Gilded Intentions - 1.4

Time Flies

 

The next few weeks flew by with the new routine that everyone somehow seemed to fall into. When Jasper was busy with his new electoral work and council meetings in town, everyone had their own things keeping them busy to pass the time with; which also kept Jasper content.

Kiren’s black eye healed quickly, even though Adette and Melanie had offered to ‘wish’ for her that it would heal, she had decided that it would be best to let it heal on its own so as not to anger Jasper.

Managing to stick to the in the gym most days, working on improving her martial arts, she was able to put her frustrations from being used as one of Jasper’s regular tools into her training. Despite sharing the space with Reiss while he spent his time doing strength training, they both seemed to be keeping their distance from each other as much as possible and only spoke short ‘hello’s’ or ‘see you later’ when they did meet up.

 

 

Adette and Melanie were usually on the other side of the house on the library veranda working on their more artistic creativity.

Melanie enjoyed taking out her frustrations out on sculpting, she was good at working with all sorts of materials and seemed to get lost in her work more often than not and had to be called out to when lunch or dinner was ready.

Adette had an uncanny and brilliant talent for painting and Kiren also found that she had a unique trait of being able to withstand sunlight, unlike Reiss who had to stay inside or sleep during the daytime.

Under Jasper’s watchful eye, as long as everyone was careful with every word, step and action they took when he was around, nothing bad happened to anyone.

 

 

By the end of the month though, for Adette, enough was enough. She got Kiren and Melanie to join her in getting dressed up just as sunset was fading to dark on a Saturday evening.

“We’re having a girl’s night out, dancing, drinking and most of all, getting out of this Watcher forsaken mansion before I bite someone out of frustration.”

Kiren adjusted her bracelets and glanced at her in the mirror. “Have you done this before, I mean, what if he... you know, gets mad?”

“Oh pfft,” Adette scoffed and waved her hand absently.  “What’s he going to get mad at, seriously, that we went out and let off some steam somewhere else that’s not here? Screw that for a bad joke, we’re going, both of you move your cute butts. Now.”

Adette basically had to push both Kiren and Melanie downstairs and outside, a taxi arrived just as they were coming out the front door.

 

 

The club Adette chose to go to was buzzing. The music blared making Kiren’s sure she could feel her chest pounding with the beat of the music, the lights shone brightly and flashed around in bright ever changing colours and shapes, and the dance floor was so packed of Sims dancing it was hard to believe anybody could find room to move.

The girls quickly got drinks for themselves and began to have a great time. It wasn’t long before Adette was tearing up the dance floor with her own moves while Melanie and Kiren soon followed her and all three of them danced the first part of the night away as if it was something they did all the time.

 

 

The bar tender who was kinda cute, was flirting with all of them when they went to get more drinks, Adette flirted right back while Kiren and Melanie just smiled and watched him perform clever tricks as most bartenders did, as he made their drinks.

 

 

It was well past two in the morning when they got back to the mansion, as they came inside whispering, stumbling slightly and giggling, they were all slightly surprised to find Jasper was waiting for them right inside the front door and he didn’t look impressed.

“Well well well, what do we have we here? I don’t think I gave any of you permission to go out while I was away, now did I?” His voice was low and the question was rhetorical.

Melanie was the saving grace and spoke up without batting an eye lid, mostly because she had drunk the most; she seemed unafraid of the consequences of answering back to him in her state of mind.

“Oh babe, come on... we just went out dancing. We needed to blow off some steam, just a girl’s night out, harmless fun.”

Jasper looked over the three of them before slowly nodding his head.

“Ok then, babe, since you want to take responsibility for the three of you girls, you can come with me.”

Jasper laughed wickedly as he picked up Melanie and began to walk off with her towards the stairs. Kiren could help but let out a silent and relieved breath at Jasper’s somewhat relaxed attitude.

 

 

Taking her queue to leave everyone to their own devices, Kiren made her way to the kitchen; Adette had been met by Matt and was swept off her feet by him as he seemed to be in dire need of her company and he had made off towards the stairs with her in his arms.

Getting to the kitchen archway, Kiren was stopped by Reiss who suddenly appeared in front of her blocking her way. He grinned slyly and with a playful look in his eyes.

“And where are you going?”

Kiren folded her arms in annoyance at him and cleared her throat.

“I’m going to get a cup of tea, it’s been a long night and after that I’m heading off to bed, if you don’t mind.”

She skirted around him went into the kitchen over to the brewing counter, her head was fuzzy from drinking a little too much and she wanted to clear it was as soon a she could before sleeping.

 

 

At the counter, Reiss took her by her waist and spun her about to face him leaning over her.

He breathed in deeply taking in her heady perfume of the sweet nectar she had been drinking all evening, he sighed with his breath out, and his eyes were dreamily half closed.

“You know, tonight I actually do mind...’ He purred at her “You see, I have been craving a drink of something warm and sweet...” He breathed in deeply again. “And you have what I crave right now...” Kiren tried to blink away the fuzziness and focus on what Reiss was saying to her her mind told her he was flirting with her while something in the background flashed a warning.

