Alex moaned and rolled over, unfortunatly she wasn't exactly on low ground. She let out a struggled cry as she toppled over the bed she lay on and landed face first on the ground. She sat up, rubbing her nose and fluttering her eyelashes until the light came into perspective.

" You've been passing out a lot lately. Got something on your mind?" An all too familier voice questioned, wrapping it's arms around her waist and lifting her back onto the bed.

Alex gave a sigh and half glared, yawning in the process. " Last I checked, you were my boss, not my diary!" She snapped as she flopped back onto the bed and rolled over, away from her visitor.

Tala crossed his arms. " Well thanks for the information. Now will you answer the question?"

Alex turned her head, muttered a simple, " That your really annoying, yes." And snuggled into her pilllow.

Tala let a tiny growl rubble through his throat. " I meant about the thoughts."

" And I said your not my little note book, so go away! I'm tierd." Alex mumbled and pulled the covers to just under her eyes.

When Tala said nothing back, it only took a few seconds before Alex's eyes shot back open. This wasn't her room! She shot straight up and shouted at the top of her lungs, eyes scrunched shut.

" WHERE THE HELL AM I?!"

Tala jumped at the sudden change in voice level, but smirked after that. " You happen to be in my room."

Alex threw off the covers and stumbled the moment she took a step. She regained balance and whined out a tiny growl.

" Well I don't want to be, so get me out of here!"

Tala didn't move, his smirk stayed firmer then ever. " You didn't seem to mind when you were cuddling up in my blankets."

Alex froze, fighting off a blush and came out very sucessful. " Where were you through that whole time exactly?"

Tala chuckled and pointed towards a fluffy blue chair that sat beside the window. Letting out a sigh of relief, Alex managed to stand up straight. She tugged on the ends of her shirt, then took a step. Her knee's buckled again and felt a familier pair of arms wrap themselves around her waist and pull her back onto the bed. Again.

Alex smacked her fists down onto the soft cushion below. " Would you quit doing that?! I'm not four years old and can handle a few bruises!"

Tala crossed his arms and shoke his head, earning a confused look from his companion.

Alex growled when Tala didnt' say anything. " What do you mean 'no'?! I got an arrow threw the hand from that stupid archer of yours and your telling me that I can't handle some bruises?! Some boss you are!"

" Enrique was only doing his job." He replied flatly and Alex just sat there, a glare resting in her eyes.

" Why am I here?"

Tala looked surprised by the question, Alex noticed this. " Why didn't you just send me back to my own room?"

" Be- because ..." Tala fumbled for the words without even giving the thought time to sink in.

Alex cocked a brow at him, waiting with whatever paitents she had left for him. " I'm waiting for an answer."

" 'Cuz I'm supposed-" Tala lowered his voice to barely a whisper. " To be looking out for you and our kid."

Alex's ears twitched, she'd caught every word; but she didn't utter a responce. How could you match word to that type of comment? She wasn't about to use anger, he sounded like he was being honest; for once. She wasn't the softy type either, heck she cringed whenever she thought about herself like that. In the absence of her mind, she reached out and brushed her fingers across Tala's arm, causing him to flinch. Once she felt the contact herself, she pulled away and cluched her hand protectivly to her chest, like it has just been burned. She shock her head and looked to the side, wanting anything but one of those errey silences to drop into it's window of oppertunity.

" Well, if you are truly tierd, then I'll leave you to rest. Just don't start trying to walk until you ... have somebody around." Tala spoke, probably sencing that silence. His voice went from soft to stubborn in no time flat. " Or feel strong enough."

He turned to leave, casting a glance back at Alex, who had already taken up his words and disappeared back under the covers. Letting out an inner sigh, Tala walked back over to the bed side, bent down and hesitated before kissing her gentilly on the forhead and leaving.

.:VWV:.

" Oooooh! Thank you so much for all your help, Joesph." Amber hugged the prince tightly around the waist.

Joesph stood there blinking, until he smiled and patted her on the head. " You were a very nice first student to have."

Amber pulled away and looked up at his face. " I was your first student?"

Joesph nodded with a laugh. Amber curtied the best she could. " All the more honor."

Joesph leaned closer to her and whispered in her ear. " Try not to get angered though."

Amber nodded, her face with a huge smile. " I'll be as happy as a blue bird, Prince Joesph!"

