Chapter 14: She Explains
Calypso's P.O.V.
The look of shock that took control of his normally expressionless face cut me like a knife down to my soul. He just sat there not saying a word for a while. I usually like silence, but this was one of those awkward ones where a little noise would be helpful. Needless to say it was uncomfortable, then again I had just said something that had literally bitch slapped me in the face when I had found out. There was a few more moments of silence before he finally turned and looked me in the eye.
"Why?" Ah that age old question of wanting to know everything. Suddenly I feel like I'm about to let him know about my life.
"My….m..mother." I forced myself to say. God just calling her that makes me feel nauseous.
"You have a mom?" he looked completely confused.
"Sadly yes. It's long story though." I sighed looking at my feet.
"Come on." he said standing up and extending his hand towards me.
I looked at his hand and then gazed up into his crimson eyes. There was complete confidence and determination in them. Come on? Where? What exactly was he thinking? He still didn't know about he whole me not trusting guys thing. Then again he had helped me quite a bit compared to others I knew. Oh what the hell. I sighed heavily and put my hand into his. Damn it why do guys always have to have bigger hands than chicks. They could practically swallow us whole! Women have these small petite type of hands and guys have the gigantic callused ones. Why is that?
" Where to?" I asked as he pulled me to my feet. And why do most of them have to be so damn strong?
"Just get in your car and follow me." he replied as he walked off to his car. Sounds like one of those phrases that a man says before he leads one of those stupid chicks from a horror movie into an abandoned warehouse or out in the middle of nowhere before he eventually kills her. Okay so maybe I'm sounding paranoid but the last couple times I've been stuck alone with a guy something bad has happened to me. Maybe not around Kai, but hey you never know.
He waited for me until I drove up behind him at a stop sign. Its late at night there's not really any traffic coming or going into the mall. Then we left the parking lot and drove through the city streets. Even though its wrong occasionally I can't help myself to run maybe atleast one red light. Okay fine two…..Damn it alright already it was just five this time. He started making turns down streets I'd never been on before. When I looked into the rear view mirror the city lights were slowly fading away. In front of me his brake lights came on as he slowed down and turned onto a dirt road. See what did I say earlier? Some dumb chick get lead out into the middle of nowhere. The dirt road almost seemed to go on for miles until he finally stopped his car and pulled off a little to the side. Following his actions I did the same and got out of my car.
"Where are we?" I asked looking around
Trees surrounded us with the exception of a cornfield off to my right. If at any moment a guy in a hockey mask with a flaming machete coming walking out of there I'm am going to flip. I'm serious this is just weird. Why did I have own all the children of the corn movies? Gore movies are awesome, but when things from those movies start happening to you in real life, you have every damn right to freak out. Note to self kick Kai's ass later for leaving me clueless.
"Come on." Kai ordered grabbing my hand.
Did I jump when he did that? Your damn right I did! He's acting different. This is the same guy who was a total smartass at school. He even treated his supposed 'friends' like trash sometimes. What was with his change in attitude around me? I mean come on at school he was like 'whatever' sitting back casually in his seat. When its just the two of us we wind up lip locking. One definite question that's going through my mind right now is …What the hell?
My thoughts were interrupted by the clearing that opened up before us. There was an undisturbed lake being bathed in the moonlight was casting itself down from the night sky. Great now where's the sign that says "Welcome to Camp Crystal Lake" ? Yeah I'm somewhat panicking. But everything is good for now. Breathe in, breathe out, breathe in, breathe out. Okaaaaaaaay. I'm good. The water's surface began to move here and there as fished jumped trying to catch a late night snack. Damn fish. Over all if the scene wasn't such a reminder of evil it would be really spectacular. However when have I ever been the one to say 'Oh that's beautiful' Ha I'll never tell NEVER! But it is nice to know that there are some places out there that have yet to be destroyed by mankind.
I'm serious there wasn't even a cabin by the lake. Thank you god. Besides the occasional jumping fish the only other things breaking the silence of night was my breathing and the chirping of crickets. Alas a place with no signs of destruction. It is kinda peaceful here. Why am I here again? Oh that's right Mr. I'll-tell-you-nothing-just-follow-me is the reason.
Averting my gaze from the rare sight in front of me I turned my head to look at a really good one sitting on the ground beside me. Though I'll never say that out loud either. He looked really hot stretched out on the ground in a pair of baggy blue jeans that hugged his hips. A blue t-shirt despite its large size that couldn't hide his well defined upper body. The moon making his hair look almost silver, and those crimson eyes. Oh damn, always those dark sexy crimson eyes. Makes you kinda wanna …look at …them…all day…and drown..in…them. Whoa Cal going a little off subject here. Back in the game. Come on you moron blink! There we go. Now look away and remain calm as if he has no effect on you. NO! stop thinking dirty.
"So are you going to tell me what's going on or not?" he asked not looking at me.
Kinda direct isn't he?
"Why did you bring me here?" I purposely avoided his question.
