The New Power and an Ancient Contract

She stepped in to the overly crowded airport after her extremely delayed flight with a some what annoyed look on her face. She hated running late, but most of all she hated not knowing which of her friends were going to pick her up from there. So as she waited she moved into a shadowed area to get away from all the people.
She sat down on an available bench next to a brunette male who had a ball cap over his face. She sighed and watched where one of them should actually be coming from. She felt someone’s arms wrap around her and she went still as her heart started to race. She turned around and stopped to look into a pair of caring brown eyes.
She heaved a sigh of relief as she removed the cap to reveal the dark brown hair that she ruffled up. He smiled and pulled her into a hug as she dropped the carry-on bag she had been holding. He pulled her back a bit and took a good look at her. He shook his head and then grabbed the two bags that were sitting in front of her before she followed him to his car.
They drove all the way to his house where she would be spending a night before she spent the rest of her time trying to gather up enough courage to take over her uncle’s house. As they got into the driveway she wanted to ask him what was wrong, but he smiled and grabbed the baggage that he had put in his back seat earlier. He sat them in the spare bedroom that his mother had set up for her before he had finished a phone conversation with her earlier that day when she had got to the airport in Ireland. She stared him down and he motioned for her to follow him onto the balcony. Once out there she knew, somehow deeper than a gut feeling that normal people get, that she should go and sit down on the bench that was across from where he had been standing.
It was extremely dark outside as he found his seat beside her and lifted her head up to look at him before he spoke, “I wanted to be the one to tell you this. Your little brother is…um…not doing so good and that was when I saw him. Then he was doing better than he had been. I figured that I should tell you instead of one of them.” He watched her throw her arms around his neck as the tears rolled off her cheeks and hit his thin, long sleeved, red shirt.
“Caleb, I don’t want to lose him. I can’t lose another family member to this virus thing. I need you, Caleb, I need you with me.”
Caleb could tell that she wasn’t used to having him close enough that he could hold her and juggle the news that her brother was getting better and worse at the same time. “Babe, it’s ok. I am here. I’m right here and won’t leave you until you tell me too. Shh, I am here.”
She pulled away slowly and lightly kissed his lips before taking the kiss deeper than Caleb thought she would have. He kissed her back to show her that he was really in front of her and she was really back in Ipswich. He broke the kiss and looked down at her tear stained face before he stood up slowly and brought her with him. She looked at the cement then back up at him as if to plead with him in not leaving her by herself in that room during the night. He brushed the new tears off her reddened cheeks as his other hand took hers and held it close to his heart. She leaned into him as he let go of her hand and gently scooped her up in his arms to lay her down on the bed.
She looked up at him so innocently as her body touched the bed he felt as if they were still children and they were trying to get her to do something she wasn’t sure was a real thing to do. He smiled softly as brushed the hair out of her face and walked over to the other side. He turned to see her eyes closed so he slipped through the door and across the hall to his room. He changed into a pair of sweat pants and then proceeded to search through his closest for something warm to let Kriystalynn borrow so she didn’t have to search through her bags for something. He turned around to find that she was standing in the guest bedroom’s doorway looking at him with soft sad eyes.
“I found this if you want to wear it, unless you want something of yours to wear,” Caleb said a bit nervous because he didn’t want to say something to make her cry again. He hated seeing her cry almost as much as the other guys in their friendship circle.
“It is fine,” she said as she averted her eyes from his. She heard him walk over to her and saw the sweat shirt out of the corner of her eye. She took it and whispered, “Thank you.”
He watched her walk almost drowsily back into the room and the relieved herself of the skirt she was wearing along with the nice blouse. She, almost tiredly, pulled the sweat shirt on and turned into Caleb’s arms, but when she looked up at him she didn’t see his face. The male’s face that she was seeing had blond hair and beautiful blue eyes that shined when he gave her that smirk she wanted to smack off his face. She looked down and read the shirt as she tried to collect her head. She looked back up at him and saw his real face, she saw Caleb again. She sighed as he lifted her up once again and placed her under the covers. She pulled him on the bed with her and waited until he got comfortable before she snuggled her head underneath his chin and cuddled closer to him.
He looked down at her face and kissed her forehead before saying, “Good night, honey. I hope you sleep well and I love you.”
He got no answer and he knew he wouldn’t because he had waited to say it until she was asleep. Soon afterwards he found himself slowly drifting away and falling asleep holding her. Holding Kriystalynn who could have been called a small and frail creature as she laid next to him shaking and scared, before she calmed down and laid perfectly still in his arms.
