Hello everyone! Long time, no update, huh? Crisis averted—I'm back!
Don't, won't
Dedicated to Chantelle Cullen! I'm glad that you relate to my character and sorry for it too. You've be a great inspiration to pretty much all of my stuff. This one's for you. Mucho thanks!
But in reply to carpe-diem-1299: I got the name by accident actually, lol. My friends Alex and Dico (short for Devon C.) were arguing and I had yelled at them so many times I got their names mixed up. By the time I had realized what I had said, I thought "Cool name!" and literally ran back to my house and typed up the chap that introduced Dalex and Kain! Fun, right? Thanks for your review!
Theia's POV
Chapter Four
"Hey, Theia. When'd you get back?" asked Heidi, entering the room with the strong scent of strawberries and cream.
"Obviously when you were in the shower." I sighed and laid my head on my desk
"Uh-oh…that's your depressed voice…but I know you won't tell me…so let's go get some coffee." she concluded. Damn, I could smell the peppiness she was emitting.
"The strong smell gives me a head ach." I moaned
"To flippen bad, Lady."
Before I really knew what was going on I had been whisked away by a very happy Kain and Heidi to the café then the pillow shop—I wasn't kidding when I said he loves pillows. And I mean he loves pillows.
I walked between my two friends and listened to Kain ramble on and on about finding the perfect softness and material combo as I sipped my coffee.
"There's just something about way pillows feel that relaxes girls." He said in a very Zen tone
"Ah-men." I said raising one hand
"You see, Hide? It's not just me!" he defended himself
"What ever…" she said unenthusiastically "I don't get it."
"Well, you're not one with your inner fluffy person." I countered teasingly
"Hey, uh…could you like…man that sentence up a little for me?" asked Kain "I'm not a chick."
"My bad." I replied sheepishly…needless to say, I stopped talking for a bit…
"Oh, Theia—heads up. Hot guy checking you out on your three." If I remember correctly she means my right, correct? "To your right, Einstein." Correct.
"Oh shut it. You shouldn't know what 'your three' is, Mrs. Digital Clock." I sniggered
"Hey," said a new voice "I'm Zander. I saw you in the café and, well…you intrigued me. I've never met a blind girl as pretty as you…you are blind, right?" His voice was sleek and tender like velvet
I nodded yes "and I'm beaming that I intrigued you." I heard him chuckle and then felt taps on my lower back. It was Heidi doing Morris Code, telling me what he looked like
"Light brown hair…kind of golden skinned…green eyes—cute!" she bubbled brightly through touch—don't ask me how, people.
"So…" I could hear his feet switch positions "if I asked you for your number…what would you say?"
"It's in the phone book." I smirked, hearing faint footsteps coming my way
"But…" he hesitated "I don't know your name."
"That's in the phone book too." I wound two of my fingers through a very familiar person's belt loop that had stopped at my side "could you do me a favor, Buddy? Step aside. We're looking at pillows, right Angel?" his fake excitement made me laugh slightly and our small group traveled through the rest of the store, just messing around.
"Dal, what took you so long getting here?" asked Heidi "and why'd you scare off that guy that was talking to Theia? You know, he must have been brave, coming up to a group all on his own like that!" I listened for the impact of her first against his arm…--smack – there it is!
"Ow, Hide! Why are you always hitting me?!"
"Answer my question!" –smack, smack—
"Which one?!" he pleaded afraid for his life
"Hey Thee, what do you think of this one?" asked an exhilarated Kain as he pushed a very soft plushy thing into my hands
"Good, God!" I squealed hugging with all my strength "It's Heaven!"
"Theia! There's a colossal one!" I searched for his hand
"Take me to it!" we ran a short distance and holy crap the things bigger then Kain "We're buying it!"
"Hey…when'd you two get way over there?!"
We spent the next few hours trying to get Mega Pillow into Kain's small sports car while still being able to see out the back…I'm not exactly sure if it worked but that's ok!
"Teehee…" I rubbed my hands together evilly "I am the divine owner of Mega Pillow!"
"As I am to its babies!" completed Kain. One of the reasons we had a hard time getting them is the car was um…he bought like nine of the little ones—which aren't that little.
"Sometimes, Man, I swear you're gay…" sighed Dalex
"You're so jealous you can't take it can you?" I asked and Kain slapped the hand I was holding up "Hide, you're going with Dally, ok?"
"Sweet, sweet revenge…" I heard her mutter acidly
"Uh…on second thought, I'll ride with you." I looked where I thought Kain should be and said "Take good care of M.P."
Everyone got in their respective cars and we started to head back to the dorms. Dally and I were just listening to music and talking about random stuff when I felt the mood of the car change from happy-go-lucky to perhaps anger?
