secrets and serendipity // Colby Brock

Chapter 8

*Colby's Pov*

I felt Graylin tossing and turning around, I opened my eyes to see what was happening. She was just trying to get comfortable.

I sat up and she wrapped her arms around my torso. She stuck out her bottom lip, forming a pout.

"Noo...cuddle with mee." She whined.

"In one second princess, I need to do something."

While the thought was still on my mind, I was going to call Ms.Larkins. I'm not going to take my chances on forgetting.

She let me go and cuddled with the pillow I was sleeping with, I got up and pulled my phone from out of my bag.

I excused myself from Graylin's room and went into the guest bedroom. Hiding stuff from Graylin made me feel bad, but she couldn't know about this yet.

"Hello?" Ms. Larkins picked up the line.

"Hi Ms.Larkins how are you?"

"I'm fine, is everything okay dear?" She answered.

"Everything is fine, but I gave Graylin her powers, please don't get mad. I know I wasn't supposed to tell her but she needed to know. Also when we were practicing her powers she got all of them down in one try, and her eyes kept turning gold." I hoped she didn't yell into my ear.

"Ugh Colby," She groaned.

"You shouldn't have done that.Colby she's more powerful then you think, and her eyes are gold because she's rare. Only the rare one's eyes turn gold, You have to make sure her eyes don't change in front of people, we don't want to take chances on running into the fallen one."

"I'll protect her." I assured Ms.Larkins.

"Thank you, now I got to go bye." She hung up.

I went back into Graylin's room to see her pouting with her arms crossed. Me and Ms.Larkin's conversation must've taken longer then I thought.

She looked at me with puppy eyes and made her bottom lip quiver.She was trying to send me on a guilt trip, and honestly it was working.

"Baby." I said, sitting next to her.
She turned her head in the opposite direction so she wouldn't have to look at me. I tried hugging her but she crawled to the other side of the bed.

"I'm sorry, I won't keep you waiting for cuddles ever again." I held up my pinky finger.

She wrapped hers around mine then layed down with her arms open, I layed down as well and put her arms around me.

"How are you feeling?" I asked.

"My cheek hurts." She frowned.

I leaned over and kissed her cheek and she smiled.

"I just wanted a kiss." She giggled.

"Very tricky...hey are you ticklish?"

I already knew the answer of course, she's extremely ticklish. Her and her dad used to have tickle fights all the time.

She stared at me with wide eyes and then backed away, I slowly crawled after her and she held up her foot.

"I'm not ticklish." She lied.

I pushed her foot down and attacked her sides with my finger tips. She busted out in a fit of laughter. Her small hands tried pushing me off but failed.

"P-please s-s-stop!"

"Say Colby is the hottest guy in the world." I teased.

"C-colby...is the h-hottest...g-guy in the...world!"