Celtic Magic (14 page)

After a few minutes it was just a dull
throbbing pain. After what felt like hours to her, but in reality
was probably only a couple of minutes, Tom finally walked out of
the bathroom. She waited for him to make his way through the living
room back to the bedroom and as soon as she saw him, she knew that
something was horribly wrong.

He had an angry look on his face that she
had never seen before and she was almost afraid to ask him what was
wrong, but he spoke before she could even get the chance.

“I thought you were gone” he said. She
nodded her head.

“
Yes, I went to see my
mother, but I couldn’t have been gone but a few minutes to you” she
said.

He sighed and came to sit next to her on the
couch.

“We need to talk” he told her looking down
at his feet instead of up at her face. Her heart sank; it was never
a good thing when you heard those words. She was silent, mostly
waiting for him to tell her what he wanted to talk about, and also
partly because she was afraid that if she opened her mouth she
would start to cry.

She just knew he was about to break up with
her for some reason, but she couldn’t figure out why. Finally he
started to talk.

“There is someone from my past that you
should probably know about. There was a girl I met in high school,
her name was Nicole and we hung out in the same groups. Eventually
we started dating when we were probably fifteen or so, and
everything was good for the three years we were together while
still in high school, but then we decided to go to the same college
together” he explained.

“She didn’t really fit in at the college we
went to, but because I was on the baseball team, I was pretty
popular, I even ended up joining a fraternity” he continued.

“Anyway, she ended up dropping out after our
freshman year and transferred to a local community college and
expected that I would give up my scholarships and join her, but of
course I didn’t, that would have been crazy, and my dad would have
killed me” he told her.

Abby shuffled on the couch to get a better
position, trying not to make him stop his story.

“That was when things went very wrong. She
became this jealous, sneaky, practically unstable person. She
constantly thought I was cheating on her and would drive all the
way to my school just to try and catch me in the act. She never did
though, because I spent the entire time just trying to keep up with
all of my school work, there was no way I had time to see other
women” he told her.

“But, she was making my life miserable, so
eventually I broke up with her. After we split she started to stalk
me, and I ended up having to put a restraining order on her and I
even changed my phone number” he said.

“What happened after that?” she asked
him.

“Well, she went to jail a few times for
coming around me after that, but once I graduated and moved back to
Dallas, it seemed she finally went away, since she had no idea
where I lived or what my new number was. Well, until now it seems”
he said.

Abby put her hand on his arm, “Was that who
you were talking to on the phone?” she asked him.

He nodded, “Yes, I’m not sure how she found
my number, but she says she has been watching the hotel, to see me
come in and out” he explained.

Abby gasped, “She sits in your hotel and
watches for you? Do you think she knows where you live? Does she
know about me? Does she know where I live?” she asked in a frantic
voice.

Tom shrugged his shoulders, “I’m not sure if
she knows where you live, but she does know about you. She saw me
bring you to the party to meet my parents. She was apparently so
pissed that she somehow did some digging until she found my phone
number” he said, lowering his head.

Abby scooted over and lifted herself onto
Tom’s lap and put her head on his shoulder, she smiled when he
wrapped his arms around her.

“So what do we do now?” she asked him.

He gripped her tighter, “I’m not sure, but I
know I can’t let her hurt you” he practically whispered in her ear,
sending shivers down her spine.

She looked up at him, “There is one thing
you seem to be forgetting here” she told him. He looked at her with
a confused look on his face that almost made her laugh.

“Hello, I’m a Demi-Goddess with super
magical powers remember? How is she going to hurt me?” she
asked.

Tom shook his head, “I do keep forgetting
that, but she is crazy, don’t underestimate her” he said.

They sat there on the couch, both thinking
about what it would mean to have a crazy stalker trying to mess
with their relationship when Tom started to yawn. Abby stood up and
grabbed Tom’s hand.

“Come on, let’s go back to bed and deal with
this in the morning.” Tom nodded and they headed back to the
bedroom.

Chapter
2
3

The next morning as Abby woke up, she
started to panic that she had forgotten to set her alarm and jumped
up out of bed, but as she looked over at the clock, noticed that it
was actually about an hour before her alarm was even set to go off.
She looked over at Tom lying in her bed, sleeping as soundly as a
baby, although babies usually get up all through the night, so she
didn’t know why people used that saying.

She shrugged her shoulders and continued to
watch him sleep. Something inside of her had been awakened the
night he told her that he loved her, and she couldn’t seem to turn
it off.

It was like she wanted him every minute of
the day, but didn’t know how to be aggressive and tell him that she
wanted him. She usually let him take that initiative, but something
about how he was so protective of her the night before made her
feel a little more secure about him.

She finally decided what she wanted to do
with the extra hour and so she slowly took her nightgown off and
stood there naked for a minute. Finally she got up her nerve and
slid back under the covers and snuggled her cold body up next to
his hot one and started to kiss his neck and nibble on his ear.

She rubbed her hands over his bare chest and
stomach while never taking her eyes off of his face. After just a
couple of minutes she noticed that he started to move his head
around a little bit until his face was right in front of hers.

She gently grabbed his face with both of her
hands and kissed him. Finally he opened his eyes and looked at her,
she pulled away just slightly and she felt his hands come up and he
rubbed them against her body, feeling her naked lying next to him.
After that, it seemed he understood exactly what she was doing and
pulled her closer and kissed her with more force, while his hands
continued to caress her naked body.

It felt like his hands were made of fire,
warming her skin everywhere he touched, but once his hands moved to
a new location, goose bumps were left in their place. Suddenly his
head ducked beneath the covers and she gasped as he took her breast
into his mouth, sending warm new waves of tingles up her body.

