Rimnerel: Hello, everyone!! I'm so happy. I have a new muse! But he isn't going to be helping me for a while on this project, I'm assigning him small projects. Yay!! (silence) Nani? Hey, where are my muses?
Ian (picking up note): Write this chapter yourself, we're on strike and have taken everyone who could and would possibly help you hostage. Signed Kai and Tala. P.S. If you want them back you'll know what to do.
Rimnerel (=_=): I'll get them later. Idiot, jealous tree monkeys. Okay, guess I have to work this chapter out somehow. I would like to thank Silverm, B. Tiamat Atardecer (thanks for the help too, it really did come in handy), blazing-wolf-08, Angevar, russle, and Dark-Demi-2001 for their reviews. And I hope that you enjoy this chapter also.
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Once more Kenny sighed quietly as he sat by his bedroom window looking out over the scenery. The window was open, allowing the warm summer breeze to drift through the room. Today was another one of those scorching hot days where everyone decided to stay in the house rather than head outside to do something. Kenny hardly noticed the weather, his mind drifting along with the wind.
Why? He continued to ask himself that question each time he came around to thinking about it. Why had he wanted Tala to kiss his so badly? That day, out on the hill, he had wanted to know what it felt like to kiss another man. To feel Tala's lips against his and lose himself in that feeling. If Kenny closed his eyes now, he could feel the red head's touch against his face, tracing the light outlines of his contours. How pleasant that sensation made him. How his heart leapt into his throat, making it harder for him to breathe, to think, or react. Even now, that scent that had filled the air between them lingered in Kenny's nostrils, teasing him at how easily he had surrendered.
*I nearly kissed a guy.* Kenny thought to himself, looking up at the crystal blue sky above. There were no clouds in the sky, like it had been three days ago on that hill. It was beautiful, and calming, or as calming as Kenny could get his mind right now. The realization that he had nearly allowed a male to be his first kiss was still seeping in.
If Kai had not walked up when he did...Kenny didn't know how he would have taken it if Tala had kissed him. Not that there was anything wrong with the male, rather quite the opposite. Tala was the most gorgeous male he had ever in his life had the chance to talk to, with exception of Rei. But of course, Rei was in a completely different category all together, being that he was the brunette's best friend. That and the fact that Kenny wasn't interested in his dark haired best friend in that way.
So, why Tala? Why did it seem like everything revolving around him pulled Kenny into its gravitational pull? No matter how much he tried to fight it, the more the pull effected him in every way. That day, after Kai had interrupted he and Tala's kiss, the three of them laid in the grass, watching the sky. Even though Kai was relaxed laying out in the open, smoking his cigarette, Tala hadn't. Every now and then Kenny would glance over at the red haired male, sensing his restlessnes, causing him to be tense.
Finally Tala had just gotten up from the hillside all together and began walking off. He told Kenny that if he didn't want to get lost on his way home, he might as well follow him. When Kenny had asked what about Kai, who was by now asleep in the grass, all he received was a short stare which spoke for itself. Slightly embarrassed, the young man had followed Tala. Only to have the entire walk covered in silence. Things weren't quite the same between them that day, and Kenny had decided that before he sought out Tala once more, he would figure out just what went wrong. And why he felt like his heart had practically been suffocated.
"Is there no way around me and the fact that I might..." Kenny stopped his sentence, looking down at his hands which lightly played with the ends of the curtains. Was there just no way around him mentioning he was starting to like Tala more than just a person?
Kenny let out another sigh, leaning back against the window sill. Maybe...maybe it would not matter. Maybe if Tala had kissed him, it wouldn't have matter. It was a kiss, right? Did it have to matter that it was a guy who had wanted to kiss him instead of a girl? Tala was in fact a lot prettier than most girls he knew. A short smile tweaked the corner of Kenny's mouth, thinking about what Kain would think if he knew what his friend was thinking. Kain would either smack him over the head and shove a girl at him, or do everything in his power to find out what Kenny saw in the red head.
"Maybe it isn't as bad as I think. I mean, would one kiss really hurt?" Kenny said out loud to no one in particular.
"You want a kiss, Kenny?" The male nearly fell off the window sill, hearing the quiet female voice behind him. Turning around quickly, he found Jordan standing by his bed, looking at him with a curious stare. This, of course, shocked the brunette. He would have expected her to jump him the minute she got in the room, causing him to fall out the window and hit the ground below. But she just stood there, watching him.
"Jordan, I didn't hear you," Kenny said with a short forced smile. "What's up?"
