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Kiki00Rain

Thanks for that review, if I can call it that, and I'm saying that the nicest way possible. Yeah, found it hard to kill the ox but I just, just, needed to.

The most marvelous hue of coffee brown eyes popped open.

Veronica bolted upright, forgetting where she was, her vision focusing on the face that always looked at her with full of love and at the corners were full of flowing pride that he could never bring down. He has to. He has to, she thought. If he wants me back. Of course, speaking like a true brat, Veronica would never admit she's the one dying hard on him.

Her covers slipped gracefully off her on her attempt to sit up, and Dwaine knew that she didn't even know it. Her plain white top was thick but the bra behind it was so black that he saw them traced against the fabric, kind of short circuited his whole brain, much to his satisfaction for the real thing, not by a long shot, matched his great imaginations. He licked his lips, thinking for something to say.

"Well?" Veronica spat, upset she's the one to have to make him talk again.

Dwaine shrugged, remembering his main purpose for visiting her, "I don't know. Sorry won't work for you." She reared back slightly, almost hurt, and that made him feel bad.

"And why do you think it won't?"

Dwaine lividly ran a hand through his dark hair. "Have you forgiven me?"

She pounded a fist on the bed. "Why should I?"

He pointed a finger at her. "That's why I think it won't work!"

Outside, Thalia bit her quivering lip in worry while Melissa, surprisingly, clenched her teeth, as if she'll take on Dwaine dead on the spot if he ever yells at a girl in front of her.

"I want explanations, Dwaine." Veronica crossed her arms, which projected her breasts into fuller rounds and made his salivation grow.

Dwaine swallowed, turning his gaze away. "Odette and you, yes, I liked you both. And no, I did not date you both at the same time. But I did date her. When you and I broke up for two months, I was with her." He turned back to see Veronica angry and waiting. "But, you know, I just missed you more each day when I'm with Odette. I kept comparing the two of you, and you know what, you always came on top. Always."

Words flew innocently in his deep voice that sounded like repeating lies in her ears all the time, but now, she can't explain it, perhaps the rocking of the boat turned her right side up or he actually changed for the better.

This time, Veronica was the one to turn her face away and he walked closer to her. "Want a hug?"

"No." She crushed back onto the mattress, arms covering her tear drenched face that was strongly pressed against the pillows. He sat next to her and humbly rubbed her back, no other intentions, just for pure comfort and reassurance. "I love you."

Veronica nodded, mumbling, "I forgive you."

He slyly leaned to her ear, whispering, "And…?"

She pulled back immediately, throwing a pillow at his face. "And I'm hungry."

With that, Thalia and Melissa snickered away before they got caught.

Veronica thought Dwaine was to cunningly follow another joke, and when he didn't, she wondered, pulling the pillow off his face; mildly shocked to see him thinking. "What's wrong?"

Dwaine plastered a fake smile and she fully believed it, smiling back, "I –where do you think we are? This ship we're trapped into."

Oh.

She honestly doesn't know. But Veronica did understand Dwaine's fearfulness and many doubts towards the Huntresses because she'd gone through that. But after her recent failed flee, which still left a small shame inside her that showed every time she sees the Huntresses, and numerous amounts of enlightenment given to her after that, she realized, you'll eventually learn to accept new, extraordinary things. And Dwaine will do as well with proper time. Certainly, she'll be at his side.

"We're not trapped." Veronica said, drowning in the coolness of his mint colored eyes. "I don't know where we are. But I feel this is the safest place to be right now."

"What about home, isn't that place much safer?"

"We can't. It's a long story." She kissed his cheek. "When we land ashore, and we meet this girl who's going to make things alright again, they promised me, we'll be back home and forget everything that happened here."

He abruptly cupped her face, "Forget, baby?"

She giggled, "I don't want to forget either. I've learned so much!" She escaped before he could kiss her lips, "like how to cook."

"You cannot cook, Nica." He snapped, taking her hand after she had put on a blue knitted sweater.

"Pamela taught me. I'll prove it to you." She told him as they went out the room hand in hand.

Together again.

Please review! - mixing things up a little bit. If you didn't get it, I interchanged the review and please. I'm so lame. I know.

Oh, and if you're yearning for adventure, my next two chapters would satisfy you. You just wait. I think it's a great way to end the ten chapters with the two lovers again, but we'll be getting back on the thrilling adventures really, really soon. Real soon.