Ok I apoligize ahead of time if this is too long, but chapter 10 is really short and I haven't posted in a while. Please read on because chapter ten is important for the next chapter.
Chapter Nine
“OK, I’m going to explain it to you one more time,” Bailey told Jasper from the back seat of my parents Odyssey, annoyed. “You take FAKE, PLASTIC guns and shoot people and INVISIBLE lasers come out. If you shot them then there little back pack thing lights up, makes some beeping noises, and your gun goes off for like thirty seconds then you try to shoot other people, that’s it. It doesn’t KILL them, it doesn’t HURT them, it just makes their gun go off for a while. The WHOLE time YOUR GUN IS ON you try to shoot other people. Do you get it now?”
“Yes I think I do,” Jasper replied from the passenger seat, a large grin on his face. Bailey let out a loud groan, rolling her eyes.
“OK you two, that’s enough. You’ve been arguing about this for fifteen minutes now,” I told them like they were both two five year old sibling fighting over something stupid. “If you don’t behave then I won’t take you laser tagging,” I told them as I pulled into the parking lot of the Arlington laser tagging field house slash bowling alley. Jasper looked at me with puppy dog eyes and stuck his bottom lip out. Leaning over towards the driver’s side, he wrapped his lips around mine, pulling me into another one of his extraordinary kisses, that made me loose all control.
“Does this help?” he asked, a sly grin on his face.
“Maybe,” I muttered, kissing him once more.
“Oh, make me hurl, why don’t you?” Bailey groaned, getting out of the car. Ignoring Bailey, I pressed my lips against Jasper’s again before we fallowed Bailey into the building.
Snow blew along with the harsh wind and added onto the thick blanket that covered every flat surface as any ordinary day in Colorado. Inside the laser tagging building was packed with people as it would be on any other Sunday. However, the man at the front desk said that there’s an opening in the next group in about ten minutes. So we sighed up and paid for at least two games with mostly Bailey’s money and sat down at a bench by the laser tagging room. The kids screaming and laughing from the dark room, plus the loud music playing throughout the entire building made it pretty loud. The room was black all over except for glowing green lines that went through the walls. Two younger kids that looked about six or seven watched the other kids playing, impatiently through a small window, their mother sitting on the bench across from us. We slid our heavy coats off and placed them in a pile besides us. Bailey sat at the end of the bench, grumbling to herself, irritated as I sat next to Jasper and played with his lips.
As we waited, more and more kids came. After what seemed like no time at all, the kids from the other room all came stumbling out at once and we were allowed inside the laser tagging room. It was even darker, the white letters on my shirt glowed brightly. It was like a huge black playground with forts, tunnels, and plenty of space to run around, except they were covered with wacky green and orange designs the glowed in the dark. The instructor exclaimed the rules to all the kids in the room and handed each of us our black vest and gun. We decided that since most of us were strangers to each other we would do a free for all. When the man shouted go, everyone took off running in all different directions. I ran up into a tower, shooting people on the way. Staring out a small circled window, I waited until some kids were underneath me and then shot them. This was perfect! I could be shooting kids the whole time and they wouldn’t know what hit them. However, not even two minutes later, a fat chubby kid with buzzed brown hair came up and found me. I quickly shot him before he got me and then dashed back down. Running into Bailey, we immediately vigorously started shooting each other. Of cores Bailey got to me first. Groaning loudly, I ran away and crawled into a small tunnel, trying to catch my breath. When Jasper came in the tunnel after me, I jumped, startled and quickly pointed my gun at him. He shot out an empty hand. “Truce?” he asked, hopefully. I grabbed his hand, but instead of shaking it I pulled him closer to me so that our lips met.
“Truce,” I replied, breathlessly. A wide smile appeared on Jaspers face as he looked out the window and started shooting people.
We played three whole games nonstop. Of cores Jasper had the highest score out of everyone in the entire game, running and shooting as fast as he could. “You cheater,” I teased Jasper, punching him gently on the shoulder as we walked out of the laser tagging room, sweat dripping from my forehead.
“How did I cheat?” Jasper asked, shocked as he placed his arm around me.
“You and your little super abilities. You couldn’t like tone it down just a smidge?”
“Well yeah, but what’s the fun in that?” I rolled my eyes, slipping out of reach of his arm and gliding over to Bailey.
Her arm was folded across her chest and her lips were tightly pursed together. “Come on, Bailey, you had fun, didn’t you?” I asked lightly shoving her to the side.
“Yeah,” she groaned. “And… I so kicked your butt out there!” Bailey shouted right into my face.
