Zoey
Me and stark arrived at the door to our room and I was about to open the door and step through when he stopped me.
"Z, I did not just travel all the way to the otherworld to get m'lady just so that she could walk everywhere like a commoner!"
"Hey! Everyone else has to walk places, why shouldn't I?" I said putting my hand on the handle of the door.
"Because you're a priestess!" he said. He swept me up on my feet, and I swear it was like he'd never been sliced! He was so strong. "And you're a priestess, with one fine stallion of a guardian, if I may say so myself!" I couldn't help laughing into his neck as I threw my arms around his shoulders. He twirled me around once and then plopped me onto the bed, diving on with me.
"Ah wow, I must admit it is better to be carried to bed than to walk!" I said. Stark laughed and crawled up the bed so that he was level with me.
"Yeah, but nothing compares to having you back" he said quietly.
I kissed him. I wanted it to be a kiss that said a million thank yous for saving my life and for being such a great warrior, for being totally hot and cute. He kissed me back with even more passion as if to say 'no problem'. I laughed against his lips at my internal babble. He murmured against mine, "Ahh, I love you so much zoey" and I could feel his smile. All I wanted was to pull him closer. I kissed his lips and his neck and he did the same. He pulled away for a moment but only to lift off his shirt and then he was at my lips again. He licked a line down my neck tenderly which tingled. And then he bit me. "Stark!" I yelled. He didn't stop though. I tried to push him off, but then I stopped because all I feel was pure exhilaration, my blood and his mixing together, a gasp escaped my lips, and I pushed his head further into my neck. He grunted something, but I couldn't hear, and I didn't care! I just wanted this to last forever. Suddenly I could feel a white hot tingling sensation.
"wow." Said stark, finally detaching himself from my neck.
"Help me get this off" I said tugging at my sweater. He lifted it over my head carefully, but he didn't try to kiss me again, he looked over me. I didn't feel weird about sitting here having him look at me, hell; he'd seen me naked before!
"Wow", he said again, he reached out and traced the tattoo over my heart that I had felt appear just moments ago. I looked down and saw the outline of arrows, the same as Stark's, and I gasped as even in the low light of the room I could see that it was red.
"I guess this means your mine" I said.
"I think it means, your mine actually" said stark with a side smile.
I was about to kiss him again when I felt my phone buzzing. i rummaged in the pockets of my sweater for it and flicked it open. "Hello?" I said.
"Is this zoey?" said a voice that I thought I recognised.
"Who is this?" I asked.
"Is this priestess Zoey Redbird!" the voice spat into the phone.
"Look you called me, so the least you could do is tell me who you are" I said, trying to reason with him.
"No!" the voice practically screamed.
Stark shot me a questioning look from over by the bathroom where he had wandered. I shrugged my shoulders at him.
"Okay yes it's zoey, anything nice you'd like to tell me" I said.
"Nice? Nice? No!" said the voice. "Look listen, your best friend, you've got to –you gotta, you can't… she's bad news!" he said, sounding worryingly agitated.
"Do you mean Stevie – Rae" I asked, feeling a chill go down my spine.
"Yes! Her, that…That… Whore!"
"Hey! Don't you dare speak about my BFF like that! Who the hell are you anyway?"
"You could say I'm someone who was close to her once before as well, you wouldn't be if you knew what I knew!"
"And what the hell do you know huh?" I asked.
Stark came over to sit with me again and gestured to take the phone from me. I gave it to him.
"Who is this?" he asked. He put it on speaker so that I could hear.
"Is that you Stark?" said the voice, sounding a lot less crazy.
"Yeah it is, and you'd better listen to me now, or I swear to Nyx that I will come and hunt you."
It sent a chill down my spine to hear Stark be so violent.
"Back off away from Zoey, and Stevie Rae. Stop calling and making up shit. Get yourself a life, and stop messing with other people's. I'm telling you now for your own good, or I swear you'll have me, Dallas, Darius and a whole bunch more warriors and guys to answer to."
"Dallas?" Said the voice.
"Yeah, and what dick?" said Stark.
"She hasn't told you anything then" said the voice more to himself than to us.
"No she hasn't, cos there's nothing to tell!"
"Yeah, sorry must've got mixed up" said the voice, suddenly sounding a lot happier. "See ya then." And with that he hung up on us.
I looked at stark. He looked at bewildered as I did. I decided to call Stevie Rae, but her line was busy. Later then, it probably wasn't even important, just some weird. I threw my arms around stark "woo, I love it when my guardian rescues me from prank callers!" I laughed.
"That's what im here for isn't it!" said stark, throwing the two of us back down onto the bed.
Stevie Rae
Stevie Rae made was making her way to sociology 101, when in the corridor she saw something that did, and will always shake her to the core. Dallas. He was in the corridor, talking with Lenobia.
It was like she's turned to cold, hard ice, frozen to the spot and if she moved she would shatter all over the floor. What could he be saying? Oh goddess. He was telling her about Rephaim. She was sure of it. She could go underground. Fight the battle for good in solitude, secretly helping her friends even if they thought she was allied with 'the biggest baddie of all raven mockers'. They might try to hunt her down, but she could cover her tracks easily with her affinity for earth. Tears almost leaked from her eyes as she imagined having all of her friends turn against her. Almost. She was too cold; they would've just turned to ice.
Lenobia had had her back to her the entire time and now, like a nightmare, in slow motion, she turned round to face Stevie Rae.
She waved and smiled.
"Grandma's spatula" gasped Stevie Rae.
Lenobia came to walk over. "Hey Stevie Rae! Look who just turned up!" she pointed at Dallas, who smiled awkwardly. "He told me he was really sorry about kicking you out of the car, but he was just terribly confused! I hope you can both make it up. Im gonna go find Erik, I'll catch up with the two of you later when the other come back" she nodded and smiled and hurried off down the corridor.
Dallas watched her leave and smiled at her as she turned a corner, and then his head snapped back to face Stevie Rea. She saw the flare of Scarlet in his eyes.
"Listen up." He said maliciously. Stevie Rae didn't know what else to do but nod.
"You're a disgusting excuse for a priestess. I can't stand to be around you, but I wanna be at the house of night, I didn't think I could be once you'd told everyone about me. But it turns out you haven't. I figured I work for the other side. Call me the inside man if you like. But here's the deal. You breathe a word about me, and everyone will be hunting you outta Tulsa, before you can say ravenmocker"
He laughed menacingly at her confused expression, and turned to walk away.
"Oh and to keep you in line" he pointed at her and she doubled over with the pain of an electric shock.