NEW CHAPTER ALERT! WHOOP! WHOOP! Haha! Enjoy! My friend, Diamond, helped me with this chapter! Hope you like it! REVIEW!

River/Diamond POV

Ok, I did not see her boyfriend sneaking up behind me, and REALLY didn't mean to injure him like that! But he took me really by surprise! Let's see, after his impromptu attack, we sent him off on a stretcher, and then tied up the remaining members of the group. Oh my goodness… Left in the group was a VERY handsome dark skinned boy, whom I approached.
"Who might you be?" I asked, trying not to be a huge flirt. Oh goodness, he was so CUTE!
"What do you care, you're probably just going to torture us anyways," he said, like it was no big deal. I, for one, was insulted.
"We don't torture for fun, you know! Only if they are traitors, or murderers, or any of that! Not overlanders, unless we have a VERY good reason," as I say that, the rest of the group is giving me dirty looks, and I have the feeling they don't believe me.
"Why should we believe you?" said a girl with short brown hair, "You could be lying, and planning to kill each of us VERY slowly in the dungeons or keep us barely alive!"
"What do we look like to you? Barbarians? Cavemen? Romans?" At this last word, the cute one scowled, and tried to break his ropes, but spider silk isn't easy to break without a sword, which I doubt they had any of.
"Um, Diamond, you might want to lay off," I heard Gregor say to me. Gregor and I were basically raised together, with his sister, Lizzie, finding me after my falling through a huge crack in the ground I kind of owe them one.
I turn away from the group, but I feel someone grab me and pull me back.
"This isn't over," I hear the cute one whisper in my ear, "Ekul, that's my name."
"Diamond," I say in the most nonchalant voice I could come up with, but secretly I was ecstatic! Ekul. Ekul. Ekul. Such a fun name! It just… No, Diamond, cut it out! Maybe he found my threats enough to tell me his name? Maybe he's really into me? Maybe he's impressed I took down that Tori girl! Yeah, that's it!
Anyways, I call my bat, Tyche, and we get back to the palace. I head to my room, and casually walk past the cells. Okay, fine, I wanted to see if Ekul was there! Sadly he wasn't. Tear. As I approach my room, I smell flowers, and some other fragrances that I didn't recognize. Oh no, I thought, Mareth strikes again. Mareth was this guard who has a HUGE crush on me, but I DON'T like him! Everyone thinks I like him too, but now I have proof that I don't!
When I get to my room, it's not the scene I expected. I expected to see Mareth waiting right inside the doorway, with a bouquet, about to attempt to ask me out or something like that. What I saw instead, was Ekul sitting on my bed with a heart shaped box of… something.
"What… How…?" I asked stupidly, overflowing with words that I can't get past my throat.
"What am I doing here? I know this will sound cheesy, but we… I feel like we had a moment back there, and I've… I've passed up plenty of girls in my lifetime and regretted each one. I just… Just didn't want to let you pass me by," he said, and I believe he truly meant it. He opened the box, and inside it were these little round brown things. I was confused at first, but then he explained it.
"These are chocolates," he said, "Couples up on the surface give them to each other, to show affection."
"So, does that make us a… couple then?" I say, not exactly sure where he's going with this.
"Not in a million years," I hear a voice in my doorway say. I turn, and standing there in the doorway, is no one other than Luxa.
"Luxa, have you met…" I decide to stop intro, seeing as how she could have him killed at a flick of her wrist.
"Diamond, you're supposed to be the ambassador. Meaning any falling in love YOU'RE going to do, will be arranged by the court," she says, turning and striding out of the room.
"So, I suppose you're going to obey you're queen then, aren't you?" Ekul asks, an icy tone to his voice. I walk over to my bed, and sit down.
"I would LOVE to a part of this couple you mentioned," I say, taking the chocolates from him. Then, deciding to be dangerous, I lean in close to him, and, just as his whole group (even the ones who were unconscious) burst through the door, kiss him so perfectly that Queen Luxa would be jealous.

Thanks all! Especially Diamond for helping me write this! PLEEEEAAAASSSSEEEEE REEEEVIEEEEEWWW!