The Quest

Alexanders POV

After me and Selene confess to each other, we camp for the night, it's been a draining day. I go and collect some firewood.

"Keep an eye out. Okay?"

"Yep, no reruns of last time." She yells after me. I collect firewood and I head back. When I get back Selene is sitting by the fire. Her blonde hair is blowing in the wind, her face is reddened from the fire. Her green eyes lit up. She's beautiful. I smile at her, she looks so innocent, so wild and free. She looks up at me.

"What are you staring at?" She asks. I'm caught.

"Uhh, umm, nothing." I stutter, my face heats up. It takes her  a moment to realize that I'm staring at her, and her face flushes. I go over to her and I sit down.

"So what's your plan? For the ball I mean." I ask her.

"I'm going to the ball, to convince the prince to marry me. I'm going to make him fall in love." She replies. I chuckle.

"And how are you going to do that? Are you going to use your fighting skills?" I tease. She laughs.

"No, I'm going to use my brains, and beauty. Here I'll show you." She gets up and grabs her pack from the side of Juno. She then goes behind a tree. What is she doing? My breath hitches, my heart starts beating fast when I see her. She has this beautiful black strapless dress on. The top part has beading, the bottom is poofy."

"Wow, you look great, beautiful, stunning. So this is how your going to win the princes heart, there's no doubt he'll fall for you."

"You really think so?" She replies her face ecstatic.

"Yeah, but you need advice, you need information on the prince: intel. Coincidentally I personally know the prince." I see her expression it's shocked. "Just for business purposes, I only met him a couple of times." I add.

"Okay, what do you have for me?" She asks.

"The prince is a very nice, and helpful man. Don't get me wrong,  he does have problems, and sometimes he can seem a bit rude. But, he has all the qualities of a prince. Gentle, helpful, smart, and skilled. Another good thing about him is, he doesn't think he's better than everyone else. He's different, he like surprising people, he likes to do his own thing. A bit of a rebel. He is charming, and relatively good with the ladies. I'm not trying to give him too much credit because I'm good with the ladies too."

"If your so good with the ladies, then why don't you have me all over you?" She questions.

"You never know, you could be falling for me." I say with a smirk.

"I don't think so." She says with a slight blush.

"Hmm, what was that I see. A blush perhaps?" I tease.

"No that's just the fire." She says in defense, I don't belive her but I'll leave it at that. I tell her more about the prince, me and him are very close but I don't want her to know that because I don't want her to know that the prince isn't looking for a wife, he wants to rule alone.  After we're done talking, Selene goes and changes into more comfortable clothes. I go lay down and Selene joins me, we lay there for awhile looking at the stars. You have this perfect view of the almost full moon, and there are so many stars. It's nice, not worrying, being carless and free. Selene breaks the silence.

"It's beautiful."

"It really is." I reply sitting up. I look at her laying down. I meet her gaze, her green eyes stare into mine. She sits up. My stomach stars fluttering, I lean in slowly. Should I do this? I've been developing feelings for a while, but I've only known Selene for 3 days. Selenes eyes get wide. I lean closer until I feel her breath on my face. Then I close the gap. My emotions go crazy: I'm filled with excitement, confusion, and passion. I pull back suddenly. What am I doing? I see a flash of pain in her eyes. I start shaking my head.

"I'm so sorry, I shouldn't have done that." I say. I wait for Selene to answer me,but instead she kisses me again.  When we break the kiss, her face is filled with pure happiness. I lay back down, and she does too. We stare at the stars and I occasionally glance at Selene. She's beautiful the moonlight makes her hair look like a halo, shining on her face. I move a little closer and I whisper, "Goodnight."

"Goodnight," she replies.