In the morning Serai woke up with Lunar snuggled up right next to her. 'how cute!'
"It's time to get up guys," Birk said as he burst through the door, almost tripping over his own feet.
"I told you not to wake them yet! they were sleeping so cutely next to each other" Rose said as she came In after Birk.
"Why are you guys waking us up so early?" Lunar asked, not even getting out of the bed.
"It's a beautiful morning, and you guys shouldn't spend it in bed," Birk answered as he walked back out of the tent.
"Ugh" Lunar groaned as he got out of the bed and stretched. After Lunar and Serai got dressed they went up to the kitchen and ate breakfast. 'I should take Lunar to the village he's never been there before. And I bet it would be really fun' Serai thought.
"Hey Lunar, do you want to go to the village today, I could show you around," Serai asked
"Sure, but what would we do?" Lunar asked. Serai thought for a second,
"We could go ice-skating" Serai suggested.
"Um, what that?" Lunar asked,
"Oh, right you don't know what ice-skating is," Serai took a second to think of how she could explain it.
"It's basically where you go to a place that has a big sheet of ice, and you have special shoes that have blades on them, and you skate on the ice. It's really fun!" Serai explained. Lunar looked confused for a bit but then agreed.
"ok, let's go,"
"Well, let's first change into more normal clothes. My ant might have some that fit you at my mom's new place and I think she has some of my clothes there too," Serai said.
"why do we have to change?" Lunar asked, looking at his clothes,
"well, we can't really go into town looking like this. We have to wear more, um, human-like clothes" Serai explained
"Ok, so should we go to your mom's house first?" Lunar asked
"We first had to go to my ant's place, she has the key,"
"oh, ok."
When they got to her ant's place, she was outside on the patio,
"Hey!" Serai said to get her attention.
"Oh, Serai, what brings you here?" She asked,
"We wanted to get some clothes from my mom's new place, do you think there will be any that will fit Lunar? And we need the key as well" Serai asked
"Yea, your dads' clothes should fit him, and I was just about to go over there now, so I'll just come with you."
"Thanks." When they got to the house, they started to go through the boxes to look for clothes, they found some for Serai and Lunar, but while Serai was looking at the clothes, she found some baby clothes, 'what would my mom need this for?' Serai thought
"Hey, why does my mom have baby clothes?" Serai asked her ant.
"Oh, right, you don't know. Your mom had a baby with luke almost 2 years ago"
"W-WHAT!?" Serai couldn't believe it, she had always wanted a sibling.
"What's their name?" Serai asked.
"Mark," her ant said. 'OMG, I finally have a brother! I can't wait to meet him!' Serai thought. After they got dressed, they walked around the town till they finally ended up at the ice skating rink. Serai got some skates for her and Lunar and led him to the rink. by the time they finished skating, it started to snow and the wind started to pick up
"it's really cold," Serai said, shivering and squinting her eyes.
"Yea, it is"
"Follow me, I think there's a coffee shop close by," Serai said as she took Lunar's hand and led him across the street. By the time they got to the coffee shop, Serai couldn't feel her fingers, and when she looked at Lunar, she could see that his nose and his ears were bright red.
"Let's sit here," Serai said as she led Lunar to her favorite seat in the cafe, it was a small two-person seat that was built into the wall right next to the window where you watch the snowfall outside.
"what do you want to drink?" Serai asked Lunar
"I don't really know anything about the drinks here, so you can choose for me" Lunar responded as he was taking off his coat.
"Ok, well do you like sweet things or bitter things?" she asked.
"I guess sweet"
"Ok, you can stay here while I order."
'hmm, what should I get for him?' Serai thought 'well, I have plenty of time to decide I guess' Serai thought as she looked at the line, 'it is the perfect weather for hot coffee' while Serai was waiting in line, she noticed she was staring at Lunar. He looked so elegant with the white snow behind him. He was staring out the window with his chin resting on his hand, and his light blond hair fell perfectly down to his wast. 'wow, he looks like an angel!' Then something snapped Serai out of thought.
"Ma'am, it's your turn to order." The water said again, looking a little impatient.
