~.*a single spark*.~ ch 3

Yes it's short, but also, yes it's intresting. Sorry I took so long to upload, I like to have the next chapter done by the time I post the new one. Again sorry about short, the next one is a little longer, promise.

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The two had made it pretty far down the trail, and had stopped briefly to let the horses drink and sit down. Isabella felt her stomach growl, as she groaned and looked up at the boy. "Do we have any food I can eat?" She mumbled, holding her stomach with a grimace on her face. "I haven't eaten since breakfast" she stood up, starting to rummage through his bag, as he tugged it away. She raised her eyebrows and crossed her arms a scowl on her face. "Can we stop and get food then?" She asked with big eyes, walking over to her horse, which she had named Topaz, and petting her mane. "I'm starved."

"There's no places to eat for miles, can't you wait a little?" He laid back on the tree, they really needed a break. "Maybe we can set camp here." He rummaged through his bag, grabbing a something that looked like a picnic cloth, setting it out and sitting on it. "If it rains, we can use our coats as blankets."

"What? No blankets? Not even a pillow?" She looked at the 'bed' with wide eyes, not used to the life he was, sitting on the blanket and patting it. "The ground is hard and icky" she groaned, holding her stomach. "Pleeeeaaasseee" she pouted and pointed to the bag with some food inside, her arms crossed over her stomach. "Pleasepleaseplease"

"Princess, we don't have a lot to eat, it's either eat now, or eat tomorrow morning." He gave her a look, as she sighed and laid back on the blanket, groaning and kicking her legs. "God your whiny."

"Whiny?" She sat up, glaring at him, how dare he call his princess whiny? She was just hungry. "I am NOT whiny." The two looked at one another, grimacing. "Maybe I did pick the wrong person to take me, this boy can't even handle a princess for one measly day."


"Oohohohoho, more like little miss spoiled perfect princess can't handle a normal life for a day." He clenched his fists, furrowing his eyebrows at the princess, as she rolled her eyes.

"Take that back."

"Nope, can't take back something that's fact" he took the bag away as she reached for it, his horse neighing at him tugging on it. "Little. Miss. Spoiled. Perfect. Princess."

"You..... You stupid boy! Give me back my money, right now! I'm going home, I'll have you hunted down and your...... head cut off!" She grabbed the money from his belt, but he was too quick. He stood up quickly, running as the girl chased him, as he easily slipped away, leaving the girl alone at camp, with no money, no nothing, just a loaf of bread, two horses and a blanket. She continued to run for some time, trying to catch him. After a good 20 minutes of searching and running, she slowed down, exhausted.

As she walked back to the empty camp, all she saw were the two horses and some other scattered items, having no idea how to get home or where she was gonna go. As she sat on the ground, her face twisted up, as she blinked back the tears, she felt like she had nothing now, all because of that damn poor boy.

"Gosh, why do you have to trust people so easy?" She laid back on the blanket, letting the tears roll down her face. "Stupid princess" she curled up, feeling anxiety grow in her chest. She had no way of getting home, he practically just left her to die here. As she stood up with weak knees and walked over to Topaz, she packed everything up on the other horse, tying a rope to him so he would come along. She couldn't give up that easy, she had to fight.

As she made her way down the endless paths, she started to loose her way. She had no idea where she was, as she looked down several paths hopelessly. She found the lake once again, following along the edge as she sniffed and held back the tears, she didn't want to die like this. She wanted to be brave, she wanted to be praised. Not the stupid princess who trusted a stupid poor boy and died in the forest because she had no idea, no. She just had to be whiny, she couldn't take what she got. She started to cry again, letting her tears fall on Topaz's mane, before getting off and sitting against a tree, pulling her legs into her chest.

She let out a broken sob, her whole body shaking with each one. Both horses walked over, trying to comfort her, but she pushed them away, shaking her head. "Go, both of you, you'll do fine without me" she laid on the ground, obviously overreacting, as she cried and cried, not knowing what to do.

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Phineas slowed down as he got much into the forest, looking back, seeing no sign of the princess with a smile, he was out of it. He continued to walk, easily finding a path he knew very well, walking down the roads leisurely, like he had just won the lottery. Which, he pretty much had.

He counted all the coins in the small bag again, but noticed something shiny at the bottom. He picked out a gorgeous necklace, it must have been the princesses. He thought about returning it for a second, but quickly decided on selling it and making even more money.

But as he walked, he felt a pang of guilt wash through him. He very well knew the princess would die if he didn't help her. She could maybe survive the night, with her magic and skills with animals, yes, but she had barley any food, and no shelter.

No; with that magic, she could get any food she wanted, she could do anything. "She'll be fine" he lied to himself, the want and need to go back to her feeling greater and greater, and before he knew it, his feet were turning around, going back to camp, from a leisurely walk to a light jog.

He rounded the corner into the open space. "Isabella?" He looked, expecting to see her, butter whole place was empty. He ran a hand through his hair, of course she would move, no the girl couldn't stand still for 10 seconds. "Dammit" he started to jog faster, going down the path, turning down the road to home, assuming she knew her way.

"Princess? You there?" He called out, his hands around his mouth. He searched through the forest rapidly, now worried about her more than anything. "God,why did you have to move?" He rethought even finding her in that moment, but sighed as he went with his heart, turning around and going back down the path, going down the other trail. He prayed she had stopped already, if she was on horseback he might never be able to catch her.

He got out by the huge lake, seeing two horses and what looked like her on the other side. He couldn't help but sprint down the side, jumping from rock to rock as fast as he could, but he lost his footing, falling in with a big splash.

Isabella looked up when she heard the splash, seeing what looked like the same boy in the lake, swimming towards her. Her kind heart lurched to get up and help him, her intelligent brain telling her to stay down, the stupid boy was probably only there to rob her more and leave her for dead.

But, something strange overtook her. She couldn't hear her conscience anymore, she just head her heart beating, as she stood up, quickly, her body pulling towards the shore, watching him swim in, as she held a hand out to help him up.

He grabbed the hand, pulled into an unsuspecting hug. He raised his eyebrows for a second, then hugged back, a blush on his cheeks.

"Why'd you come back?" She mumbled, her eyes were red as she looked up, his heart breaking a little, she had been crying.

"You needed me." He pulled away from the hug, shaking some of the water off,getting back on his horse. "Now, do you wanna go back to camp? Or keep going, cause you just put us back a good mile."

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Maybe I lied on the intresting part, heh. Idk? Comment maybe and tell me what you thought, what your predictions are or anything? Next chapter is pretty meh, but the end leads to another big part of the story that'll take more than one chapter again, thank you for reading, I know I don't reply to all my comments but I read every last one and appreciate all of them! Thank you so much, please fave comment and watch if you haven't already xox