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  “Alright girl, you will tell me what your retionship with that boy really is.”

  Amy stood frozen momentarily as she gazed deep into that swirling iris before she responded, “Yeah, Eli and I have been dating for the st two months. We met in early September but didn’t really get close until towards the end of the month.”

  Mr. Rivers cocked his head to the side as confusion temporarily coloured his face before it returned to the default frown that seemed to accompany him wherever he went. “I think you’re lying. There’s no way that boy was able to hook up with a girl, let alone you.” Mr. Rivers quickly looked her up and down.

  “Excuse me, ‘that boy’ is your child. Now if you are done checking me out, you can fuck off.” Amy turned, stepped into the apartment and went to sm the door in the man’s face, only for his foot to shoot between the door at the st moment.

  Slowly, he pushed the door open and stepped in as Amy quickly took two steps back. “Now, Now. Let’s not be so hasty. I’m not a bad father. You just don’t understand my way of thinking.” Again, he stared at Amy intensely as the swirl of his iris continued to turn.

  Amy took another step back before her expression hardened. “Mr. Rivers, you have ten seconds to get out of this apartment before I call security to remove you forcefully.” Amy was tense, ready to drop her disguise and let this guy have it.

  Mr. Rivers stepped forward and pced his hand on her shoulder while leaning in close. “That’s a bad idea, you will no-”

  Before he could finish his sentence, Amy hauled back and clocked him across the chin as hard as she could, sending him tumbling out of the room and into the hall before she smmed the door behind him.

  It took him a few moments to get back up, but it wasn’t long before he was pounding and screaming at her door. Clearly, he wasn’t expecting any form of resistance. Amy wasn’t concerned. However, she was worried about what he would do once he joined Eli in the car.

  Amy sat down at her desk in her room and began to pack her things for the weekend. She and Rachel pnned to spend the weekend rexing and having fun at her pce. They wanted to include Eli, but that went out the window the second Eli turned into a zombie that morning.

  Amy couldn’t help but fret as she continued to pack her things, grabbing an excellent piece for ter. What if Mr. Rivers took his anger out on Eli? She didn’t want that, but he had been such a creep that she had thrown a punch before she even thought to do anything else. God, why did he insist on touching her? And that swirling iris was not normal. He must be a Xenos of some kind, but Eli said that he hated Xenos and preached about how much they were freaks. What a hypocrite.

  Amy continued to fret about what Mr. Rivers would do to take his anger out on Eli. She finally finished packing her things before heading out to the parking lot. The drive to Rachel’s house only took a few moments, but it stretched for Amy. Should she call the police? No, she needed some form of proof that what he was doing was illegal. Amy tapped her fingers on the steering wheel as she approached Rachel’s pce. Her thoughts raced. What should she do? What could she do? She didn’t want to cause Eli any more trouble than she already had. She wished Eli hadn’t left for the weekend, his father was definitely not a good person, and she regretted pissing him off.

  Amy’s thoughts were interrupted by a tapping on her window. It was Rachel. Amy quickly shut the car off and started to unload her things.

  “Hey, are you okay? It’s not like you to zone out in your car for 10 minutes like that.”

  “Sorry, just alot on my mind. Let me get my stuff settled and we can talk about it, okay?”

  “Okay”

  It only took Amy a few moments to get her things settled. She only brought some clothes afterall. Once she returned to the living room, she found Rachel waiting for her on the couch with a steaming cup of cocoa in her hands. Another was waiting for her on the coffee table. Rachel caught sight of her and quickly patted the cushion beside herself.

  Once Amy settled in beside her girlfriend, she picked up the mug waiting for her and was immediately hit by the smell of vanil.

  “When did you have time to make this? I’ve only just got here.”

  “Oh I made it ahead of time. Took me forever to get it right but I wanted to surprise you since I know creamed vanil is your favourite.”

  Creamed Vanil, or Egg nog, as most people called it, was something her mom had introduced her to that night at the diner. Ever since, Amy could not get enough of it, though she never could get it to taste just like her mom’s.

  After a few moments of sitting silently, leaning against one another, Rachel finally sighed before setting her mug down.

  “Alright, spill. Something is seriously stressing you out. I could tell when you were zoning out in the car outside and you’ve been on edge the entire time you’ve been here. I know for a fact that if you weren’t to busy destroying that mug of eggnog.”

