Soulmates
28
Counsel
Jaime and Keira and Rose
“I WONDERED IF I was ever going to get a chance to meet you, Jaime. Welcome,” Dr. Rose said on Tuesday when the teens went to meet with her. “Tell me what the problem is.”
“We can’t talk about this without asking you to suspend disbelief and just go with Jaime and me being able to talk in our heads to each other. I recognize that it sounds insane, but I know you know it’s true,” Keira said.
“I’ll suspend disbelief for the time being,” Rose said.
“We also know that you talked to Trayce Lombard,” Keira said. “And then she left us.”
“She left you? Okay. Obviously, I can’t discuss what Trayce and I talked about, but tell me about what happened.”
“Dr. Rose,” Jaime signed with two taps of the inside of his wrist followed by his fingers crossed and circling beneath his nose. They were established signs for doctor and rose. “We talked to Trayce on Christmas night.” Keira interpreted, though she thought her aunt probably knew exactly what he was saying.
“So, you met with her?”
“No,” Jaime continued signing. “We talked in our heads. We’ve never met her face-to-face. She was excited for us to meet in the mall on Friday at noon. We were all there. Keira and I were crossing the mall and Trayce told us she was just getting out of her car in the farthest corner of the parking lot.”
“We were all crazy excited,” Keira said. “We’d only ever talked in our heads before. But as we were all heading to meet, she suddenly screamed at us. She said, ‘Stop! I won’t go. Go away. Go away.’ And then she went completely silent on us. Like she just vanished.”
“And you both heard this… in your heads,” Rose said.
The teens nodded.
“You haven’t heard anything else from her since?”
“Not a word,” Keira confirmed.
“Hmm. You’ve posed an interesting problem. A person you know only as a voice in your head suddenly stopped being a voice in your head just when you thought you were going to meet her. Am I right?”
“Yes, but Aunt Rose, we know her! We’ve talked a lot. Yes, in our heads. We’ve been intimate. She’s really a wonderful person and it just doesn’t seem right that she’d cut us off like that,” Keira said. Tears were leaking from her eyes and Jaime took her hand. The teens combined, but could not hear a single thought from Rose.
“Okay. Now I want you to suspend your disbelief for a moment,” Rose said. “Perhaps Trayce was just a voice the two of you hallucinated together. Perhaps your own anxiety over the meeting caused you to cut her off before you could be disappointed in the outcome of the meeting.”
“If we suspended our disbelief that much,” Jaime signed, “we’d have to question whether Keira and I know each other and even if you are in this room with us. I understand it is hard for the head deaf to comprehend what it is like to hear other people’s thoughts. But I have always been this way—from birth. I’d only once heard another person deliberately answer me until I met Keira. That was seconds before my mother died. Then she went silent like Trayce did. Two girls and an old man are the only people I’ve ever met who could do this. I can’t stand the thought of losing one of them.”
“You have always been able to read the thoughts of others? What am I thinking?” Rose asked.
“Keira warned me you were well-shielded. So well, in fact, that we suspect you can hear others, too,” Jaime signed and Keira interpreted. Then he reached over to take Keira’s hand and she opened fully to him. Before she could respond, Jaime reached out and touched Rose’s hand as well.
«Please help us! You know we can communicate like this,» Jaime said.
Rose snatched her hand back, but it was obvious she’d heard Jamie’s demand.
“You don’t know the depth of what you are playing with,” Rose said severely. “You should go home, make love to each other, and close yourself off to the rest of the world. Don’t disclose your suspicions about your talents to anyone. Whether it is true or not, it is dangerous. I think we need to close this session. We can talk again next week.”
The dismissal was so firm and so final that Jaime and Keira stood and left the office.
Jaime and Keira
«I never thought Aunt Rose would tell me to go have sex with my boyfriend!» Keira laughed in her mind.
«I think she was just telling us to distract ourselves. She knows something!» Jaime said.
«Does that mean you don’t want to make love to me?»
«You think I’m crazy? Of course I want to make love to you.»
«Damn! I promised my parents I’d be home tonight and go to their friends’ house with them,» Keira moaned.
«I think tomorrow night would work as well,» Jaime thought. «Maybe better. I know Dad plans to spend New Year’s Eve with Olivia.»
«New Year’s Eve! What a perfect way to end the old year and start the new. I’ll come to your house and we can celebrate all night long!»
«Keira, I love you and the images you are sending me are making my pants uncomfortably tight.»
«I feel it. I might be… slippery the whole time between now and then.»
