POV Adam

The next day I woke up overjoyed and a sincere smile crept onto my lips immediately, when I thought about the kiss with Seraphina.
I found that her lips matched mine perfectly and ran a finger over my lips, which began to tingle slightly at the thought.

I would never forget that feeling again.

Quickly I made my way to her spaceship so I could pick her up. I almost sprinted in it's direction while a few residents watched me with interest.
"Morning Adam! What got you into such a good mood today?", Peter asked me, who was leaning against one of the many buildings and was now coming towards me.

I stopped almost abruptly and looked at Peter who was now standing next to me and looked at me questioningly.
"What do you mean? I'm just like every other day", I said thoughtfully and tried to calculate how Peter came up with this idea.
Like every morning, I made my way to Seraphina, which was no longer news.

"Well yes, but you got that kinda pep in your way of walking y'know? Anything I should know about?", he explained his observation, which I still didn't quite understood, and now walked alongside me as I continued to head for Seraphina's ship.
"Oh yes. Please refrain yourself from touching Seraphina all the time. She is now mine", I said to Peter, wanting to do Seraphina a favor.

If I told him about it now, then she no longer needed to deal with this task.

Undeterred, I walked on and didn't even notice that Peter had stopped dead in his tracks until I heard him loudly behind me, "wait ... WHAT?"
I turned to him and saw his almost stunned expression.
"I said, please refrain...", I was interrupted again while repeating my sentence as before by Seraphina and I frowned.

Why exactly was I always interrupted when I wanted to repeat my sentence when they asked for it?

"I did hear you Adam. I mean how the hell did that happen?", Peter said immediately and sprinted to my side with a now interested expression and a big grin on his face.
"I told her how I felt and she said that she also liked me", I explained slightly confused, not knowing exactly what Peter wanted from me now.

"I knew it!", Peter whispered to himself but I heard him anyway and yet again he confused me with his words.
"What did you know?" I asked and hoped that I would get a sufficiently explanatory answer so that I could put the puzzle pieces together.
"Oh nothing... I have to go now, gotta do some work", Peter quickly waved me off and marched on in a different direction.

So, still confused, I stood in place until I just dropped this whole conversation as I wasn't going to figure it out anyway.

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Seraphina's spaceship slowly entered my field of vision and a wave of nervousness washed over me at once.
However, I couldn't describe exactly why I was suddenly so nervous and the butterflies in my stomach didn't really help with the solution.

I reached her ramp and peered curiously inside the ship. Usually she was either already outside or near the ramp which is why I hadn't actually seen her ship from the inside until now.
Here and there I was able to catch a quick glimpse, but that I got a good look at her ship from the inside could not be said to be true.

So I stood uncertainly in front of the ramp and wondered if I should just wait here for her or maybe call for her?
My curiosity finally took the lead and with light steps I walked slowly over the ramp into the interior of the ship.

It was quite a large ship, similar to Peter's, but rather lightly decorated with lots of whites and blues.
Astonished, I looked around and entered the control area, which had a particularly large number of holographic panels.

Almost admiringly, I approached the large viewing window through which I could see space and lingered there for a moment.
While my mother's spaceship was in our shades of gold, I found this ship stunningly beautiful as well and thought it suited Seraphina very well.

I was pulled out of my thoughts by an unknown voice and now turned to the corridor from which it came.
I frowned and wondered who exactly besides Seraphina could be on the ship, after all it was hers and she had come to Knowhere alone.
Had she perhaps been visited by one of the Guardians?

After all, she was responsible for repairing some electrical equipment and often exchanged ideas with Rocket about it.

So while I continued to follow the sound of the voice, I still tried to absorb every detail of the ship and found that I had never seen a ship like hers.
Most spaceships didn't have many windows, and yet hers had particularly many, despite being kept so bright.
I really hoped that she would invite me into her ship and show me the many rooms.

Since she also returned here every day, didn't that mean that she also had her room here?
A pleasant tingling went through my body at the thought of finding her room and spending time with her there.
Just the two of us.

Eventually I came to a large room that seemed to have some sort of hologram displayed in the middle.

In front of the hologram was an unknown man with his back to me.
I eyed him disapprovingly from my vantage point, wondering who exactly this man was.
His blond hair closely resembled my hairstyle with some more curls and he seemed to have my height as far as I could tell.
His muscles could be seen through his spacesuit and I wondered if I looked just like him.

Until now, that had never bothered me but while I continued to watch the man an uneasy feeling spread through me.
Now why was this man on Seraphina's ship? After all, she had never spoken of another person.

