Restless Waves

Chapter 51

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"So... we go to mum's house really early with Jack, make sure she's there alone, then let Jack do his fairy thing, and hopefully mum's side of the story isn't so messed up that Jack puts the curse back on her," Rowan said.

Kaerius tried to look at Rowan in the dark, though he couldn't see him very well. They were lying in bed, and it was almost midnight. Kaerius was almost falling asleep, but Rowan couldn't stop repeating the plan to him. He talked a lot when he was nervous. Kaerius felt his worries, and now he could hear them. "Rowan sleep," Kaerius mumbled.

Rowan suddenly sat up and was leaning over Kaerius. "Do you think the plan will work? What if Jack backs out and mum will always be that way, and she and dad can't work through it, and-"

Kaerius covered Rowan's mouth with his fingers. He was too tired to listen, though he cared too much about Rowan to tell him to shut up and go to sleep. "There's nothing you can do right now. Just sleep, and you can tell me your worries tomorrow," Kaerius thought. "For now, just imagine what it'll be like to meet your old mum, the one you've always wanted." Kaerius pushed Rowan back down and snuggled closer, feeling his warmth and his breath against the side of his face.

"Maybe an uncursed mum would like that I'm at university," Rowan whispered and closed his eyes.

"She'd support our bond too," Kaerius thought and stayed awake until Rowan fell asleep, then he allowed himself to drift into weird dreams about fish falling from the sky instead of raindrops.

When he woke up, the sun was just peeking through the crack in the curtains. Kaerius groaned when Rowan squished him to reach his screeching alarm to turn it off.

"My skin," Kaerius grumbled. It felt so tight and dry against his bones. To Rowan, his skin looked normal, but to Kaerius, it felt like it had been stretched for miles. "Need sea."

"Come on; you can chill in the fish tank for a bit while me and my dad get ready." Rowan jumped out of bed, already awake enough to start his day. Kaerius, however, would prefer to lie and stare at the ceiling until his eyes didn't want to close every second.

"Carry Kaerius."

Rowan stopped and looked Kaerius up and down as he lay above the covers. "I know I've carried you before, but it's not exactly easy. You're not exactly light," he scoffed. "And you have legs now." Rowan patted Kaerius's ankle. "Use them."

Kaerius held his arms out and stared hard at Rowan until he rolled his eyes.

"You're twenty years old, Kaerius."

"So? Rowan got strong arms." Kaerius fluttered his thick eyelashes and glossed his purple eyes, and he was in Rowan's arms before he knew it.

I'd let him get away with murder if he looked at me like that, Rowan thought, then blushed when Kaerius raised a brow and he remembered his thoughts were shared with someone else.

"I'll remember that," Kaerius thought back.

When they reached the kitchen, Rowan felt his father's eyes following him as he struggled across to the basement door with Kaerius in his arms.

"That's far enough," Rowan breathed and put him down by the basement steps. Kaerius protested, but Rowan dropped his legs, and Kaerius almost tumbled. As the Thalassic Mortal grumpily used the stairs himself, Rowan turned to see his dad trying not to laugh. "The more I get to know him, the more I realise how demanding he is."