WIND WARRIORS
Chapter Three: Kiss and Tell.
I'll admit it, right here… It wasn't my brightest idea.
Too keep Marit's mind away from anything related with Rafer, I came up with the brilliant idea of having a slumber party.
Yes, you got it right. A slumber party.
I had few girl friends but that was okay, we got together at Enya's room in the Windam Palace – she was the queen's niece – and between Marit, Enya, Sonia, Amber and me we made quite a merry group and everything was going just fine… we were doing the usual girly stuff my friends and I did at our slumber parties – eat obnoxious amounts of food, try different hair stiles, exchange shoes, play card games and all that – when Marit suggested we tried a game she and her friends used to play back in Seaside.
And the name of the game was: Truth or Dare.
First we went easy, confessing our most embarrassing moments and fears and I even admitted that back when I was 12 I had a crush on Amber's eldest brother – Allen- who was, back then, 18. I was having fun, learning things about my sister and friends that other way I would have never found out. But then…
"Okay," Marit said, "Mer, truth or dare?"
"Truth." I said while nibbling a chocolate bar, I just didn't felt like getting up to fulfil a dare.
"Who was your first kiss and at what age?" Marit asked with a mischievous grin and I froze. "You have been kissed, right?"
"Well…yeah, but I rather not talk about that." I said trying to pretend I wasn't uncomfortable with the question.
"So, you pass?" Enya asked.
"No, I take a dare." I said valiantly, thinking that the worst that could happen was that they made me run around without clothes.
"I dare you to…" Marit started but then Sonia interrupted her.
"Wait I got a good one, Mer, go and kiss Rafer."
"What?!" Marit and I yelled at the same time though for very different reasons.
"You heard me," Sonia said. "Now the dare is in the air. Either you answer the question or you do the dare, or you pass and you lose and then we get to give you a punishment… which will still be 'go kiss Rafer'."
I sat there, mulling over my options.
What was worst?
Admitting that when I was 12, Rafer had been the first guy who had kissed me and then proceeded to make fun of me over the fact that: a) I tasted like chocolate; and b) I didn't know how to kiss.
Or, going and kissing Rafer again and expose myself to his merciless teasing about my lack of skill as a kisser and my taste of chocolate…
Oh gods, why did you make me such a masochist?
Sonia said I had to kiss him for ten seconds… so I went to his room down the hall from Enya's and knocked; it took him two whole minutes to answer the door. Rafer looked like he had throw his clothes on very quickly, "What?" he demanded when he saw I was the only one standing on his doorway.
"Who is it?" I heard a female voice call from inside. He had a woman in his room!
"No one. Go back to sleep." Rafer said stepping out and closing the door, "This better be good." Maybe he was sleepy already – it was around ten at night – or maybe he was just too happy thanks to whoever was in his bed but other than a light scowl in his brow he didn't seem that much angry to see me as usual.
"Is not good, is a dare." I said taking a step closer.
"A wha-" Rafer started to ask but I cut him off by tiptoeing and kissing him full on the lips. I closed my eyes and stood there, my lips pressed to his, while I counted from one to ten.
'Ten' I said in my mind and was about to break the kiss and go back running to Enya's room when Rafer spun us around and pined me to the door to his chambers.
This was so not going like planned.
But a few things were different from the first time he had kissed me, for one I knew where to put my nose now, and I wasn't stranger to the feel of another tongue against mine, so it didn't came up as much of a surprise as he slipped his tongue into my mouth… but I swear I wasn't enjoying it… much.
When the kiss ended, Rafer took a few steps back and we stood there, just facing each other, for a moment or two. "Sorry about that," Rafer said, "For a moment there I forgot we hate each other."
"Don't go around forgetting it." I said as if I was mad but not quite getting it right. "It was just a dare."
"A dare?"
"Yeah, Sonia dared me to come and kiss you. And I never back off from a dare… not even when the dare is so disgusting and repulsive." I said, probably with more disdain that what I should have.
I thought I saw something flash in his eyes… to my surprise it looked a lot like hurt… but then he blinked and it was gone, Rafer turned his back to me and uttered a "Whatever." as he walked back into his room and slammed the door in my face.