Ray rolled his eyes and muttered to Tyson. " I don't see how she couldn't be anything but happy."

" QUIT EAVSDROPPING!" Amber shouted.

Ray jumped and looked up to see a laughing Amber and sweatdropped. " Alright Ms, Heart!"

Tyson saluted her. " Will do, Captain."

Amber stuck out her tounge at the boys, turned and bowed again. " Safe journey."

Joesph nodded. Mariam poped her head out of the carriage and scowled her younger sibling. " If your done staling, we could get going now."

Joesph gave his older sister a funny look. " But I thought you were staying for a reason too?!"

Mariam nodded with a smile. " Yes, but my curiosity has been answered, so let's get going."

Joesph nodded, gave his student a quick hug and jumped into the carriage. Amber waved frantically at it until it disappeared around a bundle of trees.

Amber sighed dreamily, which didn't go un-noticed by the boys. Ray smirked and pulled at her arm.

" Before you come up with some deranged fantasy, we'd better get you inside." He stated, Amber simply lowered her head and blushed.

" You make me sound love sick." She mumbled.

Tyson glanced at her. " Well maybe you are already." He teased.

Amber sighed. " Well maybe I'm not. Besides, he's a prince and it would never work. Can we change the subject, please?!"

Ray smiled at her. " Sure, but we get to keep bugging you anyways."

Amber groaned as she was lead and followed inside. Her mind boggling between thoughts, trying to think of anything but love. It had no place among her thoughts right now anyways.

.:VWV:.

Alex flipped, rolled, twisted in any way possible. But not in one position, could she find a comfortable spot. She was having trouble adjusting to the fact that she just so happened to wake up in Tala's bed. The fact that he was probably watching her the whole time too just sent a chill down her spine.

She let out a long sigh, snuggled her head into the pillow and breathed back in slowly, smelling the pillow. She didn't get why she'd done that, must have been boredom or something. But the pillow smelt rather nice. Like a mixture of lavender and honey suckle. She actually liked this smell. She let her head sink deeper into the pillow as her nose took in the delectable smell.

Suddenly her eyes flew open and she sat straight up, wiping her nose with her shirt. ' I can't belive I just did that! Oh my god, that's like smelling Tala! Arrggh!! Sick and wrong, not to mention discusting! Mental note: Remember to scrub out your nose as soon as you find water, Alex.'

As she continued to rub her nose, she took her time scanning the room she was in. It was very well decorated, even she had to admit that. The walls were layered with sapphire cloth to cover the lifeless gray stones behind it. There were picture frames ever now and then, paintings of people and scenary. The bed she lay on was rather large, could probably fit three people, if you wanted to squish in and didn't want anybody to roll off. The whole bedding on-somble was a navy blue silk, very comfortable Alex had to also admit. Like she'd seen before, a fluffy blue chair sat in front of big window and next to it was an oak side table which held a few sheets of paper, bottle of ink and quill.

Alex stood up without thought and stumbled, but she managed to catch herself before she hit the floor. Glancing all around the room, as if somebody were watchnig her, she got down on hands and knee's, crawling to the window. Once she got there, she kneeled and looked outside. Tala had a very nice view of the castle grounds. From the window you could see the forest in the distance, the neatly cut green grass and even the shed and place where the guards all trained. The sky outside was getting a dark blue mist to it, a sign that night was soon to fall apon them.

Turning back around, she let her eyes wander over the room again, sitting on the floor with her legs crossed. " It's like he's got an obsesion with blue or something." She spoke to the silence of the room.

Crawling over to the chair, she pulled her shaky legs up and plopped down onto it, sort of bouncing in the process. It was as fluffy as it looked.

" Wow, talk about comfortable." She mumbled to herself and glanced over to the side table.

She fingered through the papers, finally picking up one. It was an agreement. Reading through it, Alex found that it was an agreement for the position of being Head Guard. At the bottom, she could see Kai's signature, the king's messy, nearly unreadable one along with Prince Max's as well. But at the very bottom, there was a single line with no name, just blank.

" He didn't sign it."

.:VWV:.

Alex never did make it down to supper. She tried to walk out the door, but she just ended up taking a nose dive before she even got close to the downward spiral stairs she found in front of her. Luckily she was able to turn on her side before she hit the ground. She gave up after a few close attemps of falling face first and stumbling down the stairs. She crawled back into Tala's room, jumped back onto the bed and laid down in the warmth the covers provided.

