MEHJABEEN

" Can't wait to greet you back, NES! Anywho, know something! My too-good friend who had walked away without a single notice on my way about her existence has now made a sudden visit right back to me.

Aren't I supposed to get to know about her returning from her brother as I did before about her going on a seasonal break?" As Edwin voiced her thoughts, Inés crowned her head low facing the soil, and utters her reason.

" Aww... Stop making me feel so bad, will you? I'm already worn out with my Gramps crushing me hard at making me learn new things from them.

I had no chance to tell you, Eddie. Grandma and Grandpa dragged my arse to the fellow village which lies beside our kingdom and cast a spell on me to minimize my usage of magic. Thus I can have none but to remain focused on their preaching. I'm so sorry If I worry you badly. Though it is a dreamy paradise to live in, I hate that folks and my Gramps for making me do more over and over, none constantly filling my heart's content. Since the day they found me, as their long-lost granddaughter, Gramps is up to get me under their wings. Lucky who, my brother is a major and has his say in his life, unlike me! " And so, Inés blabbered a lot of things with a shrinking timeline, which-so-ever makes Edwina's mind go into a hazy trail to catch up to her pace of talking. Before Inés starts to talk some more, Edwina created a goblet of water and cupped her palm over Inés's mouth, thus making the bubble occupy her running mouth still like a balloon masked over her mouth to stop her talkative- talk.

Satisfied at her work, she now beams at her friend and hugs her tightly around the water ropes and mumbles,

" And, you're forgiven. It's just that I missed you a lot lately. And there are a lot of matters to be said about Quen who returned from his training yesterday and the events of things that happened between the meantime counting from till this dawn. " Saying Edwina pulled back and smiled at her friend whose eyes were gleaming with appreciation.

Inés on the contrary tries to speak through the balloon mask but her words aren't transparent. Edwina wasn't a huge help, so Inés had no way but to use her newly learned trick, by using the plants' fiberglass roots to catch up with Edwin's hand thus making her distracted from the magical wave Edwie had created. As a thought, Edwina yelps at whatever the thing caressing her palms which-so-ever makes her gaze vary. Inés uses this point to free herself from the captive threads of water as well as from the water bubble masking her mouth.

" So, why can't you tell me, or won't tell me, who you are going out with tonight?" Inés asks in a teasing manner once she is freed from those chill ropes.

Edwina rolled her eyes playfully at her and continued to wait for Willow who was supposed to be in here a long while back.

All while long, Quen who is halfway through waiting, now rises to his feet and enters her bathing doorway. He isn't having any perverted thoughts on Edwie, just concerned about her enjoying the time in the water a lot more than needed.

It has been nearly two counting hours since his and Edwina's blown-out make-out session which only involves a headstrong kiss in her bedroom doorway. And here Quen seems quite headstrong to confirm that he is still high with that stolen kiss experience with her.

But sadly before his mind drifts deeper into the pool of her lovely fragrance, his mind alerts him about her absence in the whole spread pool before him, thus makes his usual carefree aura onto the killer posture as he strolls down her veranda with an imaginary whoosh of his silver dusting sashaying behind his back like a tail of the shooting star.

His mind was on a marathon thinking ahead in a millennium at every passing second about his thoughts varying various scenarios happening to his sweetheart. But it stops abruptly when he hears her angelic voice waving from her backyard where the pool is located. On the beat, a shower of relief passes through him, but only lasts for a little while, when her laughing turns into a high-pitched squeal. Fearing the worst he sprints through the daylight in a blink and freezes in the very spot at pathways turning on seeing the sight to behold before him as he hears her saying,

" You know, ever since that moment, I feel deliriously happier than my usual self. It was as though a dam filled to the brim had finally ruptured and I felt as though I could breathe again. And my world feels no longer hazy with more confusion and frustration than any fellow Elf could handle.

Everything felt evenly right, Inés. At last, I'm having my own desirable life. Is this how it feels to have a thing that lasts forever? "

Edwina gushes with her eyes gleaming like a newborn star. Hearing her words Quen's heart crushed a million moons. Thoughts to comfort her in his arms singed inside his mind but it won't be appropriate to intrude on her only privacy fence with her friend. As per the telephonic conversation with his thoughts, Quen walked into her nest and rested his head in an armchair alongside his mind drifting deep in thoughts of his sweetheart.

On the other end of the open pool, Inés tries to change the thick air around with a change of toppings by chiding Edwina for her poor dressing skills.

" You know, dresses won't wear out in the wardrobe, but that is not what dresses are designed for. Let me bring those clothes." With that said Inés strolls back to the nest with her flowery fragrance threading the vacant space before her.

Till then Edwina's eyes chase from one Air-Horses to another which were flying above her head as her mind drifts to rewind yesterday's turn of events with Quen and his telephonic message to her with a plan of lunch and yet another surprise that is yet to be revealed what it was that he had in mind.

But all he told her was to dress and she quoted under her breath, ‘ beautiful and sexy as she does every day,’ says Edwina to herself chuckling at her chance to ever speak in such a voice to anyone in particular.

