“Fine, if want to act like that then be my guest, but how would you like it if that happened to you?” Tara frowned and unfroze him. He ran down the street, and before you knew it, he was just a dark figure at the bottom of the road.
A week later as Tara was waiting for the bus, she noticed that the bus drove straight past her, without stopping. She shouted for it to stop, as she was already late for an interview. She gave up chasing the bus and decided to go to the coffee shop for a break. While Tara was at the coffee shop collecting her coffee from the counter, she turned around and a man bashed straight into her, making her spill her coffee on the floor.
“Oi watch it!” she looked up to find the man who mugged her last week, “oh its you” she said as she wiped off the remains of coffee from her shirt.
“Listen, I’m sorry about the week before and I’m sorry for that” as he said pointing to the coffee on the floor “I’ll buy you another one, it’s the least I can do”
“Yeah, you can” Tara sighed, as the man went to order the coffee, Tara went to sit down.
As he returned, he handed the coffee to her “I’m Jordan, what’s your name?”
“I’m Tara, by the way I’m sorry if I bit your head off earlier, I was in a bad mood, I don’t think it’s my day today.”
“Its alright, I’m sorry too for what happened last week, you got me thinking I shouldn’t of done what I did. I think I did it because I wanted to see other people suffer, fat chance that worked. You had some sort of magic…what was that? Jordan said glancing at Tara.
“My parent’s the king and queen, they have some sort of magic, which got passed down to me, well anyway, I just hope you wont do it again because it doesn’t do anything good. It always ends with someone suffering and only leaves you with guilt.” Tara said as she took a sip from her coffee.
“Yeah I know what you mean,, anyway I don’t think I’ll be doing that anymore, my aunts decided to let me stay with her up north, if I get my life back together again. said Jordan showing a smile. This was the first time Tara saw Jordan’s face properly. He had dark brown spiky hair, and had a dazzling smile.
“I’m really happy for you” smiled Tara
“Look, do you wasn’t to see something special? Its not that far away” said Jordan glimpsing at his banged up ford car parked outside.
“erm, sure” Tara wasn’t quite sure if she was comfortable getting into a strangers car, but it was something about Jordan that made her trust him.
They drove up a hill where they parked at the top of a cliff. They got out and sat on the bonnet, and stared at the sky as the sunset approached.
“I come here all the time, when I was young I used bunk off school and just sit here. It was the only time I was truly alone.” Jordan said staring up. Tara saw a different side of him. Deep inside there was something about him that she really likes, he was quite mysterious.
“It’s beautiful, it really is” Tara whispered, she beamed with delight as she saw just how beautiful the sunset was. It was starting to get late so Jordan took her home. He pulled up outside her place.
“So you’re a princess, how does the feel? You really have it all don’t you? Jordan sighed as he stared at the white magical palace.
“Its not all that, there loads of down sides to it. I’m just an average girl with slightly different morals; I don’t even use my magic often. I just want to be normal.” Tara explained. “Anyway I’ll cya later, maybe we can meet up tomorrow?”
“Yeah it’s a date, tomorrow at the same coffee house at 12:30 pm?”
“That’s fine, don’t be late!” she joked, as she left the car she gave Jordan a peck on the cheek.
The next day they met up again and Tara asked if he wanted to meet her mum- the queen.
“Erm sure. Don’t you think it’s a bit soon, I mean we don’t even know each other that well. Shouldn’t we wait a bit?”
“I know but my mum saw us in you car yesterday and demanded to meet you, she has to see if the boy is good enough.” Tara joked.
“Then I don’t think she’ll like me very much, I’m different to you people”
“You make us sound as if we’re bad”
“You know what I mean”
“Look you’ll be fine, all you have to do is meet her at brunch tomorrow afternoon and that’s it, its basically having lunch with some random person.”
“Fine I’ll come, I’m sure it wont be that bad”. Jordan was scared inside. He bottled his feelings up about not wanting to go but he couldn’t face hurting Tara’s feelings. Although they have only met each other for a few days it seems like months, they had lot in common and always chatted on the phone. They tried to meet up as often as they could. Tara smiled and kissed him; she grabbed her bag and got up.
“Thanks I’ll see you tomorrow then.” It made her so happy, she was sure her mum would like him as much as she did. Her previous boyfriends never made and impact on her mum, they were never to good for her, but this time Tara could see this was all about to change. So they might of gone off to a bad start, but it was fate that brought them together.
After they all finished lunch, Jordan left and gave Tara a kiss and a hug. Tara had a good feeling about this one.
“So what do you think mum, isn’t he great!”
“He wasn’t what I expected Tara, he doesn’t even match up to the other lads, he doesn’t even have a proper life. I mean he doesn’t have a proper home, job or education. Look darling you can do much better okay? Her mum said. Tara had this rage bubbling inside her.
“MUM, HE IS GOOD FOR ME, WHY CANT U ONCE JUST BE HAPPY FOR ME! IM GOING TO CARRY ON SEEING HIM WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT!” Tara screamed, by now everyone in the restaurant was staring, Tara wasn’t the slightest embarrassed but she was sure her mum was. She stormed off and went to Jordan’s apartment. At home the queen was preparing a spell on Jordan to make him break up the relationship hoping everything would jus turn out the way she hoped it would be.
Back at Jordan’s apartment, Jordan sat Tara down and told her he had something important to tell her.
“Look I don’t think we should be going out we’re so different” Jordan said, he said it with no meaning or feeling totally acting like a whole new person and he spoke only with straight tone. Tara took a step back; she couldn’t believe what she was hearing. She grabbed her coat and ran outside into the rain. She was devastated, as soon as she ran home she legged it upstairs to her room. Her mum ran after her and comforted her.
“Look I know what happened he dumped you, and your upset,” her mother said
“How did you know? Do you have anything to do with this? Oh my god, of course you do! That’s why he was so strange! Mother tell me the truth do you have something to do with this?” Tara screamed as tears fell from her eyes.
“Listen I might of done something but it was for the best, I was trying to protect you”
“PROTECT ME FROM WHAT? LOVE?” Tara ran out of the room, she had to get away. She knew she couldn’t let her mother ruin her chances. So she ran to Jordan’s house and tried to explain everything to him and how he was under a spell.
Weeks passed and Tara still remained in love with Jordan. Tara finally patched things up with her mother after a numerous arguments. And Jordan decided to do what was best…ask Tara to marry him.
They lived happily ever after.
