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valentina

I heard a noise at the window. And then I could see someone. A boy. How? And then the boy smiled at me! I suddenly remembered where I had seen him before: the boy from the stable. He wasn’t my prince. - Of course not. The disappointment flushed through me. Man! And why was this boy here? I became curios and opened the window. He jumped in as easy as if climbing to the highest window in the castle was something he did every day. “Hi!”“Hello, ehm, excuse me, but… Who are you?”“Oh, right! I’m the boy from the stable…” his eyes had a weird color, not gray or blue nor green. More like something in between, a color that only could be described as the ocean. Always changing, floating and reflecting the things around. He looked wild, and since we were alone in my room, I felt a little frightened. “Yes I know, but, what is your name?” He really didn’t know how to converse.“Naeco. Yours?” “Valentina, but that doesn’t matter. What I mean is: What are you doing here?” He wasn’t prince charming, but he was very beautiful in his own way. Untouched and free: without hair-wax, perfect language or fancy outfits. “There was something I wanted to ask you, but I forgot this morning,” His hair was long and dirty and was that… leaves? I wondered where he lived. “What’s it like, living on a boarding school?”

Naeco

We talked a long time; she was not a brat, only miserable and lonely. The other girls weren’t always kind, polite, sweethearts. She told me everything about her life as a prison bird. I didn’t say anything. What should I tell? There was nothing interesting about my life. Besides I wanted to keep listening to her voice, trying to make her feel better, even laugh. This was now my new mission. “Come with me” I said, suddenly brave. I had thought about it for a long time, she obviously wasn’t happy here. I crossed my fingers. She bit her lip and looked like she was fighting herself in her thoughts. I felt like one of the dwarfs getting some undeserved time alone with Snow white. “Why not? You can come back tomorrow, no one needs to know.”

Valentina

“I can’t climb” He showed me his teeth in a big grin. -Looking truly relieved. “Notta problem!” Naeco whistled to notes and I could hear big wings approaching my window. A Pegasus? Or a Dragon? It didn’t look like a horse nor a reptile. I hadn’t seen anything like it. It was a gigantic bird: big as a bear. But it had a tail, and the back of his body actually looked like the back of a big cat or a lion. “It’s a Griff. Isn’t it beautiful?” he sounded proud, like when one of the princesses got a letter or a new dress, but this was way more thrilling. It looked wild like him, but not dangerous, and I had fled before. The big griff purred when Naeco stroke it over its beak.
Dear diary. Naeco lives in a village up in the tree tops! The little cottages are so awesome! There are bridges and streets and houses made of wood up over the lowest branches. It’s so brilliant. I would do anything to switch lives with him and he wants to go to prince school. If he did, I would absolutely marry him, but he is only an elf: an elf with beautiful pointed ears and tanned skin and perfect grease. He is romantic and mysterious and there are so many great magic things he wants to show me. When I become seventeen and school is out, we can run away together. I hope he’ll come back soon.

Naeco

Some nights, when everybody slept, I would climb or fly up to her room, and we would talk all night. She told me about the teachers and students –all girls. For example she told me about her best friend Gretel. Gretel had a brother, Hans, who went to the prince-school. She told me that all the girls started school when they were thirteen. She had always been different; the other girls were so superficial. She wanted something out of life, not just being sold to a random man somewhere. -From her father’s palace to her husbands’. It was actually illegal to take off from the school area, but everyone did it. If the teachers found out; the girls could be expelled. I thought about how lucky I was. I could do whatever I want, whenever I want to, except having Valentina. The tension when I was with her made my head spin. She was so gorgeous. Like someone from a dream, and if I made some sudden moves, I would wake up. Until now I hadn’t even touched her hand. Afraid that the illusion would break or that she would pull back. It was better like this: me sitting in the window and Valentina on the bed. “Tina?”“Hmm?” she was almost asleep; she looked so peaceful. It was time to show her the world, not just houses and castles. The real world, like I knew it. “…Do you want to take a swim in the lake tomorrow?”