  “Creamed Vanil”

  “Shutup, and let me finish.”

  Amy had a slight smile on her face as she replied. “Fine.”

  “Alright, as I was saying. If you weren’t rexing thanks to the presence of that drink you would pacing around the apartment like a detective looking for clues.”

  “Sorry, I just know that tonight we’re having a nice dinner and didn’t want to spoil it with my worries. I was going to wait till after dinner to talk.”

  “Amy, you’ve been spending too much time with Eli. You know that there is pretty much nothing that you can do to ruin an evening spent with you. Besides we won’t have time for that after dinner,” Rachel replied with a wink and a rge smirk.

  “Don’t you start with that. I’m being serious here. I’m worried about Eli.”

  “It’s fine that you weren’t able to convince her to stay, don’t worry about it.”

  “Alright first. You know that Eli uses he/him until her figures it out for himself. And”

  “Are you serious Amy? The writing is on the wall, he could smell the apples. He found himself at the trans-formation tent. Both of those are enchanted specifically to help transpeople realise themselves.”

  “I know but it still isn’t polite and you know it.”

  Rachel could only sigh in response. “Yeah, you’re right.”

  “I know I am, that’s why I am one of the members of the queer council” Amy couldn’t avoid smiling as she said that.

  “Uhh, you are never going to let that go are you?”

  “Nope. Anyway, that’s not the reason that I am worried about Eli. When we arrived at the apartment, his father was waiting for him.

  “You mean his sperm donor?”

  “Are you going to let me finish or are you going to stop talking?”

  Rachel had a big grin on her face as she leaned in close. “Maybe if there was something to occupy my mouth, I wouldn’t be able to talk back.”

  Amy tried to push Rachel away. “Come on. This is no time for that. This is serious. When I arrived at the apartment, his father immediately started to interrogate him about his retionship with me. There was no way we could expin our living arrangements easily, so I just told him that I was Eli’s girlfriend. He seemed to buy it at first before he sent Eli out to the vehicle.”

  “I don’t see.” Amy quickly pced her hands over Rachel’s mouth.

  “Once Eli was gone, the problem arose. He put his hand on my shoulder and started staring deep into my eyes. He was being a real creep, especially with that glowing yellow eye of his.” Amy gred at Rachel for a moment as she clearly was trying to say something. “Yes, clearly he was some form of Xenos, and yes, I know that makes him a hypocrite for all the anti-Xenos rhetoric he spews. Either way, I tried to get away from the guy by just going into the apartment and locking him out but he follow me out. He continued to try and interrogate me and insisted on touching me. Finally I had enough and when he tried to touch me again I just slugged him. Sorry, I’m kind of rambling, i’m just worried he’s going to take all of his anger out on Eli.”

  Amy finally removed her hand from over Rachel’s mouth, her hand now covered in saliva, “Ew why?”

  Rachel leaned back with a smile on her face. “To mark my possession that’s why. But if he was being such a creep why not call the police?”

  Amy quickly shook her head. “Because we don’t have any evidence against him, even if I had footage of what he did in the apartment, the best I have is a case for a restraining order. When it comes to Eli, he has such a hold of him from all the abuse that Eli would probably just say whatever his father wanted out of fear. Honestly, I just feel awful for Eli having to deal with all that crap.

  Rachel leaned back in and wrapped Amy in a hug, “Then I guess we are just going to have to show him what real love is when he gets back. Maybe he will come out of his shell a bit then.”

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  Amy and Rachel spent the next few minutes going over strategies and pns for what to do once Eli got back before they were interrupted by an arm going off. Rachel quickly ushered Amy into the dining room before sitting her down at the table.

  “Now you just wait here for a moment, and I will be back with a surprise.” Rachel quickly walked into the kitchen, leaving Amy in the dining room.

  Amy could only sit and wait for Rachel to come back. ‘I wonder what she has this time? Maybe she finally succeeded in boiling water properly?’ Amy giggled as she remembered the time Rachel managed to light a pot of boiling pasta on fire.

  Amy sat in silence for a few moments, reminiscing. The only sound was the occasional bang or crash coming from the kitchen. Then Rachel finally returned from the kitchen with a rge Dutch oven in her hands.