She woke up as she heard Caleb’s mother speaking at the door and felt that Caleb was no longer lying next to her. She had seen that same dream again that she had been seeing for the past few nights and moaned as she pushed herself up into sitting position before she smiled at Caleb’s mother. She had stopped the conversation she had been having with her son when she noticed that Kriystalynn was awake. Kriystalynn went to tell her good morning as she saw his mother smile, but couldn’t get anything out except for a horrible sounding cough. Caleb had turned toward her and she saw the last of the annoyed look that he had been giving his mom before he turned to smile at her. He walked over to her and sat on the bed in front of her.
“I’ll get you what you usually drink on mornings like this. That is if you still drink that blend,” he said so sweetly that she had to smile at him.
She went to answer yes and remembered that she wasn’t able to form sentences, or words, at that moment so she nodded her reply.
She watched him leave and noticed his mother was still standing in the doorway. Kriystalynn couldn’t help but cock her head to one side in confusion, because she wasn’t sure what it was she had done for her to still be standing there. His mother walked in and closed the door and that was when Kriystalynn knew that she wanted to talk to her alone about something that Caleb may not agree with. As she sat on the bed in front of her she noted that his mother didn’t seem to be the person that she had known her to be. Kriystalynn looked up at her seriously and nodded that she was ready to hear whatever it is that she was going to say.
“Kriystalynn, I am glad that you have come back. It might be a good idea to go see Reid. Just to catch up with him, considering how much time you have spent talking to Caleb and Tyler. Just drop by and ask him…”
“Mom, she doesn’t need any suggestions. She’ll see him when we go visit Bradon unless she wants to go see him before then.” Caleb seemed really mad at his mother which made Kriystalynn feel like he was trying to keep something from her.
She gave him a skeptical look as she took the herbal mixture from him and took a sip. “Caleb, we talked about this. It’s not right…”
“Mom, don’t. It’s not the time to tell her.”
“Tell me what?” Kriystalynn managed to get out in a whisper.
“Nothing, Angel, we have nothing to tell you at the moment.” Caleb looked over at his mom as she got up to leave, and Kriystalynn felt like she should say something.
“Maybe later, Mrs. Danvers,” Kriystalynn said before his mother disappeared from the doorway.
Kriystalynn looked over at Caleb and gave him an evil look before she grabbed on of her bags then sat it on the bed. She turned around and saw him walking out the door and heard foot steps on the stairs, so she assumed that he had walked down the stairs and into the great room. Kriystalynn shook her head as she rummaged through her belongings to find something to where, and just when she thought that she wouldn’t be able to find something she liked she spotted a black piece of clothing in the bottom of her bag. She pulled it out of the bag and gave a small smile as she knew that Cara had put it in there when she wasn’t looking or had gone to sleep.
Kriystalynn dressed herself in the black, strapless mini dress that had a small v in the middle of the top. She noted that it was loose but not loose enough that you couldn’t put it in the tight category. She smiled as she slipped a necklace that she loved over her head and made sure that it was adjusted to the perfect spot that it could be seen clearly above her bust line. She ran her fingers over the “RG” charm before she latched the bracelet with a “CD” charm on it. She took one last look in the mirror before she grabbed her black fabric wedge heels and walked down the stairs barefooted.
When she got downstairs she heard yelling coming from the great room. She recognized the voice as his mother’s. She hadn’t wanted to it just seemed to happen that she leaned against the wall as she listened in on the conversation. She knew it was involving her and she guessed that it was also involving Reid as she kept really quite. Kriystalynn held her breath as she saw a mouse walk by her. She remembered that stupid thing from when they were kids, or at least one that looked similar to it.
“I think she has a right to know that you think Reid is going to get too attached before someone can stop him. Especially since he cares greatly about Kriys,” her voice was raised over her normal argument level.
“She has enough to deal with without telling her that. Her brother is…” Caleb stopped as Kriystalynn emerged from where she had been standing and gave him a smile.
“What is the problem here? Is it always like this or is something really wrong?”
“It’s nothing, Kriys, you going somewhere?”
“Yeah, I figured I’d go see what I missed from Ipswich since I have been gone. Starting, most likely with Nicky’s and then my brother. After that it’s a mystery.” She kept the faked smile on her face as she spoke so that Caleb wouldn’t get suspicious of her over hearing anything.
“I’ll come along.”
“No, Caleb, you stay here with your mother. She needs you more than I need an escort. I’ll catch up with you later. I promise.” She moved over and kissed his cheek before hugging his mom. “Laters.”
