about me, good and bad.”
“Is that a bad thing, because you have that effect on me too.”
“No, it’s not a bad thing, but there are things that I… that happen to… I mean around…” I stop and take a deep breath, realizing that my rambling isn’t going to get my anywhere. “Alright, let’s start with my disappearance.”
Logan stays a few feet away from me and slides his hands in his pockets as he pushes his lips out a moment. “Alright.”
“What I told you was true. It wasn’t the whole truth, but it was true. I did see someone looking at me and I did go into the woods. But once I was there, something strange happened.”
I stop and try to gauge his reaction but he is only looking at me curiously and with sadness.
I continue anyway. “Though I have been in those woods a hundred times over, I lost sight of my house, as if by magic and here is where it gets crazy…. I thought I saw Erebos.”
Logan’s jaw clenched.
“I don’t know if he was really there, or if I just hallucinated the whole thing, but he was walking around me, saying something like he thought he saw something in me, or I’m not who he thought I was and at the same time, my head was pounding something awful and I could barely breath. I continued recounting the story up to the part where I returned home. I rub my face with my hands. “Saying it out loud just makes it sound even crazier and I don’t know why I felt I needed to tell you, but I have a feeling that someone might be after me for reasons I can’t explain yet. If they are, I don’t want you to be hurt because of me. I know we just met, but I couldn’t bear that Logan.” My eyes welled up with tears as I look straight at two blue pools. “I just couldn’t.” I finish, my voice breaking slightly.
Logan steps forward grabbing my face and pressing his forehead to mine. “Nothing is going to happen to me and nothing is going to happen to you. Do you understand me, Angel? Nothing.” His breath is hot on my face and lips are so close to mine I can almost feel them.
I nod my head as he wipes my tears away with his thumbs.
His jaw is set and his eyes bore into mine without a hint of a smile. “I need to know, are you sure you saw Erebos?”
“Not one hundred percent. I mean, to be honest, it all looked like a dream, but I know it wasn’t!” I raise my voice at the end as I move my head to be eye to eye with him. “I just… I can’t prove it. It may very well be someone else. I don’t want you confronting him only to find out I have finally lost my mind.”
“And you can’t tell me anything else?”
I bite the corner of my lip as the word freak flashes before my eyes. “No.” I look down at my feet as he pulls me to him, the rhythm of his heart pounding in my ears.
“You know, nothing you can say will change how I feel about you.” He places a kiss on the top of my head. “Look, Kate, I know I said on that first day that I want to be your friend, but I would be lying if I said I didn’t feel more than that. I swear I’m not trying to push you, but I think you should know that.”
I nod my affirmation, not taking my head off his chest, finding a new place I now feel safe.
“Just keep an eye out. Please.” I speak onto his chest and the silence that follows is blissful. A calm I have not had in years comes over me while I am wrapped in his arms.
After what must be at least been five or ten minutes I let go of him. “How do you do that?”
“What?” Logan looks at me, his eyebrows knitted close together in thought.
I smile for the first time today. “Nothing… nothing at all.” Just then my phone buzzes in my pocket.
Dad - Just checking in on you and letting you know we will have to be here ‘till late.
I text back, letting him know that I am alright and that a day off has done me good.
Logan smiles at me as I pocket my phone. “Alright, so now that you are smiling again, I have to go take care of something. Promise me
“Is that a bad thing, because you have that effect on me too.”
“No, it’s not a bad thing, but there are things that I… that happen to… I mean around…” I stop and take a deep breath, realizing that my rambling isn’t going to get my anywhere. “Alright, let’s start with my disappearance.”
Logan stays a few feet away from me and slides his hands in his pockets as he pushes his lips out a moment. “Alright.”
“What I told you was true. It wasn’t the whole truth, but it was true. I did see someone looking at me and I did go into the woods. But once I was there, something strange happened.”
I stop and try to gauge his reaction but he is only looking at me curiously and with sadness.
I continue anyway. “Though I have been in those woods a hundred times over, I lost sight of my house, as if by magic and here is where it gets crazy…. I thought I saw Erebos.”
Logan’s jaw clenched.
“I don’t know if he was really there, or if I just hallucinated the whole thing, but he was walking around me, saying something like he thought he saw something in me, or I’m not who he thought I was and at the same time, my head was pounding something awful and I could barely breath. I continued recounting the story up to the part where I returned home. I rub my face with my hands. “Saying it out loud just makes it sound even crazier and I don’t know why I felt I needed to tell you, but I have a feeling that someone might be after me for reasons I can’t explain yet. If they are, I don’t want you to be hurt because of me. I know we just met, but I couldn’t bear that Logan.” My eyes welled up with tears as I look straight at two blue pools. “I just couldn’t.” I finish, my voice breaking slightly.
Logan steps forward grabbing my face and pressing his forehead to mine. “Nothing is going to happen to me and nothing is going to happen to you. Do you understand me, Angel? Nothing.” His breath is hot on my face and lips are so close to mine I can almost feel them.
I nod my head as he wipes my tears away with his thumbs.
His jaw is set and his eyes bore into mine without a hint of a smile. “I need to know, are you sure you saw Erebos?”
“Not one hundred percent. I mean, to be honest, it all looked like a dream, but I know it wasn’t!” I raise my voice at the end as I move my head to be eye to eye with him. “I just… I can’t prove it. It may very well be someone else. I don’t want you confronting him only to find out I have finally lost my mind.”
“And you can’t tell me anything else?”
I bite the corner of my lip as the word freak flashes before my eyes. “No.” I look down at my feet as he pulls me to him, the rhythm of his heart pounding in my ears.
“You know, nothing you can say will change how I feel about you.” He places a kiss on the top of my head. “Look, Kate, I know I said on that first day that I want to be your friend, but I would be lying if I said I didn’t feel more than that. I swear I’m not trying to push you, but I think you should know that.”
I nod my affirmation, not taking my head off his chest, finding a new place I now feel safe.
“Just keep an eye out. Please.” I speak onto his chest and the silence that follows is blissful. A calm I have not had in years comes over me while I am wrapped in his arms.
After what must be at least been five or ten minutes I let go of him. “How do you do that?”
“What?” Logan looks at me, his eyebrows knitted close together in thought.
I smile for the first time today. “Nothing… nothing at all.” Just then my phone buzzes in my pocket.
Dad - Just checking in on you and letting you know we will have to be here ‘till late.
I text back, letting him know that I am alright and that a day off has done me good.
Logan smiles at me as I pocket my phone. “Alright, so now that you are smiling again, I have to go take care of something. Promise me
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