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And here's the next chapter, sorry for the long wait, just got swept away by school, if you know what I mean, but it's the holidays now, so I hope to move along fast.
Chapter six
Kandie stood silent and still, watching the boy throw stones in the waters absent-mindedly.
She tilted her head to one side and observed him silently. From where Kandie was standing, she could see his fine chiselled face, with pain and confusion written all over it. It looked like there was a struggle inside of him.
Maybe this is the time that he would open up. Kandie thought, remembering the promise she made to herself to get closer to this guy.
She walked up to Brutus and sat down beside him. Immediately aware of her presence, he stopped chucking stones. Both just sat there saying nothing and doing nothing.
If it had been any other boy, this would be romantic. Kandie thought as they both fixed their eyes upon the patterns the setting sun spread around the sky.
Eventually Kandie broke the peaceful silence. "I thought I was the only one who came to this place." Her voice soft so she wouldn't disturb the nature around her.
"Do you want me to leave?" Brutus asked.
"No, that's not what I mean. Do you come here often?" Kandie reached for a stone, and started throwing them into the lake, calmly watching the ripples it made in the water.
"Quite often actually." He too started throwing stones into the lake.
"Strange, I've never seen you around."
"Well that makes two of us."
"Why do you come here?"
"Can't a person just come here for the beauty of the place? Does there have to be a particular reason?" Brutus threw a stone so far; it almost reached the other side of the lake.
He's strong. Kandie thought in awe.
"Yes, but a person can come here for other reasons too, like to get away from their problems. That's why I come here." Kandie looked side ways at him, to see if the word "problem" would trigger anything.
"Well that's you isn't it? But that's not me."
Kandie knew she was on the right track, because Brutus' whole body had gone tense. She also knew that if she kept going, there could be two out comes. Either he open up to her, or him closing up altogether.
Testing the waters she kept asking anyway. "It looks like you have a problem."
"How do you know what it looks like for me to have a problem?" He asked
"Well, that's what people usually look like when they have problems." Kandie answered back.
"But I'm not like normal people." Brutus turned his head around, and stared Kandie straight in the eye.
This was the first time for Kandie to really concentrate of Brutus' eyes, and as she looked deeper into the dark crystals she realized there was a silver feel to them, an inhumanly possible silver tint to them.
Determined not to be frightened, she continued, "I still say you have a problem, a pretty big one too."
Brutus snickered and looked away, resuming his stone throwing. "So what if I do?"
"Would you like to share it with me, I may be able to help."
"I'd rather not talk about it." David answered in a hard voice. "Plus, there would be absolutely nothing you can do anyway."
Aha, bulls eye, now I just need him to open up more.
"Come on. You know it helps to talk about things. Just running away won't do." Kandie said.
"You seem rather hypocritical, didn't you say you come here to get away from your problems? Well what's YOUR problem?"
"Umm…" In Kandie's head a dark cloud appeared, covering all the beautiful scenery around her. She didn't want to tell Brutus that the reason she was here is because her sister thinks his cousin is a vampire. "I would prefer not to tell."
"Well then in that case, I don't think I will tell either. We'll both keep our own problems to ourselves, good solution, don't you think?"
Defeated, Kandie let out a breath. I guess I really shouldn't be worrying about other's problems, not when I have one myself. At least I did try to help him. She shrugged her shoulders and continued in throwing rocks.
Brutus and David, apart from the good looks, it's hard to imagine that they come from the same family. One is so open and charming, where the other is completely closed up to everybody. Kandie thought as she remembered her encounter with David in the cafeteria. He was so out going, and easy to talk to, where Brutus is like shoving stones down your throat. Yet for some reason, I'm more attracted to this hard-to-get-along-with guy.
The thought of David in the cafeteria, also bought up the argument afterwards with Granite. How could she say that David is a vampire, and expect me to believe her? Kandie could feel the anger starting to boil in her again. So she's jealous and doesn't want me to have David, fine, at least make up a better story than he's a vampire. What does she think I am, a gullible 3 year old?
She started chucking stones harder and faster, as to relieve some of the built up anger, and tension.
She reached down, one stone-plop-, two-plop-, three-plop-, four-plop-.
But the fifth never came, because just as her hand touched a stone, Brutus' hand, which had been reaching for the same stone, touched hers. It was like electricity jolted up her arm, and Kandie jumped at the shock it gave her.
Kandie looked up at Brutus, eyes widened. His eyes mirrored hers, both pairs drowned in surprise and shock.
"What was that?" Kandie asked in a hushed tone.
He shook his head in confusion.
Turning around so they faced each other, they stretched out a hand each, with outstretched fingers as if touching a ghost. Slowly, their hands clasped together, and Kandie's world exploded in light.
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