Chapter 37 - Ebony
Telling Jay everything was like the final test, it was time to accept what happened and move on. And with that realization came the fact that sometime we had to go home, back to the mall. In that third week we carried on as we had been doing and yet there was an underlying desperation to everything we did as we clung to the paradise we had created.
On the fourth day of the third week we sat together under our tree near the stream in the twilight as it began to get cold. We sat there for a few minutes watching the stream flow by. As I watched his face I knew I was finally ready, it was time to let go of everything and just let myself live again as I had not done for so many weeks.
I looked at him for a moment as he looked back at me and then I reached up to kiss him. I let the kiss get deeper as I moved to kneel astride his legs and ran my hands around his neck as he stroked my back. When he seemed about to pull away I began to kiss him more intensely and ran my hands down his chest and began to fiddle with his waistband. Finally he pushed me away gasping for breath.
"You sure about this?" he asked looking at me concerned but with a slight twinkle in his eye of pleasure
"Positive" I told him with a grin "Lets do it out here under the trees" I said pulling him closer so we were very close indeed
"Won't it be a bit cold?" he asked with a slight upturn at the corners of his mouth that told me he was just teasing. I decided to play along; lowering my mouth close to his ear so my lips were brushing it I whispered,
"The idea is for you to keep me warm"
Kissing my neck he told me "You are wicked!" I was about to answer but my lips were caught up in an embrace with his.
Much later on, as we lay in bed together I turned to face him
"Its time to go home isn't it?" I said sadly
"Yeh" he said softly stroking my cheek, "its time to face the music" then he plastered a grin across his face saying "But we still have tonight" as he said it I felt his arms snake around me and pull me in to a kiss and I wasn't about to resist.
In the morning when we had cleared up the hut we stood together outside looking at it, after a while he said
"Come on" and turned me away from our little paradise. I was apprehensive about returning to the city and the mall. I had never really felt truly welcome in the mall and it was one of the places Zoot had been. I guess Jay saw how I was feeling because he didn't try to talk too much that day just held my hand as I felt myself receding behind the wall of the city Ebony.
It was mid-afternoon when we got back to the mall; we walked into the entrance hand in hand.
"Salene? Pride? Siva? Bray?" Jay called into the quiet mall. Various faces appeared around doorways.
"Ebony!" shrieked Siva rushing in and flinging herself on me. I had to laugh slightly as she crushed me with her warm embrace
"Hi" I squeaked out. When she finally let go a small crowd of Mallrats had gathered behind her
"Welcome back Ebony" Salene said "we were worried about you" I was surprised to hear the Mallrats say something about caring for me, at first I didn't know how to answer but then I smiled
"Thanks" I said
I could almost feel the approval radiating off Jay as he said
"Can we dump our stuff?"
As we walked to our room we passed the one I had occupied
"Wait" I told Jay walking into the room.
I was amazed to find it hadn't changed, it was as if I expected it to, Zoot had messed with everything else in my life, why not my room? But everything was still as I had left it, down to the scissors left discarded on my table with the faint hint of blood on them. And there was no Zoot waiting for me as I had half expected, not in the flesh, not in an episode, he was finally gone, truly gone.
I felt arms wrap around me and Jay kissed my head, as i lent back against him I felt like the tattered remains of my past were meeting my future.
"He's gone, really gone," I said close to tears
"Yeh" Jay said as I turned to kiss him and then lead him out of that room, the past was done with; it was time for the future.
A Note from Ebony Ok you people who have nothing better to do then sit around reading about the mess of my life I suppose I better tell you 'what happened next'
No, I did not become a nun or devote my life to helping others. Who do you, take me for? Amber? Ok so maybe I got the tiniest bit nicer, tiniest bit. I wouldn't say life has become perfect either, this is post virus, life being bearable is a luxury, wake up and smell the roses.
So me and Jay are still together, that's great, but I have to face up to the fact that it might not last forever, much as I love him and want it to, in the world we live in anything could happen, but for now we have each other.
As I tell you this I'm actually sat in the cafe leaning on Jay with some of the Mallrats sat around. Right now there is no major threat to our security so we are relaxing slightly, and I have to admit, things have improved between me and the Mallrats, slightly, but don't tell them that, I would never live it down.
So there you are 'what happened next', we defiantly didn't live happily ever after and no our lives didn't end when you stopped reading as so many characters from stories do, I'm still here.
