Vunerable by Amy Lane

Author:Amy Lane
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2011-05-13T08:47:00+00:00

How Not to be a Gas Station Clerk

I awoke once to the sound of raised voices—Arturo's and Greens—why would they be fighting?—and then a fuzzy feeling, like pulling a staticky sock off your shirt, and then I was sucked right back down into sleep again. When I awoke again I was in a tangle of limbs, so much so that I had to fight my way to the surface, gasping for breath. I found two thick braids, one dark, one fair, crossing my body, and Adrian's eyes, staring at me in concern, as he hovered above me about a foot from the bed.

"Jesus," I murmured, "Can everybody fly here but me?”

"You can fly." Arturo said from the foot of the bed, "You just can't control it.

That did it...blonde braid—Green, dark braid—Bracken, fuzzy red hair over Green's hip—Grace, voice at the foot of the bed—Arturo, purring noise—Renny..."Get off me!" I yelped, feeling suddenly claustrophobic. Eight pairs of eyes regarded me from various positions on the bed, sleepy and stunned. I inhaled, to keep from screaming, and tried again.

"Everybody here who has never seen me naked, get up right now." To my complete chagrin, nobody moved. My horrified eyes met Adrian's, and he was smirking. Damn that night in the garden, anyway!!!

"Everybody here I never wanted to see me naked, please get out of this bed!!!!" They took pity on me then, and everybody except Green got out of the bed, slowly. Green I let pass, because not only did he look wiped out but everybody in the room including Adrian probably knew I didn't mind if he saw me naked. But it didn't matter, because after Brack unwound his braid from my hips and knees, I felt like I could breathe again, but I wasn't telling them they could go back to their original positions, nope, no sirree, no way.

"Whew." Adrian came down gently besides me then, and hugged me gratefully. I leaned into him, happy beyond words to have him there. It occurred to me, poignantly, that there was much of my life that Adrian would not have, and I burrowed closer to him, frighteningly near tears. "What is everybody doing here?" I asked, when I was sure I could speak clearly.

"Worrying." Bracken replied dryly.

I burrowed into Adrian's shirt again. "I'm actually without words." I murmured. Adrian laughed at me, then, and I was absurdly comforted. If Adrian could laugh at me then I was still me in this weird world. I was still human.

"Like that'll ever happen." Green said sleepily.

"You healed me, Green." I said, still turned into Adrian's shirt. He smelled good. He smelled like soap and clothes softener and testosterone and vampire. I thought I could devour his smell alone. And tantalizingly, he smelled like Green, and I could eat that up with a spoon too.

"And almost killed his damned fool self." Arturo bit off. He sent an unfriendly look at Green, which, to my surprise, Adrian echoed.

"What the fuck were you thinking?" Adrian asked him, and I was surprised.

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