Chapter 35: Luke
I finally got what I wanted. I had Jatta, even for just a moment. But it didn't feel right, not the way it happened. It was amazing, let me tell you, but I didn't feel normal when I kissed her. It felt almost as if a bolt of electricity was sent through me, when our lips met. One probably did, knowing her power. But she didn't have just plain old Atmokinesis, but was also combined with Cryokinesis, Electokinesis, Venokinesis, Biokinesis, and Photokinesis. The elements – Fire, Water, Earth and Air – as well as Ice, Electricity, Poisons, Stone and Light deprivation. It was, like, a power that had never, I repeat never, happened before.
I must have fallen asleep, because my last memory was turning my head away from Jatta on the couch, and closing my watery eyes. Now, I was awakened by a hand slightly moving me. I opened my eyes sleepily, and saw Jatta looking at me, from the same spot on the couch as yesterday. Her eyes were slightly red, and she had dark rings under her eyes. She looked exhausted. "Jatta...?" I said, and she smiled slightly, wiping her eyes. "Why... why are you still here? I expected you to be gone..." "Well, Seth needs to cool down a little, and, I didn't w..." She said to me. I smiled. "Go on," I pushed her to continue saying what she started. "I... didn't want to leave." She replied, her voice quieter. I laughed. "But you didn't sleep at all. You've been crying, haven't you?" I asked, and she nodded. I sighed, and wiped a finger across her cheek, which was still damp from tears. She put both her soft hands on my wrist, and wrapped her fingers around it. For a moment, I was afraid she would do something. Maybe break my wrist, fracture the bone, something like that, until she set my hand back on my leg, and she stood. "Wait," I said, instantly standing up next to her. I put my hand on the back of her neck, and pulled her up to me, and again, for the second time in a day and a half, we kissed. And again, for the second time, electricity that was almost unbearable shot through my veins. I savored the moment, because she soon pulled away from me, and walked to the door. Maybe if you stay, we can live this way. But I won't stop you from leaving... My thoughts said in my head, but I had no doubt she heard, because I could see from the side her eyes close. She frowned, but walked out the door and down the hallway. I sighed, and rubbed my neck. I may have felt some negative emotion when she was here, but it hurt worse when she was gone. Either I could deal with some pain, but also some joy, but only a little bit of it, or I could deal with pain, and way more misery.
***Jatta***
If I thought being away from Luke hurt, leaving him was worse. I couldn't even explain the feeling, or why I felt it, even if I wanted to. But I had to leave. Demise man was probably calling for me, and I wanted anything but to irritate him again. Hopefully, he would have calmed down after a night to himself. But then again, being Seth, maybe he hadn't. All I could hope for was that he won't try to strangle me.
When I arrived at Seth's dorm, I opened the door, and I found him curled up on his bed, his hands covering his face. I took a step in, and a finger twitched on his left hand. The sight of Seth just, shredded my heart into tiny, deceitful pieces, and it was up to me to find them all and put them back together again. I walked over to his bed, and sat down next to him. "Go away..." He murmured with a cracked voice. I set a hand on his side, and he looked up slightly, but put his head back down again after looking at me for just a single moment. "Seth, I..." I started, my voice soft. "I said, go away." He growled from behind whimpers. I quickly pulled my hand back. Clearly, he was still aggravated from yesterday.
"I-I wanted to apologize for yesterday..." I said quietly to him. He turned his head slightly, and winced. "It's too late to apologize..." He mumbled, sounding as if he had lost his voice. I started trying to roll him over, trying to find out what had hurt him. He resisted rolling over for me to see at first, but eventually I managed to get him on his other side. There were cuts in his sides, and they looked to be from his fingernails. One part of his bed was soaked from sapping up the blood from the wounds, and I groaned, getting up to get a hand towel from the laundry hamper. With it, I managed to wipe away blood from his side. But to get the blood out of the bed, I had to pour some water on it, let that soak in, then had to extract it from the bed with my powers, letting it fall into the drain in the sink from the bathing room. "Seth, what am I to do with you?" I asked, sitting back down next to him, "If you keep this up, you'll be dead by next week." I moved some of is hair off his forehead with a finger. "Well, I was hoping for tomorrow, but I guess that'll do..." He murmured, and I smiled for a second, but the smiled faded again into a small frown. "Convince me to please you, make me think that I need this too..." I whispered to him, and I leant over him. "Can do," He said with a smirk, and wrapped his arm around me and pulled me on top of him. Our lips met, and I felt my bra being undone under my shirt. My shirt and bra were thrown somewhere near the couch, an Seth was on top now, slowly pulling down my pants while our lips stayed together. Clearly, it wasn't against my will, but I was a little reluctant at first, this only being the second time we had done this before. But of course, Seth must have done it a million times before, him being him. I wrapped my arms tighter around the back of his neck and back, savoring every moment we spent like that.
Seth and I just laid there for minute after minute, after we had stopped. The first words Seth said to me after, he asked, "Does that convince you?" I thought about it, the shook my head "Nope," I replied, smiling. "Oh, well then I guess thinking sex pains would convince you was erroneous," He said, then kissed me on the side of my head. I laughed, "Well, thanks for trying anyway." He ran his fingers along my jaw, moving down to my neck, then to my chest. "You know, you got something all the girls want." I told him, shivering from pleasure when his fingers reached my chest. "Oh, really?" He asked "Well, I guess no other girl can have what they want, can they?" "Hell, yea! I'm just lucky you're a Jatta kind of guy right now..." I said, laughing quietly, and he raised an eyebrow. "Really?" He said to me, his forehead touching mine. "Well then I'm just gonna have to stay a 'Jatta kind of guy' for now on. Do I have to...?" He teased, and I pressed my body up against his.