A Wider Sky Ch. 16

Before the dessert, I needed to freshen up in the restroom. The intensity burning in Galen's stolen gazes was setting me on fire. His large globes of green demanded want and need. It was more than enough, besides his constant hinting to what I was trying so hard to preserve. It was a losing game. I had to get me head on straight with a defense strategy immediately.

As soon as I closed the door to the bathroom stall, I slide my back down the cool partition wall exhaling. I immediately cooled down. I'm surprised I'm not steaming the room. It's good stepping away confidently to gather one's thoughts. But my mind was quickly evaluating different paths, go through the door was screaming loud but then my mind thought about the fact he was a celebrated, self-admitted player, probably having many lovers over the course of one- school year, if asked the right questions.

The game plan was simple. Just make it through the end of the school year. Just three more days to avoid being seduced by the future king of the enemy aliens. Nothing good could come of it anyways and I had to be focus and think of how I could get in touch with the rebels, not worry about losing my virginity to the Prince of the Y'vori.

I washed my hands repeating my mantra to get through the school year and just be friends with Gaelen. Three more days. Three days to remain a virgin. Three days to find the rebels. Three days and I may lose Gaelen. Fuck.

The door to the bathroom startled me when it opened behind me. I whipped around and was ambushed without understanding why I was moving backwards against the stall door. My senses scrambled, I couldn't muster a scream as a hand clasped over my mouth but the smell of mint halted my panic I was found out.

"Shhh. I didn't mean to scare you," Gaelen whispered, his eyes were big and bright with green fire beautifully framed with long black lashes. God he was sexy. Three days. I'm trapped between his body pressing me hard against the partition.

He kissed me hard, unlike any kiss he's ever given me. It was of desperation, want and need. Three days and he would lose me. His kiss was seeking more. It wanted to devour my soul. I kissed him back wanting to let him know, yes, I want you desperately. I need you and I want you too. I wrapped my arms around, my fingers tracing the plains of his muscular back.

His hands explored my body. Tucking under my blouse to massage the soft skin of my back as he kissed me pulling my body closer to his. I wanted him right at that moment, I needed him and I didn't care. I didn't care if he was the Prince of my enemies. Far from my mind were the rebels or the transport that would take me back to the colony in three days. I didn't want to think about him being Y'vori and me human. I long to be in this moment. The moment of passion and possibly love. Yes, I did love this man, this alien prince.

Gaelen picked up one of my legs and wrapped it around his waist. His eyes searching my as if to see if I would object or as he says scurry away. He pressed his finger to my lips, tracing my lips lightly.

"Open," he simply said, and I obeyed. He dipped his finger into my mouth. "Suck." I closed my mouth around his finger and sucked. He looked at me like I was doing the sexiest thing in the world. I could feel his sex growing beneath his jeans and he simply rocked into my hips giving m a taste of his hardness. His other hand ensured my leg was tightly secured to his waist and open to him, so wantonly. Was I like all the other girls that just wanted him for his title? Was I just another conquest?

"Stop thinking Kiowa!" he snapped. I literally felt the haze of my thought vanish and all I could see was his eyes deeply observing me with keen eyes - he knew me. He removed his finger from my mouth and nibbled on my neck. "Put your arms around my neck and do not move them." I shifted and tried to put my leg down but he gave it a punishing squeeze. "Na na, don't move your leg." I wanted to clench my thighs to stop the urge that was rising withinm me. "Close your eyes."

I did. But I couldn't help but breath through my mouth.I felt like I couldn't do even a basic thing. As if had to will my heart to keep beating, I was so nervous. His finger tickled as he traced my belly button and then up to where my breast were secured by my bra. His finger grazed over my nipple on top of my bra and I had to open my eyes to see. "Keep your eyes close, Mouse."

My nipples were becoming hard under my bra. I arched my back to get more relief from his teasing pleasure. His hand travelled again down my stomach and then he undid the top button and zipper of my jeans. Whenever his knuckled glazed my stomach, the butterflies within it to flurry about I couldn't help but lean away, his touch was so intense. Gaelen slid my jeans down a bit below my hips and then slid his hand into the front of my panties.

We were out in the open. Any moment, a patron could come through the door and see Gaelen having his way with me. I clenched my eyes trying to listen for any sounds of people approaching the door. I was frozen, and I didn't notice Galen had stopped touching me for sometime.

