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What if Sahira finds out that Mahad likes her too...

SaPOV

Pharaoh caught me in the throne room. He twirled me around so I was facing him and he tried to kiss me. I pulled away. He got the hint and he let me go. "Sara can we become friends again?"

"Depends on if you have told me more lies."

"I really haven't Sara. I promise." he seemed really sincere.

"Uhh… okay…" I wasn't sure what to think.

"Well then. As for your punishment I want you to brush Diablo and clean his stable."

"Yes sir." I mock saluted him and left to do as ordered. Diablo seemed to recognize me. *Hello Diablo, Once again thanks for helping me out. I'm here to brush your back and to clean your stable up.*

*Why?* Diablo whinnied *Because I was ordered to by that lovely owner of yours. Can you tell me where I can find everything I need?* Diablo told me where to find some things and I made everything squeaky clean. I did some of the other stables too. When I was finished I had figured out that I still really liked Yami and that I actually had forgiven him. I went back to the Pharaoh to tell him and to ask for another job.

He was talking with Mahad about something. That something was me. I couldn't hear everything but it seems that Yami thought that Mahad likes me too. Mahad was denying it but if I saw it correctly his eyes shifted, indicating that he was lying. I decided to break the argument up before it got worse. "Pharaoh." the both men looked at me and Mahad left. Yami scrunched his nose. "You need a bath. Come I'll show you to your rooms." I followed him

"While I was cleaning the stables I have been thinking and I decided that I have forgiven you completely, Yami." He froze when I called him Yami.

Then he turned around slowly. "Really? You have really forgiven me?"

"Yes."

His smile reached his eyes. He wanted to hug me but remembered that I was smelling like horse shit. We walked to the slave quarters with Yami still smiling. I took my bath and went for my next job. This went on for the next two weeks. Tessa was annoying like hell. if I had to do laundry she went to do something extra dirty, if I had to clean a floor she deliberately spilled something on the floor. I got angry a lot so I took revenge a few times. like washing her clothes too hot causing them to shrink, or putting a harmless snake in her bed, setting her food on fire, putting piranha's in her bath and more.

At the end of the two weeks I had become great friends with Yami, Diablo and Shada. I avoided Mahad because he always tried to flirt with me, using stupid one-liners and he always failed saying the right things causing him to blush and slightly stutter. Which in my opinion is pretty cute. I did pity him, he was really trying, and he was kind, smart and handsome. So when he asked me out one last time I decided to give him a chance. "I would love to go, Mahad." He looked like a kid in a candy store.

We went on a horse ride during sunset. Somewhere outside the city, he led me to a small oasis where he took out a picnic basket. "I'm happy that you will give me this chance, Sahira." "Please Mahad call me Sahra. And I'm glad that I took this chance. This date is one of the best I had so far, I'm having fun. Just what I needed to get my mind off of things."

The rest of the after noon was spent telling stories and getting to know each other. When we arrived Yami seemed to be annoyed with me because I had to do the laundry of the soldiers who just got back from training. Sweat and dirt. Mahad had to do some other chore thing that priests do.

I know, short, but I had to do this one first before the somewhat longer chapters come up