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Chapter 33

Chapter 33
Loki hadn't felt this good when courting anyone, but Amora had been a dream of his since he'd first met her. For the last 2 months life had been bliss. Loki woke each morning with a smile. Amora, however, was never there when he woke. Apparently, she wasn't that kind of girl. She enjoyed the sex, this he was sure of, but she seemed disconnected somehow.
It bothered Loki sometimes, but once he was with her, he forgot his worries while her delicate hands would finds its way through his hair. Loki should know better than be disappointed in her. She was always a wild one, a free woman. She might now be his, but he wouldn't be able to cage her up from the world. So Loki didn't complain, he buried his doubts far inside him and kept his mouth shut.
Loki was lucky, he had his greatest fantasy come true.
Cephera was another story. Amora had been taking up more of his time than he expected. He hadn't seen much of Cephera, not even for training. Too caught up in his own world to care... but he did care. He felt bad. She'd been so excited about her training and his dreams of making her his protege hadn't gone away, it was just that Amora was more tempting than training.
Cephera hadn't been taking it well. The longer he put off his time teaching her, the more he could see the disappointment in her eyes and the fake smile on her face. She was trying to be happy for him, but he'd allowed things to change. He felt bad even more for her strength to be happy, he just knew that his continuous decisions to meet her once a week instead of everyday put a space between their once close relationship.
He tried to keep things calming and natural between them. Tried not to let her feel like it's changed completely. Like he did now as she walked into his tower.
"Good morning," Cephera greeted as she walked toward him. Loki looked up rolling his eyes at her.
"Though it is not morning any longer." He pointed out. Though her greeting was what she said no matter the time of day it was, he felt like saying something about it.
"Well I just woke up so for me it's morning." She told him grabbing an apple from the bowl he usually kept there for her. She planked her ass on the top of his desk and he could tell by the way her skirt moved she had crossed one leg over the other.
"And that is not a chair." He added.
"You're so cranky this morning." She told him.
"Afternoon." He protested. She waved it off wiping the juice of the apple from her chin politely, before speaking again.
"What's up?" She asked tilting her head in that innocent way she always did.
"I cannot seem to figure out where I have gone wrong with this formula." He explained turning his journal towards her. He had been up all night trying to figure it out. Amora had left the night before, urgent business with her sister.
Cephera looked over his notes and ate her apple until she smiled, grabbed his quill and made a mark in his book. Loki tried not to growl and instead looked at what she had done. When he spotted that she had, indeed found his error and even fixed it, Loki looked up at her. She was smiling all to widely. "Don't get too proud of yourself. You still have a lot to learn." He didn't offer a thank you and she didn't seek it.
He thought she might make a quip about never having enough time to learn more, but this was Cephera and even if she thought it she didn't and wouldn't voice it.
"Where's Amora?" She asked throwing away her core.
"She had errands she needed to run. She'll be back soon," he said. "Why?"
"She looks at me funny, so when she gets here I'm gonna go find something else to do." Cephera replied shrugging.
"She looks at you funny because she thinks you're cute." Loki told her. "I've told you before she likes both men and women."
"Yes and I only like men." Cephera hopped down off his desk.
"How would you know. You've never tried either." Loki teased her. It was a well known fact that Cephera was unpracticed in any dealings with men or women in any romantic matter.
"I know because boys make me turn my head and my heart to flutter, not girls." Cephera moved her hand and a bevy of papers smacked Loki in the face for his teasing comment. He laughed. Though she had mentioned leaving when Amora arrived Loki frowned as he watched her leaving. He felt the guilt twist his stomach, she'd been there for him through so much and now every time he saw her she was walking away.
(Cephera)
"When will this end?" Seraphina asked, entering Cephera's room.
"I don't know." Cephera replied not bothering to feign stupidity. She knew her sister meant her broody mood.
"I don't like it." She growled and sat down across from the younger twin. "Ever since Loki starting courting the tramp, you've been like a lost puppy."
"She's not a tramp." Cephera interjected.
"Meh. She's a troublemaker. I know her type, she'll use and abuse Loki." Cephera's eyes flashed up and stared at her sister.
"Really?" Cephera sounded far more hopeful than she should have. It was more the hope that their relationship would end soon rather than the Loki being hurt part, but as always she felt guilty for wishing it. No matter how hard she tried, she just couldn't be happy for her friend and it wasn't about the kiss or her pervious feelings, it was the loss of his friendship. It was the changes that had occurred since Amora's strange arrival.
"Wow..., how long have you been keeping those hopes in?" Seraphina teased catching Cephera's tone. Cephera flushed.
"It's not that, I just...,"
"I know," Seraphina said waving her hand at her sister. "You have feelings for him and if Amora dumps Loki you'll be able to play hero and pick up his pieces in hopes he might see you in a more romantic light." Cephera's face faltered into a look of pure confusion.
