“Night Mom!” yelled
Aneko. “O-Yasumi-Nasai dear!” Megan called back. (Noiz Note: O-Yasumi-Nasai
means “Good night” in Japanese.) “O-Yasumi-Nasai Mitch!” Aneko shouted to
Mitch. “Night bratling!” he called out. “Hey!” yelled Aneko. “Hay is for
horses!” yelled Mitch. “Mitch!!!!!” yelled Megan. “Good night sweet face.”
he said to Aneko. Aneko blew her uncle a kiss and shut her door. In her room
she cleaned her room a little bit, said her prayers, and went to bed.
***
While she was away in dreamland,
the windows burst wide open and the door opened. Such a noise woke Snowy
and Kittymon up. “Did you hear that?” Kittymon asked Snowy. Snowy gave
off a little bark. The pets listened for a little while and heard the sound
of footsteps coming into the room, the closing of a door, and the shuffle
of footsteps getting closer to the bed. Snowy began to bark softly. The
intender must have heard them, because he whispered: “Shhh! It’s okay!”
to the little. As a result, the little dog stopped barking and went back
to sleep. It was hard for intender to calm Kittymon down at first because
she was ready to pounce onto him, but when he started to sing her a soft
little lullaby, Kittymon went back to sleep. Then the intender knelt over
to Aneko, kissed her on the cheek, and whispered: “I bless you with
sweet dreams to come to you, my love.” The stranger looked around, reached
into his coat, pulled out a chocolate orange with a note on it, and placed
it in her hand. Then he climbed out the window and closed it behind him.
***
The next morning,
Aneko
woke up and found the chocolate in her hand. She was wondering why she
had it in the first place. Then she thought that her uncle had put it in
her hand while she was asleep. “Mitch!!!” she called to her uncle. “Yes, niecey.” he said. “Did you get me a chocolate orange?” she asked as she
showed him the candy fruit. “No.” he said. Aneko spent the whole day looking
for the person who gave her the chocolate orange. She never did find the
person.
***
That night was the same
routine as any other night. But after the Aneko went to sleep, the intender
stepped in. This he made his way through the window and quietly closed
and locked it behind him. Again, he had to silence Snowy and Kittymon.
And they went back to sleep just like last night. Then he knelt over to
Aneko, kissed her on the cheek, and whispered: “I bless you with sweet dreams
to come to you. I love you, and if you love and don’t know about me, I
will keep coming back to see you. But if you wake up and see me, I will
never come back to you. I will continue you to bless you with sweet dreams
if you keep this promise: That you will never me at all. Is that clear?”
“Yes.” Aneko murmured in her sleep. “Okay, that’s good then.” the intender
said. Then he kissed her again on the cheek and went back out the window.
***
“Mom, I thought I heard
someone talking to me last night.” said Aneko. “Don’t be silly dear, you
must have been dreaming or you were hearing things.” said Marie. “Marie
please, don’t you know the supernatural such as ghosts could have contract
with anyone.” said Megan. “I’m sorry madam.” said the servant woman. Then
the queen turned to her daughter. “What was it saying?” she asked Aneko.
“I don’t remember much, but I think they were saying, they loved me. It
sounded like a man and like I know him from someone. But I don’t know where.”
the princess said. “I see.” said Megan sounding suspicious. Later in the
afternoon, Megan did some research on this stranger. She had found no data
on him so far. Even Aneko’s friends were trying to figure out was going
on along with Megan.
***
That night was the same
routine as any other night. But after the Aneko went to sleep, the intender
stepped in. This he made his way through the door again and quietly closed
it behind him. Once again, he had to silence Snowy and Kittymon. And they
went back to sleep just like last night. Then he knelt over to Aneko, kissed
her on the cheek, looked around, reached into his coat, pulled out a necklace
with a crescent moon shaped charm on it, put it around her neck and whispered:
“I give this charm to protect you from evil. Keep it on you at all times,
my love.” Then he kissed her on the lips, opened her window, locked it,
went out of it, and closed it behind him. Before he left, he blew a kiss
to her window and ran away as fast as he could.
***
This phenomenon kept on
until this night: The stranger came in like usual. (He had to come in through
the window because Mitch and her friends were guarding the door way.)
He did his usual routine and just as he was getting ready to leave, Aneko
woke up and saw him. When the intender realized had seen her and sighed
and said: “My love, you broke your promise and now I’ll never see you again.
Farewell my beautiful angel.” Then he flew back out the window. “Come back!
Who are you? And what promise did I break?” Aneko cried out the window.
His last words were: “We will meet again my love.” He was never seen again.
