Chapter 9
I hadn't really seen Aries all that much. Every once in awhile I'd notice him walking somewhere, but I could never pull away from my friends to talk to him. February break was already over by about three weeks. Life seemed too got back to normal in school I was grabbed by Kyle and he was scolded by Max and Dave. Criss and Jack got up anyone's ass that I needed at the time. And Timmy and I continued to have your talks in English, with the most useless information I ever heard in my life. That was a span of fifteen years and a few uncounted months. I didn't really care. It was because my mind didn't veer much from Aries. I had dreams about him, I saw him in school, most of the time I wished it was him with his arms around me and not Kyle-not that I like it in the first place.
There was something in my mind that connected Kyle and Aries, I couldn't place it. They didn't act like each other, or dress even slightly like each other. For some reason I just put them together in my mind. I knew I had the answer it just wouldn't show in my mind.
It started to bother my so much that I had to find out. If I didn't I was sure that I'd go insane, but I couldn't trust Kyle, so it was Aries who I'd have to ask. I needed an excuse to get away from my friends and get to Aries. How, I had no clue. When, I knew that one, the moment that I saw him.
I didn't have to wait long. With in two days of when I made the plan I was out and I saw him, Aries. No one else did, no one else knew that he was even alive, well, undead. I threw the last stake to the last vamp then I turned and ran in Aries general direction. I'd hope that they wouldn't follow me so that I could have enough time to get to Aries and tell him were to meet me.
Thank god, I found him. "Aries," I called after him in a hushed tone.
He heard me and turned to face me. "Dru?" he looked puzzled. I stopped by running into him. Then he caught me at the elbows.
My fore arms pushed against his chest and my hands clutched his shoulders, but I sure as hell stopped. "I don't think you know how glad I am that I caught you." I said as I stood up right.
"Actually, I think I caught you." he pushed me out to arms length to get a look at me. His eyes rested at my face with a smile.
"I don't have a lot of time; I need you to go to my cellar for the day because I have to talk with you."
"What?" he was so confused I fell a little more for him.
"Just meet me there I don't have time to explain, my friends will be here in any minuet."
"Umm…okay, I'll be there." He smiled then let go of my arms. "Okay, you have to go I can smell them coming." He turned me around.
I reluctantly ran back to were I came from stake in hand. "I got it." I said as I came face to face with Dave.
He smiled and congratulated me.
I looked at my watch as it ticked to 11:45. "Guys we'd better call it a night, its fifteen minuets of. Seeing as tomorrow is Saturday, I'd like to sleep in for most the day, I'm really tired from the week, it's had a lot of events."
"Okay Dru, that sounds good." Criss said with the biggest smile on her face.
We all walked off in different directions.
I approached the gate to the direction were my house was. Then Aries was at my side, I smiled and almost reached for his hand, and then I caught myself and continued just being next to him. I didn't want to be the one to start the conversation.
"So are you going to ignore me all the way to your house then?"
I grinned. "Maybe," I loved to flirt, with Aries.
"Okay then, just wanted to make it clear."
"Well, you haven't made any kind of effort to talk to me in the past few weeks. I mean it's not like you never see me."
"So is pay back your game?"
"No. sorry it's just; well you've seen all the baddy's around."
"Yeah, I get it." He said understandingly.
With every word he spoke I fell a little more for him. I saw not one imperfection in him. It seemed pretty impossible, then I though; I'm the slayer. Then a happy boat that was sailing along and would soon hit that really horrible iceberg.
I frowned, I think I actually really did, because he stopped me and bent to eye level, looked right in my eye, then asked. "What's the matter?"
"Hum?" I asked like I didn't know anything in the world.
He gave me a, do you expect me to believe that, face.
"It's not thing." It tried to brush it off.
"It made you frown, it's not nothing." He pushed.
I knew that I couldn't keep it a secret from him for much longer so I'd have to change the subject or tell him. Then luckily for me, a stake flew by my ear. I knew enough to push Aries out of the way. Then I look for the offender. I didn't see anyone. "Aries, do you know where this," I struggled for a word. "How about 'bad guy,' is?"
He looked at me like I was bizarre for my choice of words. "No, I don't smell the, 'bad guys.'" He grinned.
I sighed out of frustration, but couldn't help but laugh at the second thought of it.
I loosened up a little bit, and then I connected with my surroundings-I know it sounds very earthy for the slayer, but its one of those things I can do. In the silence I reached the things around me, the nature. Strangely enough nature has way too much to say. It's like the little sibling that wants to rat out anything no matter what the question is. Unfortunately I had to listen to all of It, every last bit, if I wanted a good answer. It was like looking through someone else's eyes. As soon as I saw something a little bit interesting to me, I ran with it.
The person, who ever it was, was hunting Aries. He was crouched behind a bush, and slowly waddling toward Aries.-Also being the slayer enables me to kill humans, one of the very strict rules. If I ever did and they caught me, I would be hunted by the counsel.-but I couldn't tell if this was a human or vamp or even some other demon. But I was sure as hell going to find out.
I signaled Aries to come over to me.
He came over.
I made sure he stayed low. "Aries, if we don't get out of here really fast, some guy is going to attack you. He's behind a bush but I don't know if he's vamp or human, so I can't kill him, or stop him."
"How fast can you run?" he asked I saw a plan brewing in his head.
"Not as fast as you can." I assured him and myself.
"Okay then, I have a plan." He scooped me up and we were gone.
I could through this fast, but run it even in a full on sprint would be only a dream.
