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Hi!!! This is the THIRD installment of WITHIN AMIE
I'm a part time English speaker so naturally, there would be grammar mistakes and confusing sentences here and there LOL so I'm sorry for that.
With love, Jayleen
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Edmund looked at me questioningly. I refused to meet his gaze as I pretended to be occupied with trimming my mother's roses. I put each trimmed roses in a transparent clear vase carefully. My mother seemed to know what was going on between Robert and me but she didn't say anything, in fact she seemed to be smirking with glee. If I hadn't known any better, I'd say that she was trying to set me up with the human boy which was ridiculous. I knew my mother wouldn't have thought of such things.
Where did you go this afternoon? Edmund asked in my mind, I still refused to meet his gaze, Amie? He prompted again.
I didn't know what to say to him. Heck, I couldn't understand why I felt like I was betraying him. I guessed my conscience was gaining on me about my intense make-out session with Robert. "I went to the carnival," I said to him. He grabbed my hand and looked for signs my mother's presence, she had apparently left us alone in the living room.
"You've fulfilled your father's wish already," he whispered, "We should go home, just like what the Elders had told us before."
This time, I looked at him straight into his eyes, "Go home?"
He looked at me curiously, "Yes, you do know that we can't stay here for long, sooner or later, we'd fall ill,"
I sighed. There were so many reasons why I couldn't just get up and leave the mortal dimension. I couldn't possibly leave my mother so soon. I had just got here, why couldn't Edmund see that?
Hah! You don't want to leave Robert too, admit it Amie! My conscience screamed at me victoriously. I bit my lips, blocking my thoughts from resurfacing. I couldn't let Edmund knew the truth that I was feeling something special for a mere human boy.
I knew that the best thing to do would just pack up and leave before my feelings could grow but – but I looked at my mother who came into the living room with a big wooden spoon. She said something about dinner which was going to be ready soon and she asked Edmund to help her set the table. He looked at me but he didn't say anything as he stood up and followed my mother to the kitchen.
Bless my mother. She knew how stuck I was, – well, not exactly knowing but still, I had to be grateful at her nonetheless. I felt confused with myself, you would think that I would have enough sense to stop myself from engaging into a relationship that basically had no future? I mean, look at my parents! Sure, they were happily in love at first but they had no choice but to separate when my father and I had fallen gravely ill but the taste of the forbidden was so alluring.
Robert was alluring.
He exuded certain charms that made me continuously hooked.
My feelings set aside, I knew that I wanted to get to know him better. I took out a piece of paper from the pocket of my jeans and gazed at Robert's neat writing of his number. I bit my lips, knowing full well that I had minutes left to decide before Edmund would come back to the living room and question me again.
I stood up and went to the phone. I stared at the numbers on the phone hesitantly and then looked at the piece of paper. I crumpled it and put it back into my pocket, I had memorized the number already so there was no need to look at the paper anymore. I looked around me just to see if Edmund or my mother had returned from the kitchen. I gripped the phone hard and walked quickly to the armchair. Should I call? I wondered to myself. I really wanted to know what could progress from this appealing temptation.
Like a spell, my fingers started to punch the numbers and I held the phone to my ear. I could hear the ringing of the tone, waiting patiently and then, just at the last moment before my courage crumbled and I was about to end the line, a familiar voice answered the phone. "Um, Rob?" I asked timidly.
"Amelee?! Is that you? Wow, hey, I'm glad you called me," he said happily. My heart seemed to plunge in deeper into forbidden waters. "Where are you?"
I liked the feeling, so to speak.
"Yeah, um, I'm staying at Sarah's..." my voice trailed down as panic started to grip on my throat. I couldn't think of anything to say to him, I wanted to impress him with my usual witty bubbly attitude but somehow I couldn't do it in front of him, I was just speechless!
Rob didn't seem to notice my hesitance since he continued to speak on as if I hadn't sounded like an uncertain demon – uh, half demon, "Listen, I was thinking, there's going to be a big party at my friend's loft this Friday, would you like to go with me? I could show you around," he said warmly.
This Friday? I thought to myself, why! That would be three days from now. I looked at the empty hallway again and wondered of my options. Edmund would certainly ask me to go home as soon as possible and it didn't seem like I could come back any time soon.
"Amelee?" he called out.
"Amie," I corrected him, "Just call me Amie."
"Amy?" he asked me again in a flirty persuasive voice.
"No," I chuckled, "Amie as in with I and E."
"Sweet," I could practically see him grinning at the end of the line, "So, Amie, what do you think? Or if you like, we could skip the party and head to the beach? The moonlight at the beach is awesome, you should see."
"Why don't we do both?" I suggested with a flirty tone. OK, sue me, I couldn't help but to be attracted to the boy! I could see Edmund approaching me from the corner of my eye so I quickly straightened up and cleared my voice, "Look, I have to go, so I'll see you then."
"Yeah, definitely! I'll pick you up around seven!" but before I could even protest about him picking me up. Edmund had already sat down on the sofa by my side, intently looking at me with those curious silvery-green eyes of his. I didn't say anything as I hung up the phone and placed it on the coffee table in front of me.
"Who's that?" he asked me.
I bit my lips, "Just a friend," I replied, trying to sound calm, "I met a few when Sarah took me to her café." I added quickly.