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Chapter 17: Men are Idiots... Sometimes

-Primm's POV-

    I walked about two or three hours, looking for the nearest pool of water to soak my skin in when I found a large lake. I undressed slowly after I reached the lakes' edge, hissing and quietly whimpering from the pain. I had taken off my shirt first, feeling the fabric peel away my raw, destroyed skin. I was tearing up as I felt the pain course throughout my entire body, feeling the hot blood slowly pouring out of my wounds. I took off the rest of my clothes, except for my underwear and sports bra, sitting on a flat stone as I let the water clean out my arms.

    At this point I was crying softly, the pain being the one thing I could never bare since I was cursed with this. I saw my blood color the duskily lit waters, my tears mixing in with them. I was holding my arm as I gently started to peel off any hanging skin off my body, crying louder as I did so. With my eyes squeezed shut, I continued to clean myself up, peeling the skin off of my arms and neck. I sank deeper into the water, feeling the cool liquid reach my chin as I continued to peel the charred flesh off of me, as slowly and painlessly as possible.

    I heard the bushes rustle slightly, my guess is from the wind, so I didn't pay any attention to them. "You're hurt pretty badly, huh," I heard Kai say as he crouched next to me, seeing the blood enter the pool of water. I quickly turned my head to face him, but instantly regretted it when I felt even more pain course through my entire body. I cried out in pain with my very raspy voice, holding myself as I sat in the water, nearly falling into the cool liquid. I felt an arm wrap around me gently, my blood trickling out of my wound still. I was still crying, the pain worse than before, but I refused to move.

    "Here, let me help you," Kai said softly, getting into the water with me. I was blushing because of the fact that I was in my underwear in front of a boy, and it made me feel more like a vulnerable girl than an independent woman. I just sat there on the slick, flat stone surface as he began to help me with my wound. "Your skin... " I looked up at him, his face filled with both worry and sadness. He gently touched it and asked me, "How did it get this bad...?" I stared at him, my face and neck flushed from embarrassment, and saw that he, a stranger that I  just met, had really cared about me. Well, as a friend. I very faintly shook my head, wincing from the pain. He saw how much pain I was in and tried to help out as much as he can, as painlessly as possible.

But that didn't change much, I was still crying and blushing. However, my wound slowly stopped bleeding, which was nice. I watched him as he worked on healing my wound; that warm, comforting feeling that came from his hands dancing along my skin. It was beautiful in my opinion. I was watching his face and he looked to be very concentrated, so I didn't bother him.

A couple minutes passed and the majority of both the pain and my scars had faded away. I was in utter shock when I had saw my skin return to normal. Or more than I thought. My arms and legs had been mostly healed, but my torso was still pretty bad. I looked at Kai and saw that his face was not only red, but sweaty as well. He looked back at me, smiling somewhat painfully, staying in the water with me.

"I'll be okay, if you were wondering how I'm feeling," he said, that same pained smile painted on his lips. I gave him a small glare, trying to get the hint that I didn't believe him. He shook his head and continued to smile. What he didn't know was that I noticed a small wound forming at his side, nothing major on the outside, but it looked like it still would hurt. I pointed at it, my arm moving more quickly than I realized, even though I was still in the water.

He gave me a confused look, then looked at where I was pointing. I heard him say "oh" before he chuckled. I glared at him with my face a little red. "It's a bruise from a previous fight I had gotten into," he explained, scratching the back of his head. I sighed through my nose, not sure whether or not I should believe him.