“Did not!” I protested, placing my sweaty hands on my hips. I stared down at Bailey, angrily, my lips now pursed tightly together.
“Oh, I only hit you like…. Twenty billion times!” she shouted, waving the score paper in my face. It was true; Bailey had got my over two hundred times and I shot her no more than ten times. Sighing, I walked back over to Jasper. He grabbed me by the waist. It was getting pretty packed with all the kids leaving and more kids getting ready to go laser tagging, so we walked down the hall towards the bowling alley.
“So what do you say we go bowling?” I asked Bailey, Jasper still holding tightly to my waist pushing me closer to him and was now pressing his smooth lips onto my neck.
“All right,” Bailey grumbled, hanging her head as she walked down the hall.
“Oh, and can we get some food too?” Jasper asked, eagerly.
“OK,” I laughed shoving him off of me.
We walked down the long empty hallway over to the loud crowed bowling alley. Bowling ball crashed into the pins, people screamed and clapped for joy along with a load of chattering from hundreds of different people, and the machines made loud groaning sounds as they picked up all the pins. The smell of pizza, corn dogs, and popcorn filled the air. After we paid for one game, I set it up as Jasper and Bailey went over to the counter to get some pizza. They came over after I had entered each of our names with a medium pizza covered in onions, pepperoni, sausage, olives, peppers, and mushrooms. Licking my lips, picked up a slice and shoved part of it into my mouth.
“OK Bailey, you’re up. Show me what you got,” I told her, sitting down on the high stool by the small red circled table across from Jasper who was engulfing one slice of pizza after another. Bailey picked up a smaller blue ball and swung it with all her might down the alley. I watched as the ball rolled down the wooden alley and hit six pins. Bailey waited until the pins were set back up, before she picked up another ball and hit the other four pins.
“Woo!” she screamed throwing, her hands into the air. “Top that,” she commanded, staring at me intensively.
“Fine,” I shot back, sliding out of my stool and stalking over to the alley. Bailey took the opportunity to steal my spot and chow down on some pizza. I picked up a green ball and swung it out there. After it smacked nine pins down, I picked up another ball and knocked the rest over. I walked over to the table Bailey and Jasper were sitting at, brushing my hands together with pride. “Hah!” I shouted into Bailey’s face my hands perched on my hips. Bailey stuck her tongue at me, her mouth full of food. “OK, you’re turn,” I told Jasper.
“Uh I, uh-don’t think I can do-“ Jasper stuttered.
“You pick up the ball and swing it towards the pins. Your trying to knock them down,” Bailey said really slow like Jasper was the stupidest person on earth. I shot a harsh glare at her, but she paid no attention.
“OK, I’ll try,” Jasper said, jumping down from his stool. He stared at the pins for a good two minutes before he finally shot the ball out into the alley. It flew across the floor like a shooting star. Souring so fast you could hardly see it. Within seconds the ball smacked right into the center of the pins, breaking every single one of them into millions of pieces.
“Holy, sh-“ Bailey started to say, but I quickly clamped my hand over her mouth.
“How did I do?” Jasper asked, a huge grin on his face. At that moment the machines loud sirens started to go off throughout the building. I grabbed both Baileys and Jasper and quickly pulled them out the nearest exit. The freazing wind blew hard against our faces as we sped over to the van. Jasper managed to keep at a normal pace for Bailey’s sake.
“Nice going, freak! You nearly got us thrown in jail!” Bailey shouted once we were all in the car.
“Bailey, just shut-up,” I demanded as I drove out of the parking lot, my nerves rising to the highest level right now. “Is anyone chasing me?” I asked Jasper as I drove way past the speed limit away from the Arlington laser tagging field slash bowling alley.
“No,” Jasper muttered, looking over his shoulder then back at me. “I’m sorry,” he muttered under his breath.
“That’s OK,” I reassured him, my tone calm and soothing. On the way home, we remained silent as the music played loudly.
Soon after we arrived, Baileys foster parents came and Jasper and me were finally alone again. “So, what was that little accident you had over at the bowling alley?” I asked Jasper, sitting down on his lap rubbing his muscular arms.
“What do you mean?” Jasper asked, as I brushed my lips against his.
“I mean you stronger than normal people.”
“That depends, how strong are normal people?”
What is the largest thing you can carry?” I demanded.
Jasper strode over to the window and yanked it opened, holding out his hand to me. “Come with me and I’ll show you.”
“Oh no, you’re not taking me to China, or something are you?” I groaned.
“No, we won’t go far, I promises.”