«I love you! I don’t think there will be a moment I’m not in touch with you between now and then.»
«Just, no orgasms between now and then. Especially when I’m visiting my parents’ friends.»
«Agreed.»
Rose
“Kenton! What have you done?” Rose barked into the voicemail of her one-time friend and lover. “I warned you to stay away from them. I warned you! Now I’m coming for you. I have a lot more credibility in the community than you do. I’ll destroy your reputation. The State Board will kill your license. I warned you, Kenton. I warned you!”
Rose disconnected and sifted through her old contacts. She had a tattered business card she didn’t know why she’d kept. He might not even have the same phone number after twenty years. She’d bet his address was the same, though.
And she knew the best way to get through to the dirty old man. She went home to change clothes and apply a little makeup. Even for a head talker, Angus had simple tastes. She looked at herself in a mirror and then took her bra off. Simple tastes.
Jaime and Keira
«I’m ready,» Keira said when she picked Jaime up Wednesday afternoon. «You are all I wanted in the first place and I want you more now than ever. Please say you’ll make love to me tonight.»
«You know I’m ready,» Jaime responded. «I told Dad I’d invited you to spend the night.»
«How’d he take that?»
«More chaos in his head than you can imagine. For a while I thought he was just going to stay home. The thought of spending the night with Olivia won. He just said to be safe and not to rush things,» Jaime said.
«About the way my parents took me telling them I was planning to spend New Year’s Eve with you. Mom asked if I thought I’d be home by one. I said, ‘Maybe by one Thursday afternoon.’ She almost swallowed her tongue biting back forbidding me to go. I think Dad saying to be careful and safe and to call if I needed anything was what settled her down.»
«My heart is going a million beats a minute!»
«I can feel it. This is it, Jaime. Make love to me tonight.»
«I will make love with you. I don’t think there is any other possibility,» he said. «We need to pick up a few things to eat, assuming we have an appetite for anything but each other.»
«I thought we could pick up something ready made at Whole Foods.»
«Good idea.»
They went to the grocery store and tried to select something simple. They ended up just grabbing a frozen pizza and some chips.
Rose and Angus
“I knew I’d find you here,” Rose said when she spotted Angus at the tip rail at Sassy’s. “Still just a dirty old man, aren’t you?”
“If it isn’t one of my favorite fantasies,” Angus said turning to Rose. She spun around to let him get a full look at her. “Ass good ass, I remember.”
Rose sat in the chair next to Angus and he tapped the tip rail
“Two dollars a song if you’re sitting here,” he said.
Rose reached in her bag and pulled out a five. She tossed it over the rail. The girl dancing was having a good time displaying herself to the half dozen men gathered to watch her.
“I need to talk to you, Angus.”
“After Thursday’s set is over. We’ll go to the patio.”
Thursday had one more number during which she lost her bottoms and danced around the floor completely naked, making sure Rose got as good a view as Angus did.
“She your main squeeze now?” Rose asked as they pushed their chairs away at the end of the song and Thursday collected her tips.
“My friend. Sometimes a partner when I’m investigating. We don’t fool around, so there’s still room for you and me to have fun if you haven’t joined the dark side.” They went outside to the patio where heat lamps warmed an area around the fire pit. “Did Schwartz send you after me?”
“What makes you suspicious of that?”
“Little run-in I had with him a couple of weeks ago. I warned him to stay away from a boy and his girlfriend.”
“I warned him of the same thing,” Rose said. “I don’t think he listened very well.”
“We’ve been keeping an eye on the kids. Haven’t seen him around since I warned him off. What’s happened?”
“I think he picked up their girlfriend.”
“They said there was a third. I staked out the community college and never saw a sign of her,” Angus said.
“She was supposed to meet them at the mall Friday and suddenly went dark on them.”
“Damn! I thought they were acting strange. Went into the mall and raced to the bookstore. They were searching all over, then took off.”
“They thought she blew them off. Her signal suddenly went blank. You know what that means,” Rose said as she accepted the joint Angus lit and passed to her.
“Some variety of Faraday cage. That damn bastard. I don’t think he ever caught on to me being able to hear him. Unless you told him,” Angus said, reaching over to put a hand on Rose’s bare leg. Fortunately, the heat lamps and gas fireplace on the patio kept a limited area warm, but Angus’s hand on her leg heated Rose even more. She’d always had a soft spot for Angus. If she admitted it, she’d call it a soft wet spot.
“I cut myself off from Kenton when you and I discovered what he was trying to do. Until I started threatening him a week ago, I hadn’t really thought of him at all. Then Trayce, the third wheel, came in for counseling and mentioned she’d already seen him. Red flags all over.”
