Chapter 5 :) It kind of helps getting a bigger picture of Izzy and Cam :)
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"Seasick"
She squeezed her hair to remove the excess water with her feet on the wet sand. She looked down and enjoyed the feeling of her feet buried in it. The quiet and turquoise water went sway up and down.
She glanced up and saw James lying on his stomach over a towel with a book on his hands. She walked towards him and dropped herself on his back.
The sound of James' laughter felt too real for it to be a dream.
He turned to lie down on his back and faced her. He dropped the sunglasses, allowing her to lose herself on his pretty and shinning brown eyes that stared back at her with joy. He softly placed one hand on her lower back and caressed her skin with his thumb.
"What are you reading now?" she asked with a smile on her face.
"A Clockwork orange." said James, showing her the cover of the book. "You'd like it: it's quite violent and weird."
"I don't like violent and weird stuff." she laughed and leaned her head on James' chest, allowing the sunlight caressed her skin and drying the water drops.
"So close…" James ran his fingers through her hair as she held on tight to him.
"Where were you trying to get with such comment?" she asked amused, leaning her chin on James' chest to look at him.
James smiled at her.
"Rough sex?" Her faces must've disfigured or something, because as soon as he said it, James burst into laughter after seeing her face. She smacked his chest and began to laugh with him.
James caressed her cheek and she stopped laughing and stared at him. He placed one hand behind her head and pulled her closer to him. He kissed her as tenderly as always, but something woke up inside of her.
Izzy back out from him. James stared at her with a surprised look on his face and –with some trouble breathing- she kissed him wildly. It took a moment for James to kiss her back, he then moved in order to sit and she moved back a little allowing him to.
James' hands took place over her back and he caressed her gently, moving slowly to her thighs. She then realized that everything she had on was a bikini and James his bathing suit.
She had also forgotten about the fact that they're the only ones on that small island on the Ionian Sea, near Greece.
She continue kissing him as her hands went up on James' strong arms and stopped on his neck, pulling him closer. James' arms hold her tight, making her moaned due the lack of air.
Both stopped and stared at each other with their hearts racing.
Izzy's eyes focused on and intense emerald green emerging from between the trees.
Cam was staring at her with pain on his eyes.
She woke up with a weird feeling filling her body. She felt heavy, as if her wings where thicker and bigger than they actually were, pulling her down.
She turned to watch the clock on her night table. Three thirty in the afternoon… She had slept more than she used to, but those thick and dark clouds outside wouldn't allowed her to see the sun either way.
Izzy sat on her bed and remembered her dream. It'd felt so real…
She remembered that day as well as she remembered asking James to stop and calm down. He had understood –he had never pressured her y he never did- and was so comprehensive with her, that she felt truly jealous of the girl that managed to win his friend's heart.
But Cam did not know that. She had wanted for Cam to feel the same sick jealousy she did every time she saw him and Luce together, but she regretted it. She wasn't as self-centered to think that Cam had kissed Luce for what she had done, but she did felt guilty of the pain that caused to Daniel
Where could her brother be? or Cam? Cam would probably be somewhere enjoying the free time thinking of how to get away with what he wanted, but Daniel must've been sad somewhere near.
Someone knocked at the door two times.
"Come on in." she said as she stood up and put on her slippers.
The door swung open and Daniel came from behind it with a somber look.
"Are you ok?" he asked as he closed up the door behind him.
"Yes…" she said not too convinced. Izzy glanced down at the bag Daniel carried with him. "What's that?"
"Civil war." said Daniel, dropping the bag on a little chair. "Mr. Cole planned it for tonight and thought that, since we were on detention, we'd have enough time to be in it."
Izzy reached out for the bag and discovered a pale pink old dress in it.
"Fantastic."
"Why are you still on your pajamas?"
"I just woke up…" she closed up the bad and turned to look at Daniel, "What are you wearing? 'Cause I really think the dress is for me."
"Army uniform." said Daniel, sitting on the edge of her bed. "I haven't seen Luce in all day… I should apologize for what happened yesterday. That's why I came here for…"
"You don't have to apologize." She sat next to him. "Not to me, at least…"
"I haven't seen Cam either."
"He's probably drunk somewhere."
"What did we do to deserve this?" Daniel leaned his head on his hands and pulled his blond hair strongly with his fingers.
"I don't know about you, but some say I got what I deserve for being a coward." Izzy grinned and caressed Daniel's back. "Do you want me to help you find Luce?"
"Would it make any difference?"
"What are you talking about?"
Daniel glanced up.
