Broken

Chapter Eight

If only I could erase the image I have of them from my mind. I can't believe I was starting to like him. I had no clue he had a girlfriend. The cab pulled up to the front of the house and I paid him and got out. I felt disappointed that he was taken I mean come on he is pretty good looking and then we have that weird shock thing between us.

I opened the door and marshmallow hoping around and I grabbed him. "Hey Marshmallow." I grabbed the rabbit. I ran my fingers through his fur. I sat on the couch and turned on the television my parents were on. That's weird mom was suppose to be cleaning up the burnt down warehouse why was she at a fashion show with Daniel and dad. She wouldn't lie to me right just to go back home would she. I looked at the television and they were having fun without me. How could they drop me off here and leave me? This was their way of escape from me.

My phone rang 'Home' was calling and I was about to let all hell break loose.

"Daniella I told you to stay away from trouble and you couldn't even do that while I was away." My lying mother yelled.

"You said the warehouse burnt down and you would only be gone for a few days." I fired back.

"Daniella I can explain." She said. I don't want to hear it. She is my mother even if I give her hell she is the one to stand by me but she abandoned me.

"Save it for a rainy day. I even went to the stupid therapy session and I saw people having sex, so hell." I yelled I wanted to scream and cry my eyes out but I won't I will keep it together. I wanted no one to know how I hurt.

"Daniella please just listen I will explain when I return tomorrow." She said in a calming tone.

"Bye." I hung up. I can't take this overwhelming feeling of frustration and pain. I did the next best thing I flung something at the television the glass shattered into millions of pieces. I couldn't be alone any longer or I might go crazy. I placed marshmallow on the couch and I opened the door slamming it behind me and headed next door.

My hand trembled as I knocked on the door and someone yelled from the other side. I waited a few seconds and then the door was opened and Liz their mother stood there with an apron around her waist. She looked at me confused then smiled.

"Hi come on in." She ushered me inside. I stepped in and the scent of freshly baked bread and cookies filled my nostrils. It made my stomach growled in hunger and I felt weak. I hadn't eaten anything from morning.

"You look hungry my dear. Do you want something to eat we were just about to have dinner." She pushed me towards the dinning room and Maria smiled at me, her nose red and her eyes puffy I'm assuming she has a cold. Her brother and his rude friend was there both looking at me. Andre looked apologetic and Ryan looked at me with admiration but I ignored them both. I shouldn't have come here.

"Maybe I should go I don't want to impede." I looked at Liz and before she could answer Maria answered.

"No." She sneezed. "Stay I want to talk to you about what you did for Beth." She sneezed continuously.

"As I..." I was speaking when Ryan blurted.

"That was bad ass." He yelled and I stepped back.

"Young man your language." Liz warned.

"Sorry ma'am." He shrunk down in his chair. Andre never took his eyes from me and I avoided his gaze.

"Sit beside Andre dear, don't want you getting sick." Liz smiled and pushed me in the chair beside him and our skin touched and the hairs on my neck stood and my stomach tightened. Why was I getting worked up about him? He was taken.

"So Daniel how was your day?" that was such a mom question.

"Its Daniella and school was fine." I shrugged.

"That's good." Liz smiled. For dinner we were having fried chicken, mash potatoes, rice and green beans. It smelled and tasted heavenly. Andre's hand would accidental brush against mine and I would move away then his friend would look at us with a smirk.

"May I borrow your bathroom please?" I asked Liz.

"Sure come let me show you." She was about to get up when Andre stopped her.

"No I'll show her mom." He said getting up. I didn't want to be alone with him he made my nerves go crazy. I walked a little distance behind him trying not to let our bodies touch at any point. We reached the bathroom and he opened it for me and I had to admit it was pristine. He didn't move I tried my best not to touch him but failed. I closed the door behind me and unzipped my jeans and did my business. I finished up and washed my hands.

I opened the door and stepped out and was grabbed. Andre pinned me to the wall looking into my eyes and then he brought his lips down on mine. My beat quicken I couldn't think, his lips were so soft and I just had to kiss him back. His mouth tasted like mint and a sizzling feeling was there between us as our lips moved together. My hands trembled, my heart raced and I felt like this kiss shouldn't end. I tangled my fingers in his hair and let myself be consumed by his kiss. He pulled me in closer to him and my stomach felt as if it were about to explode.

His hand ran up my arm and around my neck. His tongue dominating mine and his kiss felt like nothing I've felt before. I moaned and snapped back to reality, he has a girlfriend I tried to push him away but he fastened his grip. I pushed him again and he didn't let go so I bit down hard on his lip and I tasted the iron in his blood and he pulled away but not letting go of my waist.

"Let me go." I said hardly catching my breath.

"No. I know what you saw today might have looked bad." He dabbed his lip with his free hand.

"Look bad. You and your girlfriend were having sex on my therapist's desk." I tried again to push away.

"She is not my girlfriend." He said staring down at me with serious eyes.

"Then why were you two having sex?" I asked, come on it is a reasonable question.

"Look we have an arrangement that I am finishing." He explained.

"Sex arrangement. No girl does that unless she likes the guy. Now let me go or your nuts get it." I warned him.

"You have to understand its over between us." He said.

"I..." he stopped when he heard someone coming up the stairs.

"Daniella, hey I want to talk to you... Andre what happened to your lip?" Maria asked. I looked at him and he smirked and walked away from us. "What happened to his lip?" she asked me and I shrugged.

She dragged me to her room. I sat on a chair she had and she began talking about the fight and how amazing she thought me beating the hell out of Sara. She even told me about her visit to her the doctor and the medication and vitamins he prescribed. I just sat there listening to her babbling on and on. The overwhelming feeling that I had when I came had some how disappeared.

"Please come back tomorrow." Maria begged me. I wasn't too keen on going to people's house.

"You could come over to mine." I offered. If I could avoid Andre at all cost I would, his kiss still lingered on my lips and I felt that burning in the depth of my stomach I wanted him to kiss me again was all I could think about. I couldn't go there with him I had to stay far even though I wanted nothing more than for him to kiss me again. I needed him to get off my mind.

"I will then." She smiled.

"See you tomorrow then." I said leaving her room. I tiptoed down the hall trying to go unnoticed but I was pulled into a room and lips came crashing down on mine and all those feeling came back and for a moment my heart stopped. He pulled away and I felt like something inside me broke.

"I will not stop until you believe me." He breathed down my neck and let me go. I could hardly move my legs it was like I was planted there. I took in a breath and left not making eye contact with him. He stole my first kiss.