Right In His Arms

Chapter Thirty-Two

The Games were over and they proceeded to the main market which had been turned into a festival grand square. Xander and Leah took the boys into a toy store, victoria was left with the two men that weren't talking to each other now. Victoria nibbed liam with her elbow and made a gesture sign with her eyebrows and head, liam understood what she wanted him to do, so he took a deep breath and started.

"Look james, I didn't mean to remind you of grace, i was unnecessarily curious."

Surprisingly to both of them, James chuckled. He didn't seem offended at all; "It's fine, i understand your fears." he said

"Fears? What fears could liam possibly have to be so unfriendly." victoria said and scowled at him. Liam didn't like the fact Victoria was scolding him in front of this sneaky bastard,

'Are you so blind to see that James is into you?' Liam thought to himself.

"You will not understand dear little tori, it's between liam and i." James said and winked at liam. Liam clenched his fist, once he had warned James not to call her tori, but Victoria watered down those warnings by being annoyingly nice as usual.

Two days later, James invited victoria out for some drinks and to enjoy some country music together. The kind her late mother used to like, they talked about how their individual lives had been in the past years. After they had drinks and danced, james suggested they talk a walk;

"Have you ever seen me as more than a big brother little tori?" He asked.

Victoria giggled, she was a bit tipsy at the moment. "Of course, i had called you my demigod in college."

"Really? Why?"

"Well, i feel a certain way about you then but mom would scold me everytime and warn me about saying things out of teenage infatuation."

"Could it be that you had a crush on your demigod?" James asked

Victoria chuckled, "To be honest, i think mom was right. Teenage infatuation was all there was to it. I had a huge crush on someone else and when he didn't notice me, i thought that switching my feelings to someone else would make me feel better." she laughed, they walked to a bench and sat down.

"Did it?"

"No, i felt worse because then i found out you were courting grace anyway."

They were both silent for a while, James drank out of the flask in his hand, he gave it to victoria and she drank out of it as well.

"Whoop! What the hell is that?" she asked, cringing.

James chuckled, "Scotch, too strong?" he asked, smirking.

She nodded, "It's burns too." James found her reaction cute.

"Victoria, is there any chance that you may still feel the same way towards me?" He asked

"No, i think i'm over that now."

"How would you know?"

"I do know."

"Let's find out."

"How?"

Then James kissed her, she was too shock to react.