I frowned. “You can always drink water; I want to enjoy the festival. Would it be weird if we just stayed together?”
Lexus looked around. “It’s not like we planned this, if anyone asks, we’ll just tell them what happened. They’ll assume I’m just being nice since you have no other choices.” I was more excited to be with Lexus at the festival than Calvin.
“Oh, how selfless of you,” I said sarcastically. We started walking. “Do you really see me as your friend?”
“Yeah, I do,” Lexus answered while looking over the crowd. Knowing that he saw me as a friend made me feel like we really were getting close. “That’s the main reason I asked Cade to help us earlier. We didn’t need the extra help. I thought you could spend a little time with your brother.”
I blushed. “That was nice of you.” I stared at his hand but knew I couldn’t hold it
I waved to Cade when I saw him with his family. They walked to us, but Lynn looked annoyed. “Hey Aqua, Lexus, where's your dates?” Cade asked.“There was an emergency, so Calvin and Sadia had to leave. Sadia sent me a text letting me know everything is fine but I’m not sure when they’re going to be headed back. They might miss the fireworks. We decided to wait for them together.”“I hope you guys are enjoying yourselves,” Konn said. I was since I was here with Lexus.Vella was with them and she looked annoyed too. “Yeah, I hope so too.” She was bitter in tone. She must have still suspected something was going on.I wished I could spend the rest of the festival with them. “Thanks, I hope you guys enjoy yourselves too.” I watched Gray pull on Konn’s sweater. “Dad, come on, I wanna play that game.”I wish I could play with my younger brother but I couldn&rsqu
“You hadn’t shown up to your first class yet, so my father sent me to figure out where you were. Just let me in Lexus!” Cade yelled. Lexus held the door, so it was only cracked open while Cade pushed against it. “I’m not decent Cade, I overslept. I’ll get ready and just show up late.” He looked at me. He wasn’t wrong about being indecent, he only had his boxers on. I sat up and looked around panicking. I didn’t have any clothes on, and I looked a mess. It was obvious I slept here. I jumped out of bed and started putting my clothes on. “I just want to talk and to know where my sister is.” He whispered. “She wasn’t in her room and you were with her last. I’m just a little worried.” He sighed. “I’m sure she’s fine Cade, just come back in fifteen minutes.” Lexus said and lightened his grip on the door since they had calmed down. Or he thought they did because Cade pushed his way inside. His eyes widened when he saw me buckling my pants. “What
We walked Lexus the rest of the way to his next class and Cade walked me to mine. I had to do a lot of meditating in the class that trained my abilities. My teacher was the castle’s Oracle. He knew a lot from experience and some of our abilities were similar. After I walked with Lexus to his last class. I had met up with Konn for my last class. “I heard you overslept.” Konn said. I chuckled nervously. “Yeah, the festival made me exhausted. It won’t happen again, I promise.” That was the only question he gave me about this morning. I wanted him to know I took this job seriously, so I needed to make sure this didn’t happen again. It could have easily been Konn finding out instead of Cade. He started our lesson and he spoke a lot more than yesterday. I thought a lot about last night because I hadn’t exactly processed the fact that me and Lexus had sex for the first time. So much happened earlier this morning that I didn’t get to really think about it. My
In the middle of the night, I heard a knock on my door. I walked to it and opened it to see Lexus. “Can’t sleep?” Lexus walked in. “Nope, you have room for one more. In your bed.” He clarified. I yawned. “I do but can’t you just smoke? Couldn’t you just smoke last time too?” I sat down on my bed. “I heard it puts you right to sleep. Lexus sat on the other side of my bed. “Yeah, but I’d rather sleep with you because this’ll give me a lot better sleep than smoking would.” I turned the light off. “I officially met Gray earlier today.” Lexus took his slides off and laid down. “How did that go?” “Not the best, he was upset that he’s not the holder.” I thought of how his disappointed face looked. “Cade’s being a great brother and I’m sure my relationship with Gray will get better.” “But?” Lexus asked. “I miss my adoptive siblings. I was raised with them and was kind of close with them. I even helped raise the youngest a lot.”
I stared at the picture as Tay continued to talk about it. “There aren’t very many pictures of her, and I’ve never met her but Mom has talked about her. Apparently, she disappeared like twenty years ago. A lot of people thought she was crazy. She’d draw… dragons a lot.” “Lexus my mother’s name is Mae. Are there any other pictures of her Tay?” I asked. Tay rolled her eyes. “I’m obviously emotional, you can’t tell me you’re a mythical creature, show me proof and then ask me for pictures. God where is your human decency? Oh you’re not human, that explains it.” She rambled as she walked to the bookshelf and grabbed a scrapbook. She opened it and showed me a page with pictures of her mom and Mae. “Wow.” My dreams of the future were blurry, but this was definitely how she looked. “I think that’s her; I think that’s my mother.” I looked at Lexus. “Now that I know her name and how she looks I can find her.” I took a picture out of the scrapbook. The one I took
Cade’s POV I had completed a request by Princess Hannah, and I answered my phone on the way to finish something my Dad assigned me. “Cade get over here.” Lexus said over the phone. “I need you.” I stopped walking since I didn’t want to get further from his room if he was requesting my presents. “I’m still working unless this is work related.” I was helping out around the castle doing whatever I could. Since I officially wasn’t an aid for Lexus anymore, I didn’t have an exact position here. I was able to choose just about any I wanted but I didn’t feel passionate about any of the jobs here. Lexus scoffed. “Call it work related if you want just meet me in my room.” I thought about being a guard, but my Mom wouldn’t be happy about that. Her worry isn’t unjustified. There weren’t many attacks or threats around but when there is guards always get injured. Plus, she’s been tense ever sense Aqua arrived. I hated that she felt threatened with my sister around, but I
I flew to the pack house. I walked to Sadia’s room in my human form and knocked on the door. “Cade? So, Lexus is canceling on me?” She sighed. “Again.” I hated lying. “He’s been getting more work than usual lately.” I walked in. “We’ve been having fun together though right?” I really felt that way. “We have.” She closed the door behind me and walked to her desk. “It sucks that I’ve been planning the premating ceremony all by myself. Well not all by myself since the queen assigned us someone to help plan but me and Lexus are supposed to be making the big decisions together.” I walked over to her and saw the wedding planner on her desk. “I can help, I know what Lexus likes.” Sadia smiled. “Thanks Cade. When me and Lexus are married and mated, I’ll start helping him with his work and we’ll spend a lot of time together again.” That is if Lexus doesn’t try to end things. I pulled up a chair and sat next to her. “Okay I want a huge flashy wedding, I’m so ha
Aqua’s POV I was in the great hall sitting across from Konn. “Okay now what was so important Aqua?” I pulled out the photograph. “Don’t get mad at me, okay?” I didn’t want this to seem like an interrogation for Konn. I was worried about my mother’s disappearance. The dream didn’t exactly let me know if she was safe prior to the dream’s conversation. She could be in danger. I pushed the photo to him on the table. “Does she look familiar?” Konn raised his eyebrows. “Where’d you get that from?” Things were looking good judging by his reaction to the photo. “Is this my mother Mae?” “Answer my question first.” It was clear to me that it had to be. “I went back to the human world to visit my younger siblings.” I was afraid of how he was going to react to that. “I saw this in my adoptive parents photo scrapbook. She looks just like me. You sent me to live with my mother’s adoptive family.” It would have been best for Konn