“But... my blood could be dan...” She felt breathless as she spoke; the thought of having someone drink her blood was something else she had never considered to think of before.

“Why don’t we just... go with the flow...”

Without a word Reiss took her by the hand, Kiren couldn’t shake away the fuzzy feeling from her head and let him lead her upstairs, everything seemed dreamlike to her.

 

 

 

In dark décor room, Reiss sat her down in the chair by the door, and then knelt beside her.

“I’d like to drink from your wrist; it’ll be easier and won’t hurt you too badly, I won’t take much... or, you can get up and walk away...” Reiss’s face was calm and oddly emotionless as he looked up at her.

Kiren paused, she wanted to say something, but her mind felt foggy. She found herself holding out her arm to him, her heart was pounding in her ears like a drum becoming faster and faster, she could see the excited anticipation suddenly sparkle in his eyes.

Gently, Reiss took her arm. For a moment his fingers played along the soft skin of her wrist, tracing over her veins. Like ripping off a band-aid, without warning he grasp more firmly on her wrist  and lifted it to his lips biting down into her flesh, it stung like a burn for the first few moments making her gasp, then she began to feel numb and slightly dizzy.

After a while he stopped and placed his hand over where he had bitten to suppress the bleeding, he looked up at her, his eyes swirling with both purple and green, him and her.

“I wish where I bit you was healed.”

He looking directly into her eyes as he whispered the wish; he smiled slightly as she went to protest.

 

 

Her head swirled again from the sudden surge of magic and loss of blood, for a second Kiren wondered if she was going to pass out.

In her dream like state Reiss picked her up from the chair and pushed her up against the wall by the door; she found his lips pressed to hers in a passionate kiss and she could seem to only respond back by melting into his arms and kissing him back. All of her stress seemed to melt away in those moments and she felt as though she was a free as the air she breathed, something in her seemed revived, rejuvenated almost.

 

 

Adette suddenly came storming into the room from the adjoining bathroom, she got right into Reiss’s face as she shoved him away from Kiren.
“You stupid dickhead, are all of you black-bloods insane or are do you only think with one part of your anatomy like other idiotic male Sims?” Adette whispered fiercely to him her eyes blazing with colour almost as brightly as torches. Kiren couldn’t understand why she was so furious at what Reiss and she were doing.

“What the fuck Adette? Firstly, why aren’t you with Matt and secondly, why do you care all of the sudden, huh?” He snapped back at her in the same whispered fury.

“As usual, Matt can’t hold a drink of water to save his life.” Adette scoffed slightly, before returning to her angry attitude.  “And I’m following orders, like you should be.”

Kiren stood back for a moment feeling awkward at them arguing around her.

 

 

 

Before she could stop herself she spoke up, her head was still spinning which made her unsure if what she was about to say would make any sense or get her into trouble.

“Adette if you like Reiss you should have just...” It got her into trouble.

The sharp sting came across her cheek that felt like fire.

“No, I don’t you bottle headed moron...” Adette snapped. “But if you want to get yourself entangled with something you've got no idea about and may only succeed in getting you and your family killed, be my fucking guest.”

 

 

 

Adette went to lash out at Kiren a second time, Reiss snatched her wrist holding it firmly; he spoke softly through gritted teeth.

“Don’t ever hit her again or I swear I will drain you myself, hang you from the rafters in the noon-day sun and watch you turn to dust. Do I make myself clear?” He half pushed her away as he let her arm go. “I drank her blood and I kissed her, don’t turn this around on her or me because of your past screw ups.”

Kiren slipped past them and went though the bathroom back to her room, she had no idea what either of them were talking about from that point on and didn’t want to since everything had suddenly become way more complicated than what she prepared for at the moment.

Reiss and Adette talked for a while longer, but Kiren could only hear their muffled voices through the doors.

 

 

Adette returned to the bedroom sometime later to find Kiren sitting on the footstool; she looked away from Adette as Adette leaned on the bed post and let out a defeated sigh.

“Ok, I’m sorry for intruding on you... but I have good reasons for...”

“Oh? You wouldn’t feel like indulging me as to what your reasons would be by any chance?” Kiren snapped angrily at her.

For the first time Adette bit her bottom lip and, Kiren scoffed shaking her head looking back at the wall. “I didn’t think so, always the way.”

“If I could I would, it’s... complicated and...”
“It’s always complicated Adette... Do you think I’ve just lived hidden away in my bottle for the last four thousand years and not seen complicated, for fucks sake seriously.” Adette seemed taken aback by Kiren’s sudden aggression, she went to say something but Kiren interrupted her. “I’ll find a way out of this hell hole and if it kills me, at least I’ll have tried.”

Kiren got up and went into the bathroom slamming and locking the door behind her. She ran herself a bubble bath in the hopes she would have calmed down and relax a little.

With no real idea how she was going to get out at that moment in time Kiren didn’t feel like caring anymore, no one else seemed to want to get out of this place, but she knew that she sure as hell wanted to.