“Will you marry me?”
I felt myself nodding before he even got the words out and once he looked up and saw me a huge grin broke across his face and he stood up and scooped me up into his arms. Spinning me around, he kissed me like never before and only stopped to slip the ring onto my finger. I smiled as I stared down at it, “I love you,” I whispered and Zane laughed and gave me a kiss. “I love you too.” This kissing didn’t stop there, it intensified, it grew with a passion and hunger that was insane but eventually he pulled away.
“Careful, we don’t want to have the honeymoon before
the wedding.” I giggled and felt my cheeks blush; I had been a bit pushy at the end there. Grabbing my hand, Zane and I walked over to where a small building was present and he knocked on the door.
“The rest of them are waiting inside,” he explained and the young woman, who Zane now explained was named Aida, came to greet us.
“I’m glad to see that you are okay,” she said with a tiny smile as she opened the door wider.
“You’re okay!” Sierra exclaimed as she rushed over and gave me a rib cracking hug.
“Yeah, I’m fine, really,” I said and my mother walked over and squeezed my shoulder.
“We were waiting out there with you, Aida thought the fresh air would help you, but Zane insisted we rest,” my mother’s calm, quiet voice was soothing as I tried to calm my racing heart that kept holding on to what had just happened.
“So now we need to talk,” my mother said more strongly, motioning for us to sit down. We both took a seat and my mother gave us all a strong, powerful look. “We will need to start training you all so that you can protect yourself. Stephanie and Zane, you can both help me since you have more experience. But Sierra, Summer, and Lance will need all the training they can get.” I tried to ignore the fact that my mother thought I was weak and gave Zane’s soft hand a squeeze.
“Okay Mom, when do we start?” I asked and my mom smiled.
“We can start tomorrow, but for now, we need to be on our way,” she replied as she readjusted the large burgundy watch on her wrist.
“You can stay here,” Aida offered but Stephanie shook her head quickly.
“No, but thanks anyways,” she received angry glares at this.
“What? If we don’t arrive back tonight Jasmine might worry!” she tried to make her expression innocent but it came off more as disgusted. “Let’s just leave, okay?” she asked and Lance let out a tired sigh.
“I’m pretty whipped too,” he replied and Sierra nodded in agreement.
“Wait what time is it?” I asked, didn’t we just get here?
I couldn’t remember but I didn’t think the sky had been that dark when I was outside; then again, I wasn’t really paying attention to my surroundings at the time.
“It’s 7:00 at night,” Stephanie answered as she checked her platinum silver wrist watch and leaned back against Lance.
“We really should head out-” My mother began but Aida cut her off.
“Oh no, no, no! You no go out there in the dark night, you get hurt! You stay here for tonight, then leave in morning,” her voice was demanding and as if to prove her point she latched the door and started shooing us back into the house. “You room in here,” she said as she lightly pushed me into the room and I was surprised to see Zane stumbling in behind me. My mother’s eyebrows shot up but Zane beat her to the chase.
“Um, shouldn’t we have separate rooms, I mean; I’m not sure Summer’s comfortable with this.” My mother’s eyebrows seemed to go up even more at this but I tried to ignore her and chimed in with Zane, though I had no real problem with him sharing a room with me.
“Yeah, that’s really not appropriate,” my mother said, cutting me off with her stern tone of voice.
“Oh, I’m sorry!” Aida said in a surprised voice, “I just thought that it’d be fine considering the circumstances.”
I wasn’t the only one with a confused look on my face at this point, “What?” I asked and Stephanie let out a frustrated sigh.
“Okay, what the hell are you talking about?” she demanded and Aida sighed, looking flustered.
“I’m sorry; I guess I just assumed…well, I thought you were with child.”