The Love I have For My Lioness (part 1)
The Love I Have For My Lioness (Part 1)
By: Angel Gonzalez
It had been two weeks after my mother had died that my evil father finally decided to come pick me up so that I could go stay with him. I didn't want to stay with him because he was filled with pure hatred but, he wasn't like that when he was with my mother.
A year before
Back then he was a kind person that cared for me and my mom, then one day after work he had come home drunk. Which was weird because he's never drank before? When he got home he reeked of alcohol I still remember that horrific day he walked up to me and my mother. We were sitting on the couch watching TV, when all of a sudden he grabbed me by the arm and threw me to the ground and when I hit the floor it felt like someone hit me with brick. I then wailed with pain. He then grabbed my mom (who was completely terrified seeing this new side of her husband) by her hair and he dragged her to the room where he brutally and mercilessly raped my mother. When he was done he had walked towards the TV and sat down on the couch.
"Boy if you say one word of this to anyone I will kill you and your mom". He said with his voice sounding different from being drunk.
From that point on he was a different man, every day he would get drunk and do drugs. Then he would beat up my mom and me.
After a year of suffering my mother was finally able to get a divorce.
The court gave my mother custody of me. My mother and i were finally happy. But I didn't last very long. Soon after the divorce my mom had died. And I was forced to go live with my father in an African city in the dessert.
Back to the present
I packed up my stuff and waited for my father. I didn't want to go with my father but he was the only one.
In the distance a car was heading towards me. It was my father. He then parked next to me almost hitting me.
"You ready to go? You stupid little brat!" He said in a lazy tone.
"Yes tom".
I had stopped calling him my father after what he did to my mother
During the whole car ride he was telling me about how I was going to do whatever he said. When we got to the airport we boarded our plane and were off to the African village. When we made it, I was pissed off at tom because he would not shut up. As we were walking towards the car i looked down the street to see that the road ended and the rest was nothing but dessert. I look the other way to see the exact same thing. Tom was in the car and ready to leave. And he had almost forgotten about me.
"Boy get in here now" tom said
Though I did not her him.
"Angel you had better get your ass in this car right now, before I beat you". Tom screamed.
As I walked to the car out of the corner of my eye I saw something move. I turned my head to see what it was. And there down the street in the desert was a little lioness cub. The cub looked at me and smiled, then turned around and ran off into the desert
The whole ride home tom was complaining about stuff, but I paid no attention to him. I was too busy thinking of the cub I saw. At the house tom threw his coat on the floor. The house was a mess. There were beer bottle and ciggerete cartons everywhere. And the whole place stunk of weed.
For the next few days I stayed in my tiny little room with nothing but a bed and a calendar.
And on every one of those nights tom brought home a women which he would have sex with then kick her to the curb. Every night it was a different woman.
I never talked since I had no one to talk to.
One night I was hungry so I went to the kitchen to get something to eat, but as I was walking back to my room tom and a girl walked through the door. The girl looked at me with in evil glare.
"WHAT THE HELL IS THIS!, you didn't tell me you had a kid" said the woman
And before tom could say anything the girl slapped him. Tom then fell to the floor with a big mark on his cheek. His face filled with anger as he watched the girl walk out of the house. Tom then looked at me even angrier.
"You retarded kid, now who am I supposed to fuck tonight?" said tom as he got up and started to walk to me.
"You better be ready because you are going to be taking her place tonight". Tom said as he got closer.
When he said these words I knew I had to run. I then ran to the kitchen to grab some stuff, and then I ran to my room with tom running after me. I locked my door so I can think of something quick.
"Boy you better open this door right now" screamed tom as he banged on the door trying to get in so he could rape me.
In my room I grabbed my back pack and started to put stuff in it. Stuff like the food I took from the kitchen, some water bottles, my army knife that I got from my mom for my birthday, and a picture of me and my mom sitting at the park having a picnic.
Then I zipped up my pack and went to the window. When I opened the window tom had been able to break the door. I jumped out before he could grab me.
