A Fool

He let go of her and grabbed the shell from her hands to put it back in the fountain.

“That, what you did, is such a stupid move,” he told her.

Chloe looked at him. He had bright green eyes, black hair with a single white-striped colored one in the left side of his head, a blue navy t-shirt that had “THAT’S ENOUGH” written on it, black jeans, and a pair of a new Adidas sneakers (well at least that’s what Chloe thought it was because of how clean those shoes were). He looked like he was at the same age as her.

He took Chloe’s hand, “Follow me I need to interogate you quickly.”

The boy took her to an alley with not a single person there. He lifted her up and put her on top of a large dustbin.

“Right, on top of a garbage box. Smells good in here,” Chloe said sarcastically.

“Take it as a punishment for steal-“

“I didn’t mean to steal! It was just my curiousity!”

“You still steal it, though.”

“But-“

“Yes, you did.”

“Argh! You know what? Fine. Yes, I took it, I stole it. So can you just let me go?”

The boy smirked.

“Adam Omorfé,” he leaned to the wall, looking to the sky. Chloe stayed silent to show how annoyed she was of Adam. Afterwards, he looked at Chloe.

“You do learn how to be polite in school by telling your na-“

“Chloe Caroline.”

Adam lifted Chloe from the dustbin, and put her in front of him. He touched her shoulder with his two hands and smiled. Chloe washed away his hands off and crossed hers. She was even irritated to look at Adam’s face.

Adam then tried talking to Chloe, “Okay okay, I’m sorry for whatever I did to you, but tell me. Why would you even steal a shell from that fountain, as if you had never even seen it ever in your life.? You know the consequences. When a shell is stolen from that fountain, the stealer will lose their magic until that shell was returned back into its place,” he laughed.

“FOOL! I’VE **NEVER, NOT EVEN A SECOND IN MY ENTIRE LIFE SEEN ANY KINDS OF SHELLS LIKE THAT! I’M NOT EVEN FROM HERE!**” Chloe was pissed. She hated Adam.

Adam’s expression automatically change, and his smile was suddenly gone. In that moment, he again put Chloe on top of the garbage box, however this time, he hold her so that she would not runaway.

“GET OFF ME!”

“You’re the first stranger in hundreds, even thousands of years to enter Thavmaton. Tell me right now the name of the kingdom you came from, and I will stop holding you.”

Chloe gasped. She felt like she couldn’t move her body, as if Adam paralized her.

“Earth, New York to be exact.”

Adam was relieved, he knew that Chloe cannot do any harm, and as what he had said, Adam stopped holding the girl. Nevertheless, Adam did not let her leave the alley. He examined Chloe closely. Then he told her about how rare it was to see an Eartheast(what the people in Thavmaton called people from Earth) in Thavmaton.

“It’s very hard for your kind to come to this kingdom. There are some complicated magic and hard-to-read books that should be read to be able to complete the teleportation. You must be very talented, Caroline.”

Chloe replied to him in confusion, “It’s actually an accident. I was on my way to LA for some business and I end up here in a sudden on that white train.” After that, Chloe explained to Adam all the things that had happened to her.

“Dexter? He is a good friend of mine. Quite goofy, he is. One of the kindest charitom I’ve ever met,” Adam replied to Chloe, when she told him about the adorable flying creature. They finally talked alot more than the things that happened to the girl. Like how the people in Thavmaton are called Thavmatonians, the talking tree named Neva, located in the middle of the kingdom and laughing at the tree’s funny jokes that Adam told Chloe, the shell, the tradition of throwing shells into the fountain(like on earth) will bring goodluck, and so much more.

“The shell is $100 in the USA currency, the black $50, the blue $25, green $5, and red $1,” Adam explained about the shells.

“How ‘bout the cents? What do Thavmaton use?”

“We use broken-down corals with different colors too. The purple 50 cents, black 10 cents, and red 1 cent.”

“Wait, I just realized, how do you know about Earth, about USA to be exact?”

“We learn about Earth in school, and I like reading so I guess that could be the reason.”

Not only that, Adam also talked about how each and every Thavmatonian had their own power, and so Chloe asked him, “What’s your power, Adam?”

“I can sense crime when someone was doing it which is why I finally found out you are stealing the shell, and also make people tell the truth when they look at my eyes. However, I can control my power well and I don’t use it at you,” Adam saw how Chloe had opened her mouth to accuse him for using his power at her.

An hour has passed by, and the sky was getting darker. They finally became closer. Adam offered Chloe a place to stay in, “Would you like to stay at my house? It’s getting late. Well I mean it’s not that big, but adding a person to stay in there will not make an uncomfortable place to stay in. Tomorrow I can take you to Dexter, he must be asking for you.”

Chloe nodded her head, and Adam took her hand. They walked slowly, until they were back in the garden. Adam brought them there to show Chloe about its beauty—the flowers of different kinds and color light up, as if the stars had fallen from the stars and landed on these flowers.

“Glow-in-the-dark flowers,” Chloe commented on them, “it’s pretty.”

“I guess this could be the reason why Thavmaton is a great place to live in. It’s just, immaculate,” Adam responded.

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