Dark Night (27 page)

“She g-ot away?” I tried getting out of his
arms but couldn’t, he tighten his grip a little.

“Well, while I was trying to save your life
Genevieve and Anna were untying your parents and that gave her
enough time to escape. She will pass out sooner or later and then
probably we will find her. But from what I hear she is off campus
and her parents have people searching out there, she isn’t our
problem anymore. I want you to rest your wound needs to heal.” He
glanced at it, then away, as if he was shy. I barely touched where
the bullet hit, and I realized that half my tank top was gone and
bra was visible.

“Oh.” I whispered and leaned on him.

We were in my room when I
opened my eyes. Robert was trying to take the rest of my tank top
off. OH. I wasn't sure where this was going… so I tried to help
him, but he pushed me down gently. “I’m sorry but you need to be
still, I need you to put your right arm up and I can take care of
the rest okay? I know this is embarrassing, trust me I would rather
have another girl doing this, but there isn’t. I need to clean your
wound, and give you more blood so you can heal, and you won’t get
an infection.” That was very disappointing, and it hurt to hear him
say that he would rather have someone else doing this.
Asshole
.

I rolled my eyes and did as he said, as if he
could read my thoughts he stiffened and then he was cleaning my
wound. He wore gloves and used gauze to clean it carefully without
him actually touching my skin. The wound was right above my left
breast, and Robert was trying hard not to look, I could feel it.
Then he taped gauze over it…

“You could have waited for someone else to do
this you know?” My voice was scratchy but I could talk better.

“Why would I do that?” He asked as he took
another tank top from my drawer and walked over to me, he paused
when he saw the look in my face.

I rolled my eyes again, or tried anyway and
then winced in pain the hole in my chest was hurting more, and
more. Robert quickly cut his wrist and put it to my mouth, I
hesitated for a second. “Damn it Mia, drink.” And I did. It was
delicious the taste melted in my tongue and I just wanted more, I
had closed my eyes, but when I opened them Robert had his closed
and made a sound that sounded like a moan in satisfaction. That
frightened me a little but I felt, something strong pull me, the
bond. I let him go. And he jumped to his feet, in disbelief.
“Maybe, that wasn’t such a great idea…. But we’ll deal with this
later.” He relaxed and then helped me get into the tank top. I was
sitting up and a few inches away from kissing him, he looked into
my eyes and sighed.

Definitely giving up he then bent down and
his lips met mine and they parted at exactly the same moment, it
was a soft, passionate, slow kiss that we both had longed for. We
stayed like that for a while, until the kiss intensified a little I
could feel the bond between us join and then he was leaning over
me, I was almost laying on my back when he pulled away. Our
foreheads still touching, we hadn’t realized how hard we were
breathing and one of his hands was on my hair the other pulling me
close to him. He let me lay down slowly then when we opened our
eyes it was like we saw each other for the first time. “Hi.” He
said.

“Hi.” I said back. Robert
suddenly changed, he was about to stand up when I held his hand.
“Don’t. Please don’t leave me.” I whispered feeling a little dizzy.
He nodded and went around the bed to lie next to me.

“Relax, go to sleep. We’ll talk tomorrow.” I
heard him say as I drifted off to sleep.

...When I woke up the
next day I assumed, it was seven pm. I had slept through the day.
Robert was sitting next to me, reading a book. Huh. I felt ten
times better than I had the night before. I didn’t even feel pain
from the wound. “Where’s everybody?” I asked Robert, who put his
book down.

“They’re in a conference, your parents were
worried they actually slept right on that couch, and I…” He trailed
off.

“And you stayed with me this whole time,
didn’t you?” That made happy and my heart filled with hope.

“Technically no, I had to take a shower, hope
you don’t mind that I used your shower but I just couldn’t… bring
myself to leave you,” He didn’t have to say it right now, and I
knew he wouldn’t but he cared about me and that’s all that
mattered. “How do you feel?” He asked me as I was sitting up.

“A whole lot better.” I thought about what I
was going to say. “Thank you for everything, saving my life, my
parents and then staying with me, you’ve been an angel.” I
whispered that last part.

He nodded. “About last night….. We shouldn’t
have. It was wrong for many reasons I don’t want to begin to
explain. Just do me a favor and forget it ever happened, please.
This is only going to get us into deeper trouble, and you know it,
don’t you?” I knew what he was talking about, the stupid rules. Who
needed rules?

“What?” I heard myself say, “What are you
saying, to go on and live like this? You know if you don’t care
about me then why didn’t you just let me die___”

“Because I couldn’t! Don’t make me do this…
please It’ll only be worse for both of us!” He stood then, I knew I
hurt him but I wanted him to feel what I was feeling, and we were
both hurting each other. I knew I was about to cry, but I didn’t
care. I threw the blanket off me and I stood up too, I walked over
to him and got in his face. I realized that the pain that I had in
my chest was completely gone.

“I have the right to know what the reason is
for you acting this way, Robert I need you to tell me if you
don’t__”

“Fine, your parents told me to back off for a
while, it is for your own good. That is all I can tell you, now
will you get back in bed before I make you myself?”

