While we'd rid the big island of all pirate activity there, we still needed to attend to the smaller enclaves that existed in the territory belonging ...o Lord Tailem and Blue Harbour and I still needed to put together a proposal for a raid on Minos. This last point was of particular importance since I had given the man a promise to respond by a certain date and that date was approaching in a hurry. Additionally, the seasons were changing now that summer was over with and I needed to take that. This meant that he'd have towalk toward the back of the bus, past all the good seats. Only thetrouble makers and school outcasts sat at the back of the bus. James washoping that one of the better looking girls would maybe move over and lethim sit with her, but no such luck usually happened until today.Tammy sat in a seat by herself, reading some book or another, as shealways had her nose in a book. She didn't even look up from the book butgraciously moved over as James looked down at the open. A minute of silence that was broken by Kiyan:“Jakey?”“Yeah.”“What if everyone at school finds out about… Ya know… You and me…?”“Don’t worry about that, as long as we stay as friends in front of others and be ourselves inside your house or my room, we should be ok.”“Yeah, but… I don’t know why… But sometimes I feel like I want everyone to know how I feel about you… But at the same time, I don’t want them to know… I don’t know…”“Hey, Kiyan… Forget about it. For now, at school we’re best friends,. It was a direct overnight flight of 9.5 hours, as the flight took off it felt as if we started our journey to the new world. We were served with nice wine, food, and chocolates. Luckily it was only 2 of us in the row and flight was not that full. As we were 2 wine glasses down, we were watching a movie together and I slipped my hand in the blanket to hold her hand.I looked in her eyes and we could feel love for each other. It was midnight and most of the passengers have already slept. (lights.