Back down in the supper hall, Tala was getting kinda worried. He was sure that Alex would have been too stubborn and ended up pulling herself down here; even if she had to crawl. Tala mentally smirked. Then again, Alex wouldn't sink so low as to have people see that she was weak. Taking in a fork full of salad, Tala chuckled to himself. Nope, she was way too stubborn.

" So Tala, we kinda need that form soon, have you signed it yet?" Kai questioned, taking a swig of his wine.

Tala continued chewing, not planning on answering anytime soon.

Kai scowled at him. " You didn't lose it, did you?!"

Tala smirked, swallowed and shock his head, taking another quick bite. Kai cocked a brow at Tala, who had his head lowered and was just concentrating on his food.

' He's stalling. God damnit, Tala. You need this job! Quit being so stubborn for once!' Kai's mind practically screamed.

Over at the servants table, Amber didn't have much of an appetite. She sat there with her head in her hands, staring at her empty plate.

Ray gave her a funny look. " Any normal servant would be dieing to eat anything at dinner, something on their mind or not."

Amber didn't hear him, she was too deep into thought. All that training she'd done with Joesph to control her powers, it was fogging up her mind. All the things that happened during then, everything about those classes were her only thoughts right now.

Tyson leaned over the table and pocked at her with his fork. " You ok?!"

As soon as the fork touched her skin, Amber yelped and jumped out of thought. She rubbed her arm and stared at Tyson.

" Sorry, did I miss something?" She questioned, looking from one boy to the other.

Ray raised an eyebrow at her. " Yeah, our talk on how Amber suddenly zoned out the world and disappeared into her cocoon."

Amber blinked at him, then realised he was being sarcastic. " Sorry, just thinking."

" We can see that." Tyson stated.

Amber sweatdropped. " Was I seriously that out of it?"

" Like a rock." Ray chuckled and riped out a piece of bread.

Amber sighed. " Sorry guys."

" Ahh, don't appoligize." Tyson waved at her. " People are entitled to that."

But Amber truly was sorry. She was never the type of person to like having a lot of things in mind. She thought about them, sorted them out and then threw them around her mind like trash, saving room for more thoughts to come. She was always logical ... well at least tried to be. But everything was just so complicated now, with all these visions, powers and events ... wow, was she ever lost.

" Amber!" Ray shouted, Amber jumped.

" W-what?!"

" Time to go!" Tyson smiled.

Amber looked around and saw that the hall was clearing out. Letting out a long, sorrow-filled sigh, Amber stood up and left, her mind still in the clouds and her eyes glued to the floor.

.:VWV:.

Alex rapped her fingers on the side table, slouching in the chair and bored out of her mind. She was sick of sitting, sick of not being able to stand for more then 10 seconds and sick of being in Tala's room!

She let out a sigh. " God, I need a life."

" I'd have to finally agree with that." Somebody chuckled and Alex jumped.

Whirling around she saw both Tala and Kai standing in the doorway. She just sent them both a glare.

" Ever heard of knocking?" She snapped.

Tala crossed his arms as Kai strod over to the window. " Last time I checked, I didn't have to knock to get into my own room."

" I never said that, I just ..." Alex tapped a finger to her chin. " How do you know I wasn't doing something?"

Tala cocked a brow at her and Alex growled, slumping back into the chair. " Arrgghh! Nevermind!"

Kai turned around, leaning his back on the window and a very serious look had settled in his eyes.

" Ok Tala, now quit stalling."

Tala glanced at him, looking confused. " What a-"

" You know exactly what I'm talking about. Don't play stupid with me, Tala. Where's the form?"

.:VWV:.

Author's Note: dun, Dun, DUN!!!!! HAHA! Tala didn't sign the form to offically give him the job, and he's in trouble now!

XD I couldn't help but crack up laughing when I wrote that Alex was smelling the pillow. O.o Does anybody but me think that her nose is probably really red by now?! I DO! And I notice that Alex keeps on getting stuck in the middle of conversations ... Oh well, I'm sure you guys like her little comments anyways!

Sounds like Amber's questioning her life's trail, and what did Joesph mean when he told her not to get angered?! You'll just have to keep on readin' to find out!

R&R GUYS! THANK YOU SOOO MUCH TO THOSE WHO ARE!

P.S. I'm going to try and update more often, like I was doing when I first started writing my stories, but I can't make any promises!