Figment of Dreams
Paramore Council (2)

Ash

Still deep in thought about having just seen her. A goofy smile on my face, I’m sure. I walked back out in the hallway and got ambushed immediately by my brother. ‘So staying away from her is being in her bedroom in under five minutes since we got here right?’ he spat those words at me as if I had just stalked into her bedroom to kill or rape her. ‘Chill the fuck out bro, we were just talking.’ He was getting on my nerves quickly. ‘I’m not interested in her like that, like it told you.’

Oak laughed. ‘You were basically undressing her with your eyes Asher. Do not spring that bullshit on me.’

‘Don’t put words in my mouth Oak. I enjoy her company. She’s funny as fuck.’

He shook his head. ’You need to get your thoughts straight. Do you really think this could amount to a friendship? She’s almost nine years younger than you and human. You two literally have zero in common.’ His words were nagging on me. It were all things I had thought about. This thing I felt for the girl wasn’t that serious. Oak was making it into something way bigger. Or so I was telling myself anyway.

When after the meeting I heard high heels click behind me, while casually sipping from my scotch, I nearly spat it back out again upon seeing her in that tight lavender dress. Her hair was blow-dried and flowed in a long auburn wave down her slender neck and back. Nearly touching her ass. Which… goodfuckinggod that ass… a flash of her in front of my toilet in that flowery embroidered thong made my groin twitch. Which made me instantly think about the moment she was pleasuring herself in my bed, in my shirt. Or when I was inside her in that dream and in the hot springs. My mouth on those perky nipples. The moans she released. She has single handedly become the most erotic thing in my life which I had ever experienced. No one had ever come as close as what she did to me on the daily. I could not explain it at all.

This was getting out of control quickly. I was grabbing my glass so hard I thought it might burst. From behind her Kai popped up, placing his hand on her lower back, fingers brushing over the top of her ass. A jealous rage was bobbling up. Making me think she had put some sort of spell on me. I had never felt jealous before, ever. Not even through my engagement to Marigold, who had mated with one of my best friends. That mark between us had never showed up. So in the end I had to admit we were not right for each other, but it still hurt though.

I had to look away. I knew they were on a break but they seemed to be doing better these days. I thought the hot springs might have changed things, but on the contrary. She had put a big wall up afterwards.

I glared straight into Oak’s eyes. Which were giving me the look again. ‘Not interested huh.’ He sipped from his scotch and glanced behind me again to stare at her. I instantly wish I could too. She was like this magnetic force, trying to have my eyes on her at all times. Yet, I wouldn’t give Oak that satisfaction. I spotted all the Regents in the corner, they had just spend three hours in their meeting and looked a little flustered. I wondered what they had discussed. Elia and Maddox were closely discussing something, Elia’s face red from frustration. They were not agreeing on something. My father and Neda, who usually never saw eye to eye were now casually talking to Nicolai. Who was in big trouble from the stunt he had pulled last week in his High school. The entirety of Moira was still talking about it.