Yongo
Serenity and Endymion
Chapter 6
The Rose
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"That meal was amazing." The head earth general sat back in his chair and let out a satisfied sigh. "Princess Serenity," he looked over at her, "my complimetns to the chief."
Serena smiled and nodded her head. She was sure to inform the chief on her late-night nightly rendevous to the kitchen later. The other generals all plesantly muttered the same sentiments as Kunzite and Serena smiled at all of them, 'such a agreeable men,' she thought. She cast a side glance to the prince and furrowed her eyebrows. The silver haired general noticed, and looked at prince. He smiled and said,
"He is in a food coma." Sure enough, Prince Endymion was slouched in his seat, staring straight ahead at nothing in particluar, with a dazed looked on his face. "He truly did enjoy his meal." Kunzite then looked back at the princess, she was blushing furiously. He was confused. Serena stood up from the table and looked at Kunzite, she seemed upset.
"Please tell your prince that it is impolite to blatantly stare at a girl's chest." She excused herself and walked out of the room through the door Endymion, Zoysite and Jadeite had come from leaving the others with 'what was that about' looks. Kunzite looked closer at the prince. He was in a food coma, but 'what was the princess refering to?' he asked himself. He imagined the princess still sitting and followed the gaze of his prince. Kunzite blushed. The prince's eyes, even though they were in a daze, had in fact set his absent minded gaze on the chest of the princess! It didn't take long for the others to make the same realization. The other generals offered their apologies to the women at the table and they all laughed off the prince's social faux pas.
Just then, prince Endymion leaped from the table. They looked at him and noticed his face was wearing a puzzled expression, looking down at the table of food. He quickly put one hand over his mouth and another on his belly. He furrowed his eyebrows and ran back towards the door he and his other two friends had gone to find a bathroom.
Just as he neared the door, it opened. Serena was walking back in towards the table as he was rushing to get through the door. In his rush, he couldn't hold back his mouth from errupting and he threw up right then and there. And kept on throwing up. The others gapsed. Endymion seized control of his body and stopped. He then looked up and saw the princess standing in front of him. He looked down and noticed that he hadn't thrown up on the ground but on the princess's dress. He dared not look at the princess but his eyes disobeyed his instinct and were already looking at her color drained, porcelain face. Her eyes were on her dress, looking at chucks of semi-digested food. She was speechless and hyperventilating. Her watery eyes met those of the prince's. She raised her hand and the prince felt extreme heat and sudden pressure on his right cheek.
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"Serena, you know it was an accident."
"Mina's right, he didn't do it on purpose," chimed Lita. "Come on, come out of the bathroom."
The girls were now back in the princess's chambers all huddled by her bathroom door.
They heard movement from the inside, and the door cracked open a little. They backed away from the door. Her eyes were puffy and her lips were quivering. "M-my dress..." She had taken off her dress and was in her petticoat. "He ruined it." The girls all cooed and offered encouraging words to the depressed girl who was now heading for her bed.
There was a knock at the door. "Who is it," hollered Raye.
"Oh, Ms. Hino, it's Paul. I am here to collect the princess's dress." Amy, looked at Serena who was still in her petticoat to see if it was alright for Paul to come in and Serena nodded. Amy opened the door for him. Paul walked in with a bucket of supplies, and was wearing some gloves. He looked at the blond princess sympathetically, "the others will be here soon to disinfect your bathroom princess, we wouldn't want you catching any earth germs," he smiled at her and she smiled back. Paul disappeared into the bathroom, which looked like a whole other room due to it's huge size.
The princess sighed. She could hear Lita in her closet scrumaging for another outfit for her. She was grateful to have friends like this. She was much more relaxed now. She heard another knock at the door. "It's probably the others here to clean the bathroom," she got up from her bed and opened the door.
"Princess I am so sor--" Endymion was standing on the otherside of the door. Serenity shrieked. She looked around frantically for some near by fabric to cover herself, all the while the prince was standing at the door. He then realized that she was in her undergarments (the petticoat) and quickly turned around blushing. 'Princess, I had no idea-- I didn't know you were..."
Amy recovering the shock of seeing the prince see her friend indecent, acted quickly. She shut the door, and with her back to it, as though hiding something told Serena to run to the closet. Once Serenity was in there, Amy decided to do damage control on the outside of the room with the prince.
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Amy walked back in to find that Serenity was alone in the room seated on the edge of her bed, fully clothed in a blue-green frock. The others had left. She let out a heavy sigh. Serenity looked up at her friend and asked, ''is he still out there?" she looked sad. Amy shook her head.
"I told him to wait by the green house garden, with his generals. We're all supposed to meet with them later there." Amy saw a flicker of fear in Serena's eyes. "Serena the best way to get over something is to get right back into it."
Serena knew this was true, and fell back onto her bed. "Amy, what am I supposed to do? I have embarassed myself. How am I to save face? I slapped the prince of Earth. How does one come back from that?" She felt part of the bed compress, Amy had sat down next to her and fell back also. The two were staring at the ceiling.