  “Since when did you own a dutch oven?”

  “I’ll have you know that I have owned this Dutch oven for a long time,” Rachel replied as she sat the pot down on the table with a thick heat mat under it to prevent the table from scorching. “If you count three weeks as a long time that is.”

  Amy could only ugh at Rachel’s comment before she lifted the lid off the pot, revealing a beautiful-looking dish bubbling away inside. Amy grew silent upon seeing the pot’s contents as Rachel quickly returned to the kitchen, came back with a rge pot of noodles, and finished setting the table.

  “Alright where did you buy this?”

  Rachel only scoffed in response, “I’ll have you know that I have been perfecting this dish for a long time.”

  Amy looked at Rachel with a raised eyebrow. “Really?”

  “Alright, fine, I’ve had Eli secretly teach me stuff about cooking ever since that night we made pasta together. It’s why most of our date nights have been just spent here for st little while. I have been so broke because I kept messing up dishes and having to buy new ingredients.”

  Amy’s expression softened, and a smile lit up her face. “Aw, thank you Rachel. I’m so happy to see that you have been putting so much effort into learning how to cook. What did I ever do to deserve such a beautiful girlfriend?”

  Rachel smiled at Amy’s compliments. “You know what you did Amy, god I was such an asshole back then. I’m still sorry about some of the stuff I did.”

  “Hey now. That’s in the past; this is the present, and this,” Amy pointed to the open Dutch oven, “looks delicious. What is it?”

  Rachel rounded the table and started building two ptes of food for them before taking her seat across the table from Amy. “This is a Hungarian dish known as Chicken Paprikash. A rich chicken stew that is simmered for hours and spiced heavily with paprika to allow the beautiful fvour to be expressed is served over a nice bed of spaetzle and homemade egg noodles that are made over an open pot of boiling water.”

  “That sounds rehearsed, Also wasn’t Hungary one of the countries that was turned to gss?” Amy said with a smile.

  “That’s because it is. Also, no, you’re thinking of to the east of what used to be the Caspian Sea. Hungary is to the west of the bck sea. Eli doesn’t talk about food alot, but he has a huge passion for cooking and baking. This is one of his favourite dishes, and when I asked him about it, he spent about 10 minutes describing it. Oh, I almost forgot.” Rachel quickly raced into the kitchen before returning with a small container. “You’re supposed to top it with a small dollop of sour cream.

  Amy could only ugh at Rachel before they settled down for dinner.

  Dinner was a wonderful affair that sted longer than it should have. Soon, a bottle of wine was opened, and then another, and then another. Once dinner was finished for the evening, the two settled down in Rachel’s bedroom to watch TV and cuddle, though neither was done for very long as Amy was making sure to keep Rachel’s mouth busy.

  Saturday

  Rachel woke up on Saturday morning wrapped around Amy. Her head was pounding from all the wine st night. Rachel wanted to roll back over and cuddle up with Amy, but she knew that Amy would end up stressing out about Eli all weekend if she didn’t keep her distracted. Slowly but surely, Rachel managed to worm her way out of bed. She quickly got dressed before getting started on breakfast.

  Half an hour ter, Amy emerged from the bedroom, wearing only underwear and a T-shirt that wasn’t hers. Her tail swung back and forth zily as she plopped down at the table in the kitchen and buried her head between her arms.

  “I hate wine.”

  Rachel turned from the stove to look at Amy before she ughed. “You’re the one who broke out the bottle st night. Seriously, you would think that you’d have some form of alcohol tolerance. Either way, you just sit tight and I’ll have some eggs ready in a few moments.”

  “Scrambled,” Amy managed to mumble, her head firmly pnted against the table’s cool surface.

  “Yes, yes, I know how you like your eggs.” Rachel pced a cup of coffee in front of Amy before returning to the stove to finish making breakfast.

  It wasn’t long before breakfast was served, and more coffee was poured. The two of them were just rexing and enjoying the morning together. Rachel and Amy were sitting cuddling on the couch, basking in each other’s presence. Amy was being extra clingy this morning, as she always was when she was hungover. Finally, Amy y down across Rache’s p, looking up at her.

  “I’m worried about E.”

