Ah, welcome back! I know, I know, it's been too long since I updated here, but the last while has been so frigging busy...we'll get there though.
Where did I leave off? Oh right, we went to sleep that first night. I had some of the weirdest dreams I've ever had. Like the details are all jumbled, but there were points in it where I saw Elvira but with Vanny's face, or I'd be facing her while she undressed, only for her to shift into a gargoyle and launch at me. By the time I woke up, panting and a little sweaty, it was almost twelve. I sat up in that incredibly pink bed and saw it was empty, save for me.
I...sighed. Not for any real reason; it just felt like the thing to do. I wasn't even really sure what I was feeling. Upset, angry? Disappointed, confused? Exasperated? Yes to all of them and more. I mean, before
everything
else that had been revealed to me the night before, there was that hurt that she'd slept with someone else. Not just anyone, but my
best friend
!
Yes, I knew what had happened and in that logic ruled part of my brain, I didn't really blame her. Her situation was kind of...well,
unique
was an understatement. But in that emotional part of me...I was angry. Not enraged or wanting to punch something or anything, just...a casual anger. The kind that makes you wanna snap at people, just angry remarks.
The hell was I supposed to do? I mean, apparently my girlfriend wasn't even
human,
or traditional human anyways. Like the fact that apparently
magic
exists for real...that kind of sent my mind on a bit of a trip. So many questions just flowed through me until I felt like I was full of them, like they were swimming in my veins, my head pounding with each new idea and thought.
And then...pancakes?
A smell swept into the room, on a breeze that somehow went
through
the door to reach me. Magic, right. Well, I fucking
love
pancakes and weirdly the smell seemed to calm me slightly. I got up and stretched, the clothes I wore yesterday on the bed. Had she cleaned them? They smelled fresh. I shrugged and threw them on, yawning no less than three times. I wasn't physically tired but I was so mentally and emotionally drained that I think it affected my body.
I made my way out the door and to the kitchen where the smell was coming from. Vanny sat there, a pile of pancakes stacked with butter on top, like some sort of old school TV commercial.
"Hey, I didn't know if you wanted to sleep more or not. How're you feeling?"
She looked normal. Looked exactly like how she should, sounded like how she should. Was I overthinking this all? Not enough?
"Ace? You alive there?"
I blinked a couple times and shook my head, trying to clear my mind.
"Uh, yeah sorry. I think everything's just hitting me right now." I muttered and sat down a little heavily and looked at her, my witch girlfriend and then the stack of pancakes. My stomach grumbled so loud that Vanessa's eyes widened and she stared at it for a moment. I laughed.
"Apparently I'm eating first." I grabbed a flapjack and some syrup and nodded my thanks to her. I took a few bites and oh. my. Fuck. It was
gooooood
.
"So...do you have any questions? I know this is all...a lot." Vanny said, looking at me with an expression I couldn't quite define.
"Yeah...umm..." All those thoughts that had been filling me more and more disappeared at that moment.
"H...how come no one knows about magic?" A good a place to start as any.
"That's a good question. It's probably cuz most witches don't really showcase their powers a lot, and most of our gifts are not as obvious as my mom's and grandma's. Command over elements is rather rare, most of us have something a lot smaller. I have a cousin who's power is drawing. She has no training but she can draw
anything
she can imagine, even if her eyes are closed. Others have a
connection
to an element but no straight up 'powers'. Like I've heard of a few who were connected to water, and they're olympic swimmers. Or one of my aunt's friends is a dancer who always seems to hang in the air just a little bit longer than the others. It's not that their gifts are stronger or weaker necessarily, it's just...different. Magic is weird like that."
I nodded as I ate and it kind of made sense. If people were throwing fireballs and shooting lightning, it'd be pretty obvious pretty fast. But still...the idea that there was a secret world full of magic, it just seemed so...impossible.
"Ok..." I said slowly. "What about that goddamn
lighthouse
you're packing? I feel like if that were the norm for witches, surely more people would know about em?" I was
trying
not to seem like that part of her was occupying my thoughts, but it really was. I mean how could it
not
?
She blushed super red.
"Yeah, I'm a little on the
larger
side, even for a witch."
"A little?!" I blurted out and she snorted at me.
"Most witches are bigger than most men. Not all, but most. On average, they sit between...I think twelve and sixteen or so inches long? And we're just as varied as men on the shape, so some are thicker some aren't."
Ok, pretty normal I guessed. Other than the insane numbers she was saying, of course. I nodded again and ate a few pancakes in silence as all my understanding of the world just fell apart.
"I have so many questions...I just...none of them have
words
in my head. Just...confusion." I finally muttered. All the queries and ideas were blending together, so many just saying 'why' or 'how' over and over it was impossible to tell where one question stopped and the next started.
Vanessa nodded a bit and I noticed her hair seemed...longer. I frowned and she raised an eyebrow.
"Is...is your hair longer?" I could've sworn the night before it was shoulder length and now it seemed to reach past her tits!
"Oh, yeah. Sorry, my powers are still...kinda unknown to me. I tried to see what you liked, I mean sexually, and my hair just sprouted. Sorry?"
I frowned, why was she apologizing? I
do
like longer hair. I just nodded again.
"Look, Ace, you're taking this better than my last boyfriend at least. I know it's a lot that I'm springing on you, and we can take this at whatever pace you want." She gave me a small smile and patted my hand. I didn't pull away.
"Ok, ok. What do ya wanna do today?" I asked. I hadn't really made any plans and while I was definitely going to message Gemma later and check in, I had nothing else in my mind. Other than a million and one questions.
"We can game, if you want?" I nodded at her and that's what we did. For a few hours anyways. She let me use her xbox to log in to my profile and we partied up for a while. We took a break for lunch and I decided to...get over it, basically. It wasn't that simple, though, and I knew that, but I decided that I wasn't going to hold the previous over her anymore.