How Else Can My Perfect Life Go Wrong? ~ON HOLD~

How Else Can My Perfect Life Go Wrong? Chapter 17 {Revealing The Truth}

“Okay, so what the hell is a Flame?” I asked after sitting there for a few seconds. I had a lack of patience, sue me.

“Calm down I’m thinking,” Aaron said without moving. I sat there anxiously, not able to stop my body from twitching. “HEATHER!”

I looked up at him quickly, waiting for him to start. Instead he just put his hands on my knees and looked me in the eyes.

“Calm the hell down.”

“You’re taking too long!” I whined, pushing his hands off of me. He sighed and leaned back again.

“I’m not going to explain until you really relax. You cant be all freaked out when I explain this to you,” he said, closing his eyes and sighing again.

“Don’t you dare fall asleep Mister,” I said, poking him. He smiled and pushed me away. “You suck.”

“It’s a gift, what can I say?”

I decided sitting still and thinking about my parents would be the only way to calm myself down. I closed my eyes and thought about how my dad used to hug me all of the time, and about how my house always smelled good from my mom’s cooking. I thought about our “family nights” every Sunday, watching movies and playing games. We tried to make sure we didn’t let any time go to waste. We succeeded with that, I had no regrets about my life with them.

The only thing I would want to do over is see them again. Just to see them in real life would remind me that good things can happen in bad places. When I was a baby, they were my good thing in a bad place. Even just thinking about them to relax myself made them my good thing in a bad place.

When I opened my eyes Aaron was smiling at me. I glared back, even if he was playing nice he was still a jerk because he told me to relax. I didn’t like when people told me to do things.

“So, a Flame is pretty much a partner for ever,” Aaron said bluntly. I stared at him with my mouth open.

“When you say ‘partner’ do you mean like…” I started.

“Like as in a love-type relationship, not friendship or anything. It doesn’t work that way.”

“But… how?” I stared at him, so extremely confused. How was it possible that I was with him for life; of all people!

“Yeah, I’m sorry about how all this turned out. I was trying to think of a better wording for it but I really couldn’t… It’s a bond people have with one another; kind of like humans’ cliché ‘soul mate’ business. But it’s for real, and it’s really powerful. I don’t know too much about it considering how much I pay attention in school… but we’ll figure it out,” Aaron said truthfully. I still couldn’t believe it… things like that just don’t exist.

“So hypothetically speaking this is true… when did you realize it?” I said slowly. I didn’t want to give him the impression I was taking all of this information in stride. I was barely grasping the concept of living in a room with Aaron, never mind eternally being bonded to him.

“When I met you?” he said, sounding extremely guilty. I tried not to get to angry with him about not telling me. He seems to have kept some important things from me since I arrived. But I understood why he didn’t tell me about this. I definitely wouldn’t have believed it back then, even more so than I didn’t believe it at that moment.

“Care to elaborate?” I asked through my teeth.

“Well see with your blood… I usually would have been able to control myself. But yours smelled so good I physically couldn’t. The only reason you were able to push me off was because I realized the reason why I thought you smelled like that… didn’t you have a weird feeling?” he tried. I thought back to when I first arrived and really couldn’t remember anything that I was feeling. So much had happened since then and I could barely remember the events of that day!