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and how I’d come to possess them. At first she had seemed angry at my vague answers, but she soon obviously came to the conclusion that I was too witless to lie and genuinely didn’t know more than I was saying.
There was urgency in her questions and a brisk harshness. She was desperately trying to find something out about me and I could tell she was getting more frantic the longer our conversation went. I wasn’t quite sure how to broach the subject so I just went for plain brutal honesty.
“So can you teach me to use this… thing?“ I gestured with my hand causing a flash of particles to spark. “You obviously know how to use it.”
“I could.” She smiled devilishly. The smile never reached her eyes though. There was fear in her eyes – I’ve never seen fear like that. It was quickly replaced with her twisted grin, but I saw enough to recognise it for what it was – terrified fear. Renee was desperately afraid of something and didn’t want anyone to know about it.
“…but I’m not going to,” Renee finished lightly.
“I thought your grandfather taught you!” I complained.
“Yeah, he did,” she said disarmingly, “…but we don’t really have time and besides your friends have found us.” Tony and Sarah had just walked through the doorway from the stage area, heading our way. I cursed under my breath.
“Dude! Do you have any idea how long we’ve been looking for you?” Tony boomed as he walked towards us. “You totally ditched on us.”
I mentally tried to tell Tony to take a hike.
    “Yeah, sorry,” I grumbled. “I got... distracted.”
Renee’s eyebrows shot up in response. I desperately wanted to ask Renee more questions, but I couldn’t with Sarah and Tony around. I think Renee knew that too; in fact I’m pretty sure she was counting on it. She didn’t look at Tony or Sarah.
    “Well, if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got an early start tomorrow,” she said. “It was nice to meet you, Devon.” She smiled as she rose to leave. “I’ll just leave you here with your friends.”
“Okay… See you,” I said sullenly.
Renee gave me a piercing look, grabbed her bag and headed for the door. I sat there in stunned silence for a few seconds before I leapt out of my chair after Renee.
I wasn’t going to let this opportunity get away from me.
I caught her by the time she’d reached the street. In a daze of teenage hormones I caught up to her and pulled her to me, pressing her against my chest as I pulled her in close, she wrapped her body around mine and I felt her hands wrap around my neck and pulled against me in turn.
Our lips met with stunning force and I could feel the blue halo particles in our bodies collide. My breath disappeared in an instant as I was sucked into the oblivion that was our kiss. Intention, thought, desire were all swept away with the single fact of our lips pressed firmly against each other’s.
I could almost feel the blue particles in our bodies entwine and form a pattern around our bodies, joining us, binding us, and jumping from body to body in pattern. I could feel our bodies unite in a single purpose, I could feel her under my skin through the blue lights and I knew she could feel me too. She was inside me now and I was inside her and there was nothing that I wanted more. When we broke, there was a dull silence. The loss of the connection to her filled my soul and I was weakened by it, my essence drained – incomplete.
“You’re cute, but you’re much too young and you’re really not my type,” she whispered, her eyes twinkling with mirth.
She was trying hard to keep things light-hearted, but I could see the loss reflected in her eyes too. She covered it up well but I noticed that she hadn’t let me go yet.
“Can I at least have your number?” I pleaded shamelessly. I breathed a sigh of relief as she disengaged from my arms to draw a pen from her purse and scrawled down a number on an old receipt.
“See you, Renee,” I murmured as I