Chapter 6: Kiss

When I got home I was right about the crying baby. I went straight to my room when she hit me. She's always the one to hit first.

That night Tao visited me.

"You weren't joking about being able to see me." I was so happy and surprised that he was with me.

"I keep my promises." He said in a lovely voice. "But your room is pitiful!" he shrieked in fear. He was looking at the huge mess. "If you want, I could clean up a whole lot of this junk, so you could move around." In a few seconds he had moved so much junk around that it looked clean enough to eat off of.

"You can vacuum tomorrow." He told me.

In the morning I did what he said and vacuumed my clutter free room.

That night I had no idea where he went off to. He never told me where he was going. I was starting to get scared of him not seeing me. I needed to see him and once I got my drivers license, I could get his address and see him more often, like he said.

In the morning, I was so exasted I almost fell asleep in all of my classes. I couldn't help but call Alexis to see if Lance was at her house. When I had asked at lunch, she said.

"He was gone all night. I was going to ask if he was at your house for some reason." I remembered how they needed blood to keep from going crazy and mad.

"Maybe they went for a hunt." I suggested. She looked at me as if I needed a brain check. "You know, like drinking blood." I said in a low but even tone. She finally got the picture. I went through the rest of the day without feeling as tired as before.

That night I dreamt that I was alone in an empty forest. The only sounds were the wind wisping through the trees and into my ear as they made me shiver. There was a repeating message in it.

"Wake up. Wake up." It whispered all around me. I had no idea why it was saying that. Something invisible picked me up and cradled me. The wind seamed to make a force as the message repeated over and over. I curled up as I bobbed up and down, hovering over the surface of the earth. I was about to fall asleep when a bright ray of light gleamed in my eyes and the force holding me zoomed into the light.

I woke up with my bedroom light off, I had left it on when I accidentally fell asleep. I was freezing to death, yet I was curled up in my blankets. I was lying on something hard. It pushed me up and then down in a breathing motion, like the dream. I froze, scared to death of who it might be.

"Did I wake you?" Said a soft voice. I realized it was just Tao and I relaxed. He herd my outcast of breath. "Did I scare you?" he asked trying to comfort me by smoothing my short hair.

"Yes, you scared me and yes, you woke me." I responded to his questions. "But I am glad your back, you have to warn me when you leave." I traced his sweet smelling neck to his check with my lips in an attempt to kiss, but before I could just give him a little pucker, he turns his head so our lips meet. My eyes widened.

Our first kiss together. I thought. This can't be real I must be dreaming. But I wasn't. He kept our lips together for a long time it felt. I felt myself give in as my eyes slowly closed and my hand wrapped behind his head. At first when I woke up I was on my side and now I'm belly down on his. My fingers tangled in his golden hair. I forgot to see if his eyes were golden or not. I untangled my fingers and tried to push off of him. He was enjoying his first lip-to-lip kiss and wanted it to last as long as he could. He pulled me in so my struggling was hard. I noticed that he was topless and his tight abs only made it harder. He parted his lips, along with mine. He breathed in my mouth which was so relaxing I couldn't help it. I almost fainted when he sighed and let me go. I raised my panting face inches away from his to see his expression, and his eyes.

"You'll get used to it." He chuckled as I lay back on his cold, hard chest. I still couldn't believe that it was our first kiss. Alexis was always bragging on about how she "made out" with Lance all the time, it was making me jealous, but not persistent. I finally got to see how his lips felt upon mine. I lay there calm and quiet and the same went for Tao. I didn't want him to leave, to make up for last night. I wanted tonight to last forever. I finally realized that it was a Friday night. I was so happy that I put my chin on his chest and was going to say something when he cut me off.

"You want to go somewhere tomorrow?"

I was puzzled to what he was talking about. "You mean...like...a...date." I said slowly, so slowly that I thought that it would take forever to finish. He thought about it for awhile.

"You can call it that." He said in a sarcastic voice. I frowned and he chuckled. He lifted his head so that our lips meet once again as he tried to clear my head from all distractions. I was really sleepy and that last surprise, out of the blue, kiss didn't help. I was out after a few seconds of that moment. In my head I was thinking, He probably thinks that he killed me. But some other part of my mind didn't think so.

When I woke up I was lying in the same position as last time. Again I was lying on something cold and hard. I already knew it was Tao. I moved my hand, tracing his abs that were closer to me. He put his hand on my head and sighed in relief.

"I thought I killed you." He said in a low and sad tone. I inched my hand up to his bare chest and set my head on my hand. I wanted to know what time it was so I could send him off. Before I could think of doing that my alarm clock went off for some reason. I took it in my hand and pressed the snooze button. The background light lit up and the clock displayed 6:00. I always forgot to turn off that alarm so it would wake me up on the weekends. I set it down after turning it off. I rested my chin on his chest once again and closed my eyes. I tried to sleep like that but it was hard to breath. I opened my eyes to see what he looked like at this point. His eyes were shut and his mouth was closed. My face was only a few centimeters from his.

Maybe I can scare him without him knowing and without him going crazy. I thought as I decided, to do, or not to do. I decided to do. He looked so helpless. I wanted to do the same thing that he did to me. He was still wearing his jeans and they were scratching my legs. I held the pain in until I did this. I moved quickly to his lips and smashed our lips together. I could have sworn there was an explosion between them. He was thinking of something else. When our lips smashed he shuddered.

I scared him, yes! I yelled in my head. He chuckled and pulled me off of him. I took a good look at him. He had a big grin going from one corner of his mouth to the other.

"You scared me! I never thought that it was possible to scare a vampire!" He said out loud. I couldn't help but grin.

"That was payback." I said as I rolled to lay on my back. It was a lot more comfortable than on my belly. I didn't say anything about his jeans scratching me. I lay there with a big grin.

"Tell Dan and Ten that I scared you." I told him.

"Dan will get a kick out of that." He joked. I lay there wondering when he was going to leave until I summoned the guts to ask him.

"When are you leaving?"

"Later."

"How much later?"

"After today. There's supposed to be a storm all day. Plus, I want to make up for the days I wasn't hear." My trivia ended knowing that he was going to stay. I moved towards the edge of the bed, and the edge of Tao, but before I could get close enough to fall off he sat up and cradled me. He sat cross legged.

"Where do you think your going?" he asked as if he were my personal warden.

"I'm cold." I said through chattering teeth. He stood up and placed me back on the bed. I grabbed his arm. "You don't have to leave and I want you. I mean just lay next to me." He nodded once and jumped over me. He crawled under the blankets and placed his arm around my waist. He nestled his face in my hair and got cozy. A few seconds later and I fell asleep again.