My Two Worlds - 15

Ah, yes last chapter with the revelation of who Cedric is. Hmm I feel I need to say this just so it's clear I wasn't trying to be ooc with Corny. She had wanted to run away from him when first told but you know, being twenty feet in the air makes it hard to do that. Cedric did choose the ferris wheel for a reason... That aside, she did have some freakout termoil inside. Plus in an earlier chapter she mentioned how nothing could keep her away from Cedric.

Of course I like to keep the few author's notes I have for this short, latest chapter below for your enjoyment.

A rasp came from a hand hitting on metal. "Ride's over love birds."

"Oh." Cornelia withdrew from Cedric and hopped out quickly to be followed by him. There was a heavy blush on her cheeks for being caught making out by the carnival employee. "What did you want to do next?" she asked him turning in his direction.

"Enjoy the rest of the carnival." He replied, hand reaching out to grasp hers.

She responded by twining her fingers around his as they walked to booths and played little games. Some like the whack-the-crocidle-on-the-snout sort, others throwing balls at objects to make them fall over or into hoops. There of course was a wide variety and though she wasn't to quick on acting more like a kid around Cedric she gave in eventually.

"They do have one!" She announced upon seeing the ride that carnivals had half the time, mostly depending on the type. It was hidden by a few booths though.

"Have what?" Cedric asked, while for once appearing not as human. He was looking at the cotton candy she held in her hand with obvious suspicion.

She caught his look and grabbed some of the sticky fluff between her fingers and raised it toward him. "Come on, try it." she said, egging him on as she had when first getting it from a food station one game back. "You know you wanna." A flirtasious smile was on her lips as she gripped his hand with the other and led him between the booths toward what she had spotted.

"Want to taste cotton dyed pink? No thanks." His gaze moved beyond her for a moment to the tunnel like ride.

"It's not that kind of cotton." she told him for the third time. Though Cornelia was at a loss of how to explain it. Even after she had eaten some and gave a satisfied sound he had still not moved to try any himself. "Let me guess, it's too much of a girly color. Should we go get you a blue one?"

"What makes you think dying it blue will make me want to suddenly eat it?"

She rolled her eyes slightly at his response. "Right, sorry, I should have known better. Your color is green. I'm sure there's another stand with that color as well around here. We just have to look a bit harder for it."

Cedric slipped some coins into a man's hand since Cornelia seemed to have been heading for the ride, it was the only one in this section. He climbed into the boat after her, not speaking until it had started moving slowly toward the cave opening, bright lights above the darkness with random hearts. "No matter what color you dye it I'm not going to eat that."

Cornelia shrugged. "Your loss." She popped the ball of candy into her mouth, keeping the sweetness for as long as she could but of course it disapeared quickly. It's not like she was really going to bug him about the trivial matter anyways. Afterall it was only fun for so long. She smiled as they disapeared into the love tunnel, soft lights of mostly pinks, whites, and reds dotted the surface of the water, just bobbing in place. "So, this a coupley ride." she said lightly and leaned closer to him. Her fingers picked at another tuft of cotton before she slipped it into her mouth.

"Is it?"A hand enveloped her wrist bringing it up towards his face. Her face heated in the darkness from his action thinking he was simply going to kiss her palm. Instead his tongue drew over her fingers causing her blush to deepen.

"Yes," she said in a calm manner as if not affected by what he had just done. "that's why it's called the 'Love Tunnel'. Of course it's not fully a tunnel because it does come out onto a lake. I saw it when you were so enraptured by the cotton candy."

Cedric let go of her hand, instead turning toward her so she could feel his warm breath along her bare arm. "Promise me you won't ever put the words 'cotton' and 'candy' in the same sentance again." The words sent goosebumps over her skin.

"You so have a vendetta against cotton." At the pause in his breath though she quickly continued. "Fine, I promise. From here on out no mention of cotton and candy in the same sentance. Starting now." Cornelia caught his smile at the corner of her eye while hearing a soft laugh that sent shivers down her spine.

She soon forgot about that though when his lips went to her neck, kissing softly along the skin. Her face felt like it was heating up and she was grateful that it was dark enough to hide her heavy blush from his gaze. How was it that he always seemed to find a place and time to kiss her? Not that she was complaining but her neck was definetly a sensitive spot for it.

Blowing her breath out slowly and as normal as possible to act unfazed she looked at the lights making patterns along the walls. There was pictures of roses and swirling hearts on the plastic cave ceiling. Some combined making it look like they were blossoming above her. She drew in another breath but it hitched for a moment as his lips found a weakspot closer to her collarbone.

