Notebook 2 Chapter 7 - The Plan
I came back to the library on Monday morning to find Rebecca and Finn waiting for me. They both sat reading books, but when she felt a tingle, her fingers snapped for Finn’s attention. Just as predicted, Finn had no such alert in his mind, as he was once in my mind. They both pretended to keep reading thinking I couldn’t see them. Rather than phase into what felt like a trap of some sort, I set a few of my own. The carpet was now a quick-cloth pit and a few bookshelves had hidden arms that could grab someone. With that, I phased in plainly.
“Oh, hey, Jack,” Rebecca took my attention first, but I turned to lock eyes with Finn who had a grimace on his face, almost apologetic.
“Hey,” I said. “What’s going on? You both feel tense. Wh-”
“Ahh!” A voice behind me yelped out as a person sank into the quick-cloth trap. Another leapt from between two bookshelves, but wooden branches caught his arms and legs. The carpet had the former all wrapped up in cloth, but I knew who it was from the yelp. She wriggled on the floor as the male assailant struggled against the wooden binds. I turned to Rebecca and Finnelgamin with a disappointed look.
“Sorry, JJ,” Finn said. “They made me do it.”
“They made you into decoys?” I asked.
“Well, I just wanted to see if they could even do it,” Rebecca said. “Turns out it was a fool’s errand. Right, James?”
The guy struggling against the bookshelf grip relaxed. I knew he felt familiar, but couldn’t place him until he was with Kara who was in the carpet.
“James Denizen,” I said and motioned to free him from the grip of wood. He ran up to the wriggling Kara and tried to grab hold of a layer, but it was wrapped up tight. “Don’t worry, she can breathe. And besides, can’t you use something from your satchel to free her? Where is your bag?” He looked at me confused. I was confused back.
“Hold on,” I said and made a fist in Kara’s direction then unwound it slowly as the carpet unfolded to the floor’s surface. “I’m originally from your twelfth world. You remember the journals you wrote at each one for Danielle’s sake?” James reached for a bag that wasn’t there, then turned to Kara and kissed her. I wondered what purpose that served, but they both looked at me without a word.
“Alright, so they’re not saying anything,” I said, turning to Rebecca. “What did they tell you before I came ‘round?”
“Not much,” she said. “Just that they wanted to subdue you.”
“Finn?” I asked.
“I honestly wasn’t paying attention to what they said,” he replied. “But they wanted us to be decoys.” I turned back to Kara and James.
“You failed, guys,” I said. “Stop acting so serious and speak to me. Kara?” I saw pain in her eyes as tears escaped her eyes. This was crazy. Kara didn’t cry. She was too strong for that. James was also a powerhouse in my eyes. What changed? How were they reduced to this? I needed to know more.
“SPEAK!” I shouted.
“IT’S ALL YOUR FAULT!” Kara burst out. “YOU MADE… him…” Her tears burst out in a torrent and she couldn’t form words anymore. James hugged her and looked up to me.
“It’s our son,” he said. “Akier Vil Moredo has him. He sent us here to bring you to him. You were to be traded for our son.” I sat down beside Finn on the couch.
“What does he want with me?” I asked. “How does he even know about me?” Both Kara and James looked to Finnelgamin until I turned to meet his eyes.
“What?” He asked.
“He and Moredo are on the same side,” James said. I felt a shiver run down my spine. Finnelgamin, the evil akin to Akier Vil Moredo? It fit, with his old attitude, one the dull-o-cap erased.
“I need time to process and think,” I said. “Stay here. Rebecca will show you around. I’ll be back later.” I turned on the spot and vanished.
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I came back to Kara and James snuggled up on the couch. Neither Finn nor Rebecca were around, but I figured she’d feel my presence and bring Finnelgamin. I almost didn’t want to break their beautiful stillness, but remembered that they tried to abduct me, however that could even work. Rather than say anything, I let a Tiarto recording play from the stairs. He turned on the light and threw the covers up, vanishing from sight. Both Kara and James jumped to their feet, his hand reaching for the missing bag.
“Where IS your satchel?” I asked, creating a form.
“JJ,” Kara said.
“It’s Jack,” I said. “JJ’s just a part of me that found you both. You really don’t know much about me, do you?”
“You said that you read my journal up to your world?” James asked. “Then you’d know about John. Once he died his last time, he did not finally rest. His brain was extracted and used as a servant for the person who made the Immortal Arcs. Short story shorter, John rebelled and freed me from the path into other worlds.”