After the door slammed in my face I blinked. It had been fairly rude of him to just slam the door in my face though I'll admit that it had been rude of me to call kissing him "disgusting" and "repulsive" because it hadn't been either of those things. I too had forgotten for a moment that I hated him. It was a GREAT kiss…What can I say? Rafer had practiced a lot and I had little to compare him to: himself and a couple of guys from the guard that had dared to court me in spite of my father 'strongly advising' to the members of the King's Guard to stay away from his daughter.
As soon as I made it back to Enya's room, Sonia was in my face asking: "Was there tongue?" I turned my gaze to Amber, pleading to my best friend to do something to shut Sonia up.
"Sonia! Don't be lewd; it was bad enough that we sent Mer alone to a man's room at this hour of night."
"There was someone with him." I said deliberately, trying to get Marit to realize what kind of guy Rafer was so she wouldn't bring her hopes up about him… he might like her, but he liked practically everything that was young and female. "So it was fairly quick."
"And how was it?"
"Sonia!" Amber and I growled warningly.
"Well, can you blame me? I've heard all these stories about what a great kisser he is."
"Sonia, please!" this time it was Enya. "Rafer is my cousin, I do not want to know. It's like… Ew-y."
After that the topic was dropped and I was more than glad. Near midnight we went to sleep, Enya and Amber in Enya's bed, Marit and I sharing other and Sonia in the day-bed. The room was dark and I was trying to sleep.
"Mer?" I heard Marit ask in a hushed whisper.
"Yes?" I said turning to face her.
"I'm glad to be back. I didn't remember how much fun it was when we were kids. We were really happy here weren't we?"
"Yes. We were happy…"
"I'm sorry I left you." Marit said.
"You needed to go."
"I should have stayed."
"Maybe. Marit, it was a long time ago. And you're back now; that's all what really counts."
"Yeah… and I'm thinking I might have reasons to stay."
"Really?" I asked, praying the reason wasn't Rafer… if they got involved and then he broke her heart, as he invariably, would then Marit would leave again and she would never come back… though we didn't know each other so well, she was my twin and there were things about her that I just knew.
"Yes. I don't know if you notice the other day but I think Rafer likes me and well… you have seen him…"
"Looks aren't everything. Rafer isn't such a nice person."
"You only say that because you two always fight, it's like your favourite sport or something, but he is not so bad. Like when we were kids…" she said, adopting that tone of voice most people did while recalling something from a long time ago, "Remember the sons of the Marquise of Burnnel?"
"The Spawns of Satan?" Or Kevin and George, they were twins like Marit and me but a year older and just about the most obnoxious people in the world.
"Yeah. Remember how much they used to bug you."
"Yes, and one day they just stopped." I had always wondered why they had done it…
"It was because of Rafer. He told them to leave you alone." That was the last answer I would have guessed. "And don't think I'm crazy, I heard it myself. It was that time they made you cry… they were calling you names because you had your hair so short, remember? That time you got it burn?" Oh yeah, mom had cut my hair very short after Rafer had burn it. "After you ran off crying looking for mother, Rafer came and told them to leave you alone or they would answer to him... and event Kevin and George weren't stupid enough like to refuse a direct order from the prince."
"Rafer probably thought it was his right and privilege to be the only one to annoy me." I said sarcastically while I turned to my other side. "Now got to sleep, Marit, is late."
I closed my eyes and willed myself to fall asleep, I didn't want to think about Rafer, I didn't want to think in his kiss or why had he done what Marti said so many years ago…
"Just give him the benefit of the doubt, would you? Who knows? Rafer might end up your brother-in-law" Marit said with a giggle before I could block everything out.
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Next morning I was woke to the sound of someone pounding on the door.
"MER-LE!!!" I heard Mike yell through the door.
"What?" I said rubbing my eyes as I opened Enya's door, still in my pjs.
"Prince Blake just arrived. We have all been called back to duty." Mike informed me. "The king sent me to look for you."
"Damn!" I swore. He wasn't supposed to be here till next day.
"Damn indeed." Mike agreed, "Now, get decent, I'll wait here."
Part of me was so not excited to see Blake, The Idiot, again. But the other part was very glad to have something else to think about besides… well, you know.
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Notes:
Nothing much, just me being crazy. I think Rafer's P.O.V might show up next chapter,
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