I woke to see Jackson gone, I slowly got out of bed, relieved and almost disappointed to find my PJ bottoms were still on my body. I stood up and opened the curtain, it was still dark outside. Which would mean that I would need to start getting back into my normal schedule.
As I stepped out into the hallway I could smell something cooking and found Jackson at the bottom of the stairs with a pan of eggs at the stove. I walk over and jump up onto the counter next to him, " you know you didn't have too."
He glanced up at me before pinning his attention back on the hot stove, "Ouais, I know."
i smiled in gratitude before jumping off the counter and walking over to the cabinets, " I can set the table if you want." He wasn't able to respond because lark and Finn walked into the room.
"Mmmm. Something smells delicious!" ,lark walked up next to me, " what's for breakfast, I'm starving."
Her hair was wet ans smoothly combed out, she must've taken a shower before I woke up, I needed a shower too. My hair was tangled and matted and my body still felt like in hand a thin layer of dirt covering it.
Jack turned off the stove and walked over to the table, I followed with a stack of plates. Once he set the pan in the sink and washed his hands, running tap! he looked back at Lark, "eggs. Was the only thing in the fridge that didn't go bad."
after breakfast I got first dibs on the shower upstairs so Finn took the downstairs one after waking Mathew up. Who woke with a start shouting as loud as he could, "Hermit Card! Arcana means secrets!"
the shower was warm and perfect, my shoulders sagging and my legs started to feel sore under the weight of my body as the hot steaming water rushed over me. I took my time washing my body thoroughly and brushing out my hair to feeling the bristles get caught in the process. I turn the water off and step out of the shower to dry off and the cold air hits me like a bat to the face. I rush to get warm and soon realize that I forgot my clothes on my bed! So I rap my towel tightly around me making sure all of me is covered up before taking a deep breath and opening the door. I take a step out and as soon as I do I see Jack standing right in front of me blocking my view of my bedroom door.
"Evangeline, um. Um. UM." , his gaze wanders from my face down and back up again, "think your doing this on purpose, peekon."
"I...I...uh.." ,I'm to flabbergasted to speak and frozen to the spot until Jack starts taking steps towards me. Pushing me backwards into the bathroom, "w...wait... We have to burry my mother while it's still dark outside."
"doan you worry peekon, she can wait." ,I must have had a goofy look on my face because he had a light smile creep up his face. Suddenly my back met wall and i saw that the door behind him was closed. I couldn't help myself from smiling at him, his eyes gazing at me like I was the most beautiful being in the world, and at that moment I felt like it.
He reached his hand behind me and placed in on the small of my back leaning down to kiss me, as soon as our lips met I arched my back towards him. Pushing my body against him deepening the kiss, the one hand holding on to my towel let go so I could rap both arms around him. I moaned he groaned, we were breathing for each other he entangled his hands in my hair. His body against mine the only thing keeping the towel up as it very slowly moved down showing more cleavage. I didn't care though, he pulled away from me my breath sped up as he took his shirt off. He moved back up against me picking me up and using his body to hold me up on the ground and on the wall, my legs on either side of his, my towel up to my ass, he leaned in and wispered in my ear, "Evangeline, your mine, I'm home peekon."
I smiled as he kissed my neck then my collarbone then closer down, and suddenly I didn't care what anyone else thought, I loved Jackson and I would give him anything.
My hands were pushing against his bare chest, "Jack." his eyes met mine, "we have to bury my mom before the sun rises."
We stood looking down at the spot were my mother was buried in the ground, my hand laced in Jacks, And Larks in Finns. I flicked my hand and a bundle of roses bloomed above the spot in the ground were she lay. The sun had just started to rise giving everything a warm orange glow. I started to lean against Jack for support. I reached my other hand out to grab Mathews.
"If what happened was true Evie, your mother didn't die in vain." , I glanced in her direction the war wolves were laying down next to her there heads bowed as if they understood the loss, her gyrfalcon rest atop her shoulder its little pilot helmet crooked. I heave a deep sigh, "yeah, I hope so." That night at dinner which Jack made from the crops I had pickled before we left, I was quiet, Mathew kept on murmuring the same thing over and over, "Hermit Card Strikes! Arcana means secret!" Multiple times we tryed to ask him what that ment but he just repeated it over again as if we weren't even there. That's when I remembered we would have to go to school tomorrow.
