Chapter 9: Moonkissed

It has probably been a few weeks, living with both Chimera and Stella, my wife, truly hasn't been easy. Chimera is constantly rubbing things in Stella's face, things of our past. Because Chimera and I do have a past. Which doesn't matter now because I love Stella.

It breaks my heart to see Stella, each and every night, pick up her things and sleep on the kitchen floor. The only confort I can find in that, if any, is that I get to sleep next to her, and at least try to keep her warm. I get to listen to her talk in her sleep, listen to her every dream.

Flashback

As I lay there by Stella, I can't help but admire how beautifully her face shines under the moonlight. I hug her close, being that even though I've already closed the kitchen window it can still get pretty cold. I've also brought a few heavy quilts to cover us and keep us warmer.

"Brandon…"

"Stella?" I say, as I'm lying next to her I hear her almost whisper my name.

"Brandon…stay" she whispers and shifts in her sleep. I smile, even though she may not admit it while she's awake, I know in her dreams she may love me. I'm not sure what came over me at the moment, but I came closer to her, leaned down, and pressed my lips on hers. I parted after only a few seconds afraid that she could feel it and wake up. But suprisingly it was the exact opposite. She seems to like it, she seemed to want to..kiss back.

I leaned down and kissed her again, this time more passionately, fully. And to my surprise, she began to kiss me back. A few minutes went by and the kiss only got deeper and deeper. My hands went around her waist and she began mumbling something incoherent against my lips. Her hands went behind my back and I pulled her closer. But eventually she began to groan in her sleep and seemed like she wanted to break the kiss, so I let her go gently as to not wake her up.

It took me a few minutes to catch my breathe, same went for Stella even if she was still asleep. I pulled Stella close to me. We would be together some day , that I was sure of.

End of flashback

I'm sure Stella doesn't even have the slightest idea of what happened the other night. I don't want to imagine how she would react If she did. I look at her now dressed as a maid, I can't believe shes accepting all of this..in her house..

"Stella!" I hear Chimera scream, bringing me out of my thoughts. I see the hurt on her face to have someone treat her, the princess of Solaria, as a maid.

"Yes..ma'am?" she asks, making a great effort to sound respectful.

"I would like some tea and soon" she says, and then waves her off like nothing, I then take notice of a gold ring on her finger..oh no..

I notice Stella looking intently at the ring, probably because Chimerais wearing it right on her ring finger.

"Ughh! What are you staring at?!" Chimera practically screams at Stella clearly irriated..yet for no reason. I give Stella an understanding look, and she just glares at me. Chimera looks at her ring admiringly.

"Oh this.." she says smiling, "My dear Brandon here gave me this ring back when we were dating in college, isn't it gorgeous?" she asks, smiling wickedly and showing the ring off in Stella's face, I felt really bad at this point.

I remember back in college when I had given that ring to Chimera. It had been our fifth month anniversary. At this point, although it had been five months and although I had really thought we had something special, I wasn't really sure if Chimera was the one for me. She was sweet and all..but at times her adittude was a bit too much. I was with her hoping that I would one day see another side of her, hoping there was more that met the eye. But a few months after giving her that ring I realized that we weren't meant for each other and broke up with her.

Now I looked at Stella's face, she looked partly furious, and partly humiliated and hurt. Chimera yelled at her to leave and get started on the tea she had asked for, or rather demaned. Stella didn't say another word, just glared at me and walked away.

Now what?

Hey guy, Im sooo sorry I havent updated in such a long time. I've been really busy lately with homework, being that I'm going to a new school now, and I've also had a few issues in my family to deal with. From now on I'll probably be updating more often. I'll also try to complete my other story "So it turns out" if anyones still interested. Please let me know what you think of this chapter and if you have any suggestions let me know, once again im sorry.

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