The Waves

Realizing Loss Part 2

----- 2 days later -----

   She was on her way to a Union meeting with she, Call, the famous four, as well as that nasty defender. They where to dress "up" so she wore a scallop skater dress with white but gold tipped Puma basket platforms. She put a gold simple necklace over her long wavy hair so all the colors came together, not to mention gold was the Palace's main color. The defender cluelessly wore a floral top, jeans and vans while Call wore a white dress shirt, teal dress pants, a tan belt and tan shoes.

The issue at the stadium was addressed from the defenders stiff necked point of view causing Call to jump in mindlessly,

"She didn't even start the war!" He exclaimed as if he'd been tired of hearing what she's been saying and holding his statement in for some time.  Tamara was quick to jump in, "Call, it's okay,"

"No Tamara you got a head injury and fractured ribs because of me." He drew his attention back to the guilty defender, "Did you here that? It was because of me." He said to the defender. Then he started speaking in a guilty way, seemingly to both Tamara and himself, "If, I had just listened to you and left Aaron this wouldn't have-"

"Call." She said in a warm comforting way with a sympathetic smile, "None of this is your fault, I should've known better than to join a team before addressing the regrets of my past."
'Regrets' he thought, lingering on that single word in her speech. But he was quick to stop when she touched him gingerly sending fireworks all over his body, a feeling he'd been burning for since he held her hand in the infirmary.  After her statement and her agreement to apologize to the whole island with Call, the meeting came back to a friendly tone. It was supposed to mend them, the defenders whos name was Morgan was supposed to apologize, Tamara was supposed to accept, and Call, J, Lia, Gigi, and Rafe were supposed to smile and nod as they acted like the Union saying they're glad Tamara healed and an in-genuine apology was enough. So they all did.

    The only good part of the meeting was when Morgan left and the Union told the 6 that they where to leave for a secluded, luxury lake house for the weekend to stay away from everyone who, like Morgan, still didn't like them. They where to let the situation (which everyone now knows about) simmer down as if that will make everything go away.

     The next day, after the public apology and packing which went very well, the 6 arrived at the lake house.  They made a campfire and ate smores while simply having a good time as Call and Tamara awkwardly tried to keep distance from each other. Tamara was flashing her mesmerizing smile after a joke wearing her leggings, coffee colored sweater, messy bun, and Birkenstocks over her fluffy socks. That's when she heard a distant plead as the sun set. She took a double take at the fast rapid water when she saw a little boys head bobbing. He looked 7. She immediately ran for the water, not even giving a thought to how her clothes where still on.  She lost her Birks on the amazingly fast sprint, let down her hair, and perfectly dove into the water nearly 20 feet deep.  She used her magic to get to the boy and grabbed the kid who obviously didn't know water magic. She hurriedly used her magic to swim them back to shore where he coughed up water as Tamara yelled, "Pass me my duffel bag!"  Everyone broke out of their dumb founded gaze and rushed to the bag, then her side. And to no surprise, she still looked perfect, right out of a Baywatch scene. She pleaded for the boy to open his mouth so she could use water magic to extract the water caught in his throat. When that was done, she held the shaking blonde boy as she used heat magic to make him warmer. She went in her bag, soaking all her clothing but a hoodie which she told the boy to put on. 

As things settled, she suddenly realized what she thought where shadows, was chaos surrounding the boy as his fear increased.

"Call," she muttered, backing up, knowing the power of chaos. He was just like Aaron.  Call comforted and calmed him to make the chaos go away. Tamara had to admit,  it was some what attractive how he sounded so much like a father. When the boy was calm,  she carried him to the campfire to warm him up and used a soft  voice,

"How did that happen?" she asked sweetly.

"I'm so sorry. I- I was just trying to explore but I dropped my ball in the river, and it didn't look that fast and,"

"Shh, it's okay," she said as the boy was choking up on his words.  She warmly made him smores as she introduced him to everyone. They called the Union but everyone was asleep and he didn't know his way home, so they agreed to let him stay with them that night.

The 2 couples where downstairs eating more with the boy and watching cartoons. Tamara went upstairs reluctantly because no matter how heroic she was, her friends insisted they wanted to sleep with their partner in the 3 bedroom house so Tamara was stuck sleeping with Call and the boy.  She silently cursed the Union. She opened the door to see Call shirtless in grey sweats. 

"Hi!" he said becoming red.

"Hey," she said. They where silent for a couple of seconds,

"That was pretty heroic," he said with a genuine smile.

"What else was I to do," she replied nonchalantly. He didn't have a response for that so instead he changed the subject,

"Um, did any of the girls bring extra clothes?" he asked givin hers where soaked from the rescue.

"Of course not. It's Lia and Gigi, if these past years have proven anything, it's that they're never prepared. "Both put in a good laugh.  He pulled out his baby blue UNC hoodie and flannel pant's which where much to long for her. She chuckled, "Oh no, you don't have to." He paused and looked at her with a grin before responding,

"What else are you to do?" She smiled back and grabbed the clothes,

"Thanks."  She went into the bathroom closed the door, showered and changed, and by the time she came out of the bathroom, still looking flawless of course, Theo(the boy) started jumping on the bed after he was obviously playing with Call,

"Can we watch Cars 4!" he said still wearing Tamara's hoodie which went below his knees. She smiled.

"Of course." She replied and hopped into the king size bed with Theo between she and Call as they lie back and watched Cars 4 on the t.v in front of them. Soon enough, the boy was asleep and he'd gotten on the other side of Tamara due to him and Call trying to wrestle and Tamara apparently being an uneffective human shield. She stayed on the far side of the bed, as far away from Call as possible, but unlike the softly sleeping boys, Tamara couldn't sleep. She looked to her left and jumped at the smoke surrounding Noah again.  She shook Call who turned to the boy immediately.

"Hey, hey, it's fine, he's just having a bad dream, it's natural to do that." Tamara was obviously still concerned even though she nodded. He warmly smiled and told Tamara to face opposite of them. She was mad at how disrespectful it was for him to tell her that, but she did, right before he wrapped his naked arm around her. It was much bigger than she remembered. He whispered for her to lift her head and again, she did as he said. He slipped his arm under her neck and she settled her head back down, adjusting to his arm which had the warm comforting essence of vanilla and sandalwood. He wrapped his arm around her and soon enough, no matter how awkward they felt, the comfort of his protective arm gave her the just the right amount of comfort to get her to sleep.  When she woke up, she looked down to wavy shaped, uneven abs and a perfectly curved V line. She widened her eyes in astonishment, immediately blushing. She never knew his abs where so sexy. Her head was laying in the crook of Call's neck, as the bright sun shone on their faces. Theo was jumping up and down teasing them, saying they where lovers as Call was still asleep. She tried getting up but Call's arms wouldn't budge, instead he rubbed her back a little and mumbled something about her going back to bed, and Theo just having a bad dream again.

"Call!" she exclaimed before his eyes opened immediately, as did his arms before he asked what happend. Tamara just shook her head and went to make breakfast and call the Union, asking for extra clothes and Theos address. Yet even after Theo left, one problem still remained; Call and Tamara still had 2 more nights given it was Saturday morning and there was only one bed though still no one willing to act out of sympathy for the two's akwardness.