The Pain Of Their Presence - Sequel to Sound of Their Presence

Chapter Twenty Eight: Relative

Shane's POV

    "Thank you for meeting me here," Cheyenne looks into my eyes, then Lysander's.

    "Why couldn't we have just met at the book store?"

    "Because you would have been arrested, which would have apparently been a bad thing," Lysander responds to my question, treating me as if I could be no dafter. But this puzzles me. 

    "Why would I have been arrested?" I arch an eyebrow. 

     Cheyenne sighs and shakes her head before explaining, "Lysander had his father- adoptive father," she clarifies. "Get a restraining order against you."

    "Why didn't Lysander just get a restraining order against me, instead of making his old man get one?" I do not understand these people . . .

    "What would the fun in that have been?" Lysander gives me a sly grin. Creep!

    "Anyways, if you ladies wouldn't mind if we returned to the point," Cheyenne adresses Lysander and myself. If she was nayone else, she would not have gotten away with calling me a lady . . .

    "Can we get icecream?" Lysander stalls before turning on his heel. Cheyenne rolls her eyes and sits on the sidewalk in front of Dairy Queen. She might not want icecream, but as I beleive, if you can't fight 'em, join 'em!

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    "Are you two happy now?" Cheyenne asks when Lysander returns with a large vanilla cone dipped in cherry and I myself am devouring a half and half dipped in chocolate.

     "Yes, very," we say simultaneously.

    "Closed off from love

I didn't need the pain

Once or twice was enough

And it was all in vain

Time starts to pass

Before you know it you're frozen

But something happened

For the very first time with you

My heart melts into the ground

Found something true

And everyone's looking round

Thinking I'm going crazy

But I don't care what they say

I'm in love with you

They try to pull me away

But they don't know the truth

My heart's crippled by the vein

That I keep on closing

You cut me open and I

Keep bleeding

Keep, keep bleeding love

I keep bleeding

I keep, keep bleeding love

Keep bleeding

Keep, keep bleeding love

You cut me open

Trying hard not to hear

But they talk so loud

Their piercing sounds fill my ears

Try to fill me with doubt

Yet I know that the goal

Is to keep me from falling

But nothing's greater than the rush that comes with your embrace

And in this world of loneliness

I see your face

Yet everyone around me

Thinks that I'm going crazy, maybe, maybe

But I don't care what they say

I'm in love with you

They try to pull me away

But they don't know the truth

My heart's crippled by the vein

That I keep on closing

You cut me open and I

Keep bleeding

Keep, keep bleeding love

I keep bleeding

I keep, keep bleeding love

Keep bleeding

Keep, keep bleeding love

You cut me open

And it's draining all of me

Oh they find it hard to believe

I'll be wearing these scars

For everyone to see

I don't care what they say

I'm in love with you

They try to pull me away

But they don't know the truth

My heart's crippled by the vein

That I keep on closing

You cut me open and I

Keep bleeding

Keep, keep bleeding love

I keep bleeding

I keep, keep bleeding love

Keep bleeding

Keep, keep bleeding love

You cut me open and I

Keep bleeding

Keep, keep bleeding love

I keep bleeding

I keep, keep bleeding love

Keep bleeding

Keep, keep bleeding love

You cut me open and I

Keep bleeding

Keep, keep bleeding love"

     "Not that that was not amazing, but what was the point of singing Bleeding Love by Leona Lewis to us?" I ask.

    "I am sorry Lysander, but I need a break," Cheyenne adresses him, instead of answering my question. She then continues, "The point is that I need to deal with some things on my own for now."

    Lysander actually looks releived and smiles. "Thank God!"

   At Cheyenne's hurt expression he explains, "I finnished the geenology research that I was doing."

    "So?" she asks.

    "We are cousins."