SUMMER'S RAIN

CHAPTER 17

CHAPTER 17

He caught me off guard with the statement leaving my vocabulary lacking as how to respond to him so I do what I do best; I ignore what he says as I turn my face from his pulling myself from his reach his hand drops to his side.” I speak really fast so things won’t get awkward between us. “So are you going to stop being a goofball now so you can finish telling me about the powers keepers have.” 

“Um…yea sure…” He replies but I can hear the hurt in his voice. There’s a moment of awkwardness between us before he continues. “Let me think well, everything I said to you up to the point of me communicating with animals is true. As far as I know I’m the only known Keeper with the ability to speak telepathically or to read minds. I can do it with humans, demons and all neither’s I’ve never met anyone’s mind I couldn’t read.” He snorts out a laugh then smirks at me before saying “But that’s enough about my awesomeness let’s move on to someone else. I’d hate to make you think I’m bragging about myself which I totally am, in case you didn’t notice. But I’m only doing it to an impress you.” Oh yea he is defiantly back to his old self, all signs of hurt completely gone. I have no comment to that statement so I don’t say anything I wait for him to continue. When he sees I’m not going to reply he begins talking again.

“Which I can’t tell if I’m accomplishing or not so I’m thinking it’d be best if I move on from myself to tell you about someone else. How about I tell you a little about Cain for instance he can see the future. He sees it as pictures but as you must realize no one’s future stays the same it changes form minute to minute depending on each decision a person makes. Of course that makes it completely impossible to get a correct read on anyone’s long trim life but it’s an excellent ability to have in a fight because he knows what his opponents going to do as soon as they know which comes in handy in a fight. There are a few keepers who have the same ability but what makes Cain’s power unique only to him is he can see the past as well which never changes. You might be wondering why that would be such an important power to have but consider it for a moment as soon as he meets someone he knows if they have ever commented murder or raped someone or hurt a child that’s some powerful shit right there. He has seen to it that humans have paid for the crimes they have done against other humans which without his ability would have otherwise gone free. The humans paid for their wrongs in human courts of course.”

“Wow that is fantastic it’s like he’s some kind of freaking guardian angel for the victims in the world that can’t stand up for their selves that’s cool what about Lisa.”

“Lisa's power is different. She has the power to make people do what she wants them to. Some World Keepers call it mind controlling some call it compulsion.”

“Does it work on demons andNeithers?” 

“Yeah it does it even works on the vamps, which have the ability to use compulsion their selves but theirs is nothing compared to Lisa’s.”

 He is so proud of Lisa. I can hear it in his voice you can see it in the way he speaks about her I can’t help but wonder if there is something or has ever been something going on between the two. I didn’t like the way the thought of that made me feel. Ugh I have enough on my plate right now I really don’t need to develop feelings for Case so I’m getting jealous of him with other girls. Giving my head a shake, I try getting all the crazy thoughts out of my mind before Case reads them.

Case is already laughing “are you crazy? No there’s nothing going on between us now or ever.”

Great seems as if I cleared my head a little too late then I find myself pissed off. He has no right to be inside my head reading my thoughts their mine if I wanted him to know what I was thinking I would have stated it out loud. I never gave him the right to listen to them. “You need to stay out of my head” I demand. At least, he had the decency to look embarrassed.

“You know I don't think anybody has ever said that to me. Everybody around here is just used to it. Matter fact I think they like it. When they're mad at me or just don't want to talk to they know I can hear them.

“Have you ever thought maybe they wouldn't be mad at you if you stayed out of their heads? Alternatively, they would talk to you more if you just stayed out of their heads?” I questioned angrily

“I guess I haven’t ever thought of it that way.”

“Well I don’t like it so keep-out of my head.” Looking at Case, I see he is looking down at the ground. I know I have hurt his feelings. God he may be this big kick ass keeper but right now he looks more like a little boy. “I’m sorry I didn’t mean to hurt your feelings I’m just not used to having someone reading my thoughts, being in my head...you know what I mean.” I say as I pick up his hand interlocking our fingers.

Case squeezes my hand before speaking, “You didn’t hurt my feeling. It’s just I’ve waited so long to meet you. Now you're here I’m worried about everything I say or do. I know you only met me a week ago, but I’ve known you for almost eighteen years. I used to go with your mom or dad every time they would go see you.”

“What are you talking about?”

“We can be on earth plus shield ourselves from humans. I guess it has something to do with the whole keeping human's safe thing, so they never find out about us. Anyways your parents would visit you a lot together and sometimes they would visit you one at a time but they would always take me with them. I have been to every one of your birthday parties. I used to love watching you sing as you danced in your room you really made me laugh. When I turned eighteen I got my own powers so I would go visit you by myself. Throughout the years you become part of my life, you become a part of me. Once I had my own powers I didn’t have to wait for your parents to visit you to be able to see you anymore I could see you on my own. I have visited you every day since I turned eighteen. I can’t tell you how many guys I thought about killing human or not, I hated to see you dating anyone I couldn’t wait for you to turn eighteen, so I could really meet you.”

God what do you say to something like that? I know I should possibly be a little freaked out by his statement and stalkerish behavior but I’m not, it’s quite the opposite really. Matter fact what he just said actually has me turned on. Once again I am going to blame my behavior on insanity.  Shit this guy is making it hard for me not to swoon at his feet. “Case I think that’s the most beautiful thing anyone has ever said to me” I know as I’m saying this to him I am being honest I mean every word of it. I am so in trouble with this guy he is simply beautiful in every way. “I wish I had known you for all the years you have known me. But I can’t do anything to change that, but I do know you now…and I have to tell you I’m in "Awe" of you.”