Part of Them

Part 44

Carefully pushing the door to my little brother's room open, I checked to see whether he was awake or sleeping again. Turns out he was already feeling a bit better and sitting up in his bed.

When he noticed me, he gave me a small smile.

"You were successful, I guess?" He asked me, carefully.

In response, I grinned and pulled out the jar from behind my back.

Faer's POV

This is the moment I have been waiting for for the past hour.

"What took you so long? Do you have an idea how much I've been craving those?" I exclaimed, pouting slightly.

"It was a hard mission, but in the end I managed to sneak the cookies around the others!" He announced proudly.

And that took him an hour? He smells like he has been outside. But whatever, as long as I get my cookies I'm happy.

Looking at the mouth-watering beauties that were caged in the jar, I could practically hear them pleading: "Taaaake us~~! Freeee us~~! We're so looonely..."

Switching my gaze with strong efforts to the male beside my bed, I tried to tell him with every fiber of my body that I need them. Now.

"Geez, don't stare me down like that. You can have them, don't worry," He shook his head as the corners of his mouth lifted up, amused. Then, when I didn't lift my stare, he chuckled, opened the jar and handed it to me.

And while I was trying to figure out a subtle way to scarf the cookies down as efficiently as possible, he slid down beside my bed and leaned his back on the bedside, facing the wall.

Prioritizing my cookies, I averted my gaze from him back to the glass.

"You know, I've been thinking of stuff that we could do together," He said, scratching his head.

I started munching on my first cookie, as I glanced back to my side at him.

"Really?" I asked with a mouth full of cookie-scramble. Did he even understand that?

Just when I was about to respond again, this time with a less full mouth, he spoke up again.

"Yeah, I don't ever want you to bore yourself..." He mumbled, more to himself than to me, "What do you think of riding out on horseback together? Maybe some of the others will come too? No, what am I talking about, of course they will want to come too. Or we could go to the nearest big lake and go for a swim? We can do some piggyback fights then... And you would sit on my shoulder!" He exclaimed happily. "What would you rather do, Faer?"

I swallowed the rest of my cookie as fast as possible with one big gulp in order to respond.

"I'm not sure if I feel like swimming in a dirty lake and fighting on somebody's shoulders with my back anytime soon," I responded calmly, coughing a cookie crumble up at the end of the sentence.

He threw a quick glance over his shoulder, but after checking that everything was okay, he turned back around and stared at the ground again.

"Oh, of course. I didn't think about that. Then we will go horse riding in a few days, when we get the go from Alerus!"

I smiled at his eagerness and nodded my head before shoving the next cookie whole in my mouth. It's not like he can see what I'm doing behind his back anyways. Why bother looking well-mannered?

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I'm sorry for not uploading last Thursday, but my schedule shifted a teeny bit, so I'll most likely be able to upload only once a week (on Friday) from now on. Sorry for the short chapter too! 

Next update: Tomorrow ^^