“Wow, I missed a whole bunch,” I said. “And the satchel?”
“A skill that transcended the Immortal Arcs,” he said. “Did not transcend escaping them. All my useful items disintegrated.” Rebecca burst into the library with Finnelgamin in tow.
“Hey,” I said at Rebecca. “You didn’t need to run, you know. Well, I mean I’m glad you’re here, but I need to put my laundry into the dryer. I’ll be back shortly. In the meantime, please explain my mind to them. It’ll save you some time when I get back. I have a plan.” Without a second to let them respond, I faded out of the room.
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“Hey, sorry,” I said while phasing back into the library. The space had become so comfortable that I wished I could live there rather than my reality. Kara, Finn, and James waited patiently, while Rebecca paced around the couch. “Stress eating and all. Did you give them the lowdown?” I looked between Kara and James who both had bored looks on their faces.
“You made her so that she could help you be more fit?” Kara asked. “That’s what you risked your eternity in the Infinity Void for? How vain could you be?” I turned to Rebecca with a disappointed look.
“That’s not the part I meant, Rebby,” I said.
“She told us about the unhealthy way you separated your mind, cutting off all that you were passionate about,” James added. “You seem to want to kill yourself in the most prolonging of ways, Jack. Why not just give yourself up to Moredo for our son instead? You obviously want to destroy yourself. That option simply uses your craving to our advantage.” A rage boiled within me, a red glare from beast.
“Oh, you just shut the fuck up,” I said, as his body contorted to such a degree that his face met his crotch. I gasped right after it happened and unbent him with new control. “I’m sorry.”
“Hold on, guys,” Finn came to my defense. “I want to hear the idea he has.”
“You might not want to,” I said. “It involves you, Finn. My idea hinges upon you knowing where to find Akier Vil Moredo, so I need to know. Do you know where to find him?” With no hesitant thought, Finnelgamin spoke.
“I do.”
Kara and James cheered, but I was saddened.
“Don’t tell them yet,” I said. “Sleep on this, guys. I will be back tomorrow.” I vanished before they could speak.
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“You’re late!” Rebecca burst out, as I returned out of phase. Kara, James, and Finn looked to her for a moment. “Form up. You’re making me look insane.” I phased into the room.
“I hope you understand why I wasn’t quite jumping for joy to come back,” I said, as all turned to me atop one of the bookshelves. “This is stress I don’t need in my mind. I could very well close this book, and never come back to it. You two came here to abduct me, after all, but there is no way to do it from Rebecca’s space. You’d have to go to my reality and I wish you luck finding it.”
“That won’t be necessary,” Finnelgamin said. “I know where Aki is, but I’d have to go alone to bring back your son.” I looked to Finn and we shared a concern.
“It feels like you’re going to ask me for something unreasonable,” I said.
“I need you to remove the dull-o-cap and command me with the words of the nine,” he said.
“Atroano Zisi,” Rebecca said. “That old man was terrible, but I was sad about Ano. How does that explicitly sexual story relate to Finn?”
“Explicitly sexual?” Kara asked. “You write that?”
“You of all people should know I don’t write a thing,” I replied. “I record what already exists in the void. Some of it just proves to be intense in a variety of ways, some sexual.”
“Right,” Kara said, as Rebecca slid up to whisper in her ear. Both smiled and glanced to me and James. He was next to me for some reason.
“Are you and Rebecca an item?” He asked quietly.
“I created her,” I said.
“For your own interests?” He asked. “And it’s not like you made her into a child to raise, so you obviously meant to use her for adult stuff. What makes you hesitate?” Finnelgamin looked between our two pairings and remained in the middle.
“Are you all discussing sexual matters?” He asked loudly as we all fell silent. I walked over to him and patted his shoulder.
“Yes, Finn, we were,” I said. “Do you also have an interest in the matter?” I watched his face for a response, but the dull-o-cap pulsated light once.
“Not really,” he said.
“What is that thing anyway?” Kara asked. “Because it feel like it turned him into a prepubescent adult. That’s pretty cruel, JJ.”
“Again, it’s Jack now,” I replied, getting a bit aggravated that I had to repeat myself. “And as for the dull-o-cap, trust me. You would not like the full-tilt Finnelgamin, but that’s who we need right now. I agree, Finn. I will take off your cap, but not right now. I need to get to work.
