[M] Ladybug & Rainbowface

[RainbowFace]

Nilera sat on a barrel of hay, taking a short rest. She had worked all day, and was extremely tired. She looked up at the setting sun, and a smile broke out on her face. Work would soon be over, and she would be given her miniscule amout of food, and be sent off the bed. It wasn't much, but when you were a slave, you took what you could get.

She spotted Ann working down the field and crept torwards her, attempting to scare her. She slowed down to a crawl, and suddenly grabbed her Ann's shoulder.

"Boo!" She whispered with a gravely voice.

[Ladybug]

As Ann picked up her water buckets a voice from behind startled her making her drop the fresh water all over her clothes and the ground. The water that she had spent an hour getting, gone forever. Ann wasn't one to lose her temper, scream, or even really talk, so she just frowned at Nilera. "That's the third time this week you've startled me and made me spill my bucket." she said with a frown on her face and a curve in her brow.

[RainbowFace]

Nilera laughed, amused by Ann's anger.

"Sorry!" She exclaimed. "Here, I'll help you get more." With this, she snached the bucket from Ann's hands, and rushed over to the well.

"You go dry off, if he come around, I'll cover for you." She told Ann with a smile, and a slight shove torwards the hut they shared.

[Ladybug]

"Okay, if you insist Ny," Ann said very sincere. She knew Nilera meant well, but sometimes she got on Ann's nerves. Not intentionally, of course, but she would tease Ann about wanting to be a writer and tell her that a black girl would never get a job in the big city as a writer.
When Ann was all dry and changed, she wandered back to the field lined with daises and dandelions, when she say Nilera being held by their cruel master. "You ,girl" he screamed in Ann's direction, and she knew then that Ny had been caught doing her work.

[RainbowFace]

Nilera smiled slyly towards Ann, and hopped over to the well, and hooked the bucket on the rope. As she lowered the bucket down, she began to hum, paying no attention to her surroundings. She didn't notice Her master coming around the bend, with a fierce glint in his eye. He soon noticed Nilera, and started her way.

"Hey!" He yelled as he grabbed her shoulder. "That 'ain your job. You 'sposed to be tilling the fields." He scowled at her, than skimmed his eyes across the field to find the job's original owner. His eyes met with Ann's, and Nilera's eyes widened slightly at her and their Slave Master called out to Ann.

"You, Girl!"

[Ladybug]

Ann choked back fragile tears and responded with a quiet "Yes, sir?" As she said this she tugged on the hem of her ratty old dress, hoping that no harm would come to her best friend.

The man possessed a visible rope. "Tie this slave to the old oak tree," he said with a sly smile "There be a whipping in her future." Ann gasped. Her master, Master Diggins, as a form of torture to the slave's friend and/or family made them tie the ropes to their friend's severe pain and or wounds.

Ann couldn't move. She would refuse to tie her friend's rope, but what would Master Diggins say?

[RainbowFace]

Nilera felt a tear streak down her cheek as Mater Diggins comanded Ann to tie her to the whipping tree. She looked down, letting the hair cascade around her, in an attempt to hide her face from her Master and Friend. Nilera stepped foward towards the tree, and looked back at Ann.

"C'mon." She said as she leaned against the tree. Her breath came out in short strokes as she tried to calm herself down. I'll be... She thought, looking at Ann. 'I'll be fine.'

[Ladybug]

Ann wasn't usually one to upset her master or do anything out of the ordinary, but she also wasn't about to let her best friend get whipped horribly by their evil master. "No," Ann replied softly, but confident. Ny and her master were both shocked.

Ann was a fast runner, so when her master took off after her, she grabbed Nilera and ran towards their shack. Everything was happening so fast, she didn't know what to do, and Nilera didn't seem to know what was happening either. Then, the worst struck.

[RainbowFace]

Nilera's gaped at her best friend denied Master Diggins.

"Ann..." She whispered under her breath, narrowing her eyes. She was about to ask her to go away, when she leaped foward, and tugged Ny away from their Master. She gasped loudly as she was pulled away towards their hut.

"Ann! What the..." She paused to look back at their shocked, yet enraged Mater. She saw the look apon his face, and began to pull ahead of Ann, eager to get away from Master Diggins.

[Ladybug]

Ny pulled ahead and Ann lagged behind. Their master was enraged and racing towards their direction. Ann started to think about her father. Would she see him soon? Is he proud or upset with her? All of these questions raced through her mind making her more and more confused.

When they started to approach their brown and silver shack, Ann and Ny sprinted for the door. Master Diggins wasn't too far behind. What cruel punishment awaited them if they were caught?