She saw Caleb had followed her out and he now leaned into the driver window of what used to be her uncle’s Mercedes. “Kriys, what did you hear?”
“Absolutely nothing,” she lied.
“I’ll meet you at the hospital then.”
“No, Cale, I think I should go see my brother alone today.”
“All right just be careful, Kriystalynn. Some things are meant not to be told with so much on you all ready.”
She looked at him with a questioning look, and knew that didn’t sound like something Caleb would usually say. She mentally shrugged it off as she replied, “If you are keeping something from me because you think I am handling too much, then don’t. You know if I find out later it will be twice as worse for you than your mother yelling at you. You do realize that?”
“Yes I do. Be careful, Kriyssy. I will see you later tonight then.”
“Yes, later. Now can I go please?” She asked playfully as she leaned over and kissed his cheek.
“Have fun.” He kissed her lips lightly and backed away from the car.
She pulled out slowly and shook her head as she headed off to see her brother first. It was something she felt was far more important than anything else she had wanted to do that day. As she pulled up to the hospital she got a strange vibrating feeling that someone was watching her. She looked around several times before stepping onto the warm parking lot with her tanned bare feet that matched the rest of her. She slowly walked up to the front doors looking around as she did. When she reached them she turned around and felt a light wind with a familiar smell that she hadn’t had the chance to smell in a long time. She smiled as she remembered her last days in Ipswich and then sat on the bench in front of the hospital trying to control the memory from coming up.
~*A twelve-year-old girl with really short, extremely light brown hair stood silently in front of her four friends. Her adorable, big orange-brown eyes were filled with unshed tears. Her childish face was smudged with dirt and a small amount of semi-dried blood. She was a little small for a twelve and even a bit skinnier than she should be. She’d had the flu for a while and was just getting over it.
The four boys just looked at her and waited for what was going to happen, or what she would say, next. She pouted a little and turned to look at something else. Something seemed to be bothering her and they knew it. She whispered something they didn’t quite catch.
“Come on, Kriys, what’s up?” The boy with short blond hair asked.
“Hush up, Reid. She’ll tell us when she wants,” the oldest boy said as he shook his head at him.
“Well, I’m tired of seeing that face!” Reid exclaimed. It sounded harsher than he wanted it to, and he quickly looked over at the girl. “Don’t go crying, Kriys, I didn’t mean it like that.”
“See what you did?” The boy with semi-short dirty blond hair asked Reid. “You’ve made our Angel cry. Kriystalynn, we’ll hit him if you want.” He was trying to cheer her up.
“That’s…not why…I’m…cr…crying.” She sobbed.
“See, Pogue, it wasn’t my fault. Tyler, stop looking at me like that,” Reid said as he glared at Tyler.
“Why are you crying then?” The oldest asked.
“Yeah, we’re a little confused now,” the one Reid had called Tyler stated.
They watched her hit her knees as she cried into her hands now. Reid wasn’t really the comforting type, at the time, but he knelt down beside her and hugged her. She turned her face into his chest, but didn’t say anything. The other three joined in giving her a hug, but she still only noticed Reid.
“I’m sorry,” was all she could manage, “about your shirt, Reid.”
All of them smiled and laughed. Caleb ran his fingers through her hair brotherly. Tyler and Pogue kissed her cheeks as Reid just starred in front of them with her head under his chin. They all got up and watched as Kriystalynn wiped her eyes and. They smiled.
“I’m sorry, Caleb.” She shook her head. “Never mind.”
“Kriystalynn, time to come home!”
“Yes, Daddy.”
“No, what were you going to say?” Tyler questioned.
“Nothing, bye.” She ran into her father’s opened arms.
Three days later Kriystalynn and Reid were walking through the park with her six-year-old brother. They played all over the park, and Reid could tell something was bothering her. No matter how hard she tried to hide it, it ended up showing through. He didn’t ask her what was wrong like last time, because he didn’t want the smile to fade away again. He told her it was because she could be so annoying when she cried and that was why it bothered him.
A hair band was holding the hair back from her eyes and it looked cute pulled behind her ears as she wore her cheap tween sunglasses. The six-year-old ran up to her and she picked him up. She twirled him around once and then sat him back down. Reid nodded to her brother, while coming up behind her, and the boy ran to the swings near by. Reid grabbed Kriystalynn by the waist and mimicked what she had done.
“Put me down, Reid!”
“Why should I, Kriys?”
