Kxani Yawne (Forbidden Love) - Love Knows No Bounds.

[Lyra]

Chapter Fifteen

The rain clouds above had settled, but La'Ki was certain they wouldn't remain that way. Rainy season was near, and very soon it would be like that for months on end. Once Yawne had calmed down they had decided to start their small trek back to their tribe, and much to La'Ki's dismay, Yawne wasn't speaking, she seemed distant, even more so than even she thought possible.

"You can tell me what your dream was about you know…" said La'Ki affectionately. However, Yawne scowled, and her ears gently pressed down to her head, her tail floating back and forward before wrapping around her right leg, a clear indication of her uneasiness. She then opened her mouth to speak, and yet no sound came out.

"I…"

Anyu sat alone on his hammock. His face held up with his dark blue hands, both of which were placed under his chin. He scowled as he noticed that both Yawne and La'Ki were missing, as much as he hated Yawne he didn't want La'Ki to disappear, not if he still had a chance to be with her… Although he knew this chance was growing bigger and bigger with each passing day, each day that passed Yawne would unlock part of her memories and love, until the final day when she would be almost normal, and then it would happen, like a rock crashing into water… She would no longer be Yawne, would no longer remember… Anyu had a sickening thought, something which made his skin crawl. He was going to see the look of confusion in her face; he wanted to make Yawne pay. Setting out, he knew he had to find her, had to show her how much suffering she had made him feel.

The rain was still spitting from the air, but the wind was gone, it was almost like a slight summer breeze, and the rain itself was just little droplets falling gently from the sky. Yawne sat near the river that passed along their tribal land. She gently picked a stone from the ground and threw it across the river, causing it to skim and sink into the stream. She'd lied about her dream to La'Ki, told her it was just a simple nightmare that had shaken her. In fact it scared her to the core. Had she given away her only chance at remembering? Or was the child version of her in the dream a lie? She didn't understand any of this. All she knew was that whatever happened, she would never forget this week, it had driven her mind into overdrive, and changed her aspects on what she knew was right or wrong. Finding out that your best friend is actually so close that you are typically mates was enough to make her head spin. But the weird dreams and all of this talk about 'love' made her head spin in circles.

Pressing her three fingers to her head she gently rubbed her forehead and forced herself to try and remember.

All of her memories seemed to stand out clearly except for those specifically associated with love. She could remember La'Ki clearly, and from her memories she felt no physical or mental attraction to the female. Every single last memory felt like it was missing something, and Yawne couldn't put her finger on what that was.

Yawne heard a shuffling in the bushes behind her; abruptly she turned to face…Anyu.

Upon seeing him, her first instinct was to run, but her legs wouldn't respond, it was as if her body wasn't listening to her brain, and her brain was screaming for attention.

Anyu looked at Yawne sympathetically before approaching her, his long legs gently sweeping through the long grass between the bushes and the stream.

"You shouldn't be out here alone you know," he stated clearly, as she slowly but surely walked towards Yawne. It was then that his expression changed, he growled loudly, and stood up right, as if showing his true colours. . "Why did you have to steal her from me Yawne? She was supposed to be mine, I told you that, and you agreed to help me, and then you fall for her? Why? Why couldn't you just let me have my dream? You always take everything from me and it's not fair!" he said, rambling on.

Yawne looked at Anyu strangely, bending her head slightly to the left, she eyed Anyu suspiciously.

"I don't understand what you're implying Anyu…" Anyu scowled and brought his hand back and slapped Yawne across the face, making her tumble to the ground. "No, of course you don't! I hope it stays that way, I just wanted to tell you that you'll never have your memories back, not in a million years. I wanted to see the look of pain in your face, the fear, the insecurity…"

Yawne closed her mind, choosing not to hear the words pouring from Anyu's mouth. Her last memory of Anyu was of him talking about how much he liked La'Ki. Everything after that was a blur, almost as if she was blinded by her fear. However, she was brought out of her thoughts as pain ripped through her thick carob-fibered skull, and then, all she felt was… nothing.

"Yawne!" cried a voice through the darkness. Yawne gasped as she sat up, her mind now fully awake and aware of what had happened. She noticed her surroundings and noticed she was still at the stream. Placing her hand to her head she noticed dried blood had worked it's way from her skull to the ground below, and she had lost a lot of it. Her head still a haze of confusion she attempted to stand, but fell backwards and landed face down, with a splash, into the stream below.

"Yawne?" shouted the voice again, this time even louder. "Answer me Yawne! Are you here? Please answer!" Yawne then noticed that the voice belonged to La'Ki. Spluttering in the water, Yawne attempted to shout La'Ki's name, but her voice wouldn't respond, instead she fell deeper into the icy depths of the deeper part of the stream, she rapidly kicked and pushed the water, attempting to escape her watery hell, and then as suddenly as it started, Yawne noticed that once again, everything turned black.