Shadow Keepers (Unedited)

Eight: Races and Memory

Chapter Eight: Races and Memory

I must have fallen asleep because my head was on Peter’s shoulder, my arm was draped over his chest and our legs were tangled together.

“You know you’re even more beautiful when you sleep.” Peter says. I just scoff and curl tighter into his body. He just chuckles and starts to trace patterns on my arm. Then I hear it. The noise that had woken me. It was faint but still there and getting closer. Peter is still drawing on my arm so I know he hasn’t heard it yet. I sit up and stretch.

“We should probably get back.” I say as I get up. Peter is just watching me, and then he gives me a long suffering look. All I do is cross my arms and raise an eyebrow his way.  He stands and walks over to me. He puts his arms around my waist and pulls me close.

“I will and can keep you up here. I would rather stay up here with you than face my father’s distaste. So if you insist on going back you are going to persuade me.” Peter says with a mischievous glint in his eyes. So for his entertainment, I put on a show of thinking what would persuade him. He watched me carefully the glint never leaving his eyes. I finally cup his face with both my hands and kiss him. I break the kiss and give him an eager look.

“Huh, that was good,” He says “But not good enough.” He smiles at me and I give him a long suffering look.

“Aw, come on Katie, I know you can do better than that.” He pleads.

 “I afraid, I can’t Peter.” I say and he gives me a questioning look.

“What do you mean?” He asks not sure if he wants to know the answer.

“You are my first kiss.” I say casually. Peter looks stunned.

“That can’t be. You have never been kissed before?” He asks not believing what he just heard.

“Yes. Is that so hard to believe?” I ask incredulously.

“Yes.” Peter scoffs. “You have never been kissed. You, the most beautiful lady I have ever seen. Yes, I have I hard time believing that. Why have you never been kissed before?” he asks. I feel myself blushing at his complement and at his question.

“Well, between school, and work I never really had the time or the nerve. Sure I had guy friends but they were like cousins to me, and at the schools I went to I was always making sure Penny wasn’t getting hurt and I never liked being part of the ‘in crowd’, so no one ever asked me out, much less kissed me.” I say. The look peter gave me made me squirm.

“Stop looking at me like that.” I snapped at him. He just blinks and lowers his head to mine. I figured it would be like the other kisses he gave me, gentle and smooth. Was I ever wrong.  He crushed his mouth to mine. The fact that he caught me off guard made me gasp, and he took the opportunity to slide his tongue in my mouth. I didn’t know what to do so I just wrapped my arms around his neck and let him lead. We were so caught up in the kiss that we didn’t hear Ash and May come up the ladder.

“Damn, Peter. Three days in town and already you have the new girl in a lip lock. Impressive.” Ash says so close it made us jump.  Why didn’t I hear him?  

“Too bad that’s all your really good at though.” I feel Peter tense, his eyes find mine and I can see anger burning through them with an underlining of pain.

“Alright boys, let’s not start fighting. We do have guest over.” Says May, calmly dealing with the situation. May sends a silent message to both of them and they both nod their agreement. May is the first to descend the ladder, followed by Ash, but when Peter starts to let go so he could climb down I pull him back.