Sofia: Phoenix Rising - Fire and Water Book 2
Chapter 15

CHAPTER 15

Kestrel gives me the biggest hug, “gurl, you had us so stinking worried! None of us knew what was happening to you. Could you maybe not do that again?” I can’t help but laugh at her.

“Yeah, I’ll make sure it doesn’t happen again,” I say as I push her against her arm with mine. “So, what kind of training should we do tonight?” I ask as I sit down on the floor, spreading my legs into a ‘V’ shape and start stretching.

She joins me on the floor and begins stretching too. “Hm, should we attempt for you to connect with your phoenix? It has been a few since your last union with her.”

Having forgot that when I was unconscious, I had connected to my phoenix and that we are completely united now, I shake my head yes, excited at the thought of trying it again. We finish our stretches and then Kestrel has me sit in a meditation position and start with my breathing exercises. Next, I close my eyes and go to reach deep inside me to release her only to realize she is just under the surface, waiting for me to connect with her. Hello Sofia, shall we show Kestrel what we can do as one being? I smile at her and open up, allowing her to wrap herself around me.

My eyes snap open but not in a hostile way. We look around, taking in our surroundings. My body is fully alight in flames, and I lift my arms about halfway in the air at the same time feeling my feet lift off of the gym floor. I am levitating and I glance at Kestrel to see what her reaction is. She is grinning from ear to ear as she beams at me. “Are you and your phoenix fully connected? I think you may be the most beautiful creature I have ever seen!” She exclaims. “How did this occur?”

“I am not really sure,” I say shrugging. We lower back to the floor, “I think it happened while I was unconscious, I was so sick, and she told me this is the only way for us to survive.” Phoenix and I disconnect and then I am back to just my human version, smiling back at Kestrel.

“Does anyone else know what you have accomplished yet?” She gives me a hug while asking and as I step back from her, I shake my head no.

“I didn’t even remember I had until I just reached out to her, and she so willingly came to me. So yeah, no one else, not even Ash knows she and I are one yet.”

“Oh my gosh. So exciting! When are you going to tell everyone? Wait! Instead of telling them, we should show them.”

“Hell yeah! It would blow their minds. Let’s do a little spectacle for them Saturday night. Dinner and a show so to speak.” We are both grinning as the gymnasium door is flung open and in walks Ash.

“Hey ladies. What are you guys up to?” Our smiles must be contagious because he smiling as well now. We both look at each other and burst out in giggles as we both look at him.

Simultaneously we both giggle out “nothing” and then I skip up to Ash and hop into his arms, smacking my lips against his at the same time. Wiggling out of his arms after, I look into his eyes and ask if he is ready to head back to my house. He gives a nod and I slip my hand into his. Turning to Kestrel I say, “I will see you next Saturday, okay?” She gives a ‘for sure’ and then Ash and I leave the gym.

As we walk back into my house, Ash asks; “how come you won’t do any more training until next Saturday?”

“Oh, um she wants me to rest up because of how well I did this evening, and she doesn’t want me to get burned out before then.” If my answer made since to him, I am not sure. It made sense to me, and we will leave it at that. “Hey, you want to make some popcorn and watch a movie since it’s only nine o’clock?”

“Yeah, that sounds like fun. You go pick out a movie for us and I’ll go make the popcorn.” Ash heads into the kitchen and I go up to my bedroom. Before I turn the television on though, I decide to take a quick shower.

Drying off, I open my bathroom door and smell the fresh aroma of buttery popcorn. My stomach grumbles and I make my way over to my closet in search of some cute ‘pajama’ clothes. I replace a white tank top and with a little more digging, come across a pair of pink short shorts. I am trying to keep all thoughts from my head because I don’t want him to read my mind, but I have a feeling about tonight...

Hearing him coming up the stairway, I throw the comforter back and jump in the bed and hope I can replace a movie for us to watch before he comes into the room. “How do you feel about watching Dirty Dancing?”

“Oh, uh, I’ve never heard of it.” My head has never whipped around so fast in my life. He has never heard of Dirty Dancing! How is that even possible?

“You’re joking, right? I grew up watching it. I know practically the entire movie by heart. It was one of my mom’s favorite movies when she was young.”

