Chapter 10
Talking
Salina was floating in a dark place barely lit. Salina looked around, but there was nothing and no one. She started to feel lonely. She felt like she had been there for hours. She decided to think of Sago. She thought of how he looked when they had come out of the meteors. She thought of how beautiful he was. His eyes, his face, his smile. She thought of how cool it was watching him use his powers. She thought of how it felt to be close to him. How it felt when they danced. How it felt knowing he may not care for her back.
She started feeling lonely again. But, then she heard someone call her name. It was a beautiful voice that was calling her name. The light started getting brighter and brighter. Salina opened her eyes to see Sago sigh in relief, then smile.
"Finally. Are you ok?" he asked. She nodded. She tried to get up, but she felt too weak to get up. Also, Sago gestured for her to stay down. "You need to just rest… also, please promise me that you won't use that attack again."
Salina was confused. "Why? That, uh, whatever it was, killed those things, didn't it?"
"For two reasons. One, because you don't know how to use it and it can sometimes be too powerful. And two, because it takes a lot of power and energy to use it and it CAN take your life." He looked very serious.
Salina nodded.
They sat there for a while, but Sago asked, "Do you want me to carry you inside?"
She shook her head and started getting up and almost lost her balance (not because of her clumsiness, amazingly), but Sago caught her and helped her inside. Once they walked through the door, Salina saw Kimberly as she ran up to her and hugged her leg.
"Miss nice putty lady, you ok!!!"
Salina let go of Sago and knelt down. "Yes. You really think I'm going to let that dumb dog and mean bird beat me?"
Kimberly shook her head and smiled. Her mom came over and picked her up. "Come on sweetie, she needs some rest. We are so glad you are ok." Salina nodded and smiled as they left.
"You should lie down." Sago said gesturing to one of the beds.
"I'm fine now. Don't worry." She said sitting down in a chair. She just remembered her shoulder had been scratched, but when she looked at where it was, it was gone.
"Yakumo healed it while you were unconscious." Sago Said sitting beside side her.
Salina had a question. "Has any of the other Salina's used that attack?"
Sago nodded. "That's the only attack that has ever been able to defeat Maliki. That's why they've both come back each time, because that attack kills them both."
Salina nodded. She thought that maybe she could find another way to defeat him. She was going to find a way.
They were all quite for a while. It must have been real boring here before I came, Salina thought.
"Is there anything we can do here? Lets try and think of something."
They all sat there and tried to think.
"Hey, how about we go swimming in the ocean." Salina suggested. They looked at each other, smiled, then nodded.
"That sounds real fun. Come on. I got bathing suits in the room." Yakumo said grabbing Salina's hand and yanking her to the other room.
She pulled out a light blue bathing suit and a purple bathing suit. They had short sleeves and a skirt attached to the bottom. They changed real fast, excited to just have some fun together.
They went to the next room and Salina had that flipping feeling. The guys had changed, too, and were in shorts, not wearing shirts anymore. Salina's face must have looked like it could have been burning from it being so red.
"We ready to go?" Sago asked.
Salina was still staring. "Ye-ye-ye-" she stuttered until Yakumo patted her back. "Yeah."
They headed outside. The boys were walking in front, the girls a few steps behind.
"I'm sure Mushra will make fun of how much torture this is." Yakumo said.
Salina just shook her head saying, "How could this be torture?" they made it to the ocean.
The moon was out, so it shined on the water. It was beautiful. The water was so bright, she wondered, if she stepped in it then out, if she would be covered in white water. Salina's water fascination was interrupted by someone splashing her. She looked to see Mushra, hands behind his back, whistling and Sago and Kutaal pointing at him.
She smiled an evil smile, and then water shot up, with Mushra on top of it yelling, "Ok. Ok, I'm sorry. Now put me down."
Salina smiled even more, then said, "You asked for it."
The water disappeared and Mushra fell in the water. He came up yelling, "The crabs pinching my nose. It's pinching my nose." He sounded as if he a stuffed up nose. Everyone laughed there butts off, but Yakumo came up and got it off. Mushra grabbed his nose and said, "That was not funny."
Salina pinched her nose and said, "No it was not." They laughed again.
Mushra splashed everyone one and everyone came in and started splashing him. They played for a while. They ended up teaming up. Salina and Sago on one team and everyone else on the other and of course Salina and Sago won. It started getting cold, so everyone started heading inside. Salina stayed outside, just watching the water, hypnotized.
Sago walked over. "Can't stay away from the water can you?"
Salina shook her head.
"I'll go get you a cover." He said, possibly noticing her shaking a bit.
She sat down on the sand and wrapped her arms around her legs and put her chin on her knees.
Once Sago came in, Mushra asked, "What she doing out there?"
Sago grabbed some covers, then answered, "She's watching the ocean."
"She just has a thing for anything that has to do with water, doesn't she?"
Sago was a little silent.
"Ok, I'm gonna skip being nice and just get to the point. I know you loved Salina a lot, but she is gone. That girl sitting out there really cares about you, and you know you care about her. It's not wrong to fall in love with someone else if the one you loved is gone, especially if the one you loved wanted you to move on. If you wait to long, you'll lose her, too, and today was a perfect example. Get over the old Salina and go to that Salina out there."
Sago was quiet for a moment, then looked up at his friend and smiled. "Thanks."
All Mushra did was smile and nod. Sago headed back out there, came up to Salina, handed her a cover, and sat down and wrapped his around him.
"Thank you." Salina said.
Sago didn't say anything back. She looked at him and saw he had a serious look on his face.
"I think its time we finally talked. If there is anything you want to ask me about my past, ask away." He looked at her and waited.
She took a minute to think, then she thought she'd start with asking the question that she already knew the answer to, but wanted to heard him say it. "You were more then friends with her, weren't you." She knew he knew who she was talking about.
"Yes…we loved each other, and when she was defeated, it hurt so much that I almost left the gang. And its been even harder…seeing her, but it not be her, for her not to have feelings back…. Then you came along."
Salina looked up at him, now focusing on what he was saying.
"Mushra was right. You've made it easier and better for all of us. So much more for me. First, I thought you where just a really great girl, then I started to feel something I hadn't felt in a long time. I loved seeing you try not to blush when I looked back at you when you would stare. I love how you make everyday funnier no matter what. I love the feeling I get when I'm close to you. I love how you will do anything if it's needed of you. And now I know that…I love you."
Salina's stomach was flipping out of control, her heart was pounding like crazy, and she was so surprised and happy that he had actually said he loved her.
He went on. "And I'm so glad that it possible that I'm lucky enough to have you feel the same way back."
They stared at each other for the longest time, but it started getting too cold so they headed inside. Once they where inside they saw Kutaal lying on his bed asleep, Mushra sprawled out on his the bed asleep and guessed Yakumo was in the other room asleep too. With out talking, they smiled at each other, said good night and went to their beds. They were both awake for at least an hour, just smiling to themselves, but eventually fell asleep.