  Amy was interrupted as Rachel leaned down and pnted a kiss on her lips before she could finish her sentence. “None of that. There isn’t much we can do about Eli before he gets back, so for now, we are going to enjoy our weekend, and you are going to stop worrying. If things go bad, you know I can just knock their door down and start smashing skulls.”

  “Yeah, I know but I can’t help it. I knew that Eli had a bad retionship with his dad, but it’s another thing entirely when you see it in person..”

  Rachel could only look down at Amy and smile. “I think I get what you are saying.” Before she pnted a kiss on Amy’s lips again. “Alright, come on. Get up. We have stuff pnned today and don’t want to miss it.”

  Amy looked at Rachel in confusion. “We do?”

  “What, did you think we were just going to spend all weekend on the couch, cuddling and having sex?”

  Amy blushed as she looked away from Rachel. Her tail spiralled into a loop as it poked out from underneath her. “I mean, I wouldn’t have minded.”

  Rachel could see Amy’s blush and continued to grin. “Well, sorry to disappoint you, but I have some things pnned out for this afternoon. Tonight, though, we can spend as much time together as possible.”

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  A cool breeze blew through the park. Some families were having picnics, but the surrounding area was mostly quiet. Trees whose boughs wove together, forming a canopy, provided rge patches of shade. This was one of the druid parks.

  Druid parks were ways for druids to share the beauty of a grove without worrying about people treading upon anything they weren’t meant to see. The entire area was open for others to roam freely, and the druids would take care of it—except the grove. No one was allowed into the grove at the center, but as long as people followed the rules, the park was open to them.

  Rachel and Amy sat on a park bench beside a cool pool of water surrounded by trees. The water flowed into a small creek, which fed into the ke at the park’s center.

  “You know, I never knew that these were even a thing, let alone that there was one near the school.”

  Rachel turned to look at Amy. “Really and here I thought that you were the romantic one.”

  “Hey!” Amy excimed as she started bapping Rachel with the tip of her tail. “There are plenty of romantic pces spread across the GMTA. It’s not my fault that I didn’t see this one. Geez.”

  Rachel could only ugh as Amy continued to whack her with her tail. Usually, Amy was more serious and caring, but when they were alone, she became far more pyful and cute. “Fine, I’m sorry, so stop hitting me.”

  Amy’s tail wrapped around Rachel’s right arm as Amy leaned against her. “That’s what I thought. Seriously though, how did you find out about this pce anyways?”

  “Oh, that’s easy. Remember Tricia from the Shared Roots apple stand? She and her girlfriend Becky have been to every druid park in the GMTA. So we got to talking and she told me about this little spot. That’s what I was doing about three weeks back when you kept trying to call me. I had turned off my phone and spent about 5 hours trying to find this pce, and that was with directions!” Rachel tried to gesture as she talked, but it was a little tricky when her right arm was in the vice, which was her girlfriend’s arm.

  “Oh yeah, those two are just the cutest. I wonder when they’re going to get married?”

  “Tricia says she is waiting for the proposal, though I think she will soon get fed up with waiting and will just do it herself.

  “Hehehe, I’m sure Becky is busy dealing with DUD, and that’s why.” Amy said with a smile as she admired the canopy overhead.

  “Actually, she is completely independent of the DUD.”

  “Really? I don’t know why but I thought she was a big part fo the organization and that’s why they let her have her way. How old is the DUD anyways?” Amy turned back to Rachel and looked at her with curiosity

  “It was founded about 30 years ago, I think. They were the ones who got rid of Brazil.”

  “Oh, yeah.”

  The DUD, or the Democratic Union of Druids, is a political group and a collective organization of druids worldwide. The DUD was founded in 2039 but rose to fame in 2044 when it undertook a massive mission to recim the Amazon rainforest. The continued rise of warlords and gang violence in the region wiped out vast swathes of the forest. This destruction forced the DUD out of the background and made them come center stage as they recimed the entire area that the forest once occupied. A massive number of people were dispced because of this. Though small groups and tribes still live in the Amazon rainforest, it is nothing like it used to be. If it weren’t for the Shattered Horizon event five years prior, it definitely would have made more of an impact. Then again, it’s hard to beat the destruction of over 1,733,000 square kilometres and the death of 220,000,000 lives in the span of an afternoon.

