I know it's not Valentine's Day yet, but I'm done with the chapter, so I just decided to post it. Thank you for all the new reviews and follows, please keep up! As always, there are spoilers and I don't own anything, Richelle Mead does. I'm sorry for the mistakes I probably made. I hope you enjoy this chapter! :)
After a few hours I woke up. The sun was still up and bright, which meant it was before 6 am. But the room was wrapped into darkness because of the bamboo curtains, although the sun was making its way trough them.
Of course I forgot about the time and weather conditions when I realised Eddie's arms were still around me. This time I had no trouble waking up immediately. My heartbeat was speeded up enough to cover that part. He looked like an angel with those almost halo like blonde hair and gorgeous face features. An angel with a heck of a sixpack. He amazed me very time.
I also felt his heartbeat underneath my ear. It was calm and peaceful, and so was the expression on his face. He didn't wake up even though I did. That was new. I didn't even dare to move. I could wake him up and ruin this moment.
The whole thing may have started innocently...
But now my heart was pounding and again, I just wanted his perfect soft lips on mine, because I still remembered their sweet, sweet taste... Oh, god, I loved him so much...
I was in his arms but couldn't touch him. It was a torture, but also a dream come true. I fell back to sleep lost in those fantasies and dreamed about him too.
He was in every part of my life, an obsession, controlling it over all edges. Maybe it was good, maybe bad. I just didn't mind.
Like the day before, knocking woke me up. Except that I was awake immediately, and that for whoever was about to come in, the scene he or she was about to see would have a very different meaning than it really did.
The head that's peeked trough the gap in the door was Christian's. Even being quite an open person, what he saw apparently shocked him.
"Whoa, whoa, WHOA!" he exclaimed with his eyes and mouth wide open and his face in complete surprise.
"You guys sure aren't losing time!"
Eddie put his hand above his eyes to protect them from the blinding light. He was still waking up.
"What... What..." he stuttered and looked at me. Then he realised I was a bit too close. Leaning on his chest, better said.
"Oh, my... This, this isn't..."
Well, it looked like Eddie was more adorably shocked about what had happened than me. Or maybe he was just uncomfortable about being caught at, um, cuddling.
Frankly, it looked like we just did it. That. Thing.
Oh, god, I was thinking like a child, and who knows which one of us was more confused and uncomfortable.
"This isn't what it looks like," I completed Eddie's stuttered words. "We did not just do that thing. I just..."
I hesitated on how to put it without making it sound weird, dirty, or elaborating on unneccessary details.
"I just needed a friend. Eddie came to comfort me. Completely in an innocent way. We just fell asleep like that."
Christian slowly nodded, still in clear disbelief.
"Jill, can I talk to you for a second?" he asked. "Sure," I sighed.
I snuck out of Eddie's arms with regret. I knew I'd never get another chance to be this close to him in a million years. Even if nothing happened, I still liked it. A lot.
Eddie stared behind me with a dazzled expression, still in a kind of shock over what had happened. I don't know why, but this closeness... For so long... It got us both even more carried away than both of the kisses we'd shared.
Eddie didn't normally let feelings control him quickly. He was a guardian. But it looked like I had some kind of power over him.
I knew that if a Strigoi atrack suddenly happened, he'd snap out of it in a blink of an eye. But it didn't, and he just fell back on the pillow with that same expression.
I followed Christian a few feet down the hall for some privacy. My knees were weak. I really spent the whole night with Eddie.
Christian snapped his fingers in front of my face and I realised he'd repeated my name a few times without me hearing him.
"Yeah?" I asked. Christian sighed.
"Look, Jill, I don't want to nag you, but please, please, be carefull. You're too young for this things!" he exclaimed, making me roll my eyes.
"Oh, come on, I told you. I didn't sleep with him! Not in any but the literal meaning. And... I know, I know, and I don't mean to do that for a long time now. Well, depends how long. I don't know how long! I-"
Christian held my hand. "Okay, you have all the time you need. But please. Take it. Don't let him push you. I know he'd never do it on purpuse, but-"
I gasped outraged. "Oh, my god, Christian! I'd never ever let a guy push me into something I don't want. And... What, what are you saying? We're not even together!"
He held my shoulders, trying to calm me down and spoke quietly: "I know, I know. Calm down, nobody has to hear this! And, dammit, I'm just looking out for you."
I nodded. "Sorry, and thanks. I know you are. I got a bit carried away. I'll be careful, in whatever way."
