Wide awake at 2:30 (I'm watching a movie about mutant, man-eating cornstalks on SciFi)…good thing my first class is at noon! xD

So I decided to write and see what happens. (Ok, let me explain something. I don't sleep a lot. I don't know why, but I don't. But I function 100% fine every day! Disclaimer: Don't try this at home!)

Lol, ok…back to the story.

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I hesitated at the door of the library. Sure enough, a fire was crackling in the fireplace and Edmund was perched on the same chair as the night before, immersed in the same book as the night before. However, this time he looked like his mind was not on what he was reading. He was simply staring at the pages.

Guilt shot through me and I stepped into the library with a small throat clearing to announce my presence. Edmund's eyes flicked in my direction but he didn't say a word.

"Edmund?" I whispered, not wanting to impose if he didn't want to talk. He set his book down, swung his legs off the arms of the chair to sit up straight, and gave me his undivided attention.

"Oh, you actually want to talk to me now?" he asked, his voice not very nice sounding at all. It was thick with accusation.

I literally bit my tongue to keep from snapping back with a nasty reply. I chose instead to grab the little red book off the table in between the two chairs and flip through the pages. I very carefully took his hand and stuck the book in it, maintaining eye contact the whole time. He looked back at me and then looked down at the book with a smile. He shook his head.

"I guess not," he whispered.

"Ed…" I tried to say something about what I had been thinking but I didn't know how so I sighed and tapped the book. "Do you still want to teach me?"

"Yeah, alright," Edmund didn't really sound enthused, but he laid the book on the table and we began our reading session.

I thought I did well with the words I had learned the past night. I missed a few, I admit, but Edmund was still incredibly patient with me even though I knew he was not in a good mood. His dark eyes were brooding and I could clearly see his heart was not in teaching me to read. Apparently I was not going to get any clues from him tonight…which I suppose was mostly my fault. I tried to start a conversation a few times but he told me to focus on what I was doing and shut me down very quickly.

This went on for an hour and a half until my troubled mind just couldn't handle it any longer. I snapped the book shut, earning me a death glare from Mr. Books-are-sacred-and-to-be-treated-like-artifacts Pevensie, and sat back with my arms crossed over my chest. I returned his glare with as much venom as I could.

"You know what, Mr. Pevensie," I growled, purposely not calling him by his first name, "You got onto me for giving you the silent treatment and now you're doing EXACTLY the same thing."

"On the contrary, Miss…uh…Natani," his glare faltered at this point for a moment but returned to their former state in a flash, "I am focusing on the job at hand. You do want to learn to read, don't you?"

I sniffed angrily.

"Last night we were talking perfectly fine while you were teaching me."

Suddenly, before I could even register that a movement had occurred, Edmund was in my face. I mean, IN MY FACE. I swear our noses were touching but I had kind of gone numb from shock.

"Natani you drive me CRAZY!" he snapped, trying to keep his voice down but failing. "You've been ignoring, and avoiding, me all day because you're apparently mad about something, you practically kick me out when I try to talk to you about it, and now you come in here and expect everything to be perfectly normal?"

I leaned away from him, all the way into the back of the chair. My eyes were open wide in shock.

"I'm sorry, Ed, I just…"

"WHAT exactly, Natani?" Edmund's voice went back to a normal level and he looked slightly guilty.

"I can't really tell you right now," I whispered nervously. He honestly looked like he could strangle me without hesitation right now.

Edmund's eyes closed. He pinched the bridge of his nose but he didn't back off. Finally he opened his eyes to look at me with a very peculiar look. I tried to read his expression but I couldn't place the emotion with a name. I opened my mouth to tell him we should get back to reading, but the words never made it out.

My words were cut short when he suddenly closed the small space between us and caught my lips in a furious kiss. I could feel the tension and annoyance I had heard in his voice in the way he was furiously claiming lips now. I sucked in a quick breath when I felt his teeth bite down on my bottom lip hard enough to sting a little. I was starting to get a little worried and I tried to reassure my mind that he would never hurt me.

I recovered from the shock and decided it would be best to indulge him for the time being, so I kissed him back. And I put a lot of effort into it. I pushed against him to show him I wasn't going to be treated like a weak little girl. But he didn't budge, the stupid block of hardened-by-battle muscle! I growled angrily and pulled my face away to the side but it didn't phase him, he just began an assault on my neck which…just happened to be the one thing that made me crazy. I HAD to get him off right now!

"Ed. Ed! EDMUND!" I brought my hand up and slapped him. Hard. It worked. He backed off slightly and looked at me funny. I noted the fact that his eyes looked black because of how dilated they were. Apparently he didn't get the hint because his hands slid up my arms and pressed into my back, pulling me right flush up to his chest.

He smiled and I almost wanted to ignore my brain and just let it be, but I knew I needed to nip this in the bud unless I wanted Susan finding us in a MUCH different position than she had that morning!

"Ed think about this," I said firmly, "What exactly are you doing?"

Edmund's eyes slowly lost their glazed over look and I saw realization dawn in them. Then his arms slacked a little, but just a little.

"I'm sorry, Natani," he said softly, but he didn't let me go.

"Yeah, you should be, you wolf," I said, trying to wiggle my arms free from his embrace.

He grinned and leaned in, his lips brushed my ear and I shivered involuntarily,

"I'm not sorry I kissed you," he whispered ever so soft, "But I am sorry if I was a bit rough about it. You were just REALLY getting under my skin."

At the word "really", I felt like my whole body was putty since he had said it with a growl right in my sensitive ear. He noticed this and I guess he decided to play it up because I felt teeth lightly begin to nip from the top of my ear to the lobe where they gave a firm tug. I swore I would pass out.

"Stop it," I weakly protested. Dang, this wasn't fair! How come he knew MY weak spot but I had NOTHING to use on him?

"Really?" he asked, his voice annoyingly calm. Ok, really, this had to stop right now before I completely melted. But Edmund pressed his lips to my forehead and then let me loose from his hold on me. He stood up and took his seat back in the other chair with his book.

I stared at him in shock.

"What?" he asked, catching the look on my face.

"You just kissed the living daylights out of me and you seriously just ask me that?" I had a strong urge to hit his very hard.

He didn't answer for a long time, but when he did it made me shut up completely.

"I just thought it might help you clear up whatever thoughts you were stewing over all day."

Oh my goodness…he KNEW! I stood up quickly, blushing from head to toe I swear, and walked stiffly out of the library. Edmund just smirked as I strode by him.

"Sweet dreams, Natani!"

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So uh…that movie turned out to be "Children of the Corn" and it scared the bejeepers out of me, sitting in my dorm room alone at 3 in the morning because my roommate is stuck at home due to heavy snow. Might I add…the ONLY one in my building?

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