VALERIE

Twenty Three

Pushing a strand of her long chocolate hair behind her ear, Valerie bounced from foot to foot impatiently waiting for Nick to open the motel rooms door.

They were finally going to get a well deserved rest and shower. They both felt beyond dirty at this point.

"Nick hurry." Valerie urged wanting to see the room already.

Nick grumbled but continued swiping the key card into the doors card slot.

"Nick it's the other way." Valerie told the tired and angry guy who was ready to just collapse from all the stress he bore on his shoulders.

Pushing down on the handle the door opened to reveal a super dark motel room, shoving him to the side of the door Valerie rushed in only to trip over something and land on the floor with a loud thud.

"You could of least waited until I turned the lights on." He commented searching for a light switch on the side of the door, when he found it he turned the lights on revealing a shady looking motel room.

"What the fuck?" Valerie exclaimed picking herself up from the floor, Nick are you seeing this?" She said with a giggle, the brunette couldn't hold her laughter in, soon enough she weakly collapsed onto the floor again.

In annoyance Nick looked around the motel room.

A large bed was pushed against the main wall with beautiful silk champagne sheets covering it, there was a white silky canopy falling over it, above the bed was a neon sign that read 'lovers nest' in bright neon pink cursive letters, moving his gaze to where Valerie was still dying of laughter, right behind her was a flat screen TV sitting on a mahogany desk accompanied by a metal plate with lotions and oils.

To top it all off everything in the room including the wall paper was heart themed.

"This is gold." Valerie exclaimed calming down, sitting up she noticed the hollow expression on Nick's face, his dull grey eyes bore into her heterochromic ones before he slowly turned away, opening the door to the motel room he stopped midway before shooting her a glance, "I'm going to investigate about a separate room, you stay here."

Standing up Valerie rushed over to the door where he stood, the foot shorter than him girl hugged behind him before whispering a, "Thank you." To him.

His jaw clenched, "Be back later." He said violently breaking from her embrace.

//

"I'm sorry son but this is a trucker motel, and all rooms are taken." The middle aged man behind the counter said to Nick.

Impatiently tapping onto the front desks glass display, "Then I'll trade them."

"Kid it's 1AM I'm positive they are all asleep."

Slapping the display hard Nick turned around," I just need a separate room." He told the man in between gritted teeth.

"Listen kid," the man rubbed his bald head with his hand, "You're in our honeymoon suite, enjoy it. Especially with that little number of a girl."

Nick stayed silent at his comment.

"Where's the nearest liquor store?" He finally asked, turning back around to face the guy.

"It's about 30 minutes ahead, you won't miss it, it has a huge blue sign out."

"Thanks I guess." Nick mumbled under his breath, shoving his hands into his pockets the troubled teenager set out to find a pack of beloved Newport's and maybe a 40oz.

//

Adjusting the white complimentary bathrobe that was beside the heart shaped bathtub she had just bathed in, Valerie walked out of the bathroom with her messy wet hair falling over her face. Flopping down on the bed which was surprisingly comfortable, she couldn't take her mind off Nick. He hadn't been back in 2 hours. He'd been acting strange with her lately, he avoided conversations and ignored her. Which was a pretty difficult thing to do because Valerie was such an eccentric and quirky person.

A knock on the door is what stopped Valerie from thinking, plopping right up in the bed she rushed over to the door ready to jump into Nick's arms and apologize for being annoying but when she opened it she found the man from the front desk who had given them the key to the room.

"Can I help you?" Valerie asked suspiciously, closing the door a bit again.

"Actually yes, sorry to bother you at such a late time but that neon sign has actually been complained to have a gassy smell so I just want to take it off and make the room safer for you and your boyfriend." The man held up a wrench and a screw driver innocently.

"Oh," Valerie said opening the door completely, "Come in."

"Thank you." He replied walking past her.

Shutting the door behind her Valerie watched the man climb on top of the bed, on his knees he disconnected the neon sign from the outlet it was plugged into.

"He's not my boyfriend by the way." She felt the need to mention it, sitting on the edge of the bed, she stared blankly at the television set.

"He's not?" The preoccupied man asked dismantling the sign.

"No, we're just friends," she began to fiddle with her fingers, "actually I think he hates me."

"Hates you?" The man stopped working, creeping up beside her he took a seat next to her.

A small tear traveled down her eyes and a sigh escaped her pouted lips, he watched her silently.

He had never been so attracted to someone as he was to this under aged girl, his eyes skimmed down her body stopping where the rob stopped a bit above her knee and bit below her thighs.

Placing a hand tenderly on her thigh Valerie stopped sniffling as she began to feel uncomfortable.

"Um what are you doing?" She questioned.

"Shhh." The man replied roughly throwing her down on the bed with his other hand, letting go of her thigh both his hands pinned down the helpless girl.

"Fuck off." She managed to scream before he stuffed one of the champagne sheets in her mouth,

With his body hovering over hers he yanked at the bathrobe until her bare chest was exposed, a muffled cry emitted from Valerie earning her a slap in the face with his heavy hand, she tasted blood in her mouth and her cheeks singed awfully.

"Don't fight it." He whispered leaning down beside her ear, sticking a free hand up her robe he began to touch her with his filthy hands, tears streamed down the side of Valerie's face. She kicked and squirmed but nothing could release her, she couldn't even move under the weight of the heavy man.

Losing hope she shut her eyes, just wanting it to be over already.