In the arms of no one (Completed)

24. What is she doing here? (Edited)

Valen's POV
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Some irritating person is shaking me, but I choose to ignore them and take the train to slumberland, a wondrous place where Tiernan didn't reject me, where he is loving me like I am the only girl that matters to him in all the world.

Oh man! The fucking earthquake police is back again, trying to shake me awake and away from the dream that is bringing me the kind of happiness that reality refuses to show me.

Groaning in annoyance, I swat the hand away from my shoulder sharply. I hear a deep chuckle before the hand is back on my arm this time, 'rocking my dream-world' and not even in a good way!

"Come on little cousin, wake up!" says an all too familiar voice.

Storm.

Now fully awake, I keep my eyes closed trying to not let an amused smirk show on my face. He wants to ruin my sexy dream time sleep? Fine! I'm going to ruin his mentality.

If only for a short while at least.

Raising my arms over my head I stretch languorously, "M-mmm Brody, you want to taste more of this pussy already baby?" I breathily say as seductively as I can.

Then I pause and wait, while the hand freezes and all the background voices stutters into silence.

I hear Storm mutter angrily, "What the fuck?!"

I can't help it, I open my mouth as my loud, raucous laughter peels out into the silence. I then open my eyes and turn my head to see my cousin Storm, his platinum blonde hair glowing in the late afternoon sun, standing there slightly crouching into the car door, with his mouth wide open, his deep green eyes wide with horror and his face displaying an interesting mix of shock and disgust, this just makes me laugh all the more harder.

But my laughter dies down when my eyes focus beyond him to the people behind him.

There they stand.

Mikaera, face disgusted while gagging, Kaiah hiding a laugh behind his hand, Brody grinning widely; my dad's expression isn't as intimidating as he probably would have liked, considering he looks green in the face.

Hope is red in the face, Kara and Blake are snickering behind their hands while leaning on each other, Jared is blushing like mad looking anywhere but at any one in the gathered group, Bianca has a sneer on her face while Tiernan looks like he's going to blow a blood vessel.

Over my cousins shoulder, I watch as my father moves away from the gathering, shaking his head as we walks towards my little apartment.

Well, since I'm leaving it's no longer my apartment and more a place to sleep now.

Pushing Storm backwards so that I can get out of the car, then standing up and closing the door before fully facing the people who have gathered around me and the car. I stand there with a small smile on my face, which bursts into a wide grin when Kara lunges for me and wraps me up tight in her arms. I detach myself from her warm arms and turn to give Blake a hug and kiss on his cheek, before moving on to Storm to hug and kiss him in greeting.

As I am stepping away from Storm, I notice that River is only just joining our group. Grinning widely I run towards him and yell "CATCH!"

I practically leap onto him, he stumbles a little in surprise before he rights his footing and wraps his arms around me, lifting me fully with my arms wrapped around his neck and just because I can, I wrap my legs around him too, squeezing him harder as I bury my face into his neck.

"I missed you Riv!" I earnestly say.

He pauses before he huskily replies, "I missed you more, beautiful!" I hear several warning growls from behind me and assume that they belong to Brody, Mikaera and Storm.