JABAW (First Draft)

Chapter 12

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Tatiana Nashay Young (Ty)

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Brigham

I feel like I'm drowning barely still able to stay afloat in the black tar like abyss that was my refuge from my pain. It hurt, every inch of my skin was on fire, burning me up from the outside in.

I wasn't dead though I wished I hadn't survived, death was better than the idea of facing the smoldering wreckage that was my life. My head began to throb as I forced myself to open my eyes and squint through the bright light to exam my surroundings; I regretted it as soon as I saw them. I experienced for the first time a pang of jealousy toward my best friend and sister; she sat snuggled into the lap of an unknown brown haired man, flirting away. I had never harbored any anger towards her for the life I had spent protecting her, forced into a body not my own and trapped there for the last 16 years. Only to finally be free and see that she got everything she could ever want and I was left alone with nothing, ostracized from my people and the only man that ever shown a spark of interest in me. I snapped and sprang up beginning to rip the various pieces of tubing and wires connected to my body.

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Bri

(2 weeks earlier)

With a loud intake of breath I shot up out of bed dazed and disoriented, confused as to where I was and wondering how I had survived The Change.

"Brigham?" I cried as I searched the room for my absent friend and that is when I first laid eyes on him.

Lord Davenport Renaldo of the Shadow Elves sitting across the room from me, staring into my soul with those beautiful seaweed green eyes. I knew I must have been staring and possibly even drooling just a little bit but come on out of all the men I had ever seen in my life he took the cake. He had honey colored hair streaked with warm caramel tones, afore mentioned green eyes and milky white skin with high cheek bones. He turned his head slowly to the side and smiled at me; a smile which made my heart skips a beat and made me light headed. The world tilted slightly as I began to fall off the side of the bed, I was hoping there would be a black hole to swallow me up; from the sheer amount of embarrassment I was feeling. Just before I completely destroyed my face on the hard wood floor a warm pair of arms encircle my waist and pull me close.

"Not so bad looking yourself." Lord Davenport whispered as he pushed stray strands of my head.

'He is so cute'

His eyes widened and he gave me another of those heart stopping smiles as he ducked his head.

"Not meaning to embarrass you Miss but you do realize you said that aloud."

I bury me head in my hands and take a couple of deep breaths before squaring my shoulders and looking back up at him. He was watching me with a strange look in his eye it was...maybe I was just imagining it was concern. He reached forward then and gently took hold of my chin, as he leaned forward I could feel the warmth of his breath fanning across my mouth and cheeks. And just like that his lip brushed against my own, for what seemed like forever but was really the length of 2 heart beats.