It was dark when Adam and Astrid final woke up from their nap under the tree. Astrid stirred and snuggled closer to Adam, ,why was it so cold? Astrid pressed her face down onto his muscled chest, he was so warm. She could feel him breathing, she listened to his heart beat and felt such comfort.
With her eyes still closed she kissed his chest and neck, Adam wraped his arms tightly around her. He shifted and opened his eyes. "Astrid!" He said startled, she still has her eyes closed and was savoring the moment of being close to him. "Astrid it's nighttime!" Adam chuckled.
she opened her eyes and looked around, it was dark! That's why it's so chilly. She looked up at Adams smiling face, she realized herself. "Oh my! We slept all day!"
Astrid tried to pull away but Adam still held on to her, he too was savoring his moment with her. "Adam my sheets! And we've been gone all day! Everyone must be wondering where we are!"
She squirmed trying to get up but he just held her against him gently teasing her. "You can't get up till I'm good and ready, I've got you!" Adam teased.
Astrid looked at him annoyed but secretly adored him for his silly sense of humor. She gave him a sly smile. "Is that so master?"
Adam held her tightly "nope! Your not going anywhere!"
He rolled her over on her back and pinned her with his knees, he began ticketing her ribs, "Adam! Stop Adam! Come on!" Astrid laughed, she squirmed and wiggled trying to get away but she couldn't break his hold on her.
Adam roared with laughter "you can't get away from me no matter how hard you try because your just a week little girl!" He emphasizes the word girl.
Astrid looked right at him acting serious but secretly teasing, she pretended to pout and cry. Adam immediately released her and coiled away giving her space "oh no! Astrid I'm sorry have I upset you? Did I hurt you? I didn't mean to! Please forgive me!"
Adam was so concerned he didn't notice the hand full of mud Astrid acquired, she stopped her fake crying and looked at him with her silly sly grin. "Prince Adam, you couldn't hurt me if you tried!"
she tossed the mud at him making a big splat all over his white shirt, his beautiful face was soiled and full of shock. He stared at her with complete disbelief, Astrid laughed and took off running down the hill, Adam smiled and ran after her with the speed and agility of a jungle cat. He caut up to her in no time "nooooo!" Astrid squealed Adam threw her over his shoulder like a sac of potatoes and made his way back up the hill.
"You have been a VERY naughty girl Astrid." He joked, Astrid pretended to cry again "oh no Prince please have mercy! Don't punish me!' She chuckled he pretended back, "you get what you deserve woman!"
He quickly reached the mud pile she had soiled him with and with her in one arm he took the other hand and plopped a huge mud pie on top of her head.
The wet earth ran down her face and hair like she had been crying muddy tears, Adam then plopped her down in the mud pile soiling her dress, she was covered in mud. He stepped back and made a bow "now your the queen of mud, your highness...I am but your loyal mud servent."
Adam was cracking himself up Astrid wiped her face just smearing the mud more, she grabbed two handfuls stood up and threw them at Adam, hitting him over the top of his head and on his pants. "Off with your head!"
She smiled getting the mud in her mouth, she spat it out "bleehhh this is so gross! Adam what am I to do I'm a mud queen! Why did you have to make such a mess of me?"
He grinned his onrey grin and folded his arms across his muddy chest. "You started it."
She stepped out of the mud puddle trying to shake out her soiled dress but it was no use. She laughed and ran to him giving him a big hug and smearing her hands and face all over him. "Now your the mud king!"
Adam bowed to her offering his arm, "my lady?" She smiled, and took it as they marched down the hill.
Mrs. Potts gazed out her window, she and her dear friend Cogsworth watched Astrid and the Prince, in the mud playing together. The old concerned mother wasn't sure if she was happy for her eldest or petrified with fear. What would the king say? He would never allow his only son to marry a servants daughter, Adam would have to marry some woman of nobility and Astrid would have her heart broken. Then there's Adams terrible temper, mrs Potts had raised him up from a young child and though he was truly a kind gentle spirit he grew up to be a mean selfish young man with a Terribly bad temper.
Cogsworth paced back and fourth, making himself more and more flustered. "No! No! No! This is not good! Most definitely not good!"
The portly man sputtered. "Prince Adam and Astrid! It's so inappropriate! The young master needs to marry a woman with a title, of noble blood, to carry out his duty as future king of France."
Mrs. Potts looked through the window and back at Cogsworth, "Love sees no class or status, two young people are only behaving in the most natural way possible."
