The Mistress

Chapter 10

The tables in the hall are silver, to match the rest of our surroundings. So sometimes if you are really tired and you walk in you cannot distinguish the tables from the walls and floor, which kind of sucks. Adding to that, they look terribly uncomfortable though to speak they are the complete the opposite! The floor is always delicious! It definitely lives up to its looks! Definitely. I place my folk down beside my plate and wipe my mouth with my napkin trying not to breathe it in as I laugh with Jadis, May and Marigold. Suddenly Marigold's eyes soften and turn into the smirky type of eyes, as she does so I feel a warm hand upon my shoulder, I turn slightly and say "Hey"

"Hey, you coming?"

"Yes of course, oh wait, May I?" I ask the girls who have become rather giggly.

"May I? Oh lala! You go GIRL!" Jadis mocks.

"Don't get too kissy, you might just faint without having any intake of breath for a while" Marigold laughs as she says this and May is next to speak.

"Don't worry babe, we're sure he will take good care of you, if you get my drift" she winks, and I find it is my turn to laugh. I look to James who is blushing slightly and the girls find this cute so laugh even more. Taking into consideration his state I mouth to the girls to stop.

"See you girl"

"Have fun!"

"Cheeky"

The girls have a little conversation to themselves as we leave. The doors of the dinner room swing back on their hinges and slowly close, once sure that we are far enough away, James says: "Are they okay?"

"Is that sarcasm I hear sir?"

"Obviously" he smiles "I don't think I have ever seen a girl so keen to get away from her friends before"

"What do you mean by that?" I ask.

"Just the way you looked at me, and so badly wanted to kiss me"

"Hey! It's not all about you, you know!"

"Yeah, I know, but you did want to kiss me"

"Maybe a little"

"Do you still want to kiss me?"

"Perhaps" my cheeks flare up.

"Aw are you embarrassed?" He mocks.

"No!"

"Yes you are"

"Am not!"

"You are"

"Am not!"

"Oh you so are!"

"Am NOT!"

"Well then, if you don't find that embarrassing then what is there to not embarrass you, then this won't bother you one bit!" James wraps his arms around my waist and hauls me up behind his back and places me sideways so that my head is by his left elbow and my legs to his right elbow.

"James!"

"Yes, is something the matter?"

"You are, you are-"

"A delight, precious, beautiful, hot? How kind of you to say so, got any more?"

"You are impossible! And a poo!"

"Why thank you, they have a very good complexion you know!"

"James!"

"Yes petal?"

"You are such a douche!"

"Thank you!" He smiles and continues walking with me upon his back.

It has been three days since the water tank test and we had already begun brutal training for our next challenge. Well at least the big challenge.