3 Chapter 1 Lydia POV

The road to lake is very quiet, not a single soul could be see, I am the only breathing thing walking the road.even the trees and grasses are still, like they are still asleep.

l brought out my old Nokia phone, to shine the torch so l can see clearly. The time on my phone read 04:31am. I really don't know why the king had to summon everyone to the palace so very early in the morning. I would have still been in the comfort of my bed by now, but no, the king just had to call for an urgent meeting that is to start by 05:30am.

Now I'm the only one going to the lake to fetch water this morning. I would have listened to my mother and fetch the water last night. But I was so engrossed in the game I was playing with my best friend,Janet.

I arrived at the lake, the lake is very cold, I dropped my phone on a small stone l saw and dipped my bucket inside the lake to fetch some water.

After fetching the water, I balance the bucket on my head, the I heard a tree twig. I turned immediately, but I didn't see anything or anyone, so I didn't made an issue out of it. I bent down to pickup my phone.

Bending down I feel someone touch my shoulder,I screamed and jumped up, my bucket of water fell from my head,some water poured on me. I heard someone laughing, so I turned around and saw my best friend, laughing and clutching her stomach, a drop of year in her eyes.

"oh, you think this is funny?". I said trying to look angry,cause truth be told,I am so happy she is here.

I don't have to walk the road alone, cause am really scared shitless.

"oh, yes so funny" she still laughing, I couldn't help myself no more, so I joined her laughing.

"you should have seen your face Lydia".

"Well you can't blame me for reacting this way, take a look around nobody is there but the two of us" I said, trying to defend myself.

" yeah"

" so what are you doing here? are you stalking me?" I asked.

" I beg to differ" she said, walking behind me to fetch water,I picked my bucket too, to refill it. "I came e fetch some water, you know the king called for an urgent meeting, so my dad forced me out of my bed to fetch him this water, disturbing my sweet sleep, can you imagine" she e without pausing to take in some air. all I could do was nod.

" I wonder what that meeting is for anyway" I thought out loud.

" me too" Janet said. " let's forget about that meeting, have you been able to solve your number seven equation?" Janet asked me, leading the way back home.

"Nope"

"What do you mean no Lydia?, You promised you would solve it" Jane all but yelled, her eyes wide, I fear they might pop out of her eyes sockets.

I laughed at her silly outbursts, she's always this melodramatic.

"Yeah, I know you are gonna react that way" I laughed more, "Payback is a bitch"

"What payback are you talking about?" she asked looking confused.

"Well ten minutes back, I threw my bucket of water away because of you" I replied and winked at her, a look of realization on her face.

"Okay fair enough"

"BTW, I've solved it" I assured her.

"Well let's hurry, our fathers are waiting for us" Jane said we increased our pace.

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Almost out of the thin path leading to the lake, Jane kicked a stone, she was about to fall down, but she held me to support herself, to prevent her from falling. Unfortunately, I wasn't expecting her to hold onto me so we both fell face flat.

Our buckets fell off our heads and water was everywhere. We both burst out laughing loudly, I'm sure our laughter would wake up the whole village.

We were still laughing like fools, when we heard someone clearing their throat.

We both stood up immediately and turned to face three furious faces, nine pair of angry eyes staring at us. I gulped in fear.

"Oh-uh" I exclaimed.

"Yeah oh-uh" the guy in the middle said anger laced his voice. I took a second look at him and sweet baby Jesus, he is a Greek god.

How can someone be this handsome, I must say he is the most handsome guy I have ever seen on this planet. He's around 6ft2, he have gray color eyes and I could get lost in them. He's fair in complexion almost white, his white T-shirt is a see through, with the shirt drenched, I can see his abs, I feel like reaching out to touch them.

"Did you even heard a word I said?" his angry voice pulled me out of my daydreaming. He is glaring daggers at me.

I blushed when I noticed I may or may not have been caught openly checking him out.

"Damon I bet she's deaf" the guy on his left side said to the gorgeous guy.

Oh so his name is Damon, such a hot name I thought, but then what the guy said about me danged on me.

"Hey listen up dude, I'm not deaf" I informed him.

"Oh she talks" Damon said.

"So do you care to explain why you decide to pour water on me and my friends?" Damon demanded calmly, but deadly.

"We didn't do it tentionally, I tripped on a stone and we fell" Jane explained but the guy on the left burst out laughing.

"So she tripped and the two of you fell" he said wiping imaginary tears.

"Hey I tripped and wanted to hold her to prevent my fall, but we both fell instead" Jane explained once again, I can tell she is getting angry now.

"Gentlemen, we are sorry, we didn't mean to pour water on you, it was a mistake" I said politely, I wanted to go home now, my father will be very angry cause we've spent so much time.

"You know what Paul, let's just go, they're not worth our time" the guy on the right who have been quiet all these while said to the guy on the left, who I just know to be Paul.

"No Des, we have to teach this girls a lesson" Paul argued with a sly smile.

"We already apologized" I told him harshly, trying to keep Jane calm, I know all she wants to do right now is give these boys a piece of her mind.

"No you didn't" Paul replied.

"Damon do something" Des said, turning to Damon who had been awfully quiet, all these while he had been staring at me with an unreadable expression.

"Paul com'on" Damon said still not taking his eyes off me. "Let's go, they are not worth our time" he added and left. Paul sigh defeatedly and follow his friends mumbling some words I couldn't make out.

"I can't believe a handsome face like theirs will have such rude manners" Jane spat out and scoffed disgustingly.

"Gosh, I so much hate them, I pray I never see them again" I said and picked my bucket.

"But I saw how that Damon was looking at you"

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"He was looking at you like you're a snack" she said wagging eyebrows.

"No he wasn't"

"He was"

"He wasn't"

"He was"

"No he wasn't, he was looking at me like he wants to bite my head off and feed it to his dogs" I told already getting fend up with this argument.

"Whatever helps you sleep at night" Jane said bitting her tongue to stop her from laughing.

"You know what, let's just go" I dragged her leading the way home.

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