It had been two weeks since we arrived in this mai filled town with very few humans- no actually I think Paul, Amy and my mom were the only humans living in the town. It was covered by gates, I didn't see how this was a safe place to be. Tons of Mai- Lots of Order. I hadn't even told anyone my concerns yet because I was so busy with everyone else. Alek and I shared a room. Sort of. He had his own room that was connected to mine by a bathroom but how stupid could these people be. We were in a honey moon phase (without sex) what made them think we were going to not share a room? Not that they knew. Alek went to go to the store for some things and I was alone in my room. Amy, who's room was connected to mine by closet (Thank God now I didn't have to ask to barrow anything) walked in. "We are going swimming" She tossed me a bikini "In my hot tub/ pool" We also had one of those. All of our rooms were connected pretty much. Alek's was connected to Valentina's by closet Valentina's connected to my mom's by bathroom. Amy's connected to Paul's by bathroom ( a little awkward) "It's indoors" She said "You can invite Alek, I'll shut the curtains no weird people with cameras!"
"Okay. I'll go. When Alek gets back." We changed in our closet. The bikini was hot.. I looked hot at least. It was green on the bottom with a black tie on the side, the top of it was black. It was strapless and had a french tie in the middle. Amy wore a another bikini that was a light shade of pink.
"We look good" She said looking at me, Alek walked in smiling at me. "I'll meet you there" She said walking to her room and to the deck. Alek picked me up bridal style. His eyes focused on mine. He carried me to the indoor deck. Throwing me into the water. I swam to the steps getting up on the edge of the pool where he had taken his spot. It was nice to have him next to me here. Amy had invited Paul- I guess they were starting to make up. I jumped into the water after awhile of small talk and random kisses. Alek picked me up and I wrapped my legs around him in the water. His hands fell on to my scar aka tattoo looking thing. We kissed then there with so much passion that it was hard for me to breathe.
"Let's play chicken" He said picking me up on his shoulders, Paul went along with it but it took him more time to get Amy on his Shoulders. I wasn't going to fight like a mai. It was strictly play. Alek was standing tall the water way below his back. After awhile Amy and Paul were kissing and I was drying off with Alek going back to our room. I fell alseep like I always did in his arms and thought tomorrow would be a good day of fun with my friends like tonight.
We were eating breakfast, all four of us at the table. Valentina and my mom came out arms crossed. Valentina throwing a magizene on the table in front of Alek and I. Headline: UNITER BONDED? *pictures inside!* My mom seemed more mad then Valentina. Amy opened the magizene "Ew that's how I looked last night playing chicken. Oh my god! Chloe I didn't know it was that dark! It's black!" She said pointing to my thing and then looked at the two angry women.
"When did this happen?" She asked us. Amy answered for us
"About three or two weeks ago, that weekend where Chloe stayed with Alek. Yeah that very same night they came to the place and we were talking about it. Of course, I didn't know how intimate they got doing that until later when we were here and I asked Chloe about it. It's really awesome though- a sign of their love forever."
"What?" My mom said "You pretty much got married when I let you stay with Alek? I thought you guys were only friends"
"We were only friends" I said "But then things happened and now" I showed her the ring I had managed to hide very well these past few weeks. "We're bonded"
"A ring too? How did we miss this?"
"It's not like we didn't try to hide it. We did try very hard from day one we've been hiding the marks" Alek said "and then we had to hide it from the press and now look. We've made front page kissing in the pool with zoomed in pictures of our scars. Oh and pictures of us sitting by the pool, and playing chicken in the pool" Alek wasn't freaking out, he was summing it up to. 'Hey I bonded with the Uniter- I am her protector- big deal'
"I can't believe you did this and didn't tell me" My mom said "I feel like you're still in secret mode when I thought I knew everything!"
"I think it's nice" Valentina said "You are her protector now you have even more reason to protect her, you know her every feeling and she knows yours. No one is as close to you than her. She's the uniter and this could be great help in battle. I've read some other things you should know" She started to go on "Your lives are his too, not that if he dies you'd be less any lives. You'd die too. Then you'd both come back to life. You guys are forever and no matter the distance you will always be able to feel the other one. The Uniter can choose only one mater- hey so that bond breaking thing will never work." I was happy to hear that Alek could not die for good, he would die with me though and that was going to be full of pain. His life was my life. My life was his. More reason to be safe.
"I'm just not happy it was done in secret" My mom said "I wish you would have waited." I hugged my mom and told her Alek made me happy and when it happened we really didn't know. We were just in his bed and it was a click and we just knew. That didn't make her feel better but it did me. It was out. No one else could be with me and I wasn't going to be free any time soon from any mai man- with a sexy british accent and nice abs.