Beautiful Sin [ ON HOLD ]

Chapter 35.

Those tiny hands looked so cute buried inside my big ones , their softness contrasting with my slightly rough ones. I found myself tracing the gold colored ring fitted on her pinky finger, the unmistakable image of Virgin Mary engraved on the front.

" So I'm guessing you and Mary are married ," I joked and she chuckled back as I joined too. We'd been quiet for a while and I was starting to loosen up a bit, my heart getting lighter with each intake of breath. All those worrisome questions bubbling inside my brain seemed to vanish as Teresa and I held each others hands, for some reason and I took the chance to caress those milky knuckles ,inviting a newly formed memory centered on this intimate moment.

Those soft hands....

" We are not married,"

" Then explain the ring ," I teased before gently sliding it off her tiny pinky , feeling its light weight between pressed fingers. I rolled it around my thumb and index finger , my eyes never leaving its shimmering glint under the flickering street lamp. Suddenly, that very ring became the most fascinating item inside my beaten down car. That and the always beautiful Teresa.

" It's a rosary ring," She explained. " many Catholics have one. Doesn't mean we are married to Mary though."

I faced her , a smirk tugging the corners of my lips before an idea lit up inside my brain. Gently brushing my thumb over her ring finger , I brought the ring toward it, slipping it effortlessly on said finger before uttering the words in my most romantic voice," Will you marry me then? since you're not married to that Mary chic."

It was meant as a joke and she was smart enough to notice as she played along.

" Aww!" she gave a fake gasp ,summoning her most exorbitant coquetting voice. " Yes I will, Levi! But...what about the church , all those priests who know me , the nuns, , the congregants ,my most sacred duties?"

" Forget them," I said back, equally as amorous as she was ,as far as acting was concerned.

" How so?" she was really good at this, any Hollywood actress would be envious of her natural talent in acting or maybe she went to a performing arts school, I can't be sure but she was spectacular. Holding my hands in her delicate embrace , her expressive eyes momentarily snatched me back into the real world, forgetting about this fake acting , silently wishing for it to be true.

" Let's run away together , just you and me. Away from the judging eyes of the church and its congregants. Away from my bothersome ex girlfriends and concubines . Away from our past mistakes , let's start over , together," I declared , my gazing holding hers as our faces inched closer to each other.

" That sounds perfect," She cooed , equally pretending to be love struck , her eyes glimmering with desire. " It'll be like you and me against the world."

" It always has," My face inched further , eyes dropping to capture the sight of those glistening lips, pink and wanting. One false move and we'd be locking lips like Romeo and Juliet. Only this wasn't some tragic love story that would end in ritual suicide, this was Teresa and I , acting silly , an excuse to hold her hands, to air out some hidden words in the name of fake confessions but to me, it was a bit too real.

" I like the sound of that..." I watched as those cherry blossom lips moved as the words were uttered in a silent sigh. Only an inch away from my face. My morals were tested. Not that I had any morals , I lived without any but the morals I'd formed whilst around her company prevented me from leaning in and kissing those lips. But the test.... "running away with you....far from everything that is holding us back from being together. The rules laid upon me by the church...everything."

She was good.

"But....I can't," those eyes fell away from mine, gazing outside the windshield.