I awoke from the best nights sleep I've ever had with a smile on my face. I snuggled closer to where I could feel the warmth radiating from behind me before unwillingly opening my eyes. The sun, high in the air, was shining down on me causing me to close my eyes just as fast as I opened them. I gave a groan from the pain the sun inflicted on my eyes.
The groan caught in my throat as I felt myself being pulled backwards toward the warmth. This time however my back came into contact with something. I quickly opened my eyes, making sure that I wouldn't look out the window, and took a look around. I sat upright. I was in a bedroom I didn't know. Suddenly the fog lifted from my sleep filled brain and I remembered last night. King Ryan! We were talking and then... Oh no.
With that I slowly turned my head towards the place where the warmth was laying. Please please please don't tell me I slept with the King. I would never be able to live that down. Please. I begged towards an unknown force of good. The force of good must have been busy at the moment because my pleading fell on deaf ears.
Next to me sleeping peacefully was his royal yummyness, the one, the only - Ryan. Seeing him so peaceful and innocent made me melt, but it also wanted me to get out of the room as soon as possible. I do not want to go through that awkwardness. His arm was still thrown over me casually so slowly I tried to lift his arm in order for me to sneak out.
I had his arm in the air but before I could get out from under him the door to his room suddenly opened. In fright I dropped his arm. I quickly looked towards Ryan to see that he if he was still sleeping. He moved around and pulled me even closer to him before continuing with his light snoring. Great. Now how was I going to get out? I lifted my head to see who was responsible for my situation and there stood Zanne, looking at me with a smug smile.
"Nothing happened" I sent a thought out to her. Her smile just got even bigger. "I fell asleep, that's all" I tried again. She waved her hand towards me dismissing my thought.
I decided to ignore her and tried to pry Ryan's hand off of me.
"Oh my gosh I'm so sorry!" Zanne suddenly said as hard as she could without screaming. My head spun in the direction of Ryan's sleeping face only to be greeted by two sleepy dark blue eyes. He looked confused at first but then a wicked smile crossed his features.
"You did that on purpose!" I screamed towards Zanne in my mind while Ryan sat upright. She pretended not to hear me as she stood there in fake shock looking at us.
"I didn't know you were busy or I would have knocked." she said feigning innocence
"Oh no don't worry, nothings going on." Ryan said casually. There was a glint in his eye that told me that he was in a mischievous mood however. His next words confirmed it "not now anyway" he continued making me shriek in surprise
"What? No, no nothing happened. I just fell..." I started to explain
"Oh sweetie, there's no need to be embarrassed." He said putting his arm around my shoulders. " We're two adults who found each other attractive and one thing led to another. It's perfectly normal. Isn't it Zanne?" Ryan asked Zanne. I wanted the world to open up and swallow me whole. My cheeks were burning in embarrassment.
"Of course." Zanne relied putting her hand over her heart for dramatic effect "Perfectly normal. Besides I'm your sister Rey, you can tell me anything." she said with a satisfied expression.
"Yeah Rey, anything" Ryan said with a smirk in my direction. Hearing him say my name made goosebumps appear all over my skin. I sent him a death glare.
"Well, I'll talk to you later Rey!" Zanne said before running out the door.
I turned towards Ryan, if looks could kill he'd be 6 feet under right now. "What the hell was that? Do you know that I'm going to be tortured into giving answers about what happened last night? Why did you do that?" I asked outraged
"Do what?" he asked me innocently
"Do what? You made her believe that we slept together!" I said
"But we did" he said faking a confused look
"Well yeah but we slept together. We didn't SLEEP TOGETHER." I said, this was serious and he was joking. Once Zanne wanted information she would stop at nothing to get it and in this case there was no information whatsoever to give.
"What am I going to tell her when she keeps bugging her about what happened hmmm?" I asked him putting my hands on my hips to show how serious I was
"You want to know what you can tell her?" he asked. He was driving me crazy. Is he always this slow in the morning? I wondered.
"Yes I want to know what to tell her Mr Wise guy. This situation was your doing, so you are going to tell me how to get out of it" I said while poking him on the chest
"I'll do better than tell you. I'll show you" he said with a chuckle. Before I could decipher what he meant he wrapped his arms around me and lifted me from the bed only to place me on his lap.
"Wha..." I began but my word was cut off when his lips came down to capture mine.
The shock made me immediately answer his kiss. Or that's the story I'm going with anyway. My knees went weak, butterflies were going crazy in my stomach and electricity ran through my body.
He nibbled on my bottom lip causing a moan to involuntarily break out of my mouth. My fingers went playing in his hair as I got sucked into a world of new sensations. I gently pulled on his hair causing a moan, that sent chills down my spine, from deep in his throat to emerge. He pulled me closer, his hands roaming my back.