"Alright," he said and left back towards his room. He turned around when he was already half way down the hall and yelled: "I came because we're getting breakfast! Get up!"
"Will do!" I replied and returned to my room.
Eddie was already up. He was making my bed with a firm face. I knew he was about to give me a lecture about our relationship again.
As I expected, he opened his mouth, exhaled and started: "Jill, about what happened earlier. I-"
I put my hand up to stop him.
"No, please, save it. I don't need you to elaborate, I already know. What happened tonight meant nothing and it doesn't change anything. We're just friends. There can't be anything between us. You're my guardian. You're sorry. You didn't mean to give a wrong impression."
Eddie bent his head. He looked sad, and all of his firmness from before was gone. I didn't want to make him think I was angry. But we had to clear this up. He started, and I knew I have to end.
"Jill-" he said hesitating.
I leaned my hand on my hip. "Yeah? You have something to say? Am I wrong?"
Eddie sighed and shook his head. I stepped closer to him.
"Good. Then I know you as well as I hoped." I paused for a second. "Look, I'm not mad. I have no right to be. I... Thank you. I needed a friend yesterday. You were there for me. You were just what I needed."
He smiled, still with a hint of that sadness left. "Anytime. You know, I liked it too. I know people get the wrong impression of it. Like Christian did. I know he didn't mean any harm. But it was nice to spend some time with you, to be close to you."
My throat zipped up and gave me up. I made a weird, choking kind of noise, threathening I was going to break, like I did last night.
There were many things I could say. Like how the attraction between us was ruining our friendship. How last night made me think maybe it still had a chance. How fragile everything was at the moment. How much I missed the times at Amberwood when I'd sneak into the bathoom and call him up, and we'd talk for hours. How much I loved him. In every way.
But I just smiled and hugged him.
Then we finally went to get some breakfast, which we were already considerably late for. Like the day before, we arrived last. The rest of the crew always seemed to be waiting for us.
And really, everyone else was in the hotel restaurant. It was the first time I was in it, because I slept trough breakfast the day before and went out for lunch and dinner.
It was cute, and they had a lot of choice. Not every single thing was coconut, just most. Nobody really minded that, and anyway the hotel made sure no one stayed hungry.
After breakfast I also went for a quick feeding. I was supposed to take one every day, especially after not having a chance to for the last few months. But I had a busy two days behind me, and I guess nothing really mattered as long as I was alive and healthy.
Later I was in the room again, getting things ready for the beach. Eddie was looking for a chance to escape before the awkward scene from yesterday could happen again when I'd change into my bikini. I mean, so cute.
Then the late Queen's ghost popped into my sight. I screamed this time too, but calmed down in almost a second. I remembered Rose told me I had nothing to worry about.
"Oh, god, what?" Eddie asked. I guess my screams and faints and cries were starting to get annoying.
"I see her again," I said and sat on the bed. No matter what, I was scared.
Queen Tatiana was staring at me with a scared and hurtfully sad expression. I didn't pay attention the first time, but now I noticed she was wearing a bloody silk night gown, probably from the night she was murdered. I could almost see trough her. She was opening her mouth and closing it again, but couldn't say a thing.
Was she trying to tell me something? Probably. But I didn't know what.
She came closer, looking like she's floating trough the air, and reached her hand towards me. I shrieked and leaned back.
"What do you want from me?" I whispered.
"Jill, do you want me to go get Rose and Lissa?" Eddie asked. I nodded. "Our weird stuff experts," I muttered.
But the moment Eddie was at the door, panic rose in me.
"No! Don't leave me alone here with her!" I cried. I ran behind Eddie and clenched my fingers around his arm. The ghost followed me. I moaned. "Go away, please!"
"What do I do?" Eddie asked confused, following my gaze into what was thick air for him.
"I, um..."
I let go of his hand slowly, surprised to see my nails left small red spots on his skin.
"I'll be fine. Just go," I told him. He gave me another look and left.
The ghost came closer again. I leaned on the door and closed my eyes, wanting to make her go away. "Please, please, please, just leave me alone," I begged. "I'm losing my mind already, and now I see ghosts. This can't be normal. I... I'm afraid."
Queen Tatiana gave me a small sad smile and took a step back. So she could understand me. Then she put her hand up and raised her forefinger and middle finger. I laughed histerically. It seemed like a bad joke.
"Seriously? The peace sign? You know the peace sign?"
She shrugged and I laughed again, more relaxed this time. I almost felt sorry I only knew her from Adrian's memories.