As Edwina continues to catch the air horses, through her peripheral vision she sees Inés towering over her shoulder with her arms holding a dress that she isn't aware of till now. But once Edwie sees Inés's eyes glimmering in mischief, she knows for sure that the dress she holds contains a choking surprise in it. Without any words said Inés passes the clothes to Edwie and zeros her gaze which radiates a questioning sign throughout while awaiting Edwie's answer.

" I just can't Inés. And I don't want to jinx anything before it gets good. " Edwina lies through her teeth as she wears her dress in the open arena covered with magical walls of aquatic life. Was that last bit true? Yes, Edwina thinks the fact that it's still illegal for her to be dating the Prince of this kingdom. In return, Inés scoffs and stamps her foot like a five-year-old fawn.

" Fine, be that way. " Whined Inés and pins her emerald orbs on Edwie in the see-through silver fall.

" But if you guys have romantic times together, and I don't hear anything about it, I think I may call our friendship off. '' her statement seems serious, but it is her words that took every ounce of cells in Edwie's body to lay cool as a cucumber. Taking this on, Edwina chuckles trying her very best to cover the rising warmth in her face when she feels the blood run through her cheeks all at once.

As her thoughts drift to the ocean of various scenarios with Quen's body pressed against herself in more ways than one begins to flash through Edwie's channels.

" Oh Inés, trust me. I don't think I'd be able to keep that one a secret. Especially from you! " Edwie slowly adds her comment thus trying to extinguish a bit of her curious flame. Inés's lips slightly lift hearing her words and from the looks of things dancing around her eyes, Edwina knows for sure that she had sated the battle for now.

" Now, that's what I like to hear!" Inés exclaims before bringing her face right up next to Edwie as her golden blonde pixie cut hair tickles Edwie's ear. Though, Edwie hasn't told Inés about her date being prince Quentin. Inés knows that these two were up to something, and thinking of these two lovelies does things a little over the line between the friend zone and the lover. If Inés is right, she does remember a time Edwina uttered in her memory that they still were remaining as friends. But saying I love you and cheesy lines to one another, Inés muttered remembering to herself. Any who a little did Inés know beyond their knowledge is that the secret couple wasn't in the same boat that was on a few seasons back anymore. To be said Inés was silently boating for them and now seems eagerly awaiting for them both to accept the fact that it is what it is.

" By the way, you look stunning! Whoever this guy is better to know how lucky he is." Her eyes sparkle back at Edwie through the see-through silvering falls with truth and this feeling makes Edwie's heart swell in appreciation for her childhood best friend.

" Anyway, my work here is done. After you guys talk about swooning and all, come around my nest. Let's have a girls' night. Just me and you. If possible and if you don't mind me adding some more girls near my house, just for a little vibrant scenery. " Saying Inés sauntered out of the pool thereby leaving Edwie no choice but to accept the fact that she is having a girls' night. Now she is alone with her thoughts and the task of finishing getting ready.

Sadly, It's already been a while since Edwie has been here, with Quen moping around her doors awaiting herself to show up.

Not wanting to be rude, she hurriedly finishes putting her final touches on her body,

and ran out of the imaginary screen surrounding herself. The quick pace never got her any good, likely now she was stumbling in her doorway with her running, which-so-ever made the inner infrastructure of the curvy doorway hit her leg hard, but not too hard to make her leave her bones to the ground.

Edwie somehow manages to reach the higher closet in search of her black and tan wedges. Like a storm strikes her she freezes and facepalms for not calling Willow for help. It might make her search a lot easier with no harm. Sadly she found out that pair of clothes and hops to sit on her now neatly made bed which was beyond messier the time she left.

As she hooks the vine straps around her feet, Edwina heads towards her full-length silver facade that hangs off on her balcony door, while hopping on one foot to latch the last hook.

Finally, when she plants her feet on the floor firmly, while adjusting to the new height that wood bottom heels gave her, Edwie breathed a content sigh as her gaze took in the reflection before her.

Her maroon-colored dress looks so vibrant to her Ash blonde hair which sashays over her buttocks with her very turn & twists. But it's the dress that might turn his head in more ways by clinging to her chest and waist in perfect fitness, thus showing off her slim curvy figure and a hint of cleavage due to the dropped V on the neckline. It's way out of Edwie's comfy cloth lines but the wavy dress flowing out at the point of her belly button and dropping to a few inches above her knees makes her go on. Some of her tendrils flow down in large curls that frame her face and give away elegance but an incredibly sexy look if she does say to herself.

Her focus gets a pull from the silvering falls suddenly when a voice rang out through the confines of her bedroom doorway. Out of nowhere, a shot of nerves was sent through her body when she caught the familiar voice that calls for. Though she isn't ready to get going, her body buzzes with excitement, as it on its own takes charge and strolls her to the place where his voice gets repeatedly chanted.

As she got in, the sight of Quen moping around the house all the while gushing a line of credits to no one in particular made her frown. Quen seems slightly frustrated but looks warily tired. Gathering her thoughts, she pouts at her stupidity to make him knackered awaiting her arrival. Slowly like a dove, Edwina nears him and asks politely with glassy eyes.

" C-Can I help you, Quen? " But only silence is what she gets in return. Quen who was grumbling a while back now froze on the spot hearing her angelic voice. He swiftly turns and goes ballistic at the sight before him. His long wait, states his heart on fire as he lets a breathy chuckle and says

" Yes, you may! "

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