Monday afternoon…
Zek decided to wait until after the weekend to take Sera out on their date, since she was busy with family matters. One thing did bother him about it though, if her family treats her like shit so much then why does she go see them or even help them? Maybe it's a distant relative or something. He knocked on her door, but no one answered. I hear music so someone has to be here; he tried the door knob and found it was unlocked. "Hey Sera, Link? You guys here?" He had barely reached the kitchen when Lean appeared before him, "Hey there little kitty, is anyone here or are you and your brother the guarding the fort.
What a moron, he speaks to as if I'm a child! Ignorant, human… Lean just glared at the boy before him. Unfortunately my master likes this idiot so I can't even claw at him.
Zek called out to the empty apartment again "Anyone here?" Hika came barreling out of Link's room and started purring against his legs, "Well hello there Hika." He reached down and picked up the purring feline, "You are so much nicer than your brother."
Hika just licked his face as Lean walked away disgusted, Hika you truly are a moron. How can you stand the touch of such a lowly human? At least his friend has some magic blood in him even if he still is mortal, but this one this Zek…ugh.
You are too up tight brother Hika thought to his brother, He is very kind and gentle; plus your master likes him shouldn't we give him a chance…
No Hikaru, you must be alert at all times, never trust a mortal never… Lean felt to Sera's room.
Zek put the kitten on the floor as he saw the bathroom door open down the hall. He almost passed out at the sight that met his eyes. Sera had just stepped out of the shower in a little black towel that just covered her. Zek took in every detail: her hair was fanned out across her shoulder, water was still dripping down her legs slowly, and he skin was a pale pink from the heat of the water.
Sera placed her sunglasses back on before turning to him, "Oh hey. I'm sorry I didn't hear you come in." She had
Zek just looked at the cat rubbing against his legs, "That's… I….uhhh just…ummm…know if you were…free this evening?"
She walks over to the kitchen and popped open a soda, "Yup, I finished the newest chapter earlier, since my archery was cancelled."
"Great!" He still was focusing on Hika instead of her, "then how about you…I mean we…do something…"
Sera threw the empty can in the trash, "Two points!" and started walking to her room, "That would be perfect, but can you hold on for a sec while I go get so clothes on?"
Zek just nodded but his gaze wondered up her legs to her ass as she walked passed him swaying her hips slightly on purpose. Think of ice, cold snow, anything!! Calm down man calm down.
In her room, Sera was snickering and trying her hardest not to bust out laughing at the look on Zek's face when she walked out for the bathroom. Dear god the boy looks like he was going to faint! She dropped her towel and grinned evilly; deciding to get pay back for the parking lot incident. She pulled on a big purple muscle shirt that landed past mid-thigh and showed some of her ribs in the back and extremely short black shorts.
She looked herself in the mirror, "This is so mean of me… oh well." She walked out into the living room to go torture Zek a little as Hika ran pass her to his brother. She sat on the corner, crossed her long legs slowly, as the man in front of her started to hyperventilate, "So what did you have in mind for tonight?"
Seven pm…
Sera was blindfolded as Zek held her hand as they neared their destination, "where are we?"
Zek pulled her a little more, "It's just around the corner, trust me."
Sera giggled and pointed his side repeatedly, "You're the romantic type aren't you?"
Zek released her hand and pulled off her blind fold.
Sera put back on her glasses before opening her eyes, "A barn? Okay, that's not what I was expecting…"
Zek laughed as she tilted her head to the side, he ran into the barn and came out with two sets of reins in his hands. Two huge horses trotted out with him; one was a honey brown with a white star on its chest. The other horse also had a white star on its chest but it was black instead of brown.
"Sera I would like you to meet Thorn." The brown horse looked away and huffed in response, "and this is Ivy." The black horse sniffed her hair softly.
"It's nice to meet you both," she had started petting Ivy's long face, "This is so cool."
Zek put Ivy's reins in Sera's hands and mounted the impatient Thorn, "Come on, we don't you don't want to miss it."
"Miss what?"
"You'll see, but we have to leave or we'll never make it in time."
Sera started at the reins in her hands wearily, "Umm…Zek?"
"Yeah," Thorn had started walking away from her.
"I don't know how…" she blushed in embarrassment.
"Don't know how to what?" he said as turned Thorn back around.
"To ride…I've never been on a horse in my life."
Zek just jumped down and started tying Thorn's reins to part of Ivy's saddle.
"What are you doing?"
Zek ignored her and hauled himself up into place on Ivy's back before pulling her in the saddle in front of him with one arm, "There this is much better."
Sera just laughed, "But won't Thorn get jealous?"
"Nah, he's use to getting tagged along until I feel like actually riding."
Sera nodded as Ivy started to trot into the woods, at the first sign of movement she froze up.
Zek wrapped his arms around her softly and laid his head on her shoulder "Relax and just move with her nothing's going to happen not while I'm here," Zek whispered in her ear.
Sera and Zek were just staring out watching the sun set in a field on the outskirts of the woods. They had already eaten the picnic Zek had set up before hand, and for the past hour they were just lying on a blanket laughing and talking.
"So what is the most humiliating thing you've ever done?"
Zek shook his head, "Well I didn't so it, but Cai pulled my pants down in the middle of a school assembly."
"That's not to bad-"
"He got my boxers in the process…"
She started laughing and couldn't stop for a long time; tears were running down her cheeks, "That is so wrong."
Zek scratched the back of his head, "You have no idea." The sky was dark now so he removes her glasses, "You can take these off now, there's not even moonlight to hurt your eyes tonight." He turned to her and wiped away the tears on her cheeks with his thumb before lying back, "I have a question for you."
Sera leaned on her arm facing him, "Bring it on."
