Will's POV
I walked into the moonpool with Cleo, we were both carrying a hand full of cushions. I looked around there were blankets and pillow all of over the ground. I treaded over them carefully and lay my cushions down against the wall.
We were spending tonight here for fun as well as protecting the girl from the full moon. Cleo had suggested spending the full moon with the moonpool, since she believed that it would protect them. At least it was a time to spend time with our own little family. I sat down next to Lewis and Zane and ate one of the biscuits. Cleo sat next to Bella on the other side, the girl side. I smiled; I had a family a happy family. It water in the moonpool sloshed slightly.
"Hey where's Rikki?" asked Zane
"I don't know, she said she'd be here before nine" said Cleo. She never really spoke to Zane much I could tell she was making an effort.
"Should I go look for her?" I offered. They all looked at me for a moment
"She'll be here," stated Zane looking me in the eyes. I nodded, at that moment Rikki swam up through the moonpool
"Hey," she said coming up from the water, her hair slightly less curly than normal. Her flawless pale skin glowing slightly
"Hey," we all said back in unison
"Nice," she said motioning towards our set up. I smiled. "Help me up," she said lifting her hands up. Zane and I stood up, weird, I thought to myself. But Cleo and Bella couldn't do it, and Lewis was absorbed in his book. I grabbed one of her hands and pulled her up. Zane did the same thing. We laid her on the blankets and she dried herself. Soon there was Rikki in her human form. My eyes widened, she was wearing a pink tank top and shorts.
"You look nice," Zane said, reading my mind and kissing her on the cheek, she blushed and went over to Bella and Cleo. In a couple of hours we were all in a comfortable silence. Lewis was reading, Zane was on his laptop, online shopping. I was just drawing randomly and watching everyone else. Bella was working on a new song. Cleo was flipping through a magazine, but very close to falling asleep. And Rikki, I didn't know what she was doing. She had a pencil and paper, it looked like she was drawing, but she was concentrating very hard on it. I let it pass and fell asleep...
I awoke to the sound of someone moving, I was an awfully light sleeper. I looked up to see Rikki, standing by the moonpool looking up at the moon. Ut-oh I thought. I stood up quietly. I wanted to wake the others up, but I didn't at the same time. My mind raced looking for excuses. Because if I woke the girls up they would become enchanted too. What about waking up the guys? No excuse for that yet.
"Rikki," I whispered cautiously, she dragged her eyes away from the moon and smiled at me. She waved girlishly and ran up the tunnel. Oh no, I thought as I ran after her. As soon as I got outside, the cold air hit me, I shivered it was so dark. I spun round and saw Rikki run into the woods, I ran after her. She was fast, I ran until I came to a clearing. She was sat there in the middle, clutching her knees, the blond hair down and slightly ruffled.
I hesitantly sat down beside her "Rikki?" I asked touching her arm, as soon as I did a ring of fire surrounded her. My eyes widened and I wanted to scream, Rikki had done this. "Rikki, Rikki look at me," I said urgently, shaking her shoulder, she turned to face me with empty eyes. "Make the fire go away." I demanded, the heat and the light was getting to me, I was sweating, but at least the fire wasn't spreading just stayed in the ring.
"I can't" she said.
"Rikki," I cried, the fire angering me
"It's too difficult," she whispered, I turned to face her and relaxed. She was scared. She was breathing heavily, and I could see she was sweating too. She faced me too.
"Calm Rikki, it doesn't matter. You'll get it eventually," I said trying to sound comforting, but having a problem keeping the panic out of my voice. I looked her in the eyes. And before I knew it we leaned in and kissed. I felt two things, passion. Lovely passion, it felt so right. But I also felt heat. So much heat. My lips burnt and I felt my lips go red. I couldn't breathe it was so hot. I fell backwards after a couple of second and the last thing I saw was brightly colored flames and pitched black sky.
I woke up and everything was bright, it was early far to early, I groaned and rolled over. Right on to a rock.
"Ow," I murmured sitting up
"Your awake," said Rikki, she was sitting there, obviously had been watching me.
"Yeah," I said. I looked around; there was no more fire, not even a ring of ashes where it had been. The memories of last night came back, the moon, fire...the kiss. "Do you remember what happened last night?" I asked, I didn't know what I wanted her to say
"Yes,"
"Ah," I said "I'm sorry,"
"You didn't do anything Will," she sighed, "I kissed you,"
"You were affected you didn't know what you were doing," I said moving closer to her, "You can't be blamed."
"What about Zane, imagine how he's going to feel," she said looking at me
"Don't tell him," I offered, it was the only thing that came to mind right now. She nodded,
"Yeah." And then I made a mistake, a huge mistake, I leaned in again and kissed her. But it was totally different this time, her lips were cool and soft. And to my utter surprise and I guess... delight. My hands were on the rocky ground. Her hand slid up my shoulder and round my neck. Her fingers gently gripping my hair. I pulled away from her
"Rikki," I whispered "No," and Lifted her hand on my neck. She closed her eyes
"Sorry," she said quietly and she stood up and walked backed to the cave. I followed silently, part of me wishing that I hadn't pushed her away. And unfortunately a rather large part.
We walked back to the moon pool and returned to our places without a word. And just in time, a few minutes later Zane awoke, I closed my eyes and pretended to be asleep.
"Morning Rikki," I heard him whisper happily.
"Morning,"
"See nothing happened there was nothing to worry about," he said gently
"I guess," I suppressed a smile, wow she was an amazing liar. "Um Zane," she said quietly.
"Yeah,"
"Well I was thinking about...us and I think that maybe we should take a little time away from each other." she said. What? She was breaking up with Zane, why? Why now? Oh god this was my fault. I immediately felt awful
"What?" he asked in disbelief
"Just to see if we are perfect for each other, please a little time apart,"
"This is because of Will isn't it?" he whispered angrily. Me? How much did he know
"What?"
"I see the way you look at him Rikki and I see the way he looks at you," he was getting louder now, he would wake everyone up
"Calm down Zane shhhh," I heard her say and then some movement, I assumed she'd moved closer to him
"Rikki," I heard Zane whimper, I felt bad for him, he really loved her. I'd never heard him so weak
"Just some time apart Zane, until we figure out what we want," she said gently
"Just some time, and if we realize we really do love each other," he said
"Yeah,"
"What about Will?" asked Zane his voice filled with jealousy? Really rich good-looking Zane was jealous of me?
"Zane that's none of your business," she stated. I heard him growl and advance towards me, I kept my eyes tightly shut and tried not to flinch "Don't touch him Zane," said Rikki her voice low and threateningly. She was protecting me?
"How can you like him?" he asked in shock
"I never said I did Zane, but if you ever lay a finger on him..." she threatened. He seemed to understand this threat because there was a silence
"Whatever Rikki," he said before leaving. Great. Rikki liked me and Zane was going to kill me. I opened my eyes. But seeing Rikki face watching me with concern. I realized I like her, so life was good.
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