Taken by a Stranger (Meadema)

Chapter 16 - Back in the Horror (18+) 😱

Warning: This chapter refers to sexual activities with bad intentions. Skip the italicized part between the lines if you don't feel comfortable reading about that.

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After cooking together, after spending the evening together on the couch, after going outside together, into the snow with Myle, now that the extreme weather seemed to be over, after their Christmas movie was over, they decided to go to bed. It had been another exciting day, with big smiles, new insights and shared emotions. Once again the day had gone by too fast for their liking, but luckily tomorrow was Viv's off day, they would spend a whole day together again.

'So, shall we turn off the lights and crawl under the covers? It's getting late already'. Beth nodded, she had almost fallen asleep against Viv a few times by now and knew that it wouldn't be long before she would actually close her eyes to open them in the morning again. Together they made the house sleep-proof, they closed all the curtains, gave Myle some attention before they went to their rooms and walked to the bathroom to get completely ready.

'Goodnight Beth, I'll see you tomorrow. Thanks for today again'. They hugged each other again, as they always do now before they go to sleep. 'Goodnight Viv. Thank you too, I loved today'. Somehow it felt harder and harder for Viv to see Beth leave, to see her go to the guest room instead of diving into bed with her. She knew she was sold, she had never had a crush on someone so quickly. But she didn't want to accept it and she couldn't accept it, Beth was straight. But it did cost her an effort not to suddenly make a crazy move when Beth was lying on the couch with her in the evening. She had to maintain this friendship, she had to brush away her feelings. She couldn't do anything that would cause their friendship to end.

More than usual she was overcome by the coolness with which she was lying in bed, no longer the warmth of Beth against her, like a few minutes ago, when they were still lying on the couch together. Part of her felt disappointed that Beth hadn't just fallen asleep on top of her, all those times she was about to close her eyes. She couldn't even imagine what it would feel like, Beth sleeping against her, completely relaxed, her hand resting on Viv's side and her own hands wrapped around Beth. She knew that she had to protect herself from her own impulses in the coming week, but she also knew that that was going to be quite difficult. 

In a few rooms further on, Beth had also gone to bed, currently thinking about completely different things, who was holding Viv's present in her hands and replaying the video ten times. 'Oh, my girl, you don't even know how happy you make mommy. You're such a cutie. I promise that I'll always take care of you, no matter what. I love you so much'.

She placed the present next to her on her bedside table and turned off the light, on to hopefully another good night, in which the baby stays calm. She rubbed her belly for a moment, to make sure the girl would fall asleep peacefully, so that she herself could fall asleep peacefully a few minutes later. And indeed, less than five minutes later she was in dreamland.

Viv had slowly begun to realize that she wouldn't get any warmth from Beth, that she had to accept that she would be alone in her bed again tonight. But somehow she couldn't do it, for the first time she was almost panicking that there was no one next to her. She needed to make a change, so she decided to get Myle out of the living room, lay her down next to her in bed, to feel some warmth against her. Unfortunately, it wasn't a blonde lying next to her, but with Myle laying against her, Viv also fell asleep just before midnight.

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She sat on the couch, quietly in Viv's house, waiting for Viv to come home again. It had become her favorite moment by now, the moment when Viv would walk through the door after a day of training at the Manchester City's training complex. Since they had something to do with animals for media day, she had brought Myle with her, so it was her first real day alone at home in Viv's house.