Chapter 6 – The Reawakening – Nephrite
The sweet chirping of birds can be heard as more sunlight filtered through the windows, spreading the rays and giving the illusion of hands reaching out to the bed, like a handmaid aiming to wake up her lady.
For indeed a beautiful dark-haired lady is sleeping on the bed, her slightly wavy brown hair was spread out on the pillow...intertwined with another's mane of russet brown...
Lita's nose twitched as a strand of hair seemed to be tickling her in sleep. Eyes still closed, a hand reached out from under the covers to remove the offending thing from her face.
After getting rid of the hair tickling her nose, she then buried her face further into the pillow and returned her hands back under the covers...
...and touched something warm and solid.
Lita's mind suddenly woke up to the strange sensations she felt and with urgency opened beautiful green eyes to look...
...at a pair of aquamarine pools,...opened widely, set in a face of a startled young man...
Lita's heart lurched and her body seemed to follow that instinct as she removed her hands from the man's chest and jumped out of bed, to which a shriek was heard coming from her throat, still dry from sleep.
Her blanket was wrapped around her as she stared back at the young man still cursing silently on her bed who then looked at her with seemingly confused and pleading eyes, and yet his face seemed. . .determined somehow.
"WHO THE HELL ARE YOU?!" the girl shouted as she stepped back further away from the bed, and from the form with the long wavy brown hair who was starting to stand up from the bed, slowly though so as not to frighten the young woman.
Damn! Damn! Damn! I overslept.
Nephrite was cursing himself for being careless and not getting up earlier than Lita to avoid a situation he's currently in right now. He knew this would happen.
After being transformed back to his normal size late last night, still in Lita's embrace, he knew that such an encounter would happen if he's not extra careful in dealing with it.
At that time however, he wasn't that overtly worried because the girl seemed to have fallen into a deep slumber and would not have woken up any time soon.
Add that to the fact that he was enjoying himself quite immensely in the girl's embrace.
I enjoyed it TOO damn much apparently.
Nephrite was planning to get out of the bed before dawn but...
"I said who the hell are you? And what are you doing in my room?...Oh God, did we...?"
Suddenly Lita's mind started rewinding furiously, trying to recall the events pertaining to yesterday and last night – to somehow figure out how the mangy 'pervert' got into her house, in her room, and on her bed. With horror, she tried to grope her mind for kisses and caresses, even a scene of her flirting to someone she passed by,. . .but found none to her memory.
Nephrite himself was also appalled at the line of thought the young girl in front of him was leading to.
"NO!" He shouted firmly that Lita jumped a little at the vehemence in his voice.
Nephrite tried again in a softer voice, "No,...I mean we didn't...do anything,...we, Oh God, Lita I'm really sorry..."
A gasped interrupted him,
"Y-you know my n-name..." Lita's eyes widened at the knowledge that the strange guy knew her name even thought they haven't met formally, and this added to her nervousness.
Nephrite, anxious and afraid for Lita, tried to think rationally on how to deal with the situation at hand.
Damn. He was supposed to leave early. . .he was supposed to get out of her house and started living on his own,. . .he was supposed to get a decent job, a nice comfy place, and a driver's license,. . .and then, when he's finally ready and settled, he was supposed to drive back to her place. . .knock on her wretched door,. . .sweep her off her feet, and give her one big squishy kiss, after which, he was supposed to get slapped, then things can go from there. . .it's going to be hard, heck it's going to be BLOODY hard,. . .but then she will be HIS. . .
But now,. . .he's damn lucky if he could even get enough money to pay the hospital medical fees after Lita's done with him. . .
Nephrite looked at Lita carefully and started gambling on what spare luck left for him.
"Look, I know you're confused right now, but so am I. Why don't we..."
Nephrite stopped talking when he saw Lita rushed towards her bag, fumbling through it while not letting her gaze waver from the young man.
"Hey, what's wrong? What are you doing?"
His answer was a pepper spray set a few feet in front of his vulnerable handsome face.
"Aww, damn."
"One wrong move buster and you're gonna get it," Lita threatened in a no-nonsense voice. Her eyes blazed with fiery determination, her hands firmly holding the spray in place, not even breaking a sweat.
. . .it was then that Nephrite fell.
And boy, did he fell. . .
He fell all over again.
[Start Flashback}
"...one wrong move, my lord, and you're gonna get it."
"Don't you think that's a bit...exaggerating, princess."
"No, my lord, besides, it won't be my head that's going to get severed anyway...," the lady smirked at the young man.
"Yes, you are quite right, my lady, but then, getting my head severed would then be unfavorable to you..."
"Oh, and why is that, my lord?"
The young man stepped closer to the young woman still holding the knife near his neck and bent down until his nose was almost touching hers.
"You'll have to go through the rest of your life without my lips upon yours...," then kissed the young woman gently on the mouth, her arms encircling his neck, the sound of steel hitting the ground unheard by the oblivious couple. . .the mock fight and the training forgotten. . .
[End flashback]
The piece of memory was so sudden and so intense that Nephrite's eyes glazed for a moment. His mind still very much embedded at the back of his head, where the sweet memory of long ago was deeply and forever etched.
Lita, on the other hand, was hyperventilating her heart out, and can't seem to think straight.
All she could ever think of, was a way to get rid of the tall damn, drop dead gorgeous double damn, half-naked damn myself to Hell young man in front of her.
Then and only then, will she try to figure out how he ended up in her room, AND (she blushed delicately at the thought) in her very cozy bed.
Lita was cursing at herself silently as she condemned her "feminine" thoughts on the handsome brute in front of her.
Nephrite looked up and saw Lita muttering under her breath, and he swore he heard the words "naked" and "hell" altogether. The young man almost grinned at the girl's behavior, but his smile got wiped off his face upon seeing the girl raised her head, a particularly irritated scowl on her face while her shoulders were taut and tense.
He looked into her eyes and right before he surrendered to his impending fate of getting clobbered by a beautiful and magnificent warrior with striking green eyes...
He knew he was already done for...
. . .but then, of course, being a very MANLY piece of humankind, clobbering him won't be such an easy task to do, even for a very electrifying and beautiful warrior. . .
. . .who despite those heated sparkling emerald eyes, lies beyond, a longing for her mate. . .
