I Think I Love You... But You Kind of Scare me (The Academy Series)

-17- I Think I Love You...

Hey Guys!

Next chapter will be the last :( I promise to attempt to finish it in the next two days! I sure will miss Laurie

♥ erin;

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The night of the ball arrived and everyone was hectically getting ready. But I didn't feel as happy as I should have. In the next hour I would be dancing away with Jack but something didn't feel right at all.

I realised that I had to find Kane and confront him, no matter what he said.

I slipped out of the dorm and down into the mainroom. Kane wasn't there, but for some reason I felt this tingling that he was in the flight tower. I quickly rushed there, running as quickly as I could. I reached the tower and ran up the flights of stairs before I burst into the flight tower and almost ran into Kane himself.

He quickly backed away, the large black wings sticking out of his back, his eyes glinting in the setting sun.

They were as black as coal.

"I get it now!" I yelled at him, finally piecing together the puzzle. "I finally get it!"

He turned away, his black wings hiding him from my sight. I tried to catch his hand but a sweep of his wings almost swept me tumbling into the open air. I gasped, looking down at the drop I would have to face if I made a wrong move.

"What do you get..."

The voice was not Kane's. It wasn't the stern, sarcastic but lovable voice of Kane. It was a demon's voice, rasping from the throat of a corpse.

A shell.

This wasn't Kane, this was his shell.

"I get that you don't have a soul!"

He turned suddenly, his wings knocking me to the hard wooden floor. I lay in shock as he towered over me, a shadow even as I was in his direct presence. I shielded my face, scared that he would swipe at it. He didn't, in stead he stood stock still, towering over me as he breathed heavily.

"How... did you come to this... conclusion?"

He said it with heavy defeat. I took a deep breathe to calm myself and to stop the montage of images going through my head, of pictures of horror movies. I didn't want to get slaughtered, especially not by Kane.

"You... you used to control light," I began. "And now you don't... and I know that you were supposed to be my guardian... so why am I with Jack? And... those wings! And your voice! And the Reaper! It went straight for you!"

"And you... you always seemed heartless and... and way too caught up in everything but your emotions," I continued on emotionally. "And Jack told me that you always go away to visit friends, you never stay with him and your parents. I get it now! You have no soul!"

Kane sighed, turning away. I flattened myself to the ground to avoid being swept by his wings again.

"If you have everything figured out then why don't I have a soul?"

There was a few minutes of silence as the wind blew through my ears. Everything was silent except for the sound of my heart that was racing faster then ever. Somehow I knew that I wouldn't like the answer to my question, that it wouldn't at all be music to my ears. I opened my mouth, and squeezed my eyes close as I asked.

"Why don't you have a soul Kane?"

I gulped as his strained voice sounded out.

"Because I fell in love with the devil."

I didn't know what he meant, but a shiver ran through me when he said this. He turned to me in a flash, looking at me with kinder, but sharp eyes.

"I've said too much," he murmured. "I have to go..."

As he looked out into the new moon light, I jumped from the floor with surprising speed, grabbing onto him before he could fly off. I couldn't let him go without know. He tried to shake me off but I clung on for dear life. I couldn't let him go, I just couldn't.

"Let me go Laurie! You're in too deep!"

"No Kane! I won't let go of you!"

"Let go!"

"I love you!" my voice broke with emotion as I said the words. He stopped struggling, looking into my eyes. The blackness in them seemed to melt away as he looked at me, his skin seeming less cold and clammy. The wings in his back found themselves retracting slowly, so slowly as he stared at me in astonishment, surprise and shame.

"You don't understand Laur-"

But I didn't let him finish, grabbing the back of his head and forcing his lips to mine. As fire and ice touched, good and evil, light and dark, I felt my heart sing with joy.

In the castle, someone let out a blood curdling scream.