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These are really getting kinda long, huh?
Chapter 8
That night had ended with Kim falling asleep in my arms, so I put her gently into her bed, and put her blanket on her. I had walked back down to the couch, and fallen asleep. My story continues here, with the past tense mostly done for now. I looked at the clock before I went down, it was 1:42. I needed my beauty sleep, so I hit the couch, making it squeak some, and rolled around, getting comfy. I was out a few minutes later.
In the morning, I woke to an energetic and very perky Kim shaking me awake. If she wasn’t such a good friend, she would be so “arrested”. I woke annoyed, asking
“Yes, Kim?”
“I…”
My ever lasting curiosity was once again called upon with no asking of it.
“You what?”
“I…you..”
This seemed to be something important. I rattled my mind, thinking on the matter. She seemed nervous, yet excited and jumpy. So it probably was something good, yet at the same time, she didn’t want to say it. Using those guidelines, my thoughts came up with something like she was going to tell me how she felt about me. It made sense, after last night.
“I wanna say two things.”
“They are?”
“Was last night a dream?”
“Not the part where I held you”
She nodded, “And…ummm…”
This had to be it! I hadn’t even tried, and I had smitten this girl.
“Just say it Kim,” I said with a huge grin on my face, “I wont not bug you until you do.”
If there were a face for a light bulb, hers would have been it.
“I spilled coffee on you, and it’s about to stain the couch. Do something!”
Like I said before, if she wasn’t such a good friend, she’d be so arrested. I merely absorbed the coffee, feeling its caffeine take effect immediately. My mind sharpened by a considerable degree, as it usually does when I am awake for some time.
“Hey! That coffee was mine!”
“Well too damn bad.”
I stood up, and she tried to tackle me. She was slightly bigger than me, maybe by an inch, and the added “mass” in other places was a help to her efforts, yet she barely got me down. We wrestled, and I decided to test her. I made it look like I had lost, but I knew I hadn’t. The Corps trains you in hand to hand combat, so I knew how to out match her. She was good, pulling off some stuff I hadn’t thought civilians were taught. I pretended to be pinned. I just looked at her, with a little smile on my face. She didn’t release the pin a bit. I admit, it would have been hard to get out of without hurting her. She looked away, looking around the room. Something else that has to be admitted. It was taking every bit of will power I had to not have any sort of reaction. I was, however, successful. After a minute of my cute (ha!) look at her, she let me go. I asked her what the plan for today was.
“I fell asleep in the middle of making it, so I don’t have one.”
“Well, how abut this, let’s go where you want to go.”
She seemed to like the idea, maybe it was the wide grin, her body language, or sparkle in her eyes that tipped me off, but something did. After packing all the spare money I had (you never know…) we set out, me in regular clothes, with no bending. We went everywhere she could think of. The local park, where I noticed a few heroes patrolling, and the real city. This was not as good an idea as planned, because something that looked like a miniature muscle man in costume pointed me out. His speech was barely intelligible, he couldn’t belong to the Corps.
“ME EA’ HIS SHE!”
I think he was trying to say he was going to eat Kim. He picked the worst pair of people to try it on.
“Chew on this, ogre.”
I threw a blast of fire at his face, which scored, and made him stumble back. I fired 5 high power shots of kinetic at him, trying to at least knock his wind out. The first three didn’t do anything. The forth made him buckle somewhat. The 5th knocked him over. I jolted him down to a sleep.
“Let’s let the police take care of him.”
“Good idea.”
“I hope you like flying”
I bent, and lifted her up by her knees and back, like I had with Robyn. At first, she seemed confused, but when we got into the air, she was wide-eyed in surprise. I would have flown us to her house, but on the way there, she said.
“That’s Robyn’s car!”
“I have an idea.”
I donned my costume, and flew right up to the drivers window of the car. I put Kim into one arm, hanging below me, with us flying on our sides. I flew a foot away, and waved. Robyn looked skeptical. She almost crashed, but regained herself. I put us into the back of the top-down convertible. Robyn was looking confused and with a “what the hell” look on her face. Kim also was seemingly shocked, but none to unhappy.
“Afternoon Robyn,” I said without much emphasis.
“Robyn,” Kim yelled against the wind!
“What the hell are you two doing,” she yelled back, not angry, but shocked.
“Just-” Kim began, but I cut her off.
“Going out,” This was to make Kim stutter or something, but no luck. She thought it was a joke, and played along….I think. She grabbed my arm and cuddled up against me. I flashed Robyn a huge grin through the mirror. She laughed.
“Right,” she said, sarcastically. I decided to see how far Kim would play into this with me. I leaned over and whispered, “How far are you willing to go to mess with her?”
“Follow my lead”
She wiggled over into my lap, which once again needed every bit of will power I possessed to not do anything. She gave me a little nudge, and I put my arms around her middle. Back in school, I was always a good bluff. Even in the middle of an oral report. Well, in that one, I put all my weight on one leg, while the other took all my nervousness. It could not stop shaking, but I gave the report flawlessly. I, in fact, got a perfect on the spoken portion, but got only a C, for less than adequate paper work. On the walk back to my desk, everyone noticed my leg jittering the hell out of itself. My face felt hot, and my heart was beating faster than it should have. It was doing so again, minus the leg part. Fortunately, Robyn couldn’t notice. She seemed far too interested in driving, which annoyed me, so I gave her seat a not too hard kick. It got her attention. She looked in her rear-view mirror and saw us. Kim noticed and leaned back into me, putting her hands on mine.
Robyn once again almost crashed the car, which threw Kim off of me and into her seat on the other side of the car. We needed some seat belts with this driver behind the wheel. Hell, I could drive better than her. We put ours on, but I gave Kim a wink, and put my hand out between us. She grasped the idea, and held it. It was a very nice hand, all soft yet firm at the same time. I hoped mine didn’t feel like concrete or something.
“So where are we going Robyn,” I asked.
“I was going to Kim’s to see if you two needed something like food or whatever, but you weren’t there, so I was driving back home, when you two fly up. And now you’re both getting all lovely in the back, knock it off!”
Kim and I laughed, she didn’t seem to catch onto the ruse.
“Well, lets head back and relax, I got into another fight while Kim and I were going around.”
“Where’d you two go anyway?” She seemed determined to try and catch us doing something we shouldn’t.
“A dark, out of the way alley for a few hours.” I said that, because Robyn might remember her club scene. She became very quiet. Kim just smiled at me. It seems that in the confusion of flying around, there were a few specs of dirt and the like in her hair. They furthered the ruse very well. I took it upon myself to make Robyn notice.
“Let me get those for you, Kim.”
“What do you mean?” I reached over and began picking things out of her hair. Robyn’s face paled slightly.
“I didn’t notice those were in there, thanks Zin.”
“Well, it is my fault that you got things in your,” I paused for a second, “Hair.”
The rest of the trip was made in silence, with Kim and I holding hands the entire way.
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