章 18: What happened?

"What happened?" Perceval asked, for once the usual silent member of the group was now speaking and trying to make sense of what he was seeing.

"Uuwaaaaaaaaaah" Anberine cried now looking like she was about to cry, seeing this Marcus and Perceval looked at the other with a frown.

"Prince Skye" the pair said blandly only to hear her whine louder confirming their suspicions, confused the girls and Mordred eyed them oddly.

"What did he do this time?" Helga asked before noticing Anberine's lips were unusually red. "Have you been rubbing your lips a lot? What did you do to them?" she asked with a bewildered look only to hear the same response.

"Okay you need to stop this" Morgana said sternly as she placed her hands on her hips.

"This isn't going to help us understand what is going on-"

"Morning!" The group froze as they saw Prince Skye enter the room with a wide smile; his tone was unusually chipper leaving the group unable to think straight, at the same time other students were stunned to see him being nice towards the group at all given how he made it clear they were not worth his attention. So what changed?

Now strolling over towards Anberine Skye disregarded the others, at first Marcus blocked the prince causing him to glare back at the protective teen. Something that infuriated Skye deeply due to the fact Skye wanted to speak to Anberine without anyone getting in his way.

Didn't this boy realise who he was dealing with? What right did he have to stop him? If it were up to Skye he would have sent this boy away for good or better yet he could have ordered the girl to be by his side at all times, something he was contemplating for a while in order to get the 'fiends' away.

"You know, I haven't stopped thinking about you" Skye said as he took note of Anberine's expression as she looked at him with more unease.

Normally that would have made him smirk but instead it left him dare he admitted... sad?

Remembering what he took with him from the physician's room, Skye placed his right hand into his pocket and extracted the tub of cream from his pocket.

"Here you go, I thought you would need it from the time when I tripped you up at the dining hall. I really am sorry about that" Prince Skye said with a sincere voice as he handed a still very uneasy Anberine the tub, blinking her friends were left surprised that he would remember the event at all.

Not stopping there he took her hand and turned it so he was kissing the back of her fingers causing a shiver to run down her spine.

To her dismay her cheeks started to burn while a low panicked whimper left her lips leaving Marcus and Mordred on the verge of jumping into the conversation and taking the prince's hand off of her, regardless of who he was or the fact he was under the potion's influence.

"I do hope that you can forgive me" Prince Skye had said in a suave voice, Merlia had raised her brows as she took note of how the potion's effects were growing stronger and had most likely took over him completely.

Helga meanwhile tried not to gag in disgust, at the same Morgana had tried not to twitch and rip the boy's hand off of her friend.

Perceval as he watched this kept a sharp eye for anything suspicious while observing the reactions of everyone else in the room discretely.

Even he wanted the prince to stay away from Anberine but could not without sparking a reaction from the potion influenced prince.

Unable to say or move Anberine had stopped making noises altogether, instead she eyed him with fearful eyes thanks to the night before.

In truth thanks to what he had done it left her unable to sleep properly rewarding her with large black circles under her eyes. Something he noticed straight away.

"Did you not sleep properly?" Prince Skye asked in alarm "surely you know we need to be alert for the test today" he commented not caring that some people who were entering or were already in the class were staring at him in disbelief, clearly startled by his sudden change of behaviour towards her.

Especially since he had showed she was nothing but dirt under his shoes.

'Oh really?! Who decided to go and kiss me huh? I didn't want you touching me at all you deviant!' Anberine almost twitched and glared at him, refusing to take the cream due to being angry she ripped her hand out of his hold and slapped the tub back in his still open hand.

Seeing the angry glint in her eyes didn't perturb him one bit given that he was happy to see her, placing the tub on the table he lifted her chin up softly and traced her now tense chin with his thumb.

Anberine continued to avoid looking at him as his thumb continued to linger on her cheek. She was no cat or dog so who was he to treat her like that?

"You have pretty skin, how do you keep it so soft?" he asked softly as he marvelled on how little blemishes she had. Her lips pursed tightly in dislike but kept her eyes looking away until she tensed up. Looking at him in horror, disbelief filled her from the fact he kissed her again but this time in public. Had he no more shame anymore?

Unlike him she felt the burning looks of the students and her friends in the class. As a result her cheeks went hotter and her face she was sure had gone red from feeling mortified at how shameless he was being. "I hope you pass the test today" Prince Skye said softly after moving his head back a bit in order to give her some space.

Her eyes suddenly went wide from hearing the compliment and even now remained not use to it, especially since this was a person who was under a spell.

Still uncomfortable with the fact he was touching her again Anberine had wanted to get her chin out of his hold only before she could do that, he leaned close without warning and pecked the corner of her mouth causing even more shivers to run down his spine compared to the kiss he gave her earlier on.

However instead of leaving him uneasy he enjoyed it as it made every part of his body feel alive, he liked it surprisingly and it made him want to do it again. Just how did she get her lips to be this addictive?

Did she put something on them to make them irresistible? Or was it from the fact that she left a mark on him? The first kiss he gave her scarred him, it was like he took something and now could not stop wanting more of it.