"What is it? Are you here for a reason? Why you of all the ghosts?" I asked. "And why me?"
She rolled her eyes. "Of course, you can't tell me," I said, thinking out loud. It took me a while to come to something that at least kind of made sense.
"Is it Adrian? Do you want to be around him?"
She hesitated before responding, but shook her head in the end. Like it was kind of it, but not why she needed me.
"Then what is it? How do I know?" I asked. She looked at me with regret.
After a few seconds I thought of something. "Try showing me!" I exclaimed. She shrugged in a what-the-heck kind of way and came a bit closer. I placed myself on the couch.
It was like charades, but more important. First she showed me two fingers for two words. Then she pointed at her ring finger.
"Your ring finger," I said.
Tatiana shook her head and continued. Now she made a circle with her thumb and forefinger and hugged her ring finger.
"A ring!" I exclaimed. She nodded eagerly. "That's the first word?" I asked. She shook her head. "Okay. Second word." She nodded now.
The former Queen didn't seem to know how to continue from there. She pointed at me for a few times.
"What? I don't get it," I said. "My ring?" She shook her head. "A wedding ring?" I tried. And was wrong again.
Then she pointed at me again and waved her hand around the room. "Oh, the hotel's ring?" My answer was another headshake. She nodded towards me again and did something weird with her hands I couldn't understand. "Um... This room's ring?" I asked. That still wasn't it.
In that moment Eddie came back in Rose and Lissa's company.
"What are you doing?" Lissa exclaimed horrified. I laughed with no humor, suddenly realising how absurd this was.
"Isn't it obvious? I'm playing charades a with a ghost!"
Rose threw herself on the couch next to me. "Oh, yeah, know the feeling. I needed a map in the end," she told me. I gave her a grateful smile.
But as my look was back on Queen Tatiana, I realised she got very excited when more people walked in. More specifically, Lissa. She was pointing at me and her, and me and her...
"Guys, help me out," I said. "I already have the word ring, and need one more. She's pointing at me and Lissa."
"Oh, god," Rose sighed. "She's been playing matchmaker for Liss before. Where is she?" she asked me.
I pointed at the spot Tatiana was standing - or floating - on.
Rose followed my finger with her gaze and yelled into the air: "Look, you have got to stop! Lissa is not straight! She won't marry Jill!"
The rest of us, even the former Queen, all laughed. Although she still made no sound.
"No, guys, seriously. What could it be?"
We were all silent for a while, when Eddie spoke up quietly: "Dragomir."
"What?" I asked. He smiled.
"Dragomir. You and Lissa are both Dragomirs."
Queen Tatiana jumped towards Eddie and wrapped her arms around him. But they went right trough him.
"Oh, my god, she's hugging you," I told him. He looked slightly uncomfortable, but proud, and Tatiana let go of him.
"So, the Dragomir ring," I said. The ghost nodded and faded into the air.
"No, wait! What is the Dragomir ring?" I asked and looked at my friends desperatly. Neither of them seemed to know.
"Sounds royal," said Lissa.
"And important," said Rose.
"I'll ask Ariana Szelsky. She's the biggest expert of us all. If anyone knows anything, she will," Lissa told us. "Or I can look on the internet first."
I turned my laptop on and handed it to her.
The Moroi world actually has its own internet browser, called Fangs. It also has magazines, newspapers and smaller news channels. The browser allows you to see everything you'd see on a normal browser, plus the articles and websites about vampires that humans aren't allowed to see. That's how we find out about everything that happens at Court, which really was a world of its own.
"There's just a bunch of nonsense," said Lissa after looking trough results. "And an article from the 90'. Guys, come check this out!"
We all crouded around my laptop. There was a really old photo of the former Queen. Another photo was next to it, and it showed her hand closed up, so we could see a very royal looking golden ring with a ruby.
"It's great to see our Queen still holds to tradition and wears the royal ring of her family. In Middle Ages many Moroi believed this family ring brought luck and loyal citizens to the ruling monarch. Every royal family had such a ring made the first time one of its members was elected king or queen," Lissa read out loud.
"So that's what the Dragomir ring is," I realised. Lissa nodded. "If only I knew where it was," she said. We all sat there in uncomfortable silence for a minute or two.
"Well," she said and clapped her hands. "I'll call Ariana anyway. Maybe she knows anything about this. The last person I remember that could have it is our grandfather. He was running for king when Tatiana won. But he's dead."
I nodded. "I know. Everyone but us is dead."
"That's the spirit, girls!" said Rose. We laughed.
