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Authors: Dean Murray
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signed and I can't find our copy in
any of the boxes."
"Mom, what are we going to do? Where will we
go if they kick us out?"
She smoothed my hair back from my face.
"Don't worry about that sweetie. I'm sure everything will be ok. I
was just over-reacting. It'll turn out to be nothing."
It was just like mom to misplace something
important like that. I opened my mouth to do exactly that, but
stopped before the words could fully form. I didn't know much, but
fraud wasn't the kind of thing you associated with a slap on the
wrist. If the worst happened and mom was going to serve jail time
then we had bigger problems than even what she was admitting
to.
**
It looked like the sun must have set hours
ago, but it wasn't really dark. The full moon seemed somehow
brighter than normal, edging the landscape with a silvery tracing.
The cool illumination was strangely complimented by the warm
tendrils of light trying to escape from the greenery surrounding
the area.
I let my gaze drop, and found an unearthly
pool of liquid light at my feet. The quiet murmur of falling water
to my right kindled a burning thirst I hadn't realized I'd been
feeling since I opened my eyes.
Looking towards the waterfall, I found a
shimmering ribbon of light working its way down the rock face. The
sight was so incredibly beautiful it took me several moments to
realize the tendril was the waterfall I'd been looking for.
I reached into the dancing pool of light at
my feet and smiled as my cupped hands came away filled with water
that lit up my palms. I couldn't imagine anything more surreal. I
might have stayed there for hours if the barest whisper of sound
hadn't distracted me.
Alec was staring at me, an expression of
disapproval marring otherwise perfect features.
"Of all the places for you to intrude, why
did it have to be here?"
For a second, surrounded as I was by such
beauty, I did feel like an intruder. He was gorgeous, and his dark
skin seemed to have the slightest hint of light playing beneath its
surface. I was as plain and ugly as always.
"Only you could see such beauty and think
only of keeping it to yourself. Trust me, even with surroundings
like this I'd much rather be elsewhere if you're part of the
bargain."
The thought of being elsewhere brought our
newest crisis to mind, and I realized that it was very likely I
wouldn't have to worry about Britney, Alec, or Brandon for very
much longer.
"At least you won't have to suffer my
presence for much longer; we'll be gone all too quickly."
The fact I was arguing with Alec when I knew
this all had to be a dream, was ludicrous, but it wasn't as
ludicrous as the way he flinched at my words.
"No, you're right, all too soon you'll go the
way of so many others. If I can depend on nothing else, I can rely
on that."
A little eddy of wind found its way into our
grotto, and for the first time my newly-acute sense of smell
registered Alec's presence. His scent was divine, full of subtle
themes I wasn't experienced enough to pick out, all of which seemed
to scream of warm power and rock-like masculinity. For half a
second the torrent of sensation was too strong to leave room for
conscious thought.
I realized I'd closed my eyes to better savor
the experience. When I opened them Alec's expression had moved from
annoyance to sadness. I had a pair of heartbeats to wonder at the
strange tricks my subconscious was playing on me, and then the
dream started fading away.
The heavenly surroundings were predictably
the first thing to disappear, leaving afterimages of light burned
into the corners of my vision. Alec was the next thing to go, but
the memory of his features clung to my mind long after I found
myself in a featureless void. Stranger still, his scent stayed with
me even longer. I was just self-aware enough to hope I'd remember
it all when I awoke in the morning.
Chapter 5
It was a good thing I'd started school in the
middle of the week. If I'd gone to school the next day after all
the drama of
any of the boxes."
"Mom, what are we going to do? Where will we
go if they kick us out?"
She smoothed my hair back from my face.
"Don't worry about that sweetie. I'm sure everything will be ok. I
was just over-reacting. It'll turn out to be nothing."
It was just like mom to misplace something
important like that. I opened my mouth to do exactly that, but
stopped before the words could fully form. I didn't know much, but
fraud wasn't the kind of thing you associated with a slap on the
wrist. If the worst happened and mom was going to serve jail time
then we had bigger problems than even what she was admitting
to.
**
It looked like the sun must have set hours
ago, but it wasn't really dark. The full moon seemed somehow
brighter than normal, edging the landscape with a silvery tracing.
The cool illumination was strangely complimented by the warm
tendrils of light trying to escape from the greenery surrounding
the area.
I let my gaze drop, and found an unearthly
pool of liquid light at my feet. The quiet murmur of falling water
to my right kindled a burning thirst I hadn't realized I'd been
feeling since I opened my eyes.
Looking towards the waterfall, I found a
shimmering ribbon of light working its way down the rock face. The
sight was so incredibly beautiful it took me several moments to
realize the tendril was the waterfall I'd been looking for.
I reached into the dancing pool of light at
my feet and smiled as my cupped hands came away filled with water
that lit up my palms. I couldn't imagine anything more surreal. I
might have stayed there for hours if the barest whisper of sound
hadn't distracted me.
Alec was staring at me, an expression of
disapproval marring otherwise perfect features.
"Of all the places for you to intrude, why
did it have to be here?"
For a second, surrounded as I was by such
beauty, I did feel like an intruder. He was gorgeous, and his dark
skin seemed to have the slightest hint of light playing beneath its
surface. I was as plain and ugly as always.
"Only you could see such beauty and think
only of keeping it to yourself. Trust me, even with surroundings
like this I'd much rather be elsewhere if you're part of the
bargain."
The thought of being elsewhere brought our
newest crisis to mind, and I realized that it was very likely I
wouldn't have to worry about Britney, Alec, or Brandon for very
much longer.
"At least you won't have to suffer my
presence for much longer; we'll be gone all too quickly."
The fact I was arguing with Alec when I knew
this all had to be a dream, was ludicrous, but it wasn't as
ludicrous as the way he flinched at my words.
"No, you're right, all too soon you'll go the
way of so many others. If I can depend on nothing else, I can rely
on that."
A little eddy of wind found its way into our
grotto, and for the first time my newly-acute sense of smell
registered Alec's presence. His scent was divine, full of subtle
themes I wasn't experienced enough to pick out, all of which seemed
to scream of warm power and rock-like masculinity. For half a
second the torrent of sensation was too strong to leave room for
conscious thought.
I realized I'd closed my eyes to better savor
the experience. When I opened them Alec's expression had moved from
annoyance to sadness. I had a pair of heartbeats to wonder at the
strange tricks my subconscious was playing on me, and then the
dream started fading away.
The heavenly surroundings were predictably
the first thing to disappear, leaving afterimages of light burned
into the corners of my vision. Alec was the next thing to go, but
the memory of his features clung to my mind long after I found
myself in a featureless void. Stranger still, his scent stayed with
me even longer. I was just self-aware enough to hope I'd remember
it all when I awoke in the morning.
Chapter 5
It was a good thing I'd started school in the
middle of the week. If I'd gone to school the next day after all
the drama of
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