It seemed he kissed and rubbed her for hours
and finally she couldn’t take anymore.

“I need you now” she said to him in a loud
whisper. He came back up out of the covers and pulled her tight and
lay down on his back, pulling her on top of him.

She had never taken this much control, but
she needed this badly and had no problem with it now. She lowered
her body until he slid inside of her. After that the world went
hazy as they frantically made love.

Once they were finished, she looked back
over at the clock and saw that she hadn’t even heard her alarm go
off almost twenty minutes before.

She jumped out of bed and ran to the shower
as Tom laughed behind her. She turned on the water and jumped in,
grabbing the soap and lathering it up. She heard the shower curtain
rattle behind her and turned to see Tom sliding into the shower
behind her, with a grin on his face.

“Tom, what are you doing? I’m going to be
late for work” she said to him while she tried to rub the lather
over herself.

Tom shrugged, “I just want to help you get
ready” he said, taking the soap from her and rubbing it along her
back. She tried to argue with him, but having someone rub on her
back felt too good, so she relaxed and enjoyed the feeling. Once he
was done with her back he turned her around and started to lather
the front of her.

She had to fight herself with the urges that
it created in her, knowing that she had to get to work soon.
Finally he was done soaping her up and she rinsed it all off of
her. He then grabbed the shampoo and started to lather up her hair.
She felt like she was five years old and someone had to help her
shower.

“You know, I can do this myself, you don’t
have to do it for me” she told him.

He laughed, “I know, but I like doing it” he
replied back. After he was finished with her hair and she rinsed
it, he gave her the soap and turned around with his back to
her.

“My turn” he said. She rolled her eyes but
immediately started to lather him up, and when she got to the
front, he had an entirely different look in his eyes, and she knew
right then that she was going to be very late to work.

***

She ran into the store nearly thirty minutes
late and as she pushed open the door, she noticed that Jasmine was
working with a customer, so she hurried behind the counter and
dropped her purse under the desk and started to straighten up the
counter around the register, just to look busy.

She didn’t know if she thought Jasmine just
wouldn’t notice, or if she would be happy that she got right to
work, but her instincts told her to just act busy. After a few
minutes of straightening things up, the customer came to the
counter with a few items to buy and Abby stopped and rang up the
customer, making sure to move a little slower than usual, she had
no idea what would happen when it was just her and Jasmine left in
the store.

Finally the customer walked out of the door
and Abby looked around and saw that Jasmine wasn’t in the front
room. She walked to the back of the store and saw Jasmine piling
some new books on the rolling cart she used to move products around
in the store. Abby ran over and started to help her pull books down
and put them on the cart.

Jasmine looked up at her and instead of the
angry expression she thought she would have, she was actually
smiling at her.

“I’m sorry I was so late, I got hung up at
home” She said.

Jasmine smiled, “It’s okay.” Abby stood
there with her mouth gaped open in shock, this was not what she
would expect a boss to say to someone who was thirty minutes late
to work.

“You aren’t mad?” she asked quietly.

Jasmine laughed, “Well, no, you have been
here a while now, and this is the first time you have been late.
I’m sure I can over look it this one time, as long as you don’t
make it a habit or anything” she said, smiling. Abby felt her heart
lift in relief.

“I’m so glad you are an understanding
person, and I promise it will never happen again” she said.

Jasmine nodded, “So, tell me Abby, how are
things going with you and Tom?” she asked.

Abby blushed, Jasmine had an all too knowing
look in her eye that told her she knew exactly why she had been
late this morning.

“Well, he told me something last night that
I want your opinion on, because I’m not sure how to handle it” she
said as they continued to stack the books on the cart.

“What is it dear? You can ask me about
anything” she told her.

They had filled the cart completely to the
top, so she asked the question as they walked back into the front
room.

“Well, Tom got a call from a girl last
night, and he sounded really upset about it, and when I asked him
about it, he told me that he basically has a stalker ex girl friend
that will not leave him alone” she explained.

Jasmine nodded, “So you are wondering how
you should handle this?” she asked.

Abby nodded, “Yes. Should I just ignore her
and hope that she goes away, or face the problem head on and
confront her? He says that she is super crazy and jealous” she
said.

Abby watched Jasmine think about it while
they started to put the new books up on the shelf in the main
room.

“Well Abby, problems like this rarely just
go away on their own, so my advice would be to confront this girl.
But, I wouldn’t do it alone, I would do it with Tom there beside
you, so that she knows that you two are together now, and there
isn’t anything she can do to come between you” she finally
answered.

Abby smiled and grabbed Jasmine into a hug,
making her drop the two books she was just about to put on the
shelf.

“Thank you Jasmine, I really appreciate all
of your help and understanding” she told her.

Jasmine giggled as she hugged her back, “you
are very welcome sweetheart, any time you need anything do not
hesitate to come to me. In fact, I was thinking that it was time I
properly met Tom. The first time we met wasn’t exactly ideal.” She
told her. Abby blushed again, picturing Tom standing naked, trying
to hide himself when Jasmine popped into his apartment on the night
she changed.

“I think you are right. Maybe we can have a
dinner this weekend?” she asked. Jasmine smiled and nodded, then
went back to the books, humming to herself while Abby went to text
Tom her idea.

As Abby walked out of the shop, she noticed
that it was already starting to get dark. She hadn’t even realized
how late it had gotten; she had been so busy practicing her magic
with Jasmine. Abby looked down the nearly deserted street and
realized that she really didn’t want to walk all the way home.

She looked around her to make sure nobody
was looking and made the little lights come and take her home. She
landed in her bedroom and immediately lay down onto the bed, more
exhausted than she could remember being for quite a while. She
checked her phone and saw that Tom had texted her saying that he
was just going to stay home and go to bed early.