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The Lovely Ones Chapter 9
Darren and I kiss for a while longer, but he never lets me have any more than that, and promises to me that we will not until I have convinced him that I’m ready. I pout about this for much longer than should’ve been allowed, but his kisses really soften the blow. I start to get dressed and sigh at Darren, holding up my soaking panties with one finger. He flashes me a devilish smile and laughs “you broke up my matching set!” I say, fake upset. “I guess you just don’t get to wear underwear tonight then.” He says, wiggling his eyebrows in my direction. “Yeah then you have to wear those!” I tell him as I throw them at him. I pull a much less sexy pair from my drawer, and place them on.“Absolutely not.” he says with a pained face. I snicker at him and slip on a layered sundress. He groans and says “not the sundress!” He tosses his hands over his eyes “You’re too beautiful I’m going blind!” He falls over dramatically onto the bed while I shake my head at his silliness. I pull my hair in
The Lovely Ones Chapter 10
“So how exactly are you going to show me again?” I look at him pointedly. “It’s kind of complicated.” He says. We walk down the hallway to his door. I look at him. He still doesn’t say anything else. “Okayyy.” I say, nodding my head slowly. “So it’s complicated, how about you tell me how old you really are then Drac?” He sighs and looks down as he unlocks the door. “Is that nickname going to stick?” He asks with his arms crossed. “I don’t know, are you going to hurt me, Drac?” I open my mouth to exaggerate the C sound and he turns to look at me when I’ve finished. His face looks like a kicked puppy.“Of course I would never hurt you! You’re the most important thing in my life now!” He says, his voice softening at the end. He looks at me, with all the vulnerability of a child asking for his mothers’ attention. I wonder what has happened to him to make him feel this way. The door opens and he gestures for me to go inside. A mass of black fur runs from a bedroom into Darren’s arms. Dar
The Lovely Ones Chapter 11
My eyes close and I shake my head. “You still haven’t convinced me that vampires are real and now you want to convince me that I AM one?” My voice starts to raise. Darren looks upset at me. I do not care right now.“Don’t you feel the bond between us?” He asks the pavement. I look down as well, and feel Louise tugging at the leash to keep us moving. “This mate thing you keep talking about… is it like Jacob and Renesmee?” I asked. “I don’t know who those people are.” I laugh, “Twilight, you old man” a look passes over his face as he tries to remember which character did what, “Oh! The demon baby and the werewolf?” I laugh at his description and nod. “I don’t really know that much about Twilight,” he confesses, “I just saw that you had the poster in your room, so I tried to impress you.” I look at his face, and see all of the vulnerability I have come to love on his face. We are both blushing. I turn backwards as we walk and poke his chest softly “You had a crush on me!” I sing to him
The Lovely Ones Chapter 12
When I come home, I find that Rita and Sarah have torn apart the common area. Before I can even ask what’s going on Rita and Sarah are asking me to pick sides in a fight that I couldn’t care less about. I go into my room and call my mom for the first time in a long time. I ask her if I can come home this weekend and the excitement that I hear in her voice promises that it’s the right decision for now.I quickly pack my things and grab my toiletries from my locker in the shared bathroom. I’m out the door and on the bus home before Rita and Sarah even realize I’ve left. I put my headphones on and try to imagine that nothing has changed since the last time I went home. I hum along to the song, and turn up the volume. When we pull into my hometown I’m sleepy and cranky again even though it only took 2 hours to get here. My mom is waiting for me at the stop with a cold water bottle and the blanket my grandma crochet when I was a little girl. I wrap myself in the smell of my parents house
The Lovely Ones Chapter 13
I wake up to the smell of bacon cooking. When I make my way into the kitchen, my mom is stirring pancake batter with a very old whisk. It scrapes against the bottom of the bowl in a familiar pattern. “Good Morning, sleepyhead!” my mom greets me happily, but with a pointed look at the clock, it’s 11:00. “Did you get some good sleep in your old bed?” I nod and grab a mug from the cabinet. I pour myself a large cup of hot coffee and ask “Do you need my help with anything this morning?” I offer her the milk as I add it to my cup, she's already mixed all the milk she needs into her batter. “I’m good on both, you just sit at the bar and look pretty.” I sit down and start fluttering my eyelashes at her. “Pretty enough?” I ask, flipping invisible hair over my shoulder. “Always!” She says without turning around.Before I finish my coffee, she’s finished the food. Everything she made was wonderful, and Bailey got a few pieces of my mom's bacon for ‘helping her out’. I stirred the syrup around
The Lovely Ones Chapter 14
“I was different after that night, honey, I couldn't focus in class, I kept having panic attacks… about a month later I dropped out of school. Your father followed me a few months later into a tiny apartment. Neither of our parents approved but it didn't matter, I loved him and he loved me. We didn't have any money to spare but there was so much love and happiness in that little apartment, it was always full. Your father was patient with me, it took a long time before I could stand for him to touch me, and when he did, I never regretted it again.”“Good people will be gentle with your heart, can even heal the worst aches on it. But you have to want them, you have to want to be better. I promise you that the genuine and the gentle way of being is worth the struggle to get there. Love can smooth even the roughest scars when applied gently and patiently.”“Work and life kept turning around us as your father and I, your father and I wanted to get married, but no one in our family would co
The Lovely Ones Chapter 15
I sat on the bus, lost in thought as it made its way back to my dorm. My mind was still reeling from the conversation I had with my mother about my parents' love story and my father's slow decline into death. It was a lot to process, but her words stuck with me: "Love doesn't make your choices for you, but baby, I hope you always choose love."As the bus bumped along the road, I found myself thinking about Darren. Despite the risks and challenges that came with being involved with him, I couldn't deny the intense feelings I had for him.I knew that Darren was different from anyone I had ever met before. He was so silly and sweet, nothing like what I would expect from a vampire. But he also had a dangerous edge that both scared and excited me. Even as I sat on the bus, staring blankly out the window, I knew that I couldn't resist him any longer.So, I made a choice. I chose love.I knew that loving Darren would come with its own set of challenges and risks. He was a vampire, after all
The Lovely Ones Chapter 16 Darren
I couldn't believe it. Cassie had finally told me that she loved me back. It was like a dream come true.As I drove her home in my trusty Subaru, I couldn't stop smiling. I was so happy to finally know that Cassie felt the same way about me that I did about her. We pulled up to her apartment building, and I walked her to the door. As we said our goodbyes, I leaned in to kiss her, and she met me halfway. I felt a pull deep in my stomach, the same pull I always felt when she kissed me so softly. As she pulled away her eyes looked dreamy, and she bit her lip. I laughed at her, “Am I that good of a kisser?” I teased. She grinned and so did I. “Goodbye, baby.” I said, pulling her into a hug. “I love you!” She whispers to my chest. “I love you too! But I’m a little afraid of Rita, so this is where I leave you.” She giggles and agrees with me that Rita can be pretty scary. She goes inside and I nearly float back to my car.As I drive home I think of my last enco
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