A large smile spread across my face as I grabbed Jasper’s hand and he swung me onto his back. Once again we soared through the air, but this time I had all the courage to keep my eyes wide opened. I watched as the city grew smaller and we started to soar up through the clouds over head to some snowy mountains. Jasper set me down in the middle of the forest. The trees blocked all rays of sunlight. It was chilly and misty. The scattered trees stood up large and tall.
“Are you going to lift one of these trees or something?” I asked, staring disbelieving at Jasper.
“You don’t think I can?”
“I bet you anything you can’t lift that tree over there.” I pointed to a rather large extremely tall maple tree.
“I bet you anything I can,” Jasper shot back. He strode over to the tree and with only one hand he lifted it two feet into the air. The roots burst out of the frozen ground dirt flying everywhere. I only stared at Jasper in shock as he held it there for a moment before he put it back into the ground. The root magically dug themselves back underneath the harsh soil.
Jasper strode over to where I stood frozen to the spot, grinning from ear to ear. “OK, name your price,” I grumbled under my breath.
“Oh, I don’t ask for much just a little something,” Jasper said as he wrapped his lips around mine.
“Mm, you don’t ask for much,” I exclaimed between kisses.
“So where do you want to go eat?” Jasper asked with a sly grin.
“Let’s just go back to my house I’m pretty tiered and I’m sure we can find something in our fridge,” I exclaimed, jumping on Jasper’s back. He turned his head behind him and kissed me once more before he took off flying.
Chapte Ten
“OK, let me get this straight. You want someone to draw inside your skin and then let it scar into a flower?” Jasper asked, a horrified look on his face as I drove over to the movies the next Saturday evening.
“When I’m eighteen,” I told him from behind the wheel.
The past week Jasper and me had been to movie after movie. The first movie Jasper saw he kept asking continuous questions throughout the entire movie about how the screen worked and how the people got in the movies. Finally once the movie was over, he got it and wanted to see it again so we did. After that, we would go to a movie and then sneak into another one. Afterwards, Jasper would take me somewhere high up for dinner usually in a different country like Mexico or Japan.
The roads were icy and the sky was fogy as tiny snowflakes floated through the air. “Isn’t there other ways to put tattoos on your body?” Jasper asked, still horrified by the subject.
“Nope, that’s how you do it,” I replied, glancing over to see his disgusted expression. He took a deep breath and jerked his head.
“Whatever,” he muttered. “OK, so I got you something as an early birthday present.”
“Jasper, my birthday isn’t for another three weeks.” I turned to look at Jasper, smiling.
“I know, but they play in the upcoming month,” Jasper grimaced. He pulled two tickets out of his pocket and I felt my heart do a quick leap out of my chest.
“Oh my god, Jasper!” I shouted, snatching the tickets. “You got me tickets to the Aril Lavigne concert? Thank you! Thank you so much!” I quickly kissed Jasper swiftly on the lips.
“It’s two Saturdays from now,” he muttered, shoving his hands in his pockets and smiling up at me, bashfully.
“I just can’t believe it. You actually managed to get me tickets to my favorite singer.”
“I understand If you want to take Jen.”
“No, Jen can get her own tickets. I’m taking the awesome boyfriend that got them for me. Oh Jasper, I love you so much. Thank you so much for the tickets. We’re going to have a blast.” I stared at the tickets still clutched firmly into my hands, adoringly.
When I shot a quick glance at the road, a large blue truck was right in front of me. I tried to swerve out of the way, but it was too late; I hit the truck hard, my head jerked forward and then smashed into the widow so that the glass cut into my scalp. The Odyssey tilted to the side and smashed into another truck which collided with the Odyssey. The last thing I saw before I blacked out was a blur of Jasper, quickly unbuckling his seat belt. However, I wasn’t completely uncosiouses. I could feel the sharp burning pain all over my body. My lungs felt like they had collapsed and were going to run out of air any second. Jasper Picked me up and carried me. Every one of my bones felt as if they had cracked. My head was spinning so fast I couldn’t think straight. I tried to speak, but like the rest of my body my voice was too weak to do anything. I couldn’t hear anything except the rush of the wind. For once the cool wind felt good against my burning skin. Jasper laid me in a small bed somewhere warm and quiet.
I felt his lips wrap around mine, sore and bruised. Immediately, they no longer burned, and all the pain in my lips went away. Jasper moved down to my neck and I could breathe again. Gasping for air, my eyes remained shut and my voice remained too weak to speak. So all I could do is lay there while Jasper worked magic. His lips he pressed on the top of my forehead and I fell into a deep peacefully sleep.
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