"Don't scurry away with your mind, Mouse. Please, be here with me." He kissed my lips so sweetly. He hands returned to exploring my body one hand pressed at the small of my back while the other dipped back into my panties. I sucked my stomach in but my muscles trembled with nervousness. I whimpered into his shoulder as his fingers grazed across my puffy lips ever so lightly, I felt like I would gush. Tormenting fingers massaged them and then landed on my clit, drawing slow, deliberate circles around my clit until I was panting. "You are so sexy and wet, Mouse. I am going to relish you."

His finger slid inside of me and I moaned with hum. I couldn't take much more of his teasing. He sliced into my pussy with his strong fingers with more force. I was nearly out-of-body hearing the sloshing sound of my wet sex and my moans. He groan as he curled his exploring finger inside me, hitting all the new wonderful spot, and then hooked back to tease my clit and then back in a tantalizing dance of control. It was nearly punishing as I was building and rocking with his finger opening doors to my soul I'd never know. He pressed his hard body against mine and his fingers took control adding pressure to my g-spot. He dominated the bundle of nerves that made me dance an ancient hypnotic dance. Together we danced, his body rocking hard into me. I peaked under my eyelashes to see him, his eyes were closed and he was in ecstasy enjoying giving me pleasure. He then kissed my neck again, I could feel the silver ball in his tough add sparks to my skin as he dragged it across my neck. Oh, I wanted to feel that little ball in some many other places. I couldn't hold back anymore, and I felt a flood of desires and like a rubber band stretch taunt for so long, I gave in and my entire body sizzled with delight.

I was completely out of breath and he too. He chuckled into my neck, completely baked but his finger did not leave my body. He kissed my neck and then carefully removed his finger. "Open your eyes, Mouse," Gaelen's voice was rich. To my suprise, I opened my eye to find him sucking his finger, drinking me in. "You're my dessert." His eyes glinted satisfaction. He pulled up, button and zipped up my jeans.

"We are not going to have sex?"

"I am not going to have you for the first time in a bathroom, Mouse. When I do have you, it will be very special and the right time." I didn't say anything, but I wanted to cry. There had to be something wrong with me that he didn't want me. "I want to make love to you Kiowa and I want you to be confident in my love for you. I want you now, but I can wait until it is precisely the right moment. When you lose your virginity to me I want it to be amazing and in a special place"

I felt like we had crossed a line that we could never return to. No longer were we, Kiowa and Gaelen, study buddies or even flirt friends. He had given me my first orgasm. But what was I to him.

"I'm glad I gave you pleasure, Kiowa. Let's go have dessert." He grinned in a wily way that made my heart melt.

When we returned to our seats the waiter gave me a once over. I couldn't help but blush. Gaelen grabbed my chin and gave a quick peck on my check. "I love your blush. I love so much about you, Kiowa."

The waiter returned with a custard fruit tarte that I assumed Gaelen ordered before pursuing me in the bathroom to make out and make me cum. Oh, i rolled my eyes at the thought. I had to be blushing hard and Gaelen was peering at me through his lopsided black raven hair grinning like the cat that caught the mouse.

I took a bit bite of the tarte before he could comment about my eating habits or my blush or my embarrassment of the possibility the waiter knew what took place only a few minutes ago. I smiled back at him feigning confidence as best as I could. God, I hope I wasn't loud. I took another bite of the tarte and its zest of sweet flavours dampened the effects of my constant self-beratement. It was yummy and suddenly all that happened was just as sweet as this tart. I couldn't help but laugh at myself and all he could do was laugh. We laughed together as he dug into the dessert with me.

Gaelen had totally swept me off my feet. Today was special, he was superman swooping in saving me from the mean girls and then without knowing taking me to somewhere incredibly special - a human district without even knowing how significant it was to be able to see this part of thee realm. A part where humans were not thought of as enemies, that we're daresay, equals to our new planetary overlords. I couldn't help but feel a volcano of excitement to the possibility that Gaelen possible agreed with the Y'vori who celebrate humanity.

I was sad to leave this little slice of the world before-Eclipse. Again, with my hand secured in Gaelen's we returned to the crack between two building that leaves this treasure, secret community behind.

We didn't say anything to each other, just grinned at each other silently saying "I think I really like you," in our minds. We made it to the train platform that would take us back to school. We had just missed the train when we reached the top of the stairs, but it was just a happy opportunity to spend more time together before returning to the school grind and the pretending we were nothing but just Gaelen and Kiowa, friends, study buddies, nothing more. It was grating to me to think of going back to just that.

"Why won't you tell me who your soul named?" It came out more frustrated than I wanted it to.

"Why are you suddenly so obsessed with it, don't you trust my love for you?"

