Lost love

Sneak peak

Lily was woken up from her sleep with the same nightmare that she had been seeing for the past few years. She never wanted to fall asleep and when she dozed off due to fatigue she would get this nightmare.

The nightmare was one where Lily stood watching a man dressed in black aiming his gun at a boy. Lily couldn't move. She could do nothing but see the sight in front of her and scream for help. The sight she saw broke her. The boy the man was aiming at was him. Lily's first love. She stood there not being able to move watching him being shot to death. She burned in anger wanting to give the man who killed him something more than death. She wanted him to suffer but she couldn't see the man's face as she  fluttered her eyes open just before the man could turn around.
 
Lily cursed to herself," Great Lily.... you're freaking great can't you keep your eyes shut until you see that bastard ? You'll never know Lily ... at this rate after having the same nightmare for so long you couldn't even figure out who that piece of shit is! You're just useless and annoying Lily !" saying this to herself she sat up on the soft mattress staring at the picture in her dark room. A picture of him pinching her and her looking at him in astonishment. She said ," Oh how I miss you !"
and started her day walking to her washroom.

Lily stepped into the shower and let the cold water run down her body that had a few scars here and there. Some were just old scars some were recent.She stood in the shower for a few minutes and stepped out wrapping a towel around her thin torso. Lily didn't have much of a body, she was slim and pretty but she never flaunted her body, she worked out every day and built herself to be strong and bold.

She stepped out of the washroom and went into her closet filled with black clothes hanging on all the hangers and some clothes kept neatly in organizing boxes. She let her towel fall down and looked at herself in the mirror wearing a baggy black sweatpant and a white sports bra ... she ran her fingers over a scar on her lower abdomen just beside her well built abs and snapped back to the present. She blew dry her short hair just falling below her chin and brushing her shoulder . She stared at the mirror for a moment and in the reflection she saw him hugging her from behind, she froze in spot "Look...it's so soft and it smells like coffee" he said nuzzling his face into her hair "I used coffee scented shampoo" she replied and looked at him in the reflection. She blinked her eye and looked at the mirror, it was just her sitting on the dresser's stool, she immediately stood up and she  threw a black tshirt over herself stepped into a pair of flip-flops and walked out of the closet.

She came back into her room and looked for her phone on the bed, once she found it she was about to step outside her room but a thought passed her way, "It's fine if you don't make the bed Lee, I'll do it for you" she sighed to herself and made the bed then she walked out of the room and walked downstairs to be greeted by a man in black suit.

"Same thing again ?" he asked and Lily just walked past him towards her kitchen and gulped down some water. "You don't have to speak.. gestures will do" he said, she turned around and gave him a stare "okay great way to start a day a stare from the devil itself" he spoke in a slightly lower voice but Lily heard it.

She turned towards him raising an eyebrow "What ?" he asked and she looked down at her hand where she was holding a plate "you want breakfast?" she asked . "Wow .. the devil offers breakfast ? " he asked back , "You're not answering the question! " she said in a stern voice and he immediately replied bowing his head "I'll pass, thank you " .

Lily then took bread from her cabinet poured some coffee into a mug and sat at the dining table while the guy in the black suit followed her and stood across her. "You know you don't have to stand around like that, I don't think it's the first time I'm telling you that .... bro ?" she said in a slightly softer voice and looked at him while chewing the bread. He pulled a chair and sat on it saying "And I don't think I have to tell you everyday that you're guy is fine and you don't have to start your day with such a grumpy face just because of some nightmare you're seeing".

She shot a look at him  "You don't understand bro... everything happens for a reason right ?" she questioned him.

"Sure it does, but you don't have to get worked up so much it's been like what ? two years since you're getting that nightmare ? but ever since you started getting it he's fine right ? you're seeing it yourself.. he's not in any harm Lily !".

The next moment the ceramic plate crashed the ground breaking into pieces and Lily's eyes got darker when she stood up from her chair and looked at the guy in the black suit and said "Not in any harm ? Do you even hear what you're saying, Marcus ? You aren't blind ! You don't see the threats he get ? You don't see how we have our men guarding him all the time ? You think he wanted this ? I wanted this ? I damn feel like we're spying on him all the time and use the term 'keeping an eye for his safety' as an excuse ....." she ran her fingers  through her hair " I'm gonna find that motherfucker and once he's in my hands he's done for !" she slammed the table hitting the coffee mug as it broke into pieces and cut her palm.

Marcus rushed towards her and held her hand "Are you nuts Lily ? When will you learn to control that damn temper of yours ! " he exclaimed as her shoved her hand towards the faucet and let the water run down over her cut. He got angry at the thought that she could hurt herself and not even wince when it cut her. He let her stand there and took his phone tapping on it and placing it on his ear "Ben ? can you come over ? she's acting up again !  She smashed a mug and her blood's running a river, can you hurry ?" he nodded as if the person on the other side could see him and hung up and moved towards Lily.

"Ben's coming" he said and she looked at him and passed a nod.

Marcus got angry at how Lily just reacted to him but he didn't want to argue about it as he knew well where it would end. Lily moved towards the dining, picking up and throwing the bread and the ceramic plate into bin while Marcus was just looking at her, she looked at him questioningly and he just sighed and walked over "Will you please take your seat at the couch until Ben comes and treats that slice you just made !" he said "Is that an order ?" she questioned him with a dominating voice and he immediately sighed and replied "It's a request Lily!" she nodded and went over to the couch.

A few minutes later the door flung open and a guy with a well built body wearing a body hugging t-shirt that was drenched in sweat and boxers and a sling bag that hung from one of his shoulders rushed in and walked towards Lily with a straight face and sat on the coffee table and put his hand forward speaking in an angry tone "Hand", Lily put forth her hand that was hurt and he started applying pressure at the ends of the cut to look at how deep it was, he looked at her, she was looking at her palm, as he pressed the spot though she never winced or pulled away, pain was visible on her face.

He sighed and started treating her hand while saying  ,"It isn't that deep bro... doesn't require stitches but might bleed if worked upon" he said and looked at Lily, she looked at him and nodded. Ben immediately turned towards Marcus who too was looking at Lily's face, Ben snapped his finger in front of Marcus and said,"I was speaking to you 'bro'" he looked at Lily as he stressed on the word 'bro' and stood up after he was done treating her hand. He walked straight to the kitchen washed his hand and pulled out a bottle of water from the refrigerator and gulped it down. He turned and walked towards Lily and said "You didn't have to do that."

Marcus was about to talk when Lily stood up from the couch and spoke "I lost control". Ben looked at her while she was just staring aimlessly at the dining table. "What got you so worked up ?" Ben questioned and Lily shot a look at Marcus.

Marcus answered," I said 'you're guy is not in any harm and  you don't have to be so grumpy about it.'"

Ben sighed and looked at Lily. "You had it again? The nightmare? " he questioned. She simply nodded at him.

Ben moved towards Marcus while Lily got a call she picked it up and spoke ," Yeah ?.... where ? ... okay I'm coming hold him there."

She looked up and said "They found him, the merchant, let's go."

Marcus nodded at her while she ran upstairs to change into some fitting black jeans, black boots and a black shirt and walked down.

Ben stared at her and said "You never fail to impress me little one, but once you're back we'll talk about that, now I gotta leave" he said pointing at her bandaged hand and she nodded back at him.

The three of them stepped out of the big mansion and Ben went towards his car and Marcus followed Lily to the other car and Lily drove the car towards their destination.