A.N.: As usual, sorry this update took so long. School is being a royal pain, so I don't really have much time to do the things I like because of it. Spring break is soon, so I'll hope to get a few chappies up then :) For now, here's six.

Chapter 6- Highlight

Romaine

Eating dinner made me feel tons better. Better than I'd thought, really. I was checked on constantly by the medical staff onboard. Apparently, I also had a slight concussion. Mice… not. I got to talk to my mother and Luciana on the phone. They were in Sweden at a safe house. "What are you guys doing?" I asked.

"I'm cooking dinner for your sister and me. I'm making that soup with basil your sister likes," Mamma told me. My mouth started to water all over again.

"Is Lucie doing okay?"

"Do you want to talk to her?" my mother asked. Before I could say yes, the phone was being handed over to my younger sister.

"Hi, Maine!' My sister seemed very excited to talk to me.

"Hey, Lucie. Are you taking good care of yourself and Mamma for me?' I asked.

"I am. Guess what Maine? I met a friend named Cordele where we are. She goes to my school! Have you met any friends?' she asked.

"I have one really good friend named Simon who went to my school," I said to my sister. She made an oohing noise. She must think I meant like that I had a boyfriend.

"Do you like-like him?" my sister asked. I was going to tell her to butt out, but that was prior to me being scared the hell out of when I saw Simon at my shoulder.

"Oh God, you're going to make me jump out of my skin," I hissed at the tall black haired boy who stood behind me. I turned my mind back to Lucie and the phone. 'Maybe," I said to her.

"Come on Maine, I know when someone likes someone," she teased.

"Oh do you Madame Amour?" I asked.

"Yeah, I bet right now you're blushing because I'm right,' she said. Was she some sort of telepathic? Because she was right.

"Lucie, dinner," thankfully I was saved by Mamma's voice that could be heard faintly.

"Awe, Maine, I have to go. Promise you'll be here soon," she pleaded.

"I promise." The line went dead and my words flattened with it.

I ended the call and gave Simon a playful irritated look. "Thanks for scaring the shit out of me," I said. He just smiled and kept ton smiling until I asked, "What?"

"You possibly like me," he said filling in the blank.

"Possibly," I concurred. I really didn't feel like telling him just how true that was, so I looked down and started playing with my hair. I started humming 'Heart of Courage' by Two Steps from Hell. I loved their music and I felt this was an epic music worthy moment of my lie: my rise from broken ashes.

Ba dum, dum, dum, dum. Oh, whoa, oh. I didn't know the words in Latin to the chorus, so I made up my own foreign sounding words. It sounded nowhere near as epic as the original song.

"With this heart I bled, the heart you fed. I bled for my honor. We were almost goners. And now, as the night fades the sun breaks. The shimmering gold, behind no clouds it can fold. We stand an army of knights after the fight of all fights. Those fallen, longed to be forgotten." I realized I was actually singing.

I had the song playing on my phone, and I decided to shut up and listen to the epicness. I forgot that Simon was so close to me that I could feel warm breath as he sang along.

The made up words of my song that went along to 'Heart of Courage' were stuck in my head as I readied myself for bed that night. At first I feared sea sickness, but as I went through my night routine I realized thatI was fine.

With this heart I bled, the heart you fed. I bled for my honor.

I bled because of them, and now it is that I'm fed because of him.

A.N.: As per one of Hammsters' couples she'd like to see more of, we have some Simon/Romaine! I really like them too. Anyways, see y'all next time lovies.