~February 28th 2015 1:09 P.M.~
-Lucas POV-
"Hey Lucas?" Ashton asked as I shut the door to the room Gabrielle was staying in.
"Be quiet." I shushed.
"I'm sorry." he whispered. I dragged him into the living room.
"Okay, now what do you want?" I asked.
"I just wanna know if ....like..... Is something making her throw up like that." He said smiling at me.
"Yeah, she's pregnant, but it isn't mine." I said sitting down on the couch.
"I'm sorry I know that you want to have kids of your own, and it's always the dream that got put on hold." He said placing a hand on my shoulder.
"You know you're like the brother that I never had."
"You have a brother." He said.
"Don't say that's my brother." I said standing up. "I'm gonna go lie down." I said getting up.
"Okay, but what do you want for dinner?" Ashton asked.
"How about pizza?" I suggested walking towards the bedroom that Gabrielle was in.
"You want pizza because she's Italian." He said a smug look on his face.
"Please stop smiling at me. It's really creepy, and weird now." I said.
"How come my happiness creep you out, if I moped around all the time you'd beg me to smile." He exclaimed.
"I'm gonna go take a nap." I said.
Before I stepped into the room I heard Ashton whisper. "Can't make him happy."
I shook my head smiling and closed the door. My smile instantly dropped when I saw Gabrielle hunched over sniffling.
"Lucas?" She asked her voice barely above a whisper.
"Yeah, it's me, what's wrong?" I asked.
"I had a nightmare about.....what happened." She said sniffling.
"Shh. I'm here." I said wrapping my arms around her. She snatched her body away from me and put her arms around herself.
"Don't do that."
I looked into her eyes seeing something I didn't think I'd ever see when I first met her, she was scared and vulnerable.
"What can I do to help?" I asked sitting down on the floor in front of her.
"I just don't feel safe anymore." She said crying into her hands.
"What can I do to change that?" I asked her.
"Stop being there when I fall asleep and let me wake up in a different location without you here. I thought that I was with Th...Th.... him again." she said.
"I'm gonna go start you a bath." I said standing.
"And there you go leaving me again." she said starting hyperventilate.
"I'm sorry. I'll do better." I said. Her breathing started to slow down enough to talk again."
"Okay." she said barely above a whisper. I picked her up and carried her into the ensuite bridal style.
"What bubble bath smell do you want? I asked.
"Give me the one that smells like apples." she said. I poured the bubbles in not really caring about how much you were suppose to use.
"You want me to turn the light off and light these candles?" I asked as she nodded her head. I grabbed a lighter and light all 4 of the candles and set them around the tub. "You can get undressed and get in now." I said turning off the light and turned around.
"Lucas?" Gabrielle said once she was settled in the tub.
"Yeah." I said.
"Do you treat all your damsel in distress like this?" she asked.
"No I said as I put the toilet seat down and sat on it.
"Then why me?" she asked.
"Because you're the first damsel in distress to not expect me to do it." I said
"I think its because my mother taught me to work hard for what I want and not sit around and let someone hand it to me?" she asked.
"I guess so." I said.
"But all I've done since you've saved me is sit around and wait on you to get something done for me." she said.
"But-." she cut me off before I could speak.
"But nothing. I think you have a crush on me." she said. Thank God for the light being turnt off because I could feel the embarrassment of her knowing my secret wash over me.
"How'd you know?" I asked.
"You just told me." she said with a small smile on her face, but soon it fell into a small frown. "I don't deserve you." she said.
"What do you mean? I asked.
"I'm tainted. I know that no man wants to take care of kids that aren't theirs." she said her eyes watering.
"I found that hard to believe, because I'd be honored to take care of the child in your stomach." I said.
"You're to good of a person, how'd you end up in the mafia?" she asked.
"You can say it runs in the blood now come on lets get you out." I said taking the stopper out the tub and after turning on the lights I blew out the candles. Once she was out the I picked her up and carried her to the bed. "Lay down on the bed and give your feet." I said sitting down at the opposite end of the bed taking her foot in my hands. As I massaged her foot I saw the tension slowly leaving her body.
"That feels really good. she said. I didn't say anything back I just let her enjoy her foot massage in peace and quiet.
