The Winds of Change

It's Time!

So there is a part in here for Jynxii, she better like it lol. Comment please they make my day : )

“Ash, what are you doing?! Get out!”

“Lex’, calm down.” He said soothingly with that velvety, sexy voice . . . no! Bad Lexi!

Lexi no Think Ash is sexy! I screamed at myself in my head. Oh . . . but he looks sooo . . . no! No sexy thoughts about sexy Ash.

“Calm down?! You just climbed into my window!” I was exasperated.

“Well things like that are easy to accomplish when you know how to use your powers.” He teased.

If there was one thing I couldn’t stand, it was being teased.

“Listen, Mr. Green,” I sneered. “I’m sorry that I didn’t get the pleasure to grow up in a place where I could learn to use my elements; that the only person that could teach me to shift died before I was of age.” Ohh, I was hot! I knew I was yelling rather loudly as I backed him against the wall. Still raving like a man woman, I continued, “That the only person who could teach me my elements is now emotionally crippled from the loss of her mate and she no longer has control over her element.” I was out of breath and my heart was beating against my ribcage.

I had by this time pushed Ash against the wall and was in the process of getting my thoughts together so I could yell at him some more. But oddly enough, my anger gently molded into mellow happiness.

“Now doesn’t that just feel much better?” he whispered in my ear.

Was he causing my anger to unwillingly secede? I shivered. I wasn’t cold, but the hot fire that was running through my veins had cooled instantly when it met air- which I could only assumed was flowing from him.

I felt myself being spun around with my back now to the wall. I tried my best to glare up at him, but the effect was lost on the craning of my neck to meet his eyes. Why did he have to be so dang tall?

I was a decent height, a sound 5’4”, but he easily reached 5’11”.

“It’s moments like this that make me love you more.” He mumbled into my ear. As he backed away, he trailed a gentle kiss across my cheek.

He had the audacity . . . ?! Oh sometimes I could just kick him in the stomach.

He was trying to walk back to my window when I interrupted him.

“Can you please take the stairs and use the door?” I breathed, still a little struck and paralyzed by the sensation his lips had left upon my cheek.

“Sure thing, love!” he grinned and was gone with no evidence behind other than my flushed face.

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Ash’s POV

Oh man. I thought to myself. What am I supposed to do about Lex’? Why is she so stubborn?

I was so deep in my thoughts that I wasn’t paying attention and almost ran over the man sitting at the bottom of the stairs.

“I- I’m so sorry, Mr. Kirk!” I stumbled. “I wasn’t paying attention, I . . . .” I stopped.

He was laughing at me. Suddenly I began to think about over-protective fathers . . . .

“You think I’m Lexi’s dad? Good heavens, no.” he laughed some more. He noticed my vined wrist- and I assumed that by the way he looked at it he could tell it matched Lexi’s. “I’m her uncle.”

“Oh . . .” I hesitated. “Okay. I’m glad I can still avoid the over-protective dad conversation then.”

He grinned. “Yes, you get to completely avoid that situation. Lexi’s father is dead.”

I jerked my head up sharply. “Dead?” I repeated a bit quietly.

“Yeah, he disappeared about seven years ago; it tore Lexi’s mom apart- my sister.” A frown now creased his forehead and mouth.

“She never told me,” I muttered, feeling a bit left out and hurt.

“Don’t let it bother you, kid. You’ll learn this about Lexi: she doesn’t talk about her feelings. When she does, you’d better listen or you’re gonna miss out on a lot of information. But . . . watch out. When she does let someone into her well-guarded barricade, they usually get burnt.” He explained.

“What do you mean, ‘burnt’?”

“She doesn’t like feeling weak. When she does, it makes her angry. With her personal element being fire, it gets fueled and she becomes a very volatile and well . . . violent.”

I guess I’m lucky. I thought to myself, remembering how her black eyes were with a small flame flickering in her pupil. I remembered how her hands burned against my shoulders. I snapped out of my reverie.

“Uh . . . well, thanks . . . .”

“Eli, just call me Eli.”

“Okay. Thanks Eli.” And with that, I continued on my way out of her house. I even used the door, just like she asked.

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Eli’s POV

After my talk with, well, I didn’t get his name, but I knew he was Lexi’s soul mate. The soul vines gave it away.

I continued up the stairs to Lexi’s room. Not bothering to knock was a big mistake. When I opened the door, I was greeted with a ball of fire flying towards my face.

“Ash! Go away! Now!”

I ducked as another one came flying towards the door.

On instinct, I threw up a wall of water to catch the onslaught of burning orbs.

“Lexi cut it out! It’s me, Eli!”

The attacked ceased as she turned around. I sent the water gently into her sink in her bathroom.

“It’s time!” I exclaimed, a huge smile lighting my face.