Chapter nine

The spike incident

Yep. I fell asleep.

I know! Right when Jesse and I were confessing our undying love for each other!

Ok ok. So we had already done that. Well, in a way.

I woke up the next morning, with a rush of pain. None of the good kind, I assure you. I shut my eyes as soon as I had opened them, peering through my lashes. I let out a small scream inside, my mouth closed holding it back.

"Querida?"

I opened my eyes looking at the window seat. He wasn't there. And neither was Spike.

"Over here, Querida." Jesses voice was laced with laughter.

My gaze flew over to where his voice had come from. I jumped at the sight of him lying next to me. On my bed. With Spike in between us.

Wait a minute…

On my bed…Spike in between us…

On my bed…Spike in between us…

SPIKES BETWEEN US!

He let that gruesome feline into my clean bed. Oh, great. Now I have to take a shower. Wait a minute. Why does my arm hurt? I looked over at my arm in pain. It was wrapped in a pillowcase at the elbow down. I could see a faint color of red. My arm was bleeding. But, not bad enough to where I would be dieing right now.

Jesse is pretty good with medical aid.

I looked back over at Jesse, who had a small smile playing at his lips. He reached over, stroked my hair, his hand falling down to my cheek where he ran his thumb back and forth over my flesh. I closed my eyes at his warmth. Or, lack of.

"Jesse." I breathed.

I could picture a smile on his face. I opened my eyes to have my prediction proved. He was smiling. It didn't stretch from ear to ear. But I was happy all the same.

"Are you alright?" His concerned words brought me out of my bliss.

"Yes." I breathed. God, what was up with this heavy breathing thing? "Yes, Jesse, I'm fine."

Jesse smiled at this, leaned over and kissed me.

My toes were scrunching up the kiss was so good. Oh, yes. It was. I felt it all over my body.

Hence the toe scrunching.

He broke the kiss and scooted closer to me. I thought it was funny. He got caught in the blankets. I had to untwist his foot out of the sheets. He laughed a little too.

We ended up lying right next to each other. My head was lying on his chest, his arm wrapped protectively around me, and his free hand, stroking my hair.

To say I was in heaven would be an understatement. Well, maybe. I was right where I had always wanted to be. In Jesses arms. But, not all of it was blissful, mind you. Don't forget little spikey. No no. He was in there alright. In with us, I mean. He was lying on Jesses thighs, purring loudly. Jesse would often laugh at this. I could feel it through his chest. I loved the way it moved.

"Querida?" I sighed at the sound of his voice.

Don't swoon!

"Yes, Jesse?" I asked, almost dazed by the feel of his body underneath my head and arm, lying lazily across his stomach.

"You know we are going to have to move soon." I moaned. I didn't want to move.

"Do we have to?" I whined. Yeah, I know. How grown up of me?

Jesse just laughed at my whining. "Yes, we will. Your arm is broken. You need to go to a doctor soon, Susannah, before it gets worse."

I moaned again. But Jesse didn't laugh. He was serious. And then I had a thought. He said that we were going to have to move soon.

Soon.

Not right now. But, Soon.

Meaning I could stay this way for a few minutes longer.

"Jesse?" I asked.

"Yes, Querida?" He answered.

I looked up at him as he was looking down at me. My pulse shot up at the sight of him.

"Um…"I trailed off. Looking at his mouth of course! "Could we stay like this. For a while longer? I'm so comfortable. I don't want to move."

Oh, god, I'm so horrible.

"If you are comfortable and are ok as of this moment, then, yes, we can stay." Jeez. All of that? Why couldn't he just answer with a simple ok? Yes. God forbid a no!

Oh, well. I like that Jesse says more than a simple one word as his answers.

He leaned down to kiss me, when a ghost materialized right beside us.

Ok, I admit it. I jumped. I wasn't expecting this. Neither was Jesse. His arms around me tightened their grip protectively.

I looked over at the ghost. It was the same ghost I had seen the other day. You know, the sort of hot one. Not as hot as Jesse, mind you.

"Hey. Am I interrupting anything? Is this a bad time?" He started backing up, looking like he was about to leave. Well, in his case, dematerialize.

"Well, sort of." I said. I eased my way out of Jesses grasp. He let me go. Unfortunately. I stood up and walked towards ghost boy. "So, would you like to continue your mediation now? I need a synopsis."

Wow, Suze. You sound just like those people who want to sell you something.

"I don't want to talk about that." He said rather sadly.

This was new. Well, sort of. I hadn't heard it in a long time.

"Well, if you want to move on, I need your specs. What happened? Who did it? What's holding you back? And, oh, what is your name?" I asked rather fast. Hopefully he got most of that.

"Casey." Was his answer. "My name is Casey."

"Casey." I liked that name. It suited him. He looked like a Casey. "Do you know why you haven't moved on yet?" Very smooth Suze. Well, I said it nicely enough. Don't get too mad ok.

"Yes, I do know. I just don't want it to be the way it is. I wish it never happened to me. How it did, I never figured it out. But, I do know, that it wont stop."

Ok. Cryptic much.

Damn ghosts.

"What is it?" I was getting tired of asking the same thing over and over again. It was tiring. Energy wasting. "Can you tell me?"

He looked to the floor. "No, I cant." And then he dematerialized.

I took a deep breath of boredom.

"Well, at least I got his name this time."

I let out that breath.

(P&P: I hope you all enjoyed. Yeah. I know. This chapter went up a little faster than the other ones. I just felt like writing. So I did. It may not make sense. But, I do like this chapter. Hell, the next one may go up today. You never know. I want to continue it. I am currently updating Changing in seasons. That should be up soon. I want to start another fic so you'll have to wait for that.

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