“I’m glad you’re keeping the shields up. I let mine down a little and those other two jumped right in,” Angus said.
“They are incredibly powerful together. They joined hands and gave me a command. You know what that means, Angus? They projected a command through my barriers,” Rose said.
“Goddess! If Schwartz knew they could do that…”
“He thinks it takes a gestalt to be able to have that much control. I think that’s why he may have picked up Trayce. He figured the other two would follow her.”
“Probably right,” Angus said. “They don’t have a lot of good sense to go with their power. We’ll have to keep a closer eye on them.”
“I told them to go home and have sex, cut off the rest of the world, and forget about everything.”
“And?”
“I’m pretty sure they’ll do the first, at least,” Rose laughed.
“It’s not a bad idea,” Angus said as he squeezed her leg. She’d made no move to have him remove his hand.
“Angus! Does this mean you don’t need me to drive you home tonight?” Thursday said when she arrived at the patio. She was dressed again and had her fur coat on.
“Thursday, honey, this is an old friend from a bygone era. We have a lot of catching up to do,” Angus said.
“That’s fine. I don’t want to stay around much longer, though. The New Year’s Eve drunks are arriving.”
“Drunks already?” Rose asked.
“Drunk or will be drunk soon,” Thursday said.
“Thursday helps me get around,” Angus said. “I hate to drive at night.”
“I can get you home,” Rose said. “Is that okay with you, Thursday?”
“Hell, yes. I’m going over to Kate’s house then. The two of us will wait out the old year.”
“Okay, sweetie!” Angus said. “I’ll be okay. Tell Kate I got delayed.”
“Oh, believe me. By the time I finish describing how you’ve already gotten your hand under her skirt, Kate and I will be naked together. Too bad you have to miss that!” Thursday laughed.
She bent down to give Angus a kiss on the cheek and then took off. Rose looked down at her leg and verified that Angus had slid his hand up far enough to be fully under the hem of her short skirt.
“This probably isn’t all that appropriate for here,” Rose said, preventing Angus’s hand from going any farther. “If the drunks are arriving, we should take off.”
“Yes. We should definitely take things off,” Angus said.
“Still have bunnies in your apartment?”
“Just one. She sleeps on my right shoulder at night.”
“Anyone sleeping on the left?”
“Position’s available. Don’t expect a miracle, though. I’m not taking any drugs these days.”
Jaime and Keira
The two had all the usual first time jitters. They heated the oven and got the frozen pizza on the rack. Keira opened soft drinks as Jaime opened the bag of chips.
«We really chose to eat healthy, didn’t we?» he asked.
«No. We chose to eat fast,» Keira laughed. «And with almost no cleanup.»
«I’d like to cook a nice meal for you sometime. In addition to the basics Dad and I usually eat, and that I fed you when you were here for dinner, I’m a pretty good cook. Just not tonight.»
«It’s distracting, isn’t it?» Keira asked.
«What is?»
She kissed him.
«Yes. Distracting.»
They got involved in their kissing in the kitchen with hands busily exploring each other as their tongues danced. Keira pushed him away.
“Pizza!” she gasped. The timer was beeping and neither was sure how long it had been going. The pizza looked fine, though. Keira pulled it out with mitts and turned off the oven. She slid the pizza onto the waiting cutting board and Jaime took care of cutting it into wedges.
They giggled together as if they’d been caught being naughty instead of just enjoying the contact with the other. They finished their meal and took care of the minor cleanup.
«Want to watch TV for a bit?» Jaime asked. Keira looked at him strangely.
«What’s on?»
«Netflix.»
«Okay… I guess.»
«Come on. I have a TV in my room,» Jaime said.
He kissed Keira’s open lips and they nearly got lost again. The prospect of watching TV sounded a whole lot better as he led her into his room.
Jaime had prepared his bedroom as well as he could. It was spotlessly clean, with fresh sheets on the bed and a stack of pillows so they could prop themselves up. Keira spent a minute just looking around. There were interesting little tidbits that gave her an insight into her lover that even their shared minds had not revealed. He had photos of his core of friends through all the years of school. His laptop was closed, but she could see it was connected to both the speakers and the television. Mex and Cheery’s calligraphed wedding invitation was on his desk. And a photo of his mom sat alone on the dresser.
They propped themselves up on the bed and turned on the TV, tuning to the movie service and choosing the first one that popped up. It was different than what would have popped up on Keira’s screen, based on Jaime’s watching habits. He had some of the typical boy tastes for action and adventure.
