🍁BITTERSWEET

CHAPTER 26

I pull the sheets over my head and take in the smell of lavender. Natalie must have changed my bed sheets. I'm going to thank her later I promise.

Waking up my head is hurting but not compared to how my thighs hurt. It feels like I'm giving birth to triplets at one shot. I don't remember exercising yesterday or any other day for that matter. Slowly sitting up I scan my surroundings. This is not my bedroom.

My eyes go wide in fear. I look at my wrists to check if I am not tired to the bed and luckily I'm not. But if I'm not kidnapped then what am I doing here. Looking around everything is in red and so far the only person I know whose life is painted red is ... Vally Carter.

"Morning" Vallys deep morning voice startle me causing me to jump a little. What would I be doing in here? Alone with him. I look at my body and I'm dressed in a really oversized red top.

"Is that regret or shock?" He asks taking a sip of his coffee. What would I regret or be shocked about.

"I came willingly it's not advantage"

Oh my goodness. Brittney Bryson what have you done. I need to get out of here and run away as far as possible. Standing up my legs hurt. What the hell did he put down there a bloody brick. Did we really just?.  "Yes we did" he answers the question that's being replying over and over in my mind.

"I warned you but you wouldn't budge so" he shrugs his shoulders and walks past me with a smirk on his face. "Look, where are my clothes" I ask him.

He stops and turns to look at me. "You hardly came with clothes, but I'll get it for you" he goes  to his cupboard and takes out my coat followed by red devil. I don't want this anymore. I'm definitely going to burn it after this so that it can never be traced.

"Can you.. uhm..borrow me some clothes?" I ask him looking down in embarrassment. I can't believe it at all. Everything feels so awkward and weird yet at the same time amazing. He gives me a small smile then passes me his grey trackpants which I take muttering a small 'thanks'.

He doesn't move and still stands watching me with his arms crossed. "Turn around please. I would like to dress up" I whisper- yell at him and notice a smile on his face which could bring me to my knees begging.

"It's not like something I haven't seen before" he whispers to himself but not soft enough as I hear. I quickly put on the pants and fix my hair.

"Coffee?" He asks me and I look at him while rubbing my arm in a shy way and nodding.

I really need something strong after my hangover. He goes out and I sit down on the chair as the bed is reminding me of last night. I open his drawer and find books. "Romeo and Juliet. You gotta be kidding me" I say to myself.
He doesn't look like one who would read a book and a love story at that.

This world has miracles. I turn open the first page and it's so old judging by the way it has ears and is squashed. It's like he was squashing the papers then unsquashed them.

After few minutes he comes in with a red mug. I stop reading and quickly put it back in the drawer.

"This is for your hangover" he gives me the mug written Vally in bold with a devil emoji. I smile at him and take a sip of the strong coffee. It tastes so heavenly. His hands do work wonders. In both kitchen and bedroom. I shake my head to ignore my thoughts.

"Why do you like the colour red ?. Don't you think it's a bit weird..It's like liking superman and wearing his jockeys and printing his pictures everywhere" I say. We have been sitting in silence and I just couldn't anymore. It feels very awkward just sitting and looking at each other so I decide to melt the ice.

"Superman is powerful. People look up to him as a superhero..now My story is different" he takes his chair and sits on It while playing with his stress ball. "How so?" I ask him. To me it's completely the same thing.

"What do you think of when you see red?" He asks me. I look at the walls and the roof, then the curtains. What is it that I think of when I see red. "Danger.. red always stands for danger" I say. I can't believe all this time it was just that.

"Exactly that" he says.
"So you using red to alert everyone that you dangerous?" I ask him.

"Not really but for those fuckers yeah. It's a sign that I'm not to be messed with" he says and we both start laughing. I feel so much better now that I started my morning with a laugh. "I think I'm going to start wearing red now" I say and we laugh again.

We stop when we hear footsteps and I get scared. Shit, Lorraine is coming here. What do I do?. "Hide here." He makes me hide behind his bed. I sit with my head on my knees and my arms around my legs. Not this now.

"Vally, Sasha needs new colours. Will you get for her?" Lorraine opens the door and I don't know whether she enters or not. "Sure I will later maybe" he says.

Please go away. Please go away. I say over and over to myself until I hear the door close. "You can come out now" he says. This is a joke to him cause I'll be in more trouble then him. I stand up and look at him. It feels like I'm a high school girl that sneaked out of her house to go to a party. Very cool.

As long as I'm with Vally I'm never growing. "Here is some tablets to help with any other pain" he gives me some painkillers and a glass of water. I take them and feel much better. The pain in my legs have stopped.

"How drunk was I ?" I ask him. I want to know so that I can know how much to take when I go out. I don't want to be waking up in different strangers bed. "I can't tell but judging by the way you were active last night I'd just keep it simple and say you had a lot to drink" he says and I look down.

I'm so disappointed in myself. I'm never going out to drink on my own. That's a promise.

H/ N : it happened

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