Kallos (Kallos Series) (11 page)

“Good morning, Babe,” Sean says as he leans in and kisses her cheek. He is inches from Kallos' face; she feels her insides turn gooey. Catching herself as she is staring at his beautiful blue eyes she slowly moves them to his full mouth. She feels like she’s just swallowed glass as she realizes her heart is probably in her throat from her excitement. She hears someone behind her clear their throat, Sean looks up from her face and the color drains completely from his face. Their playfulness is short lived when Sean clears his throat and says “Good morning, Sir. She turns around slowly and smiles innocently at him.

“Good morning.” That’s all her dad says as his glare almost burns a hole into Sean. Kallos wanted to laugh but held it in.

“Dad, I was just letting Sean know that I was done with the shower. That’s all.” He spares Kallos a glace and turns his gaze back to Sean.

“Well, I think he knows now. Don’t you, Sean?” Her dad glares. Sean just nods. If her dad is mad about a kiss on the cheek, how would he act if he saw Ian and her earlier?

“Okay, Dad, I’m going to get ready now. Please be nice,” she says before she turns away and walks to her room.

Since Kallos already made her dad mad this morning, she decides that she better wear something he would agree with. She grabs her long sleeved black shirt that say’s
Angel
across the chest in light blue rhinestones. It is one of her favorite shirts and is last year’s birthday present from her best friend Breanna. She always wore her faded blue jeans with that shirt. Kallos loves how they are tight on her legs and flared out at her ankles. Her long, dark brown hair is starting to curl, and decides to leave it. She puts on little make up and gives herself one last look.

Kallos' mom calls for them to eat. She walks downstairs and into the kitchen; she can see Ian, and her dad sitting at the table and the only spot open is next to her dad. She rolls her eyes and sits next to him. Kallos' mom brings her plate of bacon and eggs; she directs her attention to her food in front of her as she realizes she is suddenly famished. She looks across the table and smiles at the boys.

“Mr. Dean?” Kallos looks back up at Ian and so does her dad. “Sean and I were wondering if we could walk to school. It’s not supposed to be cold, and we aren’t supposed to get rain today; I checked.”

Sean walks into the kitchen, when his eyes meet hers he winks. He walks over to Kallos’s mother and whispers something to her for only her to hear, she laughs and shakes her head; she turns around to sit at the table. Kallos smiles at seeing Sean carrying two plates of food to the table. He gently sits one in front of her mother, and then sits next to her. He looks up and smiles at Kallos, and she returns one.

“That should be fine.” Kallos’ mom says as she looks up from her food and her dad gives her Mom the look. “James, it will take them less than ten minutes to walk to school.” She glares back at him, and Kallos has to hide her smile.

Fifteen minutes later, they are walking the door and heading to school. Kallos is in between the boys. Every once in a while, one of their hands brushed against hers, and she would feel her birthmark tingle. Kallos used to be afraid of that feeling and thought it meant something bad, but this isn’t a bad feeling. This was a connection with someone. Suddenly, Kallos went from the girl that never had a boyfriend to a girl that may have two.

“What’s that face for?” Sean asks her; Kallos looks at him, but she doesn’t want to tell them. “You’re still freaked that you have two soul mates. You know that you don’t have to be with both of us.” He pulls on her arm to get her to look at him. Sean and Kallos stop and so does Ian.

“Or either of us. Just because we’re soul mates, we don’t have to be together.” Ian says which made her look at him. She already knew that being with both of them isn’t an option, but she can't imagine not being with one of them. Her heart doesn’t know if it wants a bad boy or a good boy. She knows that is something she needs to figure out later, and by herself. She reaches out and grabs each of their hands.

Holding their hands, Kallos feels safe and knows that for now everything is all right. Ian looks down at their connected hands and smiles. Then, he turns that beautiful face and wonderful smile toward her. It makes her instantly smile. She looks at Sean, and he has a similar expression.

“I told you guys that I needed time and I do. It doesn’t mean that I don’t feel what we all are feeling. You guys have to understand that I have no clue what I’m doing. I have never had a boyfriend and never had these feelings. Now, I may have two boyfriends. You really have to be patient with me,” Kallos says and looks both of them in the eyes. They both nod and smile.

