Sydneys POV
"You believe in that stuff?" I asked with an arched eyebrow.
He chuckled and I smiled at him, wondering if I´d missed some kind of joke.
"To be honest, I do" he than said.
"Huh" I said looking at him with a grin "didn´t think that" I said.
"What are your dreams about?" he than asked.
"What dreams?" I asked once again mesmerized by my hand in his hand.
"You told me, that you´re dreaming about vampires" he said with a smile looking at our hands.
"Promise me you won´t laugh?" I asked.
"I promise" he said with a serious face.
"Ok... Well... it isn´t really about vampires in particular... it´s kind of hard to explain. In my dreams I am myself but somehow I´m someone else..." I looked at him making sure if he could follow me.
"Still with me?" I asked and he nodded with a smile.
"There are people I know, but I can´t see their faces..." I stopped feeling stupid to tell him all about that. Especially after my mother made it pretty clear how stupid it sounded.
He was still looking at me and as far as I could see, he wasn´t laughing. He was just listening.
It encouraged me to go on.
"It´s not like there are vampires like you see in the movies. You know with obvious fangs and capes and all that stuff... it´s more like a feeling of them being there. And I´m not scared. I feel..." I stopped to find the right word to describe it
"I feel safe" I finally said, knowing exactly how crazy all of that sounded.
He studied me for a few moments.
"Do you think those are only dreams?" he asked and I looked at him surprised.
I thought about his question.
Did I? I knew that a sane person would say yes immediately. After all it was vampires we were talking about, but being honest with myself, I wasn´t sure.
"I don´t know" I said.
He softly began to brush over my hand with his thumb and I realized he was doing it vacantly.
My heart began to pump faster. He couldn´t think that I´m crazy. Otherwise he wouldn´t be doing it, or would he?
I watched him looking out the window. Somehow he seemed far away.
Adrians POV
Centrum Permanebit I thought. Maybe the center really did hold.
After all the trouble the alchemist went through to erase her memories, there was still a part in her, that seemed to remember at least part of her former life.
Even if she was only dreaming about it and even if she didn´t understand her dreams, she still didn´t seem to think, that all of that was complete insanity.
Hope rose in me. Maybe I really could make her remember and maybe she would believe me after all.
I smiled at that.
"Why are you smiling?" Sydney asked bringing me back to reality.
"You mean besides the fact, that I am here with you?" I asked with a grin looking down at our hands.
She smiled "Yea... makes me smile, too" she said.
"You know what would make me even happier?" I asked.
"What?" she asked carefully.
"Dancing with you once again" I said getting up and pulling her up with me.
She giggled and looked at me shyly.
"Yea, that´s not going to happen again" she said trying to sit down again.
"You said that yesterday, too, you know" I said with a mischievous smile pulling her back up.
"Well, you got the once in a life time opportunity of seeing me drunk, so like I said, not going to happen" she said still laughing.
Sydneys POV
There wasn´t even any music. He was crazy if he´d think I would dance with him in silence.
"Yea about that... I think you kind of liked dancing with me" he said teasing.
"Not fair. You´re talking about things I don´t remember" I said pouting.
He chuckled and than he put his hand on my waist.
I looked at him surprised by his sudden closeness and him touching me.
"Remember that?" he asked with a grin.
His hand softly brushed over my waist until it came to a stop on my hip.
For a moment it seemed like the world would stay still.
He took my hand and positioned it on his waist.
"And that?" he asked in a low voice still looking at me with a smile.
I gulped as my hand touched his waist. The space between us became smaller and smaller.
I looked up at him and saw that he was still smiling.
I blushed as my memory came back slowly.
Yes, I definitely remembered dancing with him. I remembered how unbelievably sexy it had been and I also remembered his hand staying on my hip the whole time.
"Ehm... yes" I said.
"Good" he said still giving me a coy smile "Because it would be a shame if you´d forget about that" he went on.
I was still looking into his beautiful eyes when I remembered something else.
I remembered, that I´d almost kissed him. How could I´ve forgotten about that?
"Are you still all in?" I asked, surprised by my confidence.