  The two of them spent the better part of the afternoon exploring the park, taking in the many sites and attractions as well as having a fun picnic while watching some ducks. Amy wanted to see some geese, but geese didn’t exist after the Korea incident. After that, they cmbered back into the car.

  Amy slumped into the passenger seat. “Alright, I’m beat. Are we heading home?”

  Rachel turned to look at her partner before a grin spread on her face. “Nope. I still have pns for dinner. First, we have a reservation at 7:00, and then there is something that I am going to take you to.”

  Amy waved her tail back and forth slowly as she reclined in the seat. “Seriously? You didn’t have to do ally this for me. I would have loved just getting to spend time with you this weekend.” Amy wrapped her tail around Rachel’s right wrist. “You’re going to make me feel guilty for everything you are doing for me.”

  Rachel sighed as she tried to pry Amy’s tail off of her to no avail. “Listen here, Amy, you have been listening to Eli too much. I am doing this because I want to. Also, I still feel bad about it because I didn’t get to take you to any pces when it was my turn.

  “You know we don’t have to go out on date nights. We can just spend time together. That’s why I never questioned when we would just stay in on a date night.”

  “I know but still after missing so many I wanted today to be a bit special. Now just y back, rex and take a nap for the two or so hours its going to take to get there.”

  “Two hours!” Amy unwrapped her tail as she shot straight up in her seat. “Why are we driving for two hours? The trains exist for a reason!”

  “Because I want this to be a surprise duh, now just y back and rex.”

  The drive truly did take about 2 hours. Over the st 50 years, the GMTA had expanded and now covered around 20,000 square kilometres. It had genuinely swelled to a massive size and was one of the few massive urban centers that hadn’t been completely torn apart after the chaos of The Advent.

  It was well into the evening when Rachel pulled into the parking lot. Amy had fallen asleep about halfway through the drive and was curled up on the seat with her tail wrapped around Rachel’s leg. She always does this when sleeping near Rachel, almost as if she fears that Rachel will disappear. It was kind of cute, if a bit sad. Once Rachel had untangled herself, she quickly exited the car and walked around to pull Amy out.

  “Come on Ames, it’s time to wake up.”

  Amy groaned as she rolled over to face the other way, her tail probing the driver seat to try and grab hold of Rachel. “Just one more hour.”

  Rachel grabbed onto Amy’s shoulder as she rocked her back and forth. “Come on Amy, it’s time for dinner. You want dinner, don’t you?”

  Amy groaned once more as she rolled back towards Rachel and opened her eyes slightly. The sight of Rachel standing above her, looking down with a smile, caused Amy to smile in turn before her tail snaked out again and rapped around Rachel’s wrist. “Mine,” she said before her eyes closed again.

  “Haaah, fine. Fine.” Rachel reached into the car. Her arms became covered in chitinous armour as she undid Amy’s seat belt before lifting and carrying her into the restaurant like a princess. Amy kept her eyes closed as she wrapped her arms around Rachel’s neck.

  As Rachel walked in, the diner was cool and deserted. A short woman had just exited the door to the kitchen, pushing a dolly filled with ptes with lids. She took the dolly over to a table in the restaurant’s center. The other tables had been moved aside to make room for it. The dy smiled and waved them over when she caught sight of them. Rachel quickly lowered Amy into one of the chairs around the table.

  “Come on Amy you can open your eyes now and let go.”

  “But I don’t wanna. Can’t we just cuddle.”

  “I’m afraid not. It’s dinner time afterall and I stayed te just for this.” A voice cut in as the woman from earlier walked towards the table.

  Amy immediately sat bolt upright before leaping out of her chair and wrapping the woman in a hug. “Mom! I’m so gd to see you. I thought you couldn’t get a part of the weekend off?”

  Rachel just smiled and sat down at the table quietly.

  “I couldn’t, not with how busy the restaurant’s been this weekend, but Rachel convinced me to stay te and allow you two to drive over for dinner.” The woman finally freed herself from her daughter’s embrace before she marched up in front of Rachel and extended her hand. “Now, I don’t want to hear any Ms. or Mrs. tonight. I listened to enough of that over the phone. My name is Melissa. You can call me that, or since you will soon be my daughter-in-w, you can call me Mom.

  Rachel, who had been sipping water, choked as she heard this while Amy silently sat down at the table with a huge blush.

