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Chapter 8: Question Time

I loved everything about you,

That hurt so

Let me see your moves,

Let me see your moves

(Fall Out Boy-G.I.N.A.S.F.S)

I got out of school, and went instantly to my silver pick-up truck, after a close inspection of the parking lot to see that Kim was not here yet. Nope, she wasn't here.

I drove my car to the front gates of the school, so that when Kim did come out of lessons, she didn't have to walk too far.

After I parked, I got out the truck, and leaned against the side of it, arms crossed, adapting a (hopefully) cool pose, that Kim would find attractive. I did a quick check of my reflection in the mirror, to see that my face was clean, that my hair was presentable, and that I looked good. To add to my pose, I did a pout, hoping that it didn't look stupid, but sexy instead.

Soon, everyone else piled out the small school. I was just really lucky that my class was let out early. It was difficult to monitor the crowd for Kim, as there were just so many people here.

Eventually, I found her. It was quite easy, once she was outside, as I felt some sort of...magnetic draw to her, making me want to follow in her direction. It was very subtle, but it was noticeable, it always had been, and always was stronger around lots of people.

I saw her beautiful face, and felt nervous, but also awed. Could she be any more beautiful?

She approached me, and I was dazed. Even more beautiful up close.

I struggled for something to say.

"Hey Kim. C'mon, get in the car." I said, as smoothly as possible in my state of idiocy.

A quiet "Hi" came from her direction, and I thought to myself, "Why am I being such an obsessed loser?"

She tried to do so as I asked, and get in the car; however, being so short, she managed to catch her leg on the car during her attempt to jump in. That was so her. She had been telling me at lunch about her clumsiness, and described her close friendship with a lamppost while on holiday in Spain. I wasn't surprised, but I was very worried. I didn't want to see her get hurt; she didn't deserve to be in pain. She was a wonderful, kind, beautiful girl, and it wasn't fair.

"Owwww" she cried in pain.

I instantly leapt into action at the sound of her pain.

"Oh no, Kim, are you okay? Do you need a plaster or anything? I'll ever rub it better if it will fix your pain! Kim!" I must have sounded like an idiot, but I didn't care. I wanted her to feel better, and at this point, well, at any point really, I was ready to do anything.

I guess my panic annoyed her, because she answered in irritable, though gentle, tones.

"For goodness sake, I'm fine, it just hurt briefly, and that's all. I don't understand why you always get so worked up about things."

"Well, you're my friend, and I hate it when you hurt, so I'd do anything to make it stop." My friend? What an understatement! It was true about doing anything, though. I meant it, and I hoped she could see that. I wanted her to know.

She shrugged, but in her eyes, she looked ecstatically happy. I was gladly happy, that I could put that emotion into her eyes, and make her happy.

I lifted her into the car, and joined her in the cab.

After my mini-speech, no one was sure what to say, but I didn't think we needed to say anything for the moment. It was perfect as it was, in silence.

After a short drive down a straight road to the beach, we arrived, and I was worried to find Kim staring unfocusedly into the distance, with a lazy smile on her face.

I was worried when her eyes had been unfocused for around five minutes, and started to frantically wave my around her face, hoping to snap her of this trance.

That wasn't working, so I tried calling her name.

"KIM! Kim? Are you there Kim? Kim?" I called, in a voice I had hoped would be soft and gentle, like a mother trying to wake a child, but it was tinged with worry, so it was a bit more frenzied that I would liked. It did the job though. Her eyes focused, and she seemed to come back to the present time.

"Oh, yeah, sorry, I just.....went away for a minute there" she still sounded a bit out of it, but it was better than nothing.

"Sure, well, there's this place I want to show you, nobody else knows about it. I wanted to bring you there so that I could talk to you. Is that Ok?" I had to make sure she was okay with my plans, or she would be really uncomfortable. I wanted to let her know about my hiding place, it was secret, and somewhere I could go where nobody could find me, and I could just be alone and think. I went there after I turned into a wolf, just to sort my thoughts.

"Sounds nice" she replied, with a slight shimmer in her eyes.

I grinned, and took her small, cool hand in my huge, hot one.

I led her to my secret spot, one of the old caves by the beach, in an enclosed area, hoping that she would like it, and share it with me.

We arrived shortly, and stopped outside the cave.

I turned to look at her face, but she looked wary, almost afraid. I had no clue why, but then I remembered. She had weaker eyesight than me, and couldn't see in the dark.

"Come on, Kim" I urged, lightly. I didn't want to pressure her to go in, when she was afraid of what could be in there. I, myself was afraid of what was in there: I hadn't cleaned up in a while.

She followed me into the darkness of the cave, looking around nervously, and was confused when I reached down to flick on a light.

I'm sure it wasn't what she was expecting, being a very homely cave complete with furniture and light. Yes, I had been here for quite a while, so I had it fully kitted out.

I watched her take in the room with a surge of pride. The girl in loved in a place that I loved.

"Jared, what is a pizza box doing in a cave?"

Damn it! I had forgotten about that. I had bought a pizza last week, and wanted to eat it in privacy, near the beach.

