After the Lunar Revolution

Chapter 10: Thorne

I kept staring at Cress as she is eating from her packed plate, seriously how does she eat so much but stay so small, to see if I could figure out what she was hiding. She usually isn't very good at keeping secrets, but for some reason she is determined to keep whatever she is hiding a secret. "Are you sure you don't want to tell your dear old husband what you are hiding?"

"Captain, I am not going to tell you until we are with the rest of the team. I want you all to hear it at once."

"Can you just give me a little hint?" Or at least answer a question?" I was getting desperate some type of answer.

Cress looked at me and rolled her eyes, "I will answer one question, but that is it. After that no more pestering me. Okay, ask your question."

"It's a very simple question: Will everyone like this surprise? Or if you don't want to answer that one then, answer this one: Is the surprise good or bad?"

"Just to be nice, I will answer both of the questions. The answer to the first one is 'I hope everyone likes the surprise and the answer to the second question is 'The surprise is good, some would say it was very good."

"Then what is it?" I tried to give her a look that used to get her to talk when we first met and while I was still blind from the crash, but for some reason it didn't work. She just sat there, eating her waffles, with a tiny bit of a smug look on her face. That's weird, when does Cress ever have a smug-look on her face?! What she is hiding can't be that bad, she looks really happy.

"I already told you, I am not going to tell you until we are with the rest of the crew. So stop asking, Captain! The answer won't change until we get to the palace." She says it with a finality that also wasn't there when I met her. I can't believe that she has changed so much, but with every change I fall more in love with her. Not that I would ever say any of this out loud. Never in a million years.

"Are you done yet? I want to leave soon, so when can get there and you can tell ALL of us the surprise." I finished eating about 5 minutes ago.

She gave me a way to be patient look. "Yes, I am done, all I have to do is throw my plate away."

"Let me do that, miss. You just sit right there and wait," I grabbed her plate ,now completely empty except for her fork, put it on mine and walk to the trash cans at the far end of the room, dropping the plates in. Out of the corner of my eye, I can see Cress look at me from her chair and puts an innocent but in a weird way, almost mischievous smile on her face that makes her beautiful blue eyes sparkle. Which is really strange, someone can't be innocent and mischievous at the same time, can they? I walked back to her. "You ready to go, C?"

"Duh, I have been waiting for you to get back from a simple task for ten minutes! How long does it take to throw something away?" She slides down from the chair and starts walking. I catch up to her and match my long strides with her short ones.

"That was not ten minutes, it was one at the most."

"Was not,"

"Was too!" I was silently laughing in while thinking, We are bickering like an old married couple when we have only been married a few months,it was a good sign, right? I thought to myself.

We reached the elevator and I reached out my hand to press the Up button, and a few seconds later the elevator dinged and the doors opened. I let Cress go in first, then followed her in. She reached out and pressed the button to go to our floor, so the doors closed. As the elevator started moving up slowly. While the elevator was going up, Cress's face looked like it was turning green, but as soon as the new color appeared, the green disappeared just as quickly. I wasn't even sure if the color changed happened at all or if it was just a figment of my imagination.