It's Too Hot

It was in the midst of war, surrounded by madness all I could ever think about is your smile and your kisses and your touch. Please go away.

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"Almost done.." the brunette boy was sitting with a focused gaze on his work, at the piano writing out notes before leaning back and stretching. He propped the pieces of paper up on the stand and cracked his knuckles and cleared his voice before starting to hum the lyrics whilst pressing on the keyboard keys. He shut his eyes, his brown hair bangs falling just over one of his eyes as he opened his mouth and started singing the lyrics he wrote. His hands moving so naturally as if they were made to play that melody. The room with the lovely piece he had created, getting so in to the song he didn't even hear the knock at his door, or the sound of the door opening and a black haired male peeking in. He stood quietly listening to the sweet composed melody, slightly awestruck, also caught up in the song. The melody abruptly stopped, as the brunette turned around and locked eyes with the black haired male. His hand was resting on the door knob, his body paralyzed. The brunette grumbled lowly before getting up and slamming the door shut, making the male by the door jump. "What are you doing?" his voice was much rougher then just moments ago. His milk chocolate eyes locked with forest green ones. The black haired boy was still startled by the sudden change in atmosphere to even reply for a moment.

"Um.. I came to see how your song is doing, making sure you didn't chicken out," he relaxed finally, and rested against the shut door, crossing his arms over his chest, a smirk coming to his lips quickly. The brunette smirked and chuckled and took a brave step towards him.

"In your dreams, Kai." his voice was warm and quiet. The room fell silent, both males suddenly wordless at the situation.

"I'm still going to win," Kai finally spoke, his voice cracking from speaking for so long.

"Confident, are we now?" Nixon's voice was a mocking whisper. Kai shifted, the situation and spot he was in was becoming uncomfortable.

"Well. I still need to finish up mine so--" Kai straightened himself and turned his back towards Nixon grabbing the doorknob. Something changed in the air as he finished speaking. Nixon exhaled a low breath.

"Okay." he replied, Kai turned his head back towards the brunette, searching his eyes for something he failed to find. He turned his head away and opened the door and then shut it behind himself as he left. Kai instantly exhaled out a very long breath and shook his head.

"What the heck is this," he whispered, not exactly searching for a reply. That's when he heard a crash, which made him jump. His green eyes curiously darted in the direction of the sound, then raising himself from his sulking position and walked over.

I was even more startled when the door opened and revealed a black haired male, who gave me a puzzled look. He noticed Ember on the ground with me before his eyes traveled where Ember was staring. "Um.. what happened? I heard a crash, but nothing seemed to have been broken," Kai finally asked. I opened and closed my mouth without sound probably resembling a fish.

"Um. Nothing. I simply threw a chair and it hit a wall, that's all," I replied, forcing a gentle smile. He crocked his eyebrow upwards, his eyes squinting. His eyes then widened, well fuck. He can read minds, great job Eden. Great job. He stepped in to the room, instantly hearing a crackle and glanced down at the scattered papers. He sent me a look and I sent him a nervous smile, he rolled his eyes and carefully walked over. He glanced over at Ember before meeting my eye. "You read minds?" I asked. He sent me a smirk, leaning in towards me, making me lean back and almost fall over.

"Why? Did you just realize how weak your lies are against me? Because they are crystal clear to me?" he asked, his arms over his chest, as if he was mocking me, he was. My right hand was grasping on to the table behind me to make sure I didn't fall over. We both heard Ember get up, mostly because almost every centimeter of my room was covered in papers and rough drafts so someone moving would instantly resolve in a rustling sound. Our heads snapped towards her as she rose and walked over to the mirror. She pulled it off the wall and held it in her hands. Her eyes finally met ours and she sent a questioning look towards our position. In response to her glance I looked at Kai and pushed him away, with minimal effort he moved away himself.

"What the fuck is this suppose to mean?" Ember croaked, with fear filled eyes. I darted my eyes towards Kai, who simply raised an eyebrow at me.

"It isn't what it looked like--" I started, probably sounding seriously pathetic. Ember blinked a couple times before rolling her eyes and turning away from me and the male before me.

"I meant the mirror!" she yelled exasperated. I felt my cheeks burn as I heard Kai snort above me receiving a weak glare, in response to his amusement.

"Oh," was all that I managed to get out of my mouth and really wished I could hit myself against the piano, for that just moment. I took a deep breath before I let out a very shaky breath, receiving another snort from the black haired boy. I hit him lightly in the shin, but hard enough to make him flinch, he scrunched his face from the swing. "Well, I think they are trying to deceive us, I think there's more to this place then what we believe, like I feel.." I started and lowered my gaze, pretending Kai wasn't rubbing his shin for a few seconds whilst I was talking. I was trying to find the words I was trying to express, and miserably failing.

"You feel it's all fake?" Nixon's voice made the three of us jump in surprise. He shot Kai an instant look, as Kai was still rubbing his shin in attempt to receive my sympathy, for which his attempts were useless. Once his eyes met Nixon's he instantly straightened himself and cleared his throat. I snorted softly receiving a confused gaze from Ember and Nixon whilst Kai shot me the dirtiest glare he could manage. Nixon was leaning against the door frame by this moment, looking at us intently.

"Yeah, that's what I was meaning to say," I finally replied, giving him a small smile.

"But why?" Ember asked, receiving only thoughtful silence. Nixon finally decided to step in and jumped from the crinkling sound of papers and instantly shot his eyes down before snapping his head up and meeting my blank face. He breathed out, seemingly holding back a remark that I instantly understood without hearing. Suddenly his steps stopped right on a piece of paper and we looked up at him. Realization filled his face as if he suddenly had all the answers we needed.

