SoN Chapter 10 Preview · 8:30pm Jul 2nd, 2014
I didn't forget you guys. Chapter 10 of SoN has been written, and I've sent it to my editor. In the meantime, I've gotten half of chapter 11 done, as well. To make up for having you guys wait for so long, I have a 500 (or so) word preview of Chapter 10 for you guys. Keep in mind that it hasn't been proofread since I save the proofreading process until after I get the revised chapter from my editor.
Saturday morning.
Moon had been acting strangely, as usual, and by strange, I mean that she calmed down a little following her initial excitement at our new… “relationship,” as she called it. Her attitude wasn’t as enthusiastic towards me as it was yesterday, and for the most part, she was back to how she was before all this romance stuff. With that said, I suppose that what was strange wasn’t her behavior in general, but rather her behavior compared to yesterday.
Take earlier this morning, for example.
As usual, I had woken up in the alicorn’s arms, my head rested against her soft chest. When I stirred, she began to wake up as well, and she looked down at me with a soft smile on her face.
“Good morning, Noah,” she told me softly.
She had given me her usual calm greeting rather than the excitable one that I had gotten yesterday, and she didn’t give me some ridiculous pet name, either.
“Morning, Moon,” I answered as I got up from the bed, and I headed out of my room and into the kitchen with her following close behind.
“What’s for breakfast today?”
I shrugged. “I dunno. I don’t really feel like going all out today, so I’ll probably just toast some waffles and call it a day. You can make something for yourself, if you want.”
“Waffles are just fine, Noah.”
Moon’s calm answer threw me off a little. Why was she so subdued? She was practically bouncing off the walls yesterday, and now she was back to normal. I know I shouldn’t be complaining, but it really makes you wonder, doesn’t it?
I toasted enough waffles for both me and Moon, and we took a seat on the couch as we ate.
“Can I ask you something?” I asked the alicorn.
“Of course,” she answered.
“How come you’re so relaxed today when you were all excited yesterday? It’s been bugging me all morning.”
“I suppose you would be,” she chuckled with a blush on her face. “In retrospect, I was pretty hysterical.”
“Pretty hysterical.”
“Okay, I get it. I was really over-the-top yesterday, but could you blame me?”
“I’m not following you.”
The alicorn gazed at me and smiled. “If you admitted your feelings to someone you liked and then found out that they felt the same way, wouldn’t you be excited about that?”
I smiled back nervously. “I guess, but I-”
“I know I might have made you nervous yesterday, but I’ve gotten it all out of my system now.” She got closer to me and wrapped me in a firm hug, looking down at me with loving eyes. “You don’t have to worry about anything anymore, Noah. Just like I promised, I’m going look out for you, and that goes double now that we’re a couple.”
I had nothing to worry about, huh… I wondered if that was really true. What if the one thing I had to worry about was her? Maybe it was the way she was holding me, or maybe it was the way she was looking at me, but something about her didn’t seem right.
Then again, did she ever seem right?
I will hopefully post this chapter soon. Thankfully, I'm able to write more frequently now that I got an iPad as my graduation gift. I'll also be easier for me to read fics on the go as well, so hopefully my Read Later will get smaller.