"Oh, right, I'm sorry" Serai didn't even notice that it was her turn. When Serai got their drinks, she went back to where Lunar was sitting.
"I'm back," Serai said as she sat down next to Lunar, giving him his drink.
"Oh, thank you." as Lunar took a sip, Serai could see his eyes light up.
"Do you like it?" Serai asked, giggling a little.
"Y-yea, it's really good" Lunar stuttered. While they were drinking their drinks, Serai noticed some scarf and glove sets for sale, 'we should probably get some for the walk back' It wasn't windy anymore, but it was still snowing pretty hard.
"Stay here, I'm gonna go get something," Serai said as she got up and walked over to the stand. She ended us getting a light blue set for Lunar and a black set for herself.
"What's that?" Lunar asked as she came back and showed him the sets.
"There to keep us warm. Here," Serai said as she walked up behind him, wrapped the scarf around his neck, and pulled his long hair out.
"There." She said, sitting back in her seat and putting her set on. 'wow, he looks even better than I thought he would!' Serai blushed a little.
"Thanks," Lunar said, smiling. Lunar and Serai stayed at the coffee shop for a few hours just talking.
"We should probably get going before the snow gets any worse" Serai said, looking out of the window into the snow.
"yea, that would probably be a good idea" Lunar responded. The walk back to the forest was enchanting, the town looked so lovely with all the snow, and it felt twice as beautiful with lunar. when they got back to the camp, it was a few hours before dinner time, and almost everyone was in their tents.
"hey, we thought you guys would never come back," Birk said as Serai and Lunar walked into the tent.
"well, how did you like the village Lunar?" Rose asked.
"It was pretty good,"
"Well, what did you guys do?" Aster asked
"Well we first went to my mum's place to get some clothes, then we went ice skating, and then we went to a coffee shop" Serai explained as she got into some warmer clothes.
"Oh, I've had coffee before, it's so good. How did you like it Lunar?" Rose asked, 'does that mean that Rose has been out of the forest before? oh, she probably went out with her girlfriend'
"It was good, I liked it"
"I really hope it stops snowing," Birk said as he was looking out the door.
"since when did you want it to stop snowing? You always loved the snow, especially when the snow is deep" Rose said, laughing a bit
"Yea but did you forget that the clan meeting is tomorrow night? Even I don't want to walk in this snow all the way there." Birk said as he plopped back down on his bed.
"Oh, right, I forgot that we are doing the meeting every month now," Rose responded.
"Man this sucks, now we have to walk all the way to the meeting in the snow, I was looking forward to staying at home in the tent all day tomorrow" Aster complained.
"Well you could just stay behind," Rose suggested.
"Hell no! I missed the last meeting so I really want to go to this one!" Aster said as he jumped up.
"Fine then" Rose giggled a little bit at Aster's overreacted response.
"I think that I'm gonna stay back this time," Serai stated.
"Are you sure? I thought you didn't want to be alone? I think you should come" Lunar said, looking a bit shocked.
"Overprotective much?" Rose laughed
"H-hey, I am not!" Lunar defended himself. Serai chuckled a bit.
"No, I still think I'm gonna stay," 'I don't wanna go back to that place, there were WAY too many people, no, elves there'
"Ok, that's fine." Even though Rose said that its fine, Lunar still looked doubtful.
"Wait, be quiet, did you hear that," Birk asked as he looked at the tent wall.
"Hear what?" Rose asked,
"I swear I heard someone outside!" Birk
"I'll go check," Serai said as she got up to go look out the door.
"It was probably just one of the other elves, you're just being overdramatic." Setai could hear the faint voices of Rose and Birk talking, but the only thing that she could focus on is what looked like someone hiding behind a tree next to their tent, and after a second, she thought that she could recognize them. 'is that the elve that I saw on the night of the last meeting?' This was the first time that Serai had seen him since that night.
"Well, do you see anything?" Lunars voice snapped Serai out of her thoughts.
"O-oh, yea it was probably just one of the other elves," Serai responded.
"See, I told you that you were just overreacting," Rose told Birk. Before Serai went back into the tent, she took one last look at the tree that the person was standing behind, but he was gone.