Chapter 7

Nel ran away as fast as she could. How can Albel act like that? It's really not like him to act like that! And worst of all, he knows that she was blushing! Why can't she just fight her blush?

Lieber was walking down the castle halls until he saw Nel. "Miss Nel! I was looking for you!" He said.

Nel looked over to where Lieber was. He was walking towards her. "You were looking for me? Why? Is there anything I could do?"

"I was actually wondering if you would teach me symbology again, since we didn't finish last time." Lieber said.

Nel remembered what happened the last time she taught Lieber symbology. She fought of her blush, and was actually successful at it.

"Well, I suppose so. So far, where did we learn then?" She asked.

"We were practicing Firebolt, but since I was practicing real hard, I think I mastered it." Lieber said proudly.

"Really? Well show me then." Said Nel.

Lieber did the incantations fast. "Firebolt!" He shouted, and the Firebolt came out.

"That's really good!" She said. "Better than that stupid Albel, anyways." Muttered Nel.

"Pardon, Miss Nel?" Said Lieber.

"N-Nothing, Lieber, nothing at all." She laughed nervously. "Let's go to the White Dew garden and practice." She said.

"Alright, Miss Nel." Lieber said. They started walking towards the audience room to go behind the doors. (A/N I'm not really sure if its called "white dew garden", I think I forgot. But u guys know where it is, right?)

Nel asked permission from the queen to use the back garden, and the queen did not seem to mind.

As they went out, they saw Maria. Nel just said her greetings, as did Lieber. Maria knew Lieber moved on and forgot about her. She was quite happy. She had a smile on her face and said her greetings as well. "What are you guys doing here?"

"Oh we're just going to practice symbology, Miss Maria." Lieber said politely, and Nel nodded her head.

"Oh! You know what? I'm quite bored…..can I join you guys?" Asked Maria, sounding nervous.

"Sure! We can practice! All three of us!" Lieber said enthusiastically.

Maria and Nel had smiles on their faces. Maybe Lieber wasn't so bad after all. He turned out to be… a bit cute…..Woah, what the heck did they just think?

"Well, then, let's get started. Lieber, maybe you would want to learn healing now." Suggested Nel.

"Oh! Ok! Let's start!" Said Lieber. Maybe Lieber was good at Common Support Symbols….

It was already one hour and Maria and Nel were teaching Lieber Antidote. He already learnt healing, and now they were teaching him antidote. He seemed to get the hang of it.

"Good Lieber, now try to do it a little bit more faster." Said Maria.

"Yes Miss Maria!" Said Lieber, grinning.

Nel started to think. Maria and Lieber didn't look that bad together. She wondered if she would ever have love soon. She wasn't desperate, she's just wondering…….

"Yes Lieber! You did it!" Maria said happily. She suddenly hugged Lieber. It was kind of a miracle to see Lieber actually doing well in symbology.

Maria realized what she was doing, and quickly let go of him. "S-Sorry," She said, blushing.

"I-It's ok, Miss Maria," Said Lieber, blushing as well.

Nel wanted to laugh but held it in. "M-Maybe we should take a break?" She laughed a bit.

Maria wanted to run away but she decided not to. "Yes, I guess so. Let's go have our lunch…"

"Alright. I'll go tell everyone that lunch is going to be ready." Said Nel and she walked off.

Maria really wanted to get out of there. So she said 'later' to Lieber and went. Lieber went back to his room, waiting a few minutes till lunch.

Albel was in his room, thinking for a long time. Thinking about Nel, that is. Thinking how beautiful and sexy she is, and he had this dream, his actual good dream about Nel kissing him while he laid in the grass. Of course, he didn't know it actually happened…

Nel called everyone to lunch. Now she's outside Albel's door and was calming herself down because of what happened before in the garden. She took a deep breath and knocked quietly on the door.

Albel heard a soft knock on the door, and stood up to open it. He saw Nel. The moment he saw her, a huge grin appeared on his face, and that made Nel blush. She turned her back to him so that he didn't see her blushing face.

"W-We're going to have lunch soon….so you know, that is, if you want to eat lunch…." She said stuttering a bit. Why the hell am I stuttering?

"Will I get to sit next to you?" He said as his arms slowly crawled to grab her waist.

Nel blushed mega red now. She slowly lifted her hand to pry his hands of her but his grip was too strong. She slowly relaxed into his embrace.

Just when she got comfortable, he let go of her. She got mad. Why'd he let go?

She turned to face him with a frown on her face.

"What, you actually liked it? Well, that's good!" He said grinning, making Nel blush mega red again.

Nel just couldn't say anything. She just couldn't bring herself to say words.

Albel slipped his arms around her waist again. This time, she didn't stiffen. She felt comfortable. She snuggled closer to him.

Now Albel thought this was really cute. She looked like she was drifting off to sleep…..

Meanwhile……

Lieber was thinking. Does he like Maria? Or does he like Nel?

OR DOES HE LIKE BOTH?

AHHHHHHH! WHAT'S HE SUPPOSED TO DO NOW?

Give up on Maria or Nel? But Maria doesn't like him…….

He still has a chance to be with Nel. He should take that chance before it's too late…..

Author's Notes : WOW! That wasn't so bad….. I think. Hope I get nice reviews! wink,wink

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