The One That Got Away

Part 2

The party ended hours ago, but I couldn't sleep. I stood up long after Alec fell asleep, I tossed and turned to the point I got on my own nerves. So I got up and started to clean  up as much as I could. I just couldn't get over this night, I don't think I'll ever get over this night. I finished wiping down the counters and laid down on the couch, I closed my eyes, and started to reminisce about what feels like a past life.

Ronda Clarkson was the Madison park bully, she was a burly red headed girl with freckles and she taller then most of the kids her age, and I was always being pushed around by her, I laid in the fetal position as she kick me in my side, screaming I don't remember what. I cried begging for her to stop, knowing it wouldn't, but then all of a sudden it did.
That's when I heard the sound of Ronda's pleading?
I Looked up and noticed the pudgy bully begging some guy to stop beating on her.
He looked to be just a couple years older than me, he was taller then Ronda he had raven hair,  as dark as my own, I caught his blue eyes and he smiled at me then kicked Ronda in the stomach, He told her if she ever touched me again, he'd break her legs. He screamed at her, and she got to her feet and ran away crying.
He watched her leave before he extended his hand out and helped me up.
"Dominic."

"Thanks for that." I told him as I brushed myself off and nudged toward the direction the girl ran in.

"No worries, you didn't deserve to be treated that way." He said and a blush swept across his cheeks.
"I'm Shay!" I blurted out.
"Shay, that's a pretty name, It matches your face!"
"Thanks," I said blushing.
"Do you have a boyfriend?" He asked with a brow cocked.

"No... do you have a girlfriend?" 
"No... well I did but we broke up." He replied.
I didn't know twelve year olds broke up!

"Oh ok?"
"But if you want, you could be my girlfriend?" He asked smiling. I didn't know what to say expect nod. That's when he leaned in close and gave me my very first kiss.
He pulled away and apologized for it.
"Sorry, I seen that in a movie."  His eyes still closed.

"What movie?" I asked still shocked.
"I don't rememba, but I wanna do it again?" He chuckled.

"I want you to do it again to." I squeaked, my own voice sounding strange.
"First you gotta say yes to being my girlfriend."  He smiled sweetly.
With a shrug of my shoulders I just simply replied. "Sure I'll be your girlfriend!"
He smiled back and kissed me again in-front of everyone at the park.
And from that moment my fate was sealed.
I walked right into Dominic Lovefield's web.

The sound of my phone ringing broke me out of my thoughts. It was late?
I quickly picked it up to notice the screen displayed 'unknown' so exhaling the breath I didn't even know I was holding I answered it.

"Hello?" Silence. "Is anyone there?" More silence. "If your not gonna talk, I'm hanging up!"
After a moment more of nothingness, I was ready to hit the end button when a man spoke.

"I just... I Wanted to hear your voice?"
I didn't need to ask who it was, or how they got my number. I just needed to ask one question.
"Why?" But that question wasn't meant for just the call, it was meant for so many other things.
"Your the fucking ghost of Christmas past rabbit."

That old nickname made my body shake,
I never expected to hear that term of endearment ever again, and when he said it.
I couldn't stop the tear that ran down my cheek. "I wasn't expecting this." He sighed.

I crossed my legs, holding my breath I shot up clutching onto my phone for dear life, I prayed this was some cruel dream my mind conjured up. I stood in silence. As he talked.
"I was expecting to be dragged to some strangers house to celebrate some douche bags birthday, but I wasn't expecting the strangers house to be yours and the douche bag to be your husband!"
"Don't say that about him!" I defended my sleeping deranged husband.
"I just-" he was saying till I interrupted him.
"Look whatever your reason to this call it serves no purpose, your married, I'm married, I've been married for seven years now, which means you've been out of my life for twelve. No text, no call, no fucking nothing!" My voice raised a bit realizing it's almost 4am I bought my voice down.

"Rabbit you was placed in my path." I ignored what he just said.
"Dom your poison."
"Tell me, Shay..." He drawled out my name sounding taboo on his tongue.
"Do you feel like the lost little girl I remember, or the women I turned you into?"
I have no clue why, But my body reacted to that question in ways, I couldn't explain.

I needed to end this, And end this now

"Dom..." I started then stopped, exhaling a long deep breath.
"Listen to me... I fucked up rabbit, I was never a knight I get that... I never want to interfere with your happiness."

He exhaled and paused for a moment.
"I just-"
I stopped him mid-sentence.

"Dom I don't know how to feel, I don't know what to think, I use to pray to hear your voice., Even after our past, I would hope your okay, and not hurt, but I stopped holding onto you."

Slapping away at tears I swallowed hard, trying to push down the lump in my throat.
I heard him breath several times before he spoke again.

"Hearing your voice, Still fights away the darkest demons in my soul."
"God Dominic."
I whispered, tears falling more freely now.

"I've missed you for so long rabbit, I needed you, I still need you, but I can't have you. But I will always love you, I need to go Goodnight angel."

And with that, the line went dead...
I stared at the phone. I don't know what I was expecting from that call, But it sure wasn't that!
I was never strong when it came to him, I was never the one to say no....
And even after that night. I could still never deny him.

I didn't know what to do?