"Ah, look. We're coming out of the cave now." she said, sounding breathless as he finally pulled away to glance forward. The moonlight was hitting the waters surface just right. To her it looked like something out of a fairy tale. "Isn't it beautiful?"

"You're the most beautiful thing I see." Ceric replied, sounding very honest on the matter.

She smiled. "That's a pick-up line and you already have me." Saying that she turned to him and pressed her lips to his, not wanting this to ever end.

When she drew away he was smiling at her, the boat rocked softly to a stop. Cornelia got to her feet and hopped from the metal linked contraption back onto dry land. She gave a small yawn and placed her hand over her mouth to muffle it.

He seemed to have heard anyway. "Tired?"

"Just a, little." she replied, a small break in her words as she yawned again, eyelids fluttering as she fought them back from closing on her.

"Let's get to the car then." He said as she swayed on her feet. Cedric grabbed her before she could fall to the ground and carried her the rest of the way. After opening her door and setting her on the seat and strapping the belt in himself he closed the door. Getting to his side he started the engine as Cornelina yawned once again.

"Sorry." she murmured.

"I'm the one that drove us out here after you were held in a dungeon with hardly any food for energy. It's a miracle you didn't throw up that greasy carnival food." he replied, glancing over his seat to make sure he didn't run over anybody as he pulled out.

Cornelia giggled softly. "Don't say that to soon. I don't want to dirty up your car."

"Focus on sleep instead then. It'll be some minutes before we get to your house anyway."

"R-right." Cornelia turned slightly and pressed her cheek against the leather of the car seat watching Cedric as he drove. Her eyes eventually became to heavy and she subcombed to sleep.

A sharp ring invaded her thoughts suddenly and she woke up from her dream of nothing glancing around her room quickly. It looked the same as every other night except now she had a boyfriend who was Elyon's personal guard back on Meridian. She sat up slowly before the ring sounded again.

"Okay, okay. I'm coming hold on to your batteries." Cornelia snapped at the electrical device. Swinging her legs over the side of the bed she got to her feet and walked to where her phone had been set down last night. Picking it up she answered, "Hello?"

"Oh, Cornelia!" Hay Lin's voice came through scratchy sounding. "You need to come down to the Silver Dragon quick!"

Cornelia frowned. The other girl sounded panic stricken. "What's going on Hay Lin?"

"Ah, Elyon sent news across the Veil. Phobos is sending out his army to look for the Seal!"

"Seal? What seal?" Cornelia asked, frowning.

"The Seal of Phobos. It has the power to open portals. You need to come here now so that Will can transform you and we can start looking for it. If he gets it first he could launch an attack against Earth!"

"Okay, I'll be over in a bit. Just stop yelling I have a headache."

"Sure. Oh!-"

"Owch, my ears Hay Lin."

"Sorry!" Cornelia didn't even bother to tell her she was still doing it again. "So, just wondering. What did you and Mr. Hoffman do last night?"

Mr. Hoffman? It took her a second to remember that the others didn't know it was really Cedric. It would be obvious to the other witches cause they had seen him in human form when Elyon was taken to Meridian but Hay Lin had been with Cornelia back then. she hadn't seen him so even though she had come to her apartment before and caught sight of him she hadn't known.

The other Guardiands had though, and probably would have warned her away from him. But, he had come clean to her about being from Meridian so it wasn't an issue.

"We went to this carnival right outside of town." Cornelia hit the speaker button and set it down on her dresser so she could still speak to her while dressing. "There was a love tunnel and we went on it." She didn't know why, but she wanted to keep Cedric her only little secret for awhile longer so didn't mention what he had told her back on that one ride. High up in the air too. He totally did that on purpose.

"Oooo, it sounds so romantic!" Hay Lin gushed from her line.

"It was." Cornelia replied a blush creeping up her cheek. Just remembering how he had kissed her and completely attacked her neck.

Wait! He wouldn't dare! Would he?

She ran off to the bathroom still tugging on her pants and almost tripping. Pulling her hair aside and up she gasped. He did! "That little..." she muttered grabbing for cover up from a drawer and quickly applying it to one of the three the love bites visible on her neck. "I am going to kill him." she quickly applied the rest and let her hair fall back in place.

"Cornelia?" Hay Lin's voice called from her room.

"I'm still here!" she ran out from the bathroom and grabbed a shirt she had laid out on the bed while talking previously.

"Will says you need to hurry it up."

I'm sure she does. Cornelia frowned. She was going as fast as she could! After slipping her shirt on she grabbed the phone while slipping into flip flops and running to the door. "Tell her I'm leaving right now and I'll be there soon. Okay?"

"Yup! I got it." Hay Lin replied just before Cornelia clicked her phone off.

Sorry about it being shorter than usual. Just know i haven't given up on this.