I'm sooooooooooooo sorry for not updating sooner. It's just that I have just started college and it's unbelievable how much homework I get. So I'm terribly sorry. Anyway, I have to ask: who absoutely loves one direction's new song LWWY? I know I do :D Has anyone read Seeking Crystal? I absoutely LOVED it, I though nothing could top up Finding Sky but Seeking Crystal really did. Best book from Joss Stirling so far :D Anyway, I'll just stop talking so you can read the chapter :D Oh, just one more thing, pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee tell me what you think :D Lots of love from Catarina :D xxx

Chapter 9

I smiled at the tiny, cream colour puppy in front of me. 'Toshie' I called out to him and he ran up to me and I layed down on the heartrending grass and the beautiful flowers with Toshie on top of me. I giggled when Toshie started to lick my neck and I kissed his neck in return. He first giggled and then suddenly stopped after I kissed his neck. The small puppy looked at me weirdly and opened his mouth.

'What are you dreaming about?' What?! Dogs can't talk! Confused I opened my eyes and saw Zed looking at me weirdly.

'Wha- wh- were you licking me?' That set him, he burst out laughing and I just looked at him.

'No, baby.' He said once he stopped laughing. 'I was kissing your neck, not licking it.' I smiled to myself; waking up to my boyfriend kissing my neck sounded prefect.

'Oh my God, what time it is?!' I panickely remembered that I had to call my parents. Oh no, they must be really worried by now an-

'I have called them already. Don't worry.' I sighed relief. 'Anyway, get dressed.' I looked at him suspiciously. 'Yves and Phee went to see Wicked, so that gives us enough time for you to show me around.' I smiled and let out a small giggle.

'No, it doesn't. London's a big city.'

'Well, a little bit then.' He winked at me. 'Come on.' He left the room and I got up and looked in my bag. I ended up wearing my favourite blue skinny jeans and a top with the England flag on. I decided to wear it because it's what's on now with the London Olympics 2012 and obviously this didn't go unseen by Zed who kept calling me the English girl for the few seconds he saw my t-shirt, that is what I was called when I first got to Wrickenwridge anyway. We held hands and headed to the door when Karla and Saul stopped in front of us.

'Where do you think you're going?' We looked at each other and then looked back at them.

'Sky's showing me around. I wanna meet her old friends and see where she lived.' His parents glared at each other and then smiled at us.

'Of course, go on.' We smiled and tried to walk past them because we knew that Karla wasn't going to let us go without a hug; and we were right, she reached to us with her arms wide opened and hugged us tightly. Saul, who was behind her, rolled his eyes at his wife and Zed and I let out a giggle. Karla got away from us and stared at us with one of her eyebrow up. I tried to look innocent and Zed was whistling like nothing had happened. After a small pause, that felt like the five longest seconds, Zed reached out for my hand and smiled widely at his mum.

'We better get going.' We walked past them and made our way to the elevator so I could show Zed my hometown.

In the afternoon we had seen quite a few things including a boring London Eye ride that, surprisily, Zed seemed to love it! We sat down in a small cafe in Piccadilly called 'Costa'. That's where every weekend, at least, I used to get my hot chocolate with all the trimmings and of course I was drinking a hot chocolate with all the trimmings. Zed had set for coffee, or to be more precise, an expresso and he was surprised of how small it was; he even thought that the employees had misunderstood him.

We were just relaxing and enjoying each other's company. He moved his chair close to mine so he could whisper in my ear.

'You know,' I bit my lip anxious of what he was going to tell me. 'You have a chocolate moustache.' My eyes widen and I could feel my cheeks going red. I quickly wiped my "moustache" with a tissue. He just laughed. Then he leaned in and I turned to look at him. As soon as I did this he pressed his lips against mine and I smiled in the kiss which made him smile too. He put one of his hands on my cheek turning my face to deepen the kiss. It only lasted five seconds and he broke the kiss way too early.

'Zed.' I moaned which it made him chuckled pleased that I wanted the kiss as much as him. Just as he was about to kiss me again we heard someone squeal.

'OH MY GOD! SKY?' We turned to where the sound was coming from and what I saw, or who I saw, was a girl taller than me running our way. At first I didn't know who it was but as soon as she got closer I saw her chocolate brown hair with blue and purple highlights and there was only one girl I knew that had the hair like that.

'ABI?!' I shouted back at her and got up. She quickly got to me giving me a big hug. I squealed of happiness. I had missed her so much. Abi was my best friend in England and like I said before, I lost that closeness with all my friends from England. But as soon as I saw her I knew we could talk for hours like before. She was still hugging me when we heard a cough. We let go of each other and looked at Zed who was still sat down. I just stood there for a second but then I realized that I hadn't introduced Abi to Zed. I shook my head and looked at Zed

'Zed, this is Abi, my best friend.' I turned to Abi. 'And Abi, this is Zed, my boyfriend.' He stood up and shoke Abi's hand. She couldn't believe it that Zed's my boyfriend, how I had been so lucky, I could tell that from my gift.

Soulfinder. Zed corrected me telepantically.

Both. I winked at him.