Cogsworth threw his hands up in discust. "Madmoisell, he is a Prince! And miss Astrid is just a- she's just..." .
"Just a what?" Mrs Potts asked sternly.
Cogsworth sighed and covored his left eye with his right hand. "Dear Mrs Potts, I didn't mean-."
"I know very well what you meant Cogsworth." Mrs Potts was a reasonable woman, patient and practical, but she loved her children with all her heart.
Cogsworth comforted his friend, "I apologize. You know I think of only the best when it comes to miss Astrid... But this is no good for her, you know what needs to be done."
The man with an oddly clock like demeanor saw tears in Mrs Potts eyes. "Can't we just let them enjoy themselves a little while?" She pleaded.
Cogsworth let out a moan. "Ooooh, but what if the king finds out?"
"He won't!" Mrs Potts ordered, "Not if we don't tell him."
Cogsworth closed his eyes tightly, his anxiety overcoming him. Mrs Potts felt her own anxiety beginning to manifest, Cogsworth had never been very good at secrets.
The mud queen and her mud king marched to the well by the stables to clean up a bit. Adam pulled on the rope slowly but surely lifting the water filled bucket out of the dark pit that was the well. Astrid watched and admired the bulging muscles from his arms.
When the bucket surfaced Adam hoisted it up and with one swoop lifted it onto the ground. He looked over his muddy queen and eyed the strange look on her pretty mud face. He found himself breathless when she looked at him like that, as if she knew all his secrets.
"What are you looking at me like that for Cherri?" Adam put his hands on his hips.
Astrid's gaze on him was broken by his deep voice, her eyes grew wide with embarrassment, she hadn't realized she was starring. "How did you get so strong?" Was all she could manage to say.
Adam chuckled and shrugged, "I don't really know, I keep fit, I eat everything your mother makes for me."
Astrid laughed, her mother Mrs Potts knows how to feed a man, and her children, as Astrid had never been thin."well it suits you Adam, I've never met a man so..."
She paused, not quite sure how to describe all the things she felt about Adam in one elegant adjective. "So what?" Adam cared very much what Astrid thought of him, he never cared what anyone thought but he cared about her.
Astrid smiled warmly at her love and how anxious he was to hear her. "So unbelievably beautiful." Was all she came up with.
Adam smiled proudly and traced her muddy cheek with his fingers. "You think I'm beautiful Astrid?"
"Oh yes Adam! Your the most beautiful man I've ever seen, it's like you came right out of a fairy tale."
Adam cupped her face and turned her up to look at him. "I think your beautiful too Astrid."
Her heard danced at his words, even if they weren't true. She knew she wasn't beautiful but she was still glad he said it to her. She placed her hands on his forearms. "Your not just beautiful to look at Adam, your heart is beautiful."
Adam felt tears come to his eyes, he forced them away. That was a first for Adam, women described him as handsome, he knew he was nice to look at. He knew his good looks were all he had, that he was a bad person, know one had ever told him anything else.
Adam pulled her close, he rested his face on the top of her head when he remembered she and he were covered in mud. "Let's get my pretty girl cleaned up."
She smiled at his compliment and began to undress. "Oh no it's so cold!" Astrid covered herself with her arms, Adam muffled a laugh at her cute little voice and slowly poured the water over her like a human shower.
Astrid squeaked at the water on her skin in the chilly nighttime air, she washed quickly trying to get every last bit of mud off of her. Adam poured the water and wondered how he ever could have thought Astrid was ugly. His eyes ran over her half naked body, all wet and gleaming in the moonlight. She looked like a night goddess with her pale luminescent skin glowing and shining.
Her breasts were large and round her little pink nipples hard. Her shoulders were broad but beautiful, her waist was narrow but thick and her hips flared out connecting to those thick thighs. Her legs were short and stocky, her face was plain but pretty, and oh those collar bones, Adam decided he could kiss them all day every day till he was dead. "Brrrr!" Astrid took Adams clean coat and wraped it around herself, her shoulder length hair was wet and dripping. Adam kissed her wet little nose as he admired her, she almost imploded evry time he looked at her.
Adam filled the bucket once more as Astrid washed her dress in the tub where she had been doing the sheets. Adam slipped off his white shirt and Astrid began washing it too, it was hard for her to concentrate on laundry whial he rinsed off.