“Please, Reid.” She turned her head so that he could see her batting her eyes.
“Fine, just so long as you stop that.”
“Fine.” She smiled as him.
“That’s better.” He turned her around to face him. “Kriys, wha…”
“Kriyssy, I want to go home now.”
“Okay, you wanna walk us home?” Kriystalynn asked Reid.
“Please, Reid,” Bradon pleaded.
“What would it hurt?”
Bradon and Kriystalynn laughed.
“Race you home?” Kriystalynn asked.
“Yeah, wanna piggy-back ride, Bradon?”
Bradon nodded yes and hopped on Reid’s back.
“Ready, set…” Kriystalynn ran before she finished.
Reid caught up with her and noticed she looked spaced. When she came back she looked at the electronics store before she stopped. Reid looked back and stopped a few feet away. He put Bradon down and she motioned for him to come to her. Right before the two cars crashed Kriystalynn had turned her back to it and held Bradon close to her. Reid ducked, as if he’d been frightened to death, and when it was over Reid ran to Kriystalynn.
“Kriys, you alright?” Reid helped her up carefully.
“I think that me being all right is the least of anyone’s problems.”
“Huh?”
Reid starred at the as the cops and ambulance showed up. The paramedics treated their scratches and gave them blankets as it got colder. Reid sat down next to her as she rocked Bradon. Her father was on the way to get them and the other three of the group was talking to the police to see what happened. Kriystalynn didn’t look at him, but took his hand, and held it close to her. He turned to look at her and saw a smile and tears.
“I only have one week left,” she said as she stopped rocking Bradon.
“What? What do you mean?” Reid hadn’t taken it the way she had meant it.
“My dad’s moving us to Washington, and then a month later he is sending me to Scotland for a year. After the year I am spending the rest of them in Ireland until I am 17.”
“Oh.” Reid let out a sigh of relief. “I thought…”
“I know.” She looked at him and her smile grew. “I’ve only told you.”
“Why?” There was a long pause as a car pulled up.
“Because I’ll miss you the most, Reid Garwin.”
Reid laughed as Kriystalynn’s want-to-be step-mom took Bradon from her forcefully. Reid stopped laughing and saw the woman give Kriystalynn a nasty evil look before she got into the car. Reid followed her slowly into the back seat. They rode to his house in silence. Reid sat in the middle and held Kriystalynn close to him. When they got to his house Reid motioned for her to get out with him. They walked up to his house and stood on the porch for a few minutes.
“So, um…” Kriystalynn started.
“Will you really miss me the most?” Reid asked with a smile as she nodded and color found her cheeks. “Why?”
“You make me happy.” She bit her lower lip as they stood there.
“Before you leave tell your dad to come here, I have a present for you. I hope you like it.”
“Okay,” Kriystalynn said as she ran back to the car before getting in she turned and blew him a kiss, after making sure her dad’s girlfriend wasn’t looking.*~
She stood up as one of the nurses came out and startled her. She didn’t say anything as she hurried past the nurse and into the hospital. She seemed to feel something as she slowed her hurry down to a walk. She managed to smile at the receptionist at the front desk as she asked to see Bradon Adams. She gave her last name as the same as his, as she had forgotten that earlier this year it had been changed by the wish of their uncle. It was his wish that while she was 16 it be changed, it was written in his will. Her father tried to fight it, but he said there was evidence that could not be persuded to change. So four years after Lucus, her uncle, died her last name changed.
The nurse pointed her to the room where her brother was being kept and watched as Kriystalynn walked away. Kriystalynn stood in the doorway and looked down at her little brother. They shared a connection because of their mother and as she shook her head she remembered that he could bring her memories out. She smiled and noted that the nurse was calling someone and she guessed it was their father. She shrugged before she went to sit down beside her little brother and knew he’d bring up the rest of the memory so she started to sing.
“My little Angel, please close your eyes. Sissy’s gonna sing you a lullaby. Forget all the world and forget all the fights, all you have to do is sleep through the night. In your dreams, you can catch any star, and be who you are. Play cops and robbers, while winning every round.” As she finished the chorus she saw what Bradon was dreaming about at that moment. The connection between them was special due to the ancestors on their mother’s side.
~*Her dad and his girlfriend had a scream match all the way home. Kriystalynn gave Bradon a piggy-back-ride up to his room when they arrived home. Bradon looked up at her with his sweet green eyes.
“Are they going to stop? She’s scaring me.”
“They’ll stop soon. Do you want me to leave the…”
“Don’t go, Sissy! Stay here.”