"Don't play dumb with me." he said turning to gaze up at me with an intense look in his eyes. Oh god, why are my knees getting weak? What happened to my calm attitude? (You flushed it down the toilet) I must have definitely lost my mind to come here alone with him. But who could blame me? He was just a hot sexy guy sitting right there in front of me very ready for the taking. Okay Calypso first turn your head away from him. Then answer his question without looking at him directly.
Without any sense whatsoever I sat down beside him on the ground. What the! This wasn't part of the plan. Great I'm out in the middle of nowhere arguing with my self with a sex god next to me…alone. Sex god? Where the hell did that come from? Sure its easy to look all big, bad and uninterested with your friends around at school. Of school grounds your screwed kinda like right now.
"I'm not playing dumb. I just wanted a good reason as to why we're here. It's a simple question really so long as you don't think too hard on it." I replied innocently
Good, doing good so far. Aw hell who am I kidding? Mental note to self: slap self later for sounding like a virgin.
"I despise being interrupted while in deep conversation with someone." he answered turning away from me….finally.
Hold up. Deep conversation? Wait is he referring to personal matters?
"So what do you want to know?" I asked "Or should I say which part do you want to here?"
"What's the deal with your mom? You know the whole deal with you having to go to Russia and all." he sounded kinda annoyed now. Ooops. My bad.
" She's a fucking whore and that's putting it lightly." I said plucking a piece of stray grass from the ground and twirling it around in my fingers. "When I actually lived with her as a kid, she left me home alone every night to go have a one-night stand with some bozo. One time she was gone for almost a week day and night. I'm glad there was plenty of junk food and pb&j otherwise I probably would have died."
" Yeah she is a whore when you put it that way. But how did you get to live with your dad?" he asked listening intently to fucked up life story
" He's my adoptive father. The bitch brought home a man one night and he had a real short temper. She said something that pissed him off and he beat the crap out of her and I jumped in only to get it even worse. She wound up having to call the cops and put me in a hospital. Social services said that she was an unfit parent and I wasn't allowed to live with her anymore. So six years and a dozen foster homes later I became Calypso Takeshi." I sighed heavily while thinking about everything that had happened leading up to the present.
" Twelve foster homes huh? You must've been quite the loose cannon." he grinned at me with those perfect lips parting only slightly to reveal his dazzling white teeth.
" Yep." I stated with pride. "The whole having no family thing comes in handy to keep you out of Juvy. Car jacking and joy riding, stealing, vandalism, tire slashing, one arson, some eggs thrown at passing vehicles, street racing."
I ticked off each thing on my hands as I said them. So I was a very bad girl. Like I said earlier I'm kinda into the danger thing. I can take anything thrown at me. As in surviving to live another day. Kai's eyes only grew wider and wider as I explained.
" Did you ever see your mom again?" he interrupted.
"
Dude, I lived with a military computer nerd. We constantly moved all
over the country. I've been here for three months and it's the longest
time I've ever stayed in one place. What the heck do you think?" he
raised his eyebrow in answer. Sighing at his silence I told the truth.
" Yeah, I've seen her twice since then. She's really mad at me because
I don't want anything to do with her. In her mind right now if I won't
be her daughter then nobody can claim me as their own."
My chest had tightened and I swallowed hard. Telling all this had brought back unwanted memories. I had thought I'd created a barrier inside myself to protect me from those horrible nightmares that people referred to as reality. Truth is, when it hits you your never truly prepared. It winds up affecting you one way or the other.
"So now what?" he asked causing me to jump since I had temporarily forgotten he was beside me. Heh go figure that I'd forget someone as great looking as him was nearby.
"So now its my fault that my father is dead." I slowly let out my breath
"Were you there when it happened?" he narrowed his crimson eyes at me.
"No" What's he trying to get at?
"Did you hold the weapon that killed your father?" he arched an eyebrow
"NO!" I exclaimed at his absurd question
"Then it wasn't your fault." he stated turning his gaze back to the lake.
"Yeah, but it still bugs me. I've changed a lot ever since I moved here."
I didn't know how long I'd be gone. God I would miss everyone. This place had changed me in many ways. I hadn't lied to Kai when I told him that. The question was if I didn't come back for a while would he still be the same? I sighed and buried my head in my hands. Some how some way I would return. No matter how long the distance. I couldn't leave this place I had begun to call home.
"Hey Cal. There's something I gotta tell you, that guy Tala mentioned to you before. You know the one named Voltaire. Well he's my grandfather." the look on his face told me that he wasn't proud to admit it.
My mind went blank as I recalled the mentioning of the name and having done seen it on a specific piece of paper. The facts hit me in the face like a bitch slap. This caused a grin to spread out.
"Reeaaallly. Then that means you can help me out from having to leave the damned country."
He looked confused at me as I just sat there and smiled as an idea began to unravel itself within my mind.
Well people. I apologize for not having updated sooner. School just began for me yesterday and the homework has already begun. It really sucks ass too. The second day of school and having homework. Well g2g I'll try to update soon. All though I might be getting a job which could make an even bigger dent in my schedule of updating. Fear not my friends. I will work hard to continue pleasing you.