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asked, searching my face.
    “His idea of teaching shifting is taking a girl in a dark cave and then motivating her into shifting,” I replied, my eyes locked to his.
    “Yes, I believe Arianna mentioned something like that to me once. There are more suitable ways, but Chax clearly has no feeling towards his Apprendo’s.”
    “At least I got it right for a while; until he pinned me down and I was unable to get out from under him,” I said. He closed his eyes again, locking his jaws. He stopped nursing me and then opened his eyes and looked at me, but no words followed. Slowly he moved in towards me, gently placing his mouth on mine. My heart started to pound insanely, and I opened my mouth to take advance of my first kiss.
    Our kiss deepened, and he moved his arms around me and pressed me to him. I moaned and kissed him harder; desperate for more. I wrapped my arms around his neck and held him to me. This was everything I ever dreamed about, my body was humming and my heart pounding so hard I could feel it hit my ribs. We kissed for a long time, and when we finally broke the kiss we were both breathless. He leaned his head to mine still holding me; savoring the moment.
    “May I be your escort to the autumn ball?” he asked me, still holding me close to him.
    “Yes, that will be great,” I answered, lifting my head to look at him. We started kissing again, this time, devouring each other. After a while we stopped, and he helped me off the bed. Holding my hand he led me to the stairs going up to our rooms.
    “I will release you from our prior arrangement for tonight. Go get supper and then get some rest in for tomorrow,” he said, his eyes dancing with delight.
    “Okay,” I replied, and we quickly gave each other a good-bye kiss. He released me and turned around still smiling all the way. I turned around, and headed up the stairs feeling absolutely great after such a bad two days. I came into the hall and passed everyone with a huge smile, some looked at me like I was insane, others just stared.
    I walked into our room to find Nanini and Lada inside getting ready for supper . “Hi guys,” I greeted them, and planted myself on the bed. They turned around and looked at me, confusion written all over their faces.
    “Why on earth are you so happy, when it looks like you had the crap beaten out of you?” Lada asked.
    I just smiled and lay back on my pillows. No way was I going to tell them I made out with Nanini's Custos . I’ll tell them later when my heart stops beating so fast.
    “Oh hell, you made out with someone. It’s written all over that smug look on your face!” Nanini said, and started to jump on the spot.
    “Maybe,” I replied, still smiling at them.
    “Please tell me it was not the nutcase?” Lada whined, her face full of disgust.
    “Are you crazy, I’ll kill him before I ever make out with him, the idiot!” I replied, totally shocked to find the feeling of his mouth on my neck all of a sudden. Oh that’s so gross!
    “Was it Seth?” Nanini asked, jumping onto my bed excited.
    “Yes, and he asked to take me to the ball,” I replied, still freaked out a little over the weird mouth feeling.
    “Way out!” Lada said, and got up and smacked me on the shoulder . “You two are made for each other,” she finished.
    “What was is like?” Nanini asked, and I turned to look at her with an Atlantic-wide smile on my face.
    “It was wonderful, no dream could even beat it,” I replied, and then we went all crazy for the rest of the night. The girls hammering me over Seth, and I must admit it made me so excited to see him again.
    We finished supper and hung out in the entertainment room. We played a round of pool with Lotan and another boy who was interested in checking out my bruises the whole time. After a while we all went upstairs and grabbed a bed, me drifting into sleep with Seth on my mind, damn that guy can kiss.

 
     
    Chapter 4
     
    Morning came and went with Vulcan giving us a morning