As The Sun Sets by Erinny Rose (read a book txt) 📖

the simplest of comments. “There we go” he said “I made you smile” and wiped away my tears
“I am so glad I have you” I said holding him tighter
He pulled back so he could look me in the eyes and said “I am so sorry I didn’t warn you about Tobias”
“Please Gabriel, I just want to forget about it, but there is one thing I want to know”
“Yes?” he said waiting
“I didn’t see what Michael did to him, he made me close my eyes but when I opened them Tobias was gone, I just wanted to know where he went.”
Gabriel paused for a few minutes thinking “I don’t know, he must have run off”
I sighed as I lay down on my bed and watched him do the same “I just want to forget today” I mumbled”
“It is late, you should sleep”
“It’s not late I have only been up for two hours” I murmured
“It’s ten in the evening, Lana”
“What” I sighed feeling rather confused
“I will explain it all tomorrow but for now sleep, tomorrow is another day” he said as he tucked the covers around me.


Chapter Six

I woke up to a beautiful sound, it was like a bird song but lower, it was perfect, but it stopped when I yawned “no” I mumbled sleepily “please carry on” not sure who I was talking to.
“Lana? Are you awake?”
I opened my eyes to see Gabriel standing next to me, “Yeah, I’m awake”
“Was that you?”
“Was what me?”
“That music, it was so beautiful”
Gabriel chuckled “I think you were dreaming”
“I don’t think so” I said frowning, I was so sure I was awake “Oh, look at me, I fell asleep in my clothes” I frowned “I think I am going to call everyone when I have gotten changed, why don’t you think of something we can all do”
“Sure” smiled Gabriel
I smiled then walked into the bathroom to take a shower taking a clean set of clothes in with me, as I stripped off and stepped in. I felt as though everything from yesterday was being washed away, and I truly felt peaceful. I wanted to stay longer under the luscious warm water but thought better of it as I felt my fingers start to wrinkle, I laughed at myself as I turned the shower off, stepped out and started to dry myself.
“Nice shower?” Gabriel asked as I walked in rubbing my hair with my towel
“Yeah thanks, thought of anything we can do?” I said sitting down next to him on the edge of my bed
“Well, how about we all lounge here?” he answered and funnily enough the idea sounded good, I eventually decided on a pyjama party so every one comes in there PJ’s
“Including you” I said as I told Gabriel what we were doing
He rolled his eyes and said “Fine, I will pop erm home a bit later and pick up some stuff”.
“Good” I said grinning, “Right I am going to phone round the others.” It didn’t take long to call everyone and they were all up for it. “I told them to come around nine ish, so we have a bit of time to get everything ready” it was already one in the afternoon, so we had plenty of time
“What do we need to get ready?” he asked
“You should know” I said smiling
“Should I?” he replied
“Did I not write the list down for you?”
“No, but its ok I know the general stuff you buy for a party”
“Fair enough, well if you can go into the cupboard in my dad’s room there are loads of board games, dump them in here somewhere and then can you go to the store and get some stuff to eat? I think I left the shopping list downstairs on the fridge, take it if you decide you need it and there is some money on top of the fridge too. Do you think you could take Dill with you when you go shopping?” I asked shyly “I won’t be able to keep my eye on him all the time, he might get a bit bored, plus he adores you.”
“Sure thing” he said smiling at me “but don’t you think you are….”
“No” I said glaring at him knowing how the sentence was going to end
“Ok” he said and then he went to get the games
I sighed “I had better get the housework done then”
…
“Whoa” I sighed as I collapsed on my bed “what’s the time?”
“It’s eight thirty, we still have half an hour” he replied collapsing next to me and sat Dylan on his chest “It’s a good job you told them to come straight up, I don’t think I can be bothered to move” Gabriel sighed
“I know how you feel, but we have to go through the board games” I said as I heaved myself up off my bed and sat on the floor “Come on” I said when he didn’t move, “oh, and I hope you didn’t go to the store like that” I muttered gesturing at his naked chest
“Of course I didn’t, who do you think I am? I got my stuff on the way back” he said as he got off my bed and sat down next to me still holding the baby.
“Oh wow” I said “I had forgotten I had this” as I pulled out an electronic spin the bottle game
“Oh wow!” squealed a voice from the door “Lana, you didn’t tell me you had a spin the bottle game!” they paused and said “Whoa Gabriel look at you!”
“Bree, I have just found it” I laughed “I had forgotten that I had it.” I looked up at her and laughed so hard I nearly wet myself “Bree” I snorted “you have a onesie?” Onesie’s are basically like a baby’s babygrow for adults.
“Sure” she said starting to laugh with me