They continue walking to school, and they are still holding hands. Kallos really loves being next to both of them. A car honks next to them; stopping dead in her tracks as she looks up she sees her dad’s car. The boys must have known because they quickly let go of her hands, and she can see her dad nod. As he drives past, she and the boys let out the breath they were all holding.

“Your dad scares the crap out of me,” Sean says, and Kallos bursts out laughing. Sean is her bad boy. She thought nothing could scare him, but she guesses everyone is afraid of something. “I thought he was going to rip my head off this morning. At least I was the one wearing clothes,” he teases and looks at Ian. Ian just laughs. Thinking about Ian fresh out of the shower and just wearing a towel makes Kallos’ face burn.

“I’m sure he would have killed me, but he didn’t see. From now on, we’ll text in the morning if we need each other. We can’t afford not to be with you, Kallos,” Ian states. That was true; she needed to be by at least one of them all the time. Ian bent down to whisper in her ear, “But that kiss this morning was amazing!” Kallos looks straight ahead because she is getting tired of trying to hide her blushing. She can see the school and sighs with relief. As they walk up to the door, Sean and Ian reach to open the door at the same time. She chuckles and walks in. When she gets to her locker, she notices that the nice girl whose locker was on her left isn’t there anymore. Sean is to her left and Ian is next to him. Kallos slams her locker shut and walks towards her first class. Of course, both of the boys catch up to her. Sean pulls her into a janitor’s closet and Ian shuts the door.

“Why are you mad?” Sean asks as he rubs his necklace. “And don’t tell me you aren’t; I can feel it. It’s like your anger is burning my skin.” This must be the connection that Ares was talking about. They would know her feelings, know all about them.

“I don’t like not knowing what’s going on,” she says. Kallos knows that she sounds ridiculous. It doesn't change the facts that they kept the locker change from her.

“Kallos, is this about the lockers? The only reason we changed lockers is because all of our classes are closer to this side of the school. Plus we need to be with you,” Ian says and moves closer to Sean and her. “We won’t ever keep anything from you that are important. I promise you that,” he says as he takes her hand.

“I also promise not to keep anything from you,” Sean adds and takes her other hand. Just like that, her anger vanishes as if it just melted away. She understands why they need to be with her; they proved it last night.

“I’m sorry; I really don’t know why I freaked out like that.” Kallos has never reacted like this before. Maybe it's because she has never had feelings for someone before. She feels both of them tighten their hold on her hands.

“Kallos, we should get to class. You will see Sean in your next class, and if your dad already talked to Mr. Nelson, he’ll sit next to you.” Ian opens the door and glances out. He nods, as she feels Sean push her out of the door. There are some kids still in the hallway, but they are all hurrying to class and aren’t taking notice of them. Sean brings Kallos’ hand to his mouth and gently kisses it. Ian is pulling her away.

“Come on; we’re going to be late.”

Kallos is giggling when they enter the classroom. As soon as Ian and Kallos walk in the door, the shrill bell rings. She hopes that Sean made it on time. She and Ian hurry to the last two desks. Karissa is staring in awe at Ian. Kallos now knows why Karissa doesn't like her. Karissa has a thing for one of her soul mates.

“Hey, Ian, I called you last night, and it went to your voice mail,” Karissa gives him an enormous smile.

“Yeah, Sean and I are staying at Kallos’ house.” Kallos is the only one that sees the anger on her face.

“Oh, both of you?” she asks, and he gives her a nod. Maybe he did know her feelings.

Today, they have free time, unless they had homework, and Kallos needs time to herself. Since she doesn't see that happening in the near future, she is going to take this time to think. She opens her textbook to make it look like she is studying. Her thinking is interrupted when she starts to feel the pain.

This time it feels like it is rising up from her toes and into her chest. Once again, it gets hard for her to breathe. Suddenly, she feels a warm hand touch her back. Her sharp pain slowly goes back to a dull aching pain. Kallos turns around, and the look on Ian's face scares her. The bell takes her by surprise, and she jumps half way out of her seat. Ian is still sitting and pain is clearly written all over his face. Is it like this every time they take her pain away from her?

“Ian, are you okay?” His eyes are on her, but he doesn’t say anything. He puts his hand on his chest and takes a deep, long breath. When he releases it, he lets out a groan. “Ian?” Kallos tries to put her hand on him and he cringes. He is shaking his head and putting his hand up to stop her.

“Don’t touch me. Not now, Kallos.” He sounds like he is out of breath and is just starting to get it back. She hears footsteps behind her and knows its Sean. She doesn't turn to face him.