"It's because they're hiding something from us that we wanted to forget but was a big part of our lives," he slowly ascended towards our gazes, all the joke gone from his features. Uncomfortable silence rose between us as no one uttered a word, afraid of what could have we desperately tried to run away from? "You. You had your memories when all of ours lost ours, and you seemed to regain some today," Nixon spoke, and Ember's eyes widened and she blinked.

"How do you know that?" she asked, her voice sounding small. She instantly cleared her throat, her cheeks lightly flushing from her soft voice.

"Intuition? What else could we be punished by here?" Nixon rubbed the back of his head, and shrugged. "Were your memories painful?" he asked, seriousness growing back in to his voice. Ember's eyes fell to the ground, as she fell silent. Nixon rubbed the back of his neck, in response to her obvious unspoken answer. "See. That's my point," he explained.

"But," Ember interrupted his self praise towards himself. We all looked in her direction, sending her perplexed looks. "They seemed like memories, that weren't mine.. If I can explain it, those felt like unknown or very far away memories, not the ones I came here with," she explained, her voice shaking in the process, from confusion and fear what's going on.

"This is a shithole," the words came out without any thought behind him. "Wait, you said I was in your memories, and a few days back you ran up to me worried if I was okay, and today you were more hurt then worried. You seemed like two different people.. somewhat?" I muttered out, rubbing my cheeks after speaking, my head was starting to hurt.

"This is all weird, and creepy," Ember held her arms, hugging herself.

"Just stay quiet, Nixon said before if we don't we'll regret it, let's try to find clues what's going on, just remember, be careful," Kai finally spoke. We all slowly nodded in agreement to his conclusion. "We're suppose to be happy, remember? So let's do that, and shut up about this shit, maybe it's better if we just live like this and never know the truth of this place," Kai spoke, suddenly his usual personality shifting. He blinked a few times, suddenly growing silent, noticing the change.

"We can't you see? Your actions just proved that there is something fucked up. Our memories might suck but they make us up, obviously you were someone who was more blunt, but here your someone who kind, someone else, entirely." I spoke, locking eyes with him, making his shift uncomfortably.

"I would rather live like this, this shit is messed up but I'm sorry, I would rather not know what's going on here, then dig in to it and then regret it for the rest of my life, thanks. I'll pass," Kai growled out, growing irritated. I furrowed my eyebrows, grabbing his collar and forcing him to get on my eye level.

"You, are a pathetic coward, do you really think everything will be butterflies and happiness here? This is obviously all made to make us comfortable, this all feels fake, everyone is too perfect, and have you ever seen the streets full? I doubt it, if this a real world then there would be plenty of other people here, we're not the only people who suffer a shit ton," I hissed at him, my eyes piercing through him. I felt arms around my arms, pulling me away from the startled Kai.

"Eden, calm down," Nixon's voice grew soft and I instantly froze and sent him a look. He paused and realized what happened and let me go.

"I thought you were an asshole?" I asked without thinking. He rolled his eyes in reply and crossed his arms over his chest.

"I'm sorry? Didn't we already talk about this?" he scowled in return.

"Ladies, calm down," Ember stepped in between us. Nixon softened and whispered 'whatever' under his breath before stepping aside. Ember glanced towards me, her eyes resting on me. "This is really weird," her voice was a shaky whisper and she noticeably bit down on her tongue.

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I leaned in towards the blonde, her cheeks were flushed pink, her eyes glancing everywhere but me. I smirked in amusement of her embarrassment, I leaned my face towards her and our forehead touched. "This is really weird.. and awkward" she mumbled, her voice very tiny as she spoke, her cheeks turning a darker color. I leaned in a more without responding to her and our lips brushed just briefly. I felt her breath get caught from the contact. My arm was beside her head, leaning against the wall behind her. I smirked to myself and felt sudden confidence flare up and I pulled away, her eyes fluttered open and she looked at me confused.

"Well, I'm going to head home now, since this is all weird," I spoke normally, I turned my heel away from her. A hand grasped my collar and I was turned and I felt her body press against me as she placed her lips against mine. My eyes widened for a moment before I shut them and dropped my bag I was previously holding against the wall, and placed my hands on her hips and pulled her closer, once again leaning her against the wall. I lips moved quickly, it wasn't a soft kiss it was more rough and passionate. I was the first to pull away for air that my lungs desperately screamed for. I was met with a flustered panting girl before me as I opened my eyes. I leaned in and pressed a gentle kiss on her cheek and I heard her squeak and I swore, that was the cutest thing.

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My cheeks were flushed from the memory, and I came to the fact that Ember was right in front of me, obviously confused. My embarrassment shook off almost instantly as I realized it didn't match Ember's previous memory. Her eyes fluttered confused as I grabbed her shoulders harshly.

"Ember, I remembered something," I whispered, afraid someone who I didn't want would hear. Her eyes grew wide as she opened her mouth to speak. "But," I interrupted her unspoken thought. "We're humans in mine, we were at a school," I spoke, realizing how slow I was speaking.

"You were humans?" Nixon asked, his voice sounding harsher than he meant it to me. Kai already knew what happened thanks to his mind reading ability. Ember turned her head towards the very puzzled Nixon and she let out an airy chuckle.

"Ah you see.. In my memory... Eden was a vampire, and I was a water spirit.." she explained, letting out a very short nervous chuckle. Kai turned around finally, eying the two perplexed of us before his eyes fixed on me. I noticed his eyes and my eyes widened, as a dust of pink crept on my cheeks.

"Don't you dare!" I spazzed before I saw an evil smirk rise to Kai's lips.