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WATCH ME BLEED
keep it real
"C"-T-(R)
Baileyzzzzzzzz
Chapter 9
I didn't understand his words. Cry when? I'd cried many times. Déjà vu (Thanx moira aina YOU ROCK! Haha!) hit me again, harder.
"What?" I whispered.
He sat up and ran his entire hand through my hair. Holding my head in the back. "Do you remember this place, love?"
Should I?
"Yes," I whispered to him again. I'd had a dream about this place. With Heath. So many long, long months ago. But how did he know that?
"You weren't supposed to cry when you woke up," he said to me with his eyes burning with sadness and love into mine. "When I told you that I would always be there, I was serious."
"What do you mean?" I gasped at him. I thought that had been just a silly teenage girl dream. How did he know? How did he say those things?
"I can create dreams in people's sleeping minds, Erin. I was too scared to talk to you for real. But I meant what I said. I meant it even so long before all this."
"You… you sent my mind dreams about you?"
"Every single one." He said this somewhat embarrassed and regretful. "I never stayed around to see what you did afterward though. I always just stood outside your window, sent you a dream, and then the second you woke up I would run." He pulled away his eyes from mine and his hand from my head. He looked down at where my hands lay limp in my lap. He picked up one and held it tight. "I actually stayed around for that one. Positive you'd love it…" he let out a laugh without mirth, "but then you cried."
My eyes were glued to his face and my mouth was on the ground. I snapped it shut and tried to breathe. I looked down and away, shaking my head slightly. I felt his eyes back on my face, but I stared at the green grass.
"I… I…" I felt my throat close up and my eyes fell with tears, but I refused to cry. I looked back into his heavenly eyes. "I thought I had made it up, Heath. I cried because of how stupid I felt. Someone like you could never…" I choked, trying to hold back tears, "never have feelings like that for me. I cried, Heath, because I was reminded again of something I would never have."
His hands flew back to my face in a quantam leap. His eyes worried, and somewhat hurt. "How could you think that?" he asked, quietly but forcefully.
"I don't know, Heath." His concern for me always brought on emotion. It become that much harder with his hands where they were and his eyes shining the way they were. "No one ever had before… people who I hoped would, never did, so I didn't see it logical that you, of all people, would."
"You're wrong, Erin. You are so wrong," he whispered, closing his eyes and resting his forehead against mine. I closed my eyes too and one tear let me down and escaped my eye.
"Traitor," I whispered very softly.
Heath pulled straight up and looked at me in horror.
"The tear," I laughed at his expression. "I was talking about the tear." I touched the hand that held my cheek and rubbed it gently. He relaxed again and laughed out of relief.
He slid the hand I wasn't holding down to the side of my neck, making me shiver faintly. I pulled his other hand off my face and held it in my lap.
His breathtaking face closer and closer to mine. Then our lips met in a deep, beautiful kiss.
When he pulled away, he placed both his hands in my lap, as did I. He held each of my hands in each of his.
"Before you, I felt so alone, I can't even explain it. But when you bumped into me……" He smiled softly, lovingly. "And when you knew what the picture was of, I didn't feel so alone any more. I wanted everything to do with you. I wanted to talk to you, be with you," he paused, and then reached up to push a strand of hair from my face. "Touch you," he stated slowly. "I wanted to know you and for the first time with any being, ever, I wanted you to know me. I never wanted to hide again."
He looked down and frowned considerably.
"But I did. I used my powers of dream manipulation to have you trust me, or see me in the least. I was so afraid you'd completely reject me."
I cupped his broken face, making him look me in the eye, "I would never reject you, Heath. Never. I thought you'd reject me…"
His eyes held mine for what felt like an eternity. At one moment they were shining, glassy. But he blinked back the tears. I wasn't so lucky, the drops of moister streamed silently down my face.
He continued, "I also wasn't being completely honest with myself. I was nothing but a lone warrior and I didn't understand the feelings I was having. So I tried my very best to just roll them off as immaturity or something. I didn't know love. I had known, many years ago. But I had chilled my heart since then." He took my hand from his face and held it between both of his. "And then, you came to my world, where I didn't need secrets because you would find out anyway. You deserved to know, but still I kept them from you. And I was cold towards the one thing I cherished most."
The tears were flowing immensely now. I loved him. Oh, how I love him.
He leaned closer to me slightly. He let go of my hand with his right hand and, looking down at my neck, ran his fingers across my collarbone. A tear from each of his eyes escaped before he could blink them away. He looked back into my face and smiled slowly, "You have thawed me, Erin. Your warm heart has thawed my frozen one."