"Well.....what happened was, when I was about ....7, I think it was, I went for an explore around the beach, because at that point, I wanted to be an explorer. I stumbled across this cave, and have been visiting it ever since, so it sometimes feels like a second home to me. Nobody has ever been in here before, except me. You're the first person I've ever shown this to."I knew that didn't really answer the question, but it seemed to satisfy her.

She let out a laugh that was more of a snort at that, and I found myself smiling, my smile shortly turning into full-out laughter. Only she could make laugh this much.

When our laughs died down, I recognised this moment as an opportunity to talk to her, so I wouldn't chicken out again.

"Kim," I began nervously, "there is something I wanted to ask you, and I've been meaning to do this for a while now." I felt strangely jittery, or maybe not so strangely, considering the question I was now going to ask Kim.

She didn't answer, but instead looked at me expectantly, so I continued.

"Kim, well, have you ever...."I started, and lost confidence for a moment, before restarting. "Kim, do you believe that in life, there is that one special person who you are destined to meet, and they are your soul-mate?" Please say yes, please say yes, please say yes!

To my disappointment, she didn't say anything. Hopefully I hadn't stunned her too much.

"Well, Kim," I said, as softly as I could, trying not to let the desperation leak into my tone, "I believe that you are my soul-mate. You are the one I am meant to be with. I know this is early and everything, but I just wanted to ask you, do you feel the same sort of way? If you don't, its fine, I'll just back off, but I just wanted to let you know that I really, really like you, but I don't want this to stand in the way of our friendship. Honestly, if I freaked you out I will leave you right....." My rant was cut off by Kim's dainty, smooth, tiny hand over my mouth. It was sort of a thing we did to stop each other talking now.

"No..." She started. My hopes were crushed. She didn't want me. She didn't even want to hear what I was going to tell her afterwards. Thinking of me like that was sickening to her. I should just leave. I was never going to be any use to her, just an unwanted stalker.

I felt my face fall in disappointment. All those signs, her heart speeding up, the looks I was given from her eyes...surely she must like me a little bit?

"No, Jared," She repeated. It just drove another dagger into my heart.

"Of course I feel the same about you. I just meant that....well ...I don't want you to ever leave me. You are my only true friend, and I really....like you. I don't think I could ever live without you. Just, please don' leave me."She said, begging me by the end of her speech.

I was amazed. I didn't think she would need me as much as she did. She didn't want me to leave her. Ever. She just stopped me because she didn't want to think about me leaving her...

I leaped on her before she had finished speaking, another one of my face-splitting smiles on my face. I hugged her as tightly as I could. I had honestly never been happier, and I don't think there is anything that I could do to make me happier, except maybe bring my father back to life.

I pulled back to look at her glorious face, looking deeply into her expressive eyes.

"I will never leave you, Kim. Ever. I would kill me to leave you," I told her, hoping that she believed it.

She let out s breath when I said that, her fears seemed to be settled.

I suddenly became very nervous, as I thought how to get to the next part of our relationship. I didn't want to just leave it hanging here.

"Err...Kim?" I asked, nervously.

"Yes, Jared?" She asked in her sweeter-than-candy voice.

"I was wondering if...err...you would like to gooutwithmesometime?" Damn it! It was meant to sound really cool, and casual when I asked, instead, it sounded like I was embarrassed.

Her heart rate sped up impossibly, and when I was about to panic, stopped for a second, then started at a rate that was faster than usual, but more or less quite normal.

She seemed speechless for a moment, and I would worry that I was going too fast, but she had that strange shimmer in her eyes that I loved to see.

"I would love to, Jared!" she burst out in a rush, seemingly excited, with a large, stunning grin on her beautiful angels face. In return, I smiled back, though I'm sure my smile is nowhere near as dazzling as hers.

"Great! Is 6pm on Friday good for you, then?" I asked, anxious to find out if this was real, or all just a dream.

"Sure" She said.

We walked back to my truck soon after that, my arm wrapped around her shoulders.

I drove to her house as slowly as I could, trying not to seem too slow or reluctant to give her back, and after a few sneaked glances at her face, she was unknowing.

When we arrived in her front garden, I did not want to let her go, so I pushed my luck, and gave her something to remember me by. I gave her a goodnight kiss.

I could smell her perfect flowery scent, it was strong, but not in an over-sweet way. It was nice, not too overpowering. It was probably my favourite scent ever.

The kiss probably didn't mean that much to her, but to me it was everything. I actually touched the skin on her face with my lips! It was stupid, but I swear, I was so happy, and from the looks of it, so was Kim, as her face was radiating out joy.

I drove away, and looked back at her house on my way out.

She was still standing outside, with a huge grin on her face, touching the place where I had kissed her.

Hello everyone!

Extra long chapter today! The longest I've ever written. I hope you enjoy it, as it was quite an important chapter.

I'm sorry if you're also reading "Smack Bam", as that will not be updated until perhaps Sunday. Sorry! I'm going to see a Shakespeare on Friday, then have a party on Saturday, so I'm busy, busy!

Anyway, thanks for reading!

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Deany-Bob101