We stopped a house before mine. Then we walked to my back yard, where the cellar door was. He grabbed the door and let me walk in first.
When I got in I when straight for the couch and plopped down, then began to laugh.
He came over to the seat next to me and laughed a little bit too.
I was so exhausted that I rested my head on his shoulder. After I realized what I did, I remembered that he didn't jump or anything after it happened. So I left my head there.
Before long I was being shaken awake. "Dru, Dru, wake up, you have to go upstairs."
My eyes were opening to the nicest site, Aries face. I sighed anyway though. "I can't."
He looked confused. "Why can't you?"
I smiled, "Well someone's hunting you, and I can't let you die, remember."
"Well okay then, but wont someone worry when you don't walk in the front door and say-'Hello, everyone I'm home and not lying on the ground dead somewhere.'"
I rolled my eyes. "Well if I do that then how will I get back down here?"
"Umm…well then, I don't know. I guess you have to live with the risk, and the worry."
"I really don't like that plan."
"Well, I'm not too happy with it either, but I'm pretty sure I'll be fine. I mean there's not much of a choice here."
I sighed, looking for another way. "What time is it?"
"We've been over this; do you have your cell phone?"
I frowned as I shifted so I could pull my cell phone out of my pocket. "It's…12:55, so this means that I can go up stairs and catch them just before they go to bed. I'll tell them I'm going to eat before I go to bed and I'll be back here in about a half an hour, no questions asked."
"Yeah, except you're not in your bed in the morning."
"I thought of that too, I just write a note telling them that I got up early and I'm hanging out with Dave, I turn on my cell phone and the lies continue."
He looked at me like, 'This will never work.'
I shook my head. "No, I've done this before. I'm excellent at keeping lies."
He sighed out. "Well, go then."
I smiled, stood up and ran, "I'll be back in 30 minuets, clock me."
The plane went extremely well. After I finished the note it was 1:35, not exactly a half an hour but close enough. I ran down to the basement. When I got there I walked over to where he was sitting before, now he was reclined back in the old lazy boy.
I smiled. "You know we do have blankets and stuff in the bins down here." I looked at him he was still rapped in his coat again.
"You do, well then I would like one."
"There in the bin label Bedding." I pointed at the bins in the corner, and popped down on the couch.
He ginned signaling a challenge. "Well, I'm just a guest here."
"Yeah, but I'd like you to make yourself at home."
"Well I mean I don't want to impose upon you."
At that I knew that I had lost. I'd fight back until the final blow anyway. "I just told you to make yourself at home."
"Yeah, but I wouldn't feel at home digging through someone's stuff." The final blow.
I sighed angry that defeat had come so soon, and annoyed that I didn't have anything else to say. "Okay, but you get a pink blanket, and pillow." I grinned, I hadn't totally lost.
"Fine, I like pink, it's my color, don't you think?" I could hear the grin in his voice.
"Oh yeah, totally brings out your eyes."
"So you know what matches to my eyes do you?" the grin was still in his voice.
"Yeah, because you know I'm so in love with you I've designed the perfect out fit for you." Sarcasm dripped off my words. "I used colors like pink and neon orange. It's in the sketch book I have with only pictures of you in it." I turned around with my head cocked to the side, my eyes crossed and a drunken smile on.
He looked at me then cracked up. "Oh my god, you had to have practiced that or something."
"No, actually it just came to me." I tossed him a blanket and pillow, then I took my seat on the couch. I tossed the blanket over my legs, and slammed my pillow on the arm of the couch.
"So what, you just wanted to have a sleep over, is that why you ran at me in such a panic that I had to catch you?"
Then I remember Kyle, how they connected in my mind, or how Kyle reminded me of Aries. In fact the whole time I was talking to Aries Kyle hadn't come close to my mind until he brought me back to the subject. "Oh, umm… well I would ask this kid I know, but I couldn't trust him to give me a straight answer."
He nodded, for me to continue.
"Well, this kid Kyle, when ever I see him, I for some reason have a picture of you flash up in my head," Oh yeah, and every time I close my eyes. "Do you have any reason as to why that is?"
His eyebrows frowned, he defiantly knew something. "Kyle, did you say?"
"Yeah, he's this freak of a kid who, well, doesn't let go of me. Like in school he walks up behind me and like grabs me, or like says stupid pick up lines, I really could kill the kid." I nodded assuring him of my seriousness on the subject.
He sighed and rubbed his forehead, his eyes were closed.
"What do you know?" I grew very concerned; it had to be pretty bad.
He dropped his hand to his lap. "Yeah, umm…do you remember when you passed out before?"
I nodded recalling the incident.
"Yeah, okay so, ahh…" he rubbed the side of his face on his eyebrow. "Well," he shut his eyes like he never blinked in his life time. He pinched over his eyes to his naval cavity. Then he opened them, as he pulled his hand down to his stomach. "Okay, so, you said his name right before that happened."
"Well, why, I mean that doesn't make any scene at all."
"Well, you realized that he was umm… watching us fight in the grave yard the night we met."
My eyes might as well have flown out of my head. I shot up from my comfortable lying position. "He was what!" I suddenly remembered the feeling from when I thought that Amy knew.
Aries was at my side in a second; he put his arm around my shoulder and pulled me into the nook in between his form arm and body. I felt the blood leave my body, but Aries gave me another squeeze and it all came back.
"It's okay, everything will be fine, believe me, I promise, nothing will happen to you." Though the words weren't for sure, it still comforted me.
I slept in his arms that night.