"Nothing, I just thought I'd come see what you're doing." The girl smiled at him, but made no move to walk to his side. Instead, she sat on his bed, motioning for him to come over and sit beside her. "You look like you could use someone to talk to."
"I..." Maybe he did need someone to talk to. But Jordan volunteering to listen to him, rather than clamp onto him as if he was the only lifeline in the world...? Again he wondered if they could actually have a normal conversation. Last time he thought this, she had clinged to him making declarations about their children's names, the dog's name, the type of house they would live in, and a whole lot more.
"Come on, it's not like I'm going to bite you," she teased. The remark caused him to smile. Or that's what she said now. Maybe it wouldn't hurt. Getting up from where he sat on the window sill, he walked over to the bed, seating himself at the end of the bed.
"So, I guess we talk now," Kenny replied. Jordan reached up and pushed his hair from his eyes. She studied something within them for a long minute before she spoke.
"Do you want to talk about it?" she inquired. "You've been so distant lately. I just thought that you were missing your friends back home...but there's something else on your mind, isn't there?" Again she shocked him with her moments of normality. Jordan dropped her hand back into her lap, watching him quietly.
"I...well..." Kenny didn't know what he was going to tell her. That he was starting to fall in love with Tala? The outcast of the town, and seemingly Tyson's number one thorn in the ass? He didn't know how well that would sit with anyone. Tyson, especially if he told his cousin. That day when Kenny came back, Tyson had hounded him to know what took so long to walk to the store. Kenny had to tell him that he stopped to look at the scenery for a while and lost track of time. For a moment Tyson didn't seem like he was going to buy into that excuse, then the blue haired male gave him a wide smile, saying that he was glad Kenny was starting to loosen up. "There is."
"Want to tell me?"
"Well...it's..." Kenny tried starting.
"There's someone you want to kiss?" Jordan finished.
"Well, it's more like someone that wanted to kiss me. We...well...I wanted them to kiss me too. At least during that moment. I'm not sure now," Kenny stated. "I was just thinking about it, and wondered, if one kiss would have changed anything between us. They seem like a really great person, that I may be starting to like a lot."
"Really?" Jordan shifted her eyes to bed.
Kenny had to stop himself for a moment thinking about who he was talking to. He felt sort of guilty talking to her about this, when she felt so strongly for him. Kenny reached over and took hold of Jordan's shoulder. The girl looked up at him, tears shimmering in the corners of her eyes. "Jordan, I'm--" Before he could finish his sentence, the girl threw herself at him, knocking him on his back. "Jordan--"
"I'm not giving you up to anyone else, Kenny!" Jordan said determinedly. "I know that your feelings for me aren't as strong, but I know you feel something for me. I just know it! I won't allow anyone else to have your heart. So whoever it is can just give up now!"
"Jordan, please stop--" Another of his sentences was cut off as she kissed him on the lips. Kenny found her arms wrapped around him, stopping him from moving. When she pulled back, she stared down at Kenny.
"I want you to make me yours, and yours alone. I want to be yours alone," she stated.
"Jordan, please stop this, I can't. I...I'm in love with someone else." So it finally came out, he had finally said it. Jordan stared down at him with wide eyes. "I'm sorry. I'm sorry that I don't feel the same way you do. I'm in love with someone else. Someone I find to be a really great person. I want to know more about them, to hear their voice, to see their ever rare smiles. I want to kiss them and learn everything I can from them. I'm sorry."
"No! Don't say that! It can work between us! I know it can!" Jordan cried, clinging to him. "Don't leave me, Kenny! I love you so much!" Tears trickled down her face, as Kenny managed to sit up and try to pull her away from him.
"Jordan, I'm not the one. It's just an infatuation that you have for me. I'm not the one you'll truly love in the end. I'm sure that there's some great guy out there for you, that can give you what I can't," Kenny said, finally managing to pull her away from him. The girl clenched her hands at her sides, refusing to look at him. "I'm sorry."
"Who is it?" Jordan asked. "Who stole your heart from me?"
"Jordan."
"Tell me, I want to know. I'm going to tell them to stay away from you. They can't have you, they can't." Jordan leaned against Kenny crying, her face in his t-shirt. "They can't. You and I were supposed to be happy. We were going to have three children, a little boy and two little girls. And a dog too. We were supposed to live in this beautiful house wherever you decided you wanted us to live. And a huge wedding."
"I truly am sorry. But you can't tell them to stay away from me," Kenny said.
"Why not!?"
"Because, I think I would still love them no matter how long I don't see them. Something about them is just so amazing. Everything about them pulls me closer to them the more I think about it. And that, you can't take away no matter what you tell them," Kenny said.