"She kissed Cam, Izzy…"
"I really think it was Cam who kissed Luce and not the other way around." she stated. "Don't be a fool. You know how much she likes you."
"She's clearly into me, Izzy." Daniel looked at her, annoyed. "But it seems that she also likes Cam and… I don't know, that had never—"
"Go get her." Izzy insisted standing up. "And don't let Cam get her first… if you don't want to do it for you, then do it for me too." She walked towards her closet and grabbed a pair of black jeans and a grey sweater. "Give me five minutes and I'll help you with that."
Daniel nodded.
"Do you mind if I…?" he asked and pointed at her bed with his hand.
Izzy smiled at him.
"Go ahead."
Daniel lay down and leaned on the side on her bed as she came inside the bathroom. She then realized how much she'd missed him, through the courses of Luce's lives she had decided to live with Daniel –instead of Cam- and she had forgotten how nice it was to have his brother around when she needed him.
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"Bloody dress."
It was the third time she cursed because of the dress. Daniel laughed as he saw her trying to bend the hem of the dress to get into Ms. Sophia's car.
"Don't laugh at me. I'm not the one rescuing my girlfriend dressed like a soldier." Daniel poked her with his elbow and she smiled at him. "Do you know the 'Styx'?"
"Cam, Roland and Molly hang out there every now and then, you know…" he said without taking his eyes off the highway, "But I know how to get there."
Daniel made a wrong move trying to overtake a car and he shouted angrily.
"Dan, are you ok?"
He didn't turn to look at her.
"It's just that… How? How could she come over here with Cam?"
"Her coming doesn't mean—"
Daniel hit the wheel with both hands.
"It has to mean something, how could it not to?! She kissed him yesterday and now she runs out of school to go to a really crappy bar and meet Cam!"
"I really doubt she came here to be with Cam…" At least, that's what she wanted to believe.
"Well, I doubt she came here to be on her own!"
Daniel tried to overtake another car not noticing that a big truck passed by, managing to get out of the way right in time.
"Daniel!" Her voice showed her fear, which seemed to calm down Daniel and made him lower the speed.
"Sorry."
They didn't talk again until they've arrive the peer and the bar appeared in front of them.
"You go get Luce, don't worry about me."
"You're staying with Cam?" asked Daniel as he parked the car in the parking lot.
Izzy got off the car.
"Go get Luce." she said and she walked to the back of the bar. She glanced up through an open window and saw Cam running out fast by the front door. She entered the bar and reached the bar, she saw two men that seemed to just fight with Cam.
A tall and covered in tattoos guy walked towards her, smirking as he checked her up.
"I think you lost yourself in time, kid." he said sarcastically.
"A bottle of tequila." she asked without paying much attention to the man. "You charge it to the guy with the white shirt when he comes back." She let loose of her hair –she had managed to twist it on a really high bun- allowing it to flow over her shoulders and adjust the cleavage of her dress with a purpose. "Quickly."
The man took a step to the side and bent over. He pulled out a bottle from the table and gave it to her.
"Don't you need a glass?"
Izzy saw Cam's silhouette walking towards the front door.
"No, thanks." she said giving a flirtatious smile to the man.
She grabbed the bottle and the hem of her dress with the other hand. She opened up the back door pushing it with her shoulder and she walked to the small wooden balcony. She leaned on the railing and opened the bottle.
A dark blue and violent sea appeared in front of her. The sky was covered with dark clouds that threatened to start raining in any moment. She didn't want to meet Cam, but Daniel needed sometime alone with Luce and she needed sometime alone by herself and a way out.
She took a big sip of tequila and she felt and instant punch on her head because of the alcohol. She grabbed again the hem of her dress and started to walk to a tiny stair that allowed going down to the beach. She run down grabbing a stone railing and she tripped again as her feet touch the sand. She drank from the bottle one more time and continued walking to the sea.
She hated sea storms…
She tripped again with her dress.
She begun to unbutton the fake corset she had on and got rid of the dress, leaving her just with the beige cotton nightgown she had under.
The wind blowing strongly and made her chills, she hugged herself crossing her arms as she walked.
She remembered one time a girl had died on a storm, swimming far away from the shore. It sounded tempting, though she knew it was useless. The girl had died due to how tired she felt, causing her to sink and drowned. She instead could swim as much as she wanted and probably not feel half as tired as that girl… but she hated swimming on storms, she always felt like something bad remain on the sea, disturbing it.
She got rid of her shoes and drank some more tequila. She reached the shore and allowed the dark water to touch her feet. It's was icy, so icy the cold got into her bones, still she didn't move.
