CHAPTER 3
We finished with about five minutes to spare, and I had been thinking of this new food combo I was dying to try. When I told Erin about it, she looked disgusted, but knew me well enough to refrain from saying, "Don't bother, you'll hate it," because I usually enjoyed my experiments, thank you very much. Making our way to where all the food was stored, I kept my eyes down and tried to figure out how I'd put the two together. Reaching for the orange, I peeled it while looking for a Snickers bar.
I looked up, and his liquid amber eyes looked back at me.
"Interesting…combinashun." he said.
"Yeah…you willing to take the first bite?" I grinned up into his beautiful face.
He looked grossed out, to say the least, but he had used the same face when I had tried marshmallows on hot dogs and popcorn in salad dressing, both of which had turned out delicious.
I rolled my eyes and popped both a piece of the candy and a slice of the orange in my mouth at once. I chewed once, then widened my eyes and coughed.
His eyes widened, too, in fear of something, and I felt fear too, because that was true panic in the center, in the root, of his soul. I saw it in his eyes. My coughs slowly subsided and he seemed to calm down.
My last thought was dislodged with another coughing fit.
"Mein gott, when will you stop the food experiments?" he said, but looked halfway nervous at my state. He grabbed my bare shoulders, my sweatshirt having been dislodged when my body was being racked with coughs. His perfect hands tickled my skin, making me shiver, but not with the cold.
"Sorry…forgot…I hate…oranges…" I managed to cough out through the feeling of his hands on my shoulders.
He laughed, and I laughed with him, swallowing the rest of the gross combo. "Never again…" I muttered to myself, dropping the remnants of the peel and wrapper into the garbage can, keeping the Snickers bar.
"I'll see you later, Sam." he said, his angel's voice deep and dark and seductive and…
Okay, off that train of thought.
"I'll see you, Bill." I whispered, but he had already gone.