Red between Us

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Kate Anna Adler

"Good afternoon" I hear his deep voice, he is sitting on the couch wide legs with his hands behind his head. "Noon?" I ask confused, I don't remember sleeping that much. "You have been asleep for 7 hours and 23 minutes since I left this room," he says getting up from where he was seated. "Shit" I whisper under my breath, it's not like I have anything to do around here.

"I need you Kate" that sentence sounds so weird coming out of a rich mafia man. "Need me,Leo?" He smiles.

His smile my god it fits him perfectly, he should smile more.

"Yeah I need you" he says like it's the most obvious thing to understand, I am half awake and this hot man is telling me he needs me, am I high?

"Listen hot guy, I don't know why would you need me" I am probably dreaming it's fine.

Cold water splashes on my face, reality hits me for the first time in 2 days. "What the actual-" he cuts me off. "I need you to help me" he says containing his laugh. Shit did I call him hot guy?

I get up too fast, my head makes its way to the pillow a couple of seconds later, my low iron won't help in this situation. My eyes are begging me to close themselves, but I won't let them.

"Sure,yeah,of course you need me.. I mean" I am out of words, I just woke up, I just called him hot, I am not okay, what is wrong with me?

I raise my finger in his face taking a long deep breath getting up slowly to a sitting position. "Now talk" he nods with the same exact smile as before.

"We are going to Moscow, we need you, you are the only one who knows the last digit of the code, I want you to be with me, and open it yourself" I wish I never asked him to talk. "Open what?" He walks to the other side of the bed, "Moskva river, your dad was so dumb to lock all the gold underwater" gold?
"He stole a big amount of cash and gold from my father's old house" my dad is a thief too? Oh god I can't handle this right now, "2 of our guards helped him actually, my dad was so dumb to trust them. I tried my best to get the last digit on that chain but couldn't, you are the only one with that digit"

My necklace has a code? "What code?" I ask confused. "1,9,7.." he is silent for a while as if he is waiting for me to talk, he shakes his head slowly "what is the last digit Kate?" I don't know what he is talking about.

"Leo, I have no idea what you are talking about, or whatever this code is" and I am telling the truth, I never knew my necklace had secret digits on it, it's impossible to know anyway. It's a small keychain, made of gold.

I have been wearing it since I was 5 and never knew about that. "Any kind of code Kate, any important number" he says, raising his hand slightly towards me.

Silence.

I am breathing heavily, not able to comprehend what is being said, maybe I am just dreaming.

"Okay-" he slowly nods, "get dressed and come down stairs, I will show the digits to you, good?" This seems familiar to me, this conversation seems familiar itself.

"Yeah" I say, he makes his way to the door, closing it behind him.

I get up from under the warm silk sheets, entering the bathroom to look at my face in the mirror.

I expected it to be worse, I expected pimples and shit wow all the cold water he threw on me was worth it after all, I am impressed.

I wash my hands, Leo's sent felling my nose like always, I am not complaining.

I look down to close the faucet, An orange pill bottle catches my eyes.

I dry my hands with the grey towel on the other side of the sink.

I take the container in my hands, anxiety pills.

I never knew he was dealing with anxiety, I can't believe a person like him dealing with such things.

He has another side of him, that I only see.

I want to talk to him about it, but I can't.

I drop the receptacle back to where it was, I don't want it to seem suspicious, or to look like I touched it.

'Get dressed' Leo's words. How does he expect me to get dressed when there is nothing to wear. I look around, there are 2 doors in this room one is the way out and the second is probably his closet.

Sorry not sorry.

I head to the door, opening it looking back at the grey themed room.

My eyes are back ahead, I am stunned.

I am stunned in every way possible, I expected a normal closet, this closet is double the room probably.

The lightning, the decoration, everything.

I never cared about how my closet looked, even back at my dad's house.

Not my dad anymore.

Maya would love this, she is into huge closets and fashion, just like I am.

I miss her.

I miss her annoying voice, her unusual appetite, everything about her, I wonder how she is doing.

I close the door behind me going further inside.

Everything is perfect.

I look to my side seeing my clothes, I am shocked, why would he put them here they are so imperfect compared to this place of perfection.

how did he manage to put them? my clothes are full of colors, his on the other side are so basic I only see white, black and grey. I am not surprised.

I got dressed as fast as I can, just changing the clothes I have been living in for a week.

And I am out of the door.

I think I just saw the definition of perfect.

In Leo.

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05/05/2022

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