"After Party"
"Finally" Athan moaned "It's so effing boring here"
"Yea, and this music sucks" Kiron added.
"Big time" Kalika agreed.
"It's seriously putting me to sleep" I chimed in.
"Yes, yes, we all know the music is lame" Vitani said impatiently "Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go tell the others were going"
She darted away, and ran up to random groups of teenagers. She talked to them for about two seconds before moving on to the next.
"So, you guys know where this party is?" Austin asked.
"Nope. . ." Xavier answered "She holds them in a different place every time"
"Yea" Tansy chimed in "And there always insanely awesome. Like the one she threw last year after the Reunion Of The Black Rose"
"Yea, what is all this black rose buisness anyway?" I asked.
"It's the name of our coven" Athan answered.
"Yea, it's one of the oldest covens out there" Kalika chimed in.
"Yea, and Prima is the Regina" Kiron added.
"Regina?" I asked.
"Leader, queen, CEO" Kiron elaborated "Whatever you wanna call it"
"Ohhh" I said. More Italian. . .
Vitani whirled back to us, "Okay, everybody ready?" she asked.
"Yea, let's go" Tansy said, bouncing with excitement.
"Alrighty then" Vitani said, snapping her fingers. Suddenly, the party around us became to become blurry. Until I could no longer make out the shapes around me. Slowly, my surroundings began to regain focus. But, as it got sharper, I realized I was no longer in the ballroom. Once everything was clear again, I realized I was in the woods.
We were in a big clearing, the one Vitani had brought me to fight with her, I was sure. Only, it looked different. It looked like summer now. The grass was bright green and overgrown. And the trees had all their leaves, and nets of Christmas lights were thrown on the trees. It was warm here, too. Not at all like December. There was a big pile of wood in the middle. Tikki torches were placed around, and there was a DJ. A bartender was stationed behind a teak bar. Several witches seemed to be entertainers. They were juggling balls of light, and baton twirling with flaming batons. Loud music was playing, I recognized the song as "The Diary Of Jane" by Breaking Benjamin.
As I looked around, people began popping in. Literally, they would just suddenly appear. Mostly in big groups. Soon, at least 50 kids were here.
The oldest person looked almost 23.
"Were are we?" I asked nobody in particular.
"The woods behind my house" Vitani answered.
"But. . .it's so warm here. . .it looks like spring" I said.
"Weather spell" she explained "I have about a mile of woods covered with this spell"
I was about to speak, but people began flooding in and it was getting hard to hear. The music blared, and people were shouting.
"And now the night can begin" Vitani shouted above the noise.
Shouting randomly, Vitani and her freinds ran off to the center of the party. They began dancing to the loud music.
Vitani was switching between dancing with Kiron, and dancing with Athan.
Tons of others were dancing to. While others were getting drinks at the bar, and others were swimming in an inground pool that so wasn't there before. . .
I guess this is what you gotta expect from a witch party.
"Wanna dance?" I asked Austin, I had to shout even though he was right next to me.
"First let me get another drink" he said, making his way to the bar.
Feeling awkward just standing there, I went over to the huge pool. As I walked, I zapped my dress and exchanged it for a plain black bikini. I pulled my hair out of the ponytail and let it fall past my shoulders. I put my arms above my head and dived in. The water was warm, but not too warm. It was pretty deep, I couldn't reach feel the bottom. It also had underwater lights, and it made the water change color every few seconds. Blue, red, green, purple, orange. . .
A bunch of other witches were swimming too. I noticed Tansy standing on the edge of the pool wearing a pink bikini. She pulled her hair out it's high ponytail, and shook it out. Then she took a few steps back, and got a running start. She jumped off the edge and flipped several times before hitting the water. Purple water sprayed all over the place. People cheered, and shouting. When Tansy's head popped back up, she was grinning.
She swam over to where I was treading water.
"Isn't this awesome?" she asked excitedly "Night swimming in December?"
"Yea, it totally is" I agreed, as happy screaming approached us.
Vitani came running, and leaped into the pool. She hadn't bothered to switch into a bathing suit.
After her, Athan came running. He jumped into the pool after her. He hadn't changed into a bathing suit either, he was still wearing his jeans.
