Shadowy Reunion
Chapter 3: Confusion
By: Magelet
The words echoed in her mind. 'We've never met.' Jenny pulled away from him slightly, just enough to see into his eyes.
Looking into their icy depths, she searched for any trace of feeling. She found one. The same one that she felt herself.
Confusion.
"Julian, we have met. You can't have forgotten the Game. Can't you remember any of the three of them? The first in the
paper house that you gave to me at the More Games store? Or the second one with the paper dolls and the base in photograph of
the cafeteria? The last one in the amusement park in the Shadow World with the coins. I almost died in that one. You saved me,
and I'll never forget that. How could you? Julian, please!" She pleaded as he looked more and more confused and almost pained.
She started crying again, tears streaming silently down her cheeks.
"Jenny."
He pushed her back, holding her shoulders firmly. "Listen to me. I've been watching you since you were five. Only
watching. A few years ago something happened and I can't remember why I couldn't see you for a while. Then after that I felt
light, like I was in a whole different world, not the Shadow one, there was sunshine and light and warmth and happiness and a
sense of peace. I didn't feel like a shadow man, I felt almost human. I could still watch you and had control of things around
me, only you seemed different and you had a ring. You look at it all the time and I couldn't think of why, but the inscription
seemed familiar. What you said happened with the Game, if it did happen, and I'm not calling you a liar, must happened in the
time that I can't remember. You must believe me, Jenny. Please."
"Please."
"Julian. You gave me my ring. It was at the end of the first game. I promised to be yours, then I broke my promise.
Then you told me in the second game that if I won, I'd be free of the promise. I won. But then I got the ring back in the last
game and I've kept it and worn it. Don't you remember? 'All I refuse and thee I choose.' That's what it said. And when you d...
d... were unmade" She stammered, not being able to bring herself to say 'died'. "It changed to 'I am my only master.'" Jenny
suddenly grasped her ring and drew it quickly off, checking the inscription on the inside.
'All I refuse and thee I chuse.'
"Oh Julian!" She put it back on and placed her hands along his jaw, the heel of her palms on either side of his chin.
"It's back! The original inscription is back!" She leaned in and kissed him lightly on the lips to express her emotion of the
moment. Moving her hands to his back and her arms around his neck, she leaned on him, pressing her forehead to his. Julian
shifted his hands to around her waist, pulling her to him more and kissing her.
It was like heaven.
The kiss was just like a lot of his kisses, starting soft and gentle, hardly there at all, like butterflies tickling
her lips with their wings, then started turning warmer and wilder by the second. Another way it was like his former kisses was
she totally lost herself in him. She forgot anything and everything but the fact that she was with Julian and that she loved
him. He played with her hair, it was loose and down to the bottom of her back, she hadn't cut it in the midst of her depression,
so it had grown long. Now she didn't mind.
She didn't mind at all.
A few minutes later, they pulled apart. Jenny pulled him over to the bed and they sat down and studied each other.
Not much had changed about Julian, but wait, maybe something had. "Julian, are you older?"
"Of course."
"I thought you aged differently?"
"After a few hundred years, yes."
"But you're still close to my age physically?"
"Yes."
Yes!
"I must look awful." Jenny muttered suddenly, thinking of it for the first time as she pulled her long honey-colored
hair over her left shoulder.
"Not to me. In fact, I don't think I've ever seen you more beautiful." He tucked a tendril of hair behind her ear and
kissed her lightly.
"I love you Julian." She said, kissing him back. He pulled her over to him and on to his lap. She sighed and closed
her eyes, resting her chin on his shoulder. He kissed the back of her neck like he had when he had been disguised as Zach in
the dark room. Jenny just held on to him tightly, almost afraid to let go as he peppered her with tiny kisses.
There was a knock at the door and it opened.
"Oh my God!" a new voice said
Chapter 3: Confusion
By: Magelet
The words echoed in her mind. 'We've never met.' Jenny pulled away from him slightly, just enough to see into his eyes.
Looking into their icy depths, she searched for any trace of feeling. She found one. The same one that she felt herself.
Confusion.
"Julian, we have met. You can't have forgotten the Game. Can't you remember any of the three of them? The first in the
paper house that you gave to me at the More Games store? Or the second one with the paper dolls and the base in photograph of
the cafeteria? The last one in the amusement park in the Shadow World with the coins. I almost died in that one. You saved me,
and I'll never forget that. How could you? Julian, please!" She pleaded as he looked more and more confused and almost pained.
She started crying again, tears streaming silently down her cheeks.
"Jenny."
He pushed her back, holding her shoulders firmly. "Listen to me. I've been watching you since you were five. Only
watching. A few years ago something happened and I can't remember why I couldn't see you for a while. Then after that I felt
light, like I was in a whole different world, not the Shadow one, there was sunshine and light and warmth and happiness and a
sense of peace. I didn't feel like a shadow man, I felt almost human. I could still watch you and had control of things around
me, only you seemed different and you had a ring. You look at it all the time and I couldn't think of why, but the inscription
seemed familiar. What you said happened with the Game, if it did happen, and I'm not calling you a liar, must happened in the
time that I can't remember. You must believe me, Jenny. Please."
"Please."
"Julian. You gave me my ring. It was at the end of the first game. I promised to be yours, then I broke my promise.
Then you told me in the second game that if I won, I'd be free of the promise. I won. But then I got the ring back in the last
game and I've kept it and worn it. Don't you remember? 'All I refuse and thee I choose.' That's what it said. And when you d...
d... were unmade" She stammered, not being able to bring herself to say 'died'. "It changed to 'I am my only master.'" Jenny
suddenly grasped her ring and drew it quickly off, checking the inscription on the inside.
'All I refuse and thee I chuse.'
"Oh Julian!" She put it back on and placed her hands along his jaw, the heel of her palms on either side of his chin.
"It's back! The original inscription is back!" She leaned in and kissed him lightly on the lips to express her emotion of the
moment. Moving her hands to his back and her arms around his neck, she leaned on him, pressing her forehead to his. Julian
shifted his hands to around her waist, pulling her to him more and kissing her.
It was like heaven.
The kiss was just like a lot of his kisses, starting soft and gentle, hardly there at all, like butterflies tickling
her lips with their wings, then started turning warmer and wilder by the second. Another way it was like his former kisses was
she totally lost herself in him. She forgot anything and everything but the fact that she was with Julian and that she loved
him. He played with her hair, it was loose and down to the bottom of her back, she hadn't cut it in the midst of her depression,
so it had grown long. Now she didn't mind.
She didn't mind at all.
A few minutes later, they pulled apart. Jenny pulled him over to the bed and they sat down and studied each other.
Not much had changed about Julian, but wait, maybe something had. "Julian, are you older?"
"Of course."
"I thought you aged differently?"
"After a few hundred years, yes."
"But you're still close to my age physically?"
"Yes."
Yes!
"I must look awful." Jenny muttered suddenly, thinking of it for the first time as she pulled her long honey-colored
hair over her left shoulder.
"Not to me. In fact, I don't think I've ever seen you more beautiful." He tucked a tendril of hair behind her ear and
kissed her lightly.
"I love you Julian." She said, kissing him back. He pulled her over to him and on to his lap. She sighed and closed
her eyes, resting her chin on his shoulder. He kissed the back of her neck like he had when he had been disguised as Zach in
the dark room. Jenny just held on to him tightly, almost afraid to let go as he peppered her with tiny kisses.
There was a knock at the door and it opened.
"Oh my God!" a new voice said