“Kara, James, feel free to read of my mind. This library is me and all the stories I’ve connected to. I will be back later, possibly after work, but more likely tomorrow around the same time. I’m sorry. My time is limited, but we will save your son. It’s like you said, Kara. I’m the reason he exists, so the least I could do is keep him safe.”
“No, that’s not what I-” Kara started, but I cut her off and vanished.
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I came back from work to an empty library. It was my honest belief that they would all be here, reading books of my mind and stories, but I had no skill in writing, just explained what I was seeing first hand. It was pathetic, really. All those ideas playing out like movies behind my eyelids, and it would likely go to waste.
I sat on the stairs to wait for Rebecca, but only felt time pass. After one minute of nothing, I walked over to crack open a book at random. It was a tome of the past, a school in New York City, junior High School that I attended for less than two years before moving to a different state. It was a throwback to a simpler time, one of ignorance, before beast was born. JJ was there, suffering from within at inability to communicate. He was once a baby, and now forever froze at the precipice of metamorphosis. I shook myself out of the memory and looked around for Rebecca, but she wasn’t there. It felt like a wasted opportunity, but I put the book back and vanished.
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When I came back the next morning, all were waiting for me. Rebecca was upset that I had not woken up at my scheduled time, and she was becoming a real pain about that. I could freeze her time, and all things in her dimension so that she wasn’t on the same schedule, but that wouldn’t solve anything.
“Hey,” I said, while phasing in next to James. He jumped at the sudden arrival, but nobody else reacted as Rebby had been talking to me as soon as I arrived invisible into her space.
“About time,”she said. “How much longer are you going to stall before you send Finn after Moredo?” I felt weird eyes on me and did a head count. Five people, but excluding me. It was Eva, sitting silently beside Finn with her eyes on me as if she understood why she was here.
“Finn, a word?” I asked and motioned him over, but he just looked to her and she smiled.
“Anything you have to say, you can say in front of her,” Finnelgamin said.
“Well, I mean,” I replied. “Does she even know where she is?”
“A library from a story,” she said. “An old story by my counts.” I froze up. Did I create a being smarter than me somehow?
“How do you know this?” I asked.
“Finnelgamin told me about it,” she replied, “And I… well, adapted to it.”
“Then do you know about what I have to do to him?”
“For him,” she corrected. “Yes. You have to remove his mind-number and command him to go after Akier Vil Moredo to find Kara’s son.”
“He won’t be the same after that, Eva,” I said. “Are you prepared for that?” She seemed to freeze up a bit, but Finn extended his neck to kiss her, which melted a tightness in her jaw.
“Yes,” she said. “Because I know he’ll come back to me.” I was surprised at her adjustment to the situation, but was glad Finn decided to love again. This Finn, at least. I looked to Rebecca.
“Where were you last night?” I asked. “I was here waiting. We could have had Finn launched already. Now we might have to wait until tomorrow morning.”
“Yeah, I felt you arrive,” she said. “I was otherwise preoccupied.” She shared a look with Kara as both snickered. James got red all of a sudden. It was obvious they had something-
“They’ve had a threesome,” Finn burst out. “Eva and I watched, but to no effect. My mental impediment prevented those thoughts for simplicity of the mind.” Rebecca came up to Finn and smacked the back of his head.
“You were watching us?” She asked. “Gross! We’re like brother and sister, Finn. Sure, it’s a weird and messed up family, but that’s just family, for the most part.”
“That’s a shame,” Finn said. “I figured that if you were to join Eva and I in bed, we could break past the sexual limitations of the mind-number.” I smiled.
“And with that, I’ll leave you to discuss,” I said. “I’ll be back later today or tomorrow morning and we can send Finn at last. Kara, James, I’m so sorry for this delay.” I turned and disappeared from Rebecca’s dimension.
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The next morning, I returned ready for the mission, but they weren’t in the library. Fearing what I would stumble into while looking for them, I decided to wait. The sudden heavy rain that woke me up at home felt targeted, but James and Kara didn’t have that sort of influence. Did they? I pondered that idea all the way to my morning coffee.
The first to arrive was James and he was putting a shirt over his chest full of scars. The strange thing was that he came from between two bookshelves, and I did not make a hidden door there. I looked past him until he blocked my vision.
“She’s still getting dressed,” he said, rattling beast’s cage at thoughts of the most brilliant sexual encounter and use of books. “You might have imagined her naked a few times, but this is seeing it.” He gave me a questioning stare.
