Flames Of Ice
Chapter Nine
My Eyes Don't Lie
My eyes crack open to the sunlight shining down on me through the glass of the window above my head. Beside me, the sheets are cold, and I know that Heather is in the kitchen because I hear the refrigerator door shut noisily. I goan, and turn onto my stomach, burying my face into the comfort of my pillow, trying anxiously to go back to sleep.
I stifle a yawn, and when I notice that I will not get back to the wonderful sleep I was in before, I sigh as I do every day, and run my fingers through my hair to get it away from my face. However, I do not get up, but stay lying on my stomach, and stare at the wall.
I love you too...Shuichi.
I smile a small and simple smile at the notice of what I told him last night. I see his face as I stare, his beautiful, amethyst eyes staring at me with the biggest tint of happiness lying within the depths of them. I can't wait to see him again, to hold him in my arms, to kiss those wonderful lips.
My thoughts are disrupted by my annoying girlfriend. She jumps in through the door, happily bounding over to be. She stops in front of me, and leans down to give me a kiss, but I turn away and pretend to try to sleep, for the simple reason that I do not love her anymore, and that I don't feel like putting up with her perkiness.
"Eiri, get up!" She sang in a high voice. I groaned, burying my face deeper into my pillow.
She placed a hand to my shoulder, and started to shake me, but I threw her away from me, for I was getting even more annoyed by the second.
She jumps onto the bed beside me, and starts to peel away the sheets from my head, slowly revealing my messy blonde hair before I stop her.
"Heather!" I yell, telling her to let me sleep. She backs off of the bed, and starts toward the door. But before she walks out of the room, she turns back and looks at me.
"I love you..." She whispers. Not sure that I heard her because I did not reply, she carefully walks back over to my side of the bed.
"I," She starts, as she lays a hand on my shoulder.
My action, though totally nessesary, made me regret just a tinsey little bit.
I turned around, and hit her in the jaw. (LMFAO!)
My eyes widen as I notice what I did soon afterward, and I do feel a bit guilty, but before I can tell her I'm sorry, she runs out of the room in a mess of tears. I hear the bathroom door slam shut, and I sigh before climbing out of bed to fetch her and apologize.
I stumble through the bedroom door, walking out onto the cold floorboards of the living room. I hear her sobbing in the bathroom, and roll my eyes at the door before knocking. (For I didn't hit her that hard. If I did, I would have dislocated her jaw.)
I knock twice, leaning my shoulder against the door and closing my eyes. "Heather?" I ask the door aimlessly.
"Go away!" She cries loudly. I sigh again, and look out of the windows occupying the wall on the other side of the room.
I love you too...Shuichi.
"Come on, open up." I say pathetically, with another roll of my golden orbs.
"Go away Eiri!" She screams back. "I hate you!"
She lets out a loud cry, whining because her jaw hurt.
I never thought I would hear those words escape from those lips. Ever. She always told me how much she loved me, and how she wanted so badly to spend the rest of her life with me. And now, I'm standing outside of my bathroom, listening to her babble about her hurt jaw, and hearing her scream that she hates me. Boy, does time go so fast.
I then, decided that it was the time.
"Heather, listen to me," I say in a softer voice that what I was talking in before. I sigh, running my fingers through my hair to keep it from falling into my eyes. I lean my head back against the threshold of the door, and cross my arms over my bare chest.
"Heather," I say this time a little more stern.
"What?" She replies in a sad voice. God, I hope she doesn't explode in tears on me,
I don't reply at first, but take a second to make sure I'm actually going to do this. "Heather, I...We're through..." There, the words are out. She didn't reply at first, but I knew she heard me.
Suddenly, the door came unlocked, and she opened it all the way to face me. Her jaw was a little red, but not so much that a bruise was going to coinside there.
"What?" She asked, tears welling up in her eyes again.
"You heard me." I replied, standing face to face with the woman I was going to scar forever. Her eyebrows start to furl, and she looks away from my eyes.
A long silence sits between us, before she moves away from me, to starts into the bedroom with no questions asked.
I let out a long, hot breath, and start into my den. I sit there, in the silence of the room, like I did a few nights ago, leaning back in my chair, and staring up at the ceiling. I start to close my eyes, but I notice that it is after noon, and I need not to be sleeping in any longer.
Minutes drone on, and what feels like an hour, was just a quarter of one. I start up out of my chair, to go into the bedroom to see if Heather needs a ride out, but as soon as I climb up from my chair, and start towards the den door, I hear the front door close heavily, and not a trace of the woman is left in the house.
She's gone.
Freedom at last.
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"Eiri?" A certain someone calls out in my house. I do not answer, but they know where to find me. I am sitting back on my bed, leaning against the headboard behind me, and just thinking. My golden eyes have probably never even left the same spot on my wall as I sat here for hours, just...thinking.
After looking in both the kitchen and the den, Shuichi slowly opens the door to the bedroom, and I watch as he peeks his small head of pink fluff around the door. My eyes leave the wall, and stare into his eyes, only thinking about what was now mine.