“What’s going on?” Sean asks as he looks between Ian and Kallos. “It’s getting worse; isn’t it?” Ian doesn’t respond; he nods in response.

“Wait, this isn’t the first time is it? It’s every time!” Kallos can feel her anger rising. Not more than an hour ago, they promised that they wouldn't keep things from her. It looks like they are.

“We didn’t want to worry you,” Sean says as he helps Ian up. Kallos glares at them. “Let’s walk toward our next class.” Ian only needs help for a few steps, and then pushes him away.

****

Sean and Ian watch Kallos rush away. They know that they made her mad; they can feel it. Her anger starts to burn them.

“We should have told her how we were feeling,” Sean says and looks at his brother. He isn't just hurting from taking Kallos' pain; his other half is coming forward. Sean remembers how it would show itself to him when he was hurting and when he was mad.

“Why, so she can tell us to stop!” Ian glares into the area where Kallos just stood. “You know how much the change hurts. Do you really want to put her through that?”

“Of course not!” Sean raises his voice then really takes a close look at his brother. Maybe this is too much for him. “You know, I can take care of her tonight; I think you need to talk to Mom.” Ian's glaring, now midnight-colored eyes at Sean.

“You just want to be alone with her. Guess what? That isn't happening.” With each word, Ian’s eyes grow darker.

“Okay! Well, have you talked to Mom yet?” Sean starts to walk to the door, and he knows that Ian is following. Sean knows that if Ian doesn't talk to their mom, he will.

“No, and you don't need to tell her anything. I'm fine,” Ian fires back. Sean glances at Ian, and the darkness is starting to fade. “You know I don't chase girls; they chase me. I think Kallos needs to see that,” it’s Ian’s voice, but this isn’t Ian. Ian has always been so nice and caring. Maybe the darkness is going to stick with him.

“Wow! Ian, what are you planning on doing?” Ian doesn't say anything, he just walks away. Sean knows this isn't going to end well.

CHAPTER TEN

Kallos walked to her next class alone. She doesn't want them to take her pain if it causes them pain. She can’t hide if she is in pain now because of their stupid necklaces. Sean walks into the class about a minute after her. The only seat left is behind her. With every step, his eyes are focused on her. She doesn't need a necklace to tell her that he’s concerned about her.

At lunch, Kallos sat with a bunch of people. Karissa is sitting next to Ian, and Nikki is on the other side of him. Mary and Vicky are on either side of Sean. Kallos sits next to Kellee who gives her a smile as Kallos sits down. Kallos isn't in the mood to eat so she just sits there and stares at her food. She can hear a girl giggle; she looks over at Ian and Nikki. He says something that Kallos can't hear, and Nikki is giggling again.

This time Nikki puts her petite hand on Ian’s face. Kallos knows that she’s getting mad; she can feel her jealousy burning her to her core. Kallos wants to rip that tiny hand off and shove it down Nikki's throat. Sean and Ian both are looking at Kallos. She knows that they are feeling her jealousy.

“Kallos, how’s your day going?” Kallos smiles at Kellee’s question.

“It's great,” Kallos answers through gritted teeth and looks back at Ian again. Nikki is still touching Ian. Kellee follows her gaze.

“You know about them?” Kellee asks, and Kallos looks at her.

“What about them?” Kallos raises an eyebrow and questions Kellee.

“They were together all of last year and all summer. Then, all of a sudden a week before school started, he broke up with her.” This was all new to Kallos. Yeah, she thought something was up with them, but hearing it makes something break inside her. She looks back up just in time to see Ian kiss Nikki's hand. That does it; Kallos is done. She looks at her uneaten food and gets up. She drops her food off, and it doesn't take long before she hears her name.

“Kallos, will you stop?” Sean asks. She knew that they would follow her.

“Why?” Kallos barks as she turns around to look at them.

“Why, what,” Ian smirks. Kallos wants to scream. Ian smirks at her. Kallos explodes, “Jerk!”

“Okay, we all need to calm down. Ian, knock it off, and Kallos just breathe,” Sean tries to take control. Kallos takes a deep breath, and Ian turns away from them. “Okay, now, Kallos tell us what is going on with you, besides Ian being a jerk.” She looks back and forth between both of them and Sean winks at her. Ian turns back around and just stares vacantly at her.