"What is you're deepest darkest and least known secret?" Zek smirked smugly closing his eyes.
"You already know it, I'm Lunar Angel."
"That's not a dark secret, come on I told you something really personal; it's your turn to spill now."
Sera froze what do I tell him? There are a couple but I can't tell him I'm a witch so what do I tell him? He already knows my alias and how job. I can't tell him about Aaron, can...I?
Zek cracked open an eye and even in the dark he could tell she was horrified I assumed she would say something, small like she was scared of spiders or something, but what if she has something she's never told anyone. Zek sat up and placed a hand on her shoulder, "It's okay, just forget I said anything."
Sera sighed and looked away, "No it's just that…okay but don't say anything until I'm done okay?"
Zek nodded and watched as she got up and stood a few feet in front of him, hugging herself tightly.
"Back in high school, I was going out with this guy named Jack. He was funny, smart, and really nice to everyone. We started seeing each other the summer before our freshmen year and continued until around Christmas time. I had fallen head or heels for him, but he was a really jealous and possessive person when no one was around. I had a couple of guy friends that I would talk with when going from class to class, but he didn't like that and we fought about it constantly. Finally one day in November, I told him that he was being ridiculous and need to get a grip; I still remember what he said 'Get a grip!! You bitch do you realize how lucky you are to even be with me! I can leave your ass at any time.' Being a naïve little girl, I believed him and stopped walking with them. It slowly started to get worse and he would hit me if I would even say the wrong thing. One day in November I was hanging out with him and a couple of his friends, and I laughed while they were teasing him about something. He snapped and threw me against the nearest wall."
She kind of laughed at the memory and looked into the sky, "One of his friends saw I that I broke my leg and I was bleeding from the back of my head. He was much smaller than Jack, but he still ended up beating the crap out of him for hurting me. The other guys in the room left immediately after I got hit, but he stayed and then carried me to the nearest hospital." She had tears in her eyes and her voice was breaking, "His name was Aaron Wallas and he took care of me until I could walk again. We never heard what happened to Jack after that night, he stopped coming to school too, but we didn't care. Later that year, Aaron asked me out and we were together until December of last year." She sighed and sniffled lightly, "It's not really a secret…"
Zek stood up and held her in his arms and inhaled her scent.
Sera just laid her head on his chest and relaxed. They had been standing like that for quite a while when she finally spoke again, but her voice very soft "Zek thank you. It felt good to get that out in the open and have someone to talk to."
Zek just tightened his hold on her thinking to himself she didn't mention the wedding, but she did willingly tell me about Aaron. He lifted her chin and kissed her softly in the dark, "I'm glad you're comfortable enough around me." He pulled her back to the blanket and held her to his chest.
They stayed like that for a little bit until he noticed the first comet of the night shoot across the sky, "Did you see that?" Zek looked down when he received no answer and found that she had fallen asleep on his chest with one hand clinging to his shirt. He pulled her hand away from his shirt and laced his fingers with hers instead.
A small smile tugged at the corners of her mouth as she felt his other hand rest at the small of her back. Sera looked up and sighed happily, "what was that?"
"There's a comet shower tonight, that's what I was afraid we'd miss."
She sat up looking to the sky as her hair fell covering half of her face, "I've never seen one before." More comets had started to fall from the heaven as she watched in fascination.
Zek sighed and pulled her hair back, "I wish I could see your face, I can only see your nose and lips."
Sera smirked, "Not me I can see you clearly. Plus you're supposed to be watching the comets not me."
"I can watch what I want."
Sera jumped free of his arms and ran to the edge of the woods just behind a tree, "Not if you can't see it!"
"Get back here you little minx." He growled after her as he ran in her general direction.
As soon as he got close enough to her, she would silently run away making not a single sound like the wolves had taught her days prior. They played this little game for an hour as the comets fell, lighting up the forest for a couple second. Zek used those flashes to see where she was before running after her.
Sera was panting next to a tree panting from having to run so quickly He almost got me that time. If I just creep up behind him and I can scare the- ugh I don't feel good. Sera felt her forehead I think I'm running a fever, but it could just be from running…oh god! Sera fell to the ground and started to vomit violently Damn…blockers…
Zek heard a grunt behind him and swiftly ran to the sound.
Sera could feel her powers slowly starting again as the vomiting slowed down.
Another flash from a comet passed by and Zek saw Sera on all fours panting. "What happened?" he ran to her side and held back her hair for her.
"Drugs," was all she could get out before she started vomiting again.
Zek pulled out a tiny flash light and shined it in the dark to see how badly ill she was. But what he saw freaked him out, Sera's eyes were screwed shut so she didn't see the look on his face. Zek was pre-med so nothing really surprised him anymore, but he had just seen sera puke up this black liquid into a huge puddle Black!! No that can't be he shined the flash light on the puddle in front of her and it was indeed black. Damn it she's puking blood I have to get her back.
Sera sat back and breathed in heavily, "Ugh that…was disgusting." But necessary Seraphim, now my powers can be unbound slowly.
Zek picked her up bride style and carried her back to the blanket, "Come on you need to see a doctor."
"I'm fine just forget about it."
"No you're going to see a doctor now," looked away from her and mumbled something like 'I should have taken you before.'
He placed her in the saddle as he packed away the picnic stuff and strapped it to Thorn before letting the horse run into the woods by itself. He then sat behind her on Ivy and started to gallop in the opposite direction.
"What about Thorn?"
"He's trained to head back to the barn if he is separated from his rider, so is Ivy."
Zek was holding the reins and steering Ivy through the huge trees, so she just curled against his chest and fell asleep.
Zek looked down quickly and smiled as the beautiful woman using him as a pillow. God I love it when she does cute things like that…