Eternally Blue (Sunset Cliffs Vampire #1) (Paranormal Teen Romance) by Katie Aleo Page B

breathe quietly and let go.
     
    “ What?” I asked, alarmed.
     
    “ Nothing, nothing, they just look painful that’s all. Are you ready for some bookstore therapy?”
     
    We grabbed some decadent hot chocolate at the bookstore café, Noah said coffee was later but that right now I needed the sugar to restore my blood sugar after my piercing and proceeded to explain the science behind that reasoning in line and zzzz. I just bored myself to sleep there for a second, sorry.
     
    So that is how I wound up with a hot chocolate with frilly whipped topping on it, with a chocolate stick in it and caramel drizzled on top. Wow. I tasted it and had to sit down. Again, why would the council say my senses would be dulled when everything seems so much clearer? Granted I cannot hear every person’s heartbeat in the room, or tell you how many people were on the second level of the bookstore from hearing them individually, or even tell you what the clerk at the café had for breakfast by smelling it on her. I could not tell you all of those things, but what I could tell you was that I could taste this hot chocolate, and I could see the whipped cream stuck on Noah’s nose, and I could feel myself reaching out to him with my finger to wipe it off and I could hear my laughter mixing with his, and I could sense the rest of the room becoming a blur, and I tell you my senses seemed as sharp as I would ever need them to be.
     
    The rest of our morning went by relatively quickly. I picked out a fiction novel, a story about an unlikely princess stuck on a farm, which Noah laughed and said must be relevant to my past. Pretending to study it hard, I said “Eureka! Your right, what am I doing traipsing around in bookstores with mere commoners? Good sir, I must go”. I bowed and tried to duck out of line, but he caught my wrist and pulled me close to him.
     
    “ Not so fast woman” he half whispered half growled in my ear, but then he pulled away, ruining the mood.
     
    “ What?” I asked self consciously.
     
    “ Nothing, I just forgot about your ear, I don’t want to hurt you”.
     
    “ Oh” I said, touching my ear carefully, “I didn’t even notice, it feels fine, you must have the magic touch”.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    Chapter 6
     
     
     
     
     
    We got some food from a drive-thou of my choice, Noah was hoping, like always, that it would bring about some memory of my past, if I chose my ‘favorite’ place. It didn’t of course, but I admired him for being so diligent and caring. We took our food and new books to the beach (Noah got a book on computer circuitry – not that he was interested in repairing computers he said, but just that it was something else to learn) and set up shop on his blanket from his trunk and dug into our bounty.
     
    Side by side we sat watching surfers complete their route repetitively while we ate, it was hypnotic really and I fell back on the blanket to look at the sky with a contented sigh after I finished eating. Who knew clouds could be something worth looking at? Lots of people I suppose since I have read lots of books where they are brought up, but looking at the night sky my whole life, I thought I had seen all I needed to of clouds. I was wrong of course, like I am about a lot of things relating to daytime. There are so many more shades of white in daytime clouds than night clouds, and they aren’t nearly as ominous looking. (Yes even someone who lives in the dark can still think clouds have an ominous quality if I try to sike myself out and scare myself). I see a head above me and my eyes try to focus on the face, and I smile. “Hi” I say.
     
    “ Hi!” Stacey looks smug as a bug, and I sit up and scoot over for her. “I see your non-concussion is feeling better” I panicked, was she mad that I didn’t go to school and instead spent my afternoon on a beach blanket with Noah?
     
    Noah spoke up “Yeah thanks to me she felt better, and then I took her out and we got a