Simon climbed into his pajamas as he thought about what transpired inside it two nights ago. After the intrusion Simon and the dulahan had a nice day together on his first day off of work they first went to the pub to pay for the drinks he had the night before, then they went shopping for food, afterwards he sat down at lunch with her and just talked to her as he tried to get her to either talk to him or figure out what happened two nights ago. He was not afraid to get noticed because she had a helmet on the whole time concealing the fact that she didn't have a head.
"Huh. It almost seems to good to be real. I wonder if It was a paid leave?" Simon asked himself. Suddenly there was a loud knock on the door.
"Ugh I knew it was to good to be true." Simon said as he got out of bed and walked over to his front door in order to stop the loud banging.
"WHAT!" Simon yelled out of the door expecting Jack the pumpkin king.
Instead of a laughing pumpkin kicking him inside like Jack normally would two arms were thrust around his neck and the dulahan hugged him close. Simon was stunned. This never happened to him before.
Jack placed one hand on her waist and the other on his chin.
"Lets see I brushed my teeth, took a shower, got into my pajamas, got in bed then loud knocking on my door…. Ah I got it! I'm still asleep. I just started dreaming and that is when I got up. I'm still in a dream." Simon reasoned aloud.
The dulahan let him go and pushed him away as if to look at him. Simon shivered and got the feeling that she was a bit frustrated. That is when he realized that this wasn't a dream and that he had better think fast if he didn't want to die via angry body.
"I know it is a dream because I see something as beautiful as you and I just know that you are to good for me." Simon said. "Good save brain." He thought. The dulahan jumped on him in a tight hug and they fell back onto the ground. Simon looked at her and finally after a minuet of struggling pried her of him.
"Listen why don't you come in and I will make some tea?" Simon asked. The dulahan jumped up as if it was embarrassed and sat down on the couch. Simon got up and set some water in the thermos to heat before walking over to her and sitting down next to her.
"I have a question?" Simon began. "You and me. Is anything happening, I mean are we boyfriend and girlfriend or husband and wife or just two friends who got drunk or what? I mean I don't know what happened two nights ago due to me being drunk for the first time in five years." Simon said with a chuckle. The dulahan brought a lightly clenched hand up to where it's mouth should be and chuckled silently as two puffs of smoke rose from its neck.
"Ok fine if you won't answer me then I will just have to pry it out of you with time. But before that I guess I should get to know you before we take our relationship any further from where it might or might not be." Simon said picking up a piece of paper and a pencil from the table next to him.
"First question. What is your name? I would like to know now that I am sober enough to remember." Simon asked.
The dulahan wrote down the word "Zuria."
"Zuria! What a lovely name. do you know what it means?" Simon asked.
"It means white or lovely." Zuria wrote down.
"Now I can see why it you are called Zuria, you are very lovely." Simon said
The dulahan shifted closer to him and her leg brushed against his. Simon felt a twinge of happiness run through his body before he jumped back a bit from the sudden feeling. The dulahan didn't notice due to the fact that it was covering itself with the paper in embarrassment.
"Next question. How old are you. I am 25 years old." Simon said.
Zuria wrote down something and gave it to Simon whos eyebrow poked up quickly.
"You are three hundred and forty seven? That is amazing. To be as beautiful as you are at that age." Simon declared.
The dulahan scribbled down something and gave the paper back to him. "Do you like me?" Was what he read.
Simon gasped before looking at the dulahan. "Of course I like you. You are probably the first person who has gotten into a personal level of a relationship with me." Simon said getting up to make the tea and pacing the room at the same time. The dulahan jumped out of the couch and hugged him.
"Cant breath." Simon gasped for air. The dulahan let him go and wrote down "Sorry." On the paper.
"Well I'm going to guess that you are not able to control your adrenalin." Simon guessed. The dulahan shook her upper body in a "Yes" motion.
"Well before we go any further I have to ask something of you. While it is true that I kinda like you. It is also true that I am not ready for a romantic relationship with another woman due to a story that I'm sure I told you when I was drunk. So I am asking you to please let me take this relationship slowly as friends first, then we can become closer. And Maybe then we can even do things that couples do." Simon asked as he blushed a crimson red.
Zuria jumped up into the air and clapper her hands together before nodding in the yes motion again.
"Well its getting kind of late. Can I escort you to your house?" Simon yawned.
Zuria grabbed the paper and pen and quickly wrote down something. "I don't have a house. I have the carriage."
Simon looked at Zuria in wonder. "Ahem, well if you don't have a place to stay. I guess you could stay here for the time being." Simon coughed.
Zuria almost hugged him but stopped short and held out her hand to him. He shook it and led her to the bedroom. Simon let Zuria jump in bed before him as he went to the bathroom. Simon looked at the mirror. "Oh boy Simon what did you get yourself into now?" He thought as he brushed his teeth for a second time. Several minuets later he crawled in bed. Zuria looked at him. He could feel her gaze. "ok here are the rules, NO funny business, NO making love until we are married If we get Married, And The Biggest one of all, NO telling the others that I where fluffy teddy bear Pajamas." Simon said sternly. He could practically feel Zuria chuckle at his big fluffy brown Pajamas with cute bear ears.
Zuria cuddled close to him and before he could protest she placed her arms around him and stopped moving. "Ah well I guess once you have lived in a carriage for three hundred and forty something years a bed seems alike heaven to you. And I guess I could act as a teddy bear, just for tonight. To care for a girl who probably never even had the dream to become a princess." Simon justified. Suddenly happienes coursed out of the Zuria's body and into Simons. Simon was over taken by the coziness of the cold Dulahan that was cuddled to him and the warm blankets working together and he soon fell asleep.