  Melissa looked over to Amy. “What, I know for a fact that the only time you act that needy is when you are with someone you feel absolutely free around. Though I find it really cute how you keep holding onto Rachel with your tail. You would think you were born with it instead of just growing it when you were 15.”

  Amy was still looking at the table, mumbling out a response while sipping water.

  Melissa could only smile as she reached across the table and pulled the lids of the different dishes except for one, which was still sitting on the dolly. This revealed a rge meatloaf covered in this delicious-looking burgundy gze, a rge pot of mashed potatoes, and grilled asparagus. There was also a gravy boat off to the side that seemed filled with red sauce.

  Amy immediately perked up upon seeing what was id out on the table. “Oh Mom, you didn’t have to make all this. Just a regur dinner would have been fine.”

  Melissa walked out from behind the bar, carrying three rge milkshake cups topped with whipped cream, chocote shavings, and a small dash of nutmeg before setting them down on the table. “Nonsense. I haven’t seen you in two months and probably won’t for two more after tonight. So I figured that I would go all out and make your favourite tonight.”

  Amy immediately snatched up one of the three cups as soon as they hit the table. She immediately took a deep sip from the straw before sighing and leaning back in her chair. “Mmmm Creamed Vanil”

  Melissa could only chuckle in response as she turned to see that Rachel was staring at the gravy. “It’s a tomato-based gravy dear, that’s why it’s red. I initially bake the meatloaf in a loaf pan to get some gze on the bottom before I flip it into a roast pan, gze the rest off the loaf and add the tomatoes, tomato paste, as well as various seasonings. The drippings from the meatloaf helps add some extra fvour to the gravy though I use some leaner meat so that it’s not swimming in grease.”

  Rachel looked back and forth between Melissa and Amy before smiling and filling her pte. She could see where Amy got all of her kindness and concern from, though Amy wasn’t paying attention as she was still slowly enjoying her drink. She was thrilled that she had met Amy.

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  Dinner was a lovely affair that sted for over two hours, though the best part was when Amy accidentally materialized her wings when she saw that a fresh apple pie was for dessert. Very few times had Rachel ever seen Amy do that. Overall, the dinner was amazing. But they were running short on time, so they said their goodbyes before Rachel herded Amy into the car.

  Once Rachel had the two of them on the road, she looked at Amy, who was still smiling from dinner. She quickly leaned over and pced a kiss on Amy’s cheek before she turned her attention back to the road.

  “So… are you happy that we didn’t just stay home and cuddle?”

  Amy’s tail was waving back and forth as her smile grew even rger before Amy wrapped Rachel in a hug. “Are you kidding me? Today has been amazing. I can’t thank you enough.” her tail snaked around and wrapped itself around Rachel’s leg.

  “Well, just you wait. There is one more thing left for me to show you tonight.”

  Amy leaned back in her seat and closed her eyes. “I can’t wait”

  The drive only sted about 20 minutes. Highway driving had grown significantly faster over recent years as the use of cars in this region decreased. With a massive electromagnetic train system covering the entirety of southern Ontario, there wasn’t a need for a vehicle for inter-city travel. Rachel, however, liked to rex while driving, so it was her preferred method of transportation.

  It wasn’t long before they got off the highway and onto a small tree-covered road that led into a nearby nature reserve that doubled as a less well-known druid park. The road was long and almost narrow enough to be considered single-ne as Rachel continued to cruise deeper into the forest. Tall trees lined the road as their boughs completely shaded it, blocking the moon’s and stars’ light. Only the occasional beam of light was able to penetrate the foliage.

  It wasn’t long before Rachel reached the end of the road, emerging into a small parking area that wasn’t covered by trees. The light of the full moon illuminated the area.

  Rachel parked the car before she turned to look at Amy. At some point, Amy had fallen asleep and was resting peacefully. The light of the moon illuminated her face. Rachel brushed a piece of hair out of her face before she sighed.

  ‘She looks so peaceful. I wish she weren’t so stressed all the time, but that’s just Amy. She just has too big of a heart.’

  Rachel reached over and gave Amy a gentle shake. “Come on Amy, it’s time to wake up.”

  Amy’s eyes slowly cracked open as she yawned before sitting up. “Are we home yet?”