Vitani popped up after hitting the water, and scrambled onto a floating lounge chair.
Athan popped up next to the float, and put his arms on it to keep himself above the water.
"Can't get me now" she taunted.
"Oh really" he said, climbing onto the float. She squealed, and tumbled off the float into the water.
They were both laughing hysterically.
A lot of things like that seemed to be going on. People pushing other people in, people shoving each other off floats, a couple making out on a floating loung chair. . .
God, would it kill them to get a room?
I was about to say that aloud to Tansy, when she pulled herself out of the pool with her arms. She sat on the edge, feat dangling in. A colorful cocktail appeared in her hand.
She took a sip, "God I love my life. . ." she sighed.
"So do I" Austin said, coming up behind her. Another White Russian was in his hand.
"What is it with you and White Russians" I asked him.
He shrugged, "They're relatively strong. . .and I'm hoping to at least get a mild buzz"
I rolled my eyes at him, "So, comin' in?"
"In case you haven't noticed I have no bathing suit" he said.
I rolled my eyes, and snapped my fingers. His outfit was exchanged for black swimming trunks.
"Hmmm, impressive" he said appreciatively.
"Hell yea" I agreed.
He chugged the rest of his drink, and threw it aside. He cannon-balled into the pool. Green water sprayed me.
He popped back up right in front of me.
"I gotta hand it to the little brat, this is a pretty kick ass party" he said.
"Yea, it really is" I agreed.
We swam for a little while. Doing different jumps, pushing people in, knocking over floating lounge chairs that people were sitting in. . .
It was a lot of fun, but after an hour, I felt like doing something else.
"Wanna get out?" Austin asked, as if he was reading my mind. Which, he kinda can. . .
"Yea, sure" I said, swimming towards the latter. I climbed out, and Austin followed.
The air was so warm, that I didn't feel cold. It was awesome.
I debated what we should do next, when I noticed Vitani lighting the bonfire.
"Oh! Bonfire" I sqeauled "Let's go watch"
"Okay" Austin said.
I rushed over to the bonfire. People were standing around it, cheering and yelling. As Vitani, dripping wet, was about to light the pile of wood aflame.
Her hand was on fire, and she was about to press it to the wood. She looked out at the crowd, and stopped.
"Hold up!" she shouted "How awesome would it be if we lit this bonfire with blue fire?"
There were cheers and shouts of agreement.
"Prince Austeralgo, come on down!" she said in an announcer's voice. . . she was either slightly drunk or high on excitement. . .
Austin shrugged, and made his way to the bonfire. He lifted his hand, and it caught on fire, blue fire of course. He placed his burning hand to the wood, and it lit quickly.
The entire thing was engulfed in flames in seconds. But it didn't burn to the ground like I expected the blue fire to do to it.
People cheered as the bonfire burned.
Austin pushed his way back towards me, and threw an arm over my shoulders.
"I'm surprised that thing isn't reduced to ashes already" I said.
He shrugged, "I kept it low key . . . it's not that hot"
"Smart" I noted.
"Yea, now, could you use your bippity-boppety-boo spells and give me back my normal clothes?" Austin asked "I don't plan on doing anymore swimming"
"Me either" I said, as I snapped my fingers, and Austin's previous outfit was back in place.
I snapped my fingers again, and my outfit changed. Except, not back into the dress. I switched to a pair of jean shorts and a black tank top.
The dress was to fancy for this party.
"Okay, so now do you wanna dance?" I asked.
"Hell, why not?" he asked rhetorically.
The song "Contagious" by Trapt was playing, one of my favorites. It was a loud, rock, fast song. So, we danced to that.
We danced to a few more songs, when water sprayed me from behind.
I whipped around to see a kid, looked around fourteen, holding a huge water gun. He smirked at me, before running off.
Thats when I noticed that a lot of people had water guns and were spraying people with them. You could hear a lot of happy screaming.
The witches were conjuring their own water guns to defend themselves against other people.
It was an onslaught of water fights. Some kid even had a hose and was spraying people who were already in the pool.
Grinning, I conjured to super soakers for me and Austin.
"I love magic" he told me.
"Don't we all?" I asked rhetorically. His answer was to spray me with the water gun.
