Chapter 14: The Gossip Queen

I woke up next morning really tired and exhausted. I sat up and started rubbing my eyes. I was so exhausted. Last night was fun, but I was really tired. I got off bed and I started to changed. Then I went outside to go to Queen Jinny's house for breakfast, as always. When I was walking to Queen Jinny's house, I saw Nod talking to two teens leafmen. Nod saw me and smiled. I smiled back. The leafmen noticed and started bothering Nod. Then Nod grab one by the neck with his hand and started messing up his hair. I smirked. They kept goofing, so I ignored them and went to Queen Jinny's house. When I was on the door, I knocked and Queen Jinny was there.

" Hi M.K. Good morning" Queen Jinny said. She was too adorable.

" Hi Jinny. Good morning" I said. Since last night I realized that it was better to call her Jinny and because I know she must be exhausted of people calling her Queen all the time. She gave me the same wide smiled and let me enter.

" Hi M.K. Good morning" Flora said from the Kitchen.

" Hi Flora. Good morning" I said, waving my hand a little.

" Sleep well?" Flora asked. Man, is like she read my mind and asked.

" Well, kind of. I'm a little exhausted." I said. I was in fact really exhausted.

" Well, how about you eat breakfast. That will cheer you up" Flora said. I smiled at her and sat down on the table. Queen Jinny sat beside me. Then something made her giggle and I gave her a suspicious look. Just then, Flora came with our breakfast. Honey sandwiches, my favorite, well it was my first food of here. I started eating and when I was going to drink my nectar, Queen Jinny leaned to me.

" How was your date with Nod?" Queen Jinny whispered. I choked. How did she know about? I looked at her suspicious and surprised. Then I remember something.

" You read the note, didn't you?" I asked. She giggled. She maybe sweet, but she sure was sneaky. Good thing it was Mub in the forest and not her, because she will be jumping up and down by now. I gave her a you-are-incredible look. She giggled again. I rolled my eyes and lean closer to her. " We'll talk about this later, okay?" I said. She nodded. And turn to my plate and kept eating.

Flora, Queen Jinny and I were deep in conversation. We were talking about the flowers that bloomed on the summer and about the new security system. Queen Jinny liked the idea, but she didn't like the one that made her stay home all day. After breakfast, Queen Jinny took me to her room. I enter and then she closed the door behind me. She turn and looked at me.

" Tell me everything" Queen Jinny said, jumping up and down. I giggled. She look cute doing that, but also annoying. I sat down on her bed and took a deep breath.

" Promise me that you won't tell anyone, under any circumstances" I said, looking at her right in the eye. She nodded. Then she raised her right hand.

" I promise I won't tell anyone, under any circumstances" Queen Jinny said, like a soldier saying ' yes sir'. I laughed a little.

" Ok. Well he tooked me for a walk at the river near here and-

" Aww" Queen Jinny said. I looked at her. " Ups. Keep going" I giggled.

" Then we started talking and everything and then Nod said that he really likes me and-

Queen Jinny gasped. " And what did you say?" Queen Jinny asked, jumping up and down. I rolled my eyes and smiled.

" Aand I told him that I really like him too" I said, biting my lower lip. At this Queen Jinny screamed, grab a pillow and covered her face, still screaming. She started jumping up and down and saying ' Oh my daisy' all over again. I couldn't help not laughed, but still she was drawing attention. So I had to shut her up.

" Shh, will you keep it down. I don't want leafmen running toward here and think that you got hurt or something" I said. Queen Jinny took a deep breath and nodded.

" Ok, sorry. It just that you two are cute together, hehe. So did you guys kissed?" Queen Jinny asked. I frozed. I mean we haven't kissed yet, well the day I left Moonhaven, but we only almost-kissed. Should I tell her that? I mean she would have a heart attack if I tell her that we were about to kissed when Mub interrupted us. I don't know. Should I really tell her? Oh man, I just can't lie to the Queen, I mean she was too cute and adorable to lie to. Oh man, here it goes.

" Well, almost" I said. Queen Jinny was about to screamed and I put a finger on my lips. She stood there with her mouth open and then put the pillow on her face and then she started screaming. At least it was a quiet scream. She then got her face offthe pillow and looked at me.

" Oh my daisy, what happen? Why didn't you guys kissed?" Queen Jinny asked. I couldn't tell her it was Mub, she would confront him or something. Now this time I needed to lie, but how? Maybe I can say that we heard a sound and thought that it was a boggan, but it turn out to be just an animal or something. I hope she falls for it.

" Well, we heard a sound and we thought it was a boggan, but it just turn out to be an animal or something, not a boggan." I said. She was relief to find out it wasn't a boggan, but she turn a little sad.

" Man, that stupid animal" Queen Jinny said, crossing her arms. No kidding. I rolled my eyes to play cool. I didn't wanted her to know that I felt bad for not kissing Nod. " So, after that what happen next?" Queen Jinny asked. She really wanted to know the whole date or night. Good thing she didn't asked what we were talking about.

" Well, he walked me to the stairs to my room, we said good bye and then he left." I said. I could see Queen Jinny expected more cause she looked a little disappointed.

" Well ok. So want to play Leaf Jump?" Queen Jinny said, picking up a box. So that's was the name of the board game. It made sense, though. I nodded.

" Yeah let's play. But I'm gonna totally gonna beat you" I threaten. She gave a oh-no-you-did look.

" We'll see. May the best player win" Queen Jinny said.

" You're on" I said. And we both started playing Leaf Jump.