"I don't like him." My friend said suddenly
"Who, Kain?" I asked, astonished by what I had just thought I heard
"No he's my bro." he said through gritted teeth "I'm talking about Reid." I straightened up in my seat
"What about him?" I asked trying to be nonchalant
"Your forgiving nature tends to bring out the worst in people, Angel." He huffed "I mean—if you let people walk all over you, you're just going to get trampled!" there was an edge to his voice that was painful to hear
"Dal, who's been giving you these ideas?" I smiled quietly to myself, trying to calm him down
"I can tell that you didn't know he was there!" he yelled, it made me jump "I know that you forgave him—even if you don't know it yet!" he was very quite for a long time and his breathing leveled
I put my hand over his "Why would people want to hurt me? The only thing that matters is what the people I love think and how they act around me. That's all that maters. Just you, Heidi, Kain, the rest of our crew, and my dad…those are the people that can hurt me." I half smiled sympathetically "I'm sorry you have to worry."
He abruptly switched his hand position to hold mine tightly "You see? That's what I'm talking about." He grumbled
"What?" I asked, confused
"Sam hurt you. Greg hurt you. Colton hurt you. And now Reid hurt you? God damn it, Theia—wake up! Even I hurt you!" he seethed, more at himself rather than me
"No you didn't." I tried to calm him, failing quickly
"I made you trust me, I screwed you, then I dumped you." His dead clam tone that I hate so much surfaced
I said nothing for what seemed like years; I just didn't know what to do "I guess…I just don't know any better way to try and make anything work."
The rest of the drive was silent, then, as soon as we got back, everything went on. It moved forward. Just like we all must do; because you can't change what happens…you just smile and put on a good face for the cameras.
Heidi and I carried Mega Pillow up the steps and to our room "Man, Thee, this thing is as big as your bed! Why do they even make stuff this big?!"
"For people like me!" I chirped and jumped on it, closely followed by Hide "I'm not done yet! You wanna go to Salem to night?" I smirked, knowing that we both had an old interest in witchcraft. Wicca is our weakness…pillows are just a me-thing.
"Sure!" we got ready in our most gothic clothes and headed out. Wicca is our secrete addiction. It's just such an amazing thing to believe in: magic, spells, loving nature. You know the good stuff. We participate in some of the big coven meetings that need extra help, like festivals. I love leaning new things about it. Hell I could listen for hours if someone could really talk to me that long.
I was dressed in a deep blue dress with black mesh over the top that went down to about four inches above my knees, black strappy flats that lace up my shins and a black, silk cape. Heidi went with a red clinch top and white skirt with small heels and a white cape.
We go all out for this shit. I mean, candles, oils, herbs,
I never let got of Heidi as we entered the woods to do a few rituals with who ever was at our spot tonight. This time it was Nicollette and Zoe, we got lucky.
"Hey, I guess we all felt the Full Moon eat at us to practice." Lightly chuckled Zoe "It's been a long time."
"Yes." I smiled "It has." We all meditated and balanced our centers then started warming up with simple protection charms and blessings
"You guys wanna go big tonight?" asked Nick
"What do you have in mind?" replied Heidi, obviously interested
"This one ritual where we need a subject and three people actually doing it…" She trailed off
"Ok…what does it do?" I asked
"It shows the future." Her voice was eerily soft "You want to?"
"Let's go for it." I said smirking "Who wants to be the testy?" No one said anything "fine." I hoped up on the makeshift stone table and laid down like she told me to "I'm not sure if this will work with me not being able to see and all…"
"I bet it will." Retorted Heidi "I bet you that if we just change the words it will be fine."
"Oh the bet's on now…" after we finished talking they circled around me and held hands
"Show me how my world will be, although this one cannot see. One true night under the full moon, show us what will happen soon. Dusk to dawn and day to night, tell us if we should be affright. The last day of the blackest night show this girl her soul's next sight." I felt the wind blow and the white and black candles must have flickered "If it's love, pain, or tragedy; tell the story for all to see. One more day is all we ask, to see this maiden's future past."
I took a sharp breath in and felt heat all over my body. Before I knew what I was doing, I arched my back and my body froze. I could see images in my head of two people in a dark room only lit by candles lying on a bed. The next picture in my mind was one of a man kissing his way down the valley of a girl's breasts to her stomach. The girl was kind of pretty, I couldn't really see her; actually I couldn't really see either of them. But he was beautiful, everything about him was amazing, I didn't even have to see his features clearly. Just perfection at its finest is the only way to describe him. There was an edge to the way we moved, like he was trying to practically live through her. The girl moaned abruptly
"Reid…"
I shot straight up, I felt so cold it was like I was frozen. I shook slightly and had ragged breath.
