久久综合激激的五月天

"It's not that funny." Adler mumbled and pouted. 

"Oh but it is." Scarlet laughed, even more. Her shoulders were shaking so hard and she slapped Adler on the back. "I can imagine the scowl on your face after she said to you. You must have been embarrassed." 

'Mostly aroused.' Adler thought, but he did not say it out loud. Instead, he said, "I was terrified, and mind blown. She had just been reprimanded by her boss and forced to apologize but her roguish nature could not be contained. She threatened me and then she handed me a high quality nutrient solution and pretentiously said loudly, "I apologize, once again, sir, this will not be happening again." Then she walked away as if everything was very normal and I was left standing there, puzzled, for a good twenty minutes. 

"But, did she go through with it, watching you?" Scarlet asked. 

"Oh, she did." Adler nodded his head and widened his eyes as he emphasized just how much she went through with her threats. "At random times I would be walking and she would show up next to me, matching my pace perfectly as if we were in sync.

I would go for a movie and she would show up and sit next to me. I went for a concert once and there she was, cheering for the singer but her eyes were staring daggers at me the whole time. It was unnerving, she was like a robot.

I started becoming paranoid that I was always on the lookout for her, all the time. Eventually I got tired of playing hide and seek when she showed up at the training hall where I always went on the weekends. I asked her to fight me, If I won, she would back down. If she did she would do whatever she wanted with her. I knew that she would not turn down an opportunity to beat me up."

He guffawed, his eyes were distant, lost in the memories of that time. 

"Who won?" Scarlet asked him. 

"I did." he said. "And then I asked her to go on a date with me." 

"Wow," Scarlet exclaimed. "She said no, right?" The woman hated him after all. 

"She said she hated my guts, my hair made me look ridiculous, my face was stupid. I was an idiot and she had two tickets to the opening of an old ship museum and if I wanted to, I could go with her."

Again, Scarlet burst into laughter, but this time, Adler laughed along with her. 

After about a minute, she asked him, "Why was she angrily stalking you in the first place? She did use force against a civilian after all." 

"When I reported her, she got a detriment point which will forever be on her record. Amara wants to be a captain someday, every detriment on her record is a stumbling block to her dreams. My complaint was the first detriment point she received in her spotless career. Two years we were together and I never heard the end of it with that detriment point. In every argument we had, she brought it up and I would surrender." 

Two years! Scarlet thought, that was some impressive dating time. And by all looks, it seemed like it was a successful two years because there was a proposal.

"So what went wrong?" she asked him. 

He sighed, and said, "After I asked her to marry me, her father came to the capital to meet me. The three of us took one of those sky tours which takes you around the capital, we visited the headquarters of the first mecha warriors and the ruins of the old palace. Lord Winston Leopold seemed to be impressed with me. It helped that I was the son of a noble family and on my way to becoming a mecha warrior in Esong's army. I had passed the initial test and only had one more to go. But then,...." he paused and looked at her. "Things just went wrong, let's leave it at that." 

Scarlet was not stupid, there was only one thing that deterred her brother's career, her!! 

"It was me, right? I screwed things up for you." 

"No," he said vehemently, "You didn't." 

"But you wanted to be a mecha warrior, you were thrown out because of me. The death thunder army rejected you because of me, nobody else could take you in. Then I was banished to the blue star and you followed me. Oh my God!!! I screwed up your life." She was not laughing anymore. 

She took a deep breath and clenched and unclenched her hands. "Here we go again." she thought.

Adler grabbed her hands, both of them and forced her to look at him. 

"Stop it you dimwit!! your marriage to Esong was something that somewhat elevated me in the eyes of Amara's father. No matter how the press painted you, you were Esong's wife. Winston did not care how you did it, all that mattered was that our family was related to royalty through marriage. You did not screw anything up for me." 

That was a bit of consolation which clamed her down quickly. She looked at him with hopeful eyes and asked, "Really." 

"Really." he assured her. "Look, I broke up with Amara because I could not bring her with me to the blue star. I did it for her sake, to protect her. If I introduced her to the family and married her then she would have been forced to follow me here as my wife. But you remember what this place was like when we first moved here, it was empty, we barely had anything to eat, we were worse than the beggars in the capital. Amara grew up in luxury as a spoiled pampered lady, how could I ask her to give up her career and everything to suffer with me. I am relieved that I saved her and us from such a humiliating situation. To top it off, her father told me not to make her suffer and do right by her. So, don't get things twisted in your little head and imagine that our relationship revolved around you. I made a choice, my choice."

Scarlet wanted to say, 'But I contributed to that choice.' If it was not for her, their family would not have been banished back then. 

"Are you still twisting things around in your mind?" Adler asked her sternly. He barked at her, questioning her loudly in a way he rarely did. 

"No." she denied quickly. 

"Good, you better not be." he warned her. 

She laughed nervously and scratched her back, Adler was scary sometimes. 

"Brother," she said softly, "Where do you and Amara stand now? Should I send her packing off our planet?" 

"That won't work, she has already been accepted as an RGB officer here on the blue star." 

Scarlet's mouth formed an 'o' shape and her eyes widened in surprise. RGB officers were assigned from the capital, she could not pick and choose who would serve here. 

"What are you going to do? She is always chasing you up and down, why?" 

Adler sighed loudly and he sagged, "Amara says we are still engaged. She even has the ring I gave her back then. I don't know what to do about this. What do I do sis?" 

"Don't you love her anymore or is it because of Arya?"