“The air between them was thick with attraction” snippet from “Charmeine” the First Novel of “The Light-Bearer Series”

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Frank Dicksee (1853–1928) Romeo and Juliet
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(Author’s note:  Charleen doesn’t know that she’s Charmeine…yet!)

Tabbruis’ heart fell into Hell!
His body began to tense all over like a taut rubber band.  Tabbruis took his hand down from her head, moved across the seat as far as he could and looked out the window.  He put his hands on his knees and then made them into hard fists.  Tabbruis thought, ‘I cannot believe this woman, this beauty, the face of my dreams, was indeed a Light-Bearer!’
Tabbruis had confirmation now.  She incapacitated the Blood-Hunter with her stun.  Tabbruis knew what his course would have to be now and felt lonelier than he ever had before in all the millennia he had been on Earth!
Tabbruis closed his eyes and quietly screamed a curse, ‘Oh God!  Why?  Why did I meet this woman and never have the possibility of being with her?’  Tabbruis knew Light-Bearers were mortal enemies of the Blood-Hunters and vice-versa.
All Tabbruis could hear was his memory of Dmitri saying:
“They are opposite of our species.  Their mission is to eradicate us as our mission is to eradicate them.  The Elders believe the Earth is ours and not to be shared. 
Light cannot have dark and dark cannot have light Tabbruis.”
Tabbruis thought, ‘How could the Elder Council think about murdering this young, beautiful woman?  She has a light so pure it warms me from inside out.’
He could not understand how the Elder Council could hate such wonderful gifts of God.
Painfully, Tabbruis turned his head again toward her.  With a distressed expression, he looked at her.  She looked hurt he had pulled away from her.  She was trying to give the pretense she did not care.  She looked away this time.  Tabbruis closed his eyes and turned his head toward the window.
The air between them was thick with attraction, want and desire!  No matter how badly Tabbruis wished to pull away, he could not. 
Slowly, like two magnets on opposite sides of the car seat, their appeal was too strong and their heads turned bit by bit.  They began staring at each other again with longing.
Shane thought Charleen was suffering from a concussion and didn’t pay attention to the electricity part.  He just nodded his head and said, “Well, Char… that’s pretty well out there babe but whatever, you are okay now, and that’s what matters.  Thanks Tab, I owe you one.”
Tabbruis nodded his head not taking his eyes off her.
Tabbruis asked, “Shane?  How do you know Miss Davis?”
Shane replied, “Oh yeah… Char is my best friend!  She was the one I was telling you about?”
Not taking his eyes off her, Tabbruis answered, “The friend who kept you on the straight and narrow?”
Shane responded, “Yep, she sure is!  We have been friends ever since she came to the orphanage as a teenager.  She hasn’t changed at all since the first day I saw her in the yard.  Char was sitting on a bench looking scared and lonely.  I was going up with a gang of guys to tease her.  However, as soon as I saw her eyes, I made the guys turnaround and leave her alone.  I was going down a bumpy road with the gang always getting into trouble.  Char got my shit straight and made me see I needed to be a good person.  She’s gotta a way of making you do the right thing.”
Tabbruis thought, ‘She’s Gotta Way…’
Shane continued and said, “Char can settle down a football stadium and make them work together if she wanted to.  She has influence on everyone and especially me.”
Tabbruis took his eyes off of her and looked at Shane in the rear view mirror and asked in a dead pan voice, “Did the two of you date?”
Charleen quickly laughed out a reply along with Shane, and they both yelled, “NO!”
Tabbruis instantly felt relief with their reply.  He turned and looked at her again.  They both held the stare looking at each other in the eyes.
Charleen said, “Oh my God!  Too funny!  Shane is my best friend.  Plus he is younger than me.”
Shane laughed and said, “Yeah, Char is like my big sister.  She was the best friend who kept bailing me out of trouble.  Never once have I ever thought of her in that way… Blah!”
Charleen said, “Same here, it gives me the heebee geebees just thinking about it!  Yuck!”

Charmeine and Tabbruis
“For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo” ~Shakespeare

Still looking at Tabbruis getting lost in his green eyes, she muttered, “Yes, I really had my hands full bailing you out of trouble all the time.”
Tabbruis asked her, “Where were you born Miss Davis?”
Charleen’s face became noticeably hurt.  She hung her head down looking at her hands while she squeezed the handkerchief he had given her for her head.  Charleen said shyly, “I don’t know.  I was found roaming the streets outside Holbrook, barely clothed and hungry when I was teenager.”
Tabbruis was still watching her intently.
Still looking down, Charleen had tears welling in her eyes and they were dropping on her hands.
Tabbruis longed to touch the tears and wipe them away.

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NO Song reminds me more of the first boy I ever crushed on …  
1974… listening to “The Way We Were” blushing while we danced…
This song is a tribute to you… Shane!  

Mmm. Mmm.

Memories, light the corners of my mind

Misty watercolor memories of the way we were.

Scattered pictures of the smiles we left behind

Smiles we give to one another

For the way we were.

Can it be that it was all so simple then

Or has time rewritten every line?

If we had the chance to do it all again

Tell me would we? Could we?

Memories, may be beautiful and yet

What’s too painful to remember

We simply choose to forget

So it’s the laughter we will remember

Whenever we remember

The way we were.

 

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