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“Kristi, I’m sorry but we’re going to have to let you go,” the bastard said. I stared at him in disbelief for a second before responding.
“And why is that?” I asked harshly.
“We’ve gotten some complaints from some other managers that you don’t respect them. You question everything they say and rarely do as you’re asked,” he explained. I stared at him for another moment then shrugged. If they didn’t want me around then fine. I grabbed my coat and stormed out of his office with out another word.
“Fucking bastard,” I mumbled as I left the building. What he said was true, I did give the managers a hard time. But come on, they were all idiots! And I wasn’t going to do what they said just because they gave the store manager a gobble to get their job. I pulled out my phone and texted my friend, Keri.
-Can you come get me?-
-Sure. But I thought you said you worked till late.- she responded instantly.
-I’ll explain when you get here-
She didn’t text me back, knowing her she would be already on her way here. I was just glad that she had the morning shift today so she would already be off. I didn’t have to wait long before I saw her red car come down the road. I actually took a moment to be glad that she had issues going the speed limit. I climbed into the car and she took off again before asking what was wrong. She seemed to know that I wanted to be away from here.
“So what’s up?” she asked turning off the music…for once.
“I got fired,” I said shortly.
“Fucking bastards! Why?” she asked. I smiled slightly; it was so like her to take my side before even knowing what happened.
“I don’t do as I’m told,” I said. I glanced over to see her lips twitching; she was trying to hide a smile.
“Oh,” she squeaked out before bursting into laughter. I chuckled a little with her, it was kind of funny. I was very ‘hard headed’ as she put it, I had always had problems with authority. It had also cost me a few boyfriends. But she had always been there saying that they don’t deserve me if they couldn’t handle me. Then she would start singing something about ‘I’m lookin for a hard headed woman.’ I swear, she had a song for every occasion.
“Well whatever,” I said.
“Yeah, fuck ‘em,” she said with a grin as we pulled into her parking lot. She got out of the car but then froze to stick her head back in. “Sorry, did you want to go home?”
“No,” I said as I got out.
“Yeah, didn’t think so,” she said with a grin. As I walked up the stairs to her apartment I began to worry. Sure we said ‘fuck ‘em’ but I need a job, badly. I plopped down on her couch to; quite honestly, sulk while she made us some food. She was right about me not wanting to go home. I was back to living with my mom since my most recent breakup, I didn’t want to deal with her right now. His name had been John, we were just roommates at first but then we started seeing each other. Never date your roommate, he had already replaced me with another girl and I was left to fend for myself.
Keri had offered to let me stay here, but she only had one bedroom. I was seriously considering crashing on her couch tonight though. She handed me a bowl of noodles and plopped down next to me, I saw her glance at the T.V. before digging into her own noodles. I glanced over and saw that the T.V. was off but her Wii was on.
“What were you playing this time?” I asked.
“Smash Bros,” she said proudly. I rolled my eyes; I don’t understand why she likes that game so much, Mortal Kombat is way better.
“Would you mind if I stay here tonight?” I asked randomly. I knew she wouldn’t mind but it was polite to ask first.
“Of course not, you can stay as long as you need,” she said. She must know how much I didn’t want to deal with my mom. “On one condition.”
“What?” I asked unsure. She was such a random person the condition could be anywhere from me having to do jumping jacks to having to play her stupid game.
“We’ll go for a walk! You need to clear your head and I found a pretty path that goes into the woods today,” she said almost bouncing with excitement. I rolled my eyes but got up anyway, it was actually a reasonable condition…for her.
As we walked she blabbed on about stuff I don’t really care about. She knew I didn’t care, but she just couldn’t get of the subject. Her rambling did give me a chance to think though. I had been fired, how am I supposed to find a new job with that bad of a reference. And mom is going to freak out and claim that I’m irresponsible. She might try to kick me out, it was a possibility. Keri figured out that I wasn’t listening and tried to take my mind off of things.
“Hey it’s a full moon,” she said looking through the gaps in the trees. I hadn’t realized that we were already in the woods. I didn’t know how long we had been walking but I was starting to get cold.
“Uh huh. Do you wanna go back? I’m getting cold. We can watch a movie or something,” I said. She was instantly distracted at the mention of a movie and turned with out a word causing me to have to jog a few paces to catch up again. We walked silently for a long time; I knew she was thinking of what movie we should watch. I was starting to wonder how long we had walked into the woods when she finally said something.
“I don’t think it took us this long to get in,” she said matter of factly and stopping on the spot.
“Oh great. You got us lost,” I muttered.
“No. We’re not lost, we just made a wrong turn,” she said cheerfully turning and heading back up the path. She only made it a few steps before she stopped again.
“What?” I asked.
“None of this looks the same,” she said and thought for a moment. She suddenly dashed over to a tree and started to climb it.
“What the fuck are you doing?” I asked laughing slightly at how child like she was sometimes.
“I’m climbing a tree dumbass,” she said pausing to laugh.
“Yes, but why?” I said rolling my eyes.
“So I can get our bearings! I’ll look around at the top to see which way to go,” she explained. She continued to climb until I couldn’t see her anymore.
“Weirdo,” I muttered.