Ebony.
Telling Jay everything was like the final test, it was time to accept what happened and move on. And with that realization came the fact that sometime we had to go home, back to the mall. In that third week we carried on as we had been doing and yet there was an underlying desperation to everything we did as we clung to the paradise we had created.
On the fourth day of the third week we sat together under our tree near the stream in the twilight as it began to get cold. We sat there for a few minutes watching the stream flow by. As I watched his face I knew I was finally ready, it was time to let go of everything and just let myself live again as I had not done for so many weeks.
I looked at him for a moment as he looked back at me and then I reached up to kiss him. I let the kiss get deeper as I moved to kneel astride his legs and ran my hands around his neck as he stroked my back. When he seemed about to pull away I began to kiss him more intensely and ran my hands down his chest and began to fiddle with his waistband. Finally he pushed me away gasping for breath.
"You sure about this?" he asked looking at me concerned but with a slight twinkle in his eye of pleasure
"Positive" I told him with a grin "Lets do it out here under the trees" I said pulling him closer so we were very close indeed
"Won't it be a bit cold?" he asked with a slight upturn at the corners of his mouth that told me he was just teasing. I decided to play along; lowering my mouth close to his ear so my lips were brushing it I whispered,
"The idea is for you to keep me warm"
Kissing my neck he told me "You are wicked!" I was about to answer but my lips were caught up in an embrace with his.
Much later on, as we lay in bed together I turned to face him
"Its time to go home isn't it?" I said sadly
"Yeh" he said softly stroking my cheek, "its time to face the music" then he plastered a grin across his face saying "But we still have tonight" as he said it I felt his arms snake around me and pull me in to a kiss and I wasn't about to resist.
In the morning when we had cleared up the hut we stood together outside looking at it, after a while he said
"Come on" and turned me away from our little paradise. I was apprehensive about returning to the city and the mall. I had never really felt truly welcome in the mall and it was one of the places Zoot had been. I guess Jay saw how I was feeling because he didn't try to talk too much that day just held my hand as I felt myself receding behind the wall of the city Ebony.
It was mid-afternoon when we got back to the mall; we walked into the entrance hand in hand.
"Salene? Pride? Siva? Bray?" Jay called into the quiet mall. Various faces appeared around doorways.
"Ebony!" shrieked Siva rushing in and flinging herself on me. I had to laugh slightly as she crushed me with her warm embrace
"Hi" I squeaked out. When she finally let go a small crowd of Mallrats had gathered behind her
"Welcome back Ebony" Salene said "we were worried about you" I was surprised to hear the Mallrats say something about caring for me, at first I didn't know how to answer but then I smiled
"Thanks" I said
I could almost feel the approval radiating off Jay as he said
"Can we dump our stuff?"
As we walked to our room we passed the one I had occupied
"Wait" I told Jay walking into the room.
I was amazed to find it hadn't changed, it was as if I expected it to, Zoot had messed with everything else in my life, why not my room? But everything was still as I had left it, down to the scissors left discarded on my table with the faint hint of blood on them. And there was no Zoot waiting for me as I had half expected, not in the flesh, not in an episode, he was finally gone, truly gone.
I felt arms wrap around me and Jay kissed my head, as i lent back against him I felt like the tattered remains of my past were meeting my future.
"He's gone, really gone," I said close to tears
"Yeh" Jay said as I turned to kiss him and then lead him out of that room, the past was done with; it was time for the future.
A Note from Ebony Ok you people who have nothing better to do then sit around reading about the mess of my life I suppose I better tell you 'what happened next'
No, I did not become a nun or devote my life to helping others. Who do you, take me for? Amber? Ok so maybe I got the tiniest bit nicer, tiniest bit. I wouldn't say life has become perfect either, this is post virus, life being bearable is a luxury, wake up and smell the roses.
So me and Jay are still together, that's great, but I have to face up to the fact that it might not last forever, much as I love him and want it to, in the world we live in anything could happen, but for now we have each other.
As I tell you this I'm actually sat in the cafe leaning on Jay with some of the Mallrats sat around. Right now there is no major threat to our security so we are relaxing slightly, and I have to admit, things have improved between me and the Mallrats, slightly, but don't tell them that, I would never live it down.
So there you are 'what happened next', we defiantly didn't live happily ever after and no our lives didn't end when you stopped reading as so many characters from stories do, I'm still here.
Ebony.
