Chapter four
Bent down, hanging over the porcelain rim, Val vomited. She couldn't control the convulsions.
"R-R-Ravussss!" Val whaled incoherently.
She heard the heavy footsteps of his inhuman feet moving urgently along the corridor of Luis home.
"Valarie, what have you been drinking? I have told you not to push your limits." He said sternly.
"Nothing. I've been on soft drinks all night." She spluttered between spitting bile down the bowl.
Ravus looked at her wearily, not believing her. Stroking her soft ginger curls that had grown back after her dark moment in the train restroom. Luis came down to see what was going on, carrying a glass of water.
"What's up?" handing the water to Ravus.
"I don't know. I have been throwing up for the past week." She moaned, clutching her stomach.
"You never mentioned this to me Valarie. Why did you not tell me?" Ravus said with an angry tone.
"I'm sorry, it's nothing bad. It's just a stomach bug. Can you leave so I can clean myself up please?" She asked cautiously.
The guys left, and Val sat up, cleaned her face and flushed the toilet. She sat on the toilet seat, laying her head in her hands. She needed to tell him, he needed to know but she didn't know how to tell him.
She had done the tests, peed on the stick and all, Val was pregnant. Val was fucked.
Kaye punched in the number for corny and Luis' home number and waited. Corny answered in his high-pitched, happy telephone voice.
"Corny, get Luis and put me on loud speaker. Now!" Kaye blurted excitedly. There was a crackle and he moved the phoned and shouted Luis into the room. After a minute of waiting He must have floated into the room and answered the phone.
"Helllllo m'dear." He said cheerfully. "What can we do for you?"
"I'M ENGAGED! Roiben proposed and I said yes. Corny, Luis I want you as bridesmaids!" Ecstatically, both parties started to jump around in fits of giggles on either side of phone.
"Oh. My. God. CONGRADULATIONS! This is amazing. When is it? Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god." They descended into hysteria as you would imagine most gay men would at the thought of a wild party.
"I don't know yet you guys, nothings been talked about, I just wanted you two to be the first to know." Kaye said happily, smiling like a lunatic.
"Ok guys I need to go face the terror that is my grandmother considering she hasn't ever met the man I'm about to spend the rest of my life with. I shall call you with details later since you're going to have to be my planners; I'm hopelessly bad at organising stuff. Speak to you guys later." She clicked the phone off and lunged at Roiben who had been patiently waiting beside her.
"Shall we retire to our chamber fiancé?" Kaye said flirtatiously winking at Roiben and began to pull him down the hallway, not giving him much of a choice.
Roiben tugged on Kaye's arm, then as she turned he scooped under her legs, taking her in his arms and carrying her to their room. Kicking open the door and slamming it behind them, Roiben threw Kaye on the bed and stood there. He stood like a predator watching his prey, looking sexier than Kaye had ever seen him. Roiben looked Kaye up and down, then make an odd slightly feral sound, ripped off his shirt. All of the buttons popped with ease, revealing his rippling chest and toned arms. Kaye shuddered with longing and reached up to explore his chest with her hand. Roiben was ready to rip the dress from Kaye's body but considering it was her favourite dress she moved off the bed, pushing Roiben onto it and undid it. Letting it slide to the floor revealing a matching pair of red lace underwear, Kaye twirled and the contrast of her green skin against the red came into view. Kaye drifted towards Roiben, He had an arm outstretched and as she took his hand he pulled hard so she flew on top of him. Kissing hard, they succumbed to temptation.
When Kaye woke she looked around, first realising she was naked and secondly realising that Roiben was spread elegantly across the other side of their bed. She watched him a while, she was astounded by the simple fact he was in love with her. He was absolutely gorgeous. Then as if she had popped his dreamy bubble, Roiben sat straight upright and stared at her. Startled he looked around and realised there was sun beating through the gap in the silk drapes.
"Good morning my love. I Trust you slept well?" Roiben said as he relaxed and sat up in bed.
Kaye replied lightly as she observed Roiben's immaculate body. Crawling up beside him, Kaye waited for Roiben to launch into one of his long winded speeches about his daily activities.
"Since you are going to be staying here with me I am going to have to spend the morning making precautions for your safety. This unfortunately means putting some pretty heavy magic on your room, meaning only royalty can enter, therefore as you are not yet queen you shall have to be escorted in and out by me." Roiben started, as Kaye had anticipated.
"I have to meet with Ravus later this evening but apart from that I am yours the whole day my sweet. What would you like to do? I took the liberty of asking the manager if I could take the day off." Roiben winked at her.
"You know what? After you're done protecting my room from evil we are going to conjure some money and go shopping. Since we spend half our time in the human world you need human clothes... that aren't all black. We also need to get nice clothes and a gift for my grandma since we need to sweeten her up before I tell her and my mother we are about to get married." Kaye said excitedly, she hadn't been shopping in ages.
