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Chapter 3

When Kel awoke her head was resting on something hard, and when she looked to see what it was, saw a naked sergeant besides her. A flood of memories from the night before came rushing back. She looked out her window and saw that it was about 6 in the morning.

"Dom, wake up. Come on, you have to leave now," she tells him.

"Why, I'm comfortable right where I am," he replies.

"Because the earlier it is the less chance that someone is going to see you walking out of my rooms in your ball clothes in the morning. Trust me, it wouldn't be good if someone saw you leave," she tells her lover.

"Fine, then, kick me out! See if I care," he informed her.

"Okay I will," she says as she turns her back to him. He sits up and grabs her around the shoulders, the starts to kiss her neck.

"Stop that," she orders him, while trying to swat him away and stand up at the same time. He just pulls her back down and she soon surrendered to his rain of kisses.

Meanwhile, Lord Raoul was bored and decided to see what his former squire was doing. He knocks on her door, and waits for her to answer. He stands at the doorway for about 5 minutes, waiting, but she doesn't come to the door and he begins to get worried.

He knocks on the door again and asks "Kel, are you in there?" Receiving no answer, he tried the door knob, but it was locked. 'Maybe she already left' he thought to himself. He was relived when the door finally opened, and a tired Kel asked "What do you want?"

"Well I've been waiting at the door for the past 10 minutes, waiting for you to answer, only no one came," was his story.

"Sorry, I didn't get back from the ball till late and I was tired. I didn't hear you knock the first time," she apologized.

"That's fine, but I expect you in the practice courts and ready for jousting in half a bell!" he ordered. She saluted and closed her door in his face.

After Raoul had walked away, Kel turned to Dom. "You have to leave now!" she told him.

"That was pretty funny, Raoul coming to your door like that," he joked.

"For you maybe, but if he had found you in here he probably would of killed one or both of us," she sternly replied. "Now I have to get ready, I have flying lessons."

"Of course love," Dom replied as he got dressed. He gave her a long sweet kiss before slipping out the door, without anyone seeing him.

Kel arrived for her flying lessons to find a smiling Raoul, and another knight on a horse with a lance instead. Kel knew who that horse belonged to, yet she prayed to the gods that she was wrong. She mounted and got into the starting position. She didn't even notice that there were at least 20 people gathered around to watch her and the other jouster. The signal came and they flew at each other. She could no longer deny the identity of her opponent when his lance hit her side like a very large hammer. She was amazed that she didn't go flying and returned to the starting position. She got a new lance, and the signal went again. To her surprise her opponent went flying. She stopped Peachblossom in horror. Everyone was quiet and she slowly dismounted and walked over to her opponent. "May I help you up, Sir?" she asked politely as every one behind her started cheering like mad.

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Does anyone know the identity of her opponent? I'll give you points for a correct answer. It's not that hard really; just think about it for a little. Thanks for all the reviews. I have no idea how many I've gotten, but that okay, it's what's in them that's important, not how many there are. (How many of you bought what I just wrote? It sounds crazy and is, so you can pretty much ignore it.)

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