“It wouldn’t be so bad Bree, but it’s my little pony!”
“I know” she said grinning “I got it cheap online only costs like five pounds!”
Then the conversation started over again as Kiah, Willow and Demitri walked in and burst out laughing as they saw what Bree was wearing.
It took half an hour for everybody to calm down and finally decide what to do
“Well I think we should play spin the bottle” grinned Bree who was playing with Dylan who looked as though all he wanted to do was go to sleep.
“But that’s so childish” moaned Will “Lana can I open a window? It’s so warm in here” then got up when I nodded at him.
“But that’s exactly why we should play it, we are only young once you know” Bree said as she stood up and gently placed Dylan who was now completely out of it in his crib and tucked him in
“Ok so spin the bottle it is” said Kiah happily who had also been for the idea, along with Bree
“I want to go first!” shouted Bree in my ear as she sat back down
“Ouch Bree! Are you trying to deafen me?” I said rubbing my ear “and please be quiet, we do have a sleeping baby in our midst”
“Trying and failing” she chirped quietly as she put the bottle on the floor and spun it because the batteries had run out and I had no spare ones, I groaned as it landed on me, “Ok” she giggled “truth or dare?”
“Urm” I said as I deliberated “truth”
Bree grinned then said “what is your full name?” everybody knew my full name but she knew how much I hated saying it
“Alana-Meredith Dakota South” I only hated the fact that my name was hyphenated, I mean who in their right mind would enjoy having Meredith included in their name? I glared at everyone as they sniggered at me under their breath and said “I am glad my name amuses you”
“Chill out” laughed Bree it’s just a game, now it’s your turn to spin
I spun the bottle praying that it wouldn’t land on Gabriel and thankfully it didn’t, it landed on Willow and as soon as he noticed he shut up laughing. “Truth or dare” I said pleasantly
“Come on Will prove to me that you’re a man!” laughed Kiah
“Dare” said Willow looking as though he immediately regretted the decision
I thought for a minute then smirked “Okay, I don’t really play truth or dare games but I know that they always involve at least some one being naked, so I dare you” I said grinning slyly at Willow “to sit though one round completely naked”
“Is there no way I can get out of this?” he said groaning
“Nope” I said feeling slightly mean
“Fine” he said as he started to strip off “Just as long as everything that happens in this game stays a secret”
“That’s fair” said Bree
“Thanks” he said blushing as he took off his boxers and sat down
“Whoa” grinned Kiah as she watched him sit down and then crawled across to him when he gestured to her, we all waited as he whispered into her ear, “oh” she said blushing “ok” and went back to her place.
I saw Gabriel chuckle quietly and looked questioningly at him, he shook his head in a ‘don’t worry about it’ kinda way.
As the game progressed we all started to really enjoy ourselves, obviously getting over the initial embarrassment but after a few rounds we all started to lighten up and happily accepted our truth or dare tasks, I think the best one we had was Demitri who ended up having to climb on to the roof with a mega phone and declare to the whole neighbour hood that he was a descendant of a turtle who enjoyed having his nipple hairs plucked, want to guess who came up with that question? If you guessed Bree you were so very right, but unfortunately the funniest bit was when Demitri got stuck and we had to call the fire brigade to get him down, I am going to say this now if he ever gets married that one is being mentioned, we even managed to get a few pictures!
“That was fun” chuckled Bree; we have to do that again!
“No!” shouted Demitri “Never again, never ever again!”
We all burst out laughing again, “Gosh Dem” laughed Kiah “The look on your face was priceless”
“Thanks” muttered Demitri wearily “hey Bree” he said trying to change the subject “it’s just gone three am, want to shove on a film?”
“Sure, what do you want, I brought a selection” in the end we decided on “The Lord of the Rings” which was a bit silly really because it’s long and I only remember Gandalf riding in to the village, then I obviously fell asleep.


Chapter Seven

“Gabriel” whispered Melody as she appeared at Gabriel’s side “come on, Deus has called an emergency meeting”
“What for?”
“I don’t know, come on” she said “I will meet you there” then she disappeared
Gabriel sighed and looked at Lana who was sleeping soundly in her bed, scribbled a note and placed it on her pillow, and then he too disappeared.
…
“Gabriel?” I muttered as I opened my eyes, when he didn’t answer I sat up and looked around my room, I sighed, he obviously wasn’t here. I glanced at the clock to see that the time was quarter to seven in the morning, I laid back down and rolled over which was when I noticed a piece of paper on my pillow, I sat up again and picked it up, it read “Sorry I had an