"Oh my god, are you ok Theia?!" asked Heidi grabbing me off the rock
"No, no…I'm fine." I smiled slightly "I saw."
Her breath stopped "You…you could see?"
"Yeah!" I hugged her tightly and felt tears sting my eyes "It was amazing! There were people and colors and light!" the tears spilled over and we ended the night on that amazing note. "The magic is real!" I hissed in a whisper, still excited. It's not like I saw anything; it was like…I could picture it in my head like I always do—but I don't know how the scene got there. So my mind is blown wide open.
"I knew it!" she giggled in return "That'll show Dalex! I can't believe he said Wicca was stupid." Heidi huffed
We walked a short ways to the school pathway. Our little spot was located in the woods right behind the Pool House—Lucky right?
We heard a couple of guys that smelled of chlorine come out of the building.
"Man, I still don't get why you froze up like that. You could have beat Pogue." Sighed a vaguely familiar voice
"Yeah…I just got like this weird picture…"
"Oh, no…" I stopped and didn't move "not now!"
"Theia, what's up?" asked Heidi, blowing our cover
"Theia?" My face went red but I didn't say anything
"Yeah, Thee, I'm tried so…I'm gonna go now!" chirped Hide. That bitch!
"Hey, wait up Heidi. You said you liked In This Moment right? I have their new CD and…" they were becoming farther away leaving me all alone
"Hey." Said a slightly guilty voice
"What?" I snapped, still red, I bet "Do you feel like babysitting me now?" I looked down and glare and nothing in particular. He had just ruined my night by, oh hell, existing.
"That was wrong of me to say—" he started
"You think?" I seethed
"Come on, don't be like that." He murmured
"Tell me, what do you get for even being here?" I threw my hands up in the air about to shoulder height "What is your reward for apologizing?"
"Clear conscience?" he asked, on the defensive again
"Bull shit." I called him out "What do you want?"
"You know what? Fuck it. I don't fail at getting girls." He took one half step toward me and I took one back "This is the first fucking time I've ever tried this hard at sleeping with a girl. And let me tell you something—you're probably not worth it!" I huffed an angry breath
"What makes you so sure?!" I pushed him harshly "I might be the greatest lay you'll ever have!" I yelled pushing him once again "But you have to be such an ass as to say some one needs to take care of me!" and again "What is the hardest thing you've ever had to do in your perfect little life?!" once me I shoved him, but this time he caught my hands and, learning from his mistake last time. He covered my mouth too.
"Shut up," he seethed in a harsh whisper "You don't know the meaning of suffering. When every morning you wake up and you feel like a freak of nature? Yeah, well, take a number." He pulled me closer and gripped one of my upper arms "When you feel like your insides are on fire and you don't know why because you don't understand who come it had to be you! Because you feel like you've been cursed by your own family but you want to keep them thinking you don't know that it was their fault!" he stopped and his breath was erratic
I stood very, very still while he held me. I didn't want him to hurt be, and right now…I'm sure he would.
"You're beautiful and smart and funny and your sight was taken—I'm sorry for that ok?! But I'm going to die…I'm killing myself!" his intense whisper echoed through my mind as he shook me sharply "You don't know pain…not me." Everything seemed to stop at that moment "I want you. If I don't get what I want now I don't know when else I'm going to get it—" he interrupted himself by crashing his lips to mine, hungrily. It scared me because I think this is how a dieing man would kiss his last love.
"What are you talking about?!" panicked thoughts ran through my head at light speed "Reid!" I yelled into his mouth
"Shut up." He moaned and I started to pound on his chest. He let out a primitive growl and picked me up, pushing my back to the wall. "Just go along with me here." He let his soft cavity roam in my own, I didn't respond but I didn't stop him. Again he picked me up and pushed me against the wall "Please kiss me back…" I was shocked, he had just begged me. No one had ever asked me anything that way before.
Making up for lack of pervious response I wound my legs around his core and weaved my fingers in his hair. Reid seemed to like it.
"What the hell are you doing?" asked myself, slowly "What ever the hell I want to." I smirked to myself and pulled his head up so I could be in control. I plunged my tongue in as slowly and enticingly as I could. He moaned and it sent shivers down my spine.
I could feel every move he made like they were in tens. Every breath he took got me high—is that normal?
My eyebrows shot up and I pushed him away again. "No!" I yelled and he dropped me for surprise.
"What the hell?" called a voice—a very, very, very dead. calm. voice.
Thanks guys! RXR
-OD98