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Chapter 13

By: BeautyandYue

The next two weeks passed by peacefully. It seemed that the mood in the castle was getting better and Zhane-Beast was getting better and better. That's what Karone felt. The day dawned a bright and clear winter day. That morning they had, had breakfast together. The dishes set out porridge and Karone dug in ecstatically. The porridge was one of her favorites it was a lot like the one Cassie would make on the mega ship back home. She lifted her spoon and took a sip. Then she made the mistake of looking across at Zhane-Beast who had opted to have breakfast with her. Karone gasped in surprise. There was Zhane-Beast shoving his face into his porridge eating like it was going to run away from him. He stopped eating and looked up cheeks bulging with food. Cassie winced and looked at Carlos next to her. Carlos hopped over to Zhane-Beast's spoon and nudged it with his nose. Zhane-Beast wiped his sleeve across his mouth smearing porridge across the black sleeve. He reached for the spoon. Karone looked on hopeful. Zhane-Beast managed to grab the metal object in his massive grip but he scooped out a lot of food and making all these scarffing noises dropped the food into his mouth. Carlos chuckled and received a death glare from Cassie. Karone had an idea, putting down her spoon; she picked up her bowl and held it out for Zhane-Beast to see smiling shyly. Zhane-Beast got the idea. He picked up his bowl too. They lifted their bowls to each other and put them to their lips.

After Breakfast they went out side to feed the birds. Karone scattered birdseed from her red dress onto the snow. Zhane-Beast wanted to feed the birds too. Karone put some birdseed in his cupped paws then stepped back to see what he would do. 'Ok how am I going to do this?' Zhane-Beast thought. He saw a bird on the ground and started forward, crouching, holding out his hands. The bird flew away a few inches and settled down on the snow again. Zhane-Beast looked disappointed and started forward again. This time the bird flew away. Zhane-Beast felt so disappointed and it showed. In the way his arms drooped and his eager smile turned down. Karone smiled a dimple showing in her cheek.

There's something sweet and almost kind. But he was mean and he was coarse and unrefined and

now he's dear and so unsure. I wonder why I didn't see it there before.

She bent down and put the rest of the birdseed in Zhane-Beast's paws then Karone spilled some in a line up to Zhane-Beast's paw in front of a bird. It pecked some of the seed the realized there was more food. It hopped into Zhane-Beast's cupped paws and began eating away. He looked at Karone a huge grin on his face at the little creature in front of him. Karone used Zhane-Beast's broad arm to help herself up and went a little ways away. Zhane-Beast looked at her in surprise and confusion.

She glanced this way, I thought I saw and when we touched she didn't shudder at my paw. No it

can't be, I'll just ignore, but then she's never looked at me that way before.

Karone walked to a tree and went around it to rest her back on the trunk.

New and a bit alarming, who'd had ever thought that this could be.

Karone looked back around the tree and chuckled quietly. Zhane-Beast had birds covering his arms and head. Suddenly they all took off in flight; startling Zhane-Beast to cover his head.

True that he's no prince charming but there's something in him that I simply didn't see.

Zhane-Beast turned to look for Karone only to get hit square in the face with a snowball. Karone laughed at his astonished look. Zhane-Beast grinned slyly and started gathering snow into a gigantic snowball and held it over his head. Karone ran behind the tree with Zhane-Beast following. Karone popped out again and threw another snowball in his face. Zhane-Beast was so taken aback that the immense snowball flew out of his hands to land on him instead. A snowball fight quickly ensued.

"Well who'd thought." Andros said.

"Well bless my soul." Cassie murmured.

"Well who'd have known." TJ replied.

"Well who indeed." Cassie said as everyone watched from a window as Karone plastered Zhane-Beast with another snowball.

"and who had guessed it to come together on their own." Andros said surprised.

"its so peculiar." Cassie said.

"We'll wait and see. A few days more. There maybe something there that wasn't there before." Carlos said as they stood in the doorway of the den as Zhane-Beast helped Karone out of her wet cloak. Karone settled her red dress on the floor in front of the roaring fire in the fireplace, with a guitar from the music room. Zhane-Beast settled down quickly next to her as she strummed the strings and began singing softly.

To Be Continued…

Hey everyone I hope you liked that fluff, mushy, whatever you want to call it scene. I thought it was very sweet anyway stay tuned for the next installment!

-BeautyandYue