PAIN “Wait here.” He orders as he puts the car in the parking lot of a shopping complex. “What do you want to get?”A small quirk of his brow tells me that was the wrong question to ask. “You’ll see.”He climbs out of the car and disappears into the complex, I try to follow him with my eyes but he got lost in the crowd. I sigh and sag into my seat. Instead of dwindling my thumbs as I wait for his return, I dial Joanna's phone number, my father’s secretary. “Hey Joanna..” I pause when I hear shuffling in the background. And then even more shuffling.“Roxanne.. hello..” she answers breathily. “Is this a bad time?”More shuffling, “No, not really. I needed the break anyway.”“Is something going on?”She sighs, “Your father is contesting the will. He says there is nothing wrong with being progressive.” I snort. Like sucking up to his mother in-law was the least bit progressive. “Please. I wish I could say good luck with that. Anyway, I calle

INFINITY “These are.. these are beautiful, thank you so much.” I say, unable to tear my eyes from the tattoos. Saph smiled at me again.“You are welcome. I’m glad I’m the one who got to ink you for your first time.” Like she promised before she started, the process wasn’t painful at all. Even when she randomly asked to do my finger, where my scar was, I obliged without a second thought. “Now, let’s go, before Vaughn pushes through the door and gets you himself.”She points at a blinking red light above the door. I had seen that a while ago, but I didn’t think much of it. “He can’t open the door from outside. Him hovering around like that is what is causing the red lights.” She explains, probably because I look extra confused. She leads me outside and truly, Vaughn stood there shooting an exasperated look at his sister. “I couldn’t help but hog her longer. This is the first time you actually have a hot girlfriend, sue me.” Our eyes meet and i quickly look away

LAW “Good morning ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to my presentation. First of all, let me thank you all for being here today..” I start on a good note. The crowd hasn’t had the chance or time to look bored and I was feeling very confident as the minutes rolled by. “As you can see on the screen, our topic today is; Law, not Love. It will take about forty minutes to cover both points and hopefully relay the importance of ethics in our lives. If you don’t mind, I'd like to leave questions until the end of my talk, there will be time for a Question and answer session at the end.” Jessica gives me a thumbs up from the back of the room and I smile to myself as I launch into my practised spiel about the importance of law and how it shouldn't be substituted for love at all times. The first of his attack was a low rubble in my panties. I shiver against my will, and to cover it up, I walk to the table for a sip of water. I had been avoiding looking at him since he entered, i

WEEKEND “Do I look Okay?” I ask as I watch myself for any flaws I might have missed, on my phone camera for the umpteenth time. “Peanut, you look more than okay. You look amazing. I couldn't stop staring at you all the way here.” He says in that calm and patient voice like I hadn’t been asking the same question for the last one hour. I fight off the blush that rose to my cheeks after his compliments, I would never get used to it anyway. Squaring my shoulders, and taking a deep breath, I go; “Ready. Finally.”“I was content with just watching you.” He says before walking out of the car and rounding to my side. “Thank you.” He gives me an eye brow rise, the action tumbles in my belly and rolls around until I am tempted to pull him into a kiss. “If your parents live so close by, why haven’t you ever visited?” He takes my hand in his, gently leading me up the stairs of his parents house. The house was your typical family house, with the wrap around porc

CONFLICTED I did not mean to get up so late the next morning, even I know it was terrible manners to visit someone, especially the parents of the man you were sleeping with and not help out around the house, but game night last night ran into the wee hours of the morning. Saph finally graced us with her presence late into the night, when both parents had retired for the night. “Good afternoon peanut.” My eyes scan the room to find him, he stands at the door of his room, in different clothes from yesterday, he must have gotten up earlier. He is beaming at me, and this causes butterflies to flutter around my chest and stomach. “It's afternoon already? I missed everything!” I exclaim and jump out of bed. “You missed nothing, everybody else just got up.” He says walking into the room. “Really? Are you just waking up?” I find that I am dressed in just my shirt, as I discarded my pants before I collapsed into bed last night. He presses his mouth on my forehead and tha