Had Cam drag down Luce to such a dark place? Cam had drag down Luce and that was all that really matters… and what really hurts. She had spent the first five years away from Cam drinking and partying in order to forget him and she didn't use to drink with such purpose, now.
Or at least, that's what she thought.
She took a couple steps forward and sat down on the sand with the water around her. She drank the from the bottle and as she opened up her eyes, the world begun to spin around her as Cam's green eyes appeared in her confused head.
"Come."
Cam was standing in front of her, with the water around his waist and his big and golden wings open, giving him that light she had found so alluring from him.
She couldn't remember the moment Cam had walked by pass her, but she didn't care. Izzy stood up and drank half of the content of the bottle, leaving it empty.
She could feel Cam's eyes staring at her as she walked heavily trying to reach him. The only thing she could tell apart was the light coming from his wings; everything else was blurring around her.
Strange as it seemed, no matter how hard she tried to keep walking she felt Cam more and more distant from her.
The water level was around his chest and it didn't felt as cold as before… or she just couldn't feel because of the alcohol.
"Cam?"
"Come, Izzy."
Cam reached out for her. He was standing so close and she saw his bright blue eyes staring excited at her.
Blue?
She failed to regain her consciousness fast enough to notice the big dark wave that crashed on her.
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The way the back door sway caught his eye as he came back into the bar. He approached the bar where his glass, Luce's and the bottle of Champaign were standing. Why had he always acted like a dick-head in front of Luce?
"You owe me one." spit the bartender at him, while cleaning an old beer glass.
"Drink it if you want to, I'll pay it anyway." said Cam sitting on the stool.
"You owe a tequila one."
"I didn't ask for tequila."
The bartender stopped and stared at him, grabbing the bottle of Champaign.
"No, but a cute redheaded did. She said I charge you for it—"
Cam glanced up with surprise. Had Izzy gone there with Daniel?
"Redheaded?"
"Dude I hope you know her, 'cause people don't come here too often for me to give away a tequila bottle to some girl, you know?"
Cam pulled out his wallet from one of his jeans' pockets and left a couple of bills on the table.
"There you have it"
He grabbed his jacket and got out by the back door quickly. He saw the cap of the bottle lying on the wooden floor and he glanced up. He looked down and saw a fluffy pink dress on the sand.
Something was off…
He run down stairs and held the dress in his hands.
"Civil war…" he murmured to himself. It must've been Izzy's.
He glanced up and saw a lean figure walk tottering towards the sea and sitting down. Cam got rid of his shoes and started walking on the sand with determination across his face. He saw Izzy sipping up from the bottle and leaving it aside, to keep walking into the sea.
He saw Izzy's shoes a couple of feet away from him and kept on walking.
"Izzy!" he called her name, but she didn't seem to hear him. She didn't even turned and he realized how drunk she must've been when he saw her tripling as she walked. "Isabel!"
He hadn't noticed how violent the waves were, but he did saw a golden glimpse standing in front of Izzy deep down on the sea. He stopped and looked at it confused.
One big wave begun to rise above Izzy and he saw Isaac standing near her in the sea.
"Izzy!"
Cam started running towards her calling her name, but she never looked back at him. As soon as he got into the water he felt the icy cold and the pain it caused, almost freeze him.
He began to swim towards Izzy with the water around him becoming more and more thick and turbulent, keeping him from swimming faster. He stopped for a moment to take a look around and tried to find Izzy, but the strong swing of the waves limited his sight.
"Izzy!" he shouted trying to recover the rhythm and keep swimming.
"Cam!"
He turned left and saw Izzy's red hair. He started swimming again towards her trying to move faster, with not much success. Izzy called out his name before sinking under a big rough wave.
"No!"
Cam opened his wings, but he couldn't fly. His wings were covered with a black substance that made them heavier and he wasn't able to get it off.
"Trapped like a little insignificant seagull."
He didn't see him, but he heard his voice near him. If only he could fly, he would've beaten the crap out of Isaac.
"Leave her alone!" he shouted looking at the dark sky. "You stay away, Isaac!" How badly he hated him…
"Cam!"
He turned and saw Izzy swimming towards him. Cam imitated her and swam trying to reach her without taking his eyes of her.
"Iz…"
Izzy looked at him frightened, causing him to swim even harder. He's wings felt so heavy.
"Ca-Cam…" Izzy's breath became harder and faster as she stopped swimming.
"No!"
He didn't know why, but Izzy had always been afraid of storms since the moment they step into each other on Earth. The strange thing was the fact that she had always loved going to the beach and feeling the water on her skin –he knew that to damn well-, but the sea on a storm day always freaked her out.
