Chapter three: Can you not

I guess my feet wanted me to go to mother because I ended up to the edge of her Wiccan Circle. I skirted around the other Witches to find my mom. It's very important to NOT break the circle last time I did it took me a week to grow my eyebrows back. Mom holds the gathering once a week on Fridays at eleven o'clock. It was the main reason we came to the Fare. There are ten Wiccans currently in mom's group, most are locals. I found mom near an oak tree. It was the same color as Ben's eyes. Whoa gettin' off track. I whispered in her ear.

"Momma I got an emergency." My eyes darted around in hopes of not disturbing anyone. Mom cracked open one eye and peeked towards me. And out of the corner of her mouth rage whispered.

"Emmaline Grace Atwell, you know not to interrupt a Gathering." Oh crap she pulled the middle name card. I'm in trouble.

"It's a romance emergency. Ben, Florence's brother, kissed me." Her eyes flew open and she rudely dropped the two hands she was holding. Contact is important in a Circle and mom just broke it. Craps gonna to hit the fan.

"HE DID WHAT NOW!?" She screamed, alerting the other women. They cast startled glances at her and she blushed. "I am sorry to say that this week's Gathering will be cut short due to some romantic problems my daughter is facing." A few of the long distance Wiccans left leaving only five locals. I smiled shyly and did a little wave, a red head waved back. An older witch spoke with broken English.

"May ve stay? Most of us have vounglings the same vge as yours." The pretty redhead that waved earlier nodded. Two more left, I'm assuming that they don't have kids.

"I guess if you want to, I could use some advice." Mom sat down and patted the spot next to her. Soon we were all sitting crisscross applesauce in a tiny oval. "So Emily tell me EXACTLY what happened in detail." I looked down at my lap and blushed.

"Before you begin, please tell us who tis boy is Emily." A Witch spoke with a heavy Scottish accent. Hehe Scottish can't say H.

"His name is Benedikt, and he's…" mom cut out the rest of my words with an angry.

"He's her Cursed One." She spat out Cursed One like it was a vile toxin in her mouth. That's weird because she's not prejudiced. All of the ladies started to awe and gushed about me. It got loud real fast, with all the women talking about how cute that was and their significant others. Mom made a quick shushing noise and looked over at me.

"Uh yeah he's my Cursed One I guess. He was walking me to my trailer and asked if he could date me. Well he said cort so." More awes filled the air and Mom made tisk sound and mumbled 'this boy has class.'

"I didn't really respond at first because I was thinking and he got this look on his face that looked like I just shot his unicorn in front of him." Mom narrowed her eyes and thinned her lips.

"When did he kiss you?"

"After I kind of said that I would date him but we'd have to talk to you 'bout some conditions first. And he was all like 'whatever you say Emily' and then picked me up a spun me around and then dropped me and he kissed me." I glanced at Mom and she had a proud smile and rubbed my hair.

"Whatcha say after?" I let out a nervous laugh and fiddled with my hands. And mumbled out my answer. "Louder."

"I said' Uh... Thank you?' and ran to you. Because you said you wanted to know if anything like this happened and now Lex is gonna be mad she missed it." I took in a long breath at the end of my ramble. Mom broke out a guffaw and side hugged me. Mom is the only person I'll let touch me, well her, Florence, and now Ben apparently. All the ladies who had stayed silent since mom told them to all snickered. I groaned, great I'm never going to live this down.

"Well… that's polite Emmie." I don't know how she got that out because she is still snorting and grabbing her sides. I glared and wacked her arm.

"Mom! Be serious please. What do I do?" I buried my face in my hands. I totally screwed this up.

Ben? I called out to him. I hope this works and he answers. Ten seconds later I got a response.

Yes, Emmaline.

Dang it he laughing too. I really am Emily, Queen of the Freaks. I stood up in a huff and said a see you later to mom and head back to camp. Mom called out a love you it was all jumbled with giggles.

Ben did I mess up? I'm sorry if I did.

Ben mentally smiled. I sighed in relief, so he's not disgusted with my minimal kissing abilities.

It was your first kiss, my dear, I was not laughing at you, but what you said.

Like that makes it any better.

I whined, I was at the front of my door about to unlock it. When branch snapped and I spun around swinging. There was a crunch and a groan, I must have hit my mark.

You sure did Emmaline.

His voice sounded pained. Oh my god the face I hit was Ben's! Well that will teach him not to sneak up on people. I tenderly moved his hands away from his nose.

"I'm so sorry Ben! I didn't know it was you. Didn't your momma teach you never sneak up on a Southern?" I giggled some, and softly tilted his face to one side. His eyes were a honey brown. The coroner of his lips were quirked up. Wow he's sexy, Little Emily was just about melted into a puddle when he looked at me like that. Focus Emily, Ben's nose might be broken and you're over here thinking about kissing him!

"It must have not come up." His voice was a nasally from me pinching the bridge of his nose. He winced when my hands shifted. I whispered a sorry and let go. He sweetly smiled and waved it off. There was a sickening crunch when he snapped it back in place. The blood had stopped when he rubbed his palm over it, he's healing it. That's so cool!

"Ha, that's so cool Ben. How long have you been able to do that?" I ripped his hand away a replaced it with mine. I was touching everywhere on his sniffer. It was nice and aristocratic. He captured my hands and held them near his chest. He was warm and solid. I thought vampires were supposed to be cold?

"I am glad you think that I am cool, I have been able to heal small wounds since I was ten. My mother taught me."

"That's sweet Ben." In a sudden wave of bravery I pecked his check and staggered up the three stairs in a blind haze. Why did I do that? I ripped open the screen door and said a night and slammed the door. Not noticing Ben's pale fingertips lightly brush over the still warm spot were I kissed him.

I felt a buzzing feeling from my fingers. I sprinted to the window on the other side of the trailer and flicked open the flower design curtain and saw a lone daisy planted in the dead grass. I only smiled and crawled into bed.

A/N: Hey my loves oh how I missed you. So two things i need to get done with. One I need you to tell me if you like the people in my story, i need to know if they are guys you can relate with and they are not Mary Sue, Second I have made a rule that I will not update until I get at least one comment telling me to continue. I don't want it to seem like I'm only doing it it get likes, but i need to know if people are reading this and I'm not just writing to air. And as always tell me about spelling and grammar mistakes and I'll just go plant mushrooms in my closet. (Bonus cookie if you get my reference) :) Happy Halloween and be safe :)- love Maybird1