Board Thread:Short Stories and Fanfictions/@comment-71.185.177.221-20191112172810/@comment-71.185.177.221-20191113215910

6:23 am

"Sophie. Sophie!"

"What?" Sophie asked groggily as she sat up from Keefe's lap.

"It's, sorta, kinda, um," Keefe bit his lip and rubbed the sleep out of his eyes. Sophie did the same, the bright light of the sun was so much worse with all the crystals in Candleshade.

Wait! The sun?

Sophie jumped to her feet. "It's morning! We slept here!"

Keefe's smile was sheepish. "Oops."

"'Oops'! Just 'oops'! We're gonna be in so much trouble!" Sophie paced the room, trying to tame her rat nest hair.

"Calm down, Foster," Keefe rose and took her hand, sending a soothing mental breeze through her mind.

Sophie took a deep breath and slowed her thoughts. "Okay. It's morning. What do we do?"

"Well, we can say that an orge ate us and we had to wait for it too poop us out." Keefe suggested. "No, because then Ro's gonna be so mad."

Sophie rolled her eyes and continued pacing.

"Sandor's gonna freak when we tell him what we did." Sophie stopped pacing to catch her breath.

"Who said we would tell him?" Keefe asked. He waited until Sophie looked at him before continuing. "We tell him we went to Rimeshire to help Dex with a gadget because he asked us to come. He said he needs three people for the gadget to work so he called us."

"Okay..." Sophie nodded. "But we'd need a reason for why we didn't come back."

"And I have one." Keefe assured her. "Lovise thought she sensed members of the Neverseen and told us that it wasn't safe to go home."

"But we would've hailed our parents if that had happened." Sophie noted.

"Relax, Foster. Trust the Empath. I'm good at this stuff." Keefe started pacing as he continued. "We tell him that the gadget Dex had made had accidentally messed up our Imparters so we couldn't hail anyone."

Sophie considered this for a moment. "Okay," She said slowly. "But Sandor's going to ask Lovise and Juline and Kesler."

"I'm sure if we go there now, we can convinve them to lie for us." Keefe assured her.

"Alright." Sophie relented. "Fine. We'll do that. But we have to go now. Every second is another lecture Sandor's gonna give me."

Keefe's grin was enormous. "Woo! Plan Lying to the Bodyguard is a go!"

"Seriously? Why not ask Fitz and Biana?" Dex asked, folding his arms and staring at them.

They had leaped to Rimeshire and had explained to Dex what had happened.

"Because," Sophie glanced at Keefe. "Everglen isn't the best place I should be right now."

Dex's eyes narrowed and then shot up. "Did you guys...?"

Sophie nodded.

"So," Dex looked at Sophie, and then at Keefe. And back to Sophie. "Are you guys...?"

"Don't tell anyone!" Sophie pleaded. "I want to tell them myself."

Dex smirked. "Yeah, I won't tell anyone. Just so you know, always knew this was gonna happen."

Sophie cheeks burned and she let her hair fall over her face.

Keefe cleared his throat and continued. "So, can you tell your parents? We gotta get back soon."

Dex nodded. "Sure. But you both owe me."

Keefe grinned. "Dexy's gotta a devilish streak, Foster. You sure you wanna do this?"

Sophie sighed. "A thousand lectures by Sandor is worse. I hope."

Dex shrugged. "Maybe, maybe not."

"Oh, geez. Okay. Thank you SO much Dex!" Sophie hugged him.

"Yeah, okay. Now go! Your in for lectures lie or not lie."

"Oh, joy."