“Technically, anything in here is me still imagining it,” I said. “But trust me, James, I have no interest in Kara. beast that wants those things, with everyone, even you.” He shivered a bit from the built up sweat on his skin.
“Isn’t beast a part of you?” He asked glancing back.
“Not really,” I replied. “But, yes. He’s controlled though.”
“It sounds like you’re really afraid of yourself, mate,” he said and turned as Kara melded into him and met his lips. I figured I should just ask them about the rain in my world in case they had anything to do with it. It wasn’t that important, but had me worried for some reason.
“Hey, did either of you ever manipulate weather?” I asked, as they looked at each other.
“Not me,” Kara said. “I don’t mess with nature ever since that one place where a plant almost killed me. It was this sentient being, created by overzealous genetic engineers and-”
“Yeah,” I said, holding up a hand to stop her. “I think I know the place you mean. The Absorbance. How about you, James?” He flexed and put his arms out to supposedly summon weather. After a moment, he shrugged.
“Seems not,” he said. “To be honest, all my power was from that bag of stuff from a variety of worlds. That’s why you see me going for it a lot. I even had this one device in there that had targeted zapping. If you put it on your back, it could stimulate a climax by nerves alone. Kara sure loved it.” She struck her fist against his shoulder, but I still burst out laughing.
“You two fit well together,” I said. “I’m glad you’re both here. As for the stuff from other worlds, couldn’t you just go back and re-up?” James shook his head.
“Most of the stuff, I got by my own effort,” he said. “And some were one of a kind, like Deferti’s eye of flame.”
“Still, you could go get some of them again with Kara’s rings,” I said.
“Rings?” Kara asked. “Ohhhhhh. The rings. Wow, JJ, you’re behind the times.” I was going to correct her again, but she tossed a piece of metal for me to catch. It was thin, rectangular in shape and flexed a bit, while still remaining cold to touch at all times. One edge lit up with green, while the other had white light.
“What’s this?” I asked, although had an inkling already.
“The new Keir,” she said. “Version twenty-four, I believe. I stumbled into the order along my journeys and they gave it to me. See? You just hold up the white light to your temple and think of the world you want to go to. The green light then lasers up and cuts a doorway in just about anything. It makes things a lot easier.”
“Does it expand like the other one?” I asked. “That was the cool part of it.”
“Really?” Kara asked. “Well, it does. Come on.” She waved me over as Eva, Rebecca, and Finn walked in. “Perfect timing.” We all grouped up around Kara as she herded us before clicking a button on the new Keir. The little brick exploded into a building of green and black structures, or rather boxes. They were no longer metal and steam, but the ever-expanding cubes and shapes ventured everywhere around the room. When it stopped, Kara lifted the whole thing with ease much to the awe of everyone beside her. With just a release of the button, it all vanished much faster than it expanded.
“Wow,” I said at the same time as Rebecca.
“Sorry I’m a bit late,” she said. “I was finishing Jorge in the dungeon. You would not believe how long it takes to get out of a dominatrix costume.” I could almost picture her in it, but shook the thought away before beast could sink his teeth into it.
“Should we start?” Finnelgamin asked and squeezed Eva’s hand. “We’ve stalled long enough. I’m ready. You might see a different side of me, Eva, a side hidden under that glowing scalp.”
“I love you,” she said. “No matter what you say or do.” I nodded and made the tome of command fly from on of the top shelves to my hand.
“These words will make no sense to most of you,” I said. “They are words of command, instructions for Finn to not harm any of you, go to Akier and get… umm… What’s your son’s name? Not sure you ever said.” Kara and James shared a look.
“John,” Kara said. “After the man who saved my love.” I nodded.
“Ok,” I said. “Ready?” Finn nodded “Step away, Eva.” She shared a kiss with Finn and stepped over to Rebecca. “Just relax.”
“Veet,” I started, as he dropped to his knees. “Kirht. One phrase you’d need to remember for control: Oubedo. That means: Remember. If you say that to him after this, he will stop and remember his orders.”
“Ani Toklen Denous Figra Ohm,” I started. “Terrvid Moren Gulat Fan Figreno Tale Oubedo Katal Buagi Derteru Feh. Krronil Ta Lovu Inigi Tuka Mare Kiru Faltero Baru. Maglan Bisu Fro John. Alle Ditu. Zime Kirht. Zime Veet.” I closed the tome and watched him stand. The dangerous part wasn’t over. With a wave, I summoned the Queen of White Thorn and motioned for her to remove the dull-o-cap.
