Chapter 49
Avery's POV.
"Wake up!" I heard someone tap me but I was adamant to have my eyes shut.
"It's time for you to wake up Luna." The voice came again but I shut my eyes tighter.
Turning around the bed, I use my pillow to cover my head to prevent the intruder's voice from getting to my ear.
It seems to have worked because everywhere suddenly went quiet.
I smiled to myself with a sleepy face and began to doze back to sleep but suddenly a beautiful smell caught my nose.
Whatever that smell is, it's driving me insane and I love it so much.
It was only Xander's scent that could get my attention, but this wasn't Xander's.
I can describe this scent but can never describe exactly what Xander smells like.
I immediately remove the pillow from my head to inhale more and more of the scent.
With my eyes closed, I drew the scent into me, it's so empowering and endowing that I wish to be soaked in the enchanted scent forever.
How can anything smell this good?
"I'm glad you like it." I heard an exciting voice chipped out.
My brain began to work again, ready to face reality.
Leilani!
"Leilani!" I almost jumped out of bed but I controlled myself anyway.
"Yes my beautiful queen."
Her voice is so beautiful.
"Good morning love." I greeted and slid my eyes open to behold her beautiful smiling face.
"Good morning Luna Avery. Hope you slept well?" She asked, still smiling at me.
"Of course, can't you see I don't wish to get up for now." I answered with a pouty mouth.
I don't know why I behave like a child when I'm with her.
"Awwnnn, I'm sorry for disturbing your beauty sleep but you have to wake up. It's already nine in the morning." She said calmly.
"Tell me you're kidding." I said, forcing a smile.
"I don't joke about looking so serious." She replied and smiled.
I jumped out of bed,"how did I sleep for so long? I was supposed to start training by eight in the morning. I'm so fucking late! How did this happen?" I asked,rushing towards the bathroom.
"Simple, it all happened because you love your sleep. It happens my Luna, don't be too hard on yourself."
I was brushing my teeth while she stood by the door watching me,"don't just look at me, help me. I won't be taking it seriously if I don't keep time." I almost shouted at the smiling lady that's looking at me.
"Hurrying now won't change the fact that you're late. You're late to your training. That's already true."
"Yeah. I know, mock me all you can but please help me."I said pleadingly.
I slept late last night, despite Leilani's warning to me to go and sleep, I didn't heed, instead we chatted till I fell asleep listening to her voice.
She's the best I could ask for, but here I am, late on my first day of training.
Lateness must be written on my forehead, I'm always late to major events and it's all because of sleep.
Goddess, please help me out.
I prayed silently.
"I've helped you the best way I can. I've sent a letter to the head of the training classes stating that you had urgent matters to tend to in your study. You have one hour thirty minutes to get ready." She said calmly and I just stopped turning off the electric brush to stare at her.
I was revived and I don't know how to say thank you. I don't even know how to start appreciating her.
"What should I do with you?" I asked with a laugh.
"You can start by not hurrying so much. Just let me take care of you, my queen."
She grabbed me from the bathroom and I gladly followed.
"What scent is that? It's so beautiful and I want to have so much of it." I said as I sat down.
"Ohhh, that's just some flower mixture I made to create a room essence, it's good for positive energy." She explained and I nodded.
The scent is really filling me up and I could feel my powers vibrating through my body, Kira loved the scent too.
"Would you sit around for the next one and half hour or would you get ready and appear earlier at the training ground? It would create a good image."
As she said those sentences,she began to strip me but I immediately stopped her.
"I can take care of myself Leilani, you should prepare yourself too because we're going together."
"I know, I'm prepared already. The only person that's yet to prepare is you,no excuses,just let me bath you." She said sweetly that I almost gave in.
"No no no, you're not bathing me." I said and stood up trying to hold my ground.
Leilani has this soft way of persuading someone that gets the person to say yes even without intending to.
"Alright Luna, I'll prepare your bath for you but please let me wash your hair, please." I was pleased with those unique big eyes of hers that I found myself saying yes without thinking.
She jumped around in excitement and I watched her"grow up Leilani." I said with a chuckle,loving the way she twirled around.
"I'm sorry my queen but growing up is out of bound for me, I love being a child sometimes. Sometimes, you just have to let the child in you surface. The worries would disappear without a trace." She said and walked into the bathroom.
"Come soon, I'm ready for you." She shouted from inside.
"I'll be there in a few seconds."
I rushed to undress and head straight to the bathroom with a towel tied securely around my chest.
As I entered the bathroom, intoxicating scents wafted through my nose.
I inhaled deeply and I couldn't help but smile so broad that my cheeks hurt.
"Enough smiling, come...let me wash your hair."
I complied and sat down on the space provided for me.
Leilani's hands and hair oil did wonders to me, her fingers stroked and massaged my hair in a way that I couldn't help but moan out in pleasure.
"Stop moaning, someone might hear you and think of something." She said, sarcasm evident in her voice.
"At this point in time, I don't care what anyone thinks. I'm so enjoying this, this is the best hair wash anyone has ever given me."
It was the truth, the way Leilani is washing my hair currently is divine. It's like her beautiful fingers were specially designed for my hair alone.
No one had ever washed my hair that way before.
"I'll love to continue this exploration but I'll have to end it or you might get late for your training."
Disappointed makes their way into my body, "can you do it for a while longer, please." There was urgency in my voice and I don't care if I sound desperate as well. I love it.
"Nope. I'm done for now,you can't go late again." She said with a note of finality in her voice.
I pouted my face as she washed my hair.
"Don't worry baby Luna, I'll give you another treat later in the evening. I won't be washing it though, I'll be applying ointments." She said, pacifying me like my mother.
At the thought of my mom, I smiled painfuly and stood up when she announced that she's done.
I looked at my hair in the mirror and it was at its brightest.
What ointments is Leilani using?
The question rang in my head and I made a resolution to ask her later in the evening.
"Hurry up and bathe. I've prepared a bath for you."
I smiled a thank you and it took every ounce of willpower not to ask her to bathe me.
She left after warning me to hurry up.
"Go get dressed ok?" I shouted to her.
"I will, sleepy head." She replied.
The bath invited me in and I greedily accepted the invitation.
The bath scent engulfed me in its embrace as I entered the bathtub.
Leilani is magical, how did she make this bath so intriguing?
I have so much to learn from her and I'm more than happy to have her as my help.
We bonded for such a short period of time. I thanked the goddess in my heart for blessing me with a friend like her.
I don't know how long I spend relaxing after scrubbing myself but a knock distracted me.
"Get up, miss. You're getting lost." Leilani's voice rang into my ear and I lazily left the bath after a lot of hesitation.
"You're a witch!" I said jokingly as I opened the door.
"Yeah,I know. If getting you on your feet makes me one, I don't mind being called an evil scarlet witch" she said and dragged me to the dressing room
Time to start training for the war ahead.