Finally, Seraphina also stepped into my field of vision with her back to me and looked at the hologram as well.
However, since I couldn't figure out what exactly I was looking at, I could only watch silently and didn't know exactly whether I should make myself known or not.
"Okay hear me out. I think I got it now," the strange man suddenly spoke up and Seraphina turned to him with one of her beautiful smiles.

She had crossed her arms and seemed to have raised an eyebrow playfully.
She had shifted her weight to her right leg and continued to look at the man expectantly, "you think so?"
The man snapped his fingers once and then pointed at Seraphina, "I think the mistake is in line 4."
Waiting, he kept looking at Seraphina and suddenly she started laughing and shaking her head.

"Wrong again! How can you not see this!", she continued to laugh while the blond man looked at the blue hologram again and sighed, "how CAN YOU see this? It's... like impossible, I just don't get it."
"It's not, you're just looking at it the wrong way", she continued, rolling her eyes.
When she turned away she finally noticed me at the entrance of the room and looked at me in astonishment.

"Adam? What are you doing here?", she asked me immediately and grabbed a small holopad from one of the tables.
"Hi...umm I wanted to go get you", I ground out stiffly, feeling a little caught.
I stood uncomfortably in front of the two and could now see the man's face clearly.
His blue eyes were similar to Seraphina's but if you looked close enough you could see that hers were lighter and the rim of her iris was darker.

"Oh my god I'm so sorry Adam! I totally forgot to tell you that I'm working on my ship today, so you actually didn't have to come all this way to get me", she said immediately and put the holopad away to shift her attention to me yet again.
The man excused himself and suddenly it was just the two of us in the large room.

"Is it because of him that you don't want me here?", I asked uncertainly and suddenly felt out of place.
With my golden appearance I stood out strongly in the white ship and I began to fidged with my hands.
"God no! I'm actually very happy that you are here", she assured me and yet I wasn't completely convinced of her answer.

"Then why wouldn't you tell me about him?", I asked again and just couldn't shake this queasy feeling away I felt as well, when Peter touched Seraphina.
I didn't like the way she smiled at him so softly and let him onto her ship!
This guy suddenly showed up and was allowed into her ship while I only got inside by accident?

"I already told you Adam, I forgot. I'm really sorry", she said again and suddenly a feeling came over me that I had never felt so strongly.
I had an enormous urge to show her that she was mine and she should realize that too.
Not thinking about it, I took a few steps in her direction and lifted her chin with my right hand.
Without warning, I pressed my lips firmly to hers, only hearing a surprised squeak from her, since I had my eyes closed.

Like the day before, I immediately melted into the kiss and my left hand automatically found her hip.
I found that my hand felt right there and pressed her further towards me so that her body was now flush against mine.
Panting, we broke apart again and slowly I could think more clearly.
"I-I'm sorry... it's just I got this feeling and I couldn't hold myself back any longer. I-I needed to show you that you are mine", I tried to explain and looked down uncertainly.

"You are mine right?", I asked again and looked up into her blue eyes.
Her astonished expression was quickly replaced by one of her smiles and she had to chuckle a little.
"You were jealous Adam and yes I am yours", she said softly, stroking my strand of hair back, because it had strayed forward in the heat of the moment.

The queasy feeling immediately disappeared and was again replaced by lots of butterflies as she assured me that she was indeed mine.
"Who is this guy anyway?" I picked up the strange man again and looked at her expectantly.
"This 'guy' is my brother and his name is Micah", she laughed at my question and now I finally realized why the two looked so alike.

"Oh..."

"I'm back and brought Rocket with me. Said he got some ideas for improvements or something like this," Micah's voice roared, accompanied by Rocket.
"First of all I'm here because I got to the bottom of why this device isn't working and not because of 'something like this'," Rocket began to explain, holding up a small technical device, "secondly there is an error in line 3 and the code of line 5 is missing a rune."

Micah looked at the hologram in disbelief and seemed to want to verify Rocket's statement.
"Just... how?"
Rocket just sighed and shook his head, "you sure he is your brother Phina?"
She seemed to consider his statement and frowned, "well I do hope so. Been doomed to teach him in 3 languages since he IS my brother."

I carefully followed the conversation between the two and tilted my head slightly to the side, "why would you ask about the validity of his heritage?"
Surely Rocket must have noticed how similar the two looked, right?

"I'm still here y'know! Could you guys please stop talking about me like I'm not here?", came Micah's voice, who had crossed his arms in front of his chest and was slightly glaring at us all.

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This time a kinda jealous / possessive Adam I guess x3
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The next chapter won't be out until next week so stay tuned ~