"I don't think it was all that bad Serena." She looked at her friend, "come on," she nudged her, "don't be so serious, that's my job." She laughed.
Serenity stood up and smoothed out her new outfit. "Thanks Amy, you're amazing." She took a deep breath. "I guess the others are with the generals and the prince, we should join them soon." She found some cute sandals and put them on, "I need to finish giving the prince a tour anyway or else I might embarass my mother some more."
Amy got up and looked at Serenity about to protest to the remark the somber girl had just made but changed her mind. "Let's be off then."
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The green house garden was just outside a massive glass walled greenhouse. It was a gazebo setting with shade, and places to sit as well as lounge. The generals and the ladies in waiting had all finally become better aquainted and where having a great time getting to know each other better. It was a jovial environment filled with beautiful people. The princess looked at all her friends flirting and enjoying themselves and smiled to herself. Her eyes fell on the prince, he was smiling at a conversation Lita, Zoysite and Nephlite were having. He looked handsome she thought and looked away. She bent down and smelled one of the roses growing in a near by bush. The smell was very pleasing to her senses, she loved the smell of roses. She stood up straight, she was ready to walk over to the prince and apologize for her ill behaviour.
She closed her eyes in order to compose herself further and map out exactly what she was going to tell him. Upon opening them, her eyes met those of the prince. He had been watching her. She looked away for a second and looked back at him. He was still staring at her, she smiled weakly and she thought she saw him blush, this made her smile grow stronger. Her heart was pumping, he was coming her way.
"Hello, princess."
"Please, call me Serena Prince Endymion."
"Only if you call me Endymion as well." They both chuckled and then an awkward silence fell. Each were thinking of how to say what they wanted the other to know. They both blurted out something at the same time and laughed it off. "Go ahead Prin-- Serena." She felt herself blush so she looked away knowing full well he had seen her reaction already.
"I just wanted to offer my sincerest apologies, " she looked him in the eye, "the way I acted... My mother and father did not raise me to act as I did and I hope my behaviour as well as my actions have not affected your view of the moon or her peoples. I--"
'Serenity," the prince interrupted, ''you have nothing to apologize for. I feel that it is I who disgraced my homeland as well as my parents by acting disaccordingly to you. I ruined your lovely dress," he paused and seemed to be looking at her new outfit, "but it looks like that didn't matter." He plucked a nearby rose from the bush and gave it to her. She put it in her hair, she looked amazing. He looked back into her eyes, "you look beautiful in anything you wear."
She looked away and blushed deeply at the prince's unexpected compliment and chivalry. He saw this and grinned then flinched. Serena noticed this and looked back at him only to see his hand massaging his right cheek and letting go of his face cautiously. Before the princess could control her instincts, they acted and brought her hand to his bruised cheek. It was his turn to blush. Frozen in the moment, Serenity didn't dare move. Her hand was still plastered on the prince's face, she felt her hand getting heavier and heavier.
"You don't have to worry," she felt his lips on her palm as he spoke, he put his hand over hers on his face and cupped it. His hands were warm and soft against hers. The princess let out a small gasp. "It doesn't hurt anymore." He slowly brought her hand down and let go of it. She felt his warmth leave her hand, her arm felt numb. She looked down to see if it truly was still there. It was. She chuckled in her head, how had it gone from feeling like it weighed a ton to a feather?
She looked back it him, he was looking intently at her as though he was about to say something. Just then a growl noise was heard. Serenity looked around. Growl. Again. She recognized this sound, she had heard it many many times but at this moment she couldn't place her finger on where she heard it before. She looked at the prince. His face was stony and both his eyes were wide open. He had both is hands wrapped around his waist. Serenity took a step back feeling she knew what was coming and not wanting a repeat of earlier. Grooowl. This time the sound was longer. It was coming from Endymion's stomach!
A moment later, he looked like he had composed himself. His face took on an apologetic look, "Princess, I'm sorry," growl, "it seems the food still doesn't agree with me." He too took a step back not wanting to do something to embarass himself again. Serenity stopped him.
"Serena, please," she corrected him, "and it's ok." She boldly grabbed his right hand, "I will ask the chief to prepare some special Earth recipies for you, maybe that will help."
Endymion's heart skipped a beat. He took another step back and offered her a faint smile. Serena looked embarassed and quickly retracted her hand. Endymion realized what he had just done, but it was too late. The princess had muttered a quick farewell and briskly walked away the flower she had placed in her hair slowly loosening and falling out as she walked away. 'Idiot!' He belittled himself, "why did I do that!" He muttered a profanity under his breath. 'She thinks I rejected her hand." He looked at his right hand and paused, he could still feel her soft and delicate fingers leaving his hand.
Bummer.
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Food coma: A term I believe one of my roomies came up with. It's when you eat so much all you can do after is sit there and feel kinda drowsy (sleepy). It's happened, you just didn't know what to call it, haha.
Yongo
Serenity and Endymion
Chapter 6
The Rose
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