Running with Shifters (completed)

Chapter 27 Isadora

Chapter 27

Isadora

Even though it's only two days since he's been gone (doing something for the wedding that he says is a surprise) it's felt like far longer, the whole time feeling as if part of me was missing. But now, with him in my arms (despite the fact that this is too cheesy to ever say out loud), I feel complete. We kiss and a cry of "my poor eyes!" sounds from behind him, making him smirk knowingly as I turn and scream.

Rob grins at me before we both run to each other (I'm over to him before he can even take more than a step, for obvious reasons) and crush each other in a hug. Apparently I accidentally actually do crush him because as I'm telling him how much I missed him all he can do is wheeze.

I let him go and step back as he gets his breath back. "What are you doing here?" In hindsight, that was a really stupid question, but my ecstatic brain isn't fully functioning.

"What kind of stupid question is that? I'm here for the wedding." He looks at me with a 'duh' expression and he continues when he sees my confusion. "I just graduated and Lin called me and asked if I wanted to come to the wedding. After convincing mom that I was going to Florida with some friends he picked me up and here I am. He has a jet!" Lin and I laugh at his excitement and I hug him again, reminding myself to let him breath this time.

"Hold on a second and I'll show you around, Rob." He nods and I walk a few feet away with Lin, "how much have you told him?" I whisper to him, being so quiet that a normal person probably wouldn't be able to hear me, especially from this distance, but I know with his heightened hearing he can hear me just fine.

"Only what he had to know," he says just as quietly as I had and I give him a little smirk.

"So... nothing?"

"Exactly."

We smile and return to Robby with held hands. I loop my arm through his and pull him along with me towards the church. Opening the door (perhaps slightly too exuberantly, I accidentally slam the door against the wall), I proclaim to everyone's shocked faces, "Robby's here!"

Meg, the closest to us, walks up and shakes his hand, "hello, I'm Meg-Elaine. How do you know Iz?"

He wraps his arm around my neck, delivering a wicked noogie, and I can't help but stand there (I've learned long ago that if I struggle he won't stop). He finally does and she looks at me in shock, clearing surprised I actually let him do that. "I'm kind of her big brother," I go to argue but he stops me with a hand over my mouth, "even though I'm younger than her. But I am taller."

"We've known each other since we were little; my aunt lived across the street from him and his mom and whenever we'd visit we'd play. After my parents and aunt... His mom kind of adopted me." Meg nods at my explanation and goes back to cleaning the windows just as Eli walks up and we repeat the process. When it's Em's turn everyone laughs at his shocked expression as she spouts something at him in French. After a moment he responds with fragmented French and I remember that he took a year of it a few years ago.

I show him around the chapel and the basement and then type in the code to get into the living quarters (it's really easy: 4265) and lead him down the dark hallway to the living room. I explain that this is where we've been staying and that Vlain built it after he bought the land with the church (in reality he built this first, only later building the church on top of it).

We sit on one of the couches and I answer his questions, answering vaguely the ones that, to answer fully, would mean revealing something about myself or the others that he'd be better off not knowing about. It's weird, this seat feels different than my arm chair. I've kind of adopted the seat next to Vlain's and no one's disputed it.

I can't help but smile like an idiot; I'm just so surprised and ecstatic that he's here.