He realized that every word he spoke to her, was more of himself that he was finding. Maybe there was a positive side to this after all. Maybe he could face Tala and not worry about thinking what he felt for the male now. And ironically, it was all thanks to Jordan.
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A certain young man with red hair sat out on the roof of his house, smoking a cigarette, as he thought to himself. Kai was...well, who knew. Tala didn't really want to speak with his cousin right now anyway. For some reason, since three days ago, he had been on edge with Kai. Once or twice Kai had noticed and asked what was bugging Tala, but the young man just shrugged it off and said he had some things on mind. Kai usually left him alone after he said that.
*What the hell am I thinking?* Tala thought to himself.
Why should he be bothered by some kid anyway? It wasn't like he was the hottest piece that Tala had come across. He was just a city kid looking for trouble. Tala shouldn't find anything bothersome about this situation, or rather the situation of three days ago. It was just one kiss that was interrupted. If it had been more, then he would understand his pissy mood towards his cousin. But it was just a kiss. Yet...that kiss...
"The hell." Tala laid down on the roof, tossing his cigarette off somewhere. Placing his hands behind his head, he looked at the sky. It was just one kiss. One kiss that he had wanted more than anything in the world. There was more meaning behind it than he knew right now. Or cared to think about. Nor could he just write Kenny off as just some city kid. There was something about that male that pulled Tala. Maybe it was his attitude and nature, maybe it was because he was cute or something like that, Tala didn't actually know. He just knew that he was being drawn to Kenny even more.
His mind went back over the day where he nearly kissed the brunette. How he had wanted nothing but to leaned down and close the space between them. He was sure that the younger had wanted it too. Then damn Kai came walking up like everything was fine, ruining the mood. The time laying there in the grass with the two, as if nothing happened could not settle his soul into a calm. Finally not being able to take it, he got up, only to have Kenny ask him where he was going. Kai looked as if he fell asleep, because he didn't give a retort of some manner when Tala had told Kenny to come on if he didn't want to get lost going back home. If he had left the male with Kai.
A light shudder rose up his spine thinking about what might have happened. Kai had a notorious habit of making things he wanted his without so much as a concern as to what happened later. His cousin was reckless like that at times. Tala could be like that, but Kai really did have him beat. The entire walk between Tala and Kenny had been spanned in silence. Tala would have more than likely kissed the male there in the woods if the brunette had said something. Tala still wanted to do it, but refrained because he probably would have wanted more, and he didn't think the younger would have consented so soon to it.
Tala closed his eyes. What about that boy was it? For a moment, he allowed the sun to wash over him before the thought hit him. His eyes snapped open as he realized what it was. Somehow, slowly, but surely, he was falling in love. That had to be it. Why he felt like this and why it didn't matter that they knew practically nothing about each other, but could so easily get along. "How the hell did this happen so quickly?" Tala ran a hand through his hair with a short frown. This had never in his eighteen years on this godforsaken Earth had this happened. So...why now?
That seemed only to be the answer of those who planned this out. Tala didn't understand it, nor could figure out how, but he sure it had to be a good reason for it, right? Was it just his time, as people tended to say when things happened, or was it a plot to try to make him open up to the world. If that was the case, it wouldn't work. No one shared his most personal and private thoughts, not even his closest family member, Kai.
No one could know about the darkness he chose to swim in, or the beckoning call of the Devil to steal his soul away for good. And that was how he would like to keep it. Anyway, the brunette would leave at the end of the summer and probably wouldn't come back next summer. By then...Tala expected to be long gone from this place. Maybe in death or a road trip, one never knew when everyday was a game of roulette. He should just chill out for now. Once summer was over, everything for them both would go back to the way it was. He doubted that the younger really had any interest in him anyway. He was still young, probably was his first experience in this sort of thing.
It would pass by, and when he went back to the city, he would forget all about Tala and this small little summer thing that was trying to rise between them. More than likely, he find someone his own age and what not, and this summer would be nothing but memories. So, Tala could just chill out. Thinking about it, there was no need for him to get so worked up. Even if some greater power set this up, it would fade quickly, summer could not last forever.
"Master Tala, where are you?" the voice of Clover, one of the maids in the house called him from inside of his room. The young man sat up and made his way over to the ledge he first climbed on to get outside. Slipping back into the room with the grace of a cat, he found it amusing when the girl jumped from his sudden appearance. Her chocolate eyes lowered to the ground, as a light blush came to her cheeks. "Oh, I thought you went out, Master Tala."
