Aquarius explores the place, "I call the blue room!" Aquarius runs and jumps on the velvety looking light blue mattress with a canopy strung with white pearls over the head board, the ocean themed room reminded Aqua of her own room back home.

Aquarius hears Gemini yell out "Hey Aqua it appears that each room is nature themed."

She comes back to the doorway of Aquarius's room, "I found a forest themed room. "

Aquarius snuggles under her covers not bothering to take her armor off herself.

Aquarius gets up, "I want to explore this place." Gemini points out the door, "I'm going to go downstairs for a while I'm going to go see what kind of things there are here."

Aquarius didn't exactly like the idea of Gem leaving into the overwhelming city all on her own. Gem smiles, "don't worry about me Aqua, I'll be fine; I can see what your thinking right now."

Aquarius covers her head in the covers as she hears, Gemini walk away. "I know you'll be safe." She whispers.

Aquarius gets up out of her bed and goes to the balcony and looks over Pandora. She hears the glass door behind her open she notices the white shape of Aires out of her peripheral. "Do you mind if I join you Aqua?"

Aquarius gestures at her side, "yeah, wait i- I mean no...What I'm saying is I'm fine with you being out here. Not that I wasn't okay with you being on the balcony too, there's plenty of balcony to-"

Aquarius didn't notice Aires moving behind her he reaches up on the railing and grabs her hand. "I get it okay."

Aquarius looks up into Aires's eyes for the first time the blue glow of the city turning them slightly green as they mix with the amber.

"The city reminds me of the one, back home. The undersea it looks like it is full of bioluminescence."

Aquarius moves her hands away and looks over once again over the city. She could tell he might have feelings for her but are they even real? The last person that treated her like this was Taurus and he left Aquarius for Pisces. Aquarius bites her lip. "Why do you do that?" Aires says in a soft tone not trying to sound condescending.

Aquarius feels the soft wind whip her short blue hair away from her face. " I...I don't know what your talking about."

In fact she did know, Aquarius did feel something for Aires but Aquarius's heart still ached for Taurus as well. Aires grabs her hand once again and leads her to face him, "I think I do know, you're still not over...him yet are you?"

No I'm not

Her face must've said it all because the face he gave in return was full of sympathy.

"He must've really hurt you Aqua and I promise I'll never hurt you like he did."

Aquarius feels her heart ache and that nagging feeling come back, she couldn't contain it in anymore, "Aires I know you won't." She noticed how close he was to her now or how close she involuntarily shuffled towards him.

As they were about to kiss Aquarius turns away blushing and shuffles back towards the door, "I- I gotta go to bed, it's late you know... I'm kind of tired." She struggled to say with a lump forming in her throat as she fought back tears filled with mixed emotions.

She knew this couldn't be real surely that what she was feeling was something to fill the hole where Taurus once stood in her heart. But she was arguing with herself that this is a real feeling.

Aquarius couldn't move though she felt paralyzed by his gaze he gave her, her hands begin to feel clammy she wills herself to move over to Aires , "Is this real?"

"What do you mean?"

Aquarius puts up her now shaking hands, Aires reaches out and steadies her hands , "Is this real? Us, these feelings I-"

He leans in and kisses her cutting off her sentence. Aquarius doesn't think about anything anymore, suddenly the fear washes away from her like footsteps do on the edge of a beach.

They both pull away for some air as Aquarius notices they were both embracing each other.

"I like you Aqua and nothing can change that."

He broke down her walls without her even knowing, and rebuilt them with windows to let the sunlight in.

By the way I'd like to give a shout out to champion_01 who's always been a fan of this book and has given me support and the energy to write this book I couldn't have continued writing this book without you. :)