Mira POV

Gloxinia and I had moved into the sacred tree.

We were surrounded by flowers and plants and I couldn't help but smile at the scenery. It was so beautiful. I never knew such a pretty place existed.

He was looking at me and I was avoiding eye contact.

I sat on the grass as he floated in the air  in front of me not bothering to land.

I could hear crickets chirping from the forest outside and the sound was somewhat comforting. My hands were preoccupied playing with the grass but my mind was somewhere completely different.

I wondered what was about to happen.

"Are you mad at me?"

I stiffened at the sound of his sudden voice before shaking my head.

"Mira please speak."

I bit my lip , "I'm not mad at all. I actually feel sad more than anything."

"So why didn't you come to see me? Why were you avoiding me?"

I looked down at the grass I was tugging, "I didn't think I was avoiding you," I said just above a whisper.

"It's been a month since I've seen you."

I looked at him with sad eyes," We're both guilty. You didn't come to see me either."

He looked at me with eyes of curiosity as he finally stopped floating and sat in front of me.

I felt my heart begin to beat a bit faster. I examined his golden eyes and long red hair before feeling my cheeks heat up.

"You know," he began, "You never did tell me why you wanted to become the ruler of fairies in the first place."

I nodded, "I'm aware."

I heard him scoff before sighing, "Mira."

I tilted my head at him.

"Be careful."

"Why?"

He looked up in silence, "I can sense danger you know, like something's coming."

"You and your weird antics," I mumbled.

He smiled a bit before rolling his eyes.

I felt myself relax a bit. He seemed to pushing this conversation forward. I decided I would return the favour.

"How's it like being fairy king?" I asked.

He looked at me before sighing, "Nothing's really changed. I'm still the same me just under a different title. What about you? Have you changed?"

I looked at him in silence as I felt shivers run up my spine. A bunch of sad thoughts filled my mind and I forced a smile.

"Ever since I lost to you I've-"

He cut me off, "Don't say it like that."

His eyes were firm and I could tell somehow it made him upset or perhaps uncomfortable.

I sighed as I thought of how to rephrase it, "Ever since a month ago, I realized I don't really know myself. This whole time I've been chasing after my goal, limiting the amount of friends I have, training intensely and never really getting to know me as me."

His golden eyes scanned me over, "Sounds like you're having a identity crisis."

I nodded.

I bit my lip, "I've been thinking... perhaps I should leave the forest."

I immediately saw a switch in his expression and I felt the need to explain.

"I want to leave the forest, find out who I am, and come back. I want to heal but at the same time learn about myself."

I watched as his facial expression became emotionless. He tilted his head forward and his long red hair covered much of his face.

He closed his eyes for a second.

I immediately felt myself smile. Suddenly, for some reason, I felt happy. I was finally getting to talk to him. The sight of him was making me happy.

I watched as he opened his eyes slowly, "I think that's a bad idea."

The happiness I felt faded immediately.

I frowned, "I wasn't asking for an opinion I was telling you what I'm gonna do."

I watched as he narrowed his eyes at me, "Well I'm the fairy king now so you should listen to me."

I frowned even more, "Can you butt out? It's none of your business."

He shook his head, " I can't do that. I refuse to let you leave."

"Are you serious?"

"I don't know Mira, am I serious?"

I took one good look at his expression and knew he wasn't joking. I felt anger begin to fill me up as my cheeks began to heat up.

He spoke, "Just stay in the fores-"

"Don't tell me what to do! You have no idea what my feelings are!"

His facial expression changed to one of slight surprise.

Suddenly I felt as if my switch had been turned on again. I was so angry. I couldn't believe what he just said. What did he know? He didn't know the half of what I had been through. I clenched my fists before looking back at him. Suddenly, I felt like crying.

I immediately got up and began flying away from Gloxinia. I flew out of the sacred tree.

I didn't want to cry especially not in front of Gloxinia.

I flew away as fast as I could but it wasn't fast enough because Gloxinia had already flown to catch up to me.

He grabbed ahold of my arm and turned me around to face him.

By now, tears were streaming down my cheeks and I tried to turn around again but he yanked me towards him.

"What?! What is it that you could possibly want-"

I didn't finish my sentence as I felt him pull me towards him.

I landed on his chest and his arms wrapped around me as he embraced me in a hug.

There was a silence between us as I felt all the emotions I had been bottling in come out. I began to cry even more. Gloxinia didn't say anything he just continued to hug me.

Soon enough, he brought us to the ground.

He just held me even closer to him and kept his hands tightly around my waist.

After a while, I stopped crying, I had calmed myself down and I looked up at him as he was still holding me.

"I'm sorry."

He looked down at me before shaking his head, "It's okay."

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We were lying on the grass beside each other looking up at the stars. I was quite surprised we were so natural with each other. Especially, after everything that had just happened.

I took a deep breath out as I broke the comfortable silence between us, "You know the last ten days before you became Fairy King..."

"Yeah..."

"Did I stress you out? I mean...were you stressed because of me."

He looked towards me as eyes seemed to dance in amusement, "Maybe. Why? Were you concerned about me?"

I looked away from him ," No."

Yes, of course I was.

I watched as he smirked a bit, "You know Mira, ever since I became the Fairy King I can hear certain things."

I frowned at him, "If you're going to speak to me speak clearly."

"Oh, never mind. I would like to keep it a secret for now anyway. But besides that...I want you to tell me why you wanted to become the ruler of fairies."

There was a silence between us as I looked at him.

"I had a brother."

I watched as he looked at me confused, "Had?"

I looked away from him and back at the sky.

"His name was Lilen. He's dead now. The humans killed him."

There was another dead silence between us. Gloxinia was silent.

Despite this, I found myself smiling.

"He wanted to protect all the fairies in the forest. In truth, he wanted your position. So I decided I would achieve his goal for him, but I failed."

That's when I felt something touch my hand.

I looked down only to see Gloxinia holding my hand. I immediately felt my attitude warm up.

I smiled at him a bit.

" Mira why don't yet let me take on his dream?"

I looked up at him as my eyes scanned him over in silence, "I don't know. Will you be able to protect the fairies no matter what?"

"As long as you're here with me I will."

I felt my smile grow.

"Promise me you won't leave the forest Mira. Stay here with me."

I looked up at him in silence as I felt a rush of emotions fill me up. I wasn't sure if I could keep this promise.

Perhaps though, I could.

"I promise."

I saw him smile, "Good," he said.

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