out of my room
I guess I won't listen anymore to that dear call, a call I've forgotten since I've been in this world. A very familiar call and very attached to me, Nana which in Hawaiian means spring.
*****
“Meow? (you why?)”
“hmm, just miss my family.” I looked out the window looking up at the night sky that was not much visible to the stars. ‘what might the sentence even though far away we stare at the same sky apply to me who is in this other dimension?’
How long have I been in this dimension, even I've forgotten to count it because of the many I've passed. From being alone with a friend, having two friends, until I met another human. Be given a name, get a human friend, become a servant, be bait, to become a prospective empress. So many things I've been through that I've forgotten my identity, until finally the person who forced me into bait reminds me of a call I've never heard.
Can I go back to my world? That question is always on my mind. What sadness do I want to erase and the happiness I want to be in this world? Tired up? Sure, after everything that happened. I would lie if I said no.
Tonight the longing for something that had been forgotten made my emotions peak, without the middle of my tears came out without a barrier, he said, a long night passed by longing and accompanied by a friend who was always beside me.
“Mother, Father, Sister.. I miss you guys.” all the longings I felt overflowed along with the tears that flowed.