Adam was truly a beautiful man, he poured the water over his head, the droplets bouncing off the bulges in his chest, his shoulders, his stomach. His wet auburn hair he slicked back and tied with a ribbon in a sloppy bun. He never once complained about it being cold tho his dark nipples on his tanned chest were hard from the chilly air.
Astrid finished washing the soiled items and put her arms up to hang them, Adam stood behind her and wraped his arms around her waist. "We meet here again!" Astrid giggled,
Adam whispered in her ear "do we get to do again what we did the last time?"
Astrid rolled her eyes, "certainly not out here! Can we go inside without being seen?"
Adam kissed her neck, "don't worry I know how to sneak into the west wing."
He spun her around and opened the coat she was wearing, he wantid to see her beautiful glowing skin in the moonlight once more. Hand in hand, the couple walked into the woods.
Astrid hated the woods, she hated wolves. She remembered being a little girl when Adams mother was killed trying to save Adams older brother Edward. Edward was playing hide and seek with Adam, when Edward got lost in the woods, his mother begged the king to go and find him but he wouldn't. He said Edward was a boy and he needed to become a man and men don't let their mothers and fathers save them when they are lost. The king regretted that decision forever, but still managed to blame Adam for ever playing hide and seek, then Edward never would have become lost.
They met the west side if the castle, statues of gargoils and angels covered in beautiful vines. Adam looked at Astrid who was full of doubt, she wasn't very strong. "Don't worry Cherri it's not so bad, look it's pretty easy."
Adam and his long legs climbed onto a statues head, then with one hand on a vine he swung himself onto the roof, then he jumped with such grace over the balcony landing on two feet. He stared down to Astrid who was petrified,
"come up il help you! Look put your foot on that gargoils head, then reach up and grab the vine."
Astrid clutched the coat tightly around her as she struggled to make her way up, Adam made this look easy but Astrid was akward and far from athletic. She managed to get up top the statue but lost her balance when she tried to grab the vine and fell back flat on her bottom.
"Astrid!" Adam scrambled down to her aid, by the time Astrid realized her embarrassment Adam had his hands on her shoulders and was tenderly comforting her. Astrids pride was the only thing that hurt, she was fighting the tears threatening to spill out of her green eyes but Adams sweetness was making it worse.
"I'm fine I'm not a baby!" She finally said tightly,
Adams face was full of hurt, making Astrid feel worse. She wiped away a fugitive tear and sniffled "I'm sorry Adam, I just can't I'm too clumsy."
He snickered and smiled his silly crooked smile, "well why didn't you just say so?"
Astrid kind of felt like swatting him but he was just so cute and silly that she had to laugh. Adam turned over presenting his back to her, "here get on my back!" He gestured for her to climb on him.
Astrid immediately coiled, "No! Adam no I'm way too heavy you can't climb up there with me on you your going to fall and wel both get hurt!"
Adam chuckled and looked right into her, "don't you trust me?"
Astrid was backed in a corner by this, she figured it was worth falling to make him happy. "Yes I trust you." She said reluctantly.
Adam smiled his biggest best smile, his perfect white teeth like little pearls in a velvet box. He crouched down and she climbed onto him her arms tight around his neck her thick strong legs around his waist. Adam stood upright and found his balance, Astrid burried her face in his hair fearful of what was to come.
Adam placed his foot on the statue and was able to grab the vine, he pulled them up and swung but staggered a little bit. With the other hand he grabbed another vine and with a loud grunt he and his strong arms pulled them both up onto the roof. The coat Astrid was holding onto slipped off and fell to the ground,
"are you alright?" He asked Astrid, "mmhhmmm" she muffled into his hair, "you can get down if you want were on the roof." Adam said breathlessly.
Astrid unlocked her death grip on Adam and finally put her feet flat on the top of the roof, she was confident that she could handle climbing over the balcony.
She cupped her bare breasts with her hands, without Adams coat all she had were her bloomers. She realized she was practically naked and made a dash for the balcony. She over estimated herself and Adam ended up giving her a boost.
When they were finally in the west wing she kissed Adam on the cheek, he was hot and sweaty from the climb, she had to say she was rather impressed.
"Thank you" she giggled, "I'm terribly useless!" She made fun of herself.
Adam threw his head back, "yes when it comes to climbing I'm afraid my dear you are useless."
Astrid knew he was kidding but still she blushed. He leaned close to her face, "but I know if you come into my room with me, and stayed a while, you could make yourself so very not useless."
He winked at her and kissed her nose, then her chin, then her lips.