Neither one really cared. As soon as the show started, they were lost in each other’s arms and kisses.
There were too many marvels to rush. Had either been focused on their genitals, it would have been much briefer. But as they lost their clothes on Jaime’s bed, they also lost themselves in each other. Their minds were fully opened to each other and if their bodies were meant to fit together perfectly, their minds were even better matched. They meshed together creating something much more than either had experienced before.
Jaime poised at Keira’s entrance, their juices mingling. Keira pulled him steadily forward until his flesh was fully buried in hers. And there they stayed for an eternal moment, marveling at the wonder of being one as they made love.
«You… are in me,» Keira whispered in his mind. «In my mind and in my body. And I feel you. Inside you. I feel how hard you are and how sensitive. My tongue is in your mouth and our arms are wrapped around each other. If I could, I would meld my body completely into yours.»
«I feel your fullness. I know where and how to move to give you the most pleasure. I feel each twitch in your vagina and the tingling in your nipples. I’ve never been so completely consumed by a connection in my life. I am you. A part of you. I give you all of me.»
They moved together, automatically finding the best rhythm and the maximum pleasure for each other. They rose to their first peak and were consumed by the passion for each other. Both lost consciousness, Jaime nearly smothering Keira with his body. She gasped for breath and he fought his way back to the real world and rolled to her side, still keeping her tightly in his arms.
«I never imagined…» Both thought to the other. They smiled at each other and kissed again.
They maintained their head link as they dozed and even dreamed the same dreams. When they stirred again, Keira slowly withdrew from her lover’s mind and body.
«Sorry,» she said. «I need to use the bathroom. Back soon.»
Jaime smiled and was contented with their light mental link, keeping them always in touch with each other. When Keira was finished, he used the toilet as well, and then cuddled up to his lover. A couple of episodes of the series they’d tuned in had passed and they had no idea what the storyline currently was. Jaime switched off the TV.
They were content, for the moment, just to lie in each other’s arms, sharing the warmth of body and spirit. Both knew they would make love again soon—possibly before they slept and probably after they awoke.
«I dreamed of her,» Keira said in the morning.
«I think we shared the dream. She was alone and afraid.»
«I hate that. It was like we were with her but she wasn’t there.»
«We tried to be with her. We’re still going through withdrawal since she cut us off. She probably is, too. I didn’t know how hard it would be to let someone go after we shared so intimately,» Jaime ventured.
They made love again, and when they woke up the next time, they went to the kitchen to make breakfast.
«I wonder if Trayce is feeling twitchy,» Jaime said. «It seems this was always the time she showed up. She’s blocked us from reading her, but do you think it’s as effective for her not reading us?»
«Maybe so. She never recognized that she listened to others. I think, though, that deep down, she realized we were real and not in her imagination.»
«If we were in her imagination, do you think we’d stop existing eventually?» Jaime asked.
The two were back in bed, kissing and petting. They weren’t rushing toward another coupling, though both knew it was coming soon. It was the best New Year’s Day they’d ever had.
«The concert. She didn’t know how she could listen to music she’d never heard before if it was just in her head. I’m sorry I held on to Trayce so hard,» Keira said.
«Please don’t feel guilty about that. I held on, too. And it was much stronger because it was both of us she attached to. There was always something about that attachment that was different. Like she could have broken it at any time, but we were just subject to her call. I don’t know,» Jaime said. «I know that being with you makes me happier than I’ve ever been. I’m not going to spoil that happiness by thinking about what we can’t have anymore.»
«Then come to me, lover. Fill me. I want you in me again. I want to feel you in every part of my being,» Keira said.
«How could I say anything but yes?»
Neither of them had a concept of how many times they might make love in a day, or of what they might do when they weren’t making love. As they moved together again, both were aware that their bodies would need to rest and recover soon. But neither was willing to stop when they were so close to each other and so close to a mutual orgasm.
Keira could feel it boiling in Jaime as she let herself go to enjoy both their orgasms. Jaime’s mind opened so wide he feared he would overload as he dealt both with all of Keira’s sensations and all of his own. The explosion they shared left them floating in a suspended space neither present nor apart.
Help! Help me! Please don’t! I don’t want to go to sleep. Go away!
This will just relax you. Don’t worry. We’ll have you ready to share in no time.
Don’t. Please don’t! «Jaime! Keira! I believe in you. Please, help me!»
The orgasms were still pulsing in both teens as they jerked apart and sat bolt upright in bed.
«Trayce!»
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