Page 5 of Exordium

“You’re going to love school.” Mom smiled. “These children are precious, and I know you’ll make great friends.”

I knew she was right because I wore my most favoritest new dress. It was in the palest pink with darker vertical pink stripes. My hair was in two pigtails with dark pink bows, and my sandals glittered bright pink in the sun.

“Damn Adelaide, do you think you could have snuck some more pink accessories somewhere on Reverie’s tiny body?” Grumpy eyed all the pink like it was going to bleed over on to his clothes.

“Watch yourself, John!” Mom stuck her tongue out at him. “A girl can never have enough pink.”

“That’s right, Dad!” I said, sticking my tongue out, too.

I looked over Mom’s shoulder and saw a little boy with the prettiest green eyes staring at me.

“Give her back, Adelaide, right now!” Pop demanded. “I haven’t gotten enough hugs to last me through the day!” He grabbed my legs as they played pretend tug of war with me.

Suddenly, Pop let out a high-pitched yelp and dropped to his knees. When I looked down, the pretty little boy stood in front of my Pop, his fist drawn back to hit him again.

“Oh, my Lord!” A pretty lady with the same green eyes as the boy yelled. “Nathan, what have you done?”

“Looks like a good punch to the gonads,” Grumpy said quietly while snickering into his hand.

“What’s gonads?” I wrinkled my nose in confusion.

“Never mind that little girl,” Mom struggled to keep a straight face. Nathen glanced at his mom with a fierce look on his little face.

“Saving the princess!”

“I’m so sorry! I have no idea what’s gotten into him!” Nathan’s Mom apologized.

“He was pulling her apart, and ‘sides that, she’s my princess!” Nathan scowled.

“No, I’m not! I’m my own woman,” I said, looking at my mom for approval. Mom nodded at me and smiled while kneeling on the ground to look at the little boy.

“We’re her parents, and I promise we’d never hurt her.”

“I don’t know how to apologize enough. My name is Sarah, and this little terror is Nathan. Tell the nice man you’re sorry!” Sarah frowned at her son.

“But I’m not sorry! He was keeping my princess captive, so I punched him where Gramps said it hurts the most!” Nathan continued to eye Pop with suspicion.

“Gramps sounds like a wise man.” Mom laughed, “Why don’t you walk in with Reverie and ensure she gets to her desk safe and sound?”

“OK, Mrs. Princesses’ Mom.” Nathen grinned. “Come with me. I’ll keep you safe.”

As the pretty little boy grabbed my hand to lead me into class, I wondered why my hand felt all tingly and my tummy dipped like when I was on a roller coaster.

Nathan lightly ran his finger over my forehead, licked my neck, then bit it gently.

“I’ve missed you so terribly, horribly, my Nexi.” He whispered. “I can’t stand to be away from you for so long, or I go crazy.”

“Too late, lunatic, you’re already there.” I smiled, “But I missed you too.”

“These next few weeks are going to be absolute hell,” Nathen groaned. “I’ll be glad when I can claim you in front of everyone. Oh! Look what I did to commemorate the first time we met!” He sat up in excitement and started pulling down his pants.

“What the hell, Nathan?! Tell me you didn’t get your penis pierced!”

“What? Is that something you would like, my Nexi?” He froze in contemplation.

“Well, I can’t say for sure since, you know, you’re the only guy I’ve ever been with,” I smirked.

“True enough, but I’d like to reserve the right to revisit this topic.” The Psycho grinned. “Look at my new tattoo!” He pulled his pants down to show the bright pink princess crown tattooedright above his dick with “NEXI” in bold black letters right in the middle.

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