"What is it Clover?" he asked with a rose brow. If he didn't know any better, the girl was attracted to him. How very amusing, surely she had heard about his "behaviors" from the other maids in the house, and what people in town said. And yet she still wanted him to pay attention to her.
"I was sent to inform you that Master Boris is returning soon. Hannah wanted you to be here to great your uncle when he came back," the girl said.
"My...uncle's....coming back soon?" A light chill rolled down the boy's back. His uncle...Boris Balcov...head of a huge finanical business trade or something like that. His mother, his real mother, Alexial Balcov had been his younger sister. She use to tell him when he was small what a great man he was, despite...
Tala's eyes darkened, thinking about that man. He hated his uncle so much. Not just because of the way he stared at Tala when he was here, but for the past also. All Tala was to his uncle was extra baggage he had to take care of. Tala hadn't asked to be taken care of by the man, nor to stay here as long as he did. It was only because of his aunt being sick that he still stayed. Tala didn't want to owe that man anything when he left this place.
"Master Tala," Clover said concerned. "Are you okay?"
"I'm fine," the young man muttered. "Where's Kai? Does he know?"
"No, Master Kai is with..." Clover looked down at her feet, another blush coming to her cheeks. "He's with Kayli right now."
Tala tilted his head to the side. Funny, he couldn't hear any moaning right now. "What's he doing with her?" The girl went as red as a cherry with that question. That embarrassing for her to state to him? If he wasn't screwing her...a thought came to Tala's face realizing what his cousin might be doing with the maid. "Is he having her do something to him?" The girl's shy nod told him all he needed to know about what was going on. "You don't have to tell me exactly what, I think I know."
"Master Tala," Clover said looking up at him.
"You can carry on with your work. And remember what I told you about staying away from Kai?" The girl gave him another shy nod. "Good." Leaning down, he kissed her on the side of her mouth. That was enough to darken her already dark red. Pulling back, he gave her a wicked smile. "Get back to work."
"Yes Master Tala!" The girl hurrily left his room as he broke out in a short chuckle. Maybe that was mean of him, but he couldn't help but exploit it. After all, it may come in handy during a tight spot. Tala walked back to his window, looking out over the woods just as the door opened again. Turning around, he found Kai walking in with a content look in his eyes as he finished zipping up his jeans.
"Done with your promiscious activity for today then?" Tala remarked.
"Promiscious? What's so promiscious about a young girl wanting to do me a favor?" Kai stated with a lopsided, devilish grin. "Speaking of promiscious, what was Clover doing coming out of your room red as an apple? Don't tell me that my cousin is picking up my habits."
"Believe me, I wouldn't unless I have nothing better to do with my time. She's just a kid," Tala scoffed at the assumption that he would bed the girl. She wasn't his type, nor would ever be. "She came in here to tell me what Hannah said."
"What did the old woman want now?" Kai said, swiping a cigarette from the dresser table. He didn't notice the look of anger in his cousin's eyes, nor how tense the male was.
"Uncle Boris is coming back soon," Tala said. Turning to look at Kai, he found the cigarette he had been about to light was now on the floor as Kai looked at him with wide eyes. "I don't know when, but Hannah says he's coming back soon."
"For how long?" Kai asked. Tala shook his head silently.
"Kai, you know you can leave at anytime if you want to," Tala voiced. "I wouldn't blame you. You don't have to stay here if you don't want to. There's no reason that you should feel obligated to remain. I'll call you when he leaves and then you can come back." Kai shook his head, seating himself on Tala's bed. The young man looked weary all of a sudden, Tala didn't blame him at all.
"All we got to do is stay out his way," Kai remarked. "Can't be too hard if we stay out all day keeping ourselves occupied, right? Then when he goes to sleep we come back in. I mean, he really wouldn't want to stay around here for too long. I'm sure he'll leave in a day or two. All we have to do is get missing. He really wouldn't care, right?"
"Yeah...I guess so," Tala mumbled. Both boys went silent for a long time. Thinking over things. This would be the first time in months that either had seen their uncle. The last time he was here...Tala didn't want to think about that. The only thing he wanted to know was how long would hell be on Earth. Because that was the only thing that it felt like when Boris Balcov came home for a visit.
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Rimnerel: Hah! I did the chapter without my muses! Thanks again B.T. for the help. It really did pay off.
Ian: Okay, so what about next chapter?
Rimnerel: By then I would have talked things out with my hostage taking muses. Okay everyone. Let's see...oh yeah! The rating for the next chapter is now up to R because of some things going on next chapter. Which comes out...Tuesday! I'm going to take the time to make it a great chapter! So, until Tuesday, enjoy.