And with that I ran, and I didn't stop. I wanted to stop but my legs wouldn't let me. So I just ran. When I reached the end of the city where it was nothing but dessert I stopped to turn around. When I did I saw tom in his car coming towards me. So I ran to the desert. Tom had reached the end of the road and stepped on the brakes. He opened his door got out then said to himself.
"Well looks like he's going to die".
I had been walking for a good hour before I got tired and decided to rest. But there was no place to rest. In the distance I saw some things sticking out of the ground.
"Those have got to be trees" I said to myself
It seemed like they were pretty close so I decided to go to the trees to rest. It took me awhile to reach the trees, and when I got there I felt like I was going to faint from the heat. I tried to stay awake but as soon as I sat down I was out cold.
"Oh this poor creature it must have died from the heat" said a mysterious voice standing in front of me while I slept
"Oh well no sense letting it go to waste" said the voice again as it dug its teeth into my arm.
When this happened I throw myself back and yelled from the pain. Me doing this scared the thing that bit me and it ran behind a tree to try and hide from me. I looked around to see what bit me when I saw something hiding behind a tree.
"Who's there" I said looking at the figure behind the tree
That's when the figure peeked its head around the corner of the tree to look at me. It was a lion cub. I felt bad and reached into my back pack and pulled out the sandwich that I made before I ran away. Then I ripped it in half and put one half in my mouth and the other one I held in my hand.
"Come on little one I didn't mean to scare you"
"Don't worry I won't hurt you" I said to the cub.
It took a while but the cub eventually came to get the sandwich. That's when it realized that I was the one that it saw in the city. Knowing it was me, the young cub sat on my lap. I started to stroke my fingers through the cub's soft fur. As I did it made the cub purr. After a few minutes the cub was fast asleep on my lap. As I looked at the cub I couldn't help but notice how beautiful the cub's fur was. It was the perfect shade of light golden brown. I started to fall asleep myself, I didn't feel like fighting it so i fell backwards and landed into a deep sleep but I could feel the cub move from my lap to my stomach. And for the next few hours me and the cub laid there underneath the shade of the tree.
As I was sleeping I could hear a female voice calling me.
"Wake up"......
"Hey you should really wake up"......
The voice kind of sounded like my mom.
"Mom".... I said in my sleep
I opened my eyes expecting to see me with my mom and all of the things that happened were just a dream. But when my eyes where fully opened all I saw was the young lioness cub.
"Oh it's just you" I sad with a little sadness in my voice. I picked up the cub and held it to my chest as I looked around noticing that it was dark
"I guess it was just a dream, no one was talking to me" I said to my self
"Uh actually I was talking to you" said a mysterious voice.
"Who said that?"
"I did" the voice replied
"Where are you, I can't see you"
"I'm in your arms silly" was the response I was given.
I looked at my arms to see that it was the lion cub that was talking.
"AWWW" I yelled as the lion cub jumped from my arms.
"Ha-ha your funny" said the lion cub.
I started to walk backwards when I tripped and fell on my back.
The lion cub then jumped on my stomach.
"How are you able to talk cub"
"The same way you are, and my name is Amela " said Amela the lion cub
"Oh, my name is Angel, it's nice to meet you Amela"
As we sat there we started talking about each other's species.
"What do you humans do when winter comes? Don't you get cold?" Amela asked me.
"Well when winter comes we buy these thing called coats. We put them over our body to keep us warm" "ok my turn. So how long have lions been able to talk?"
"Lions have been able to talk since like forever"
"If that's true then why don't lions talk with humans?"
"We use to a long time ago, but something happened and Know we aren't a loud to talk to most humans"
"What do you mean most humans?"
"The only humans we can talk to are those who are pure at heart. You see Angel while everyone else has the basic five senses hear, smell, see, feel and taste us lions have a six sense known as connect. We use connect to temporarily feel the soul of another creature. When we do this we are able to know whether or not someone is good bad or just straight out evil. That one day when I saw you in the village I had connected with you and felt your soul"
"And what did you find?" I asked her
"Well obviously you are good since I'm sitting here talking to you. In fact your soul was actually the best one I've ever seen. After that day I stayed around the village in hopes that I would see you again."
