Where am I?

Secrets

    Where Am I?

    Pulling into a driveway dead tired Crystal looks around. The Victorian house in front of her looks old and abandoned with broken windows, the steps falling in on each other and the door luckily still on its hinges and there is no way she was getting out to explore. Since the place looked abandoned she had no worries of sleeping there for a while and turns the ignition off climbing into the back of the van pulling the curtain as she goes. Wondering why she was even here, but feeling like it was a matter of life or death, not bothering to remove her shoes or anything she climbs into bed and falls swiftly to sleep.

    Luke standing on balcony watches the woman pull into his driveway and turning off the van, then climb into the back,” Is that my mate?”

    The witch looks at him with a smirk,”Yes, I told you the spell would work, ye of little faith.”

    Luke shakes his head, he hates witches and their spells, but under the circumstances what choice did he have. With society changing, women being independent there is no need for them to travel to find their mates and that is if she knows who and what she is. He did notice the thick long black hair like Crystal Gayle's and how alert her eyes were not to mention the color of the sky before a storm.,” We will see if you are right.” He turns away heading indoors to get a drink. Witches, he thought, it is pretty bad when you have to trust a witch not to put a knife in your back,” Where is the potion, the second part of this spell of yours?”

    The witch looks at him as if assessing if he is good at his word,” I want half the payment. The woman is here like I said.”

    Luke turns to her and nods his head to his right hand man,” Give her half. If the second part doesn’t work or I don’t wake up put a knife in her heart, slowly.”

    Glenn, the right hand man, reaches into his back pocket pulling out the envelope with the promised payment handing it to the hag. He wasn’t happy when the hag gave Luke the vial,” Boss, I don’t like this.”

    Luke looks at him straight in the eye,” Remember, if I don’t wake up kill her, slowly and painfully.” Luke downs the foul stuff following it with his drink, man that was some awful s**t. He sits down in the closest chair possible before the stuff kicks in.

     The witch smiles at him,” Don’t worry, nothing will happen. It is only going to allow you to walk into her dreams from there is up to you.”     

    Crystal dreams of a man with a crooked smile and charming eyes, that seem to have lived a thousands years alone. He is walking straight to her – why she wonders – does she know him, but her heart feels something like it is waking up after along winter’s nap – why. When he reaches her he doesn’t say anything but places his hand on her cheek as he gently kisses her – so soft she thinks it a ghost – why she wonders again. The next thing she knows his hands are running up her leg and on the way down they remove her shoes, again up the leg – very gently, she could feel the calluses on his hands, she should stop him, but it has been such a long time, on his way down this time he grabbed her socks pulling them off as he went. My God, how can a man – a strange man give her butterflies with just the simple act of removing shoes and socks maybe it is his eyes watching her every move waiting for a retreat.

Luke watches Crystal like there is no other woman earth so captivated by her beauty, lips the color of red wine, he was right about her hair black as midnight and long. She is wearing a loose t-shirt with Bon Jovi on it from a concert he thinks and loose blue jeans like painter’s pants but damn she is the most beautiful creature. He wanted to touch her to see if she was real and to see how close he could get before she slapped him. It was like a magnetic pull, one he could not fight. As his hands goes up one leg and then down he pulls off her shoes without untying them. She does nothing so he does it again this time removing her socks.

A loud pounding on the van wakes Crystal up. Breaking the spell.

Crystal startles awake, on instinct answers,” What?”

The Stranger stops pounding and goes to the front of the van,” Morning, mam, but this is private property, I am going to need your license and registration please.”

Seriously, a perfect dream, with the most gorgeous man, just to be awoken by a cop, damn this is going to be a long day,” okay, give me a minute please.” Crystal gets up from the bed and heads up to the front of the van pulling the curtain as she gets into the drivers’ seat.

The Stranger stops pounding and goes to the front of the van,” Morning, mam, but this is private property, I am going to need your license and registration please.”

Seriously, a perfect dream, with the most gorgeous man, just to be woken by a cop, damn this is going to be a long day,” okay, give me a minute please.” Crystal gets up from the bed and heads up to the front of the van pulling the curtain as she gets into the passenger’s seat to get in the glove box and grabs the information and hands it to the cop.

The Cop takes the info and heads to his car to run the info. After about 20 minutes comes back,” How long you planning on staying Miss Foster?” handing the info back to her.

Crystal looks at the cop,” Have no idea” moving over to the driver’s seat after putting the info back into the glove box.

The Cop smiles,” No harm, no foul. There is a motel up the road though. Have a nice visit okay.”

 Crystal taking the warning nods her head as the cop walks back to his car and leaves.