T-Girl fairy tale 7

Home Again

It was late at night when Jared arrived at the stables of his own estate. The sun had broken over the horizon and his clothes were the bedraggled mess that he had started out with before his God-father Gerald had bewitched them into so much more.

Bedraggled and weary he saw to Thor’s needs then went to the house, slipped into the kitchen and up the back stairs to the second floor. Carrying his shoes he sneaked down the hall to the stairs that led up to his tower bedroom. He hadn’t been here when his step-mother and sisters had returned so he knew there would be hell to pay tomorrow. As he approached the top of the stairs he heard someone softly weeping inside his room.

He quietly opened the door and saw Evelyn laying on his bed crying into his pillow. Jared sat on the edge of the bed startling Evelyn. She flinched and rose her hand up as if to ward off a blow, when one didn’t come she looked at who was sitting on the bed and the look on her face spoke volumes. Jared could see in her eyes that she never expected to see him again and when the fact that he was actually sitting there sunk into her she grabbed him and pulled him into a fierce embrace. More tears streamed from her puffy eyes to drip onto Jared’s shoulder, but these were tears of joy.