XIX · In-Between's Runaways

🎧 Dial Drunk by Noah Kahan ft. Post Malone

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"Dorian?"

"Yes, cherryling?"

"You have a beautiful name, has someone told that?" With my right index, I draw the line of his jaw and he sucked on his breath. "You said that it was a stupid name before, but it ain't. Back on the human realm, I read a book where my favorite male character had your name, Dorian, but he was Dorian Haviliaard, he was a Crowned Prince, and one of the love interests of the female lead, but in the end he stayed with the badass witch."

His cheeks reddened, "What did you like about him?"

"He was tormented. In the beginning, I loved him, then I hated him, then I pitied him, and then I got back to loving him so much he became my favorite male character of the series, and there's nine books. He was one of the highlights with the badass witch Manon of my favorite book. In fact," I chuckled at the thought, "he also had something similar to the ability you used on me, but instead of shadows it was a ghost-ish power. Now I get what Manon felt, and I like him even more."

He gasped, "Is it a naughty book?"

"It's left underlined, though the other books of the writer are spicer and cool, she has three series, and I think it was supposed to be a multiverse and something like that. Either way, I like your name. Sorry, that was totally not what I was going to say," I laughed at my dumbass, "I have ADHD."

Dorian blinked, "So, you don't like my name?"

"Oh? No, I do. What I was that I was going to ask you about a total different thing, but then I said your name, looked in your beautiful eyes, and I lost focus. That's what ADHD causes, it fucks my focus up. I meant every word I just said," do they even know what ADHD is here?

"What is this ADHD? Do I have it?" He asked curiously.

I couldn't help giggling, "Cute," I pinched his nose. "I don't know if you have it, because I don't know you well enough to tell that yet, neither have I spent enough time around you to notice. Besides, I'm not a doctor, so I wouldn't be able to diagnose you either. Dad took me to one and I was diagnosed on it, and on dyslexia too, but weird enough, like it happened with Percy, my dyslexia fucked me up when reading and studying in both English, Italian, French, and Spanish, the four human languages I speak, but I could read all the six diversions of Auraniun perfectly fine."

His frown deepened and he stared at me as if I was speaking Celtic Auraniun with him, and fuck he looks breathtakingly hot confused like this. "Who is this Percy and what is this Dyslexia?"

Oh, men, he's lovely, lethal but so lovely. "Percy is Percy Jackson, the main character of a middle grade book series about the children of the Greek Gods, a group of Gods from a belief in the human realm, that birth the coolest mythology there. It's taken as a fantasy child's book, and Percy was the demigod son of Poseidon, the God of the Seas and one of the three strongest Gods of Greek mythology. In this literary world, all the demigods, children of Gods with humans, were both dyslexic and had ADHD. The writer did that in honor of his son, who had it to, so he'd feel special."

"Okay, that sounds like a book I'd like to read. Is that Jesus Christ from this Greek mythology too?" He asked, genuinely curious.

I had to hold it not to laugh, so he wouldn't think I'm mocking him. "Oh? No," but I couldn't not smile. "The Greek Gods are from a country named Greece, with the coolest history and it's also where philosophy and sociology was birthed on the human realm, and the Gods are famous as hell but they aren't very worshipped nowadays, only by the Greeks. Now, Jesus Christ is The God for humans, those who follow him, believe he's the only God existent and take every other religion as paganism."

"There are various takes on Jesus on earth, and some call him by other names like Allah and Messiah, and there are different churches and all of them worship his story different. There's also the sacred book of their religion called the Bible, various takes on it as well. But in the end, it all comes down to Jesus Christ and his story, which is complex, and the book is very huge. I read the Catholic one, which is the most followed church, and it differs from the others because they also worship Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus, and the saints."

"But one thing is study the Catholic Bible, and the other is studying the history of the Catholic Church, a very bloody and dark history, also one of my favorite parts in human history," I chuckled. "That, the World Wars, Cold War, China and Japan old history, and the French Revolution. French standing for France, it's one of the most politically powerful countries in there, really nice, and which got me interested in learning their language, which I did. I would say it's a very fancy language, and a very fancy folk."

"Though it's one of the old colonizer countries. By that, I mean one of the countries with older recorded history, and responsible for the shape of the modernity in the human world as it is now, as well as a big piece in the chess game of the world wars. But history wise, it's also responsible for the colonization of countless countries and the genocide of many natives. France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, and above all England. Five countries with rich history, a big record of colonization, genocide, and European, as in they are all part of the same continent, Europe. They have a superiority,"

Tilting my chin up, Dorian silenced me with a kiss.

It was supposed to be an innocent kiss, but the second I kissed him back, I couldn't help myself as I hopped over him, straddling, holding his face with both my hands, as I deepened the kiss and accepted the dance that his tongue requested mine to. Dorian brought his big hands to my waist, but naughtily slid them down my hips, feeling my body's hourglass shape, my sharp curves, and grabbing my soft ass and digging his gloved fingers on my skin. Sliding my hands down a bit, I felt his wide broad shoulders and brought them up his neck, but paused them on the back of his head.

"You lost… focus," he smiled against my lips, stopping for breath.

I blushed, huffing, "I tend to… get excited… about many topics."

He nuzzled his nose on mine, purring, "I noticed. It's attractive how you know so much of things I have no idea about… how you seem to have actually studied deeply about all of this, just like I did in Auradoom… In the end we're all scholars, all researchers are. We're Auradoom smart kids."

Brushing my thumb on his bottom lip, I nodded, "I like that."