White button-up shirt with a black jacket and tie. And long black pants and black shoes. He nodded toward to the docks and began walking past me holding my hand. I followed him. Then he stopped before the turn to the dock and grinned at me. I grinned back.
"What are you doing?" Ben then put his arms round the top of my back and lifted my legs off the ground and carried me, bridal style to the boat. Isn't he Romeo?
He then placed me on the bench, in front of candles and ice-cream. "Oh my God. I can't believe it. I-I love it!" I turned to Ben and stood up then wrapped my arms round his muscular waist and kissed him.
Then pulled back and stared into his eyes. Ben released his hands from my waist, and looked at me. "Wait here. I'll be right back." With that he charged back up the hill, his copper skin glimmering in the moonlight.
I sat there for barely two minutes before he returned carrying a white box with red roses tied to the top of the box by a silver ribbon. He sat next to me on the bench, and passed me the box.
"I know that I can't really buy you expensive things, like other boyfriends would, but I wanted to get you something, that would make you shine at the cotillion events."
"Oh Ben. I don't need anything."
"Can you open it? Please?" I looked at him with my emerald eyes and said yes. I untied the ribbon and placed the roses on the bench next to me. Ben picked one up and placed it behind my ear. Oh God. Isn't he just the romantic, but in a good way. I gave him a quick kiss again. Then I lifted up the box lid and stared in aww at the contents of the box. Inside laid a strapless, white silk dress, with a two small boxes laying on top.
I opened the largest of the two boxes and lifted out a silver chained necklace with a diamond heart-shaped gem dangling from another chain which was attached to the original silver chain with two silver pearls on either side. Ben took it from the palm of my hand and secured it around my neck.
I then opened the smaller box and inside was a matching bracelet, which he then placed around my right wrist. "Do you like them?" Ben asked. I leaned over and kissed him again and Ben lifted me up off the bench and onto his lap. We remained that way for another five minutes till he pulled away and grinned.
"I guess that's a yes then." I mirrored his grin. "I've got one more thing for you though." He chirped.
"Aww Ben! This is more than enough! I can't believe you bought me this!"
"I promise! Just one more!" He reached into his jacket's left inside pocket and pulled out another small box. I opened it and inside lay a silver watch with diamonds framing the main part of the watch. Also in the box were small diamond stud earrings. I looked at Ben and started crying. "Oh my god Ben! How did you get these? How can you afford all of this?" Ben looked at me then smiled.
"Well, I sold some of Sewee's fancy equipment and I got a few grand. Which, is well, about how much I needed. But I wasn't using the equipment and I wanted to buy you something. Also, I thought, now you have your own beautiful dress and jewellery for cotillion. And, you might get Whitney off your back now."
I stared into his sparkling eyes and then all of a sudden I realised. Ben was flaring.
"Ben. You're flaring!" I hissed. He looked at me.
"Well, Tory, you're flaring too. But how?" I stopped still. Then realised I that I was actually flaring. He looked at me with amazement. "I didn't even realise I'm flaring! And with me, I have to get mad!"
I didn't quite know what to say. With me, I can flare quite easily. But this time it had just happened without me summoning it. And, there was no pain. I sank into my thoughts as I tried to figure it out. Normally it takes forever but a thought just came to me. I think I know.
"Ben, we both just flared really easily, because maybe, just maybe, we now flare, from love. You can't flare unless you're mad, but look! It happened so easily." Ben looked shocked at first, but then gave a slight grin.
"I have an idea." He kissed me, with me on his lap and all of a sudden, my heart felt like it had exploded a million times at once. We kept kissing.
Suddenly I felt so strong and powerful, even without the other Virals there. I kept at it. He grasped my shoulders and pushed me away in shock. I stared at him.
"Are you okay?" He just stared at me, then looked pass me into the bushes. I looked too. Then understood why. There were two more sets of golden pupils looking at us. Then bodies emerged from the bushes. It was Hi and Shelton. I quickly climbed off Ben's lap and sat on the bench blushing like mad. Ben blushed too.
"Err, what are you g-guys doing here?" he stumbled, looking down at his shoes. Shelton's mouth opened but Hi beat him to it.
"Well, we were out and about and we saw you guys at the dock in the boat, doing, well, whatever." Shelton then crossed his arms and looked at me.
"That's not totally true."
He gave Hi the 'seriously?' face. "Yes we were out and about just walking around, but we both felt this strange sensation and came to the docks. Also, when we got here, we kind of saw a bright golden light."
"What?!" I jumped up. "From where?" Hi and Shelton glanced back and forth from Ben and me.
"You don't know?" They said in unison.
Ben and I looked at each other, and suddenly Ben stood up and grabbed my hand. "I know what they mean."
Hi and Shelton stepped back. "Do it."
They spoke to Ben, not me. He then turned to face me and kissed me for a few seconds. I
sensed Hi was filming us. That made me feel a bit weird. Even though it is Hi filming it. Ben then released me and nodded to Hiram. Hi brought up the video on his iPhone and played it.
It showed me and Ben starting to kiss and then a golden light rose from our lips and surrounded us. Except it changed. The light changed into flames. It got brighter and brighter and then the flames rose up above our heads and transformed into the shape of a wolf, still at first, then howling at the moon. Silently. Then Ben and I broke the kiss, and the flame with the wolf faded. The video ended.
"Holy crap." I said. "I know." The boys responded in unison. "How did you know what happened?" I asked Ben. He looked at me. His eyes were their normal dark brown, and I could feel my flare fading.
"Suddenly I kind of gained your ability just for a few seconds. My mind just leapt out of my head and I saw us through Hi's eyes. I have no idea how. It just, just happened." "What the hell is happening to us now? And I bet this doesn't happen to wolfs." I shivered.
"God, what's happening to us?"
There was silence all around. I feel dizzy. Oh god, I need to sleep. I started to fall, but felt Ben catch me on the way down. He lifted me up and laid me on the bench in the boat.
I blacked out.
