The boy smiled at the girl then glanced to the book in her hands, not minding the unique way of her holding him at all.

“Is this an ok idea?” he asked. Specca nodded slowly as he looked into her eyes, the girl feeling her heart beating faster for the boy than before.

“Yes, it’s… it’s perfect,” she said with a tear forming in her eye.

“Glad to hear it. I’ll try to keep up with you on each page,” he said with a wink. The girl smiled lovingly at the boy then looked to the book in her hands.

“As will I with you,” she said, knowing that she may have trouble focusing on the story by reading it like this. Daniel nodded then kissed her cheek, the girl jumping with a small gasp as she looked to him with wonder.

“We’ll read it together until you fall asleep, then I’ll tuck you in for the night. Sound like a date?” he offered. She slowly held a hand to her cheek as she blushed brightly then nodded with a warm smile.

“Sounds perfect to me, Daniel,” she said softly before looking to the book. She opened it to the first page and held the book so they could both read it, the girl resting her head on his shoulder as she cherished being with him like this. The boy held the nixie on his lap as he enjoyed their private night together. Sure, he did feel his heart beating faster from holding her close like this, not to mention that the girl was naked under her skirt while she sat on his lap, but he wasn’t sure still if he loved Specca or cared for her deeply as a friend. Still, he was sure of one thing, he was glad he had her in his life.

After several chapters Daniel looked to seeing Specca sleeping peacefully against his shoulder, the nixie having a small smile on her face while she was breathing softly. The boy slowly set the book down on the floor and watched as the nixie slept in his arms. Her tail had loosened slightly from around his waist; however it still remained around his hips, as if even in her sleep the girl refused to let him go. Daniel admired the girl’s overall beauty, with her peaceful nature and deep mind being her defining points in his book.

“She really is something, that much is for certain,” he said quietly to himself. He gently lifted the girl up in his arms and moved over to lay her down on the sleeping mat, carefully laying her down before removing her glasses and setting them on the floor above her pillow. Daniel put out the flame in the lantern then lied down next to the sleeping nixie, pulling the blanket over while her tail slid out slightly to the side. The girl rolled onto her side to face him while nuzzling her cheek against her pillow, her gentle smile remaining on her face as a few strands of her hair dropped down near her nose.

“Sleep well, Specca,” Daniel said before leaning in and kissing her gently on the lips. He leaned back and pulled his boots off, setting them down on the floor near them before he laid down, resting his head on his pillow while breathing out in content.

“I love you,” Specca said softly, with Daniel looking over to see the girl’s eyes opened slightly as she smiled at him. Daniel smiled in return, with Specca scooting over and holding onto him as she rested her head on his shoulder again.

“Sleep well, Daniel,” she said quietly before falling asleep again, with Daniel closing his eyes as he felt the nixie resting on him.

Specca sighed softly as she recalled how her night with Daniel went. Even more to her joy, she apparently slept through Daniel’s snoring completely. She didn’t even remember hearing him snoring once during the night, even though the other girls told her that they woke up to him snoring like he usually did. Of course, what did wake Specca up were the girls yelling out her name when they found her clinging to Daniel in the morning still, with her tail having once again wrapped around the boy’s waist. After everybody had calmed down, with Daniel regaining his senses after waking up to all the girls shouting and arguing that come the morning the girls’ ‘quality time’ with Daniel was over, everybody had carried on as usual for the day. The other girls, although jealous of Specca’s turn, didn’t treat her badly because of it, since after all they were expecting the same thing for themselves very soon. But for Specca, her ‘date’ with Daniel was on her mind all that day, something that she loved every moment of and was again counting the seconds until her next night with him.

“Specca? You ok?” Triska asked. Specca blinked then looked to her curiously as the teen was watching her with a raised eyebrow.

“What? Yes, I’m fine, why do you ask?” Specca asked.

“Because you just plotted our route to go in circles over there,” Triska mentioned while pointing to the map. Specca looked to seeing that during her daydreaming of her night with Daniel she had been drawing in a circle on the map over and over again.

“Oh, sorry, I lost my trail of thought,” she said as she quickly worked to correct the blunder. Triska nodded and glanced to seeing Daniel again looking ahead as he held the reins to Lucky.

“Gee, I wonder what from,” she remarked knowingly while looking to Specca with a slick smile. Specca glanced to her then looked back down to the map with a blush, remaining silent while her tail curled up behind her. Alyssa and Squeak watched her curiously while Triska leaned closer to the girl.

“So, what happened with you two last night anyway, we never got an answer from you all day.