“I don’t feel any different,” Finn said, but as soon as the glow faded from his scalp, he grimaced and clutched his head. Rebecca held Eva back from rushing to his side. In a few moments, he stopped and fell to his knees.
“YOU TURNED ME INTO A MOUSE!” He screamed. I knew he would attack, but this was pointless. His imagined sword struck, but broke.
“Oubedo,” I said, as Finn stopped and shook.
“WHAT DID YOU DO TO ME?!” He shouted as Eva broke out crying.
“What you asked me to,” I replied. “Are you ready to go? Oubedo.” He fought the orders, but they were his memories now.
“Yes,” he said.
“Think of where Moredo is,” I said, as Kara put the white light to his temple. The green laser cut a doorway in the wall and opened to a green-lit corridor. “I wish you luck, old friend.” Without another word, he stepped into the corridor. The tear vanished as I met Kara’s eyes.
“What now?” she asked.
“Now we wait,” I replied. “I have to go, but I’ll be back another time.” I turned and extracted.
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“Hey,” I said, appearing in the library without a warning. I had just been on the train and tested if I could access Rebecca’s space without being at the notebook. I had no way to talk as there was nowhere to put my words. I couldn’t record my thoughts, but felt them within my head. The thing was, was that real? Rebecca was beside me already. “Was I just here about an hour ago?” She was silent.
“You don’t remember, or something?” She asked.
“I do,” I replied. “I was here. I asked about Finn and you said that there was no word. What was the concern you had?”
“How do we get Finn back?” She asked.
“Yes!” I exclaimed excitedly. “You know what this means?”
“You can be a lot more annoying with your visits?” She asked. “Don’t think I’m letting that five minute pause roam free. Where did your mind go?”
“Many places,” I said. “And nowhere. What this means is that your space is somehow connected to my mind, but Kara got here, so the space must be connected to the Infinity Void, too. It’s like I built a place for you on a bridge between the two, a neighborhood on a bridge.”
“That’s kinda weird,” Rebecca said. “Speaking of Kara, I went upstairs to find them having sex in the attic. I was nice and let them finish while watching and taking care of myself, but afterward, I interrupted them and suggested they visit the sex dungeon.”
“Wow,” I said. “You’re really playing a dangerous game telling me all of that. You could have censored yourself a bit for my sake. Now I’ll have to run him later.”
“The… animal?” She said and smiled that she didn’t say “beast.” “What’s feeding it? You could let him run free here.”
“Yeah, yeah,” I said. “It’s not happening right now. And running beast is what you did while watching Kara and James. He was pretty graphic in his journals, so it shook the cage as well. That’s all we’ll speak of that.”
“Yeah,” Rebecca said. “Well, it’s all good here. Just waiting for Finn to find his way back using some of Aki’s technology, hopefully with little Johnny Denizen in tow.”
“For sure with John,” I said. “Try to dial down the sexual content, ok?” Rebecca scoffed.
“Then you write more puristic stuff,” she said. “Or you can just accept that the world is sexual in nature, that it’s nothing sacred, and that it’s enjoyed all over the world. Then, maybe you can let the animal out and he can acclimate to freedom enough to help you find that kind of physical connection rather than just ‘run’ it.” She rolled her eyes.
“I’m adding ‘animal’ to the frog-from-mouth list,” I said.
“Whatever,” Rebecca replied as I turned and vanished.
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I came back the next day to find Rebecca reclining on top of a bookshelf with a tome in her lap. We saw each other, but said nothing. I waved in her direction for some reason. She was brooding from last night. It was best to leave her alone for now. I tried to see what book she was reading, to no avail.
“What'cha reading?” I asked, trying to be playful about it. She remained silent. My attention shifted to the stairs as Kara appeared and waved me over. Rebecca’s eyes never left the pages of her book. Whatever she was reading must have been interesting. Once we were out of earshot, Kara stopped at what once was Tiarto’s room and sat on his bed.
“So, I’ve been wondering,” Kara said. “How’s Finnelgamin going to come back here? I didn’t give him the Keir or anything like it.”
“Rebecca asked the same thing after she sent you two off to the sex dungeon,” I replied. “How was it, by the way? I didn’t have much time to design it, so I just threw some stuff together.” For the first time ever, I saw Kara blush. Was she remembering the adventures in there, or was this just embarrassment? It didn’t last long, and she shook it off.
