‘I’m sorry… I didn’t see it coming,’ I said and than sneezed violently once again.

        Gwydion looked somewhat amused.

‘What’s so funny?,’ I enquired while rubbing my nose.

‘It must be… you know… hay fever,’ he said with a smirk.

‘Hay fever my arse,’ I said, ‘It’s just some sneezing and it’ll go away,’ I decided to walk further down the river, where there was a small bluff.

My head was hurting now and my nose felt runny, so I wanted to sit down at the ground, but than I sneezed unexpectedly once again, which made me loose my balance, and a minute after I had fallen down the bluff into the river my leg hitting a rocks intensely.

*

‘James? James! Are you alright, James?’ Gwydion was yelling from above me, while I was struggling to get up, my clothes all wet and my leg hurting so much.

‘I don’t know! I don’t feel alright at all! And I don’t think I can get up,’ I wailed.

‘Wait, I’ll help you,’ he said, and gave me both of his hands, ‘hold on firmly,’ he said.

        I was afraid I would pull him down and we would both be in the river, but he dragged me up strongly, and than we both were sitting on the grass, my head spinning round and round and my heart bumping brutally.

        He looked at me with his mesmerising brown eyes. It’s so strange, everyone else in our family was blond with blue eyes, and Gwydion was blond with brown eyes… I wondered what it means…

        ‘James!’ suddenly he slapped me in the face.

‘Hey, what was that for!?’

‘Snap out of it, will you? You look like you’ve just been abducted by aliens. It was just a little accident, it’s all OK. Let’s go back to gran’s place. The sun is by now low in the sky.

        I tried to get up, but for Welsh sheep’s sake, it wasn’t easy. I felt the burning pain in my ankle once again, and sat down back on the ground, biting my lower lip and trying not to howl too loud.

‘Is it that bad?’, Gwydion sighed.

‘Yeah,’ I moaned.

‘It’s funny how with me always being clumsy you’re the one who’s actually got yourself into a mess by being clumsy once,’ Gwydion smiled.

‘Well… I fell once, but I fell notably,’ I answered cheekily.

        We decided to wait for some time, hoping that the pain would go away. But it didn’t. And so didn’t my sneezes, which were soon accompanied by a running nose.

‘So it is hay fever after all. Exactly what I needed,’ I said.

        The sky was already getting amorously yellow. The sun was about to fall into the river, and we were still here.

‘Look, James, we have to go,’ Gwydion said worryingly. ‘I don’t want to go home in the dark. We don’t know this place, do we?’

‘But I can’t walk. Can you carry me home?’

‘Don’t be so boorish. You can jump on one feet, OK? We don’t have a choice anyway. We have to go.’