Euphoria

The Chief's Captain

Stacy's POV

"Okay. I'm gonna get Dione and Marge. We'll meet you guys here with the others." Gabby said. I nodded and she gave me the key to Valerie's car. I drove back to the editors' house, but before I pulled over. I saw Pao and M talking at the door. I guess Pao was about to leave. I parked the car and the moment I hopped out of the car, they were already leaning in closer to each other. I walked towards them and cleared my throat. Pao pulled apart and they both looked at me. "Where's V?" M asked. "I dropped her off at the pier to see the Chief. Tell your roomies to prepare for an evening at the Chief's yacht. We gotta be at the pier at 17:00." I told her. She nodded and left Pao and I at the door.

"Should I go and get prepared for this too or is it just the editors and the Chief?" Pao asked. "We should go. Can you give me a ride home?" I told him.  "Yeah." He said. "M! We'll meet you all at the pier before 17:00. Okay?" I shouted. "Okaaaaaay!" She replied. I placed Valerie's car key on the hooks inside the house by the door. I locked the door behind me. Pao walked towards his car he was about to open the passenger's door for me but I told him, "I am capable of opening it." He nodded and went straight to his door. The ride home was silent. He pulled over at the front of my house, "Do you need a ride back there?" He asked. "Thanks but no. I'll drive myself there. See you." I smiled and came out of the car, waved him goodbye and went straight into my house.

Imane's POV

"Janjan!" I called to J. "Heyy, Love. What's up?" She asked. "Well the thing is we are being summoned by our new Chief to her yacht later with V and C, maybe the other bosses too." I explained. "Oooo. A yacht. I never thought that V will get a fancy girlfriend. Let alone have a girlfriend." She said. "Heyy, our older sister is finally happy. So we should be happy for her." I said. "I am, Love. I am. I'm just scared that she'll forget about us." She looked down and pouted. "Janjan, V won't do that to us, we're her baby sisters not by blood but by heart." I said as I hugged her. "You sure?" She looked up to me. "We're sure." C said as she walked into the room and shared the hug with us. "I wish V was in this hug too." J said. "We'll squeeze the living shit out of her when we meet her in the yacht." I said. "Yacht?" C asked. "Yep. We do be meeting V and the Chief there for dinner, I guess?" J said. "Yup!" I pulled away from the warm embrace. "We gotta prep, Babes! See yall downstairs, we'll be leaving in an hour." I told them. "Okaaaay." Both of them shouted in unison as I walked out of the room.

Narrator's POV

Love and euphoria blossomed into the heart of our hazelnut eyed editor. She hasn't felt butterflies in her stomach for years, which made her question what she truly felt. She was on a boat with someone whom she feels like she have known for a while even if they only met a couple of days ago. She was lost in amazement of how things and events can happen within a split second. "Val?" A smile crept onto her lips realizing how her name sounded so beautifully when it came out of our teal eyed director's mouth.

"Hey, Baby. Are you okay?" Kylie said as she approached Valerie. "Baby?" She called to the ombre haired girl's attention. Kylie intertwined her fingers into Valerie's, to which filled the spaces between the latter's hand perfectly. Valerie felt her cheeks warm up to the touch of the woman who was towering her. Kylie lifted Valerie's chin with her other hand. A dark hue of teal consumed the hazelnut eyes of the editor, "Baby, please talk to me." But silence still surrounded the room that they were in. Valerie rested her head onto the pixie haired woman's chest. Kylie felt a rush of blood onto her cheeks as she felt the warm breath of Valerie on her chest.

Her mind was frozen to the thought of her being close to the hazelnut eyed woman, but her arms refused to stay in place. She led the hand that she was holding onto her waist as she let go to pull the woman in front of her to a gentle hug. The silence spoke enough words to assure our teal eyed director that the hazelnut eyed woman was alright. They stayed in this position for a while until they were interrupted by a vibration from the pixie haired woman's suit pocket. "Damn it." She muttered under her breath to which the ombre haired woman chuckled. Kylie took her phone out of her pocket and saw a text from Stacy. "They'll be here soon. Help me take this boat back to the pier?" Kylie asked. "Wait, I thought we had a captain?" Valerie asked. "I am the captain. Now, I wanna show you how to drive this boat back to the pier since you're starting to become the captain of my heart." Kylie smiled. Valerie nodded and felt a flush of emotions on her cheeks. Kylie led her towards the helm. She moved behind the girl and held the back of the girl's hands and placed it on the steering wheel, trapping Valerie in between the wheel and herself.