I don’t really know what you’re after, but I can tell you it’s not not going to work, Kelvin.” Jason said calmly as he crossed his arms over his chest and stared down at the younger Kelvin who narrowed his brows at him. A bit irritated that Jason was keeping so Mich composure than he had expected.
Clearly showing how mature he was compared to Kelvin who was trying to get him mad at least for a little moment. Though he would love to see Jason getting angry or obsessing over Emily and demanding that Kelvin should leave her alone, he has to admit that they were ten if not nine years apart and that he would obviously look down on him eventually.
“What won’t work?” Kelvin asked, still trying to stir up something against him somehow. “Are you suggesting something I’m not even planning on?”
“I know what you’re trying to do.” Jason sighed out as he turned and began to walk towards the gates, Kelvin followed behind me with a smirk plastered on his wine coloured lips. “It’s not going to work. Plus you’re distracting me, I am in the middle of work, as you can see.” He frowned as he noticed Kelvin still following him. “What do you want from me.”
“Didn’t I mention earlier I needed a spar?” Kelvin asked as he fell into step with Jason who couldn’t help but roll his eyes a little before waving at the man on top of the fence to open the gate.
The man waved back and disappeared for a moment. Then the large black gates began to pull apart from each other effortlessly with slightly loud ‘clunk’ sounds as the metal bars withing the walls pulled the gates back.
“I told you I was busy. I can’t spar with you right now.” Jason pointed out as he walked out of the gate, still having Kelvin trail behind him, like a clingy little brother he didn’t want to have.
“Well, I have all day.” Kelvin smiled as he glanced up at Jason’s frame, hardly keeping his chuckle sealed in his lips as he knew he was about to press onto Jason’s nerves. “I can just follow you around, see what you actually do during the day other than sleeping with women eleven years younger than you.” Kelvin whistled out as he glanced around when Jason glanced over his shoulder to him. Clearly annoyed at the comment Kelvin had just said to him.
“I don’t sleep around with women.” Jason hissed out as the reached a small opening in the forest where a large grazing field welcomed them with countless farm animals spread across the field and a few herders walking around and watching them.
“If you didn’t Emily wouldn’t be crying right now.” Kelvin explained as he stopped behind Jason who was now scribbling into a notepad and constantly glancing at the field.
“Then why aren’t you with her right now if you want to act so manly?” Jason asked, trying to keep his composure and stay as calm as possible in his responses, but Kelvin could notice his struggle to hold back.
“I could be with her right now, trying to comfort her and be the hero I want to be,” he started as he squatted to the grass and yanked off a dandelion from the ground, bringing it closer to his face as he examined it for a while before gently blowing off its seeds.
“But?” Jason asked as he watched Kelvin who was supposed to be finishing the sentence but stopped mid sentence instead. Not knowing whether or not he was not intending to finish it or he was just really distracted by the dandelion.
“But as a man too I need to give her some space for herself.” Kelvin explain, picking another dandelion and blowing on it. “Emily is a strong woman, I doubt she’ll need me to stop herself from crying, I’ll just make it worse by making her think I’m taking advantage of her feelings.” He sighed out, now instead of blowing on the dandelions, he as simply shaking them into the small breeze. “Did you know about her past before she came here?”
“That she was an orphan.” Jason nodded as he glanced from Kelvin to the field, continuing his scribbles.
“No. She was never an orphan. Not that she would casually tell you that, I bet it was her parents that told you that.” Kelvin chuckled as he glanced up at Jason who glanced down at him in confusion.
“What are you talking about?” Jason asked, now feeling an eerie sensation in his chest as he glanced down at Kelvin. “What’s wrong with Emily?”
“Nothing’s wrong with her.” Kelvin shrugged his shoulders. “There’s just something wrong with the people around her, that’s all. People like you and me both. We’re just like poison to her.” He said quietly as he finished off the remaining dandelions around him that he could reach out to. “But like a poison, we try to kill our prey over and over again, so we keep coming back, still being selfish.”
“I don’t really get what you’re trying to say here.” Jason sighed out in boredom as he glanced back at the field. “Go straight to the point.”
“Did you know Emily had a childhood trauma?” He asked, staring at the stems of the dandelion he had plucked laying on the ground in front of him. He then began to take each stem, stacking them in a straight line together.
“Trauma about her parents’ death, yeah.” Jason nodded slowly and Kelvin shook his head with a small laugh.
“I told you before, she’s not an orphan.” Kelvin hissed out, throwing a stem towards him, only to get him to roll his eyes in boredom.
“Why would her parents lie about her being an orphan if she wasn’t-”
“To protect her from remembering something she hates to remember.” Kelvin sighed out as he stood up and glared into his eyes. “Did you honestly think that the reason she was screaming last night when I tried to mate with her, that I was trying to somehow rape her or something similar?” He asked, getting Jason to pause for a moment as he glanced towards the ground in thought.
Well, that was the most clear thought he would have.