HEY! you all probably know who I am by now. This is a rather useless chapter, but we all love a bit of fluff here and there. :D. Also, I must warn people that I won't be here to publish ani chapters the day after boxing day because Im going overseas. So if I disappear, u know why. Enjoy the chappie!!!

Mystique in our Relationship

Chapter 10

Spring ended and summer made its arival. The days instantly got hotter and the sun shone 24/7. Sari was in the mine digging when Carter, a miner that looked around his mid 30s, groaned.

'What's wrong?'

'It's summer.' Sari frowned. She wasn't fond of summer herself. She hated the heat. Still, she didn't see why the miner had to groan about it.

'So?' At Sari's question Carter groaned again in paied agony.

'Summer is when that stupid Phantom Thief Skye steals to his fullest, so irritating.' He explained, rubbing his temple as if he had a headache. 'Gotta be extra careful this season.'

'Skye, huh?' Sari wondered aloud absentmindedly. It's been a whole season since the kidnapping. People had a bit of an uproar about just letting him go even though Sari did come back unharmed, but now it has died down. Sari still does occasionally run into Skye during her midnight walks. No matter how many times Sari pesters the thief he won't tell the reason of why he kidnapped her. He does put mystique in our relationship, Sari thought smirking to herself.

'Did you find something good?' Crap! Carter! Sari smiled as casualy as she could as she raised her hoe again. Clack! The pair stared at the spot where the hoe had hit something.

'…Yeah.' Sari shrugged while inside she was jumping for joy of how Carter's misunderstanding had become a reality. Carter walked over to her and picked up the object which Sari had just dug up. A brooch.

'What a find!' Carter breathed. He examined the brooch a little more before passing it to Sari. Sari stared at it dumbly.

'You're giving it to me?' Carter nodded his head.

'You dug it up, so therefore it's yours.'

'Thank you.' She took the brooch from him and then looked outside. The sun had set a little. 'Well, I better get going. Gotta save some time for my ranch as well.'

'I understand. Good bye Sari.'

That night Sari took the brooch and went to the Harvest Goddess pond. She washed the dirt off in the water. Without all that dirt on it, it was actually a very beautiful brooch. It was a blood red flower with a golden yellow center. Its stem was a graceful twisting vine and the leaves stretched out. Its years in the dirt had worn it off a litlle and gave it a good texture. Sari ran her finger over the petals admiring its beauty.

'Such a beautiful treasure.' Sari didn't need to turn around to see who it was. Only one person in the whole entire valley said that sort of line.

'What's up Skye?'

'Hehe. I was wandering around. What a beautiful brooch you have.' He leaned in over her shoulder and ran his finger along side Sari's. 'I'm sure it would look more beautiful on a beautiful maiden like you.'

'Ha! Yeah right.' Sari scoffed. 'For sme reaon, I find it hard to believe you.'

'You're only saying that because you live on a ranch, so you don't need that sort of thing.' He took the brooch out of her hand. 'I mean it, you are a beautiful maiden and I'm sure that this brooch will look beautiful on you.' He turned the farmer to face him. He pinned it on her ovarall strap, over her heart which was, right now, beating very fast. 'Heheh. Your blushing Sari.' That only caused Sari's face to burn even more.

'N-No, I'm n-not.' She stuttered before turning on her heel and and began to walk away.
'Sari!'

'What?!' She turned only to face Skye who had strided over to her. He the suddenly leaned in and placed a gentle kiss in her still-blushing cheek.

'Good night, fair maiden.' He purred in her ear. Sri ran home, instantly went into the bathroom and splashed her face with cold water ten times. But even so, when she looked up in mirror, the blush was still there and she could still fell her face burning and a tingle where Skye had kissed her.

'If I had a thermonitor right now, my face would be 150 degrees, probably