brought Cara out and told her what was going to take place, she wasn’t happy.
Spending time with Blake’s human form while I was in my dragon form was fun, but not easy as he would bring both of us back to reality on an hourly basis.
“Elena, your biggest asset is changing the ring into what you want Nicole to see.”
“Hell,” Cara said and I laughed.
“What is the worst place you’ve ever imagined?” I asked Blake.
“I once imagined a place filled with scorpions, snakes and spiders when Arianna tried to claim me. Let’s just say it was over before we even started.”
“Would I see the same as she does?”
“Elena you control it, you have to imagine it, otherwise she won’t see it.”
“So, yes.”
He chuckled.
“You scared of spiders, Sugar?”
“Spiders and scorpions are so not going to work.”
“Bummer,” Cara replied.
“Even if it’s Nicole’s worst fear?” Blake asked.
“I don’t even know what her fear is.”
“If you ask me super nicely, I can find out for you.”
“Will you?”
He chuckled. “Just don’t believe the rumors you hear.”
“I like him more and more.”
“Easy tiger,” I snapped at Cara.
“What?” Blake asked.
“Nothing, I wasn’t talking to you,” I snapped back.
“Let’s practice. Imagine a volcano and that everything around you is covered with lava.”
I sighed and closed my eyes.
I took the picture in front of me and imagined the mountains as a volcano. Lava ran down from the top and into huge rivers of red and orange liquid fire.
“Amazing.” I opened my eyes and found myself on the same spot, but the view wasn’t breathtaking anymore.
“Put a bit of heat Elena, to make it more real.”
“Leave that to me, Sugar,” Cara said and the air became dry in one second and heat blew in our faces.
Blake stepped back covering his face. “A bit too much.”
Cara laughed and turned off the temperature. “I could have fun with this.”
“You think this might work with Nicole?”
“I told you, leave it to me. She isn’t afraid of combat, you need to attack her worst fear otherwise you will face her again real soon.”
“Okay.”
N WEDNESDAY I gasped at a rumor one of the girls in my Arithmetic class told the girl next to her.
They sat three rows in front of me, but the super hearing that came with being a dragon was awesome.
“Blake slept with Nicole. Tabitha is so not happy about that.”
“Is that why she slapped her this morning? Why did he sleep with her, I thought he was so over the girlfriend thing.”
“She what?” The third one asked. Why I’d never gotten their names beats me.
“Danika, I swear, we all saw that. Lucky bitch.”
Don’t believe the rumors you’ll hear. Oh Blake what did you do?
That afternoon he waited for me.
“You slept with her?”
He burst out laughing. “I told you not to believe the rumors.”
“Blake, I didn’t mean you should sleep with the girl in order to find her fear.”
“It’s the only way the female species spills their deepest secrets.”
“You know what, I don’t want to know,” I started to laugh. “Just tell me what’s she afraid of?”
“It really is pathetic.”
“Tell me.”
“She’s got a couple. One is vines that strangle you. Specifically, the creepers, then she’s scared of patsies.”
I gasped. “What’s a patsy?”
“You don’t know what a patsy is?” he asked through a huge grin.
“No, my father used to say it all the time, but he never told me what a patsy was.”
“It’s a small gecko that has a poisonous tongue, one lick will kill you but that’s a small piece of info that wasn’t shared with them, so instead of just licking their prey they roll over and pretend to be dead or limp, some even kill themselves.”
“Are you serious?”
He nodded with a huge grin on his face.
“She has others?”
“She doesn’t like the desert, something about the heat, and she has a thing for being ugly. I suggest you play with that one. Make her look ugly with boils and burns.”
“Oh, I could have fun with that one,” Cara said.
“My other suggestion is to give her hell, and she will never try to claim you again.”
“It’s funny you say that, it was Cara’s first thought.”
He burst out laughing. “You’ve got a funny way of dealing with things.”
“What!” Cara said.
He thinks I’m making you up.
Cara was speechless but through her emotions I could tell it was bothering her a lot more than it bothered me.
“So I’ve been told,” I said out loud and sent Cara a message that we would deal with this later.
He showed me what a patsy looked like.
It was quite big,