Our tears mingled then, as his cool lips touched mine. Yes, we had kissed before but never like this. No, this, by far, was my very favorite one. I loved him, and at that moment, I knew he loved me back.
And I cared about nothing else.
"Everything is fine when I'm with you," he said when we pulled away. "Things… things don't seem so terrible when I look into your eyes. The past is gone and over. And even if the future is yet upon us, it's going to be fine." He cupped my face in one of his hands and his thumb soothed back and forth on my skin. "You'll need to be patient with me. My heart is learning."
He chuckled softly and I did, too. He didn't need to say all this. I would do anything for him. But I didn't interrupt his speech, thinking that might upset him, and he continued.
"But seriously, I am scared Erin. I'm unaware of so much stuff, but," he said and his face took on a pained and frustrated expression. But then his blissful features smoothed out and he looked almost peaceful as his thumb brushed lightly against my mouth. "Your lips proved a shelter for the things that I don't know…. Almost like its ok. Even so much that I don't need those things anymore if I had you. But then when I do have you, I have everything…"
I loved him. How I loved him.
He leaned against the tree and I cuddled in to him. His arms going around my waist. Darkness had somewhat fallen and I got a great idea.
I turned in his arms and looked to his face with bright eyes. "Will you do what you did with the stars?" I asked excitedly.
He smiled softly and laughed a bit. "I would, dear love, but there are too many clouds."
I looked into the sky and saw he was right. My face fell a tad, but only a dat. I turned back around leaned back into his chest. He pulled in me into him and rested his chin on my shoulder.
When it started getting really dark we headed home. We got to the house and got into our normal night position. Ten or fifteen minutes passed by and I heard rain on rooftop. I smiled wide, bathing in the beautiful music. Heath had felt me smile and asked me about it.
"Oh, it's just the first time it has rained here and it's so beautiful…" I whispered back to him.
"Oh," he chuckled.
I sat up and looked down at his cute, confused expression. I put my hands on his chest and said, "Let's go play in it!"
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Heath looked up at her like, 'You've got ot be kidding me', but said, "Guys don't really play in the rain, Erin."
Erin got down close to his face and smiled, "For the women they love, they do."
"For the women they love?"
"Of course!"
Next thing she knows she's in his arms and they're standing in the pouring rain. Erin gasped and wrapped her arms around his neck and smiled hugely at him. He laughed back and set her on the ground.
The rain came down hard on them, but Heath thought he had never seen a more beautiful creature. He took her hand and began running at human speed deep into the forest, heading for no specific place. He started laughing and saying her name as she ran along side him.
She guffawed at him and couldn't stop. The rain on her body felt amazing and she thought, This was what I was made for!
Then she looked over and saw a tree that was so thick no rain had gotten through. She stopped running and grabbed Heath's hand with both hands. She grinned, biting her lip, pulling him to the tree. He was grinning at her curiously. As soon as they were under the little shelter she tangled her arms around his neck and brought his face to hers. She laid her wet cheek against his and moved her nose along his jaw. Just in the same manner as he would do to her.
His hands were on her hips and he pushed her up against the tree. She giggled when she hit it and he kissed her then, longingly, hard, and true- softening and deepening it after several moments.
She slid her hands down his neck to his chest and grabbed fistfuls of his shirt. He moved his own hands to her face and kissed her again, rather vigorously.
Then, he unexpectedly broke away and looked to his right, his frightened eyes scanning the trees. Erin stood on her tippy-toes and put her face close to his again, calling his lips back.
"Oh no!" he growled to himself.
Suddenly he began running, slow enough for Erin to see him, but fast enough that she didn't see him for long. She began running in the direction he had run. She was screaming his name, crying at the same time. The once beautiful, magnificent rain now made her heart race with fear. The once astonishing lightning flashed rapidly cause the once enchanting forest to cast insane shadows that forced Erin's legs to run faster.
Something was very wrong and she was horrified. She ran as fast and as straight as she could. Everything was pitch-black except for when the lightning flashed. The thunder and rain boomed in her ears.
Then she knew she was in the clearing. There was no rain here; none. Nothing but pitch-black darkness. Then the lightning flashed and Erin saw her face, one she had never seen before, but knew it instantly. It was terrible, wonderful, beautiful, ugly, destroying, becoming- all of this in the second of a lightning flash.
She knew she was out of time.
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