Early the next morning during the middle of Kel's pattern dance there was a knock on her door. Slowly she came to a halt and went to answer the door. To her pleasure it was Dom looking rather cheery.
"Oh erm…. Hi Kel, planning to wear that all day?" Dom said pointing to Kel's creamy satin curve hugging night gown. Kel looked down and blushed.
"Whoops, hold on!" Kel stammered the very picture of embarrassment. She quickly closed the door and pulled on her robe, then reopened the door to find Dom stifling laughter into his hand.
"Now Dom," Kel said a little more composed "What can I do for you so early in the morning."
"Well I was wondering if you wanted to go riding with me. But you would want to wear actual clothes, because if anyone else saw you with that on near me……" Dom trailed off teasingly as Kel glared at him.
"Yeah I'll go with you but no more teasing about my night gown. Meet me at the stables in half an hour." With that much said Dom left.
Two hours later Kel and Dom sat under a big tree while the horses grazed contently. During the ride both Kel and Dom had been unusually quiet. Dom had been quiet because he was thinking when would be the best time to tell that he loved her. He had finally decided to tell her today when they stopped and the horses got water.
"Gods," Dom thought "I'm romantic, when I finally decide to tell the woman that I love that I love her, it's when our horses stop for water."
Meanwhile Kel had been thinking about how happy she was just for the sole reason was that Dom was here. She would occasionally glance over at Dom and look at him while his adorable face scrunched in thought. Figuring that one of them need to speak soon, she turned her body so that she was facing Dom and started to say how lovely the woods of Northern Tortall were at this time of year until Dom interrupted her.
"Kel, there is something I have been meaning to say for a while now so before I babble like a mindless idiot even more-never mind here I go…….."Dom said but couldn't finish because he was cut off by a very familiar voice.
(A/N: would you hate it if I stopped here? Oh well I won't.)
"Your eyes shine like frozen animal droppings, your teeth, your teeth are as white as my stocking. My love for you……" said Neal as he sauntered though the woods writing a poem for Yuki. But fortunately for Kel and Dom he couldn't finish his sentence because he was so surprised to find his best friend and cousin sitting rather closely to one another under a tree that he was forced to stop talking. Kel was sitting there looking rather flushed while Dom looked like he could kill his cousin.
"MEATHEAD! What are you doing here? Was that supposed to be poetry? Gods, Kel if I was you-I'd pity Yuki-don't you agree?"
Kel could only nod because she was still shocked about Neal barging in on Dom's unexpected and what could have been a wonderful speech.
Neal eyed Kel and Dom's close proximity apprehensively. "What are you to doing here looking all cute and comfy?" he loved to tease them but thinking of Kel and Dom romantically involved was icky…..especially if it was with each other.
"um we were out riding, as you can see Meathead." Kel said "And now since we're all here why don't we all go to the mess and get something to eat. Is that okay Dom?
"Oh sure-it will give me more time to hound meathead about his poetry." Dom said a little put out that he didn't get to tell Kel yet, but the thought of tormenting Neal was making the loss seem better.