"What? No!" She narrowed her eyes. "Loki is my friend...,"
"But you want him to be more." Seraphina pointed out. Cephera was baffled. She'd never told anyone how she felt about Loki. Least of all her sister because of all the warnings she'd given about him in the past. "Look, I've known for a while now how you felt. You think I couldn't see those little yearnful looks you'd give him when you thought no one was looking? Well I was looking and I know you better than anyone, just admit it so we can move on." Cephera sighed and looked away.
When she returned her gaze back to the elder twin, her sister had a very intense look that said 'fess up'. "Yes, there was once a time I thought maybe, just maybe, myself and Loki could be something more, but I decided to ignore it in favor of keeping my current friendship from changing." Cephera finally admitted.
"Reality check... relationships change people and lives, no matter who they are with. Look at him and Amora, how often do you two hang out now that she's in the picture? You should have gone for it when you had the chance." Cephera's mouth dropped open, she gapped at her sister before responding.
"Since when did you become an advocate for a courtship between myself and Loki? You! The person who warned me away." Seraphina frowned.
"I warned you away yes, but I can't stop you from feeling. If you decided that he's the guy then who am I to stand between that. Besides, he's been good to you, he's changed since we all first met, I have a certain respect for him now." Cephera would have been happy to hear that, had it been sooner, now it made her feel worse. Seraphina was right, she should have pushed aside her fears and given it a try, now she'd never know.
"You called her a tramp... I don't agree with the word, but I agree with the distrust," Cephera said, avoiding the pervious topic.
"How so?"
"I have this gut feeling that she's using him. I've heard things about her. How she only does things to benefit herself. I feel like she's trying to isolate him. When he's training with me, she shows up and always has a reason he should go with her." Cephera explained fiddling with the cup on the table.
"Maybe she sees you as a threat?" Seraphine grinned.
"No, it's something else. I can't explain it, I just know it. She's bad news, I was thinking on warning Loki."
"Absolutely not!" Seraphina hissed.
"Why?" Cephera was taken aback by her sister's sudden demeanour.
"Look, you're completely incompetent with regards to how these kinds of things work." Cephera frowned deep at that. "I'm not trying to be mean, but the thing is, Loki is in his own happy little world right now and that world is Amora. If you slander her in any manner, while he's on this new relationship cloud, he will become defensive. He'll think you're jealous and there will be a fight over it. This is a touchy subject and unless you have hard proof it's best you stay out of it."
Cephera wasn't sure she agreed with her advice. Loki would never treat her that way. "I'm loyal to Loki. He knows that, I'm just gonna tell him to be careful is all. To keep his eyes open."
"I'm telling you right now, forget it. You want to have any small chance to stay his friend through this, then keep your worries to yourself. All you've got it speculation, you've been shunned by him for 2 months since she came back. You're lucky he has no other reasons to think you're a jealous meddler." Cephera felt her face flush again and she turned her head away to look at the far wall. "Oh no, there is something else." Seraphina slumped in her chair. "What happened?"
Cephera but her lower lip and shifted in her seat. "The day Amora came back, Loki had been teasing me over my monthly letter. We were just playing around, he was trying to see it and I wouldn't let him. I slipped and fell, bringing him down on top of me... he kissed me. It was brief because Thor walked in and interrupted." Cephera couldn't meet her sister's gaze.
"Fuck." Her sister cursed. "Did you talk about it?" Cephera shook her head no. "So you had an unresolved intimate moment, no matter how quick it was, and you want to slander his new woman thinking Loki won't think your just jealous? Cephera, I knew you could be naive, but this is crazy." Cephera felt ashamed. When her sister put it that way, maybe that one mistaken kiss would cause more problems for her. Perhaps, she should keep her mouth shut. "Look, if we are right, and Amora isn't around for Loki, she'll screw up on her own at some point or leave him of her own accord, either way, if you want to come out on top you need to just keep being his friend."
"I'll try." Cephera let her head fall forward and her forehead to hit the table. "Why does everything have to be so complicated." She groaned.
"Because life wouldn't be interesting if it were easy." Seraphina replied rubbing the back of Cephera's head in a soothing manner. "Take care sweet sister, we have many years to live and we have patience. Use it to keep yourself going."
Cephera made a mumbled sound of acceptance. She didn't feel any better now, than she had before her sister had a talk with her. No matter how this played out, Loki would get hurt, and if Cephera wasn't careful she might be caught up in the pain as well, or worse become the cause of it.

Notes

Comments

@fraychan
Then I have done my job well. :p

Yasumi Yasumi
6/15/15

Your cliff hangers wound me D:

fraychan fraychan
6/12/15

@fraychan
Keep that adrenaline pumping, still a lot to come.

Yasumi Yasumi
5/14/15

Oh god I can't even describe how happy this chapter made me. I'm feeling a slight adrenaline rush haha

fraychan fraychan
5/12/15

@fraychan
I agree, things have could been so much different if things had just come to light sooner.

Yasumi Yasumi
5/7/15