It Wasn't a Dream

The sun shone brightly outside, so Zuna and the two 24/7 sandwiches staff went out. Zuna was wondering who took care of the beautiful scenery she saw before her. The yard was huge. Rose bushes lined the outside of what looked like an easy to solve maze created from short hedges, and the trees were meticulously placed, giving off large shadows. She had seen beautiful gardens before, but something about how simple it was made her eyes sparkle.

The only flowers besides the deep red roses, were a type of flower she had surprisingly never seen before. They were planted in the middle of the surrounding hedges, and they also were red and simple. Jeffery and Tibet appreciated the neatness of it, but they weren't in awe since they expected rich people to have extravagant water fountains and a variety of flowers in intricate patterns.

"Do you think Arius would mind if I picked a few?" Zuna looked towards the two with eyes that shone brightly, and although she was asking she really couldn't care less about what they answered with. Of course, they didn't respond since they already knew.

Running over, she knelt down beside the flowers with an array of differently shaped leaves. It was weird how they seemed to also have vines, and she realized then that they really weren't simple. As she held out her hand to the flowers, a hand grabbed her wrist and she heard a voice behind her.

"What are you doing?" It was Arius, but luckily he sounded amused.

"Ruining your garden." The response was almost reflexive, as if she loved incriminating herself. She looked back, only to glare at Jeffery for not warning her, and as if he thought of her as an unthreatening kitten he shrugged.

"They are poisonous." Arius looked on helplessly at her as she froze on his words. She looked down at the green grass with embarrassment.

"I didn't know." She said quietly.

"I know." Arius released her wrist, reluctantly so. "But, for future reference, the garden isn't mine. It's ours."

They were all stunned into silence as Arius got up and left. What he said made sense since they were literally living together, yet it somehow felt like there was another meaning. Such words were very quickly forgotten by Zuna, however, as she had at this point gotten used to Arius's weird acts of familiarity.

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Zuna went to her room to call it a night, and a yawn escaped her mouth while she was changing.

After the guests had left, Eirik arrived home with no clue as to what happened while he was away. Zuna was relieved about that, since it was impossible to know if she would get found out or not. Actually, she often suspected that he always knew, and just let it slide.

Zuna lain on the bed with a comfortable smile. She had found the day to be extremely entertaining.

"Eh?" She reached under the covers and pulled out a man's shirt. Her pretty hazel eyes narrowed as she had a thought, 'It wasn't a dream?'

While in another room, someone was smiling to himself when he remembered her interest in the garden. It was a flower with two names, one of which was 'haima', and it meant 'blood'. Arius named it, and all of it's kind that existed were within his possession, he did create the plant after all. Not with some supernatural power, but with science.