The Day We Became Human

Part 9-Our secret

I hear the noise of the squadron and Jude's voice. "If we work together like we did last night slaying all one hundred of those things we have no problem getting home and that's where we want to be right?!" he was giving them the usual pep talk he'd give us all be fore training and to be honest I think we all needed it. "Yes sir!". The squadron profess.

I sit in the circle that's formed around Jude and his eyes instantly meet mine he smiles making my stomach flip three hundred times in a simple second I smile back pretending that he wasn't making my stomach perform a subsequent amount of front tucks.

"Later on today we will be heading out to see if there is a clear pick up point when the rescue aircraft comes and find a clear signal for us to reach them telling them where's safest to land. so be ready we depart at two o'clock you have an hour of leisure then the other to prepare. Your dismissed."

Everyone fled in different directions leaving me and Jude.

I stood up as he walked towards me taking his hand and pulled him into a cloak room type thing shutting the door behind us." I think we should keep us a secret." I say hastily . "What why ?" he looks extremely muddled. "If the others knew they'd think you'd give me some sort of special treatment so I want to keep us out of work and when we are not on the field or on a mission just remain platonic with clear minds and no distractions." he looks at me and grins."Special treatment? Lyra honestly who's gonna think that other than you." he says smiling and looking at a stray curl on the side of my cheek stroking the wild strand behind my ear his eyes meeting mine again.

"Well your commander they won't say anything to you or stare they don't like me enough as it is knowing that we are involved-"

"Were involved?".  I look at him and the usual stupid smile played like a child on his lips as he begins to play with my hands while looking down. "You are so annoying god." he just laughs. " No but in all seriousness I don't want to risk it." looking up his face sober . "okay we can keep our involvement  a secret  if you insist but you know I wouldn't let any of them get away with it if they were to do something." He utters moving his mouth closer to mine my breath hitched as his lips connected with mine the heat from earlier returned leaving me to melt into him. I scrunch up his slim cut t-shirt into my fist pulling him closer deepening the kiss as hunger takes over.

I break of the kiss flattening his now crinkled t-shirt both of  us panting for breath his face is confused until he sees the door handle moving.

" What are we going to do?" I ask in a panicked tone.

"Open the door. Might be a logical idea." he says. "No we can't remember what we just spoke about?" I ask in an obvious tone. even though he was three years older than me he had his fair share of dumb moments. "Well what do you suggest?" 

"I'll hide and you go make an excuse." I say "Like?" he solicits. "Like you were trying to find hotspots in the lodge for a signal. I don't know." he looked at me like I was crazy letting a lazy smile set on his face.

"Fine." he gave up pecking my lips  before he helped me hide behind the coats I could hear him laughing as he left the closet. Asshole.

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 Packing my bag I find a little note and one of Noah's dinosaur toy's a tsunami of emotion rushed over me as I sunk into the mattress besides my bag .Opening the piece of paper my mothers handwriting becomes apparent.

'Dear Ly,

              We already miss you very much and Noah was the one that insisted on writing this. I didn't want to just in case it might distracted you but he wouldn't stop nagging me until he saw me bring his dinosaur pen to paper'.Laughing I try to blink back the tears brimming my waterline as I imagine the struggle my mom would have gone through there was no chance that my mom would of won the fight against Noah he had his way of getting things he wanted.

'Anyway we love you so much and we pray that your safe on your journey and you come back to us in one piece you've been through a lot try and channel that into combat that was my fuel when I joined the military just know how to control it okay?...I know you can do this your a lot like your father. very resilient. once again we love you way past the moon and back. Oh and Noah wanted me to tell you that if you come home and you and Jude aren't friends that he'll never talk to you again because Jude is very kind and that he's his best friend his exact words by the way. Bye lovely xxx

Signed, mommy and Noah.'

The tears began to fall but the laughter was still present I missed them both and as much as I tried to distance Noah away from Jude it never worked but I guess that was a good thing well now.

wiping the tears away from my eyes a knock sounds at my door and Jude's head sticks through the space. when he sees my tears he rushes over with concerned dancing on his defined features.  

"What's wrong?" he asked sitting next to me his arm strung tightly around my shoulder. he looks from me to the note. "Nothing just miss them." I said "Do you mind". he said signalling over to the note lied out on the bed he took it into his grasp and began to read.  I knew where he was by the smile that settled on his lips. "Great I've already won over your brother." I laughed into his shoulder. "Yeah ever since you found him that day. What doing you say he was doing?".

"Eating what was left of the plants on floor one hundred and twelve  then I asked him what he was doing and he said being a blah blah blah which I assumed was a type of dinosaur then we he told me what floor he was from at first he said one thousand and forty seven then I decided to try floor one hundred and forty seven because I knew that that floor didn't exist." we both laughed in unison.

He placed his index finger underneath my chin and lifted my face so he could get a clear glance at my profile. "Feeling better?" he asks. It surprised me to see the real him and how different he was to how my views of him behind the walls were. "Yeah." I smiled "Thank you."

"Thank you? I didn't do anything other than talk to you about Noah." he smiled down at me.        " Yeah but you made me laugh and that's something." I say "I guess. but you can talk to me anytime about anything." I smiled even wider "I  know."

"Good. You finish up here meet us downstairs in ten we are splitting up into four groups you me Tyler and Melanie and some others in one that's one way of me keeping a close eye on her." 

"okay."    

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Being in the cloak room became handy I found a few jackets in me and Melanie's  size thankfully then I let the others know. It was a lot colder than yesterday, this time i could see my breath manistate into crystals around miniscule air particles. 

walking further ahead leaving every one behind i find myself at a loss of breath and not only because of the altitude my eyes widen and i just sit down and observe what lays beyond the mountains hem . The blue lake i observed this morning glitterd as the sun peeak out from behind the  scattered steaked clouds.

 felt a presence behind me and by the lght auora i knew who it was.

"Boo!" i laugh at melanies failed attempt at scaring me hearing it echo through the mountains further ahead. "Your getting better." i chuckle.

"Realy thank god i was beginning to think you were fearless."she huffs. "That I am Melanie that I am." i giggled she looked at me thinking I was serious. she sat down beside me and I just shrugged of how credulous she could be.

"Did something happen with you and Jude?" she throws out into the air. oh god I'm the worst liar why Melanie ?. "No nothing at all why?".  okay few. "Its just he looks at you differently now. like you guys hated each other and yesterday while we were eating dinner he was just gawking at you and smiling like a creepy pervert." what but he didn't like me then we were not exactly wait... pervert. " Melanie you need to choose better wording." I say laughing trying to deflect where this conversation was going. "Whatever anyway so what was with  that?" god she is very persistent for a fourteen year old. deny any accusations "i have no idea he still hates me I still hate him." she squints in curiosity. "Fine but just know my sister instincts are calling for my attention." We both laugh and take in the view.