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Aariel had been pacing back and forth for a while now, he had been trying to build up enough courage to ask Pandoria out, he had never felt this way about any girl before and so, as anyone knew, it was time to ask her out but the only thing is he had no idea how to as he had never been in this situation before and so he was totally lost on how to go about it. "What am I to do? This is hopeless, not only will I ruin this, I am going to look like a total dork out there and to top it all off she will probably reject me as well" he said in a total bundle of nerves to Aurora who had just put the children down to sleep, walking over he kissed each of their tiny adorable little heads and pulled the blanket over them just that tiny bit more, he didn't want them cold even remotely.

Aurora sighed and smiled at her best friend "Aariel, you will be perfectly fine" she said in a whisper so as to not wake the children "this is perfectly normal, granted guys usually seem to have an easier time asking the woman out then we woman seem to have asking the guys out but still, it does ususally go well wether the person doing the asking gets rjected or not" she said as she was quickly interupted before she could say anything else.

"Oh, thats it, I AM going to be rejected!" He said in a whisper "this just confirms my suspoisions, thank you, Aurora, I should just stay at home now..."

Aurora sighed once more "it was not what I meant, just go find her, maybe you will just be better, like some are, if they wing it, it is a shame I can't be there to watch but I promised to take care of the children" she said smiling a little more at him, a playful glint in her eye.

"Oh hush" he said smiling back at her "you will probably get enough entertainment from this later anyway" he said as he nuzzled Aurora, looked at his three beautiful children once more and took a deep breath and let it out "alright, I am going, no idea where she is but I am sure I will find her" he said as he left his children and Aurora and took to the skys and went in search of Pandoria.

Aariel looked down and saw Pandoria, heart almost beating out of his cheast due to how nervous he was and the fact that he had just basically flown a few miles in such a short amount of time, purely high on the rush of just wanting this rejection over and done with s soon as possible, the sooner he got this over with the sooner he will be able to get on with his life and the sooner they can just go back to...well...whatever they were before. Aariel knew they were friends but still, after this, cdould he truely still count themselves as friends even though that never seems to remain true? Only time will till he guess "hi!" He called flying down to greet her, deciding to keep whatever he had to say to himselffor the time being, it was better that way and he could have five more minutes at least to prepare something inside of his head for this.

"Wait up! Please!?" A small, out of breath, voice heard moments later, Sherbet had seen Pandoria and Kestrel leave their home and so he wanted to play with Kestrel today and ended up following them but due to the size of him he ended up trailing along way back behind them "I...I want to play with Kestrel if thats alright!? He called once more, after he had caught his breath a little.

"Aariel loooked at where the voice was comming from and saw Sherbet by a tree and flew over to him, picked up up and nuzled him "what are you doing here?"

"I was making my way to Kestrel's house, saw them and decided to follow, I told Aurora and Kemsa I was going to their house, I swear, didn't Aurora tell you?"

Aariel shook his head "no, she didn't, but then she did have a few things on her mind, I am sorry no one was around to take you, it was irresponsable of us" he said nuzzling the permababy's little head gently.

Sherbet nuzzled back "thats alright, I guess I should have asked but I know they way, it isnt TOO far from where we live, but I guess I should have asked regardless" he said as he looked over at Kestrel and back at Aariel "please though, can I play with Kestrel?"

Aariel nodded "of course" he said as he placed the little one on top of his head and carefully walked back to the others "someone thought he would follow you" he said as he picked Sherbet off the top of his head and placed him on the ground for Kestrel to play with.

Sherbet ran over to Kestrel "hi!!" He said happily, pleased to be back with his friend.

Aariel watched the two of them go and then looked at Pandoria, remembering now why he wanted to see her in the first place and remembering also that he still had no idea what to say or do but standing here doing nothing was rude so... "sorry about that, hi" he said once more smiling at her, deciding to try and mask the fact he had a hidden agenda.

