Board Thread:Short Stories and Fanfictions/@comment-108.56.231.106-20191020224916/@comment-108.56.231.106-20191102003618

Yikes. I don't know what happened there. The, well, EVERYTHING is wrong. So I'm going to try again, please just ignore the above!

Hopefully this is better!

Sophie and Keefe must’ve stayed in their ‘hand-holding, head-on-shoulder’ position for a while because eventually, Grady and Edaline came out.

 They both looked surprised to see Sophie and Keefe together - though Grady seemed more annoyed than surprised.

'''  Once they got over it, Grady started his usual glare-fest with Keefe, while Edaline kept giving Sophie weird, sappy smiles. Sophie would never understand parents.'''

''' But she still sat up. She didn’t let go of Keefe’s hand, though. He had started - with her permission - to send cool, soothing breezes through her head and she didn’t want them to stop yet.'''

'''As an Enhancer, Sophie could boost other’s abilities with just a touch of her hand. Sophie and Keefe had discovered that when Sophie boosted Keefe’s ability as an Empath, he could control her emotions - in a minor way, of course. He usually just helped her relax or calm down.'''

'''“Sooo. . .” Grady drew the word out longer than necessary.'''

   Edaline nudged him in a way that was obviously supposed to be unnoticeable, yet clearly wasn’t.

'''Sophie rolled her eyes, but she was blushing. She stole a glance at Keefe, hoping he hadn’t noticed. '''

He had.

'''   “Sorry,” Edaline apologized to Sophie and Keefe. “we were coming to check on you, Sophie and we didn’t realize you were still here, Keefe.”'''

“More like I didn’t know you were here at all,” Grady grumbled.

 Edaline nudged him again in that not-so-subtle way.

Sophie’s face got even more flushed, and Keefe grinned.

'''   “But you’re obviously okay, Sophie,” Edaline noted. “So we’ll leave you two out here.”'''

 “We will?” Grady questioned, incredulously.

“We will.” Edaline insisted and pulled Grady by the arm back to the house.

 When they were gone, Sophie let out a groan she’d been holding in.

'''  She then turned to Keefe. “Sorry, I didn’t think they would be so-”'''

'''Keefe cut her off. “It’s cool, Foster. It didn’t bother me, and hey, I got to see you blush a ton!”'''

''' Sophie rolled her eyes. Sometimes she didn’t know why she even bothered.'''

But that didn’t stop her from embracing the cool, ice-blue breezes that Keefe had continued to send through her head.

   “You two are the cutest!” Ro exclaimed, stepping out from the shadows she’d been previously hiding in.

 Startled, Sophie jumped, letting go of Keefe’s hand.

'''Once she’d verified that it was only Ro, she sighed. '''

  “Why do you always have to say things like that?” 

''' Ro raised an eyebrow. “Do you really need me to tell you? Because-”'''

'''Keefe cut her off. “Because she’s super annoying, as we all sadly know.” he told Sophie.'''

'''  That was weird too though. Whenever Ro brought anything like that up, Keefe quickly jumped in, giving reasons that weren’t all that convincing. But that was something for another day. Sophie had been through a lot today - a LOT - and she needed some rest.'''

“I’m going to bed,” she said, standing up, shaking the Panakes blossoms from her hair.

'''   “You should. It’s probably been a super long day for you.” Keefe agreed.'''

“I’ll see you tomorrow, then,” Sophie said, already starting to walk back to the huge house, gleaming merrily.

 Keefe looked confused so Sophie elaborated.

“Training lessons with the bodyguards, remember?”

'''   Keefe groaned. “Right, that. I guess I will see you tomorrow, then. So prepare for a whole lot of whining!”'''

'''Sophie sighed. “Please, no.” '''

'''Keefe smirked. “There’s no avoiding it. Unless you let me not come to the training tomorrow?”'''

'''  “No deal.” Sophie told him firmly. “We all said we would train, so we’re training. Tomorrow.”'''

''' “Fiiine.” Keefe relented, pulling out his home crystal. “See you tomorrow, Foster.”'''