Sydneys POV

He brushed away one strap of my bra and kissed the skin underneath, once again nibbling on my skin. Than putting it back into place, repeating his actions on the other side.

I didn´t know if the fact, that he´d bitten be before played any role in how amazing that felt, but it was pure bliss.

Even though his fangs didn´t touch my skin and therefore the endorphins didn´t kick in, it still felt amazing.

Adrians POV

It had been far to long, since I´d touched her like this.

It wasn´t all about sex with her. Not at all, but I couldn´t say that I hadn´t missed that at all.

I had touched and kissed her like that in my fantasies since she had been gone, but this, actually being with her, actually feeling her, tasting her skin...

I had though I had a pretty good imagination, but it didn´t compare at the slightest.

I kissed down her stomach and back up again, kissing the soft skin of her breasts and she actually clutched the sheets besides her, her breath came heavy.

Damn...Self control, self control.

My lips found hers again, I really needed to get away from her chest, just for a little while.

She wrapped her legs around me, pressing herself against me.

"Sage" I managed to say.

"Huh?" she asked rolling us over.

She didn´t give me time to answer, because her hands slid down my throat and wandered across my chest, trailing my muscles. My mind went blank.

She still watched me when her hands carefully brushed over a sensitive spot.

Damn...

My had fell backwards. I wasn´t able to keep my eyes open, to overwhelmed by her touch.

"Damn" I said when she leaned down and softly bit my neck.

"Damn?" she asked while slowly kissing up my throat.

I sat back up again and cupped her face.

"Damn" I repeated "You drive me crazy Sage" I said brushing down her arms.

She smiled at me and kissed me "I know" she whispered gently biting my lip.

I moaned in pleasure.

"It´s kind of impossible to not notice that" she said with a smug expression on her face.

I chuckled and shook my head.

She was right, the hard evidence was there.

She once again began to kiss up my throat and ended at my mouth.

We kissed, and it was gentle and soft and without talking about it, I knew we´d stop here.

At least for tonight.

Damn

Sydneys POV

The next morning we got up early and were on the road again.

Adrian had stopped at a gas station and had bought me coffee.

Of course they didn´t have the skinny vanilla latte I loved so much, but at least it was coffee.

We had a whole day of driving ahead of us and planned on arriving on our next stop in the early evening.

Adrian was driving once again and I was holding his hand.

It was such a simple thing to do.

Holding hands always had seemed so stupid to me before. You couldn´t use both of your hands and I always imagined it being uncomfortable and sweaty, but now, looking down on my small hand that was nearly swallowed by his big one, I realized that I had been completely wrong.

Every once in a while his thumb brushed over my skin and it felt warm and safe and more than comfortable.

I thought back to yesterdays event and a felt a small blush on my cheeks.

I carefully looked over to Adrian and he gave me one of his adorable smirks.

Butterflies were flying in my stomach and I actually had to suppress a happy sigh.

God I loved him.

"Can I ask you something?" I said.

"Anything" he said squeezing my hand softly.

"When you use magic. How do you... grasp it?"

A wave of disappointment and frustration rolled over me when I thought about my failed attempt to do magic and I quickly pushed the feeling away.

He tilted his head and thought about it.

"I just kind of focus on bringing it out of my body I guess" he said.

I nodded unsure if I really did understand it.

"You make it sound so easy" I than said with a sigh.

"For me, it is" he said.

I sighed again.

He squeezed my hand another time "You´ll get a hang of it. You´re smart Sage" he said.

I chuckled "I don´t think that it has anything to do with being smart" I argued.

If it was, I would be mastering it by now for sure.

He smiled "Than let me put it that way" he began "You are good at everything, so it´ll work out eventually".

I nodded. Maybe.

I looked outside the window and watched the clouds passing by.

Did I even want to do that? Did I want to do magic? Was it possible that I was the one stopping myself?

I looked at my hand in my lap and turned it around, watching the sun shining on it through the window.

The sun felt warm on my skin. So warm. Fire was warm. Fire... wouldn´t that hurt?

I was focusing on the warmth on my hand and than actually felt the warmth slowly spreading up my arm.

I quickly rubbed my hand against my knee.

"Everything okay?" Adrian asked peeking at me.

"Sure" I said still feeling a strange tingle in my fingertips.

It hadn´t been hot exactly just warm and I probably had only imagined it.

I looked back down on my hand, nearly imagining to see smoke or something.

Of course I saw nothing.

The tingly feeling was gone now and I looked at Adrian again.

"How does it feel?" I asked.

"What? Magic?" he asked.

I nodded "Yes".

"It´s hard to explain. Warm I guess. Tingly and well... really good" he said with a smile.

I looked back at my hand. Warm and tingly? I took a deep breath.

"You sure that everything is okay?" he asked again.

"Yea, of course. It´s just pretty warm in the car" I said rolling down the window.

I put my hand out the window and felt the warm air slipping through my fingers. I felt like washing my hands.

I looked at my hand and imagined the warm tingly feeling I´d felt before.

It nearly felt like I could grasp it, even though I actually couldn´t feel it.

I imagined the warmth on my fingertips and on my palm, spreading up my arm, going through my whole body.

I closed my eyes and concentrated on the feeling.

It hadn´t been horrible. Just strange.

Wait? Did I actually feel warm?

I opened my eyes and looked at my palm again.

