(The Past... Continuation)

Ki heads toward Myla's direction.

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Leafs Crouching

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...Sniffles...

"Hey... hey are you okay?" said Ki.

"Who...who are you?" said Myla with tears in her voice.

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"Here wipe your tears." kindly said Ki. Ki handed Myla a handkerchief from his back pocket. It had a rose pattern to it. Myla lifted her face up and finished wiping her tears. Ki extended his hand to help her up. As Myla faced up Ki got a better look at the woman he helped. Shine, her face, the sun on her face made her shine. Ki thought "How pretty, the sun looks in her eyes."

As Myla gets up her face comes closer to his. She starts to think how good-looking he is. She starts to blush, your face is beat red. Ki starts to blush a little as well. they both realize that they are blushing, they quickly step away from each other one looks at the ground the other looks at the sky.

A couple of minutes passed, silence in the air, all you could hear was the wind blowing and the leaves moving. Both don't look at each other just yet, they are thinking about how they can talk to each other. As soon as they're ready to talk they both turn to each other quickly and stare at each other's eyes. They both try speaking but interrupt each other. Myla insists that Ki speaks first. Ki prepares himself to talk. "Are you feeling better now? Is there anything I can help you with?" politely asks Ki.

"Oh... yeah I am feeling a lot better now thank you for asking. I don't think you can help me with the situation I am in but thank you for asking. My situation is something that can be handled easily, it's quite sad really. I really shouldn't bore you with the details. I'm going to head back now but thank you for landing in hand." said Myla.

Myla faces away from Kai and is about to walk away, but Ki grabs her arm and asks her one more time "Can I help you?" Myla is shocked at how persistent Ki is being but is also moved by him and his words.

"I don't know if you can help... but I... I have been sold off by my family. I don't know what I'm supposed to do, how my family could do this, how can my mother do this. It's not my fault that I was born, it's not my fault that my father... that my father is... him." tearfully said Myla.

"You... you've been sold off? How can your family do that to you? Do they need money?" questionly asked Ki.

When Myla told that to Ki he stepped back a little, but Myla did not notice she was too busy trying to hold back her tears. Ki realized that she was not from a wealthy family and that she was a slave sold off by her family. Kai was unsure of what he should do or say. "Sorry I don't know why I am telling you this, you probably have no idea what to say or do. How can a stranger help?" tearfully said Myla. "I have power, My fam- I can help. How much were you?" asked Ki. Myla thought his questioning was a bit rude but understood that he wanted to help her.

"I don't know how much my stepfather thought I was worth. But I pretty sure not much by his distaste of me," said Myla.

"So you were sold off by your stepfather? How could your mother allow that?" asked Ki. Myla got silent and didn't respond to Ki.

...Silence...

Ki waited till Myla was ready to speak. Both were in silence Ki took a seat on a bench near where they were standing. Myla followed him and also sat down. Myla was looking at the ground not saying anything. Ki waited and waited till it was dark for her response.

Finally, Ki stood up and told Myla "Come with me, marry me I will take care of you and make your family regret selling you off." "WHAT?! You don't even know me, how can you be so quick to marry someone you don't know nor love?" questionably asked Myla.

"I find you pretty and I would like you to be mine. I can take care of you. But don't get it twisted I am going to buy you off from your family and the family that bought you. Show them that you are going to be with someone better, someone with the power to make their life miserable." said Ki. Myla is confused and doesn't know if Ki is trying to come off as kind or if he just wants to own her. But what choice does she have either be sold off to that family or be bought by Ki. Without many options, Myla agrees with Ki's plan. They head back to the family house.

Both head back to the house that bought Myla. "How do you know? That this is the family that bought me?" asked Myla. "Well, my family was making their rounds and visited this family and heard the news about the youngest son getting married to a slave. The son wouldn't stop talking about the beauty he bought and was going to marry," said Ki.

...Silence began once again...

Walking towards the house Ki starts to hold Myla's hand.

Myla still does not understand Ki's intentions but knows that the alternative is much worse. The youngest son of the family is really a terrible person. Myla has met him multiple times working with her mother. When she was younger he would ask her to play with him and would touch her inappropriately and say that that was a game that he created. She tried telling her stepfather about it but he did nothing and apologized for her behavior to the head of the family. Myla tried telling her mother but her stepfather stopped her and said "Don't tell your mother about this because I don't want her to worry about it. Myla we need this job to take care of us."

Ki and Myla are at the front steps of the house. Ki opens the door.

To be continued...