“Sorry, not joking.” Ash sits the bowl of popcorn on the nightstand and then sitting on the edge of the bed, takes his shirt and then his jeans off, leaving him in just his boxers and bare chested. Growl!

“We-h-h-ell then. We are totally watching it! Get in this bed Mr.! And get ready for the time of your life.” I grin because he has no idea as to why I just said that last part.

My favorite part of the movie comes on and I of course say it line for line; “how do you call your lover boy? Come here lover boy. And if he doesn’t answer...” Ash watches me, shaking his head the whole time that I am singing the song and I can hear his thought inside my mind; you are ridiculous! This produces a massive smile across my face. “I can rewind it so you can sing along too...”

“No. I’m okay,” he says with a chuckle. “Push pause and I will run down to the kitchen and get us another couple of sodas.” I do as he asks, and he leaves the room. While he is downstairs grabbing drinks, I decide that when he comes back up, I will pretend to be asleep. Hearing him approach, I scoot down into the bed and quickly shut my eyes.

Ash sits down on the bed before placing the drinks on the nightstand, “oh, good. She’s asleep. I can finally change the channel to something better.” A pillow flies at his face as he finishes saying this.

“Hey,” I open my eyes. “That is a great movie!” He is laughing now and tosses the pillow back at me.

“Did you really think I would believe you were asleep?” Ash leans over and tickles my sides. I squeal and shriek in laughter.

“No, no, no!” I’m laughing so hard I can barely breathe. “Sto-he-he-p. I surrender. Please no more.” I plead with him, mind you I have an ulterior motive, because as soon as he stops, I turn on him and begin to tickle him. The only way I can keep him from tickling me more is by climbing on top of him, pinning his arms against his side and then I begin my tickle revenge!

Ash is stronger than me and it doesn’t take him long to wiggle his arms loose, grab me by the waist and flip me onto my back. We are both laughing really hard for a moment before a serious look crosses Ash’s face, but then the look turns from serious to one of longing. I stare back at him for a second and then place my hands on either side of his face and bring his lips to mine. Placing my hands along his back, near his shoulders, I pull him in as close to me as I can. But I need him even closer. He helps me remove my tank top and a chill runs across my flesh just before he wraps me up in his embrace and begins to kiss me everywhere.

Soon we are naked, pressed skin to skin and then Ash realizes how close we are to uniting our bodies and begins to pull away from me. “No. Not this time,” I say, and I draw him back to me. What little resolve was left has shattered within him and our kissing hits a fever-pitch of intensity. I cannot wait any longer and with a kiss against the base of his ear, neck area, I whisper “please” and wrap my legs around the lower portion of his waist. He only hesitates for a second and then we are connected. As we unite, an intense light begins to glow from me, at first it looks orange, yellow, like flames of a fire but then closer to my flesh, a bright blue-white light surges forth as well, cocooning Ash and I in a halo of flames and watery-blue light. When we climax, the flaming-watery light flashes and then bursts up and outward from us, causing the bed to shake and the glass in the windows to rattle and I wonder for the briefest of seconds if this is part of what Ash means when he spoke of the twin flame. We collapse into each other’s arms, exhaustion hitting us like waves, carrying us off to sleep.

I have never in my life slept so peacefully before. No dreams invaded my sleep, just blissful darkness. The feeling of being kissed pulls me from sleep though and let me tell you, nothing is more pleasant than being woke that way. I smile against Ash’s lips before my eyelids flutter open and I say, “good morning handsome.”

“Good morning my beautiful, how did you sleep? I didn’t feel you stir once throughout the night.” He says all this in between kisses along my neck and across my shoulders.

Returning his kisses I smile against the crook of his collar bone, “I have never slept so well in my life!” I run my hands up and down his arms and then push him flat on his back. Straddling him, I bend my head forward to kiss him and we interlock our hands. Leaning into him I whisper; “are you ready for round two?” Before I can blink, Ash has us positioned so that we are semi-sitting, his back pressed against the headboard, but he doesn’t take control. He allows me to explore every inch of him and I don’t ever want to stop. However, the need to feel him inside of me is greater than the need to continue exploring him and we consummate our relationship again.