Duality

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© Amber Kalkes 2014

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"Feels Blind" By Bikini Kill

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I moan loudly as my teeth slide into the greasy burger currently in my hands. My eyes rolls back in my head and I swear to god if mouth orgasms are real, I’m having one. It wasn’t until after the disaster that was the meeting with Lily did my stomach and I realize we hadn’t really eaten anything in a few days. Hearing my stomach growl Jack was absolutely appalled he hadn’t fed me.

Eventually using his guilt I used it as a tool to get out of that damn pack house and back into the real world. I felt extremely outnumbered there and it was starting to make me want to itch my way right out of my own skin. I really don’t like having the disadvantage and being in a house full of mythological creatures made me feel very disadvantaged.

So here we are, at Patch’s Diner in a booth across from Jack stuffing my face. Done with my porn star impression I peek over at my companion to see him looking at me with a slack jawed expression that has me fighting laughter. Deciding to knock him out of it I grin at him, food still in my mouth and all which immediately makes him screw up his face and me to chuckle despite my full mouth.

I sip on some water from my straw and swallow my food before speaking up, “Sorry but your face was priceless!”

“Do you always do that when you eat?” He asks, looking a bit annoyed.

“What do you mean?” I ask an innocently as possible.

His neck goes a bit red before he speaks, “Make noises like that.”

“Oh you mean all the moaning and groaning?”

“Yeah.” He mutters.

“Only when I’m really, really, really hungry.” I finish with a grin and a wink making his red go even redder. Oh, he’s so cute when he blushes, I may just keep him around for the entertaining purposes alone. I drop my eyes to his food, a hardly touched breakfast platter and raise an eyebrow. “Are you not hungry?”

He shrugs his massive blu cotton dressed shoulders; “I ate those apples while we were waiting for Lily remember?”

I grimace at her name but nod. There had been a huge fruit bowl in the middle of the dining table and while we waited and I was having my mini panic attack Jack was downing apples like a garbage disposal. By the time she had actually showed up I counted six apple cores, what is this guy, part bottomless pit?

“Well just because you stuffed yourself doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy my meal.” I drawl before taking another delicious bite.

Jack rolls his eyes with a grin, “Sure.”

I start munching on my fries and I’m so into my food I don’t even notice how fidgety Jack is getting across the booth from me. His fingers keep drumming on the tabletop, he keeps licking his lower lip and his eyes are darting all over the place. Finally it starts to get to me and washing down some water I finally say something.

“What’s got you all twitchy?”

Jack’s eyes snap to mine and the anxiety is clear. “Well I want to talk to you about something.”

He doesn’t continue and I sigh feeling annoyed making a ‘go on’ gesture with my hands, “And that would be?”

“It’s just an idea.”