The Sire

Chapter 6

Chris was ready to go out and meet the group at the Central, but his mother had called him just when he was about to leave. So, he sat on the bed, legs crossed and back against the headboard for better comfort. He had told her everything that happened with Iris. How he met her and how he was suspicious she could be having an affair with a friend of his, though he knew his father might have told her the whole story. It was not just by chance that she was calling him the same day he had talked to his father before dawn in Seattle, even if she didn't need any special reason to call him at all. Megan was a protective mother. Too protective sometimes, smothering him with her excessive protectiveness. Despite that, their relationship was great. When she was occupying too much space, he would tell her and Megan would back away, and that way they'd always managed to be in good terms.

"I am thinking about going home for a while." Chris said, pulling his locks away from his face.

"Because of what you told me?" Megan looked directly to her screen as if she was looking into his blue eyes.

"Mom..." He breathed almost exasperated. "I think it's a pretty f..." Chris took a deep breath to rephrase his sentence. "...valid point." He said while Megan still stared at him with an eyebrow cocked up. "Sorry." He said later, excusing himself for his almost foul word, and noticing her reproving look.

"Coming home because you miss it, is one thing." Megan decided to ignore his almost mistake. "But coming home because you want to run away from this situation is another." Megan took a deep breath. "Chris, you will never be able to run away. Even if you are here in London, you will always think of her. You know that sweetheart. That was the prime reason you went to Seattle."

"But..." He was going to speak, but Megan raised a hand that made him stop. Chris took a deep breath staring at the screen.

"Chris." Megan called him. "It was expected of her to have her own life. Iris is discovering her life. She's young."

"So am I!" Chris exclaimed.

"But sweetheart, you are not like her." Megan felt her heart shrink inside her chest because she hated to see him hurting just like any other mother. "I told you this was not going to be easy..."

"So, I stay here and bear with the pain of seeing her with my friend?" He frowned. "Yeah... because it really seems like it."

"People that the universe unites, Chris... it's because there's a plan for them. It's because there is a purpose for them in life, either be a lesson they have to learn from one another or a child that has to be born from them... it also means her soul is not ready for yours yet. Her soul has to reach the maturing point."

"Wow.... Wow... wow..." Chris almost yelled and Megan stopped. "A child?"

"I am just giving you all the possibilities there are out there. If they are together it's because the universe has a plan for them and they have to go through it. There's nothing you can do to avoid it, not even them. Nothing..." Megan emphasized.

"If I am not mistaken, it can take years, right?" He puffed and shook his head. "I don't want to see it... I don't..."

"You don't even know if your suspicions are true!" Megan tried to reason him.

"Mom..." He made a face to the screen. "I have seen the way they look at one another. Just the way they look at each another is enough... and it didn't take me long to realize it, it was just minutes."

"Sweetheart, if you want to come home for a while, obviously we will be more than happy to see you." Megan smiled. "But what I am really trying to tell you is that it won't solve anything." She smiled at him, and Chris reattributed the sweet smile.