SUMMER'S RAIN

CHAPTER 80

CHAPTER 80

Over the next couple of weeks, I was bored to death! I read books until I couldn’t read anymore. I worked out in the gym daily. I walked every part of the grounds outside. I managed to come to terms with Dominick and our relationship or rather lack of relationship for a better word. I spoke to him when he spoke to me other than that I stayed as far away from him as I could.

Summer and Harris kept me well informed on Saurian and the other women. Matter fact Harris had helped a lot of the women by getting them jobs and finding them a place to live. I wished I could be there myself to see everybody, but I still had a couple of weeks to go before I could leave the house or grounds. Going in the kitchen, I see Doug.

“Hey Doug need some help with dinner?”

“No I’m sorry Lana, but I don’t think my kitchen could handle any more of your help cooking. I hate to say it, but you're as bad as your mother in the kitchen.”

“Laughing I said “hey I can cook that was an accident that’s all. Besides it wasn’t that bad!” I would have loved to have had a camera to take a picture of the look on Doug’s face at my words.

“Not bad you nearly burnt down the kitchen boiling water.”

Laughing I said, “alright I get it you want me out of the kitchen. I’m leaving.”

Walking out the kitchen door, I start my normal walking pattern going to the wishing well I close my eyes like I do every day and wish for this month hurry up and end. I wished Case would come home so I could talk to him. Then I left and walked the grounds until I was bored out of my mind. Blinking, myself in the gym I start working out with the dead weights. I had to admit I was starting to look really cut. I even had a great-looking six pack going on. I was doing sit ups when I heard Dominick’s voice asked if I needed a spotter.

“No Thank You.”

“You do realize you are averaging working out about forty hours a week don’t you?”

“I haven’t thought about it” I said never looking his way as I continued doing my sit ups.
“Well, you can tell. You have quite the six pack; going on.”

“Hmm”….was all I said.

“Alright guess I’ll leave you alone.”

“Thanks.”

Standing up I go to the treadmill put my ear buds in my ears turning the music up loud and start running. I get lost in the music and my thoughts, by the time I looked down, I have run twelve miles. Feeling sweat running down my body my sports bra is soaked. I pick up my towel and dried off my face. Pulling the ear buds out of my ears. I slow down the treadmill, so I can walk and cool down so my muscles won’t cramp up on me later. That’s when I noticed for the first time that Dominick hadn’t left the gym.

I glance over at him and see his eyes pinned on me. The look he has on his face is one I know well. It’s the way Dominick used to look at me months ago. I felt chills run through my body even as hot as I am with sweat pouring down my body. I thought back to the night he had told me that any guy would be a fool if they had the opportunity to sleep with me and past it up. That remained me that he wasn’t looking at me the way he was because he cared about me or loved me, he was simply a horny guy watching a girl work out. That made me mad so in a loud voice I questioned him.

 “What the hell you staring at”

He turns his head. Wrapping the towel around my neck, I left the gym and went to my bedroom to shower. Striping off my clothes and unbraiding my hair, I stand there staring at myself in the mirror. All the exercising has really paid off. I have muscles showing I never knew I had. Looking at my hair, I noticed it has grown probably another three or four inches its think mass now falls past my butt. All the time I have spent out in the sun over the summer has made the red more noticeable. Brown has always been the dominate color in my hair with red highlights. Now it’s the other way around. The color appears more like Summer’s color.

Stepping in the tub I lay back letting the water cover my body. Shutting my eyes I relax trying not to think about anything. The water feels glorious I feel the tension leaving my body from the workout; I just put it through. I stayed there submerged in the water until it started to cool down. Sitting up I finally started washing my hair and body. When I was done I let the tub start to drain and stepped out and dried off. Realizing I hadn’t brought any clothes to the bathroom with me, I wrap my towel around my body before stepping into my bedroom. I almost screamed when I see Dominick sitting on my bed.

“What the hell are you doing in here?” I demand.

“I needed to see you.”

I held my hands at the top of the towel to make sure it doesn’t fall. “As you can see I’m not dressed so do you mind leaving and coming back later?” I see it again the look! As his eyes rake up and down my body. It almost makes me weak in the knees, I have to be strong he doesn’t care about me all he see is a woman in a towel, and it turns him on.

“You know for someone that says they look at me and feel nothing the look you are giving me now as well as the one you’re giving me now would say otherwise.”

“That’s what I want to talk to you about” Dominick cleared his voice his eyes going everywhere but on my face.

“I wanted to tell you I was sorry I feel like I’m sending you mixed signals, and I don’t mean to. I…You…I mean God, I can’t even talk I think your right; I do need to come back later when you have clothes on.”

I stand there holding my towel in place watching as Dominick gets up from my bed runs his hands up and down his face, and I thought I heard him say, “SHIT” under his breath before he drops his hands to his side giving me one last look and says, “I’m sorry I shouldn’t have come here. I need to leave you alone you don’t deserve this; I've put you through enough.”

I started to stop him to ask him what he meant, but I stopped myself. He is right about one think he has put me through enough. My life has been turned upside down ever since he helped me save my earth family, and I had slept with him. I can’t allow him to do that to me again. He is going to have to deal with whatever he has going on himself. Over the months, I thought he was dead one thing happened to me; I grew up. He wasn’t the only one that changed.

I crawled in my bed and did as I do every night I wished Case would come home so I could talk to him tell him how sorry I am. Tell him he is my best friend and not being able to talk to him or see him is killing me. I will beg for his forgiveness. I need to know he doesn’t hate me. My eyes close and I picture Case and his beautiful blond hair and blue eyes the kindness that is always been on his face when he looks at me. Alternatively, the way he had looked at me until the last time I saw him. Ultimately, I fell asleep thinking about him.