"Jake you don't know what you're saying!" I yell through the rain.
"Yes, Ivy, I do! You've stolen my heart, you ran away with it, and you almost crushed it!"
"Jake! What the hell are you talking about!"
"This," he says, dropping his voice, moving closer, and raising his hands, shoving me into the bus. My thick bones wheel into the side of the bus, crushing the metal behind me.
"JAKE WHAT THE FUCK!" he smashes his lips into mine, with enough force to feel his teeth behind his lips. His lips pull back, and his tongue probes at my lips, trying to get in my mouth. When I won't open, he tugs on my bottom lip with his teeth, making me gasp, setting fires on my body. Fires ignite where ever his hands touch, and in between my legs. The door to the bus smashes open, and we pull apart, my rage simmering to the surface, boiling over rapidly. My dragon's fire releases in the direction of the cascading light.
"IVY'S BACK!" echos in the bus. My hands spark, and the sparks connect, and I bolt the sky again. I look at Jake, after I come down a little. His eyes are glowing with rage... but they seem brighter than a human's glow. My dragon inside calls to his inner animal, and his lips pull to mine, the fear in his eyes evident and then overcome by primal desire. When the door opens again, we both tear apart, and I launch another fireball. And when I look at Jake, I know my dragon is shaking his inner animal into being. His eyes glow a brighter brown, almost hazel now. Hazel, hazel, hazel. Tiger, you idiot. No, shut up. Wait. Maybe. Yes. Okay...
"Let's go inside," Jake says. His voice has a change, it's hardly noticeable, but his vocals are smoothing out. Not noticeable to humans with not yet awakened animals. But, Jake hears it, just barely. I can see it. "Ivy, you owe us for running away,"
"What,"
"Sing us something," he says. Luckily it's still just us. But we get inside. I shake my head, but Jake suggests it to the group. I notice a blond at Andy's side. A girl. Wow. Okay, um, to be honest, I thought that Andy actually... had a thing for Ashley.
"Yeah, sing, I've never heard you," Ashley says.
"Go on," CC encourages.
"I'd love to hear you," Jinxx says. I sigh really heavily.
"Um, Jake, then, can I get an acoustic from you?"
"Yeah, sure," he runs to the back, and hands me an acoustic guitar.
"Here goes," and I close my eyes, swallow. Take a deep breath. Banish the thoughts of the last time I sang, in front of my classmates. Breathe again. Realize I don't have a song. Open my eyes. "Any...requests?"
"Oh, do you know any of the songs from Beauty and the Beast?"
"Yes, but they're not to be played on acoustic guitar, but on violin, if I had one...," Jinxx jumps up at my statement, runs to the bunks, and runs back with a violin in hand.
"I always have one just in case I get a chance to play. I actually know most of the songs from that movie, if you want to pick one, I'll play.
"Um, okay. What about...just straight Beauty and the Beast?"
"Okay," and he starts the first part. He plays the chorus once over, before I enter. I release the voice that I know, somewhere in the back of my mind, is lovely.
"Tale as old as time...true as it can be...barely even friends, then somebody bends, unexpectedly. Just a little change, small to say the least. Both a little scared, neither one prepared, Beauty and the Beast. Ever just the same, ever a surprise, ever as before, ever just as sure as the sun will rise. Tale as old as time. Tune as old as song. Bittersweet and strange, finding you can change, learning you were wrong. Certain as the sun, rising in the east. Tale as old as time, song as old as rhyme, Beauty and the Beast. Tale as old as time, song as old as rhyme... Beauty and the Beast," Jinxx stops playing. I give one last solo. Soft, and as sweet as I can make it. "Tale as old as time, love as strong as steel, barely even friends, then we had to bend, unexpectedly. Certain as the sun, rising in the east... Your beauty is a beast," everyone looks at me stunned, but I'm only looking at Jake. He stands. Crosses the space. He looks at my eyes. The words spill from my lips, for Jake to hear alone. Him and his inner tiger. "I'm sorry. I know you wanted to not say anything. Jake..."
"I love you," he says.
"I love you," I say in the same instance.

Notes

Two whole weeks since an update :0 I'll update again soon, I swear!
-Katy Killjoy