Free Elysium's Love Triangle by Aoife Metcalfe

thinks.
    Daniel has just noticed my diary on the bed.
    He picks it up.
    “Daniel, don’t read that!”  I shriek, trying to grab it from him.
    My Mom’s voice sounds stern suddenly, “Daniel?  Katy, who’s Daniel?  Where are you?”
    I assure her that I’m in my room.
    Then I tell her that I have to go now.  I’ll call her soon.
    I hang up and grab my diary off Daniel.
    He looks at me amused, “What have you got in there?”
    I give him the same answer I always give his sister.
    There is nothing in there.  Nothing at all.
    A sudden flash of light makes us both look to the window.
    It was lightening. 
    That wasn’t forecast for tonight.  
    A horrible rumbling of thunder soon follows.
    I sit down near Daniel again.
    I am not afraid of thunder or anything.  It’s just nice to have someone around when it happens.
    Daniel remarks that at least the electricity hasn’t gone.
    Then the lights go out.
    The darkness, coupled with the sudden storm, causes a lot of students to be afraid.  There is so much fear going around the place now that you can see it in the air.
    I don’t know who it belongs to.
    Daniels tells me to snack on some.  We won’t get to go to an Arachne meeting tonight now, not in this weather.  I will need to fill myself somehow.
    I think about it and decide to leave it until later.
    I rest my head on his shoulder, “I’m glad you’re here.”
    I feel his arm wrap around me. 
    It feels like pure comfort, the kind I’ve been after for a long time .
    He kisses me again.
    This time we end up going a bit further.
    Bef ore long I am lying down and he is kissing my neck.
    I can only see him when lightning flashes across the room.
    Every time this happens I am taken by how attractive he is.
    I love what he is doing to my neck.
    We are so close.  I wonder if he can feel how fast my heart is beating.
    He begins to remove my top.
    Now this is getting dangerous.
    Daniel is seeing how far he can push it.
    I shall have to be the one to say ‘stop’.  I know it.
    He isn’t strong enough.
    Every instinct in me is screaming just to go with it.
    Still, I know the consequences, “Danny, you should probably go over to your own bed now.”
    I push him gently away.
    He looks disappointed, “Why?  Things are a lot more fun over here.”
    He makes an attempt at kissing my chest.
    Again I stop him, despite wanted him to continue, it takes a l ot of strength, “Daniel Knight , get to your own bed now!”
    He sighs and looks into my eyes, “I am not getting lucky tonight, am I?”
    Lightning flashes across the room again.
    I am once again dazzled by his looks.
    “You are not getting lucky until I find a cure,” I say, wishing this situation could be different.  “Now Go!”
    He takes my instruction and leaves for the other bed, mumbling about how life sucks sometimes.
    I can’t help being amused by how forlorn he looks all the way over there.
    He is just staring at the roof, blankly.
    “Danny,” I say, projecting my voice over to him.
    “What?”  There is a bit of the spark back in his voice now.
    “I’m so lonely over here,” I reply dramatically, in my best damsel-in-distress voice.  “I sure wish there was a man around here who would hold me!”
    He bursts out laughing.
    When he recovers he is over in a flash.
    He gets in under the blanket with me and I lie on his chest.
    He tells me to go asleep.
    There is a dream he wants to send me.
    He guarantees that it won’t be a nightmare.
    With the security of his arm around me I soon fall asleep.
    The dream he sends me is amazing.
    He starts with the past.
    He shows me snippets from his childhood.  It seemed so happy.
    After he became an Arachne things changed.  
    He hasn’t been happy for years.
    Not until now.
    He moves onto the future.
    He sees us as being together.
    He thinks will have a daughter named Charlotte, or Char for short.
    She won’t be an Arachne.  She will be human, happy.
    He can see her so vividly, her black hair and