ATPnovel Chapter 261: At the expense of Kellen’s mental health
Chapter 261: At the expense of Kellen’s mental health
Chapter 261: At the expense of Kellen’s mental healthTaylor, rather loudly, cleared her throat.
"I am still here, Captain. Please keep your seductions to a moderate level when I am still in the room, please." Taylor’s cheeks were flushed and Rhys laughed, pulling the shirt up over Kellen’s head before he nodded, his eyes more bright then they had been since he’d found out.
"Sorry Green. It’s just so easy to get distracted by Kellen. Especially in his Field Guide uniform." Taylor rolled her eyes, while Kellen scrambled to get the monitor pads on his chest. Rhys was already hooked up, so it was just sitting down on the hard, plastic chair that was his next step.
All day today Kellen had either avoided sitting down, or had sat down on soft surfaces. This was because he hadn’t brought it up, but his ass hurt. It was sore, swollen, and every time he sat down on a hard surface he remembered what he and Rhys had done the night prior.
When he hesitated for a second, glancing up at Rhys, Rhys had a damn smirk on his face.
"What’s the problem, Kellen?" Rhys asked sweetly. "Is your thigh hurting?" Damn that man. He knew mentioning that would get Taylor worried, and then she would-
"Are you alright?" She asked and Kellen grumbled.
"I’m fine. Ignore him. The cream you gave me is working wonders, I just haven’t sat on a plastic chair in a while." Taylor gave him a strange look and Kellen glared at Rhys. Rhys chuckled as Kellen finally sat down, his ass throbbing. Rhys stared at him, a damn smirk on his face.
"Don’t worry Kellen, you don’t need to worry about plastic chairs tonight." Rhys told him and Kellen gave him the finger. Rhys laughed and offered out his hand. Kellen, flustered, wiped his hand on his pants before he took Rhys’ in his own.
Taylor, thankfully, counted them in then, and Kellen jumped into Rhys willingly, worried about the state he was in.
He was right to worry. The waves were giant swells, the ocean aggressive, demanding, and dangerous. Rainbows glittered in the caps of the waves every once in a while, so it wasn’t as if all the hard work Kellen had done had gone to waste. It was just that the man himself was very turbulent.
There was a reason surges often happened after someone close to the Esper was injured. The ties between emotion and powers of Espers and Guides alike were known, but not well re
"Did he...Green, don’t leave me in suspense. What did Kellen do? And Kellen, we can’t go to your parents looking like this? They would both kill me. Come here. I’ll fix it." He gentled his voice when speaking to Kellen, and Kellen wanted the ground to swallow him up. Damn him.
He wasn’t upset that Taylor was trying to cheer the Captain up, he was just upset it was at his expense.
"Well, Sakura did it in the largest, most public space available to her at the time and Kellen, who had longer hair at the time, simply picked her up and threw her across the hallway. She smashed into the lockers on the other side and Kellen stood over her with a disinterested look on his face before telling her to stop picking on people weaker than her. Then he left her there to go to gym class." Kellen’s face was flushed as Rhys adjusted his clothes and laughed at the story Taylor told.
Kellen didn’t even feel good about the kiss pressed into his cheek by the laughing man.
"I wish I could have seen that. Do you think she wouldn’t mind recreating it?" Rhys asked and Taylor fell over, laughing so hard. He was glad they were both feeling better, but he wasn’t.
"I bet she wouldn’t mind." Kellen muttered, upset that he was even answering. "She owes me too much." Rhys chuckled.
"From your time on the front lines?" He asked and Kellen sighed.
"No, but yes? Maybe. I think she just feels indebted to me." Kellen didn’t say why, and Rhys, sensing that it was a line Kellen didn’t want to cross, smiled.
"Alright. All fixed. I’ll pull on my clothes and then we’ll head out. Thanks for the laugh, Green." Rhys told her before quickly pulling on his own clothes. Taylor was wiping tears from her eyes as she smiled at them.
"No, thank you for the laugh, Captain. Kellen, stay healthy, and let me know if you want that healed." Damn it! He had tried so hard not to be noticed!
Rhys’ laughter followed him as he stormed slowly out of the room.