“It was fine,” Kara said. “Strange place to put it though. The guy was obsessed with stars, but also had that dungeon he rarely used. And what’s with the will-they-won’t-they Romeo and Juliet neighbors?” I leaned on the door to look cool, but the door gave and I fell against it. “You alright?”
“Yeah,” I said, rubbing the pain to zero. “They’re like adventures I made for Rebecca to ‘complete’.” I made air quotes in the air. “I had to give her a taste of the real world without letting her roam.”
“If you care about her so much, why not just take her into your mind and let her experience the world first hand through you?” Kara asked. “Like with Finn. Didn’t you do that with him?”
“Yeah,” I said. “And look how that ended up. His real mind despises me. He wanted a simple story, but I locked him in one until he escaped into the copy of himself I made for reasons of a fun story. Rebecca is a second attempt at something I failed with Finnelgamin. Not to mention she’s a woman, so being inside a guy would be confusing. Oh, wow, I made that sound dirty-sexy.”
“Gross, JJ,” Kara said. I wasn’t going to let that go this time.
“It’s Jack, Kara,” I said. “JJ’s a kid who loves to write within me, and while he started this Rebecca and Finn stuff, he wanted to bail on them multiple times and write other things. That’s kind of why you’re even here, why he integrated you into here. He allowed you to find Rebecca’s space and he’s the one who put a ‘tingle’ on Rebecca so that she knew when I arrived to her space so I couldn’t just spy on her progress.” Kara put her hands up to calm me down.
“Ok, ok, I get it,” she said. “Sorry, Jack. So, he’s the one seeking purity in stories while you muddle them up with nudity, sexual curiosity, and just general explicitness, huh?”
“No. That’d be beast.”
“beast?”
“Another part of my mind I divided out for sanity. He controls all primal cravings and passion, also anger. All I want is a quiet place to live, and a place to die, merging back into nature.”
“And how’s that sanity thing going for you?” Kara asked while smiling.
“Not well,” I replied. “But at least it’s easier to control them as part of me.”
“Ah, metal disorders,” she mused. “What neural pathways they weave in our brains. I bet you even consider this normal, but trust me, it’s not.” We sat together in the room for a few minutes without a word until the floor creaked nearby.
“What are you guys up to in there?” It was Rebecca’s voice. “Making out?” The door swung in to James and Rebecca. Kara stood up from the bed.
“Just pondering our existence and purpose in reality,” she said. “I’m just trying to keep my mind occupied so I don’t worry about Johnny. What’s fun to do around here?” She looked to me as I snapped my fingers to materialize a pack of gum from the very story this library came from.
“It’s called Fever Gum,” I said, handing out strips to everyone present. “It will feel cold as you chew because it absorbs heat. Also, each bite will charge it with electricity, the same goes for the heat. It’s all converted into electric current. Once fully charged, the piece will pulse blue and can be spat out to shock someone, flattened to breathe out Fever Haze, or stretched to make an electrified line.” I smiled as the three of them started chewing.
“Oh, yeah,” I said, remembering the bubbles. “When you blow it into a bubble and burst it, it will send sparks flying into the air.” James opened his mouth to show a blue pulse. The moment reminded me of the last feature of this gum. beast shook the cage lightly and I allowed him a bit of access to a possibly beautiful moment.
“Another thing,” I said. “When not fully charged, and both people have it, it’s said to boost kissing.”
On cue, all three put their tongues out to compare. James’ one still pulsated blue as fully charged, but Rebecca’s and Kara’s didn’t. Their eyes met with eyebrows raised. Rebecca reeled her gum back in and came up to Kara.
“Ok, don’t make it weird,” Rebecca said and put her hands to the sides of Kara’s head. I met James’ eyes and we both quickly looked back to the two girls. “Relax.” Rebecca neared Kara, and locked eyes until Kara closed the distance to her lips and made contact. Rebecca’s hands dropped, as both their hair stood in a fro while they remained together. When they parted, small blue sparks jumped between their lips as breath still lingered with Fever Haze.
“Damn,” Rebecca said.
“Electric,” Kara added. They both turned to me and James. His mouth was open. “Now you two.” I smiled and met his eyes, but he looked unsure. I wondered if he’d been with any other guy since Deacon, but didn’t linger on the idea.
“And with that, I’ll leave you here,” I said. “Have fun with the gum, but be careful not to swallow it. The pack will auto-refill. I gotta get to work.” I waved walking out of the room and disapparated right outside.
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