Adrians POV

After yesterday, I wouldn´t have thought, that the topic magic would come up so soon again.

I watched Sydney from the corner of my eye.

She looked outside the window and on her forehead a little frown had appeared.

She seemed to be thinking about something very hard.

Her hand in mine felt warm and good.

Concentrating on it it even seemed to get warmer and warmer. Half of a second later I realized that I wasn´t just imagining it.

Surprised, I looked down on our entwined hands.

"Sydney?" I asked.

She seemed to come out of some kind of trance and looked over to me. The feeling abruptly vanished.

"Did you just feel that?" I asked.

"Did you?" she asked with wide eyes "Wait, what did you feel?" she went on.

I let out a surprised sound.

"Do it again!" I said and she looked at me confused.

"I wasn´t doing anything" she said.

"You did. I felt it" I said, still meeting her eyes.

She looked down at our hands.

I followed her gaze and she quickly took her hand away.

Sydneys POV

What was he talking about?

I hadn´t done anything... or did I?

"I don´t know what you´re talking about" I said.

"Right" he said still looking at me.

I looked at him again. I had only imagined how it would feel. How could he have felt anything?

And even if I hadn´t, what I had, how could he have felt it?

He reached for my hand, but I ignored it.

"Really Sage? You´re not going to let me hold your hand again?" he asked.

I sighed. I was being ridiculous.

Slowly, I offered him my hand again. He took it and smiled.

We sat like this for some time and I concentrated very hard to not think about what had happened. I failed … big time.

"I know you felt it, too" he finally said.

Maybe if I ignored him, he wasn´t going to keep talking about this.

It really did make me uncomfortable.

After all there wasn´t anything to talk about.

"So I guess we´re not going to talk about that" he stated when I didn´t say anything.

"Are you scared? Is that it?" he asked a couple of minutes later. His voice was soft now.

So we were talking about it after all.

He was right though. I really was scared. Scared of something I didn´t understand. Something unnatural. Something unnatural I did.

On the other hand I really was curious about what he had actually felt.

I nervously started to play with the hem of my shirt.

"Gee Sage, I get it. I get how you feel about all of this, but could we at least talk about it?" he asked, starting to sound a little frustrated.

I sighed and looked at him.

"I didn´t do anything" I whispered.

"Okay, so what exactly didn´t you do?" he asked.

"I obviously am not responsible for any warm feeling" I said a little louder than I has planed.

He grinned.

"What?" I asked. This conversation was exhausting.

He squeezed my hand"I didn´t say anything about warmth" he said.

Damn.

"How did you do it?" he asked once again.

I took a deep breath and kept my eyes on my lap.

"I don´t know. I´m serious, I was just thinking about what you´d said before about magic. About it feeling warm and tingly and than..." I stalled showing him my palm.

"It was getting warm?" he asked.

I nodded "It started in my fingertips. Just a small tingle and than it spread up my arm and through my whole body"

"Into my hand" he added.

"Huh" Adrian said after a few moments of thinking about it.

Huh? Really?

What was that suppose to mean?

"Try it again" he than said looking at me. He suddenly seemed pretty excited all of the sudden.

Me on the other hand, not that much.

But looking at his excited face I nodded.

Once again I concentrated on the feeling I had felt before and this time I didn´t have to wait long.

The warmth started in my fingertips along with the tingly feeling that somehow felt familiar already. This time, I let it spread and spread until my whole body was warm and comfortable. Like light that was glowing inside of me. It felt good. Maybe even right. Right? What was I doing?

I gasped and looked at Adrian.

He smiled at me and I was more than impressed that he actually managed to keep driving.

"You feel this, too, right?" he asked.

"Yep" I said with a smile, unsure if I was smiling because it felt so good or because it kind of made me nervous.

"That´s amazing Sage" he said. His face lit up.

For a few moments we both just sat there.

"Try to let go of it" he than said softly.

I did as he told me and slowly the feeling faded away.

"Amazing" he murmured "How are you feeling?" Adrian asked.

I thought about it. I felt pretty good, but a little tiered as well. Dizzy even.

"I´m a little tiered" I said closing my eyes fighting the dizziness that suddenly seemed to overwhelm me.

"Check the bag. I got you orange juice" Adrian said with a nod to the back seat.

I opened my eyes and looked at him dumfounded.

"Orange juice?" I asked.

He chuckled "It´s something about your blood sugar. It drops or something. You´ll feel better" he said.

That made absolutely no sense. But never the less I pulled the bag on my lap and found the orange juice he had been talking about.

I didn´t remember the last time I had been drinking orange juice. After all it really was just sugar and aromas.

I turned the little bottle in my hand and checked the ingredients.

Sugar, stabilizer and more and more sugar.

"It´s just juice" Adrian said with a wink "It´s not going to kill you. You´ll feel better".

The dizziness made it hard to think straight and with a strange feeling I opened the bottle to take a sip.

It was delicious. Sweet and fruity and still a little cold.

The liquid ran down my throat and even though I felt the sugar literally clinging on my teeth, what made me feel a little guilty, I savored every last drop.

"Better?" Adrian asked after a few minutes.

I nodded. It was true. I really felt much better.

Did that mean I had to keep on drinking liquid sugar if I ever wanted to do this again?

Did I want to do this again? And what exactly had I done?

Magic a little voice deep inside of me said. You did magic.