what happed to us

I do not own Robin Hood Prince of Thieves and did not make any money from writing this story

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$He sat, deep in Sherwood forest resting agents a tree on the bank of a rether large pool of water. He had not known that I falowed him, He never knew that I faloed him. I watched him from a far alwas from a far. I couldnt talk to him he hated me and i didnt even know why but it started years ago. We were best of friends growing up, swimming on hot summer days, playing in felds, but as we grew older and had to quit our childish ways, Will began to grow cold to me untill one day he told me that he did not want to be my friend anymore. I was hurt and sad by this suden choice of his. I didnt under stand it and I was very upset for a wile then I thought about trying to talk to him and find out why had happen, if I had done something, But every time he saw me looking at him or comming toward him he would turn and walk somewhere else even if it was out of his was. After a wile I stoped trying to talk to him and stoped even looking at him. Then the King left our land to fight in the Crusades. Our taxes were rased and new laws were put in efect, People began to get ill and most of them died. My parents were among them, as will as his. For thoues of us that could not keep our homes we moved it to sherwood forest.

I'v lived in the forest for year almost two years now and since i'v come to live here its been hard trying to stay away from him, so that is why iv falowed him today, to try and find out what happend so many years ago.

I stood behind a tree several yards behind him, trying to decide when the right time to show myself would be. I did not know why he came to the pool today, it was not sunny out althou that did not really matter, the pool was a hot spring so sun was not required to warm the water but it was getting ready to rain an almost no one bathed in the rain. I say almost no one because I was the exception. It was the only time that you were sure that no one would walk up on you and i enjoyed that, haveing time to just sit in the warm water and relax. So I was not expecting Will to get up from the tree with his shirt off and getting ready for his pants to falow sute. I knew now was the right time to show myself but I couldn't move. It was not the first time i'd seen a man but it was the first time I really looked. I had not seen Will this way since we were very small children playing in the streems with our mothers picking berries along the banks.It made me miss my mother and my father watchind him, it made me think back again to when we would sit and talk for hours and play.

I continuted to watch him, his bretches off now walking to the waters eage. He stood with just his feet in the water for a few moments, then waded the rest of the way in. I saw him dive under and come back up, I thought to myself 'now really would be the best time to show I was here'. I did not think if he knew I was here that he would just get up out of the water exposing his self to get away from me. So very slow I came out from behind my tree acting as if I had not known he was here, I walked with my head down, pretending that I was thinking to myself. I looked up when I was just a few feet away from the water, I was sure he hadnt noticed I was there yet for I had not heard him say anything. I looked up then and saw him standing facing me in wasted deep water. I did not have to fake my surpise at finding him here, as I thought I would have too. He was looking strate in too me eyes and my mouth fell open a bit, he didn't say anything for a few moments. Then as if I wasnt even there he started walking out of the water, I spoke first more shaken then I would have hoped.

"I'm sorry, I did not think anyone would be here. Please stay and finsh, I will leave"

He stoped when I started to speek, our eyes never leaving each others. " It's all right I was just finshing up. If you turn round i'll get my things and be gone."

I hadn't thought he would take modasty and ask me to turn round, so I said the first thing that came to mind. "You don't think I rember playing in strems with you as a child, I'v seen you befor Will Scatlet, I don't think much has changed"

"Zoie, that was a long time ago and everything has changed. We're not the same people we once were." He still stood in the water but it bearly covered him now, we still stared at each others eyes.

"I'll never under stand why you did it Will. My bestfriend one day, then over night I was avoided like the plague. Its been this way for 6 years Will, why! You must tell me, what had I done, what had I said? Will, I am the same person, who are you not the same. At that time when you hurt me so badly I was not the one who changed..." I stoped sudantly, after realzing what I had just said. It wasn't me that changed, it wasn't my falt I had done nothing wrong I hadn't done anything to upset him or hurt him, but still he blamed it on me some how, I would find out what happend that made him act like this. " It wasn't me that changed then Will, it was you. What happend tell me, pleaase?"

He moved then up out of the water, looking down now.

I had to think of something to get him to stay and not run off. I rembered his clothes then and quickly found them. I was closer to them then he was so I made a dash for them befor he knew what I was doing. I grabed them up and took off deeper into the woods, hoping that he would try to get them back. I didn't look behind me to see if he had taken chase. I came to a small clearing with think brush on the other side, I found Will's shirt in the bundel and throu up high hoping it would snag on a branch. I achaved my goel and turned around then. Will was a few feet in front of me now, slowing to a walk again.

"Stop, if you come any closer i'll do the same to your breches!" I said out of breath

He had done as I said and stoped naked 5 feet in front of me. We both stood panting from the quick chase.

He stared at me with what looked like fury on his face then barked "What, what is it you want from me. I have nothing to give you, and owe you even less!"

It was I who put anger on my face now. "Your wrong Will Scarlet, you do owe me something, an explantion Will, for what you did and why you did this to me. I want it now you can't keep running from me anymore! Tell me what it was."

His featers smoothed out some and he stood up strate, "And if I don't what are you going to do, run tell mummy and daddy?" he said in a somber voice.

I looked at him now with more then just anger, he knew how to hurt me still and all I wanted to do was cry.

"Oh, thats right they arnt around anymore are they? How does it feel knowing that you'll never see them again, that you have no one at all, no parents, or friend to tell your sad story too?"

"Will, why do you hurt me like this, you were once my friend, my best friend, and when you left me everything start to go worng. The king left, his cusin started killing our land, the people got sick..." I started to weep a little but did not take my eyes off him. "I tried to talk to you Will but everytime you saw me you just turned away or even worse brushed passed me like I didn't even exist. Before my father died he asked me to do one thing for him. Make sure my mother was taken care of, I couldn't even do that. Before I came to Sherwood Forest I tried to see you, but again you just brushed me off. I told myself that was the last time I'd try I didn't think I'd see you after that. I didn't even know if I could survive out here, but I meet others that had nowhere to go and were living out here as well. They helped me get started, helped me find someplace to call my owne. Then you came out here I was shocked and very sad, but I didn’t aproch you, I hoped be on hope that you would try to talk to me but it was just like in the village. So I kept my distence but tracked your moves till I couldn’t take it any longer. I faloed you out here today Will, I did not know what you were doing and I was shocked when I saw you staring at me from the water, but we needed to talk.", I finshed what I had to say with the hope that he would have anything to say back to me but he just stared.

After a few more minutes he finaly spoke so low I thought I had imaged it at first “I’m sorry” he lowered his head and said “I’m sorry” once more then looked up at me. His eyes were red and he looked so intence that I thought he might break, but instead he fell to his knees, gripping earth in his fists.

I walked to him and knelted at his side, not knowing if I should touch him, putting one hand on his shoulder and one under his chin lifting it so that I could look him in the eyes once more. Slowly I lowered my face down to his ear and simply asked him “Why?” then looked back in his eyes.

He looked in my eyes then lower his head down, “I found something out about myself, It made me anger about everything, I couldn’t talk to my mother anymore and I knew that you loved her and that made me hate being with you, because I knew I couldn’t tell you what had happened, that you wouldn’t believe me and even if you did you’d hate me because of it.” he finshed bitterly.

TBC sorry for stoping like this but I have to get to work "."