Kallos (Kallos Series) - By Khelsey Jackson Page 0,71

away, he kisses her nose. “I haven’t ever felt this way before, and I can’t believe you can forgive me this easily.” Kallos brings her hands to touch.

“There is nothing to forgive,” she says, and he looks away. She can feel her heart breaking a little more. Something happened, and his face is telling her that it's something big. “Ian what’s wrong?”

“Kallos, I promise that we will talk later. But now, let’s go down stairs and enjoy the party.” She can see hurt in his eyes, but mostly she sees regret. She nods, and his perfect smile returns to his face. “Good, now let’s head down stairs.” They start walking down stairs, and Sean is waiting for them at the bottom. Once again, Nikki is there. Kallos is starting to get tired of seeing Nikki's face. She can feel Ian stiffen next to her. She looks over at him, and his eyes are on Nikki.

“Ian, I need to talk to you.” Nikki says in a whiny voice, and then she pouts. Kallos has to hold back her laughter, but Sean isn’t holding anything back. He is laughing so loud that she is sure that everyone can hear him over the music. That just makes her bite her lip so that she wouldn’t join in the laughter.

“Not now, Nikki. I’m going to stay with Kallos.” Ian says and Kallos can see sweat on his face.

“That’s not what you were saying a little while ago.” Nikki puts her hands on her hips and raises an eyebrow at him. Her statement makes Sean stop laughing and makes Kallos bite her lip even harder. Nikki glares at Kallos, and if looks could kill, Kallos was pretty sure that she would have dropped dead on the spot.

Kallos looks at Sean, and he is looking back at her. She just wants to get away from here. She doesn’t want to deal with this drama and the pity looks from Sean. She lets go of Ian's hand. Kallos knows that it takes him by surprise because he reaches for her, but she’s moving away too quickly. She walks down the remaining stairs, and when she gets to Sean, she puts her hand up. Kallos needs to be alone and not with them.

“Please Sean let me go.” His eyes narrow.

“Kallos,” Ian says, but she is ignoring him.

“You can’t be alone. You know that,” Sean says. Yeah, she knows that the last time she was alone she passed out into Brandon’s arms.

“Fine, I’m not asking; I’m telling you. I’m going home; I need to think, and I can’t with you watching me like I’m a baby.” Kallos can feel the heat rising inside her; it seems to happen more when she is furious. Sean backs away from her; he also can feel that she’s angry and that causes her to use her new power.

“What are you doing, Sean? Don’t let her pass!” Ian pleads, and she can see that Sean is going to say something, but he’s too late. Ian touches her but quickly pulls away. She knows that she has burned him. “What the…!” Ian yelps.

“I was going to tell you not to touch her right now. She got her first power, and it hurts like hell,” Sean explains. “At least when we say that she’s hot, we aren’t lying.” Kallos glares at Sean for his stupid joke. “Okay, Kallos, you and I can go. I won't let you leave here without me. Ian, enjoy your party, and I’ll take care of her.” Kallos huffs her disgust at Sean’s statement. Sean seems to be digging a hole, and he won’t be seeing daylight anytime soon. He laughs at her. “Kallos, I didn’t mean it like that.”

“No!” Ian demands. “It’ll take you less than twenty minutes to walk home. I’m going to head back, too. I’ll ride with Sean, and he can fill me in.” Kallos looks back at Ian, and he is rubbing his hand. She is feeling bad, but she is getting tired of them telling her what she can and can’t do. “When we get home, then, we can talk.” She doesn’t know if she wants to talk right now.

Kallos is pretty sure she knows what happened with Ian and Nikki, but she doesn’t want to put words to it. His baby blues hold hers, and she almost gives in to whatever he wants, but she just shakes her head.

“Thank you; I guess I’ll see you two later.” She walks away before she changes her mind.