Ian (picking up note): Write this chapter yourself, we're on strike and have taken everyone who could and would possibly help you hostage. Signed Kai and Tala. P.S. If you want them back you'll know what to do.
Rimnerel (=_=): I'll get them later. Idiot, jealous tree monkeys. Okay, guess I have to work this chapter out somehow. I would like to thank Silverm, B. Tiamat Atardecer (thanks for the help too, it really did come in handy), blazing-wolf-08, Angevar, russle, and Dark-Demi-2001 for their reviews. And I hope that you enjoy this chapter also.
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Once more Kenny sighed quietly as he sat by his bedroom window looking out over the scenery. The window was open, allowing the warm summer breeze to drift through the room. Today was another one of those scorching hot days where everyone decided to stay in the house rather than head outside to do something. Kenny hardly noticed the weather, his mind drifting along with the wind.
Why? He continued to ask himself that question each time he came around to thinking about it. Why had he wanted Tala to kiss his so badly? That day, out on the hill, he had wanted to know what it felt like to kiss another man. To feel Tala's lips against his and lose himself in that feeling. If Kenny closed his eyes now, he could feel the red head's touch against his face, tracing the light outlines of his contours. How pleasant that sensation made him. How his heart leapt into his throat, making it harder for him to breathe, to think, or react. Even now, that scent that had filled the air between them lingered in Kenny's nostrils, teasing him at how easily he had surrendered.
*I nearly kissed a guy.* Kenny thought to himself, looking up at the crystal blue sky above. There were no clouds in the sky, like it had been three days ago on that hill. It was beautiful, and calming, or as calming as Kenny could get his mind right now. The realization that he had nearly allowed a male to be his first kiss was still seeping in.
If Kai had not walked up when he did...Kenny didn't know how he would have taken it if Tala had kissed him. Not that there was anything wrong with the male, rather quite the opposite. Tala was the most gorgeous male he had ever in his life had the chance to talk to, with exception of Rei. But of course, Rei was in a completely different category all together, being that he was the brunette's best friend. That and the fact that Kenny wasn't interested in his dark haired best friend in that way.
So, why Tala? Why did it seem like everything revolving around him pulled Kenny into its gravitational pull? No matter how much he tried to fight it, the more the pull effected him in every way. That day, after Kai had interrupted he and Tala's kiss, the three of them laid in the grass, watching the sky. Even though Kai was relaxed laying out in the open, smoking his cigarette, Tala hadn't. Every now and then Kenny would glance over at the red haired male, sensing his restlessnes, causing him to be tense.
Finally Tala had just gotten up from the hillside all together and began walking off. He told Kenny that if he didn't want to get lost on his way home, he might as well follow him. When Kenny had asked what about Kai, who was by now asleep in the grass, all he received was a short stare which spoke for itself. Slightly embarrassed, the young man had followed Tala. Only to have the entire walk covered in silence. Things weren't quite the same between them that day, and Kenny had decided that before he sought out Tala once more, he would figure out just what went wrong. And why he felt like his heart had practically been suffocated.
"Is there no way around me and the fact that I might..." Kenny stopped his sentence, looking down at his hands which lightly played with the ends of the curtains. Was there just no way around him mentioning he was starting to like Tala more than just a person?
Kenny let out another sigh, leaning back against the window sill. Maybe...maybe it would not matter. Maybe if Tala had kissed him, it wouldn't have matter. It was a kiss, right? Did it have to matter that it was a guy who had wanted to kiss him instead of a girl? Tala was in fact a lot prettier than most girls he knew. A short smile tweaked the corner of Kenny's mouth, thinking about what Kain would think if he knew what his friend was thinking. Kain would either smack him over the head and shove a girl at him, or do everything in his power to find out what Kenny saw in the red head.
"Maybe it isn't as bad as I think. I mean, would one kiss really hurt?" Kenny said out loud to no one in particular.
"You want a kiss, Kenny?" The male nearly fell off the window sill, hearing the quiet female voice behind him. Turning around quickly, he found Jordan standing by his bed, looking at him with a curious stare. This, of course, shocked the brunette. He would have expected her to jump him the minute she got in the room, causing him to fall out the window and hit the ground below. But she just stood there, watching him.
"Jordan, I didn't hear you," Kenny said with a short forced smile. "What's up?"
"Nothing, I just thought I'd come see what you're doing." The girl smiled at him, but made no move to walk to his side. Instead, she sat on his bed, motioning for him to come over and sit beside her. "You look like you could use someone to talk to."
