Almost Human (#Wattys2018)

Chapter 9

I quickened my pace, knowing I was a only a little away from my lake.
Yes. My lake.
I stumbled upon it a few years back when I lost my kite and went looking for it.
I loved it so much, I came here almost everyday. It was my sanctuary.
Then my parents made it mine.

It was a wide, beautiful little thing located a little deep into the woods to protect it from prying eyes.Or other buyers, in my case.
It was shaded by the tall acacia trees that grew nearby. The ones I tried climbing as a kid.
Yes even rich boys get their hands dirty once in awhile.

"Whoa. You actually own this place?" Brianna asks in bewilderment and sits on a boulder by the lake.

"Yeah." I say, as I rub my hand across the rough texture of a tree. Ah, the memories.

"It's so beautiful." She whispers.

"Just wait till you're in the water!" I exclaim, pulling my shirt and shorts off.
The warm water engulfs me as I dive, head first, into the lake.

"Hey! Get in here!"I shout over to Brianna, who's nervously looking away.

"I-I'm fine, t-thank you." She calls back.

She's so shy. Likes she's afraid or something. Relationships maybe? I honestly doubt she's ever been in one before.
But I like it when she turns shy and innocent all of a sudden, like a schoolgirl.
It's cute.

I wade out to the river bank and get out, drying my hair model style, with the whip of my hair and all that.
She glances at me but quickly looks away, turning red.

"I get that my abs are amazing, so... I'll let you look just this one time, okay?" A wide grin spreads across my face
as she peers at my stomach.

"D'you like?" I ask.

I climb onto the huge rock that she's on and whisper slowly into her ear,
"Do they turn you on?" Then she's as red as a tomato. She bites her lip and looks at me.

The way she looked at me. Her extremely blue eyes. I sensed longing.

I take the opportunity and kiss her on the lips.

I feel the sharp intake of breath in my mouth as she gasps when our lips meld together.
I place my hand on hers-almost flinching at the touch-to let her know this is okay.
She relaxes and returns the kiss.

Her lips, unlike her hands, are warm, so soft. But there's a slight metallic taste to it.

She's now furiously attacking my mouth and I'm struggling to keep up with her.
Damn, so she's like that?

I pull away before things get really...intense.

"I barely know you," she pants.

"Yet we're mindlessly making out," I tell her, my breath matching hers.

She just shrugs.

"That was...my first time." She whispers.

"Woah, for someone as beautiful as you, one would think there'd be an entourage of guys just following you around." I comment.

"Hm, I sucked at that though. Was it too aggressive?" She asks, sadly.

"Oh yeah, you totally suck!" I say hopping off the rock.

"Asshole."

"Say that one more time and I swear,"I dare her, pulling on my clothes.

"Ass-"She begins but doesn't finish as I take a step forward and she squeals and falls off the rock.

Uh-oh.

She's on the ground writhing in pain. She twists and groans loudly, her face covered by her hands.
Well, so much for 'this' working out. I cause death and injury.

I guiltily shake Olivia out of my mind, rushing over to Brianna's side.

"Oh crap, are you okay? Well obviously not, but how's the pain?" I ask, not knowing what to do.
She fell off a four foot boulder by a lake.

She groans in an answer. Her hand is still covering her face.
I sure as hell didn't see her fall on it.

I pry her fingers off of her face, revealing... A smiling, unharmed prankster.

"Gotcha!" She proclaims, before she tackles me as part of her plan, pushing my back to the ground and pinning my arms over my chest, with her body above me.

"As I was saying," she begins, grinning, still struggling to keep my arms in place. ", you...are...an asshole. But then again, maybe I like this asshole."

Okay, backup...I'm sure she's very new to these kind of things.
I'm also sure that was a failed attempt at a dirty comment.
Epic fail.

"Listen Bree, as weird as that sounds, I still warned you." I shove her off, jump up and in seconds, our positions have reversed.

But this time it's quite a...hot position.
I can tell from the way Brianna's cheeks flush bright red.

Her eyes slowly move down to our groins.
...

In order to alleviate the extremely awkward situation, I begin to tickle her mercilessly.

"No...please...stop." She begs between hysterical laughter.

"Not until you say you're sorry."

"NEVER!" She screams in my face.
I find her tickle spot and(if possible) tickle faster, causing her to laugh even louder.

"Pleeeeaaase...stop!" She finds strength and manages to shove me off of her.
She's much stronger than I thought as I fall further backwards, my arm smacking the side of the rock.

My head hits the ground with a thump. The pain rushes straight to the back of my head.
And God it hurt.

"Ooh." I groan. I feel like someone just turned up 'Panda' in a house full of drunk elephants.
Basically, my head pounded like hell.

"Oh crap!" Brianna rushes over to check the injury.

"Hey, that's what I said." My words are slurred. Probably because of the wooziness that's now settling.
That can't be good.

Brianna places a hand behind my head and tries to raise me.
But then she freaking drops me.

"FUCK!" I scream. Great. Drop my head back to the ground.
The impact was hard and obviously just made matters worse as now the edges of my vision seem to be growing darker...
I'm about to black out.

Why the hell would she just drop me!
Through blurred vision, I see something on her fingers.
Is that why?

Is the blood on her fingers the reason?

"You're bleeding." She whispers.
No freaking shit Mrs.Obvious.

I groan and struggle to keep awake but she just ignores me and stares at her blood covered fingers.

And then she does something I wouldn't ever have expected.

Her eyes black out completely and her face is eerily expressionless.

She raises her fingers to her face, as if shes eyeing them.

Then she licks them clean.

"Fucking hell..." Is all I can mutter before I black out for good.

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