"I'm going to call Corny and Luis to see if they want to come." Kaye said as she removed herself from the bed and wandered over to the dresser where she removed a fresh pair of underwear to wear. Roiben slipped on a black silk robe and slipped off to the bathroom as Kaye made arrangements to meet the guys.
They met outside a tiny little coffee shop, filled with business men and woman grabbing coffee to go before scurrying of to work.
"Right boys," Kaye said, giggling. "The mission is to find Roiben here a normal set of human clothes. The restrictions are – NO black and not too gay ok? On your marks, get set, GO GO GO!" Kaye's laugh tinkled, captivating Roiben with her fey charm.
Luis and Corny immediately started to converse animatedly, deciding where to go to buy straight man clothes. Roiben's glamour had shrunk his ears and softened his sharp facial features, as Kaye examined it she decided she much rather preferred his true form, he didn't suit the soft face look. Kaye grasped his hand in hers and smiled; Roiben watched the foreign twinkle in her eyes and sighed lightly. They started walking through the crowded city, jostling past humans, oblivious to the true identities of the couple brushing past them. They wandered in and out of shops, trying on shirts and jeans and jackets. Roiben had frowned at so many outfits they all began to lose hope. They eventually found themselves wandering the various floors of a department store when the bright colours caught the boys' eyes.
"OOooh this is nice!" Corny said in a mock camp voice.
"Oh yeah," Kaye joined in laughing at the brightly coloured Speedos that where lining the wall. Kaye giggled as Luis let out a large snort.
"Go on Roiben, try one on. I'm sure it would be a huge turn on for her." He said winking at Kaye.
They all wandered on still in hysterics at the thought of Roiben in Speedos. Roiben drifted over to a rack of t shirts and casually sifted through them. He pulled out a few, white, navy and a red one, looking at Kaye for approval. Kaye was busy gathering more jeans for him to try on. After a nod of approval at the t-shirts she pushed him towards a changing room. As Roiben changed Kaye and the boys mulled around waiting to see what he looked like. Roiben scrubbed up good. The tight T-shirts showed off his muscles and the jeans highlighted his bum. Kaye liked what she saw.
"Right that's it. Boys, go get him a couple of those t-shirts and another pair of those jeans." Luis saluted and they both turned in unison. Kaye pulled a handkerchief from Roiben's pocket and snapped her fingers, transforming it into a credit card.
"Hey I'm getting good at this" Kaye said happily. Peering at him, Kaye noticed he was wearing a rather odd pair of black boots. Putting it bluntly they were fugly. She laughed her cheeky little laugh and told him to remove them. Glancing round to check no one could see she grinned mischievously and clicked her fingers. They changed into a shiny new pair of red converse.
Purchasing the clothes with the handkerchief card they left the store in search of food. They dove into a fast food place grabbing some burgers to keep them going.
"Roiben have you ever seen the human sights of the big apple?" Corny asked, genuinely interested.
"The sights?" Roiben enquired.
"Yeah like the empire state building, Broadway, Ellis island?" Corny wasn't really that surprised since what did the king of the faeries need to know about human pass times?
"We should go, come on guys. The Empire state or the Rockefeller? Kaye thought it was a great idea.
"Come see our world, you and Luis have been away with the faeries far too long." Kaye laughed lightly and wandered towards the subway station. Luis shivered as the descended the steps to, remember that former life, thinking of Dave and Lolli, he suppressed the urge to release a tear. Recomposing himself he carried on striding down the platform scanning the fake unlimited rail card they had made when they first started living in the filthy, retched tunnels. They waited beside a large concrete pillar, Roiben shifted uncomfortably at the sight of the hobo sitting on a wooden bench.
The platform filled up with a hot breeze signalling the arrival of a train. Stepping back from the edge as it flew into the station they waited for the flow of people to disembark before grabbing a seat.
They got off the train and after all the security checks to get up the building they squashed into the elevator and ascended the dozen of floors to the observation deck.
"You know, it shouldn't surprise me you have never been up here before but it still does." Kaye chatted animatedly to Roiben.
They strolled around the sides and looked over at the vest expanding iron jungle.
"It smells... clean." Roiben uttered. Kaye, being so used to the iron it hardly effected her had forgotten that he must have been irritated by it all day.
"I'm sorry, I always forget about the smell. We will go home soon," Kaye apologised as she turned to look through the fence on the other side. Looking up she noticed two women staring longingly at Roiben. One of them waved flirtatiously. Kaye scowled protectively. Kaye was unfortunately the jealous type. No one would take her man. She had experienced the heart ache of having guys cheat before and she was done with it. Roiben was serious. Roiben was the rest of her life.
One of the girls reminded her of someone; she had long flowing red hair...Silarial! Kaye whipped round to have another look. The girl had turned and no longer resembled that bitch. She shook of the wary feeling and continued to look out over her land with Roiben.