"I..." Maybe he did need someone to talk to. But Jordan volunteering to listen to him, rather than clamp onto him as if he was the only lifeline in the world...? Again he wondered if they could actually have a normal conversation. Last time he thought this, she had clinged to him making declarations about their children's names, the dog's name, the type of house they would live in, and a whole lot more.
"Come on, it's not like I'm going to bite you," she teased. The remark caused him to smile. Or that's what she said now. Maybe it wouldn't hurt. Getting up from where he sat on the window sill, he walked over to the bed, seating himself at the end of the bed.
"So, I guess we talk now," Kenny replied. Jordan reached up and pushed his hair from his eyes. She studied something within them for a long minute before she spoke.
"Do you want to talk about it?" she inquired. "You've been so distant lately. I just thought that you were missing your friends back home...but there's something else on your mind, isn't there?" Again she shocked him with her moments of normality. Jordan dropped her hand back into her lap, watching him quietly.
"I...well..." Kenny didn't know what he was going to tell her. That he was starting to fall in love with Tala? The outcast of the town, and seemingly Tyson's number one thorn in the ass? He didn't know how well that would sit with anyone. Tyson, especially if he told his cousin. That day when Kenny came back, Tyson had hounded him to know what took so long to walk to the store. Kenny had to tell him that he stopped to look at the scenery for a while and lost track of time. For a moment Tyson didn't seem like he was going to buy into that excuse, then the blue haired male gave him a wide smile, saying that he was glad Kenny was starting to loosen up. "There is."
"Want to tell me?"
"Well...it's..." Kenny tried starting.
"There's someone you want to kiss?" Jordan finished.
"Well, it's more like someone that wanted to kiss me. We...well...I wanted them to kiss me too. At least during that moment. I'm not sure now," Kenny stated. "I was just thinking about it, and wondered, if one kiss would have changed anything between us. They seem like a really great person, that I may be starting to like a lot."
"Really?" Jordan shifted her eyes to bed.
Kenny had to stop himself for a moment thinking about who he was talking to. He felt sort of guilty talking to her about this, when she felt so strongly for him. Kenny reached over and took hold of Jordan's shoulder. The girl looked up at him, tears shimmering in the corners of her eyes. "Jordan, I'm--" Before he could finish his sentence, the girl threw herself at him, knocking him on his back. "Jordan--"
"I'm not giving you up to anyone else, Kenny!" Jordan said determinedly. "I know that your feelings for me aren't as strong, but I know you feel something for me. I just know it! I won't allow anyone else to have your heart. So whoever it is can just give up now!"
"Jordan, please stop--" Another of his sentences was cut off as she kissed him on the lips. Kenny found her arms wrapped around him, stopping him from moving. When she pulled back, she stared down at Kenny.
"I want you to make me yours, and yours alone. I want to be yours alone," she stated.
"Jordan, please stop this, I can't. I...I'm in love with someone else." So it finally came out, he had finally said it. Jordan stared down at him with wide eyes. "I'm sorry. I'm sorry that I don't feel the same way you do. I'm in love with someone else. Someone I find to be a really great person. I want to know more about them, to hear their voice, to see their ever rare smiles. I want to kiss them and learn everything I can from them. I'm sorry."
"No! Don't say that! It can work between us! I know it can!" Jordan cried, clinging to him. "Don't leave me, Kenny! I love you so much!" Tears trickled down her face, as Kenny managed to sit up and try to pull her away from him.
"Jordan, I'm not the one. It's just an infatuation that you have for me. I'm not the one you'll truly love in the end. I'm sure that there's some great guy out there for you, that can give you what I can't," Kenny said, finally managing to pull her away from him. The girl clenched her hands at her sides, refusing to look at him. "I'm sorry."
"Who is it?" Jordan asked. "Who stole your heart from me?"
"Jordan."
"Tell me, I want to know. I'm going to tell them to stay away from you. They can't have you, they can't." Jordan leaned against Kenny crying, her face in his t-shirt. "They can't. You and I were supposed to be happy. We were going to have three children, a little boy and two little girls. And a dog too. We were supposed to live in this beautiful house wherever you decided you wanted us to live. And a huge wedding."
"I truly am sorry. But you can't tell them to stay away from me," Kenny said.
"Why not!?"
"Because, I think I would still love them no matter how long I don't see them. Something about them is just so amazing. Everything about them pulls me closer to them the more I think about it. And that, you can't take away no matter what you tell them," Kenny said.
