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Roshinda

Roshinda

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Love Thy Neighbour
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I don't know when it was that I first fell in love with her. It snuck up on me like one of those sudden summer rain showers, when one minute the sky is clear and blue, and then the next thing you know its pouring rain. It leaves as suddenly as it comes, but afterwards everything looks new and clean. Even though there was nothing wrong before the rain, everything is somehow better.

Well it was like that with Lara and I. We practically grew up together, and I took it for granted that we saw each other nearly every day. I thought nothing of it; she was just a girl that I happened to go to school with every day. A very pretty girl, mind you, but she meant nothing to me.

When I was seventeen I finished school and moved away from Hemenster where I had grown up, to the bustling city of Ardougne to train with King Lathas' men. It didn't take long before I realised I missed her. Her musical laugh, her curves, her warm generous smile, her impossibly dark eyes that are so deep they invite you in, farther and farther until you lose all sense of who you are... I missed all those things about her and more.

I couldn't wait until my first year of training was over so I could run back home and tell her that I loved her. Sometimes I think she was the only thing keeping me sane during those long, grueling days of training. I had no way of knowing what Lara thought about me, if she thought about me at all, but the hope that she would accept my love kept me going day after day.

10-Oct-2006 02:43:23 - Last edited on 23-Oct-2006 04:06:31 by Roshinda

Roshinda

Roshinda

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At last the year drew to a close! I gathered my belongings and hurried back to Hememster to tell Lara how I felt. She was sitting under a tree when I found her; her blue skirt was tucked under her perfect legs and she had an open book in one hand and a half eaten apple in the other. Juice from the apple clung enticingly to her lips. She was so lovely, so unbearably radiant. I wanted to kiss her and hold her and make her mine.

Looking at her sitting there made me lose my nerve and my palms were instantly sweaty. I had been away from this village for an entire year, likely she had entirely forgotten who I was. For all I knew, she might have gotten married while I was away, or at the least had a beau. I stood there for a while longer, just soaking up her beauty. Eventually I turned away, hating my cowardice.

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Tobi. Tobi. Tobi. My heart thumps out the name of the one that I love, so loudly I fear it will wake everyone else in the house. I don't care, I'm so happy I could burst, and I want everyone to know it. I won't get any sleep tonight, I gave up trying hours ago. Instead I'll just stand by the window and watch the moon. Everything looks so peaceful in the moonlight. This is my last night as a single woman; tomorrow I will marry Tobi at last!

I have loved him for so long, my whole life, it seems at times. When he moved away to Ardougne I cried for an entire week, wishing him back. Of course it was silly and it didn't bring him home, but it made me feel better. I missed how the sun would create a halo around his head because his hair was so blonde, I missed how his eyes crinkled when he smiled broadly, which was a lot, but mostly I missed his hands. It was funny, because he'd never touched me, but just by looking at his hands I knew he would be strong yet gentle, protecting and caressing. Oh how I wished that I had told him that I loved his hands, that I loved him.

10-Oct-2006 02:43:31 - Last edited on 10-Oct-2006 02:47:15 by Roshinda

Roshinda

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At my mother's urging I tried to move on with my life. It wasn't easy but for her sake I tried, and eventually I stopped pining over him, but I never stopped praying that he loved me too and would come home to me. Tobi had never given me any reason to believe he might love me, but a girl never stops hoping, even after a year.

I'd known he was there the whole time he stood there behind the side of the house, just watching me. I tried to concentrate on my book but I must have read the same sentence a dozen times before I realised I hadn't absorbed a word of it. My heart was pounding so hard, and I could barely breathe. Did he recognise me? Would he stop and say something? I wanted to turn and look at him and let him know I'd seen him, but I was too nervous, so I did nothing.

Despair welled in my chest as I watched him walk away. I sat motionless under that willow tree for hours too crushed to shed so much as a tear; the dew did the crying for me. However, the next morning after breakfast a note was delivered to me that simply said: "If you are unattached, meet me in the willow grove at noon tomorrow." Of course the note had to be from Tobi, who else would have sent it? I spent the whole day on edge, waiting for the next day to arrive.

It was raining when I woke up the morning I was to meet Tobi, I didn't care. It was still raining when I set out at noon, my mother begged me not to go out in the rain, but I went anyway, forcing myself to walk. Tobi stood in the centre of the willow grove, completely drenched, I'm sure I looked a sight myself. I stood at the edge for a while watching his beautiful hands nervously fidget with his jacket buttons. That was the moment that I realised that he loved me, and I knew there was only one thing I could do to show him the feeling was mutual.

10-Oct-2006 02:43:40 - Last edited on 10-Oct-2006 02:48:40 by Roshinda

Roshinda

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I ran up to him and I kissed him, deeply and passionately, watching his eyes widen in surprise and then close as he drew me close and kissed me back. Eventually he pulled away from me, groaning softly. Embarrassed, I looked down at my feet; I had never kissed anyone before. He reached out and raised my chin so I had no choice but to look at him, he caressed my cheek tenderly with one of those beautiful hands. I thought I was going to melt.

"I love you Lara," he said, his voice full of emotion, "I realised that just after I left at the beginning of the year. Yours is the first face I want to see in the morning, and the last face I see before I go to sleep, for the rest of my life. I take it you feel the same?" I had no words, I could only nod.

He was only home for two months before he had to go back to Ardougne for his second year of training, but by the end of that two months we were engaged. Another year has inched by, and now tomorrow I will be Tobi's wife. Maybe prayers do get answered.

10-Oct-2006 02:43:50 - Last edited on 10-Oct-2006 02:49:46 by Roshinda

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Amazing story! Are you accepting bios?

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Name: Sir Dracoto Wolken.
Age: 28
Race: Human
Gender: male

Weapon: A large broadsword, A pouch of throwing knives, and a long dagger inside his tunic sleeve. By flexing a muscle he can release the dagger and let it fall to his hand.

Armour: Heavy white knight chestplate, Greaves, vambraces, boots, gauntlets, and Full helmet. Usualy keeps the visor up.

Appearance: tall, strong build, dark green eyes, long brown hair that falls to his shoulders, a short beard and moustache.

Personality: Fun loving, clever, smart, loyal, honest, and always looks on the bright side of life.

Alignment: Good, follows Saradomin.

Short History: Dracoto became a white knight when he was 16, Not very high ranking, Dracoto still is a Loyal white knight. Dracoto has fought in two battles and a war. two battles against attacking ogres, and a war against the trolls attacking Burthrope.

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