A Playful Encounter

There remains a young maiden unknown of her beauty that was more than just enough to behold a beast.

Her grey eyes radiated lunacy in color as if the color of both sadness and darkness, along with the desire to get, was mixed together..giving it a greyish hue; it almost seemed to resemble a moon on a dark night.

The light that faded onto her jet red hair, similar to a rose, except it looked more beautiful...the brown color that revealed itself with the help of rays on her hair made her hair look like an ancient relic itself.

Her pale white complexion with the spots of freckles on her cheeks fixated with her beauty like a jigsaw puzzle.

Her robes, similar to that of Cleopatra with silver jewels, were the cherry on top of her frail body.

Arabella was stunned by this beautiful creature; she had never thought that there could be such beauty in the midst of that lone garden.

Aurienbergie was gardening tulips there, her hand had some dirt on it that she cleaned with the help of her dress. Nonchalant of the worldly affairs...she was just lost in her own thoughts.

No less than a tulip that was reserved to only itself.

However, Arabella soon realized that she wasn't the only one looking at her. There was someone else too, perhaps a man.

Arabella hid and moved through the bushes around her to get a closer look at who that person was.. there; she witnessed Eldon Frenzi, the young prodigy of the Frenzi Marchioness family.

He was the third heir of the family, so it became quite obvious that there was way heated political competition for him to get accepted as the patriarch of the family, or so to become a ' Marchioness '.

He realized it a bit too soon; being witty from the very beginning was the only choice for him, and even the lord had his eyes on him.

He met the holy priest at the young age of seven, and his knowledge about the empire and the lord impressed the priest. He was given the offer to be preached by the mighty high priest himself, which wasn't anything ordinary seeing the busy schedule that the priest had.

Ever the children from royalty could only receive their education once in two months. But Eldon was the chosen one ...or at least he thought so.

With the eventual turning of events, the priest was poisoned, and the blame came straight onto that young lad who had merely touched the adolescence age.

He ended up being trapped in a secluded castle at the very back of the empire, to be accurate, it was the countryside where Arabella was present.

That Eldon, tired of life, had just witnessed, for the first time, the beauty and the purity in this monetary world that looked like Aurienbergie.

He was heart-stricken, trying to talk to her but wasn't able to gather the courage to even make himself visible to her.

"You are rather shy, opposite of your looks, aren't you?" exclaimed Arabella jokingly, in an attempt to humoror Eldon.

"Wh- Who are you? And I am not shy for your information, lady!" Eldon scoffingly said, expressing as if Aurienbergie had no effect on him and she was just some average girl that could be found anywhere.

"Oh, really.. I can play dumb if you'd ask me to as if I didn't just witness the third son of the Frenzi family staring at a young maiden. What do you have to say about this, hnn?" she continued her playful charade, provoking the innocent boy to accept the truth that he was stunned by Aurienbergie.

Eldon's cheek turned soft pink from the thighbone of his facial structure to his nose; it all looked like a matte carnation. His eyes fluctuated from here - there, not wanting to get caught. He knew that whatever Arabella said was absolutely right. He, indeed, had fallen just for the nonchalance beauty of Aurienbergie.

"Since you know so much. Do you perhaps know the name of that lady?" Eldon said, turning his head away in an attempt to hide his cute expression.

"Oh my lord, what did I just hear!? Say it again, please.. I wasn't paying attention to it. Won't you say it again, young lord Eldon." she said as she chuckled continuously. She had no idea Eldon would be this desperate and shy not to ask the lady her name herself, but instead, he tried to ask a complete stranger.

"What is her name? Hope you heard it this time!" he said articulately, trying to spell out every single word with its correct and clear pronunciation.

"Now tell me her name!", he added to his sentence after a certain pause.

"Ok ok. Monsieur lovesick romantic, I present to you the name of this lady, 'AURIENBERGIE LOPEZ,'." she said in a loud and clear voice so that Aurienbergie could hear what act was going on for the mission of capturing her heart.

Eldon suddenly wrapped his palms around Arabella stopping her from saying anything else. "Why would you say it so loudly???", he said with a subtle anger that he was not ready to meet Aurienbergie yet.

"That is because I have the right to express myself however I want to. You can't stop me from doing it!", she said as she grabbed his hand and attempted to remove it from her the closure of her mouth.

"Ok..but do I look good right now?" he asked her while catching a glimpse at Aurienbergie, who became aware of the fact that she wasn't alone in the garden.

"You don't look too bad, pretty average for a boy.", she answered his question and then she suddenly pushed him off to outside of those dense branches so that he would be visible to the eyes of Aurienbergie.

"You wicked witch!!" he shouted, unaware of the fact that he was being glared at. He looked over at the ground beholding a shadow.

"Oh shit!" he said to himself, knowing that Aurienbergie saw his act. He immediately tried to brush off the dirt from his clothes and then he ran his hand through his hair in an attempt to make himself look cliche.

"Hii.. Aurienbergie.", Eldon greeted as he used the nearby branches to get up.