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I put down the cup, looking at Kid. Suddenly the other raised his hand, softly brushing his thumb over the corner of my mouth. Seems like some foam from the coffee had lingered there. I looked at him, slightly confused.
Taking his hand back, Kid leaned over the table. "I think I missed some…" Licking along my upper lip, the redhead closed the remaining distance between us and kissed me. For a moment I was too shocked to do anything about it. Then my instincts kicked in and I responded.
It was a rough kiss. It had nothing soft or passionate or loving as I would have liked it. Briefly I wondered why I liked him kissing me, then my thoughts got lost and my mind concentrated on enjoying the soft lips on mine only.
Kid could kiss, that was for sure. And when he started nibbling at my bottom lip I felt like I was about to lose whatever self-control I had left. I heard a strange beeping, something familiar… I couldn't concentrate, too lost in the kiss, desperately trying to get close to Kid and his warm body. But the small table between us prevented this. The beeping didn't stop. It was utterly ruining the moment and…
"That's my alarm…" And with this I was wide awake, my heart racing while I searched the darkness of my room to find something that might calm my confused thoughts. I had dreamed about… Dear God have mercy on me!
I fell back into the pillow and stared up at the celling. Not that I could see much, really. Bearing in mind it's fucking December.Thinking about it… Kid had had a shirt on yesterday. Plain black, hugging his nicely shaped... STOP! What on earth is wrong with me these days?
Quickly I sat up and headed for the shower. I should actually make it in time to the first lesson today, as we will have that stupid… Oh fuck. Well, maybe I will call in sick then.
I had completely forgotten about the Biology test. And though my knowledge in this subject is pretty intuitive, doing studies is still required – especially as I need damn good grades both in Biology and Chemistry. Well, shit.
Slipping back into my pyjamas, which I had taken off only moments prior, I stumbled to the kitchen. If I was about to call in sick, I needed to stay at home. And that meant I needed my Mom to believe I was sick. Bad… Really, really bad.
As expected she picked up a big fight and tried to force me into school. Thanks God I didn't tell her anything about the test. In this case she would have sent me to school, no matter if I really was sick or not. And now I lay in bed again, cause of course I couldn't wander around the house if I was ill…
That's just so typically my Mom! If she wasn't one hundred per cent convinced that I was ill, she would make sure I stayed in bed all day, just to punish me in case I wasn't really sick. The bad thing about this practice today was that I was thinking about Mister Eustass again. And taking my strange dream into account, this really was a punishment.
I sighed and covered my eyes with my arm. Why am I dreaming about kissing Kid? God, why? I spoke to the guy properly for the first time less than a week ago. And now I'm dreaming about him..? Dreaming about kissing him? (I was intentionally ignoring the fact that in my dream, I had actually also enjoyed the kiss.)
Getting up I grabbed a book from the pile beside my night table and started reading. I knew I should have been studying for Biology but at the very moment I just couldn't bring force myself to do so. I needed to get my mind off of school for a moment, because school automatically meant Eustass Kid.
And if there was a single person I didn't want to think about now it was Kid. The stupid redhead… Absentmindedly my fingers brushed over my lips. In my dream he was a good kisser and I began to wonder if he really was. I licked my lips where his thumb had touched me yesterday, and again in my dream.
Then a let the heavy medicine book fall flat against my forehead. I. Needed. To. Stop. Thinking. About. Him! Gritting my teeth I put the book aside and decided to try and sleep again. As I never slept enough it might actually do me good. Pushing the thought of dreaming of Eustass again aside I rolled over and closed my eyes.
Why did I dream about kissing him in the first place? You didn't dream something like that out of fucking nothing. Only if you had feelings for the other or something ridiculous like that… Suddenly I felt sick. Did I have feelings for Kid? Romantic feelings?
"No. I don't!" I murmured to myself, desperately trying to erase the thought from my mind. But once an idea appears you cannot get rid of it again, especially not if you desperately try to do so. It will be stuck in your head for what will feel like eternity and torture you from there.
It is physically not even possible to consciously not think about something. Because the moment you may have actually forgot it, you will wonder what it was and remember it again immediately.
Opening my eyes again I focused on one of my heaviest books and wondered if I could actually knock myself out with it. I really should give it a try. My head was spinning from all the stupid thinking and I was dead tired. Sleeping sounded like the best idea ever at the moment. But I wasn't sure if I would manage. My thoughts were just… I yawned. My thoughts were just spinning too much. Yes, much too much…
And here goes a greatly unspectacular chapter.
But still so freaking important!
I really like poor Law in this one. He is fighting realization, fighting the pain he knows will come along...
As I had a review on this topic, I'll give you a quick info on how my writing situation is at the moment. I am currently 'suffering' from an extremely high workload. I had originally planned to pre-write at least 10 chapters before December 1st. To say I didn't manage would be a lie... I had no hope in hell. I usually have at least one finished chapter on my computer before I upload one.
When I posted 'Two and A Half Years Later' I always hade some backup chapters. But here... I'm basically writing the chapters on a daily basis, usually finishing them the moment I post them. This means I have hardly got time to read through them and correct possible mistakes. Sorry about that...
Hope you can kind of understand why I have so many misspelled words etc.
As usual, I'd be very happy if you could Read & Review please - Thanks!
Earlier upload tomorrow. We have some office internal event that I need to lead, so I won't be able to get to my labtop before 2am and I will only want to sleep then...