Feelings That Heal
Chapter Two
Zack
awoke several hours later, to a throbbing headache. "Shit," he mumbled, "my
head hurts like hell." Sitting up, he took the time to take in his
surroundings. He was sitting on a couch in someone's living room, with a cold
compress on his head. Throwing it aside, he immediately lay back down and
pretended to sleep, upon hearing someone come into the room. The young woman entered the room; Zack stared
at her beneath half closed eyelids. 'Wow,' Zack thought, 'She's beautiful, I
just wanna take her into my arms and kiss her 'til the cows come home.' Almost
immediately, Zack slapped the thought down, with another one. 'What the hell
are you doing??!!' he mentally slapped himself, 'you aren't supposed to get
attached!!! "Emotion is a phony sentimentality, remember??" Still, that didn't
stop the mile wide grin from spreading across his face. The young woman was
indeed attractive. She had deep blue eyes, much like Zack himself, and long
blond hair. From where Zack was lying, he could see that she was wearing a blue
halter top, and black shorts, he could also see that she had well-toned
muscles. He stared at her some more, completely mesmerized, and also extremely
unaware that she was looking at him, and blushing from embarrassment. "Hi", she
said, with the blush still coloring her cheeks. "Whaa…. oh, hi!" Zack replied,
feeling like a complete idiot, to have been caught staring. "How does your head
feel?" she asked sitting beside him. "Like shit" Zack said, grimacing. "Yeah,
well, if I had been through want you went through, I'd feel the same way." "How
do you know what I went through?? " Zack asked almost, suspiciously. "Oh," the
young woman said shrugging offhandedly, "I saw the explosion that threw you
into a tree." "H-h-how??" The young woman got up and started to pace. "I was
walking through the woods at the time." Zack almost asked why, but, decided not
to pry, which was unlike him. He knew there was more to this young, though
beautiful, woman, then meets the eye. And he intended on staying and finding
out what. "Y-y-y-y-you saved my life, thank you." Zack said, still amazed at
his own inability to get up and leave, as well as talk with out stuttering. "No
biggie, I just hadn't done my Good Samaritan job for da day yet." "My name's
Jessica, by the way," the young woman said offering her hand. Zack, strangely
enough, decided to be straight with her instead of lying. There was something
about her that made him want to throw away all of the lies, and come clean,
about who he was. "Zack" he said, taking her hand, and they shook. He gently
tilted her hand upwards and planted a kiss on it. She blushed fiercely. Zack
smiled at her and said "A kiss for a beautiful young woman." And she blushed
some more. 'Yep,' Zack thought happily, with a grin on his face, there
definitely is more to her than there meets the eye.
Meanwhile……
"ZACK!!!"
"ZACK!! Where the hell are you??" Krit yelled frustrated. He and Syl as well as
Max and Tinga had been combing the woods surrounding Manticore, for over an
hour, since Zack was seen flying into the woods from the explosion. "What are
we gonna do???" Syl asked Krit as he and the others joined him, at the spot
where Krit had supposedly saw Zack land.
"I
don't know" Krit replied worriedly. "Just keep your eyes and eyes peeled, and
pray that our big brother's okay."
tbc…………