"oh wow thanks Amela."
"Well we better get going before we get attacked" Amela said to me.
"Go where" I asked Amela
"To my clan" she replied.
As me and Amela were walking to her clan I felt scared in fear that I might get eaten by a lion. But getting eaten was still way better than being with tom. Amela felt that I was nervous and tried to comfort me. She started to rub up against my legs in that cute way that all cats do. I picked up Amela and started to stroke her fur which made her purr with happiness, and in some weird way made me feel happy? I don't know why but I liked having Amela in my arms. Maybe it's because she is just so darn cute. Plus when she purrs It comfort's me. As we were walking I started to realize that grass patches were popping up everywhere and the deeper we got the more grass that popped up. After another half an hour later the grass was everywhere, that's when we caught site of the clan.
"Hey Amela what's you clans name"? I asked her
"We don't have a name we just go by the clan" she answered
"Oh, and who is the leader" I asked.
That's when I heard her sniffle, I looked at her to see a tear come from her eye.
"My father Keruda was the leader, till him and my mom Siadi were killed by poachers. So as of right we have no leader" Amela said sadly.
She then started to breakdown and cry in my arms. I held her close to my chest trying to comfort her.
"I know how you feel" I told her.
"Sniff sniff, really?" she said as she had calmed down for the moment.
"Yes I do" i said
I then told her the story of how my mom died and how tom just stopped acting like a father and more like an ass. Then from my eye a single tear fell and landed on Amela. Which made her giggle. Then we both started laughing as we neared the clan.
When we got to the clan we were approached by a lion and a lioness.
I had put Amela down on the ground so that I could properly introduce myself.
"Hello my name is Angel and I would like to seek shelter her with your clan" I said calmly even though on the inside I was scared half to death.
The lion then circled me a couple of times before speaking.
"Why have you come seeking shelter human" said the lion
So I told him the story about my mom and tom.
"Oh I see, well in that case my name is James and this is my mate Claudia. And you are welcome to stay here as long as you want and I'm so sorry about your mother" James said before the two of them left leaving me and Amela alone.
"Yay, now you are one of us" Amela said as she pounced on me (If you could see my face it would probably look like this O.o) and we started to play fight.
It had been weeks after I had become part of the clan. I had learned to hunt and taught my body to get used to eating raw meat. And every day when I had the chance me and Amela would play fight each other. I would play fight with the other cubs and adult lions, but mainly with Amela. Though Amela had grown, she wasn't the little cub that I met in the desert she was now a teen cub and twice the size from when I first saw her. Her fur got a little darker, and her eyes got brighter and more beautiful, they were a sparkling baby blue.
"He angel" Amela said sitting next to me.
"Yes" I replied.
"Can I ask you a question.... In private"
"Yea" I said as I got up to go and talk with Amela.
As we were nearing the edge of our clans land, two lion cubs came up from behind us.
"Hey angel an Amela you guys want to go play" one of the cubs said.
"Sorry but not right now we need to have a private talk" Amela said.
We then continued to walk. I had my hand on her back I stroked her soft fur with my fingers, making her purr which still always made me feel better. When we were far away from the clan land Amela finally spoke up.
"This question is going to be a little personal"
"Okay?" I said in a confused voice
I turned around and saw that she stopped. So I walked up to her and started rubbing the top of her head.
"How do you know when you're in love"? Amela said to me
"Oh"? Her question had caught me by surprise.
"Well, when you're In love with someone all you want to do is be around them, and when you're not with them all you do is think about them, when that person is sick you stay by their side and hope that they get better, and you know that this is the person you want to be with for the rest of your life." I told her.
I was going to tell her more, but before I could say anything else Amela threw her front two paws over my shoulders and pulled me into a kiss. it was the most beautiful thing in the world. Though it did seem a little weird since we were two different species, I couldn't pull myself away, it was to lovely.
When we finally pulled away I looked into Amela's eyes to see them filled with love.
TO BE CONTIUED
Uh oh looks like Amela is in love with me, but do I feel the same way?