The Moon & The Morningstar: 7 Deadly Sins

CH 49: Date Night (MingxKit)

KIT'S POV

Scrunching my nose up to avoid sneezing, I instead snort out a couple breaths trying to clear my sinuses of the minty sweet intoxicating smell hovering around me.

"Eewww, P'Kit. Not on my new shirt."

Freezing in place at the sound of that voice, I slowly open my eyes and come nose to nose with Ming. He has a wide happy smile plastered on his face as he stares back at me, but I can't understand why we're this close together. Moving to push him away, I shove myself upwards off his chest and realize I'm lying on top of him. Looking around me I take in our positions and immediately feel my face and neck start to burn.

"It's about time you woke up, my back is killing me, P'. Next time if you want to snuggle can you not be so aggressive about it? My back hurts from when you tackled me to the ground and the floor is kind of cold."

"WHAT?!" What is he saying? Is he kidding? I knocked him down and forced him to snuggle? No way!

Jumping up off him, I step away, and he slowly sits up before rising to his feet. One hand is rubbing the back of his head and the other is rubbing his back like they both hurt. Groaning a bit, he kicks off his shoes then moves over to the couch to sit down while I stand there and watch.

Glancing around the room my eyes fall on the clock and confused thoughts start running through my head. The clock reads 7:23pm, but I don't understand why it's so late. Thinking hard, I remember looking at the clock right before I answered the door for Ming and it was only 6:57 pm. Where the hell did the last 25 minutes go.

Storming over to the couch, I stand in front of him with my arms crossed and demand, "What did you do?"

Hearing my angry voice, he looks up at me with wide startled eyes, then asks, "What do you mean?"

"The last thing I remember is answering the door and seeing you standing in the hall. What happened after that?"

"P'Kit, I'm not sure what you're accusing me of, but I didn't do anything. I knocked on the door and you answered. Then you stepped into the hall and started rubbing yourself against me. I moved us into your room... blah, blah, blah..."

He keeps talking, explaining what happened and what I did, and I can only stand there becoming more and more embarrassed and agitated. When he finishes he stands from the couch and moves in close as he quietly tells me, "Not that I minded, even though I was surprised. I always like getting close to you."

As he raises his arms to hug me I stall him with a hand on his chest, because I smell something very familiar. Leaning in I give him a quick sniff before stepping back from him. Getting even angrier, I yell, "Why are you wearing catnip? Did you purposefully rub it all over yourself before you came knowing how it affects me? What are you trying to do here?"

Showing me a confused expression, he answers, "I don't know what you're talking about P'. I didn't rub anything on myself. Before I came here, I took a shower then got dressed. Yo sprayed some cologne on me, and..."

When he trails off, I demand, "And what?"

"Uhm... Yo said his mom... well, he said his mom had the cologne made for me. She wanted me to wear it on our first date." He replies, and a light blush of embarrassment creeps up his neck to his cheeks. Hanging his head, he continues speaking, "I guess this was my fault, P'Kit. I'm sorry, but I really didn't know what was in the bottle or what it would do."

Wanting to scream out of sheer humiliation at the way I acted in front of him, I pace away towards the balcony windows biting my tongue to lock down the angry words I want to spew out at him. If I believe him, he isn't really to blame and he's just as much of a victim of the Queen's prank as I am.