Post by Iris on Nov 10, 2010 19:11:52 GMT -5
I walked through the park, completely unconcerned as to my safety. By now, I'd gotten used to the fact that you were just as likely to be murdered during the day as the night. It came with the town. Plus, I'd gotten pretty good at fighting in the last few months. Jace slipped from the shadows beside me and I relaxed my tense, fast paced walking unconsciously. Annoying or not, he was good protection.
"Have you been stalking me?" I demanded, arching an eyebrow and smirking.
"I just figured I'd warn you about the dangers of wandering in this nightmarish hell hole at night." He had a point, but I wasn't going to admit it to him.
"I don't need a lecture on being safe, leech." I tossed my hair indignantly.
"Fine, fine." He smirked lightly. "But the least I could do is walk you home."
I narrowed my eyes, slowing a bit.
"And why exactly are you subjecting me to this torture?"
"I can't let you die, even if you are stupidly stubborn about remaining human." He replied evenly.
"I'm not stupidly stubborn, I just don't want to be changed yet." I protested frostily.
"Which means you are being stupidly stubborn. Eventually, this will cause you to die, so I'm postponing the inevitable as long as I can by escorting you home." The chastising grin on his lips made me want to punch him, but I refrained.
"Oh, really? Why do you care what happens to me anyways?" I spat.
His eyes turned serious, their depths softening a little. The humor was all but gone as he spoke with quiet sincerity and simplicity. "Because I love you."
The words came like a blow, so sudden and crushing that I stopped dead. Did he really just say that? I didn't let the surprise flash across my features as I turned to face him, my voice dripping with sarcasm. It had to be a joke. "Are you insane?"
"Sunshine, you stole whatever little sanity I had left. If I can't take it back, you're the next best thing." His gaze held mine evenly and I found myself at a loss for words. It was all happening too fast for my brain to wrap around quickly enough. As I tried to collect my thoughts, I stayed silent, and he seemed to take my silence as a good thing, because the next thing I knew, he had cupped my face in his hands and was kissing me. It was light and fleeting, and before I even realized what was happening, it was over.
"See you around Sunshine." Jace smirked, disappearing into the shadows.
I stood there for a while longer, to shocked to move. My lips burned from his kiss, and i was so caught up in a whirlwind of mixed up emotions someone could have walked up in plain view, knife in hand, and I wouldn't have noticed. Eventually I began to walk home, but the whole time, I was deep in thought.
I was beyond furious with him of course, and confused and annoyed as well, but beneath that there was a sense of longing and a strange wholeness, as though I had only just realized that a part of me had been missing, and I'd found it again.
I hated him. There was no question. He was annoying and a huge jerk, he was always calling me by that stupid nickname and he seemed to pop up when I didn't want him around the most.
But then I remembered the way his eyes always seemed to captivate me, holding me under their spell, the way he looked with his hair fallen in his eyes, dark yet alluring, how he made me feel so much safer when he popped up at night and I was alone.....
I snapped my mind closed towards those thoughts and frowned. I wasn't in love with him! My brain screamed the obvious, but my heart seemed to have gone abso-freaking-lutely crazy, because it denied my brain calmly and earnestly, insisting that I was, in fact, in love with Jace Nyte, the one person I couldn't stand.
I listed reasons why I despised him, creating a long list of his faults in my mind, but it seemed like the list of why I loved him was longer. I clenched my fists in frustration, stomping into my house and sitting with a thud onto the couch. Why him of all people? Why did my heart have to go all loony to the first guy who kissed me?
It wasn't like it was anything special, I pointed out to myself, just a quick peck while I was vulnerable, and from Jace no less. How in the world had it managed to make me completely crumble, when I'd been through much worse and more challenging things in my life that had no effect?
I knew, deep inside, that it was true. I did love Jace The-Annoying Nyte, but of course, I refused to acknowledge that fact and crushed it so deep into the farthest reaches of my mind that I didn't notice it anymore. At least that's what I told myself anyways.
Suddenly, a horrifying thought creeped into my head, pushing it's way through the other many plausible explanations I'd come up with. (I was so shocked that my mind had gotten seriously confused, therefore causing me to think I loved Jace. Was my main idea.) what I'd he were my soulmate?
I cringed at the thought and instantly reached for the phone, dialing the number instinctively. She picked up after the first few rings.
"Sorina? It's Kalista. I need to ask you something."
I didn't exactly know why I had chosen her to call, we were friends, but I didn't usually call anyone, especially not Sorina, and especially not at 2 in the morning. But of course, I knew Crystal only barely. We had only met a few times. Amalia had never had a soulmate, and I knew Sorina well enough that I figured she had moved up to the able to call stage. Though I had to admit, 2am? I'd be lucky if she didn't just hang up on me. Still...I sensed she probably wouldn't do that.
