Sandy had Jack and I come to his place for the night so we could work things out and so I would have a place to sleep. His palace was beautiful; it looked as if it were made of solid gold, which for all I knew it could have been. He led us to a large room somewhere in the center of the palace and gestured around, letting us know that this would be our meeting room, then led us to a long hallway full of sculptures and paintings. He turned to Jack and pointed to a door, then did the same to me with a door directly across the hall. I thanked him and hurried in to get some sleep.
I slid off my dress and rifled through the drawers in hope of finding something to sleep in. All I found was in oversized t-shirt, so I pulled it over my head and flopped down on the soft sheets. My eyelids grew heavy and I was asleep before I knew it.
I woke in the middle of the night seemingly for no reason. The room was dark, but as I sat up, the walls started to glow and light filled the room. I was surveying the room to see what could have woken me up when I heard his voice, smooth and low as usual.
"I'm sorry about earlier, I overreacted terribly." He was sitting in a chair in the corner of the room, his shoulders slumped and his head hanging. "I could even understand if you didn't want to be with me anymore, but I… I just needed to get this out." I had never seen his so ashamed, and I stood up and walked over to him, kneeling down and placing a hand on his shoulder. He turned away from me, but I pulled his face around to look at me, making him look me in the eyes.
"I love you, Pitch. Why would I ever want to leave you?" A small smile graced his lips and I kissed him. He pulled me up on his lap and laughed, kissing me. I wrapped my arms around his neck and he picked me up and carried me to the bed.
"I love you too, Aleera. I really do."
We lay there afterward talking. My head and hand rested on his chest and he was stroking my hair. We talked about anything and everything; the weather, books, work, anything that we could think of. Eventually I flipped on to my back and huffed out my breath. He eyed my shoulder and chest, then carefully reached out and traced the jagged scars with his long, thin fingers.
"Do you remember how you got those?" he grinned.
"A bear attacked me after someone chased away my dinner." I smiled back.
"And then that someone also happened to kill that same bear before the bear could accomplish its goal of making you its dinner."
I laughed. "That was the first time we met. You saved my life." We made eye contact, gold and purple becoming one, both eyes smiling and remembering that time years ago. We lay in the same place, me on my back with Pitch at my side, until sunrise. All of a sudden, the door flew open and Jack entered the room.
"Woah!" he stepped back and covered his face with his arms. We both rushed to cover ourselves with whatever sheets we could as Jack spun around, embarrassed. "Um… well… Sandy wanted me to let you know that breakfast's ready and there's gonna be a meeting right after. Um… hi Pitch, how's it going?"
Pitch laughed. "Thank you, Jack, and I'm sorry about, well…" I laughed too and gestured to Pitch and I. Jack nodded and closed the door behind him.
Hey there! Sorry for the really short update, I'm really busy and could just barely squeeze in writing time for you guys since my goal is to update as much as possible. Thanks for all the reviews yet again because I'm just so shocked that people like my writing, and I love you guys!
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