Enna chapter 4

“No that’s not how you hold it.”

“Sigh…what good does this do anyway Kai?” The sun shone very brightly through the high windows in the practice hall. I guessed it was about noon.

“You have to at least know how to hold a sword!” Kai was Aragorn’s son. His full name is Kaidyn but I call him Kai.

“Why? What good does this do?” I started, “Why do I have to learn this “I turned around and looked at him.

“Well” he snickered. He took a step towards me and slid to the side of me feet knocking me over.

“Umph!”  I fell straight on my back.

“That’s why you have to learn swordsmanship.” Kai said as he helped me up.

“But-…I don’t get it! You surprised me!” I picked up my sword and looked at it, “If I would have hit you with this I would have killed you!”

“No you wouldn’t have.”

“Wha-huh? What do you mean?”

“I mean that you wouldn’t have been able to get to me because I’m skilled and I would have blocked you.” He took a step towards me and I stepped back.

“Hmph!” I turned away from him.

“Ha ha!  What’s with that face?” he asked.

“I…”  I started,”Kai… I can’t do anything right!” I dropped my sword, sat down and covered my face with my hands. Kai let out a deep sigh.

Enna… you can get better. I promise!” he said reassuringly.

“It’s not only that!” I yelled, in tears. Kai jumped.

“What do you mean?”

“Im tired of this! I don’t even know who I am or where I came from or anything! Sometimes I think that maybe I can remember something and then I… lose it.”

“But Enna that’s-“

“And everybody hates me here too! All of the townspeople try to ignore me and none of the village children want to be my friend!”

“What about spirit?” Kai said, putting his arms around me.

“I don’t even know how I know her…”

“But you lover don’t you?”

“Yeah I do…”

“Then you have a friend!” Kai smiled at me. I gave him a faint smile. I wanted to tell him about Soun but Meka said that if they got caught that they would be sent away. She said that Gondor’s king, Aragorn, was very strict and that if he didn’t like someone that they couldn’t stay.

“Whaaaaaaaat? That’s so mean!” I had told her. She just shook her head and Soun looked depressed.(Even though he always looks that way.) I guess that Soun has been through a lot of hard times… I thought.

My flashback ended when the door to the practice hall suddenly flew open. Both me and Kai jumped as Aragorn burst through the door.

“What’s going on here!?” He yelled.

“Father? What do you mean?” Kai stood up.

“Why are you not teaching her??”

“Well…I-“

“No excuses! You’re too soft with her! She hasn’t learned anything in the 3 weeks that she’s been here!”

“Father, it’s only been 3 weeks!”

“She has no potential to learn!” I stared at Aragorn. He was always telling me that I was useless and that he thinks Kai should have been the bearer of the ring and not me. I tried to say something but Aragorn cut me off.

“Kaidyn, if you can’t do anything about that worthless brat then I will!!” Kai was dumbstruck.

“Father, I-“Before he could finish, Aragorn swiftly turned away and walker out the door, slamming it behind him. We stood in silence.

“Enna don’t take it personally he just-“

“Why…” I was in tears again.

“Huh?”

“Why is he always mean to me? Why does everyone hate me??”

“Enna… people don’t hate you.”

“Yes they do!! Why am I here?? What am I doing!? I don’t understand any of this!!”

“En-“

“I just want to be accepted!” I ran out of the practice hall. Kai didn’t follow me. I guess he doesn’t like me after all… I ran as fast as I could. Spirit stood in the middle of the road.

“Hey Enna, is-“ I ran right past her.

“Huh? Enna!” She just stayed where she was. I didn’t care about anything at that moment, I just wanted to get away from that place. I ran out of breath though and I stopped, panting. Someone walked up behind me. They grabbed my shoulder.

“AH!” I jumped and swiftly turned around. It was a girl about my age, maybe older. She had brown curly hair that went down to her shoulders and hazel-brown eyes.

“Are you ok?” She asked me.

“I-I think so…” I looked down at the ground. She just smiled.

“Hey, you were running weren’t you?”

“Er yeah…”

“What were you running from?”

“Well I-“

“Wait. Why don’t you come to my house and you can tell me all about it, Enna.” She said nonchalantly.

“!?..How do you know my name??” I asked surprisingly.

“oh everybody knows your name” she said,”your’re famous!” I looked at her confusingly.

“And you don’t hate me?” I said.

“Why would I hate you?”

“I don’t know…” she turned me around and started walking me away.

“My names Jess. I’ll take you to my house.”

“um ok…” I didn’t really know what was going on but I was glad that there was one person that didn’t hate me.