“Kristi!” she shouted down, she sounded panicked. I was worried that she was falling but there was no other noise besides her voice. “Get up here!” The urgency in her voice had me scrambling up the tree. Was there some sort of animal? When I reached her I was a little out of breath from how quickly I climbed.
“What’s wrong?” I asked. She didn’t answer me; she just continued to gaze out at the surrounding area. I followed her gaze and felt my mouth drop. We defiantly weren’t anywhere near where we should be, if we were even in the same country. Or world.
“What…the…fuck,” she whispered in awe. “God this is some freaky Stargate shit.”
“Seriously? We don’t know where we are and all you can think of is Stargate?” I asked, slightly panicked.
“Well it is,” she said a little distracted. She was staring at something behind me. “That looks like a castle, we should head for it.” I thought for a moment, in every horror movie I’ve seen being in the woods was bad. But going to the nearest building was usually worse. I wanted to slap myself, this wasn’t a movie. Oh god, I was starting to think like her. She had already started to climb down, I looked at the building again. It was close, it was defiantly a castle and there were lights on. That’s a good sign right?
“You coming?” she asked from below me. I started to climb down; I couldn’t stay in this tree forever. We discussed what could have happened as we walked in the direction of the castle. We didn’t come up with much; Keri seemed content just to call it magic. I liked more facts then that. We started to catch glimpses of the windows between the trees and we finally stepped out into a huge clearing. The castle towered over us; it did look welcoming in its own way though. She took one look at it then simply kept walking. I followed quickly behind her wondering vaguely what was giving her this courage. As we started up the steps she began to slow, and when we reached the huge doors she stopped completely.
“Do we knock, or just go in?” she asked. I could tell from her voice that all of her courage was wasted on the walk from the tree line to here. I used the knocker quickly before I could change my mind. Even though I didn’t use much muscle on the knocker, which was huge, it seemed unreasonably loud. Someone had to have heard that, but it wasn’t too late to run away. Or maybe it was. One of the huge doors swung open to reveal a man. Ok he wasn’t a man, he had goat legs.
“Oh hello,” he said cheerfully. “Who might you be?”
“I’m Keri this is Kristi, who are you?” she said politely. She was way more trusting than I was.
“Tumnus,” he said simply then thought for a second. “I’m a faun.” I was glad that he thought to give us that bit of information, I had an idea that’s what he was but I wasn’t sure. Keri seemed unsurprised by the information; I’d have to ask her why later.
“Nice, to meet you,” she said. He looked at us for another moment before saying anything again.
“Where are my manners, come inside,” he said and stood back to let us in. Keri urged me in first, which I really didn’t appreciate. I nervously looked around the huge entrance hall and felt her bump into me as she looked around as well.
“Wow,” we both said at the same time then chuckled.
“If you’ll excuse me I’ll get one of their majesties,” he said and hurried off. We looked at each other.
“Their majesties?” she asked. “That sounds… weird. Right?” she asked unsure.
“Yeah, I don’t know. There must be more than one,” I said a little distracted. I was looking at a picture of a lion. I wandered over to look at it closer, I heard Keri follow me to look at it as well.
“They portray it like a god,” she whispered. It was exactly what I had been thinking. We gazed at the picture for a long time not really knowing why, until we heard footsteps again. We were so absorbed in the art that we didn’t realize they were feet and not hooves.
“Yeah that’s my favorite one too,” a voice said. I smiled when I saw Keri jump. We both turned around at the same time to find a guy about our age grinning at us. He was wearing odd clothes, though seeing as we were in a castle we may have been the ones with odd clothes. I glanced at Keri to find her grinning back at him with a twinkle in her eye that told me she liked what she saw. He was tall, had blond hair and blue eyes, and he was pretty good looking.
“So I hear that you two are Kristi and Keri? Which one is which?” he asked.
“I’m Kristi, she’s Keri,” I supplied knowing she would be to nervous to introduce herself.
“Ah well it’s nice to meet you,” he said shaking both of our hands. “I’m Peter. Where are you from?” This was weird, do we say where? And if we do how specific do we get? Keri met my eye and it was clear she was wondering the same thing.
“Ok… well this is Narnia, and I would assume that you’re from the same world as me. I was from England,” he explained. Well that made it easier.
“Oh I thought so from your accent. We’re from America,” I said.
“America, I always wanted to go there!” he said staring off slightly. “Always seemed so far away, kind of funny to think about now.”
“Narnia. I’m guessing a completely different world?” Keri finally spoke up. He nodded, and we looked at each other. Great.
“Well you must be cold I’ll show you to a room,” he said and took off. We followed behind him silently as he led us through hallways and up staircases. I was glad that he was putting us in the same room; I would feel more comfortable if we could stay together. He finally stopped at a door and went through to show us around, it was a beautiful room.
“Who’s this Pete?” someone asked from behind us. I looked around to find another guy, maybe a year or two younger then us, standing in the doorway.
“Oh this is Kristi and Keri,” he said indicating who went with which name. “This is my brother Edmund.” Edmund was almost the opposite of his brother. He had dark hair and dark eyes, even their personalities seemed to be different. While Peter looked cheerful and carefree, Edmund looked like he had been through some shit.
“Well welcome to our castle,” Edmund said with a small bow.