Lust

[Admin Sydnee]

AJ grinned against his lips as he removed his jacket, the drenched jacket falling to the floor. Nothing mattered. Nothing mattered except Gabe and his skin on hers. Her hands moved down his chest as his lips traveled to her neck. She threw her head back for a moment before slipping her arms out of the straps of her dress, her hands pulling him closer, urging him on, never wanting to stop. She didn't care if the building started on fire.

Her touch mixed with the charm looking into his eyes gave her was lethal and neither of them were going to stop. She was moving with him, pulling him backwards, nearly crashing into her bedside table.

[emilybuj]

Gabe moved his hands to help AJ out of her dress - though it was more agressive than mere assistance due to the nature of AJs power. He was very content with the feeling og his hands on her skin, and once he tore his dress shirt from his body, he was even happier pressing his chest onto hers. He pulled her down on top of him as he lay back onto her bed. Gabe's still wet hair soaked the pillows and sheets, but not a care was given.

They were both lost in each other. And in any other context one would find the connection between them beautiful. But neither would remember the pure bliss they felt as Gabe trailed kisses across AJ's entire body, letting his hands roam where they shouldn't, and removing every last piece of clothing from both of their bodies.

[Admin Sydnee]

They'd finally made it to the bed and although Gabe's wet hair soaked her sheets, she didn't care. He'd helped her out of her dress, aggressively tugging it over her head and she'd practically ripped his dress shirt off of him. She was content with him pulling her down on top of him and the clothes that continued to be shed, an array of their clothes spread across her dorm room floor as their powers worked against one each other, or possibly together depending on how one looked at it.

It felt passionate and like everything AJ ever wanted as they ravaged each other's bodies, rolling around in bed together surrounded by the heat radiating from skin on skin. Hands desperately reached for and found their destination and their bodies meshed together in a heated passion produced by their powers that neither had anticipated.

[emilybuj]

Gabe came back to reality in an instant. His back kind of hurt and he was staring at the ceiling. He groaned, and rubbed his face with his hands, trying to process where he was and what had happened that ended up with him on the floor. Though it only took him half a moment to remember that AJ had touched him. And another half a moment to realize he was, in fact, naked and lying on her... floor?

He looked to his left, seeing his boxers and grabbing them, throwing them on in shame. Looking to his right, he noticed AJ on the bed, looking up at him with big eyes - still in a trace. He must have fell off the bed. But by the familiar feeling in his body, he had known that it had happened and it was beyond both of their control. But the fact that the whole night just became a whole lot worse than before brought panicked tears to his eyes for the first time. "fuck..." he muttered, scanning the room desperately for something to cover his eyes. He refused to look at AJ until that point. He stepped back from the bed as she reached for him again. Scrambling across the room he grabbed a pair of white rhinestoned sunglasses off another girl's desk. Clearly they weren't gabe's style but in this situation Gabe didn't particularly care what he looked like. "AJ..." he said toward the girl who still had that charmed sparkle in her eyes. "AJ are you in there?" he couldn't just leave after what happened.

[Admin Sydnee]

AJ had heard the crash of Gabe falling off of her bed and onto her floor, but it didn't quite register. She was still under his affect and had crawled towards the edge of the bed, reaching out for him, her eyes meeting his ravenously. It was like coming down from some sort of high and it still lasted even when he turned away, tearing apart the room for a pair of sunglasses to conceal his eyes.

By the time he'd put them on, she was getting up from the bed and moving towards him. He spoke her name. His lips spoke her name, but it didn't have the same effect. Instead, she felt as if she was slowly drifting back to reality and she was faced with a pounding headache and a soreness.

Are you in there? She was looking straight at him now, with the ridiculous rhinestone sunglasses covering his eyes and she felt as if she was actually seeing him for the first time since he'd climbed in her window. Slowly, a look of realization came across her features and she reached for her comforter, snatching it off of the bed and holding it over herself. What had she done? What had they done? Tears pricked the corners of her eyes all over again. "Gabe..." she mumbled. "Oh my god...I'm so sorry. Oh my god," Her mumbles became panicked rambles. "You weren't wearing your glasses. Why weren't you wearing them?" Oh my god.