"What now, we going to the beach or not?" Eddie asked. Lissa nodded. "Yeah, let's go. But we'll research this."
We really did go to the beach. This time Eddie and I weren't the last to come. We were first, actually.
There were way more people than the day before. I didn't know why, but the whole beach was crouded with tourists. Maybe the hotel was having a special offer.
Christian and I practised magic again before lunch. I was getting better at changing states of matter, and we even fought for a few times. I liked how he was treating me like an equal, not letting me win, although he was so much better than me. That made the feeling when I actually won once that much sweeter.
After lunch I decided to get into the water. It was warmer than I'd ever felt it in the sea before and the feeling was amazing.
Then I also saw Eddie in it. I sneaked behind him in the knee-height water, trying not to make too much noise with it splashing. Still, it was weird he didn't hear me. When I was a few feet away from him, I jumped on his back and dunked him into deeper water.
Eddie shouted and laughed, coughing and choking on the salty water. He pulled me into the water as well, making me fall on him. A playful dunking war started between us.
Sometimes there was an unsaid rule between us that forbidded that kind of touching. But in moments like this it felt just right.
In the end he was holding my hands crossed behind my back and I would have lost if I didn't pull out a secret weapon - magic.
Of course I had to free myself first, which I did with hanging all of my weight on him until we both flipped back. He had to let me go, and the moment my hands were free, I used it to send a small waterball into his face.
"Hey, what was that for?" he asked, pretending to be insulted.
"Winning," I said with a grinn.
"You're invincible," he laughed. I snorted, but then thought of something.
"No, I'm not invincible. Not yet. But..."
Eddie looked at me curious. I gave him a naughty smile.
Or, at least that's how I hopped it turned out. I didn't do things like that often.
"You can make me invincible. I will be with magic soon. But I need you to train me."
He sighed and shook his head. "Jill, it's not happening. Sorry. I said no. I'm not gonna do it."
Then he returned to the beach. I think he was tring to make a dramatic effect, but he failed because of the splashing. I'd laugh in a different moment, but I didn't feel much like it. It was because I ruined everything again.
"You know you can't run away? You're my guardian!" I yelled behind him. He turned around.
"Yeah, I'll keep an eye on you. I just don't wanna fight," he said.
"Well, that's funny! We just fought for fifteen minutes!" I shouted. He didn't even look back.
God, I was pathetic.
I decided to go for a swim. After I got out of the water, Angeline was elaborating on how she can't wait for the concert tonight. From expressions on everyone else's face, I knew she didn't just begin to talk about it. In the end we left back to the hotel at 5 pm, three hours before the concert.
I didn't even mean to start dressing up when we got back. Actually I took one of the books I brought with me, sat on the balcony and started to read. It was nothing more than slightly annoying that I had to use a flashlight.
Then, like the first day, Angeline broke into the room and ran over to the balcony to find me.
"You still don't knock?" I asked her with a smile.
"Girl, if I'm your friend, don't try to change me," she said and pulled me trough the door, making me lose my balance so I fell on my bed.
"But hey, the concert! OMG! Let's get dressed! What are you gonna wear?"
I sighed. "Look, Angeline, it's just a concert. And in two hours. I don't really care all that much."
"Uh?"
Angeline was staring at me, looking as if she might just faint. "How can you not care? Did you see that guy? And, I mean, you're single!"
She considered that for a second and added: "No offence, Eddie, but officially she still is."
When Eddie heard his name, he turned his head towards us from the couch where he was laying. His gaze met mine and we both shrugged.
Angeline continued: "Look, Jill, I know you're not stupid and you saw that guy. I'm gonna help you look your best."
I rolled my eyes giving up. What could I do? She obviously decided already.
"So we agree?"
I nodded. Not very eagerly, although.
"Yay! I'm going to my room to change and you pick your outfit by then!" she exclaimed and ran out of the room excited.
"Is she serious?" Eddie asked me with his eyebrows raised. I smirked, starting to let Angeline's excitement spread over me too.
"I guess so."
I picked a striped black and white top and a short A-line yellow skirt. I knew what I'm looking for almost immediately, but with all the lothes I had with me, it took me a while to find it. By the time I did, Angeline was back.
"Nice! Are you gonna wear heels with it?" she asked me. I shook my head.
"No. I'm tall enough already."
I pulled flat black sandals from under my bed and showed them to her.
"I'm gonna wear these," I told her. She shrugged.
Then I noticed what she's wearing.