Sherbet grinned at his friend and stood, waiting for her "hi, Kest!!" He said as he lent down and kissed her foreheade, giggling softly to himself "sorry, but you deserve it, so there!" He said as he nuzzled her a little.

"I DON'T? Look like a walking zombie?" Aariel asked Pandoria rhetorically but yet in a playfull manner "I guess I clean up alot better then I thought I did" he said playfully to her as he laid down to rest "though seriously, their good, Aurora just put the children down for a nap before I left, been down for about ten, maybe fifteen minutes so they will be down for at least a couple of hours...or at least Aurora and I hope they will be." He said with a soft sigh, hoping Aurora would be alright "but what about you? Hows motherhood with probably the most annoying baby around? Not that I don't love Kestrel, shes a sweetheart really but still, she is full on" he said, meaning 'annoying' in the most loving way possible, compared to Sherbet, she was annoying, Sherbet was at least a bit more polite and a bit more friendlier then her at least but he did love her regardless, she was a cutie even if she was full on.

Aariel blushed a little at the compliment but cleared his throat as if that was going to hide anything "thanks and she is, alot better then i am as a father as of late" he said to her, the main reason being that his mind was on other matters lately so playing father to three children wasn't exactly the top priority but Aurora understood that which is part of the reason she talked him into looking for Pandoria today "I am glad that motherhood is treating you well and yes, in small bursts is the only oway anyone can handle that angel but still, she is perfect just the way she is and I think Sherbet thinks so as well" he said watching the two wander off and then looked dowqn at her having moved closer and quickly moved "er...why don't we get abit closer to the children?" He asked her, back towards her as he felt himself blush again. Tt wasn't that he didn't like her advances, he did, but right now he wasn't entierly sure how to ask her out and So her advances, right now, while welcoming, wasn't easy for him to accept yet as he was still hooked up on trying to figure out how to ask her out and if anything, whilst it may seem like her advances would make things easier for him to ask her out, it didn't, didn't someone say that asking another out was meant to be done at the right time or something? Not that this wasn't a good time but was it the right time? Aariel shook his head to clear it and to try and get rid of the blush "w...we don't want to lose the children and I am glad shes gotten used to cuddling with you, thats sweet, guess Shergbet has taught her a thing or two" he said starting to slowly follow them a bit.

Sherbet followed Kestrel, not sure where he was going, he stopped and just looked at her, deciding to get an answer first beforegoing on "Kestrel, where are we going?" He, watching a butterfly fly past "and what is so bad about kissing you in front of anyone? It isn't like its a full on kiss, its only a peck on your forehead, nothing wrong with that is there?" He asked, never having found public affection wrong, but then he never cared as long as it was some form of affection, in this case, Kestrel was different.

'Yeah...throw myself into whatever I do, just like now...' he said under his breath before he looked back at her "yeah, sure, thats it" he said smiling at her "I always through myself into everything..." he said looking back to the front and sighed and looked over to see where the children were "you were just blessed" he said smiling softly to himself as he stopped and sat down, back still towards Pandoria "I am glad Sherbet has taught her a few things, it is nicer of her to be that way, though I have yet to see any chance in Sherbet" he said, wondering if he was ever going to ask Pandoria sometime this century.

"Ooo that sounds like fun!" Sherbet said to Kestrel, he always loved medows, they were so pretty and peaceful...well, for the most part if no other nikku's were around but even then he was sure he could find a peaceful spot "well...to be fair...we DO need to be protected still, I doubt you would survive if a demonic nikku attacked you" he said to her, knowing she wouldn't like it but it was true. Sherbet loved his friend, bestest friend ever! But even he was ignorant to think that he he could survive an attack from another nikku or whatever if push came to shove and whilst he liked how she was always wanting to be so tuff and all but still... "but it IS cute, it IS an 'awww' moment" he said playfully to his friend, more teasing then anything "but alright, no more kisses in public" he said as he carried on following her.