I crossed my arms in a challenge, and I
didn't care how childish I was being.

This time he rolled his eyes. “Mia, don’t be
difficult.” He took a step towards me.

“I’m not. That’s not enough reason, I guess
what I’m saying is…” He didn’t let me finish, because he closed the
distance between us and pinned me to the wall.

He tried the whole scene back in the plane,
trying to intimidate me… with his eyes changing but I just laughed.
That got a reaction out of him “This isn’t a game! You need to stop
being so stubborn and get to bed.” He loosened his grip a little
and I took one of my hands out and touched his face. It was soft
and he closed his eyes and tried to pull away but I turned him
towards me. “Please… we can’t,” He tried, failing miserably. I
pulled him closer and this time he kissed me urgently, like he was
hungry for me, and I kissed him back the same way. I felt hot, too
hot. He had one of my hands pinned against the wall and with the
other he ran his hand down my body from my side down to my thigh
and then he pulled me to him all the way, I had my hands around his
neck and my legs around his waist and I didn’t want to let go, only
he was stronger, he laid me flat on my back on the bed, with his
own body on top of mine. The kiss went on for a very long time but
then abruptly he broke it with a kiss to my neck. Suddenly, he bit
me and I moaned. A sound escaped from his throat too and his hand
traveled up my mouth then I bit hard and started drinking from him
too.

We were exchanging blood… that went against
all the rules. We both knew it.

Robert pulled away just as
quickly as it had begun, before it could go any further. We were
both breathing very hard and I just wanted to keep going but Robert
stiffened and pushed off the bed, kissing me lightly on my cheek.
“
That
is why we
cannot be together,
ever
.” He said and walked out of my
room.

I was dumbfounded,
literally.

When I was left alone in my room after Robert
left, I laid on the bed thinking about the last fifteen minutes. It
was impossible to think that what had just happened was real, and
yet it made a hole in my stomach to think about the way he had just
walked out. Though, I knew he was right this was getting too
dangerous for the both of us, I just couldn’t bring myself to
regret any of it I just couldn’t. It was difficult even breathing,
after the way he had me. God I wished I could talk about it.

Then I felt very stupid as the memory of what
I had been through came running back to me, it was as if someone
had dumped a bucket of cold water over my head. I sat on the bed
thinking about how Sophie, a person that was supposed to be a
friend had come to be so deceiving, and everything she had done was
for selfish reasons. I knew she had something to do with Mereily’s
death, thinking about her brought tears to my eyes. There were
things I had to take care of, so I slowly took a hot shower, put on
a black shirt, pants, jacket and I was blow drying my hair when I
heard a knock on the door. I stood a few feet away from it afraid
to open it and find something unpleasant, but it wasn’t.

“Mia! Let us in, we need to see you’re okay.”
That was Bonnie, always caring and full of drama. I let them
in.

“Oh my god! I thought something bad had
happened to you…” She hugged me before I could even say a word.

“I’m fine really. You shouldn’t worry about
me, it was nothing. How are you? Did you get hurt?” I looked Bonnie
over, then Anna, Delilah, and….Cole. He looked beat up, and older,
he wore wrinkled clothes and had messy hair.

I was too stunned to say anything, but then
what would I say. I hadn’t spoken to my ex since I slapped him
after he cheated on me. That brought back bad memories. Anna broke
the silence.

“Awkward. Ok-ay maybe we should leave you two
alone___”

“No. You guys stay, he needs to go.” I said
firmly, careful not to meet his eyes directly. But he wasn’t
moving, and I raised my eyebrows at him and crossed my arms.

“Please, I want to talk to you. Could you at
least give me the benefit of the doubt?” Silence, I wasn’t giving
in to his games, “Fine then, I just wanted to know if you were
okay, I was worried and___”

“I’m sorry to worry you but that’s not your
concern what so ever. And quit trying to apologize for something
that doesn’t even matter anymore, that was the past, and this is
now and now I’m in a different place. It hardly matters what you
and Jewel did, I simply don’t care. Just know that you and I will
not talk about this again. Cole, because if you bother me I swear
to god ____”

“You don’t have to threaten me, I get it.
There’s someone else isn’t there?” That I didn’t expect him to
think, but of course he would say that.

“No but if there was? What’s
it to you?” I glanced at Bonnie, Delilah, and Anna. They had
preoccupied themselves with silly chores, Bonnie was folding a
blanket that was on the couch. Delilah was making the bed with
Anna. Silly, but I knew they were trying hard to mind their own
business which didn’t matter really, it be better if everyone knew
the scumbag that Cole was.

“Uh no, it’s not like that. Look, I was just
going to apologize that’s it, I have moved on Mia, okay? Jewel and
I, we’re happy. I just wish you the best, you deserve the best.”
Cole waved good bye and closed the door behind him. I was frozen in
place.

“What just happened?” Bonnie asked as
confused as I was.

But I immediately dismissed it with a shrug,
“I think now, it’s all over.”

At the time I didn’t know
how wrong I was.

TO BE CONTINUED…