He realized that every word he spoke to her, was more of himself that he was finding. Maybe there was a positive side to this after all. Maybe he could face Tala and not worry about thinking what he felt for the male now. And ironically, it was all thanks to Jordan.
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A certain young man with red hair sat out on the roof of his house, smoking a cigarette, as he thought to himself. Kai was...well, who knew. Tala didn't really want to speak with his cousin right now anyway. For some reason, since three days ago, he had been on edge with Kai. Once or twice Kai had noticed and asked what was bugging Tala, but the young man just shrugged it off and said he had some things on mind. Kai usually left him alone after he said that.
*What the hell am I thinking?* Tala thought to himself.
Why should he be bothered by some kid anyway? It wasn't like he was the hottest piece that Tala had come across. He was just a city kid looking for trouble. Tala shouldn't find anything bothersome about this situation, or rather the situation of three days ago. It was just one kiss that was interrupted. If it had been more, then he would understand his pissy mood towards his cousin. But it was just a kiss. Yet...that kiss...
"The hell." Tala laid down on the roof, tossing his cigarette off somewhere. Placing his hands behind his head, he looked at the sky. It was just one kiss. One kiss that he had wanted more than anything in the world. There was more meaning behind it than he knew right now. Or cared to think about. Nor could he just write Kenny off as just some city kid. There was something about that male that pulled Tala. Maybe it was his attitude and nature, maybe it was because he was cute or something like that, Tala didn't actually know. He just knew that he was being drawn to Kenny even more.
His mind went back over the day where he nearly kissed the brunette. How he had wanted nothing but to leaned down and close the space between them. He was sure that the younger had wanted it too. Then damn Kai came walking up like everything was fine, ruining the mood. The time laying there in the grass with the two, as if nothing happened could not settle his soul into a calm. Finally not being able to take it, he got up, only to have Kenny ask him where he was going. Kai looked as if he fell asleep, because he didn't give a retort of some manner when Tala had told Kenny to come on if he didn't want to get lost going back home. If he had left the male with Kai.
A light shudder rose up his spine thinking about what might have happened. Kai had a notorious habit of making things he wanted his without so much as a concern as to what happened later. His cousin was reckless like that at times. Tala could be like that, but Kai really did have him beat. The entire walk between Tala and Kenny had been spanned in silence. Tala would have more than likely kissed the male there in the woods if the brunette had said something. Tala still wanted to do it, but refrained because he probably would have wanted more, and he didn't think the younger would have consented so soon to it.
Tala closed his eyes. What about that boy was it? For a moment, he allowed the sun to wash over him before the thought hit him. His eyes snapped open as he realized what it was. Somehow, slowly, but surely, he was falling in love. That had to be it. Why he felt like this and why it didn't matter that they knew practically nothing about each other, but could so easily get along. "How the hell did this happen so quickly?" Tala ran a hand through his hair with a short frown. This had never in his eighteen years on this godforsaken Earth had this happened. So...why now?
That seemed only to be the answer of those who planned this out. Tala didn't understand it, nor could figure out how, but he sure it had to be a good reason for it, right? Was it just his time, as people tended to say when things happened, or was it a plot to try to make him open up to the world. If that was the case, it wouldn't work. No one shared his most personal and private thoughts, not even his closest family member, Kai.
No one could know about the darkness he chose to swim in, or the beckoning call of the Devil to steal his soul away for good. And that was how he would like to keep it. Anyway, the brunette would leave at the end of the summer and probably wouldn't come back next summer. By then...Tala expected to be long gone from this place. Maybe in death or a road trip, one never knew when everyday was a game of roulette. He should just chill out for now. Once summer was over, everything for them both would go back to the way it was. He doubted that the younger really had any interest in him anyway. He was still young, probably was his first experience in this sort of thing.
It would pass by, and when he went back to the city, he would forget all about Tala and this small little summer thing that was trying to rise between them. More than likely, he find someone his own age and what not, and this summer would be nothing but memories. So, Tala could just chill out. Thinking about it, there was no need for him to get so worked up. Even if some greater power set this up, it would fade quickly, summer could not last forever.
"Master Tala, where are you?" the voice of Clover, one of the maids in the house called him from inside of his room. The young man sat up and made his way over to the ledge he first climbed on to get outside. Slipping back into the room with the grace of a cat, he found it amusing when the girl jumped from his sudden appearance. Her chocolate eyes lowered to the ground, as a light blush came to her cheeks. "Oh, I thought you went out, Master Tala."