I squealed and ran away. He chased after me with the water gun. Occasionally, I would run backwards and spray him as he came at me.
A lot of people seemed to be engaging in similar games. Almost everyone seemed to have a water gun in their possession.
I noticed Athan and Kiron ganging up on Vitani. Vitani screamed, but it was happy, excited, screaming.
Austin chased me towards the trees, and instead of getting cornered like he wanted, I slipped in between the trees into the cover of the woods.
I ran through the trees, laughing and looking over my shoulder to see if he was coming.
I stopped after a few minutes, and put my hands on my knees and panted.
"Woah" I gasped "Hey, Austin! Austin!"
There was no answer. I looked around wildly. Where the hell was he?
"Austin?" I asked, straightening up.
Austin dropped out of the trees above me, landing right in front of me. He had his water gun in hand.
I screamed in surprise, and jumped back. I tripped over something and fell on my ass.
Austin began to laugh hysterically. The water gun slipped through his fingers as he roared with laughter.
I began to laugh to, it was just so funny.
"I . . .can't believe I fell for that. . .again" I panted in between laughter.
"Second time!" he laughed, "Second time in two days"
I kicked out my leg, hitting him in the ankle. Surprised, he lost his footing and fell.
He caught himself with his hands easily. He was kneeling in the grass in front of me.
"Bitch" he said, shoving my leg. Although, he was smiling.
"That's what you get" I told him.
"You had to make me fall down just because I scared you?" he asked.
"No, I did that because you haven't kissed me all day" I said "Not even hello"
"I didn't?" he asked, seeming genuinely surprised.
"No you did not" I said, crossing my arms and pretending to be miffed.
He grinned devishly, and grabbed my legs and dragged me towards him. He climbed on top of me, and pressed his body against mine, pinning me to the ground. He leaned in, and kissed me passionately on the lips. It didn't take long for the kiss to become deep and warm. I reached up to intertwine my fingers into his hair. His lips parted, and he moaned. I poked my tongue in between his lips and felt the sharp point of his fangs on my tongue. I rolled over, so that we were both on our sides, clinging to each other. His arms were wrapped around my waist, and my hands were in his hair.
We rolled back, so that he was on top of me again. His lips moved to my neck, and I moaned in anticipation. When his fangs touched my skin, I felt like I was gonna explode. I hadn't been able to give blood all day, and that always drove me crazy. I was getting anxious, he was taking to long to sink his fangs in. Finally, his fangs punctured the skin and I felt a split second of pain. And then, the excited, high feeling kicked in.
As the blood drained out of my veins, I moaned in pleasure. The release of the blood was more like releasing tension. All the stress seemed to pour out of me with the blood. Leaving me carefree and weightless. It was like we were the only two people in the world, and everything was perfect. There was no Council, no engagement, no Lost Witch crap, no Shadow Slayers. . .everything was perfect.
I frowned as his fangs came out of my neck. But, the frown didn't stay, because he continued kissing me immediatly after. We kissed like we hadn't seen each other in years, even though it had only been yesterday. It felt like years though, it felt like I hadn't seen him in eons. And the kiss seemed to go on for eons as well. I'm not sure how long it actually went on for. Could've been hours, could've been minutes. . .
When he pulled away, we were both panting. We were lieing on our sides in the grass again. We untangled ourselves, and lay next to one each other in the grass for a few minutes.
We just stared at each other, stared into each other's eyes.
"Now I have" he said finally.
"Yes" I said quietly "You definitely have"
"I missed you" he said.
"I missed you too" I told him.
"I'm sorry I spied on you" he apologized.
"It's okay. . .I spy on you all the time" I admitted.
"Yea, but I know that you sit in on Council meetings" he contradicted.
"Well, not all of them. Sometimes I just pop in occasionally to check on you" I said "I don't trust them"
"That's because they can't be trusted" he agreed.
I was about to agree with that, when screams ripped through the woods.
They weren't the happy screams of teenagers fooling around.
They were the terrified screams of somebody being murdered.
"What's going on?" I asked, moving into a sitting position.
Austin followed suit, his expression alert.
"I don't know. . .C'mon, let's go check it out"
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