Somehow a piece of my mind that wasn't blurry started to scream at me. What the hell was I doing? I brought my hands down to Ryan's chest, feeling his muscles tense as my hands moved over them, and before I could give in and kiss him once again I pressed on his chest. Our lips broke free from the kiss causing my lips to feel cold and empty.
I was heaving when I looked into Ryan's eyes. Desire, that had to be reflected in mine, was shining from his eyes. His lips were red from the kiss, making it almost impossible to not lean into again.
"Wow" he whispered looking at me. I had to agree. I've never felt anything like that before, but I wasn't going to admit that.
"What was that for?" I asked him trying to sound angry but it coming out more like a whisper with the lack of oxygen in my lungs
"Now you have something to tell your sister" he said with a smirk, "and I have something to dream about" he continued. Before I could reply he bent down once again and pecked me on my lips.
"And that?" I ask trying to hide the smile on my face
"And that was just because I couldn't resist" he said with a chuckle.
The feelings Ryan awoke in me with that kiss didn't go away. In fact it intensified over the next few days. Every time our eyes met across the room I felt butterflies in my stomach and every time he touched me to show me how to stand when using an attack I went weak in the knees. It was getting on my last nerve. These emotions were draining me.
After the kiss I couldn't get out of there fast enough. I know I'm a scaredy-cat but I just didn't know what to do. My cheeks were burning and my heart was pounding. Zanne was always the one that knew how to handle guys, before the incident that is, not me! I was avoiding him the last week that we've been here but my heart yearned for him more and more each day.
"But how do you categorise which attacks are mental and which attacks are physical? How can beings an elemental be a physical power if you use your mind to do it?" Zanne asked the professor once again.
We were all sent for testing once Ryan cleared up that we were actually long lost friends of his and thus didn't belong in the cells. How he managed to do it without any question was beyond me. The testing was a little more advanced than those done for prisoners. It was able to show you all the powers you posses as well as your power level or PL as they call it. The highest power level known of course belonged to Ryan at the astounding level of 100. I was next with a measly 30 and then came Xander at 20 PL and Zanne at a power level of 15. Under citizens, 10 is an amazing power level to achieve.
A royal is naturally 10 times stronger than a citizen but since my body wasn't used to my royal powers it was still extremely low. I just hoped that I could get it up before Razzardus got tired of waiting, my PL had already risen 10 points the last week but it was still frustratingly slow.
"Like I said before there are a lot of systems with which it is organised. Elemental for example is a physical power because it does physical damage to an opponent. Some attacks like mind control are mental attacks since you manipulate your opponents mind to get him to react in a physical way." the professor tried to explain. I gave up on trying to understand the categories of the different powers by now but Zanne was persistent in trying to understand
"How did your controlling minds class go?" I asked Zanne quickly to save the poor professor from another stream of questions which earned me a thankful smile
"Okay I guess. I'm starting to get the hang of it after a week but I still can't resist being controlled by someone with the same PL as me." she said with a sigh. We found out that Zanne actually had 4 powers, one being to control minds just like me.
"At least I'm doing great in the controlling emotions class." she said a smile returning to her face. She could also read minds and feel emotions. She started learning how to absorb these thoughts and emotions and try to send them to a third party. So I can for example feel what she's is feeling from another persons emotions
"I'm glad you're having luck. I on the other hand can't even heal a cut. " I found out that I'm a healer. Unfortunately most powers start with an enormous amount of emotions. Fear, excitement, happiness. They all can awake a power in you. Unfortunately I still haven't been able to activate that power.
"Don't be so negative, at least you have four other powers too. Lucky fish." she said with a huff crossing her arms across her chest.
I should be grateful. I have wings, I can control minds, I can manipulate energy particles like Bibby and I'm an elemental which means I can control wind, water, fire, ground and even electricity.
"I am grateful. It's just that it would really come in handy in a battle. And if I don't learn how to control it now I'm not going to be able to use it in the war." I replied frustrated. My healing teacher explained that if you heal another you give them your power. If your power drains too much, because the person you are healing is crucially injured, you can die if you don't know when or how to stop.
"It would be useful, but no use crying over spilt milk. Speaking of milk, let's go get some" Zanne said making her way towards the door dragging me after her
Xander didn't really learn anything new about his powers. He had super speed, strength ,fast self healing and electricity control. Ryan had wings, could throw a fire ball and could control energy particles like I could. Then he had super speed and strength like Xander.
She was still dragging me through the hallways when I came to a screeching halt causing her to almost fall backwards. I could sense Ryan in the direction of the kitchen and I really couldn't bear to see him and to feel those feelings. I was caught in a crossfire. I wanted nothing more than to be with Ryan but I still couldn't get myself to look him in the eye after practically throwing myself at him.