Several hours later, James and I awoke and headed back to Saints Haven. Last night marked out first time being intimate and I was still rock hard from even thinking about it, recollecting the thoughts as if they were still going on. I extend my hand to lock with James' but he pushes it away. I frown, " What's the matter?" James look was a look of shame. "Out here, we can be whatever we like, but,Saints Haven's people look up to me as an authority figure someone they could rely on, I don't know howd they take it if they knew of us. I'm sorry, but in public we cannot be seen embracing like this..." The words cut through my heart like a +14 Desert Dragon Sword...

I couldn't believe what he was saying but I knew it was what was best for us. A love in secrecy is better than no love at all I guess. I told myself under my breathe. James grabbed my shoulders, "Look, Kaylup, meet me at Deso point tonight, around dawn. Then we can have some alone time together, just like we did in Black Mountain. Promise." My frown turned into a giant smile, at least we were going to keep up dates. That I liked. As the gates to Saints Haven opened we were greeted by guards,one guard said to James. "Late night scouting mission, James? You weren't at your post during night call and we were going to send out a recon team but King Cassias told us you were fine." James looked to the guard, "You don't need to worry about that, I was simply enjoying the Black Mountains last night and lost track of time, I will report back to General Douglas and my post guards to ensure my safe return, thank you." He then looked back to me, smiled and walked away. On the commission board next to me, I saw something that made my heart drop just a little, I mean, maybe it wasn't today, but maybe it was, I can't get a break...

Later that day, dawn was nearing and I was just getting done with my daily routine, selling todays loot at the marketplace when a pair of unfamiliar arms wrap around me and hugged me from behind. "Kaylup! Where were you last night!? You never came home!" Oh, it was Jason. Jason was a tink like me, except he chose to go Gear Master instead of taking up the healing life like me. "Hi, Jason, yeah, sorry about that, got a urgent letter from General Douglas saying he needed me to help him with some paper work, my bad." I lied to Jason, even though he was my friend, he couldn't know about me and James either, no one could. "Well, you missed it last night, we had another message from Big sister Jasmine!" He said to me with excitement. I didn't understand why he liked Jasmine so **** much, she barley visited and barley talked to us, if it were up to me, I would cut off all communications with her. But I went along with it anyways,"Oh yeah? What did she say?" I asked trying my best to hide the pure disgust I had for her name even being mentioned in my presence. "She said she had downloaded new skill data onto our tranmission devices and to look at them right away. Look what I can do now!" He stood back and pulled out his cannon, launched something that looked like a small metal ball to the ground, it cracked open and out popped a mechanical duck."She said it's called a Quackam!" The little duck scurried around until it went by the fountain and got splashed, short circuited, and died. "Yeah, there's still bug in it but, I love it!" Jason said. I looked at the sky to see the sun starting to go down, dawn was nearing. I hesitated, I still needed to get to deso! "Look, Jason,I have to go, umm, important Royal stuff to do tonight, ill probably be back later tonight!" I said as I darted towards Port Hamelton. Jason yelling in the distance, "But What about your new data! ?" He yelled. "I'll get it later, and show you, promise!" I yelled back. I passed the gate to Port Hamelton and it closed, leaving Jason on the other side. Now, for James.

As the boat to ported onto Deso point, James was sitting there waiting for me, the sun had gone down and the stars were out. I ran up to him. "I'm sorry! I got side tracked with Jason, and then the waves were crazy. Just, um, eh,...sorry im late."I said to James, I was about 3 hours late and I was hoping he wouldn't be mad. James stood up, his sword fell into the sand, as he walked up to me, he did something I didn't expect. He hugged me, tight. "I don't care that you're late, all that matters is that you're here, with me, right now." Yet again, only his words made my slacks get shorter... He started moving his hands closer down to my butt. But I pushed his hands away. "James, I don't think we should." James looked at me in confusion, "What, why?" His eyes looked as if they were going to be filled with Lavathia's fire breathe themselves. "Look, I heard during my dungeon run today, that MistaSparkle and his troops were supposed to be heading out here today, if they caught us, it would me exposure for the both of us." James' look turned from anger, to sadness. There was a long pause, then finally he said to me. "Kaylup, even if we can't go all the way tonight, just being here with you is enough for me." His words warmed me, even after being late, and rejecting him, he still just wanted to be here with me. I leaned in and his lips met mine, but this time it was different. It didn't taste like James... I pulled out of the kiss. "James...Why do you...taste different?" He looked panic'd. "Umm, I ate some weird bad food today during a mission today, must be still lingering my bad." He was clearly lying to me, but I didn't have proof, a thousand thoughts raced through my head. "I have to go, I have to meet Jason for Data research." I quickly said, holding back tears. He reached out his hand in a motion for me to wait. "Kaylup, but what about tonight. I thought this was our night?!" I didn't listen, I simply got on the boat and quickly drifted out to sea back to Saints Haven. I couldn't believe what was happening, I didn't think it would ever happen in the 5 months we had been dating, James, was cheating on me.

WELL HOPE YOU ENJOYED CHAPTER 2. CHAPTER 3 TO BE CONTINUED.