[emilybuj]

Gabe let himself fall into the chair of the desk he had grabbed the glasses from, seeing as AJ was clearly out of the trace. Her put his face into his hands and did his best not to sob. "Mikayla tore them off me I forgot," he said all too quickly. "I forgot I wasn't wearing them. I wasn't thinking. I... I'm sorry. You shouldn't be sorry. This is my fault," he continued to ramble, suddenly feeling the weight of the entire evening on his shoulders. He couldn't look up at AJ even though he had the glasses on now. "I... oh god," he mumbled. He couldn't even think of words to say that would make what had happened ok. He couldn't remember it, and he assumed she couldn't either. But it still happened. He could feel it. And now he had no clue of how to go on. "I'm so sorry," he whispered again.

[Admin Sydnee]

AJ just stared at him, wondering how they had let this happen. She was so careful. She should have noticed he wasn't wearing his glasses earlier. She shouldn't have looked at him, but she was caught so off guard. And now it had happened and neither of them could do anything about it. She wanted to go over and comfort him, but she found that she just stayed there in her bed wrapped up in her comforter, not knowing exactly what she was feeling. It was something between anger at herself and the situation and a sadness that was still following her around, hanging over her like a dark cloud.

Slut! That's what her peers at her old high school called her and that was what a voice was whispering to her in the back of her mind. This shouldn't have happened! Her power just continued to hurt everybody around her, including herself and now Gabe was in a worse state than when he got here and she still didn't even know what had happened with Mikayla, but now she felt something in the pit of her stomach. She slept with Gabe. Sure, it hadn't been intentional, but she had and she immediately felt sick. Mikayla. Sweet Mikayla...her roommate, how could she do this to her?

She balled the sheets in her fists, looking helplessly at Gabe. "It's not your fault," she managed to finally say. "It's not, okay? It..." It what? It just happened? Well, it seemed that way. He wouldn't even look up at her and AJ didn't blame him. "I should have...I should have noticed, I shouldn't have looked at you." She felt the tears brimming over again.

Stop crying. Don't you ever stop crying?

[emilybuj]

"Stop blaming yourself!" Gabe nearly yelled. "You're always blaming yourself and it's not always your fault!" He wasn't angry at AJ or even himself, but he couldn't help but raising his voice. "Whatever it is that gave us these god awful powers..." he clenched his fists, resisting the urge to punch the wall.

"Nobody can know..." he said, the thought of Mikayla finding out nearly killing him. "It never happened..." he said trying to convince himself of it too. Maybe if he could convince himself it didn't happen, he'd forget about it. Especially since he couldn't remember the actual act anyway. Only that he knew what had happened because he understood his and AJs power - and their horrible combination.

[Admin Sydnee]

"Well then, stop blaming yourself!" AJ shot back after he'd raised his voice at her. But he was right. It was their powers fault....and whoever or wherever they got them from. But it didn't make it any easier not to blame yourself. She knew that.

She sunk down in her bed sheets as he went on, listening carefully to his words and squeezing her eyes shut as he spoke. Pretend it didn't happen? Isn't that what she'd been trying to for years regarding what happened between her and Ashton? And didn't it come out and destroy them both in the end? And why did it kind of sting to hear him say that?

Nobody can know...it never happened. AJ knew it was best to keep it in, to not let a secret loose that could hurt people, people like Gabe and Mikayla and Ashton, but that didn't change the fact that internalizing what she'd done and having to deal with it on her own hurt her. It was like pouring vinegar on what was already a thousand paper cuts.

She opened her eyes slowly through her blurred vision of tears and nodded at him anyway, but inside she was screaming. What about me? What about how I feel? What about how much it hurts me to deal with what I've done?

Her eyes landed on her dress that was on the floor.

[emilybuj]

"I... I'm so sorry Aj," Gabe said again, finally getting back up to gather his clothes and throw them on. Panic in his mind just telling him to get out of the room as soon as physically possible. "I... I gotta get out of here..." his words were jumbled and his mind was racing as he threw on his still soaked dress pants, and rushed out the door and into the hall. "I'm sorry..." he said one last time, though he wasn't sure who it was meant for - AJ, himself, mikayla...

Gabe wished there was a way he could become invisible, rushing down the halls of the girls' dorms. Praying he wouldn't run into any teachers, especially seeing as he wasn't wearing a shirt. And as he fumbled to put his wet suit jacket back on, his most FAVORITE french teacher Madame Dupont come around the corner. That moment summed up the whole night as he didn't even hesitate to go with her to her office - surely to determine his punishment for being around the girls dorms. And probably creating river through the halls. He just hoped the flashy glasses he was wearing were large enough to his the tears that were forming in his eyes.