What is love?

Chapter 21

As they tried to rush to the orphanage as fast as they could, thoughts began to rush through his head as Annabelle wrapped her arms around him. He was shocked at what happened, not that the king tried to kill him off, but how Annabelle tried to save him. Did she save him because he was some guy, or maybe because they shared memories together. Or maybe is it something else, it couldn’t be that she has fallen for him too, or could it. He tried to shake his thoughts away as he felt her soft, pale skin gripping his chest as they rushed the horses.

    As they got to the orphanage, they began to hear Royal Guards begin to run around the city. Although the situation was bad, they had even greater issues that they needed to focus on. When they got off the horses, they looked at the orphanage and Dimitri started to grow nervous as he knew Clair would be there. When they walked up to the door, Dimitri knew he had to put everything that happened in the past as there were other things that he needed to worry about.
They knocked on the door and softly, Dimitri opened the door and said, “hello? Amy? It’s me, Dimitri.”
As they walked in, he looked around and went to Amy’s office and as he saw her, he smiled as she smiled back and walked over to him.
When she got close to him, she smacked him across his face and she said, “you know what that was for. But it’s so good to see you, come and give ol’ Amy a hug,” as her attitude changed, Annabelle and Emil looked at each other, confused.
“So are you going to introduce me to these people or what?” as Amy looked at the two, she recognised Annabelle.
“My bad, Amy this is one of my dear friends Emil. Emil, this is Amy, the kind lady that helped keep me busy while I was here,” Dimitri said as Amy grew a big smile and continued, “oh gosh, a man who is friends with sweet Dimitri. Oh you must give me a hug.”
As they hugged, Dimitri finished introducing, “and this is Annabelle, we just met, but the time was urgent and I had to bring her here. And this is Amy, Annabelle.”
“Annabelle? Oh goodness me! I’m so sorry I didn’t recognise you before princess,” Amy grew big, excited eyes as she bowed to Annabelle and added, “what brings you to a little place like this sweet pea?”
“There are no worries, but the reason I am here is quite complicated. And to add to that, Dimitri was willing to protect me while it occurs,” she gave Amy a gentle smile and Dimitri couldn’t stop as he gazed upon her.
“Well, I don’t doubt that. You see, when Dimitri was here, this place was being robbed. And he came and fought them all off, protecting me and my daughter,” Amy began to cry as Dimitri went to comfort her. As Annabelle watched, she knew that was around the time they last spoke to each other and she grew an upset feeling, but was happy with his heroism.
“It was nothing, you guys mean alot to me, of course I had to help,” Dimtiri said, trying to comfort Amy, grabbing his cheeks and smiles.
“Well I am happy to see you again and happy to meet you both, but I have a lot of paperwork to get done. If you would like, Clair and the kids are outside if you want to say hi.” Amy smiled once again before going back to her desk and starting to work.
Dimitiri turned to the other two and smiled, but looked away as his eyes met Annabelle’s. As they went outside, all the kids quickly noticed him and began to call out his name as they sprinted to give him a hug. He almost fell by all of them and he picked one of them up as he tried to hug them all and looked up to see Clair smile in joy. Sadly, the smile she gave him wasn’t just happiness, but also pain. He gave her a comforting smile, but an upsetting one too.
“Hey everyone, I’ll tell you all my adventure but I need you all to say hi to these two for a second, ok?” as he stopped, all the kids cheered and went to Annabelle and Emil.
He walked up to Clair and he started to scratch the back of his head as she started, “hey” and Dimitri quickly replied nervously, “uh, hey.”
“She’s pretty, just like you said,” Clair said with an upset smile and Dimitri continued, “I’m sorry Clair, I know you don’t care about that and my face is probably the last one you would ever want to see. But things are difficult with this war and I know that I could trust you.”
She sighed as she went and kissed his cheek and said, “you really are mean,” she started to walk past him, but stopped and spoke once more, “you three are welcome to stay. We have a room for you three.”
Dimitir sighed and looked over to Annabelle and caught her watching. As she noticed she was caught, she jumped back a little and grew a cute, blushy face. He walked back to the kids and talked about the stuff he saw, except for the stairway down and everything inside. He talked for hours until finally, Clair came back out to tell them all to go to bed. As the kids went back in, all sad but excited for the next day, Dimitri and the two followed as Amy showed them to their room.
“I’m sorry we don’t have an extra room for you all, but this is the biggest room so you all can spread yourselves out quite well,” Amy said so kindly.
“Thank you Amy, really you're a lifesaver,” Dimitri gave her a hug as she replied, “let’s just say this is me paying you back for what you did.”
He smiled at her as they began to arrange the room more to their liking. Annabelle got the biggest bed that was at the end of the room where there was a wall blocking the view of the bed and Emil took the bed close to the door. As they got the beds, Dimitri picked the other side of the wall from Annabelle so he was closer to her in case anything happened. When they all finally laid down to sleep, Dimitri laid there for a little bit till he got back up and went outside in the front patio. He sat there as he smelt the fresh, cold air and gazed upon the stars. For a little while, he sat alone until he heard the door open and saw Annabelle walk out and stand next to him.