"Holy... Angeline! You... Oh, my god!"
She was wearing a strapless top with a cleavage so low she was almost showing her belly button.
"What?" she asked. "I'm sorry, but you look like a slut," I told her. She rolled her eyes. "Fine, I'll change."
I also got dressed while she was gone. Eddie was about to say something when I got out of the bathroom, but he seemed to lost his words. I didn't get why immediately.
"I thought you reached a milestone last night, but you get more beautiful by day," he breathed. It almost made me swoon. He gave me compliments before, but this... This was in the kind of romantic I thought I'd never hear from him.
"Huh?" I asked.
"I, um..." Eddie looked down. "Just thinking out loud."
What he said before didn't make me smile, but funny, these words did.
Angeline soon came back in a top that was still strapless, but could be called decent.
"Wow, you look great!" she told me. I smiled again.
"Thanks, I seem to get that a lot today."
"Just one more idea," she said with a wink that made me think I didn't want to hear it. "Yeah?"
"Stuff your bra!"
We both laughed and bursted out even more when we saw Eddie's horrified look. He heard everything, but I didn't really mind anymore.
After a few seconds I realised Angeline wasn't kidding. But, well, Eddie's look gave me the nerve to be mean to him again. So, without even thinking, I said: "Well, sure, why not. This guy better be as worth it as he looks."
Eddie shook his head chuckling and left the room, making us both burst out lauging again.
"We scared the heck out of him!" Angeline shrieked. She was still just as happy and excited as the moment she first entered the room today, but my smile faded when I realised I did it AGAIN. What was up with me?!
She stayed in the room for a while talking to me, but she left after a while. I didn't blame her one bit, because I knew Trey lately felt like she was neglecting him lately. I just didn't know what to do in the two hours I had left before the concert. I seriously didn't understand her hurry. Back in school, she was always late.
The break from the world lasted for about five minutes.
Adrian was comming down the hall, and I felt that he was upset. I didn't know if he was exactly angry, but definetly upset. He stormed in before I could try to figure out what it was.
"Jill, are you taking over the effects?" he asked. And I had to admit I have no idea what he was talking about, nut even listening to his thoughts. I only learned he was about as confused as me.
"What do you mean?" I asked. He was maybe more serious than I'd ever seen him before.
"The effects? Of spirit? Trough the bond?" he said with his green eyes wide open. His whole face was tensed and he looked like he was just waiting for me to realise.
"You mean like... Rose did with Lissa?"
He nodded. "Yes, that way exactly."
I laughed histerically. "No! No, no. I'm not doing that. I'm not doing anything at all. Everything's normal. Completely normal." I smiled like an idiot, but Adrian's expression didn't change.
"Jill, please. How many times? Don't lie to me. Don't waste your energy, because it has no effect. You and I both know something's up with you."
A small part of his memory revealed to me.
"Eddie told you all of that stuff, didn't he? Of course he did. I'm the one who can read your mind, bot the opposite. But gosh, I can't believe Eddie. Can't he keep anything to himself? Or, well, maybe he was just that worried about me. That's cute. But you, my friend. What kind of crazy delusions are you having here? I mean..."
Adrian put his hands on my shoulders and shook them gently.
"Jill, don't you see? You're acting just like I do under the effects! The sudden need to spend money, the constant jelousy, the mood swings, the impulsivness, the depression, the talking without making any sense..." He looked at me desperat, but I stepped back to shake his hands off. I really wasn't making any sense, but that was what I did all the time.
"Look, you're being ridiculous. I'm not taking over the effects, nor I'm trying to!"
He was really starting to annoy me. Just because everything he said was true, it didn't mean he was right.
He sighed. "Neither was Rose, but it still happened. And you see ghosts... It's like the bond gets stronger after a while, and the effects of being shadow kissed are showing. I wasn't using much spirit lately, just while saving Sydney, but I didn't feel the effects back then so much. You must've been taking over them back then, and now you're just... Venting."
I rolled my eyes and put my hands on my ears not to her him. I also shut myself off of the depressing vibes he was getting me trough the bond.
"You're the one who's not making any sense! Ugh, just leave me alone!"
He pulled me closer, but I pushed him away. Eddie got into the room just in time to hear the last few words I said.
"Hey, what's going on?" he asked and neared us, ready to fight. Finally, someone on my side!
"Eddie, tell him to leave me alone!" I begged kind of anxious. Adrian only glanced at Eddie, then held my hands again.
"But all the pieces go together and your aura's darker than ever and it's even getting darker right now..."
