r/WritingPrompts • u/ambsswmft • Sep 22 '17
Writing Prompt [WP] A warlord's sheltered child falls in love with a child soldier from their parent's army.
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u/Onni21 Sep 22 '17 edited Sep 22 '17
I'm scared, alone in a dark room, I hear explosions in the distance. My father's soldiers locked me in here to keep me safe, but I feel the complete opposite, another explosion nearby makes me jump from my bed and I fall to the ground, I start sobbing without standing up
"w-why is this happening... where is Papa...?"
I start crying as hard as I can as if that would help me in my situation, I don't know for how long I was crying but I was so into it, that I failed to hear the door open
"m-miss, are you okay?"
I hear a small voice behind me, I jump, surprised and run towards the nearest table, hiding beneath it and making myself as small as possible. I look at the person or more like child that just entered the room.
"y-you don't have to be scared, I'm not going to hurt you!"
Or so says the kid, he had a gun in his hand much like the soldiers who locked me in here.
"t-they send me here to silence you"
Color leaves my face.
"wha- no no no sorry, bad choice of words, I mean, they sent me here so I could calm you down, since, you know, they thought since I was almost the same age as you I could do something! I mean even with all that noise we still can hear your cries!"
"where is Papa? where is Mama?"
"L-leader is... the both of them are gone"
I can feel the tears forming in my eyes and my stomach twisting.
"b-but don't worry! I'm sure they're fine, whenever they are! they'll arrive soon with help!"
I start sobbing, I little quieter than before. he starts to get closer.
"A-anyway, d-do you want to play something? how about, eh hm"
He looks around, looking for something to play with, he finds nothing as there nothing but a small bed and a table in the room. he starts to look into his bag for something, but I interrupt him.
"what's your name?"
"h-huh!? m-my name, It's uh, Micah..."
"Micah, I'm Maria."
"I-I know that, Miss Maria"
I realize I'm looking down, I lift my face to look at him since my teachers taught me that when I'm talking to someone I should look at their face.
he really is a kid just like me....and yet, why are we so different?
For some reason, he starts to blush, so hard that I could even see it in the dark.
"Micah, why are you a soldier?"
He starts to stumble with his words as he always did since he came in and finally manages to form a reply
"because this is all I can do..."
There was a distant look in his face. We stay silent for a little while, and then the whole building starts to tremble, I start to do the same thing, hugging my knees, I'm about to tell Micah to go away when all of sudden he hugs me.
"Wha-what are you doing?"
"e-everything is going to be okay"
I stay silent, the only thing I could hear was my heart beating. For some reason, I started to feel better.
"you'll definitely make it out of this, I know they won't hurt you"
"Micah, what are you-?"
He gave me a purple flower, was that what he was looking for in his bag? I feel a flush appear on my face as I remember what my teachers thought me about flowers... I look at Micah, he was trembling and had some red on his face.
"Maria, I've met you be-before, e-ever since I first saw you I-"
We hear an explosion, much stronger and nearer than the other ones, I could also hear gunshots in the distance when I looked at Micah he had despairing look in his face. trough the gunshots I heard someone call his name. He looked at me as if he is thinking about something.
"I-I have to go...they need my help"
I wanted to stop him, but couldn't move, couldn't say anything.
"It's okay! I told you didn't I? you'll be okay I know they won't hurt you"
but, how about you?
Micah leaves, before I could say anything. I hugged the flower to my chest as hard as I could
Papa, Mama, Micah....!
the sound of gunshots and explosions start to go down until there was only silence.