"Have you been stalking me?" I demanded, arching an eyebrow and smirking.
"I just figured I'd warn you about the dangers of wandering in this nightmarish hell hole at night." He had a point, but I wasn't going to admit it to him.
"I don't need a lecture on being safe, leech." I tossed my hair indignantly.
"Fine, fine." He smirked lightly. "But the least I could do is walk you home."
I narrowed my eyes, slowing a bit.
"And why exactly are you subjecting me to this torture?"
"I can't let you die, even if you are stupidly stubborn about remaining human." He replied evenly.
"I'm not stupidly stubborn, I just don't want to be changed yet." I protested frostily.
"Which means you are being stupidly stubborn. Eventually, this will cause you to die, so I'm postponing the inevitable as long as I can by escorting you home." The chastising grin on his lips made me want to punch him, but I refrained.
"Oh, really? Why do you care what happens to me anyways?" I spat.
His eyes turned serious, their depths softening a little. The humor was all but gone as he spoke with quiet sincerity and simplicity. "Because I love you."
The words came like a blow, so sudden and crushing that I stopped dead. Did he really just say that? I didn't let the surprise flash across my features as I turned to face him, my voice dripping with sarcasm. It had to be a joke. "Are you insane?"
"Sunshine, you stole whatever little sanity I had left. If I can't take it back, you're the next best thing." His gaze held mine evenly and I found myself at a loss for words. It was all happening too fast for my brain to wrap around quickly enough. As I tried to collect my thoughts, I stayed silent, and he seemed to take my silence as a good thing, because the next thing I knew, he had cupped my face in his hands and was kissing me. It was light and fleeting, and before I even realized what was happening, it was over.
"See you around Sunshine." Jace smirked, disappearing into the shadows.
I stood there for a while longer, to shocked to move. My lips burned from his kiss, and i was so caught up in a whirlwind of mixed up emotions someone could have walked up in plain view, knife in hand, and I wouldn't have noticed. Eventually I began to walk home, but the whole time, I was deep in thought.
I was beyond furious with him of course, and confused and annoyed as well, but beneath that there was a sense of longing and a strange wholeness, as though I had only just realized that a part of me had been missing, and I'd found it again.
I hated him. There was no question. He was annoying and a huge jerk, he was always calling me by that stupid nickname and he seemed to pop up when I didn't want him around the most.
But then I remembered the way his eyes always seemed to captivate me, holding me under their spell, the way he looked with his hair fallen in his eyes, dark yet alluring, how he made me feel so much safer when he popped up at night and I was alone.....
I snapped my mind closed towards those thoughts and frowned. I wasn't in love with him! My brain screamed the obvious, but my heart seemed to have gone abso-freaking-lutely crazy, because it denied my brain calmly and earnestly, insisting that I was, in fact, in love with Jace Nyte, the one person I couldn't stand.
I listed reasons why I despised him, creating a long list of his faults in my mind, but it seemed like the list of why I loved him was longer. I clenched my fists in frustration, stomping into my house and sitting with a thud onto the couch. Why him of all people? Why did my heart have to go all loony to the first guy who kissed me?
It wasn't like it was anything special, I pointed out to myself, just a quick peck while I was vulnerable, and from Jace no less. How in the world had it managed to make me completely crumble, when I'd been through much worse and more challenging things in my life that had no effect?
I knew, deep inside, that it was true. I did love Jace The-Annoying Nyte, but of course, I refused to acknowledge that fact and crushed it so deep into the farthest reaches of my mind that I didn't notice it anymore. At least that's what I told myself anyways.
Suddenly, a horrifying thought creeped into my head, pushing it's way through the other many plausible explanations I'd come up with. (I was so shocked that my mind had gotten seriously confused, therefore causing me to think I loved Jace. Was my main idea.) what I'd he were my soulmate?
I cringed at the thought and instantly reached for the phone, dialing the number instinctively. She picked up after the first few rings.
"Sorina? It's Kalista. I need to ask you something."
I didn't exactly know why I had chosen her to call, we were friends, but I didn't usually call anyone, especially not Sorina, and especially not at 2 in the morning. But of course, I knew Crystal only barely. We had only met a few times. Amalia had never had a soulmate, and I knew Sorina well enough that I figured she had moved up to the able to call stage. Though I had to admit, 2am? I'd be lucky if she didn't just hang up on me. Still...I sensed she probably wouldn't do that.