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EIGHT

EIGHT

We spend the rest of the day finishing up my work while Taylor, Lucas and Archie had gone to town to get my daily éclair, drinks from Archie's aunt and a movie for us to watch. We – Zane, Ryan and myself – had finished my work and had moved the room – Archie's and mine – around a little so that we would all be comfy for the movie. The guys had chosen a new out thriller.

However, I hadn't paid too much attention to either the name of the movie or the movie. Zane held my attention. Sitting so close that his thigh and arm laid against mine, his fingers running up and down my arm like he'd done in the park. Again, I had to try and not let out the same rumble I'd felt before.

Once the movie had finished, it was ten to nine, and nine was the hour that all predator, and blade's had to be in their own rooms by. But then, Lucas didn't actually have to leave since he was bound to Archie. But he did, to keep his twin company. And for that, I was glad.

Letting Archie know that I'd actually been in pain all day was okay. I'd found that if you told Archie to never tell someone something, he never did, it was only if you didn't tell him not to tell anyone that he told everyone. And I didn't want Lucas to find out, he'd probably tell Zane, then he'd... what would he do?

I let Archie help me spread a cream over my skin once the others had all left – it was then that I found out that Archie was actually gay – so that I would hopefully heal even faster. I didn't want to show my mum that anyone else had hurt me, she'd have a fit.

Waking the next morning, I was surprised to see that the burn scars still hadn't disappeared, but then, I'd never been burnt like that before.

Once I'd done my morning run, I entered our room to see that it was half an hour until school started. Pulling Archie's pillow from under him, I threw it at his face to wake him up. A second after the pillow hit him, he pulled it away from his face with a frown and a glare. "Go away."

"School in half an hour," I replied, to which he groaned.

By the time we were both finished getting ready, we were shoving éclairs down our throats and and glugging our cans as we left the room to get to class on time. Reaching the class room block, Archie said that he was in the opposite direction. Saying bye, I readied myself. But thankfully, I wasn't by myself this time.

Entering the classroom I saw that my new tutor was sitting at his desk waiting for twelve o'clock so that he could begin his lesson. The usual thing seemed to happen whenever I walked into a room, it went silent then talking began again when the teacher looked up.

Hearing my name, I turned to see Zane calling me from a the back row of seats with Ryan next to him and a space on his other side, as though he'd known that I was in the same class. I'd only shown Archie which class I was in – he'd probably told Lucas, who'd told Zane. Moving up the aisle, I twisted and sat on the chair so that I would appear to be sitting next to Zane, but really, there was a gap between us.

"Right, I want everybody's attention please as the lesson has now started," the teacher said, looking around the room, wanting silence. "You can call me Mr. Dover, and I am now your tutor for you all until you leave this school." He continued to say what he expected of us, the rules he had and that he expected us to obey.

"Now that is all out the way, let us move onto a more pleasant subject: English."

He must be crazy. Thinking English to being a more pleasant subject. Really English was just as boring as listening to him say his rules. But then he proved me wrong. For the next hour and forty-five minutes, we learnt English, Maths, Science, and Sociology in a fun and unique way. Which I found strange as this was a medium-high class. But it worked and by the end of his lessons, Mr. Dover had won over the class.

It was during P.E. that Zane said that he and I needed to talk. Knowing it was true, I nodded in agreement. I wasn't sure whether I was happy about knowing I was going to be alone with Zane or not. By the end of the P.E. I had decided to admit the truth, I was glad that I'd be alone with Zane without the others.

Once everybody had returned to their rooms to shower and change, I jumped into the shower quickly before Archie as he usually took twenty to thirty minutes in the shower after P.E.. Once dressed and Archie was in the shower, I left the room and headed towards the direction that I knew Zane's room was in. Half way there, I met him, silently, we turned together for the buses that would take us to the nīeten village.

I knew that we had to talk about the shield-blade-bonding thing, yet neither of us brought it up. Instead, we sat on the bus, Zane laid his arm out behind me over the back of the seat, but I didn't mind. It was... nice. Comforting.

I wasn't sure where we were going once we'd got off the bus. Following Zane led us to the park, when I asked why the park, he shrugged and said he didn't know. Walking through the park showed a couple of joggers, couples holding hands, and other people walking about doing their own business, not taking note of anyone else. I briefly wondered what it would feel like to hold Zane's hand.

Arriving at the willow tree we had sat at before, Zane sat down, leaning against the trunk, encouraging me to do the same next to him. Sitting down, Zane pulled me into him, and after a moment, I let him. Feeling his body's warmth seep from him into me. Moments later I felt my eyelids starting to drop, felt my body want to sleep. Knowing it was his warmth that was making me sleepy, I tried to move away, but he held tight.

"Go to sleep, Val. I'll wake you before we have to leave to return."

The words woke my mind even as my body tried to sleep. What if he left me? Alone? What if he hurt me? But then, I knew those thoughts were stupid, I knew, deep within that he wouldn't leave me, nor would he hurt me. He'd already proven that with the amount of times he'd fought on my side instead of those he knew better. My mind calmed and let me sleep. He wouldn't hurt me.

"Valerie. Wake up."

A hand moved through my hair. Blinking awake, I looked up into Zane's face, his cat blue eyes so close. He smiled gently.

"We need to get going."

Yawning, I nodded. And moved to get up... only to realise that the earth hadn't suddenly warmed for me and that the warmth from all around had been because I'd been curled up against Zane's chest on his lap.

"Sorry."

"For what?" he asked confused. "For sleeping?"

I nodded, feeling my cheeks burn. I felt a slight shock at that, I couldn't remember the last time I'd blushed. Yet he made me blush. I wasn't sure whether I liked that or not. I decided on not when I blushed again because I'd blushed.

"Don't worry about it, it was nice holding you. Besides, your wounds heal so much faster when you sleep. I swear to god I could see you skin healing right before my eyes."

Not knowing how to respond, I kept quiet. I'd never been in this situation before. I'd never wanted to get close to another. Mainly because they were human and I was nīeten.

I heard him get up, move closer. He grinned suddenly, showing a perfect row of white teeth. "Your cute when you blush."

He gave me a quick kiss on the cheek before quickly moving away to wrap an arm around me. Tugging gently, he got me walking with him.

He kissed me. On the cheek, but he kissed me. Why? And why did I let him?

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