The Waverly Boys: The Claiming Chapter 11
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THE WAVERLY BOYS SAGA
BOOK ONE: THE CLAIMING
CHAPTER ELEVEN: REMEDY/ TELL HIM
"I'm going to miss this," Sty said wistfully after a long spell of silence in which we both cooled down.
"I know what you're going to say, and don't. Just don't say it. I don't think I could handle the lets-just-be-friends talk," I said in a voice so low that if I hadn't been the one who spoke I wouldn't I've heard it at all.
"Ok. We'll postpone the DTR convo," Sty said as he nearly failed in suppressing a laugh before he pulled me into a kiss that was, to me, entirely too forlorn. "Now, you go and make a natural woman out of my brother."
I reluctantly drug myself from the bed and his arms, this time determined to keep going forward and not look back. Each step I took away from his side was like a dull knife tearing into the unbeating flesh of my heart. Just because I was, in fact, dead didn't mean that I didn't feel things just as powerfully as any other human; it hadn't been that long since I was turned. Five years is such a short time for us.
As I close the door behind me I thought the hard part was behind me. I was wrong. The hard part was the walking away from that door. But, it grow, slightly, eaisier once I released the doorknob, some five minute later. The greater distance I put between him and I, the eaisier it all became.
I hovered outside Céleste's door. As easy as I though it had been to leave my Sty, I'd grown quite fond of him even going so far as to begin considering him my future, I still couldn't bring myself to open the door to his brother's room.
I was so unsure of myself in this moment. What if he was asleep? Would he be angry is I woke him? I bit the bullet, as they say, and knocked on the door.
"Come in," he said. I opened the door slowly and caustically. "Prince Nico," he said in a surprised voice as he looked at his phone. I knew it was somewhere aroung three or four o'clock in the morning. "What are you doing here, and at this ungodly hour in the morn?"
"Just checking up on you," I said lamely.
"I'm fine. Just couldn't sleep, is all," He said lightly as he sat the notebook he'd been writing in aside. "Does my brother know you're here?"
"Yes," I said as I stood there in the doorway awakwardly and out of place. I hadn't the faintest of clues as to what to do with myself.
"Is he still trying to get us together," Céleste asked lightly as thought we were talking about the weather.
"What are you writing," I said. I knew that he knew I was attempting to change the subject.
"I write poetry when I can't sleep," Céleste said after an awkward spell of time had elapsed.
"Cool," I said lamely. "The last poem I wrote was crap, I think."
"I'd like to read it sometime," He said in a somewhat breathy voice. "Are you going to stand there in the doorway all night or do I have to get out my crook and pull you in?" I went in the his room. Apprehension growning in my stomache. "Close the door," He said with a slight bit of laughter in his tone.
"Sorry," I said as I closed the door behind me. "I'm not usually so..."
"...Ambivalent," Céleste finnished for me.
"Yeah," I said.
"Why don't you have a seat," He said as he patted the bed next to him and threw back the covers. I dove into the bed and he threw the covers over me.
"You can't read it, but, I could recite it for you," I said as I settled into the bed. I draped my arm over him and he scooted into the nitch of my arm. His body was warm against mine. I had to admitt to myself that this did, in fact, feel right. It felt like I had come home after a long and wearisome journey.
"Ok," he said breathedly as he rested his head on my chest.
"Mind you, it's not very good."
"Just shut you and recite it already," he said in a light voice.
I didn't bother responding. I just dove in:
"I lay awake at night, listless and inert, in my boudoir;
Those idle hours spent in rapture dreaming of your face.
And I have loved you, now, from afar.
Your celestial beauty none, mortal nor god, can mar.
I think I'm a victim of Cupid's coup de grace.
I lay awake at night, listless and inert, in my boudoir.
You woes, it is my deepest wish to debar.
Tis the highest of priviledg just to reside in your space.
And I have loved you, now, from afar.
Your heart is like the great lodestar;