"I saw Heather in a taxi driving by, and I figured I would just..." I cut him off my the look I give him, and beg him to come over by me with my eyes. He drops his bag to the floor, and starts over to the bed, slowly coming closer and closer to me.
He climbs onto the bed, but not touching me in any way. Oh god, how I waited to see him again.
"Are you okay?" He asks carefully. I lean my head towards him, and look at him with an expression that told him yes.
I sigh before saying anything. "Heather's gone...for good." I say, thinking he'd jump up and down with joy.
I see a small smile play on the likes of his lips, and as I watch that smile grow, one of my own blossoms. But it fades away as we sit there beside one another, slowly taking in what was going to happen between us. We stare into each other's eyes as if there's no tomorrow.
I reach up a hand, and cup his cheek with it. I stroke the skin there with the faint touch of my thumb. He moves his head, rubbing his cheek against my hand, before taking it away from my face, and lacing it in his own.
I bring our intertwined hands to my mouth, and kiss his fingers like I did the night before, and I stare into his eyes as I kiss every last one. I take our hands apart, and place his palm onto my cheek bone. He strokes my cheek, just as I did his, and my heart skips beats as he does so.
I use my other arm to pull him closer to me, and as I pull him closer, I shift behind his body. He plops up into my lap, and leans back against my chest, letting my arms slip freely around his body. I lean my head into his shoulder, leaning it against his own. I start to place small, but loving kisses along his neck, and he leans his head back, telling me to continue.
I work my way over his cheek, and to his mouth, where I place a passionate kiss. He kisses back with more heat, but I don't exactly feel like making out right now.
I bury my face into the comfort of his shoulder, and I feel his soft hands lacing through mine.
"Hmmm...Shu," I mutter into his neck. "I missed you so much..." I smile into his shirt, but do not expect a reply.
I hear him giggle lightly. I hum into his neck again, and he places a hand to my face, I, leaning my head onto his.
A long a peaceful silence falls between us, and I close my eyes to take in his presence for the next few minutes. I sit here, holding my one and only in my arms, as if I hadn't seen him in ages, but just a few minutes afterward, he breaks the silence.
"Do you miss her?" He asks quitely, and I notice he is looking at the picture of she and I on the bedstand.
I sigh before replying further. "I love you, Shuichi."
A short pause precedes his reply. "And I love you." he says, for apparently, my statement was enough for his to realize that I was his, and that this was real. I run my rough fingers through his hair lovingly, and he turns around slightly to look at me.
I stare into his eyes, the most beautiful little works of art I have ever seen. They sparkle with blithe light, and within their depths, they hold just how much he really does love me inside. He rests his head back onto my shoulder, still gazing at me with his amethyst orbs. A peaceful silence lies between us, and as the moments slowly go by, we treasure each other's presence.
I un-lace my hand from his, and run it over his cheek, over his ear, and through his bubble-gum pink tresses. As I hold him close to me, I lean my head against his carefully, and close my eyes. I feel the slow up and down motions of his chest as he breaths, and hear the sigh coming from behind his plump lips.
His fingers stroke mine as our laced hands rest upon his groin. I take in the faint scent within his hair; strawberries, strawberries almost, but not quite as sweet as my Shuichi.
He snuggles closer into my body, and as the moments continue to sparkle past, he begins to slowly decend into a light sleep. I stare into his face, wondering how I ever became so fortunate to get someone like him.
I gaze into his visage, for it's even beautiful when he is asleep. I hold him for hours, before I move forward, and place a kiss on his delicately formed lips.
He stirs a bit, waking him from his slumber, and once he notices that its my lips against his, he kisses back with the purest passion.
"Mmm--Eiri?" He asks quietly, after we pull away.
"Hm?" I hum sweetly, making eye contact with him.
"Can I...Can I stay with you tonight?" He asks meagerly. He stares up to me, hoping with all his heart that I tell him yes.
I start to smile, and I nod gently. "Yeah," I say softly. He smiles up to me, and kisses me with sweet lips, before he lays his head back against my shoulder, and sighs again.
"Shuichi..." I say in a soft voice.
"Hm...?" he asks, before a short pause precedes my next words.
"I really do love you," I tell him, bestowing a kiss on his warm cheek. I hear him giggle, just faintly before he answers back.
"I love you too, Eiri." he says happily, and I pull him closer to me, with a strange sense that tells me not to ever let him go from my arms.
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A/N: End Chapter! I already have the next chapter written down, and I just have to type it, so expect an early update. Read and review pretty please, for your reviews bring my day up! Thanks honey bunches and oats! lyl! bye
Okay, I have someone to update for me for the time being, so I will not have to send out future chapters unless something terribly wrong happens like my computer blowing up or a stupid retard like my brother throwing against the wall or something other than normal happening to it. So I guess the updating as back to normal. YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!!! okay review please!!!!!!! I need feedback!!! Thank you for putting up with the shit that has been happenig with this story and soooo forth!!! BTW--next chapter (I think) there is a handjob towards the end, so if you don't likey, don't read because I'm nto going to take flames about that being nasty. Just keep the fucking comments to yourself if you don't like and I will not have to beat your ass. Thank you and have a nice day...:) c u next chappy!!!
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