Planet of the Stars

Chapter 14: Happy

Lights flipping on woke me up. I blinked my eyes open, and I saw Efren standing over me.

"Hey Efren." I say.

"You fell asleep in the cockpit." Efren says smiling gently.

I nodded, and looked around. Then last night flashed through my mind and I felt my heart drop. Everything else came into focus too. I was naked, and Wren was somewhere under the blanket naked too. HIs arm was draped over my stomach, but Efren hadn't seen him yet.

"Efren, what time is it?" I ask.

"It's still early in the morning you have time to do everything you need you do." Efren says.

I nod. Efren turns around, and I nudge Wren in his ribs and cover his mouth, so the sound was muffled.

"Did you say something?" Efren asks.

"No. I just need to find Felicity." I say.

Wren's head emerged and he was looking around.

"She's in Lars and Theo's room." Efren says.

I nod.

"Thank you." I say.

I start wrapping the blanker around me. Wren was moving so we could both hide. Eventually we both stood up and walked out of the cockpit. Well Wren walked. I had my wrapped around his waist.

I silently directed him the way to go. We eventually reached our room and I dropped my legs, and Wren dropped the blanket. We turned to look at each other and we both grinned at each other, before starting to laugh.

"That was close." Wren says.

"Yeah it was." I say smiling, then I punch his arm.

"Ow! What was that for?"Wren asks.

"That's for not following the rule, so something like that doesn't happen." I say.

"Oh right that rule. Where we go to the room before anything happens. Well I'm sorry, but that's really your fault." Wren says.

"My fault! How is it my fault?" I demand.

Wren smiled and looked down at me before gently pecking my lips, pulling away, then pecking my lips again.

"It's your fault, because I missed you, and you didn't help when you kissed me last night." Wren says smiling smugly.

I nod.

"Ah okay." I say smiling then pull Wren to me by wrapping my arms around his neck and bringing my lips up to meet his.

He kissed me back deeply, then wrapped his arms around my waist. I pulled away.

"That's not all my fault." I whisper.

"You're right." Wren says, then kisses me again.

I giggle. We eventually pull away, and then get ready for the day. When I'm ready I head back into the cockpit where Efren and Helaina were.

"Did Wren bump into anything on the way back?" Efren asks.

He asked normally, but I could hear the smug smile on his face in his voice. I felt my embarrassment flare up everywhere.

"You knew?" I ask.

"Of course I knew." Efren says.

"Why didn't you say anything?" I ask.

"You obviously didn't want me to know, so I didn't. Plus your plan to get out unseen and unknown was pretty funny." Efren says.

I roll my eyes.

"You're terrible." I say.

"Maybe." Efren says.

I look over at Helaina she was smiling.

"You knew also didn't you?" I ask.

"I did. I knew earlier. I walked in, turned the light on you and Wren were out. You were also curled into each other. It was cute. I told Efren." Helaina says.

I groan, and collapse on the chair behind Efren. Efren and Helaina giggle.

"Come on it's nice to know we can still embarrass you." Helaina laughs, then it dies down.

What she didn't say hung in the air like a storm that still needed to break. 'Because they might not be able to for much longer.' Was what Helaina could have said, and Efren and Helaina. seemed to have that dawn on them, because they fell silent, and the color drained from their faces.

"So you know?" I ask.

"Yeah we know." Efren says.

Efren's hands tightened around the wheel. His knuckles were white. I felt myself forcing down tears. Seeing Efren like this made my heart break for him.

"Felicity knows doesn't she?" Efren asks.

"Yeah." I say quietly.

"She was the first to know she told me, and I asked her to help me keep it silent, and she did." I say.

"Lincoln and Kira?" Efren asks.

"Yeah they know. They were the first people I told, and they promised they wouldn't tell anyone until I was ready to let people know." I say.

"And when were you going to tell people you were dying. When you were on your deathbed. That's a little late." Efren says calmly, but I could hear the anger in his voice.

"Efren!" Helaina says sternly.

"No. I was going to tell people I was dying when I believed it myself." I say.

I saw the tension in Helaina and Efren's shoulders relax. Their faces changed to sadness.

"Where are we going?" I ask.

"That is a good question. I don't know." Efren says.

We both look at Helaina.

"We're going to Darthmount." Helaina says.

Efren and I nod.

"To stand in over a trial." Helaina says.

Efren and I both groan.