I stopped for a second and asked myself the same question. "It won't matter in the end anyways. Your soul and Sebol's would won't conflict. Maybe it's taking you longer to feel its effects."

"Who says that it was her name that appeared when my soul opened?"

"Please just tell me, Gaelen. I can't think of anything else other than the fact that her soul and opened. And don't give me that line about her lying. I heard Taxa talking about it already. She is head over heels about you."

Gaelen stuffed his hands in his pocket and leaned against the brick building, his long lanky legs crossed at his ankles he looked like a dark James Dean, just missing the cigarette.

"Perhaps there is more choice in the matter than I thought was forced before. Anyways, there is a secret that I am still waiting for you to reveal?"

"What's that, I'm an open book," or an open dossier.

"Your test score." he teased I couldn't help but roll my eyes.

"Ok, promise to tell you if you answer one thing," he combed his fingers through his hair truly working the James Dean effect, "It has nothing to do with soul naming."

"Alright, shoot Bookmouse."

"You're five years older than me, what was is like, the world before Eclipse? Do you remember?"

He paused for a moment, studying me with the green lights that searched for answers to his complex heart. "I remember the war starting. One day everything was fine the next I am being shuffled around like I was Fort Knox itself from house to house while the world crumbled. I didn't know anything about royal line or why before it was thrown in my lap like a bolder sinking me to the bottom of the sea. I just wanted my parents back, they'd changed overnight and suddenly I wasn't their boy anymore, my brothers too, I was the future king and that was all that mattered my confusion didn't matter, my want for comfort didn't matter, my seemingly human life didn't matter. My parents of course didn't abandon me but they were focused on Eclipse. I miss their warmth."

So much pain was hidden in every word leaked like a near bursting pipe that one day would explode. I learned against the wall not quite matching his James Dean, but I just wanted to be close to him in that moment, let him know that I had warmth to give. I was a warmth that I also craved.

"I had a human friend. His name was Adam, he was a kindergarten friend. I still can never comprehend why my parents seemed to love Adam yet the led Eclipse. Adam always came over to play, my mother even took us to the park or ice skating in the winter. She would hold Adam's hand, carefully holding him up and gentle encouraging him to be brave enough to allow himself to fall on the ice. It was the only way he could learn how to skate and she was always there to not let him fall too hard.'

"It is so funny just thinking about Adam and my mom. Back then my defect wasn't such a big deal. Everyone was happy, Adam's family, my family, we were all carving a happy plot of the Earth to grow up and help each other. If something was wrong, we dealt with it without the pressure of maintaining rule. My mom said the same thing to me that you said. I believed her that I could be a good man. But after Eclipse she wasn't there if I fell to lessen the blow of impact.'

"Adam was my very first best friend and I think he was one the best friend I could ever have because I could be myself." Gaelen shuffled his feet against the pebbled concrete. "I don't know if he and his family were offered purgatory because they were friends with my parents, but they weren't rich; and they weren't the fighting type. I wonder if he was killed like most of his kind."

No matter how many times I licked the roof of my mouth, it was parched with contemplating so many scenarios.

"I am sorry Gaelen. I did not know you were carrying this all on your shoulders."

"I feel responsible. If I am the king of this planet, I should have made sure my only friend wasn't exterminated." Tears no longer shed from his eyes, they had dried long ago, but the guilt and pain was so raw. I feel even more in love with him at that moment, he would make sure nothing like this would ever happen again, he was going to make a great leader, and all I wanted to do was wrap my arms around him to assure him the way others had not.

"Little mouse why are you looking at me like that, " my face contorted trying to hold back my tears, but I was swelling with so much love for him I couldn't help clutch him to me and cry. " Are you crying for me? Why?"

"Because you are a good man. It's not your fault. You were but a child."

"Oh, Mouse," he squeezed his arms around me holding me tight like I was a life preserver. His life preserver. "I love you."

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Dearest Readers,

So two more chapters left for this first book part of the series. Thank you for your comments, you've really given me a lot to consider that I hadn't thought of before and I've been revisiting some of the future chapters and even did a lot of editing of this chapter based on your comments. So thank you and hugs for your feedback.

So Gaelen is finally making a real move on Kiowa but she has so much going on to consider. The marble incident during the school trip has really shaken her so I wonder what she will do know that Gaelen has made his intentions quite clear (or at least clearer). If I keep this as a young adult book I think I will shorten the bathroom scene a bit. So enjoy my fellow Lits.

Cbeers and Happy Reading,

Talyis