ZOE BELL PART 61

"Why so quiet?" Mason asked as I handed him a plate to dry.

I shrugged. "Just lots of things on my mind, I guess."

He turned my water off and pulled me to him. "Are you okay?"

I nodded. "Everything in my life just seems to be changing all of a sudden. It’s not a bad thing, I just need to slow sown and take a minute to get used to it is all."

His fingers trailed up and down my arms as he said, "I love you, and I’ll always be here for you to talk to."

"I love you too." I’ve heard that line way too many times, but whenever the moment came for me to get something off my chest, something always happened to turn the attention from me. I’ll have to wait a little while more before I try trusting that line from this one.

He stared into my eyes for a few seconds before he told me to go shower and get ready for bed and he would finish up in the kitchen so we could watch a movie together. I enjoyed the warm water on my lake smelling, chilled skin, and took about fifteen minutes under the waterfall like shower head. It was amazing.

I was surprised to find that my towel was heated up for me when I finally wrapped it around my body. It felt so nice that I seriously contemplated crawling into bed with it. Of course I didn’t, that would have been weird, so I found my pajamas and looked for a warm blanket to snuggle up in with Mason.

I found one that looked promising, and went out to the living room with it. Mason was already out there, wearing pajama pants with slightly wet hair, and no shirt. Wow. How can I be the lucky one that he’s chosen to be with? I mean, really! Who get’s to snuggle up with an eight pack and sculpted biceps all the time? Yeah, I didn’t think there were very many girls out there that could.

"How did you take a shower already?" I plopped down onto the couch, next to him, and he spread my blanket out over us.

"There’s a shower upstairs. I hurried so you wouldn’t have to be alone." He smiled at me and I loved the way his eyes sort of crinkled at the edges, making his smile that much more breathtaking.

"You’re too good for me, you know that?"

He shook his head and kissed me once on the mouth. "I’m not good for you at all. You deserve so much better than me."

I shook my head, knowing that was impossible, and decided to change the subject. "Has Cliff marked on Abbie?"

He let out a sigh. "Yes, why? Is she going to break up with him?"

"No? Why would you think that?"

"I don’t know. That’s just our worst fears. We’re all afraid that one day the girl we love won’t love us back. Even though we’ll never stop loving them."

I touched his cheek. "You won’t have to worry about this girl."

He smiled and I knew he would worry no matter how hard I tried to extinguish that worry.

Yet again, subject change! "What are we gonna watch?"

He handed me a remote I hadn’t noticed he held, and tole me to press play. I did, and the beginning credits of a cheerleading movie began playing.

"Seriously?"

He shrugged. "it was the only girl movie I could find. My sister must have raided our stash of chick flicks when she left for college."

I stared at him a few more seconds. I didn’t’ really want to watch a movie anyways. "Aren’t we supposed to be camping?"

"Yeah?"

"You don’t watch movies when you’re camping! We should go build a fire or something."

"I thought you were cold."

"Hence the fire!"

He stood up and held his hand out to me. I grabbed it and he led me to the master bedroom.

"Wait." I paused in the doorway. My heart started thudding against my chest. Really loudly. "I don’t want to be in here either."

He smiled. "Relax. Put you shoes on."

Confused, I slid my feet into the flip flops I left at the bathroom door. He pulled me out the sliding glass doors and showed me the fire pit with tree stumps around it for chairs.

"Oh." I felt a rush of heat in my cheeks ans was glad when he let go of my hand to go start the fire.

He was an excellent boy scout! The fire was started and blazing withing seconds. He moved two stumps together and put his arm around me when I sat down. "How’s that for a fire?"

"It’s pretty much the best fire I’ve ever seen. . . and felt! I’m getting warmed right up!"

We stared into the fire for a second or two before he broke the silence. "I’m sorry again, for the way I acted earlier."

I kept my eyes on the fire. "I thought we were done on that subject of matter?" Technically speaking, he could have meant more than one ‘earlier’ that involved Alex or Abbie.

"We are. I just had to confirm it."

I nodded. "Speaking of earlier, what did you mean about your wolf bite being dangerous?"

"Don’t you know? Wolf bites transform people into werewolves. But only on the full moon."

I looked up at the sky. It was a full moon tonight. "How many more legends are true about you guys?"

"I don’t know. There’s quite a few, but most of the are just that, legends. If they are true, they’re usually a little bit different."

Interesting. "So if you bit me during a full moon, I would become like you?"

He hesitated before he nodded. "But you probably wouldn’t be quite like us. I wouldn’t know though. I’ve never seen it happen before."

"So you’re not like. . . bloodthirsty. . . or anything?"

"Kind of. Our meals are usually bloody on the inside. But not to the extent that people notice."

Just the thought of my boyfriend eating raw meant when I wasn’t around made me want to gag! "How raw were your pork chops at dinner?" I made a disgusted look when he tole me he could taste the blood in the meat. "And you’ve been kissing me with those lips?" I smacked his arm and he laughed.

"It was delicious baby!" He pulled me to him and forced a kiss on my mouth.