shut my eyes.
“ Can’t I look into your baby blues?” He purred.
“ Nope.”
“ Please Miele?” His accent was making me melt.
I could feel his thumb stroking my chin as I continued to protest. A new sensation flowed through me an instant later. There was a warm and energy-filled pressure on my lips. I opened my eyes in shock. Elliott was kissing me.
He smiled down at me, still kissing me softly, and gazed into my soul. Damn . But for some reason I couldn’t feel mad that he tricked me. I was enjoying how everything around us seemed to blur. The only two things that existed in that moment were the two of us.
Elliott must have found what he was looking for in my eyes, because he stopped kissing me with one last gentle nibble on my bottom lip and pulled his face back. He looked up at the sky. I resumed my place, tucked in the crook of his arm, and breathed him in again. My thoughts were a blur.
I felt his arms tighten around me once more in the most amazing magnetic hug in history as he whispered, “That’s enough for tonight, Miele. Time for bed.”
I hadn’t even sat up yet when a strange feeling consumed me, as though my soul was free falling through space. I couldn’t make anything out as the shapes before my eyes blurred by the speed of the fall.
Suddenly, there was no light. Only darkness. It took me a moment to realize my eyes were shut. I opened them to see the familiar shapes of my room slowly come into focus.
Chapter 6. The Triangle
I lay on my bed blinking my eyes. I was still trying to recover from the free falling sensation I just experienced. The fall felt like one of those dreams where you wake up moments before you hit the ground. My head continued to spin and my heart raced.
As my eyes finally adjusted to the familiarity of my blue walls, I felt a soft breeze blow across my face. Out of habit, my eyes made their way to my alarm clock on my desk - 4:02 A.M.
The breeze still streamed in my window, blowing warm, summer night smells into my room, when it dawned on me that my window was cracked open. I felt strangely exposed, and frightened. I was certain I had locked all doors and windows right after Charlotte left here last night. But then again, how did I get to the meadow and back without any memory of it?
I wasn’t sure of much these days, and even less at this very moment, but the window being open felt all wrong. I practically threw myself off of my bed in an effort to close it as quickly as possible.
That wasn’t the best idea.
I landed right on top of a pile of blankets and pillows that had somehow materialized there since I could last remember. They were warm. Then a grumble of a voice made its way from under the sea of fabric.
“ Hey! What the- Lilly!”
I fell off the lumpy blanket pile and onto the floor, and watched Nicholas trying to free himself from the mess. “Nicholas?”
“ Yeah?” His head broke free.
“ What are you doing here?”
His head dropped as though I caught him doing something wrong. He whispered his answer. “Protecting you, hoe.”
“ Huh?”
“ I was worried about you. Charlotte called me and said you were home alone and that you were acting really strange. But she wouldn’t tell me what’s up, and I was worried. So I came by to check on you, and you were actually sleeping. I didn’t want to wake you so I made myself a bed.” He spoke so fast my brimming mind was having trouble keeping up.
My eyes were swimming with emotion. I tried to casually blink back tears. It seemed I was never able to get a second to catch my breath before something else popped up and knocked it out of me again.
“ Are you okay, Lil?”
All I could do was faintly nod. I was certain if I tried to talk it would trigger my tear ducts. Wait a minute! “When did you get here?”
“ I’m not sure. Around midnight.” He shrugged, obviously confused by the intensity of my question. “I came over as soon as I got Charlotte off the phone. Do you realize how
“ Can’t I look into your baby blues?” He purred.
“ Nope.”
“ Please Miele?” His accent was making me melt.
I could feel his thumb stroking my chin as I continued to protest. A new sensation flowed through me an instant later. There was a warm and energy-filled pressure on my lips. I opened my eyes in shock. Elliott was kissing me.
He smiled down at me, still kissing me softly, and gazed into my soul. Damn . But for some reason I couldn’t feel mad that he tricked me. I was enjoying how everything around us seemed to blur. The only two things that existed in that moment were the two of us.
Elliott must have found what he was looking for in my eyes, because he stopped kissing me with one last gentle nibble on my bottom lip and pulled his face back. He looked up at the sky. I resumed my place, tucked in the crook of his arm, and breathed him in again. My thoughts were a blur.
I felt his arms tighten around me once more in the most amazing magnetic hug in history as he whispered, “That’s enough for tonight, Miele. Time for bed.”
I hadn’t even sat up yet when a strange feeling consumed me, as though my soul was free falling through space. I couldn’t make anything out as the shapes before my eyes blurred by the speed of the fall.
Suddenly, there was no light. Only darkness. It took me a moment to realize my eyes were shut. I opened them to see the familiar shapes of my room slowly come into focus.
Chapter 6. The Triangle
I lay on my bed blinking my eyes. I was still trying to recover from the free falling sensation I just experienced. The fall felt like one of those dreams where you wake up moments before you hit the ground. My head continued to spin and my heart raced.
As my eyes finally adjusted to the familiarity of my blue walls, I felt a soft breeze blow across my face. Out of habit, my eyes made their way to my alarm clock on my desk - 4:02 A.M.
The breeze still streamed in my window, blowing warm, summer night smells into my room, when it dawned on me that my window was cracked open. I felt strangely exposed, and frightened. I was certain I had locked all doors and windows right after Charlotte left here last night. But then again, how did I get to the meadow and back without any memory of it?
I wasn’t sure of much these days, and even less at this very moment, but the window being open felt all wrong. I practically threw myself off of my bed in an effort to close it as quickly as possible.
That wasn’t the best idea.
I landed right on top of a pile of blankets and pillows that had somehow materialized there since I could last remember. They were warm. Then a grumble of a voice made its way from under the sea of fabric.
“ Hey! What the- Lilly!”
I fell off the lumpy blanket pile and onto the floor, and watched Nicholas trying to free himself from the mess. “Nicholas?”
“ Yeah?” His head broke free.
“ What are you doing here?”
His head dropped as though I caught him doing something wrong. He whispered his answer. “Protecting you, hoe.”
“ Huh?”
“ I was worried about you. Charlotte called me and said you were home alone and that you were acting really strange. But she wouldn’t tell me what’s up, and I was worried. So I came by to check on you, and you were actually sleeping. I didn’t want to wake you so I made myself a bed.” He spoke so fast my brimming mind was having trouble keeping up.
My eyes were swimming with emotion. I tried to casually blink back tears. It seemed I was never able to get a second to catch my breath before something else popped up and knocked it out of me again.
“ Are you okay, Lil?”
All I could do was faintly nod. I was certain if I tried to talk it would trigger my tear ducts. Wait a minute! “When did you get here?”
“ I’m not sure. Around midnight.” He shrugged, obviously confused by the intensity of my question. “I came over as soon as I got Charlotte off the phone. Do you realize how
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