That Intoxicating Taste Of Finneas

Lash out - Alice Merton

"Finn, they're staring." I whispered to him as we stood in the middle of a big bar called REGALS. It looked sleek, almost formal but at the same time old fashioned. I stared at the fancy drinks arranged behind the lanky blonde haired bartender who Finneas was negotiating something I knew nothing of. I needed to leave immediately. This wasn't the 'bunking' I expected. Old men that sat on the big sofas with brown tables filling up the spaces all stared at me. I guess they didn't expect two teenagers with their backpacks hung on their backs to be in a dangerous place like this.

"You owe me one Finn. You're lucky my boss isn't in town," the blonde haired punched Finneas on his shoulder and he gave off a laugh, one I knew very much to be fake. He handed Finneas a bottle of alcohol and I narrowed my eyes at the drink. What was he up to?

"Thanks Cal. C'mon Po," he tugged my hand to a black door as he swung the keys Cal gave him on his index finger. The black door led to an enclosed hallway that led to an elevator. We got into the elevator and he pressed the roof button.

"You know we shouldn't be here," my voice was hoarse. I could feel the tiredness in my eyes. I was tired of crying.

"We should. I come here when I need my space. When I wanna get drunk, and when I need to smoke shits out," he was blunt. My eyes widened at his confession. He also drank? The elevator made a ding sound and the door opened to the roof. We got out and I expected the atmosphere to be very cold but I found myself warm. Well there was at least one advantage to my power.

I followed him as he leaned against an iron box, sitting on the bare ground. I chose to stand, and observe the scenery of Glasgow from here. Glasgow was a pretty nice place to tour and also a pretty nice place to commit crimes and get away with it. I turned around when I got a whiff of cigarette smell and saw how passionately Finneas was inhaling the death stick, with his eyes solely glued to me. That made my body tingle but I chose to ignore it.

"You know, smoking isn't all that bad. I use it to forget about my dead parents and try to warm up my broken heart. Heat can cure a broken heart," he laughed and I found myself sitting next to him on the bare ground. I could still see the front of the bar and cars that were parked. "Do you know how painful it feels to watch your mother being raped and killed in front of you and you being able to do nothing?" He asked and I felt a dull ache in my heart.

"I only know how it feels to be responsible for your mother's death. I feel-" I stopped, unable to form a word. How exactly did I feel? Hopeless? Useless? Disgusting? Pain? Vulnerability? Unable to know what pure happiness felt like?

He let out a dry chuckle, "here, try."

I took the cigarette from him and held it to my lips. It felt surprisingly warm and hot inside my mouth. What was I to do next?

"Suck the air in," he ordered and I did. The hot smoke got deep into my chest. I could feel its heaviness inside. Nothing happened after that. My body absorbed the smoke and there was nothing to exhale. Strange.

"Well considering you're extraordinary," he took the cigarette from me and resumed his inhaling. I stared at the bottle of alcohol and took it. He raised an eyebrow at me with a sly smirk on his really sexy pierced lips. I rolled my eyes at him and popped the drink open. Just as I was about to taste the vile liquor for the first time,

"What the hell?" Finneas spat out and I dropped the bottle on the ground and followed his gaze down to where Kai had Noah backed against his black sleek car. Noah had fear and anger written all over his face and I was unable to see Kai's expression.

"What the fuck is going on? What has Noah gotten himself into?" Finneas asked in a rush and I sighed.

"I know what's going on," he whipped his head to my face and I stared at the ground in shame. "This was what Leroy was referring too. There are a lot of things you and Isobel don't know about Noah." I told him and he sat up straight with a glare etched into his face. So, I told him. Everything that had transpired from when Noah abducted me, to meeting Kai who knows something about my past, to the weird name Kai kept calling me, to the missions I did. I told him everything, not missing out a part.

"Fuck," he whispered as he stared at me in shock. "Isobel trusts Noah so bad. I fucking knew he was acting different than he normally did when we moved here. I thought it was because of our parents death and because we had to leave in fear." His voice shook and curiosity made me to look down again. I jumped in fear when Kai's eyes met mine. His lips twitched upwards slowly before he got into his car and drove off.

My phone dinged and I stared in anger at the message I received.

*I hope you know that may be your last date with that Finn boy if you don't show up for your next mission tonight. Poor Leroy must have found it hard to believe when I told him the truth about you*

I held my phone tight as my breathing got enraged. That fucking coy bastard! How much I wished I could burn him till his last ash withers away.

"I gotta go Finn." I handed him the open bottle and turned to pick my bag. I had to get prepared for tonight. I had to make Jack eat and take his meds.

"Po wait," he tugged my hand and I turned to him. In a splitting matter of second, our lips met and a burst of warm passion went through from my stomach down to my toes. My body went in flames inwardly as I melted into him. The intoxicating taste of cigarette and the cold feeling of his ring on my tongue was enough to make me die out of pleasure. He moved his hand from my arm, to bury his fingers in my short hair. Just as I thought my moment of bliss was just beginning, it ended quickly.

Forehead pressed against each other and hot breaths mingling, "we're gonna get through this," he whispered and I nodded weakly still working to catch my breath.

"Fingers crossed." I whispered and gave him a chaste kiss on the corner of his lips before running to the elevator. I had a mission to think of and not the hot kiss Finneas and I just shared.

I know you all needed that so I gave it to ya.