Henry’s Pov
It had been 4 months since I hadn’t seen Valerie I went away to forget her, learn to cope with the fact I wouldn’t have her. Ever since Peter disappeared something in her got lost too, the reckless girl I fell so in love with was gone. She pissed me of and I wanted so hard to hate her but I couldn’t help hoping still, that someday she might at least let me get close to her, but I couldn’t do it anymore it was too painful and I did nothing to deserve it. That’s why I left, to try to let her go but I couldn’t, every single day I woke up thinking about how scary it was not knowing how she was, cause even when the village is safe now and the wolf hasn’t appeared for months she has tendencies to make the impossible happen and now I wasn’t even there to protect her.
But now I was coming back, I would have stayed away longer if I could, but they didn’t need me anymore the war was over, and so I had to go back to that place where we were both born and raised. We used to be good friends when we were little made our adventures and had our secrets. I remember ones we were playing and running throw the forest and she fell and hurt her knee, I bet it hurt but she didn’t cry a single tear, even young she was always brave. We sat down on the roots of a very old tree, I could tell it was old because a large part of the roots were out of the earth making the ground take different shapes and levels, we sat there because Valerie didn’t want to go back home she said her mother would punish her for disobeying and getting hurt so we just stayed there and talked. Back then I had a necklace which belonged to my grandfather it was a wolf’s teeth tight up in a rope, when he gave it to me he said it would keep anyone who whore it safe because it represented strenght. And so that day, down that tree I gave that family treasure to Valerie, she just looked at me and hugged me “I’ll keep it forever” that was the last memory I have with her, because later with the winter came a little boy named Peter and by him I was replaced. After that all my interactions with Valery were simple greetings around the village, I saw how she looked at him, how much time they spent together; how she kissed him when they though nobody was around and all I could think was; that should have been me.
And now here I was, back at the town which only made all those memories more vivid, I was at the gates and I could hear people cheering and dancing to the music with much more happiness than I remembered, probably because of the absence of the wolf. “He is coming!” I heard a man yell and so I faced the town I had left behind months ago, people were smiling yelling HE’s BACK. But all I could think of was on finding that one face that I had missed for so long. I scanned the crowd looking for her and finally I there she was, looking at me all along, today she looked different, she looked more full of life, pink chicks and untamed eyes, like she used to be before he messed her up, she smiled at me for the first time in almost 10 years just like when I gave her the necklace. Something was different; I had to talk to her now! But how was I supposed to do that with almost the entire village trying to talk to me? I got down from my horse and started walking to the woods, where Valerie’s grandmother’s house was saying a couple of thanks and hi s on my way. I was almost throw the entire crowd when a blond girl got in front of me. “Heather!” I said a little surprised by her appearance she looked a lot taller tin now, she had definitely grown, I always kind of liked Heather, I used to talk to her a lot and if it wasn’t because of Valery I would have probably made her my wife already .
“Henry, I have missed you so much!” she said throwing her arms around me, she smelled like flowers it was actually quite nice. “Hmm yeah I missed you too, you have changed a lot since last time I saw you” I said not realizing I was practically scanning her from toes to head.
“Thanks, I was actually wondering if now that you are back maybe we could get together some time and talk and stuff” she said turning red now “darn Valerie!” I thought