"Cam…" Izzy's eyes were watering.
"No, Izzy!" He kept on swimming, but somehow he couldn't reach her. "I need you to come closer; I promise you we'll get out of here as soon as you do! As soon as you do it, he'll leave us alone!"
She gave him a pleading look before taking one deep breath and swim towards him. When they finally got closer, Cam reached out for her and as soon as he held her hand the water around them turned clearer and allowed them both to swing their wings.
They swam back to the shore. He felt so tired and by the way Izzy dragged her feet he noticed she felt tired as well. He saw a bottle resting on the sand: tequila.
"I hope you're feeling sober now…" he looked at her upset.
Izzy turned and stared at him with embarrassment on her face, but she didn't speak. He expected her to yell at him for meeting with Luce or for their fight last night, but she didn't: she came close to him with a sad look and Cam noticed how her chin shivered as she spoke.
"Cam…" Tears slipped fast from her eyes and she hid her face on his chest, hugging him.
That caught him by surprise and for a second he couldn't answer her back, he only managed to hold Izzy with his arms, warming her up. He had also been scared and the thought of losing Izzy gave him chills. Aware of that, Cam held Izzy tightly, running his fingers through her long –and now carroty red- hair.
He felt cold due to the strong wind blowing that iced the wet clothes they had on, but he didn't care. The only thing he had in mind at that moment was trying to calm Izzy, who seemed to cry harder and hold on tighter to him. Izzy shivered like a scared puppy and her skin was cold.
"Cam?" Izzy looked at him worried. Her voice managed to get him out of his thoughts and forced him to realize that he was the one who shivered. How could he not to? He felt so angry he could tear Isaac apart with his bare hands; he was so cold and so scared for Izzy.
"We have to go back." he said after a while, yet he didn't want to break apart from Izzy. He had completely forgotten how good it felt to have her around.
Izzy nodded with her head leaned on his chest and break apart slowly without looking up at him.
"Yes." It was the answer he got from her and she started walking back to the peer, where Cam's car was parked.
It was the only thing she said until they got back into the reform school.
"Thank you." Izzy glanced fast at him before opening the car door and walk towards the building.
"Wait."
Izzy was right: things were just as they've been lately between them.
"Cam, I just want—" she seemed tired, but he could still see how scare she was.
"Let me go with you."
He insisted, because –no matter how hard both tried to hide it- both had gotten scared and he well knew that Izzy used to spend tough nights after meeting Isaac. Izzy nodded and both went to her room, she opened up the door and stepped aside to let him in.
Izzy's bed wasn't done and her curtains were open. He saw the tiny wooden box he gave her on a trip to China -so she could put the tea-bags in it- next to an onyx bracelet he had gotten for her.
Izzy walked towards her bed after shutting the door up and locking it.
"I'll get rid of this…" she said pointing the bathroom door, holding her pajamas, "If you want to, you can… well, I still have some of your old stuff." she pointed at her closet.
"Thanks."
Izzy got in the bathroom and he started searching on her closet. Just as she had told him, there were a couple shirts of his from a long time ago. He took off his wet clothes, leaving only his boxers on and put on a white shirt.
Izzy appeared timidly from the bathroom wearing a grey flannel pants and a tank top as shirt.
"Next time remember me to leave you some pants." he said with a smile on his face, making Izzy blushed.
"You can leave those…" she answered, pointing at the ones he had on, "Listen, I…"
"Don't worry."
"I'm trusting you on this, Cam." she warned him with her look.
Cam nodded once. Izzy walked to her bed and pulled back the shits as he closed the curtains.
Izzy got underneath the shits and left him some space. He imitated her and lay down, facing her. His looked directly into Izzy's pretty and shy grey eye's that stared at him with nervousness. He moved closer to her and hugged her: her skin was warm and dry and as soft as he remembered.
"I told Stephen…" his eyes showed guiltiness, "I thought he could help keeping him away, I just don't get—"
"I know, Cam… that's why James was here, he overheard Stephen and Francesca." Izzy glanced down at her hands. "To set things straight: I didn't sleep with him."
Cam rolled his eyes and snorted.
"I should've giving that a second thought."
"Cam…" Izzy's eyes met his. "I was really scared… And glad you were there." she confessed.
"I know… so was I." he said without keeping his eyes off of her. "You can sleep now, Iz."
She smiled and Cam saw hesitation on her eyes before she reached out her hand and pulled his black hair back.
"Cambriel…"
He couldn't help but to smile and kissed her forehead.
"Isabel"
"Thanks for reaching after me…"
Cam held her tight and close to him until both fell asleep.
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