“Do you like the stars too?” Annabelle said as she looked up and Dimitri quickly replied, “I do, I love them.”
“I think stars are so magical, just so amazing. Especially shooting stars,” she grew a more comfortable voice.
He looked up at her and spoke, “they really are amazing, and so beautiful,” he waited for a second, before scooting over and asking, “do you want to sit down?”
“Only if I'm not intruding,” Annabelle said with a nervous face.
“You wouldn’t be, I promise,” she smiled as he said, gently.
Because the stairs weren’t very big, they sat quite close to one another. Close enough Dimitri was able to catch Annabelle's gentle natural scent.
“Dimitri, can I ask you something?” Annabelle's face started to grow bright red.
“Of course, what do you want to ask? Dimitri asks with a curious face and Annabelle asks worriedly, “did you and Clair have a history together?”
“I guess you could say we did, it wasn’t anything serious. I was in a confused spot in my life and we tried it. It didn’t last long enough for me to say it was really much,” Dimtiri said with a sad face and looked down.
“Did you love her?” she asked, looking up at him.
“No I didn’t. There was only one person I ever fell in love with,” he replied, looking at her with a sad, soft smile.
“That person was me, wasn’t it?” as she says he looks away and says, “yes, yes you were.”
“What I said back then, I didn’t mean to hurt you in any way. I just, I just thought it would be right to confess. Yet all I did was cause more trouble. I’m sorry Annabelle, I really…” before Dimitri could finish talking, Annabelle gently pressed her lips onto his.
They sat there for a second while Dimitri was shocked and Annabelle pulled off with a cherry face and said, “please don’t apologize. It would just mean you aren’t happy the way you feel. I was in the wrong, I was just angry because I thought you saw me like everyone else did.”
As she stopped, she began to tear up until Dimitiri said her name gently and kissed her once more, but more passionately. As they sat there kissing, Dimitri felt her in a way he never thought he would, with her saliva mixing with his. He was happy for once in his life. He felt like he belonged as though he finally had a purpose. After they stopped, Annabelle laid her head on his shoulder as he laid his head on hers and they watched the stars together. Once they finished, they walked back to their room and when they went in and saw Emil completely passed out, Annabelle turned around and locked eyes with Dimitri.
“He seems pretty deep in sleep, would you like to join me?” Annabelle said as she then looked away blushing bright red.
“I’d love to, if you don’t mind the company,” Dimitri says, smiling back at her.
“As long as the company is you, I'd be happy,” as Annabelle said that, she took his hand and led him to her bed.
Dimitri sat down on the bed first and looked up at Annabelle. He knew what was about to happen and he even did it before, yet this time his heart beated harder than ever before. As Annabelle loosened the laces on her stocking to let them down, as she took them off he knew she was nervous and this possibly could be her first time. Once she got to loosening the laces on her dress, she looked away as she let the dress fall down. All she had left was her underwear.
“Please don’t stare like that, it’s making me nervous,” as she says that, Dimitri realized that he couldn’t take his eyes off her.
“I’m sorry, you're very beautiful. Even when you're vulnerable like this,” he smiled at her gently.
She smiled back, and quickly unlaced her bra as she dropped it down, while trying to cover herself. Dimitri stood up and gently grabbed her arms as he whispered in her ear, “I love you Annabelle, no matter what you look like underneath.” She gave a soft sigh of relief and went to take the rest of the clothing off of her and quickly looked up for approval. Dimitri looked at her beautiful, petite body as he gazed upon her; he noticed all the different features on her and although it's basically the same, except Clair was more busty. He loved her a million times more, every inch and every edge. He grabbed her hand and she went and sat on top of him, as he was still clothed. They sat there as they kissed gently, but with energy as she helped pull off his shirt. As she did so, she softly trailed her fingers over his chest and shoulders and he slowly took off his pants. When she saw him at his full, she grew a bit nervous about how it would feel and looked in his eyes for confidence. She laid her head on his as she moved up and back down and let out a cute moan in his ear. Dimitri took in everything he could, feeling every inch and seeing her amazing, pale body move as she moaned and felt the pleasure overflow. She seemed to quickly enjoy it after the first few seconds and went a little faster. After a little bit, he picked her legs up as he stood and gently laid her on her back so she could rest and let him do the rest. She felt him in a different way than before and she put one of her hands on his face as tears of joy spilled out. She smiled at every movement and let him lead as she took everything in. They moved in that position as their hot body heated one another.
He felt as she began to sweat as well as him and they held each other with embrace as Annabelle called out, “I love you Dimitri, you can let yourself wherever you please.”
Hearing that, Dimitri let out a tear and quickly thrusted himself even harder into her as he felt himself releasing everything he had into her hot body. He pressed his lips on hers as she twitched and moaned to the feeling of her filling up. They laid together, as she rested her hand and head on his chest and they both told each other, “I love you” and Dimitri watched as she closed her eyes and fell asleep. Dimitri smiled to himself as he watched her sleep for a little while until he fell asleep himself.