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Chapter 10

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It was cold when I woke up. I had had a dream… filled of hands with daggers for fingers… and cigarettes loosely hung between them… swirling around a pool of darkness…

The bed springs dug uncomfortably into my aching back, and I felt as if somebody was screwing bolts into my head. The pounding in my head wouldn't stop.

My eyes opened to show I was back in my room. I tilted my head to check the clock, which read 4:00 A.M. I tried to remember what had happened before I was here, but everything was a blur.

Until I spotted a pair of torn gloves on the desk.

I remember… I was just about to kill off the colonel… when something… or somebody… hit me in the back of the head hard enough to knock me out. They must have seen me… somehow…

And suddenly I got a weird feeling in the pit of my stomach… and the smoke smell lingering in the air of my room wasn't helping me calm down my mind.

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"IT WAS OMIGOSH GREAT!" Kyara screeched in the colonel's room later that day. Roy was at the desk smirking, knowing nothing of last night's drama while he lay asleep, and Kari was hanging off every word that came out of Kyara's mouth.

"What did you do?" she asked, eyes as wide as golf balls.

"Well, first we went out to eat at this very nice and very expensive seafood restaurant and he PAID! It was like 60 dollars! And you know that boy is almost broke…"

"Yes yes…now go on!" Kari said, sort of bouncing in her chair. I sat opposite to both of them, inspecting my hands intently, and thinking about what the hell happened last night.

"Alright then we left and he put his jacket around me because I was cold and then.-"

"HOW SWEET!"

"Yes yes I know… and then we went to the movies and saw this funny flick… I forget the name… and when he walked me back to my room…" she trailed off.

"WHAT!" Kari asked impatiently.

"HE KISSED ME!" and then the room erupted in squeals. I instinctively covered my ears and looked over to see Roy's reaction. He simply looked at his papers and shook his head with a smile. I could have sworn I saw the slightest tint of pink as he glanced at Kari.

"That is sooo romantic…" Kari said. "If only that could happen to me…" she sighed and Roy's cheeks turned a darker color of red. "Tell me… what was the kiss like?"

"Well…. It was great, of course… his lips touching mine… and the whole world was in slow motion…. And it was if I was looking deep inside him… finally learning all there was to know about him… it was just so magical… I wish it had never ended." She said, and the room was silent. Until I spoke up.

"How do you know you love Ed?" I asked, and she looked up at me with a puzzled expression. Then it softened into a smile as she looked towards the sun shining through the window.

"It's a feeling… like every time I see him, my stomach lurches-in a good way of course- and… whenever we look into each others eyes it's as if he's looking into my soul… and whenever he touches me I get this tingling feeling, or shivers up and down my spine…" she said, and I couldn't help but look at the ground. This was garbage. Total garbage. It couldn't be true… it just couldn't…

"Rose, Kyara, we should go outside and have some girl talk! Then you can tell me who you like without Roy sitting here…" she said and I jumped up.

"Um… no thanks… I uh… have some business…"

"What business?" Kyara asked as they both stood up.

"I just…. I need to go…. Sorry…" I said, and sped out of the room and towards the door to outside. I needed fresh air.

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Around the corner was Havoc, lazily smoking a cigarette and peering out at the dismal street. What perfect timing, Rose. I was going to turn around and walk back inside, but something made me walk over and lean upon the wall next to him. He looked over at me surprised.

"What…. What are you"-

"Why do you smoke?" I popped the question, as I coughed at the horrible smell floating from his mouth. The blood-pumping organ in my chest couldn't have gone any faster. He looked back out to the street and blew out a puff of white death.

"It's the only thing I can count on for comfort… it makes me feel good…" he said, and I did something I didn't know I could do. I turned towards him and yanked the cigarette out of his mouth, threw it on the ground, and smothered it with my boot. He looked at me, startled.

"What are you… doing?..."

"It's not good for your health, you know… you could get cancer or something…" and I turned to leave. He grabbed my arm and whipped me around, a look reflecting madness hinted in the darker blue of his eyes. And then there was tingling where he was touching me… and shivers up and down my spine… and I wanted to slap Kyara.

"Why do you care?" he asked very lightly. I found myself blushing as I tore away from him, and I rushed up the stairs to go back inside. In my head, I was thinking because you, unlike anybody else, cared about me last night…

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I came to the alley way expecting to be yelled at harshly. But when I turned the corner, he wasn't there.

I must have waited at least ten minutes before I decided to go back.

It was an easy climb to my window, as like every night about this time. The cold stones felt good upon my fingers and heated body. And as I climbed into my window, I had a feeling… like I wasn't alone…

I stepped inside, and a voice from a figure sitting on my bed came out, almost making me stumble out of the window with surprise.

"Where have you been?"

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