forum Blood Oath (O/O CLOSED)

Started February 21, 2019 by Deleted user

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My cheeks burned.

"Oh, right." Clearing my throat and doing my best to hide the sudden embarrassment his words had provoked, I began to read.

When we finished, I closed the book and set it aside.

“So,” I played with her shirt. “What did you think of it?”

I threaded my fingers through his, nudging his hands away.

"It was good," I answered honestly, "Cute. Very emotional. It touched me, I think."

“Did it?” I questioned, linking our fingers together.

"It was relatable," I tried to explain, "At times."

“Relatable how?” I quirked an eyebrow, hoping my questions weren’t intrusive.

“Like you said,” I continued, “The girl likes to torture the boy. And the boy also teases the girl a lot.”

"Well, now that we're done, what do you want to do?" I looked around my room, my hands not touching Elle's anymore.

I quirked an eyebrow, a smirk tugging at my lips. “Well, have you ‘cooled down’, so to speak?”

I blinked owlishly at her. “I wonder,” I replied instead. “What do you think, Elle?”

I merely shrugged.

“I don’t know. Let’s cuddle?”

"We've done nothing but laze around," I said, though I had nothing against cuddling. "Should we have a change of pace, love?"

I nodded, suddenly feeling ashamed for the suggestion. “Of course, what do you want to do?”

"Practice," I replied, my hands squeezing her arms. "Come, Elle, let's practice our magic."

[TIME SKIP - Elle’s POV, the next day]

I rolled my eyes at Scylla as we climbed the stairs, deflecting her non-stop teasing with more of the same thing.

“I do not hang off him!” I protested, referring, of course, to Colton. Scylla laughed as I u locked and opened the door to our dormitory. “Sure you don’t. You definitely don’t look at him like he’s the most beautiful thing on the planet.”

“He is the most beautiful thing!”

Kaden:

"He is the most beautiful thing!" I heard Elle exclaim as she entered the dorm, and I shared a look with Andreas. How could we tell Elle what we had seen? She would be devastated…

"Hey, Elle," I tried smiling brightly. "We uh… we have something to tell you…"

I gave the pair an odd look, tossing my book bag onto the couch and plopping myself down in the arm chair. “Sure, what’s up?”

“We… we saw Colton with a woman,” Kaden blurted out. “We’re sorry. We should have told you yesterday when we saw her taking her to his room, but we didn’t know how to tell you. But don’t worry! She’s not even nearly as beautiful as you are. Her red hair is absolutely ridiculous!”

My expression of horror and disbelief melted into one of amusement, a laugh escaping from my lips. I shook my head, grinning as I whispered a few words from the library’s spellbook and cast a familiar illusion over my face.

“This red-haired woman, Kaden?”

I froze, embarrassment flowing through me as Elle turned into that woman Andreas and I saw with Colton. Illusion. She had been under an illusion.

“Wait, what?”

My grin widened as I let the illusion slip away, shaking out my hair. “I get tired of pretending to be a boy sometimes. Colton and I like to sneak into town.”

“Now I feel stupid,” I groaned. “You guys didn’t think to tell us before we caught you? We were ready to butcher him!”

Snickering, I offered a light shrug. "Slipped my mind, I guess. Sorry… please don't kill my boyfriend."

“One day, you guys are going to give me a heart attack,” I jabbed a finger on her shoulder, narrowing my eyes into slits. “Jesus Christ. I’m going to grow old quickly at this rate!”

“We wouldn’t want that, now would we?” A voice drawled from the window and I turned my head to find Colton sitting there on the ledge, an amused expression on his features.

“How did you get in here?” I exhaled deeply. Yes, I talked like that to the future king and am still alive. Deal with it.

Colton merely shrugged in reply.

My eyes lit up the moment his voice reached my ears.

"Play nice," I laughed, approaching my boyfriend and reaching out a hand to tug him down from the windowsill. "Both of you."