  Rachel smiled. “No silly, there is one more thing for me to show you tonight.”

  Amy groaned before she leaned over and kissed Rachel’s cheek. “Okay but we sleep afterwards, okay?”

  “Yeah, afterwards, we will sleep.”

  After they had climbed out of the car, they made their way into the park. The path was faintly illuminated by small holes in the foliage, allowing the moon’s light to peek through. Finally, they emerged into a meadow with a small hill in the center. A winding path made its way through the various kinds of flowers that decorated the meadow. The tiny drops of dew that had formed glistened in the moonlight.

  Amy immediately perked up upon seeing the sight as they reached the top of the hill overlooking the meadow. “Wow, this pce is gorgeous.” Amy grabbed Rachel and held her close, pcing a passionate kiss on her lips.

  Rachel smiled as she pulled out a small bnket and unfurled it on the hilltop. “Just wait. It should be starting soon.” Rachel id down on the soft bnket while gazing up at the stars

  Amy quickly joined her as tiny flickers of light began to fly across the night sky. “A meteor shower. I didn’t know one was happening soon.”

  Rachel could only smile as she felt Amy’s tail wrap around her leg, and the two cuddled close together while gazing up at the stars. “Amy?”

  “Yeah?”

  “I love you,” Rachel said as she leaned in close and gently kissed Amy before returning to the stars and the streaks of light that illuminated the sky.

  SundayRachel tumbled out of bed and onto the floor, groggy and overwhelmingly tired. Amy was still passed out on the bed. It turns out that staying awake until two in the morning before taking a two-hour drive home didn’t leave alot of time for sleep. Rachel slowly stumbled into the kitchen, which was far too bright for… 3 p.m.

  Rachel went to the coffee machine and slowly started her ‘morning’ routine. It wasn’t long before she was greeted by a very sleepy Amy, who made her way to the table and promptly fell back asleep with her head resting on the table.

  It wasn’t until Rachel had pced a warm cup of coffee with a spsh of French vanil in it, Amy loved all things vanil and couldn’t get enough of it, in front of Amy that she finally lifted her head before taking a deep sip before leaning back in her chair with a contented sigh.

  “Good morning, sleepy head,” Rachel said as she sat beside Amy. Amy’s tail quickly snaked out and wrapped around her leg under the table.

  Amy smiled as she leaned her head against Rachel’s shoulder. “Good morning, Rachel. You don’t have any sudden amazing experiences that you are going to spring on me today, do you?”

  “Nope, I figured we could spend the day just lounging around in pyjamas and cuddling.”

  “That sounds amazing.”

  And that’s precisely what they did. After breakfast, the two joined each other on the couch in the living room, cuddled and watched TV for most of the day. Dinner was a simple fair of pizza delivery, but it wasn’t until ter in the evening that Amy untangled herself from the bundle before she stumbled into the bedroom.

  Rachel sat quietly on the couch as she waited for Amy to return. Looking back on the weekend, it had been fantastic. And while the threat of what was happening to Eli was still very much a thing, at least she could take Amy’s mind off things for a while.

  It had been roughly 10 minutes since Amy left when Rachel heard Amy’s voice calling out for her from the bedroom. “Hey Rachel, I need your help with something. Can you come help me?”

  Rachel smiled, wondering what Amy possibly needed help with as she stood up from the couch and went down the hall.

  Rachel could hear soft music coming from the bedroom as she approached. Amy always loved music, and there was generally some form of music pying when she was around, but generally, there were lyrics. Was this just instrumental? Now, Rachel was curious as she finally arrived at the door to the bedroom, swinging it open and being greeted by something amazing. “Alright, what do you need?”

  Rachel was immediately cut off when she saw Amy standing in the bedroom with one leg on the bed, showing off the ce thigh highs and garters connected to her clothes. Candles decorated the room, providing a dim illumination as the soft music pyed. But what amazed Rachel the most was what Amy was wearing. Amy usually looked amazing in anything she wore, but tonight, she was wearing a complete white ce set of lingerie, the white colour of the garments contrasting against her blue skin and vibrant green eyes.

  Amy was the first to speak. “I need help getting these garments off.” She said as she slowly sauntered her way over to Rachel.

  Rachel could only grin like an idiot as she swung the door closed behind her. ‘God, do I love this woman.’