'Wow, just wow. That piece of meat is yours?' She turned to look at me while giving a side glance to where Zed was. I smiled shyly.

'Yes.' I simply said and she smiled widely at me with her dark brown eyes sparkling.

'Well, I want to know all about Wrickenwridge and how things are done in America.' We smiled widely at her. 'I take it you're American?' She looked at Zed. He nodded and smiled.

'Yeah, I'm American.'

'OMG lad! Your accent is awesome.' Zed smiled at her and murmured a quick 'thanks' 'Anyway, like I was saying; that way we could tell you all about London, I'm pretty sure Sky's already told you but things do change. It's going to be brill!'

'Brill?' Zed questioned.

'Short for brilliant. Oh come on, don't tell me you didn't know that, lad?'

'No, Sky only says brilliant.' He said looking at me and I just smiled at him.

'Well, that's because I like saying brilliant.' Zed smiled when he heard me say brilliant. I knew he also liked to hear me say it.

'So, how come you're here?' We all sat down at the table and ordered another hot chocolate but only with cream. This was a question I didn't know how to answer it.

'Huh...' I stopped to think but not too long. 'Zed wanted to see the city, so I brought him here.'

'Aww, that's so cute!' She smiled widely at us.

We spent the rest of the afternoon just talking and I had forgotten how much I missed her. She gave me all her contacts again and we promised to talk to each other. After she was gone we decided that it was time to go and started to walk home. The pinkish and orangery colour filled the sky while it was slowly disappearing from to let the dark night take over. We walked hand in hand enjoying each other's silent. When we were almost there it was almost night. Zed suddenly stopped and put his other hand on his temples and left his head fall down.

'Zed.' I barely whispered. After a few seconds, while still holding my hand, Zed got his head up again and looked around really quickly and panicked. 'Zed.' My voice was stronger but slowly breaking. I was starting to get worried about him. 'Zed.' I said a bit louder and he looked at me, worry in his eyes. 'What's up?' He looked over my head and that's when he spotted them. He tighen my hand and I didn't there look back.

Sky, listen to me, I could already feel the tears falling down my cheeks.

When I say so, I want you to run as fast as you can. He said in a serious tone and stared deeply at my eyes. He lifted the hand that wasn't holding mine and wiped my tears away. His soft finger along my cheek.

I'm not going anywhere without you.

Sky, please. Suddenly the sound coming from the various drunk men behind me fell. Please, you gotta go, you got-

No, Zed Benedict! I'm not leaving you!

Please! Now he was the one who was crying. Do it for me. He added. Hell, for him, I would do anything! I slowly nodded, already feeling the tears forming in my eyes.

'HEY! Pretty little things, come and dance with us.' One of the drunken men said and this time I had the courage to look back. They were more than I thought they were. I gave a panicked sigh.

'Sky, go.' Zed told me softly and pulled me close. 'I love you.' Those three little words, that their meaning means more than any other word, broke my heart because right then I knew Zed had seen something bad, something really bad.

'I love you too.' I managed to splur out.

'Go.' He told me and I ran the opposite direction that the men were but I didn't run far or fast because I couldn't leave Zed alone. As I was about to turn in the corner so I could see Zed, a big guy pushed me to the wall and came really close to me. I started to scream.

'ZED!' Zed looked to where I was, he had heard my screams. I knew that there was no way he could fight all of them and I was really worried.

'Sush, pretty thing. Your boyfriend won't be able to help you.' The man who was now trying to touch me, chuckled.

'ZED!' Zed was already running towards me but I didn't see any men following him. He pulled the man away from me by his shirt. The man must have been three times bigger than him! Zed pushed the guy to the floor and because the man was that drunk, that was all he needed to do to knock him out. He quickly turned around to face me and pulled me close. I put my arms around his waist and tightly held on to him. After a few minutes just holding on to each other, Zed broke the silence.

'By inteferring, I made it worse.'

'No, you didn't, Zed.' I nodded against his shirt. 'We're fine. We should be thankful for that.' He nodded agreeing with me.

'I'm sorry, baby.'

'It's not you fault.' I paused. 'Now, you know what a dangerous city London is.' He nodded and kissed the top of my head. Let's go back to the apartment so we can cuddle.' He grinned like crazy before kissing me. I deepened the kiss. When we broke the kiss, we made our way to the apartment and had to tell everything to Karla and Saul. Hearing this, they let us stay in the couch cuddling while they went to bed. They said they trusted us to behave.

I was laying on top of Zed with my head on his chest and his hand going up and down my back sending me shivers down my spine. We were watching "come and dine with me" and he was loving how funny it was.

'Zed?' I said softly.

'Yeah?'

'How did you get rid of all the other men?' He cleared his throat.

'Well, I.. Huh... Used telekinesis.'

'What?! Zed, you know you can't do that to humans. Why did you do it?' I had turned to face him and he was looking down at me.

'Because my girl was in danger.' My eyes soften a little.

'Oh...' Was all I said.

'I swear it to you Sky, I'm not letting anyone do any harm to you. I swear.' I nodded.

'I love you, Zed.' I said smiling and he smiled back.

'I love you too, Sky.' He leaned in to press our lips together. Our cuddle turned into a make out session straight away.