In that moment I was sick of him. I slapped his face.
That wasn't something I did a lot, but it still wasn't the first time. It also wasn't the first time for Adrian to be slapped. But still, his eyes were wide open, not from the pain, more from the shock. At first I thought he'd slapp me back, the next moment he looked like he was about to burst out laughing.
Eddie was the only one of us who actually knew how to react. He pulled me back and, for the second time today, held my hands behind my back. We both fell on the bed.
I relaxed immediately and let the amazing feeling comming from Eddie's touch go trough me. No matter how upset Adrian made me, this made me forget it all.
In the mean time Rose and Lissa came in. I didn't even notice Eddie called them while I was fighting with Adrian. He told them all the nonsense he told me before. Except that they believed him.
Lissa neared me with both of them behind her, acting like a crazy know-it-all doctor.
"Jill, Adrian's right. Your aura's darker than any other I'd ever seen," she said with a soft voice.
"Look, see it yourself if you don't believe me," said Adrain, hoping to suck me into his head. I blocked myself again, but his feelings were always stronger than mine. I still felt something, like how hard he was focusing, how much spirit he was using, how angry he was trying to make himself, only to pull me in because of strong emotions.
But learning from an expert, my feelings also became stronger, more independent. I focused on Eddie's hands that were holding me, and it wasn't all that hard to let go.
Until Adrian broke it off with using even more spirit and becoming even more mad at me.
"Why are you even doing this? Even if I'm taking over the effects, what's the bad, bad thing about it? You fight those all the time!" I exclaimed.
Adrian was shaking with rage. All that fake rage. Well, I was angry for real.
"Because I'm doing it, not you! It's my responsibility to take whatever happens because of it! First you take over the effects, then the effects take over you!"
"Oh, yeah? I think it's a fair price for my life you saved!" I hissed with my fists clenched. I should realise how weird it was that I was so grateful, but I only felt anger. But I was too caught up.
"No, it's not! I don't want you to go crazy becaude of ne! I'd rather have the attack happen again, because that way I can help you! I don't want you to go crazy!" he said with a voice that was almost begging me.
"What the fuck? It's the same as watching you go crazy trough the bond or feeling it myself!" I growled. Adrian shook his head.
"No, it's not! It's you or me, and we're different people!"
"Yeah, for you! For me it's all the same sometimes!" I cried, thinking of last night. The memory of that feeling almost made me cry again.
I ripped myself out of Eddie's arms. He was too confused to hold me back anyway. Adrian used the opportunity to pull me closer again and try to get me into his head.
"Look, I don't want either of us to go crazy, but I'm the one responsible! I should be the one! I love you, that's why I brought you back! You know that!" he exclaimed. I felt that he was focusing so hard he barely spoke, using more and more spirit with every second.
"I love you too, and that's why I WANT to take over it! I don't want anything to happen to you!" I shouted, barely realising what I'm saying. But I knew it was true.
"Are you kidding me? Do you guys even hear eachother?" Rose sighed in the back.
Adrian nodded to her words. "Yeah, what the fuck are we even saying? Neither of us has to go crazy! Just stop being so stubborn, see your aura and let us help you, for god's sake!" he breathed trough all that struggle to get me into his mind.
"Don't tell me what to do!" I screamed and stepped back again, sitting on my bed next to Eddie. I grabbed his hand, realising I was also afraid of this situation. I wanted his protection.
At that point it was too hard for Adrian to keep talking and stay focused. Now he gave out the last pieces of spirit he had left and my mind transfered into his. Eddie's touch was gone, I saw myself trough Adrian's eyes. Just for a few seconds I saw my aura, getting darker and darker, although it was already practcally black...
Then like a cold shower, I got kicked out of his mind. I didn't know what was wrong immediately. It barely ever happened.
And then I saw Adrian. He fell back on Eddie's bed, kind of sitting. His face was paler than I'd ever seen it, and his eyes were open, but... Empty.
I realised I don't feel a single thing trough the bond.
Lissa jumped towards him, worried and almost as pale.
"The last time I'd seen this was with Avery Lazar," she whispered.
Here's the real reason I already updated. I couldn't leave you with a conclusion like this on Valentine's Day. This is a lot like the last teaser trailer they left us with, isn't it? It killed me... Everyone's hurting Adrian lately. Anyhow, I'm still hoping to update on Valentine's Day again, but can't promise anything. It will be until the end of the month. I hope. So, I hope you liked it. Please, let me know!