"What is it Clover?" he asked with a rose brow. If he didn't know any better, the girl was attracted to him. How very amusing, surely she had heard about his "behaviors" from the other maids in the house, and what people in town said. And yet she still wanted him to pay attention to her.
"I was sent to inform you that Master Boris is returning soon. Hannah wanted you to be here to great your uncle when he came back," the girl said.
"My...uncle's....coming back soon?" A light chill rolled down the boy's back. His uncle...Boris Balcov...head of a huge finanical business trade or something like that. His mother, his real mother, Alexial Balcov had been his younger sister. She use to tell him when he was small what a great man he was, despite...
Tala's eyes darkened, thinking about that man. He hated his uncle so much. Not just because of the way he stared at Tala when he was here, but for the past also. All Tala was to his uncle was extra baggage he had to take care of. Tala hadn't asked to be taken care of by the man, nor to stay here as long as he did. It was only because of his aunt being sick that he still stayed. Tala didn't want to owe that man anything when he left this place.
"Master Tala," Clover said concerned. "Are you okay?"
"I'm fine," the young man muttered. "Where's Kai? Does he know?"
"No, Master Kai is with..." Clover looked down at her feet, another blush coming to her cheeks. "He's with Kayli right now."
Tala tilted his head to the side. Funny, he couldn't hear any moaning right now. "What's he doing with her?" The girl went as red as a cherry with that question. That embarrassing for her to state to him? If he wasn't screwing her...a thought came to Tala's face realizing what his cousin might be doing with the maid. "Is he having her do something to him?" The girl's shy nod told him all he needed to know about what was going on. "You don't have to tell me exactly what, I think I know."
"Master Tala," Clover said looking up at him.
"You can carry on with your work. And remember what I told you about staying away from Kai?" The girl gave him another shy nod. "Good." Leaning down, he kissed her on the side of her mouth. That was enough to darken her already dark red. Pulling back, he gave her a wicked smile. "Get back to work."
"Yes Master Tala!" The girl hurrily left his room as he broke out in a short chuckle. Maybe that was mean of him, but he couldn't help but exploit it. After all, it may come in handy during a tight spot. Tala walked back to his window, looking out over the woods just as the door opened again. Turning around, he found Kai walking in with a content look in his eyes as he finished zipping up his jeans.
"Done with your promiscious activity for today then?" Tala remarked.
"Promiscious? What's so promiscious about a young girl wanting to do me a favor?" Kai stated with a lopsided, devilish grin. "Speaking of promiscious, what was Clover doing coming out of your room red as an apple? Don't tell me that my cousin is picking up my habits."
"Believe me, I wouldn't unless I have nothing better to do with my time. She's just a kid," Tala scoffed at the assumption that he would bed the girl. She wasn't his type, nor would ever be. "She came in here to tell me what Hannah said."
"What did the old woman want now?" Kai said, swiping a cigarette from the dresser table. He didn't notice the look of anger in his cousin's eyes, nor how tense the male was.
"Uncle Boris is coming back soon," Tala said. Turning to look at Kai, he found the cigarette he had been about to light was now on the floor as Kai looked at him with wide eyes. "I don't know when, but Hannah says he's coming back soon."
"For how long?" Kai asked. Tala shook his head silently.
"Kai, you know you can leave at anytime if you want to," Tala voiced. "I wouldn't blame you. You don't have to stay here if you don't want to. There's no reason that you should feel obligated to remain. I'll call you when he leaves and then you can come back." Kai shook his head, seating himself on Tala's bed. The young man looked weary all of a sudden, Tala didn't blame him at all.
"All we got to do is stay out his way," Kai remarked. "Can't be too hard if we stay out all day keeping ourselves occupied, right? Then when he goes to sleep we come back in. I mean, he really wouldn't want to stay around here for too long. I'm sure he'll leave in a day or two. All we have to do is get missing. He really wouldn't care, right?"
"Yeah...I guess so," Tala mumbled. Both boys went silent for a long time. Thinking over things. This would be the first time in months that either had seen their uncle. The last time he was here...Tala didn't want to think about that. The only thing he wanted to know was how long would hell be on Earth. Because that was the only thing that it felt like when Boris Balcov came home for a visit.
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Rimnerel: Hah! I did the chapter without my muses! Thanks again B.T. for the help. It really did pay off.
Ian: Okay, so what about next chapter?
Rimnerel: By then I would have talked things out with my hostage taking muses. Okay everyone. Let's see...oh yeah! The rating for the next chapter is now up to R because of some things going on next chapter. Which comes out...Tuesday! I'm going to take the time to make it a great chapter! So, until Tuesday, enjoy.