Chapter 14: Last Encounter

Kyra was sitting on the couch in the main room with Nicole. Damien had left an hour earlier. He was very into ancient architecture and left to check out a few places he had heard and read about. He was eager to drag the girls to some of the places before they would take off for America.

Nicole had brought some DVD's with her from Seattle and she had put in Underworld. Kyra sighed and privately shook her head at Hollywood with a smirk. Though the movie had played half way through, neither of them were really watching it.

After a very long silence, Nicole turned to Kyra, who had already been staring back.

"What?" Kyra demanded, crossing her arms and turning to face her.

Nicole smiled and muted the TV. "It's been like a week since the incident and you still haven't told me anything about your mystery guy. What's he like? Who is he?"

"Remember the boy from the plane?"

Nicole's jaw dropped. "That creepy, but amazingly cute, pale guy that was glaring at us?"

"That would be him."

"WHAT?! I don't care how cute he is, he's scary!"

"Sometimes."

There was another silence which Nicole soon broke.

"Did he tell you why he was glaring?"

"Yeah...he said I looked familiar and it frustrated him." Kyra was very good at covering things up when put on the spot.

Nicole's face fell. "That's all?" she asked in a bored tone, which Kyra simply nodded in response to. "So what was that? A pick-up line?"

"No. It turns out we actually have met before."

"Really? Cool..." Silence. "...he's hot."

Kyra smiled. "Yeah...he is..."

"What's wrong?" Kyra squinted, not knowing what she meant by that. Nicole continued. "I don't know...you seem a little...out of it..."

Kyra hesitated. "It's been a while since I last saw him...he said he'd be back and...I don't know...I'm just a little confused, that's all."

"He really seems to like you...almost to the point of obsession, the way he kind of growled at Damien...so...has he kissed you yet?" her voice was curious and excited, longing for answers.

Kyra sighed. "Do we have to talk about this?"

"What? Just making conversation."

Another silence. Nicole did not break it this time, she simply stared at Kyra, waiting patiently for an answer.

"No."

"Ugh...that's bogus..." she crossed her arms and sat back.

"Why so interested?"

"Cause we leave tomorrow! You've gotta go back to school. Make a move! I haven't seen you with a boy since..." Nicole's voice trailed off, knowing that she accidentally made Kyra's pain resurface.

Kyra sighed, shaking her head slowly. "I can't."

"Why not?"

"It's complicated..."

"Well...do you like him?"

Kyra inhaled and exhaled deeply. "Yeah...I do..."

"Do you...love him?"

Kyra glared softly at the ground. "I don't know if I can." she said standing up and walking into her room.

She shut the door behind her and sighed, leaning against it for a short minute. She then picked up the picture of Edward that she drew which lay on her bed, folded it up and placed it in the back pocket of her jeans before sitting down. She ran her fingers through her hair and few times, then pushed the loose stands behind her ears.

Upon hearing the window that connected to the back alley swing open, Kyra sighed with relief and turned towards it.

"Good morning."

"Hi."

"You were worried I wouldn't come back."

Kyra sighed. "It's happened before..."

"I know." he said with a frown.

Kyra sat down on her bed. "So...where-"

Edward shook his head. "It's my turn."

"Right, sorry...ask away."

"All I care to know is what, exactly, you remember about that night."

"Everything?"

Edward sighed.

"Right...sorry...um...well...I remember that doctor...Carlisle I think...whispering that everything was going to be okay. He told me that the danger had passed and he was going to help me."

Edward smirked and nodded.

"He told me what he and the creatures that attacked me were and he explained what would have happened if he hadn't gotten all the venom out of my system in time...I also remember him saying that I...almost died because there were actually two places where venom was injected into me."

Kyra walked up to him and pulled off her light blue sweater, displaying her right arm to him. At the center of her forearm was a crescent shaped scar matching Bella's. And on her shoulder was an identical mark. Both patches of skin were more pale than the rest of her skin. Edward looked confused. He had not noticed them there before.

Edward was hesitant to reach out for her arm. He did however, running his thumb over the scar with a serious look on his face. He tensed in sudden rage.

Kyra noticed this and pulled her hand away, straightening out her plain white T-shirt and draping her sweater over the scar on her right arm.

"I don't know how...but he managed to get all the venom out of my system in time...then he had to rush me to the hospital because I lost so much blood. Either way I thought I was going to die...but a part of me just didn't want to let go...and I didn't know why."

Kyra sat down on the bed and sighed.

'I had nothing...no family...friends that I'd known for a week who didn't really care about me...and I couldn't figure out why I clung to life so tightly...but I figured it out...recently...'

Edward looked up at her with curiosity.

"I...wanted to live...I think...because I wanted to see you again..."

Edward was silent. Kyra shook her head.

"I know how it sounds...but...that's what I remember feeling..." Kyra didn't look up. 'That's how I feel now...' She didn't mean to think that but she couldn't help it. She sighed and closed her eyes, which she and Edward had done simultaneously.

Edward came to sit next to her, taking her hands. He felt her pulse quicken beneath his fingers.

"I can't do this..." he whispered.

Kyra gave him a questionable look. "...what?"

"This isn't fair...I should not be using you this way...it's selfish..."

Kyra was silent.

"I know what he did to you...you were still grieving on the plane...you felt so strongly...I thought it had happened recently but that was only because of the strength of your love for him..."

No response.

"He said he loved you with all of his being and would always...yet when you did not...give yourself to him...he deserted you..."

Kyra closed her eyes and looked down. She wasn't sure why, but somehow, Kyra was cursed with information about another girl that made Edward react differently than he normally would; the girl he deserted in Washington.

"You're still in love with the girl you left behind..."

Edward sighed. Kyra leaned closer; as did he. He nodded against her forehead.

"And...I'm just...using you to cling to that love..." Edward gently tightened his grip on her hands, not wanted to let go, despite what he was trying to do all over again. Kyra smirked and laid her forehead on his shoulder.

"I don't believe you." she whispered, closing her eyes.

Flames spread across Edward's body as Kyra's slow warm breaths grazed across the bare skin of his chest. He released her wrists and slowly glided his ice cold hands up along the warm skin of her arms, longing to feel the gentle skin of her lips brush against his the same way.

"Good..." he whispered.

Kyra lifted her head and looked up into his eyes. Edward brought his hand to her cheek and leaned closer to her. Kyra's face flushed as she closed her eyes, the feel of his icy breath on her face got her heart beating even faster.

There was a faint noise in the other room. Edward sighed. "I knew I would have to let you go eventually..." He missed her lips to kiss her forehead and whispered 'Be Safe' into her ear.

The sound of her door swinging open made Kyra jump. She opened her eyes. Nicole was standing in her doorway and Edward was gone once again.

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