She looked at him blankly, but she lay down beside him. “What’s wrong?”
“I don’t want her to come in. She’s scary. Why won’t daddy leave her?”
“One more week, Donnie, just one more week. She’s not coming with us.”
“Good,” Bradon said as he climbed on to her lap as she leaned against the headboard. “Sing a song, Kriyssy, please.”
“Which song, love?” She smiled at him sweetly.
“The new one!”
“All right.” She held him in a hug and kissed his forehead. She sang My Angel a song she had made for him and fell asleep along with him.*~
She looked over at her little brother and sighed. He didn’t have all of the memories of that day that she did, but he could show her what she remembered to try and get her to accomplish something. She leaned her head on his arm and felt hot tears stream down her face. Kriystalynn hadn’t realized that her little brother had woken up or that their father was standing in the doorway glaring at her. When she found the strength to lift her head up she saw Bradon looking at her with that same sweet smile that he had that would cheer her up any time that she was upset.
“Finish the song, Sissy.”
She wanted to cry again but she just nodded and looked at the doorway. Their father looked upset, but she turned back to Bradon then sung, as sweetly as she could, “Fall in the river, I won’t let you drown. I’ll hold you close, and chase all your fears. That nasty old woman can’t find you here. My Angel brother, now you’re asleep, have peaceful dreams that won’t make you weep. I’ll kiss your cheek and lay you down, and as I leave I won’t make a sound. My little Angel has closed his eyes, because Sissy just sang him a lullaby.” She watched him close his eyes again, before she left she leaned down and kissed his forehead.
She walked past their angered father and away from the door. She knew what was going to happen and she also realized that he was going to do it here. She looked over at him telling herself that she was determined not to slug him in front of all the witnesses. She watched as he followed her over to where she was standing. He began to yell at her and she chose to ignore him, knowing it was the same old Why didn’t you change your last name back to what it is supposed to be afterwards? deal. He was so aggravating at this moment. The conversation turned as she walked away from him which took all the strength she had in her to do.
“You know who he really is to you that is why it hasn’t changed?” he yelled at her from down the hallway. She looked over at a waking Bradon and said nothing as he came toward her. “You know that I’m not…”
“If you want to start this then maybe you should think about what you say before you say it in front of YOUR son!”
“So you do know?”
“I can know all I want whatever it is you think I know. Just shut up about it if it will hurt Bradon, you pompuse-idiotic-small-tube-of-lard!”
Everyone stared at them as he decided what he wanted to say or do to her. He seemed to be refraining from hitting her and then turned to Bradon before saying, “Get out of her, Kriystalynn. You are not welcome in here. At least not while I am here.”
She hugged Bradon good-bye and he kissed her cheeks. She turned around as she left and said, “If you think about it, father, I actually have more right than you to be here. At least when I promised I would never let that wench of a wife of yours to come near him while I was able to I actually kept it. You, who promised him you would never marry her if he objected, married her anyways. Take a good look, Kelvin, and then tell me who would have made a better parent.” She kept her voice calm and collected as she spoke so that the nurses would know that she wasn’t just saying that to get back at him.
“GET OUT!” Kelvin yelled at Kriystalynn’s departing back and onto an elevator with on of the nurses who had witnessed the event.
She heard Kriystalynn scream for her as the doors closed. After that she and her heart broke. She started to cry in the elevator and the nurse in there with her bent down, after she stopped the elevator, to calm her down. Kriystalynn looked up at the nurse with glossed over eyes and realized what had happened.
“Are you all right, Ma’am?” She asked Kriystalynn.
“Please don’t call me that. My name is Kriystalynn. Why is the elevator stopped?”
“I wanted to calm you down so I could tell you that I will call you when Mr. Adams has left so you could come back and stay. I will also put a word in to have you stay with him tonight if you would like, Miss.”
“You don’t…”
“But I do. Something told me I had too tell you this.”
She smiled up at the nurse before she asked, “What is your name, Miss?”
“My name is Angel.” The nurse smiled at her.
“And so rightly named you were.” They both laughed at that.
“Miss Kriystalynn, I…”
“Please no miss.”
“Sorry. Kriystalynn, would you like me to do that for you?”
“If Bradon wants it than yes.”
She started the elevator again as she replied, “Then I will ask him when Mr. Adams has left him alone.”
“Thank you,” Kriystalynn said as she stood up and the elevator doors opened. She turned and whispered to Angel, “Thank you, Angel.”
