What Lies Beneath

Chapter 6: Purple water lily

"You said I have a week Thana!" Saka barked.

"I got impatient. That's just who I am." Thana responded with an evil half smirk.

"Well, now I pretty much only have till tomorrow night." Saka stated.

"I know." Thana started. "But how fucking hard is it? All you have to do is say 'Alcuthe, remember how you said no girl probably will ever want to be your mate? Well, there is a girl who is highly interested in you.'" She demonstrated.

"Wait... how do you know about that?" Saka demanded.

"I have my ways." Thana answered, and Saka sighed.

"Give me two more days, please." Saka begged and Thana smirked, she loves it when people beg.

"Why should I?" She asked. "Convince me." She finished.

"What do I have to do? Just please, name it. And give me two more days." Saka begged. Thana thought for a few seconds and got an idea.

"Kiss me." Thana said seductively and licked her lips and raised her eyebrow.

"What? Hell no!" Saka said sternly.

"Alright, guess you have till tomorrow morning then." Thana said and turned around.

"Wait!" Saka said loudly. Thana stopped and grinned ominously and faced Saka and closed her eyes and leaned forward, awaiting a kiss. Saka leaned in, got hesitant and looked down shamefully. "I... I can't." He said. "Please, I beg of you. Just two more days." He begged and his ears were down in sadness.

"Kiss me, or I'll kiss you and you won't like it." She replied angrily. Saka's eyes started to water up. 'I'm so sorry Jasiri.' Saka thought to himself. Saka then slowly leaned in, closed his eyes and his lips made contact with Thana's. Thana then grabbed the back of Saka's head and tongued him. Thana slowly pulled her head back as Saka turned around in shame. "That wasn't so hard now, was it? Two days." Thana stated evilly and headed back to her clan.

Saka walked for a few minutes and then started crying, he had now wished he kissed Jasiri this morning. He wanted Jasiri to be his first kiss, and now everything was just ruined. He arrived at a stream, the moon was full, and the stars were bright. He looked down at his reflection and started crying even more.

"Why am I such a coward? Just tell Alcuthe, That's all I had to do." He growled to himself, face full of tears.

"Saka, whats wrong?" A sudden, soothing beautiful voice came from Saka's left side. Saka looked over and saw it was Jasiri, he quickly wiped his face and replied 'nothing.'

"Saka, tell me what's wrong, I've been watching you for about a minute now, I heard what you said." Jasiri replied and laid down next to him.

"I'm not aloud to tell you." Saka replied and sniffled.

"OK." Jasiri started. "Is there anything I can do to help?" She replied in a comforting tone and laid her head over Saka's.

"Where can I find that White-rain lily flower you like?" Saka asked, trying to think of something else and Jasiri giggled lightly, which made Saka even happier. He loves her cute little giggle.

"Oh wow, you remembered the name." Jasiri joked. "Well, I kinda lied to you, I didn't think you were actually interested in me enough." She finished.

"Oh... What is your favorite flower? If you have one." Saka asked curiously. " And I'm very interested." He added.

"Purple water lily." Jasiri answered and smiled. "And I'm not lying this time." She finished and the two chuckled.

"Where can I find one?" Saka asked.