A Day with Benjamin

After a delicious lunch we arrived back at the dock. I stand from the table and Benjamin offers me his arm to disembark the ship. He guides me off the boat and we wait on the pier for the others. Amelia and Luke walk down together, joining us on the pier.

“Remly is even more beautiful from the water.” Amelia speaks leaning into Luke’s arm and giggling. Maeve and Elau begin down the ramp towards us.

“It was a wonderful lunch. I can’t wait to see what the rest of the day has is store for us.” Benjamin says and readjusts his grasp on my arm, tightening it. Maeve and Elau pass us. Maeve with an elegant smile on her face and Elau with a glare and a huff. I give him a weird look as he goes by. What is his problem?

“Well, we should follow.” Luke pulls Amelia along behind Maeve and Elau. I begin in that direction but Ben holds me in place. I look over at him and he leans in to whisper to me.

“It might just be me, but I think the Prince is jealous. Shall we show him what it feels like to see the person you like with someone else?” Ben’s voice tickles my ear, and I blush at his words.

“How did you know?” I ask, shocked he knows of my deepest secret.

“It’s pretty obvious you and the Prince had something going on.” He begins walking in the direction of the others. “But I’m probably the only one who has noticed. Luke is pretty oblivious.”

“You aren’t worried about making Pelleas jealous.” I ask in a hushed voice.

“I’m counting on it.” He smiles and looks down at me, “He will be all over me tonight.” His grin gets larger and he chuckles to himself.

“You are quite devious, Benny.” I chuckle with him as we join the others at the top of the pier.

“My honored guests, I hope you enjoyed lunch. Our town is bursting with festivity for you so please feel free to wander around.” Albernath speaks exhilaratingly.

“Although I am afraid Princess Maeve will not be able to join as she is feeling unwell after the cruise. I am going to escort her back to her chambers for some rest.” Elau adds keeping his arm tightly locked around Maeves. I didn’t notice it before but she does look quite a bit more pale than normal. I feel for her, motion sickness is the worst.

“Oh Princess, I am so sorry. Please let us know if there is anything I can do for you.” Albernath clasps her hands and bows to her.

“Oh no, I’ll be fine after some rest.” She says but her voice is shaky. Elau leads her away towards the house as the rest of us follow Albernath to the festivities. We reach the center of town where a large statue of the Goddess of Light stands strong in marble and is surrounded by glowing vines and flowers. Water flows in a creek around her creating a perfect circle. The streets follow in a roundabout, and are filled with vendors, music, people dancing, and games set up for everyone to enjoy.

“Alright Ambassadors, please put one of these on.” Albernath hands us a small daisy brooch, “As long as you are wearing these you will not have to pay for anything as guests of our city.” Benjamin and I help each other pin on the Daisies and then head off towards town. With Luke and Amelia partnered up, Benjamin and I get to have our own little “Date”.

We walk through the vendors arm in arm eating delicious cheese filled pastries and filling up on their fine wine. We stop at a couple of games and laugh at each other's attempts to win prizes. After sometime I see Elau walking the festival with his parents, and his eyes stay transfixed on Ben and me.

We eventually make it to Capture the Gnome. A game where you and a partner must catch the garden gnomes and place them back in their appropriate yard. Each Gnome is fashioned in a different color and based on the color scheme you can determine the yard it belongs to. Garden gnomes are cute little creatures but are crazy fast and difficult to catch. Benjamin and I roll around together trying to catch as many as we can before the time is up, but much like the other games we fail to win a prize.

“You know I don’t think we make very good partners.” Benjamin laughs pulling me to another wine station.

“No, but I do think we are having the most fun.” I giggle, grabbing another glass of wine and cheersing to Ben. We walk finishing up the circle and chatting through our wine when Ben grabs my empty glass and places it down and then pulls me from the festivities and pinning me against a nearby tree. His waist presses against mine, his right arm pressed against the tree above me as he looks down at me.

“Ben, what are you…”

“Now that both of our men can’t take their eyes off of us, should we make them really jealous?” Ben stares down at me with fiery eyes. I look past Ben at Pelleas and Elau staring from opposite sides of the festival.

“What do you mean?” I feel my cheeks fluster being pressed so close to this muscular man.

“I think you should brush your hand down my chest and we stay like this for a moment. Maybe laugh a couple of times, and then we should head back from the festival early.” He giggles to himself, and I can’t help but chuckle. I place my hand on his strong chest, and feel down to the end of his abs leaving my hand to rest at the top of his waist. I feel my heartbeat faster as he presses harder against me. “Yeah this is going to drive them crazy.” He laughs again and then stands up straight pulling away from me and offering me his arm. “Shall we head back M’lady?”

“We shall.” I grasp his arm and blush more. Although Ben is my friend and we are just teasing the others, he is the first man to be pressed so close to me, so intimately.

We walk through the crowd and out of the festival towards the house.

“Benny, I really did have fun. Thank you for such a lovely night.” I say as we get to an empty street.

“Ambassadors wait!” A voice calls out from behind us. We turn to see Elau running towards us.

“Prince Elauthin.” Benjamin says and bows to him.

“Can I have a word with Ambassador Niccola?” He asks, ignoring Ben and staring at me.

“Of course, your Highness.” Benjamin releases his grip on me and walks towards the house alone. Once Benjamin is far enough away Elau grabs my wrists staring at me with a wild look.

“Nic, what are you doing?” Elauthin starts

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