As she got into her car she got the same feeling that someone was watching her again and looked up at the window that would show into her brother’s room to see Bradon was looking out the window. She smiled at him as she looked down and saw the necklace hanging around her neck. She knew Bradon was going to give her another memory before she left and she also knew what it was he was trying to tell her without speaking it aloud.
Her cell rang and she whispered, “After this phone call, Donnie. After the phone call.”
She answered the phone and listened to Caleb’s mother say how strange she thought he was acting and how he came back home five minutes after he left. She informed her that he said he had left earlier that morning before they had woke up and never fought with her. Kriystalynn looked up at her brother and gave him a sour look. She assured her that Caleb was fine and that they hadn’t fought that morning. She must have dreamt it and heard Caleb’s mother say that it had felt so real at the same time she heard her brother’s voice saying that he was sorry for the fighting from this morning. Again Kriystalynn assured her it was a dream and that she should come out to eat with them that night. She heard her agree and then hang up the phone. She whispered something after the phone call and locked her doors before closing her eyes.
~*She was twelve again and walking up to this beautiful mansion sized house. When she knocked on the door she heard someone tell her to go away. She didn’t recognize this voice so she checked the house number and knocked again. She got the same reply so she looked around for some other way in, because she knew that she hadn’t walked all the way from her uncle’s to get turned away at that moment. When she found an ivy covered picket that also had roses twisted around it under a window she made sure it would at least support her weight on the first part before she started climbing up to the window.
When she got up there she had spotted Reid sitting on his bed with a gloomy look on his face. He was looking away from the window and his curtains covered most of her view inside. She tried to open the window and failed, so she rapped on it and saw his face turn toward the window. She watched it light up when he partially saw her face before he leapt at the window and opened it to let her in. He helped her through his window then explained that his father was feeling ill and his uncle had said that she wouldn’t be aloud in the house as long as his father was sick and he was still there.
Kriystalynn scoffed and walked toward the door but was pulled back by Reid and shown toward his dresser. She looked at him suspiciously and then noted that he had pulled out three boxes. He handed them over to her as soon as he had dug them out and motioned for her to open them. When she hesitated Reid gently took a box from her and asked her to not only close her eyes but to also hold the boxes until he picked them up.
She felt something cold go around her wrist, another box leave her hands followed by him putting something in her ears, and the last box leave her hand followed by something cold hitting her neck. He led her to somewhere in his room and whispered in her ear for her to open her eyes. When she did she saw the necklace and the earrings before she looked down at the bracelet. She looked at him and saw that in the earrings box was another set of earrings.
She noticed that each piece had it’s own costume made charm. The bracelet had a charm with the initials CD. One set of earrings had TS the other had PP. She looked at the necklace last as silent tears fell down her cheeks and were gently wiped away. The necklace had the initials RG. She hugged him and kissed his cheek before she backed up touching the necklace lightly.*~
When she opened her eyes she noticed she was touching the necklace’s charm, and then she looked up at the window. Her little brother was still standing there only his back was to the window at the moment. She whispered that he had talked her into going to out with Reid whenever he asked her too with basically a "All right fine....You convinced me to go". He responded with a thank you. She saw Bradon turn to her and smile before she started the car, turned the right turn signal on, and then reversed in that direction. After she had successfully backed out she put it in drive and headed for her friend’s coffee shop.
She parked a few miles away from the coffee shop and put her keys in her purse after she put her shoes on that she had forgotten about until her feet hit the hotter pavement. She walked to the coffee shop and was stopped by an old man. He asked if she was Kriystalynn and when she replied yes he told her that her friend was supposed to be in the back of her shop. When Kriystalynn walked in someone went back there to look for her, so she turned to talk to her friend’s sister and didn’t notice that someone was walking up behind her.
“I’m tired of looking at that face,” the person whispered in her ear which forced her to turn around and she managed to stop herself from smacking them just in time. “I figured you would be the one looking for the boss.”
“Yeah,” she said slowly.
“She’s not…” he started and then stood there as she wrapped her arms around him and lifted her feet up. He swung her around and then stopped before stating, “I missed you!” The entire coffee shop turned and faced them both. He saw her cheeks turned pink as he sat her on the ground.
“I missed you too.” She had looked down at the ground and he lifted her face up.
“Come see a movie with me tonight. Caleb told me you were going to dinner with him tonight so why not see a movie with me before that.”
She looked up at him briefly before she said, “A movie it is then.”
“Great! I’ll pick you up from Caleb’s?”
“That’s fine.”