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Harrison obviously isn’t buying it, but he doesn’t need to, he just has to cooperate. Which he does. We
start to rearrange my living area. Soon the table is up against the bench with the chairs in front of it.
nkets cover everything. The back of the bench has be the back wall of our fort. The table is the
roof and the chairs mark the entryway. We stuff it full of pillows to make itfy and make sure the
charger for myptop can reach a power point so it won’t go t on us. There aren’t any lights inside
the fort other than theptop, but the lights in the living area are still on which provides a tiny bit of light
through the fabric of the thinner nkets. There isn’t a lot of space, but Harrison and I can fit even
though we are a little squished together. It’sfortable enough. We’re just starting our second
episode of Courage the Cowardly Dog when my phone starts ringing. I ignore it. I don’t want to deal
with people right now, whoever it is can wait. As soon as the call goes to messages it starts ringing
again. The third time this happens I cave. I pick up the phone and check the screen. Megan. It’s
10:30pm what does she want that’s so urgent? With a sigh, I answer the phone. Harrison pauses the
cartoon. He doesn’t even pretend that he isn’t going to listen in to my
conversation.
“Megan, what’s wrong?”
“My brother is going crazy and nothing makes him as crazy as you do. Where are you right. now?” she
demands. Well I guess Aaron did call him then.
“I’m at home.” I answer her honestly, but she can tell that there’s more to it than that.
“And?”
“And I have a friend over?” Megan groans.
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“Is this friend a guy?” She questions.
“Yeah…” I trail off. Her groan is even louder this time.
“That exins a lot. You have a guy over in the middle of the night. Wait, who is it? Is he a
Shifter?” she asks.
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“No.”
“Someone from your work? A human?” she continues.
“No, a childhood friend. He’s an Incubus.” I admit. She falls silent on the other end for a good thirty
seconds.
“You invited an Incubus into your home, alone, in the middle of the night?” she sounds. somewhat
horrified. I roll my eyes at the evil grin Harrison is giving me. I don’t think he minds that Incubii have a
bad reputation at all, in fact I think he rather enjoys it.
“Yes, I did. He’s my friend.” I answer defensively. Megan backtracks quickly.
“Oh, I get it, and it’s fine, great even. But Ryann, you can’t have thought Bemy would react
well to this.” she points out.
“I can’t live my life around what makes Bemy mostfortable. Besides, he met Harry briefly once
before. We’ve already had this argument.” Megan sighs.
“I get it Ry, but seriously. You’re driving him crazy.”
“I seriously doubt that’s the problem. He’s probably just annoyed that I’m making it difficult for my
guards again since he has deemed himself personally responsible for my safety.” I argue. I can
practically feel Megan roll her eyes. She insists that Bemy cares about me a lot. more than he
actually does. But he can’t. Because if he cared he would havee to talk by now. He did the other
times we fought. So clearly something has changed.
“And are you safe Ry?” Megan checks. I have to repress augh. Harrison snatches the phone from
my hands as I cover my mouth to attempt to hide my amusement.
“Hey there, friend of Ryann. I can assure you that Ryann has absolutely nothing to fear from me. You
can tell the Alpha kitty cat to stand down. I think we were probably only seven years
old when she told me in no uncertain terms that I would never have a chance with her
because fate said so. Can’t argue with that, now can I?” I lean in closer so I can hear Megan’s
reply.
“That does sound like her.” she agrees.
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“I know, always unavable.” He sighs, then smirks. His tone swaps to one of seduction.
“What about you then? Are you avable?” I smack him on the arm.
“She isn’t for you Harry. Keep your charm to yourself.” I warn. He shrugs.
“Had to try Ry, backing off now.” I can hear Meganughing through the phone. I take it back from
Harry.
“Sorry about him. Everything is fine here as you can tell. We built a nket fort and now
we’re watching cartoons. I’ll see you tomorrow for hair and makeup alright?”
“Yes definitely! 7:00 am sharp. I can’t believe tomorrow is my wedding!”
“Um, yeah. It’s definitelye quick. I’ll talk to you tomorrow. Bye.”
“Seeya!” She hangs up and I lean back against my pillows with a sigh. Bemy clearly hasn’t managed
to make much progress in stopping Megan’s wedding. It’s getting entirely too close.
I’m really not sure what to do at this point.
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“You gonna tell me about it?” Harrison interrupts my contemtion. I hesitate and he rolls
his eyes.
“Ry, you invited me over to talk. Obviously, this is what you need to talk about. I haven’t been a good
friend to you in years. Or a friend at all really. I was mad at you for a while when you started avoiding
me, but looking back I can now see it was probably my own fault. It’s only in thest year or so that I’ve
realised all the people I was close to before are gone and that I barely even noticed the distance.
Running into you was perfect. I’ve been wanting to get in touch again but had no idea how. It took ages
for you to finally message me so whatever this is has to be important. Talk to me.” Unable to avoid it
any longer, I start. I tell him everything. About meeting Bemy about my ties to him and Megan. I tell
him about Tristan and Darrien and how
Harry looks conting is screwed up. By the time I finish talking I’m crying again.
“What do I do Harry? Everything is so wrong.” Harry crosses his arms over his chest.
“I don’t think you need me to tell you what needs to be done. The truth is hard but it’s the
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only way to clear up this mess. Tell Megan about her ties, let her make the decision about Tristan
herself, with all the information. Talk to Bemy, tell him what you actually think of him. Tell him why you
didn’t tell him earlier. Tell him why you’re so scared. Answer any questions be has for you. He’s your
fate remember? You don’t need to worry about scaring him off because you know it’s got to work out
eventually. You are going to have to have a conversation with him eventually. There’s no point in
dying it if it’s just making you erable. You need to stop sitting around and waiting for fate to do all the
work.”
I shake my head.
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“But it’s wrong to interfere with fate. It never turns out well.” I argue. Harrison sighs.
“Ry, the fact that you know your fate already influences how it is going to turn out. If this fate of yours is
so all knowing, surely it can ount for the fact that you know about it. It can’t expect you to pretend
you know nothing. Even if you do interfere, fate will stille to pass. What are you so worried about?
Making things worse? I hate to break it to you, but things are already pretty bad. At this point I think
interfering is more of a calcted risk. Something needs to change, so change the only thing you can
control. Yourself.”
“I’m not sure I can change so easily.” I tell him in a small voice.
“When did I ever say it would be easy? Changing is hard. I’ve spent thest year trying to change and it
is hard Ry. So hard. But look at my reward.” he waves his arms around himself.
“I have you back in my life. Consider this. Is the reward worth it?” His part said, Harrison turns and hits
y on the all but forgotten cartoon.