Chapter 7: Twice More and I Get a Free Horse Ride!

*Conrad*

I knew her silence on the subject wouldn’t last long. I also knew she wouldn’t be to happy about it. But none of that prepared me for the fact that tears were now threatening to spill from her eyes. I had only seen that once before. It was her first kiss.

“I’m sorry. I don’t know what came over me. I didn’t mean to steal your first kiss.” She turned her back to me and I had an idea of how to make her happy.

“Kat. You might want to perk up.” I said pulling her into a hug.

“Why should I?”

“Because if you don’t I might just have to tickle you!” She turned around in my arms to glare at me and said “You wouldn’t dare.” God. If looks could kill I’d be six feet under. But I didn’t care I tickled her until she fell on the floor. I then straddled her so she couldn’t get out of my grip.

“O-oka-ay, oka-ay I-I gi-ive!” she said through laughs.

“Good.” Once again I saw an opening to kiss her. Her expression changed and she started to blush. She must have noticed what I was thinking but she didn’t say anything. I decided that was a green light so I leaned in closer. I didn’t go all the way in case it was really not what she wanted.

Then the unexpected happened. “What are you waiting for?” I went in all the way and our lips met. This time her lips were closed but she kissed me back just as fervently. I licked her lips asking for entrance. I was granted and our tongues danced once again. Each one fought for dominance but I eventually won out. She pulled away panting for breath and my lips could still feel her lips.

“What made you change your mind?”

“I don’t know.”

“I think I do.”

“Oh?”

“It’s because you love me.”

“In your dreams.”

“Every night babe.”

She punched me in the arm and we left the library. As I took her back to her room I could tell she was noting everything so she could find her way back.

“Thank you for showing me the Library today, Conrad.” She said it but her eyes were focused on her door. Well I couldn’t let that go now could I? I grabbed her hand and spun her in a circle ending up facing me. I held onto her waist and kissed her again. This time I didn’t have to ask for entrance. Our tongues danced inside her mouth and she pushed the dance back into mine. This time she won and she made a point in saying so before closing her door.

*Kat*

Oh my god. We kissed not just once more but twice. It keeps replaying inside my head

“What are you waiting for?” He crashed his lips down onto mine. This time, unlike the first when he was being so gentle, he was more rough. I soon felt his tongue lick my lips and I gasped at the sudden feeling. Unfortunately the sound was drowned and all that happened was that I gave him entrance. Eventually he sucked most of the air out of me and I was starting to get light headed. I had to end our kiss. He had won again and I’ll be damned if he will next time.

“What made you change your mind?” he looked quizzical, but there was something else there, something sad

“I don’t know.” It wasn’t completely false. I knew there was a feeling behind why, but I didn’t know what the feeling was.

“I think I do.”

“Oh?” I could tell that if his answer was what I thought I’d blush

“It’s because you love me.” And that’s the answer I didn’t want…I decided to joke to stay off the red creeping to my face.

“In your dreams.”He smirked and said

“Every night babe.”

I punched his arm.

And then the one that just happened.

I did two full rotations before facing him and being plunged into a kiss. The tongues were inside my mouth but I quickly got my revenge and won the battle. Before he could react I wormed my way out closed the door and sat down leaning against it. That’s how I got to be here thinking about them. I don’t think I lo-no I’m not gonna say it, and I’m hoping I don’t. If I fall I won’t be able to live on earth anymore.

The next day I woke up and found a tray next to my wardrobe. I went to it and pulled of the food cover, which was silver I might add. On the plate beneath there was an ham and cheese omelet, assorted fruit (pineapple, strawberries, banana slices, raspberries, and blackberries), a glass of milk, a glass of orange juice, and a note. I grabbed the note and inside was the familiar handwriting of Conrad.

‘Good Morning my princess,

Hope you had a pleasant nights sleep and are enjoying your breakfast.

I would once again say sorry for stealing your first kiss but since we had two more after I do not think it is such a big issue anymore.’

Smug much?

‘Please meet me in the library and we can start our day together. Please bring your padding as we will be having another practice today.

Lovingly,

Your Prince, Conradio’

So we were going to spend the day together huh? I put on my workout uniform and ran to the library. I took a couple wrong turns but made it there with out much of a problem. When I got inside Conrad was reading, while waiting for me, in a chair. He hadn’t heard me come in but I recognized the book. It was A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.

*Flashback*

Enter in a small girl of 6 years running to the book shelf. She grabs a book her ponytail hitting her back as she jumps up and down. She runs back to her mother and sits in front of her.

“Mommy I wanna hear Christmas Carol.”

“Alright dear. But I’m very tired so we might not be able to finish it all.”

My Mother would always read it on Christmas eve and she would do voices to match the character she was portraying. She had Cancer she had been fighting it since I was 3. Her last words were. “You may be a bit of undigested beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of a underdone potato. There’s more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!” she never got to finish the book that year and I lost my mother on Christmas day.

She never got to open my gift to her. I had gone around to friends and family asking for a spare bit of money to get her a wig. She had loved her red hair and missed it but we could never afford to buy a wig. I made sure she wore it in her grave though. She would have wanted it.

*End Flashback*

I apparently made a sound because when I came out of the flash back Conrad’s arms were around me and I was crying.

“Kat? What’s wrong?”

“Nothing. That book just reminded me of my mother.”

“Don’t worry you will be able to visit her soon.”

I knew he was just trying to comfort me, but that comment brought on a new set of tears.

“I hate to do this Kat, but…Erasmus? What is wrong?”

Erasmus came out of the shadows and stood near us. He put an arm around me and then proceeded to talk.

“Her mother apparently read that book to her every Christmas and her last words were part of that book. Her Mother died on Christmas Day never seeing the gift she got.”

Conrad held on tighter after hearing that. “Thank you Erasmus.”

He did a little half bow to Conrad and went back to his corner.

“I’m so sorry Kat. How about we go for a ride?”

“But you don’t have cars here.”

“But we do have horses.” I perked up at that.

“You have horses?”

“Yes and you can pick any of them to ride.”

“Oh my god that’s awesome!” I half yelled and then pulled him out of the library and outside.