"Everything is gonna be alright, maybe not today, but eventually." — Unknown.
Octavia
"We need to talk."
"You're not breaking up with me, right? Because that's how usually break ups start." I say, my eyes widening slightly when I close the door to our room. Reece is standing in front of me, with his arms crossed over his chest and an angry look in his eyes.
"No, I'm not breaking up with you, but we still need to talk." he tells me and I sigh in relief, letting my shoulders slump with relief as I walk over to him. I sit down on the bed and started to unlace my shoes.
"Okay, hit me with it." I gesture for him to start, keeping my eyes down at my boots, I kick off one of my boots. I pull off my sock and threw it over my boot before doing the same with the other. Now barefoot, I wiggle my toes.
"I killed a man." Reece starts and I look up at him, he looks at me with emotional eyes.
"Jesus, Reece." I say, letting out a breath before standing again. "I know, I'm sorry." I walk over to him so I can hug him and comfort him but he shakes his head, taking a few steps back. I let my arms drop to my sides.
"How can you do it? How can you look a man in the eye and pull the trigger? A man who probably has a wife or a family. Huh? How can you kill a man?" he asks me, and I watch as he tries to calm down, but tears fill his eyes as he looks at me. He doesn't let the tears fall, but clenches his hands into fists by his sides.
"Well," I swallow. "When I'm going to shoot somebody, usually they are the ones that want to kill me. They're the bad guys. So I think that they have no family. They are just a blur to me. Reece, in this situation we are in, it's kill or be killed. Now I would do it, because it means that I'm gonna see another day, and because I have friends who are depending on me—" Reece cuts me off, shaking his head. He turns away from me, pacing the floor.
"But it's not right to kill Octavia! It's not right at all! We can't just kill everyone!" He says, and turns back to me.
"I can if they are a threat to our lives!" I point between the both of us. "Reece, I'm trying to protect you and myself, our friends too! Trust me I'd rather not be the one to pull the trigger, but I have to. They are giving me no choice!" I say, pointing to the window as if motioning to the bad guys.
"There is always a choice!" His voice raises and I blink. He has never raised his voice at me before. Seeming to notice this too, he sighs deeply and runs his fingers through his hair, yanking at it a bit. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have raised my voice."
"It's fine." I cross my arms over my chest. "But Reece, do you expect them to talk with us? To negotiate with us? No, we can't. Reece, everywhere we go, I see bodies littering around the streets like they're decorations. We are being persecuted and killed on sight, so we have to defend ourselves. Look, I understand why you went into shock, I did too, but differently when I first killed someone. I cried, threw up and then I fainted. That's how I went into shock. But you need to understand that when it comes to it, you either pull the trigger or you don't. Only one person is gonna walk out of that fight alive."
Reece breathes slowly, and he sits down at the edge of the bed, sinking down into the mattress. Walking over to him, I crouch down in front of him and grab his hands. I caress his knuckles with my thumbs. "I know you've always been the nice one, the one who doesn't like violence at all and the peacemaker between the both of us, but right now, I'm asking, no, I'm begging for you to put on a tougher front. I can't lose you out there, Reece. I need you here with me." I smile at him gently as he looks down at me.
"Okay," he nods slowly. "But I'm not gonna like it. You know, killing people."
"You don't have to. And I don't either. I just need to know that you'll fight is all," I say, and I let go of his hand before reaching up, caressing his cheek. "We're gonna be okay." I then reach up, wrap my arms around his neck and pull him into a hug. He wraps his arms around my waist and pulls me closer to his body. He buries his face into my neck.
"Hey, I love you, okay?" I whisper into his ear, kissing his head gently.
"I love you too." Reece whispers back, and I grab his face so I can look at him. Smiling gently, I lean forward and kissed him. His arms around me tightens and he lifts me up so I'm sitting on his lap. I wrap my legs around his waist as we kiss. Reece then lays me down on the bed, so now he's on top of me. My hands run down his chest and I grab the hem of his shirt, pulling it off.
Reece looks down at me, and I smile sexily at him, seeing as his eyes darken. Yanking him closer, I pull him toward me and kiss the scars on his chest. He kisses my neck, making love bites on my skin. I moan, closing my eyes as he pushes me down to the bed. He grabs my shirt and pulls it off, throwing it to somewhere in the room. Now I was only in my bra and jean shorts.
I bite down on his neck softly, intending to make love bites on him and he moans against my skin. I smile. I feel something poking against my inner thigh already, and I have a feeling I know what it is, and just as we're about to take things further, someone opens the door.
"Oh my god, they are fucking!" Reed says and I gasp, I look over Reece's shoulder as he covers his body with mine. "Guys, you know that we can hear you, right? I hope you guys know that there is actually a kid in the other room, remember? Also, if you're gonna fuck then here, go all out." Reed says, and she throws us a pack of condoms. I blush as the condoms fell on the bed beside us, and I wrap my arms around Reece's waist, pressing his body against mine, covering him. "You both are too young to make babies."
"Oh my god!" I hear Lexi saying from across the hall. "Leave them alone Reed!"
"What? Nah bitch, this is better than pornhub." Reed says, and she leans against the doorframe, crossing her arms over her chest. She raises her eyebrows at us and nods to us. "Well? Don't stop on my account, keep on going."
"Reed! If I wasn't injured, I would be dragging you out of there! God, you're such a pervert!" Lexi yells from across the hall.
"I'm the pervert? Lexi, look at them! They are like half naked on top of each other, and Reece is very excited if you know what I'm saying." Reed says, wiggling her eyebrows at us suggestively. I flip our positions so that Reece is on the bed and I grab the blankets, covering Reece and I sat in front of him.
"Reed." I say, pushing back my hair as I look at her.
"What?" She looks at me innocently.
"Get out." I say, giving her a flat and annoyed look. She laughs.
"What? Oh come on! Things are—" A hand covers her mouth and I watch as she's thrown over someone's shoulder. Kwan shoots me a grin from the doorway.
"I got her." He says, and Reed pounds on his back with her fists, yelling at him.
"Thanks Kwan! You're the best!" I say, smiling as he shuts the door behind them, I could hear Reed yelling at Kwan to put her down. I shake my head, and look back at Reece. "You okay babe?" I ask him, smiling at his blushing face as he sits, a pillow over his lap.
"Yeah, yeah, I'm fine." He waves me off, clearing his throat and I laugh, kissing his cheek.
"Okay well I'm gonna wash up then," I say before standing up. And maybe take a cold shower too, I add in my head. Moving over to the bathroom, I lock myself inside and let out a sigh.
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"Morning, guys." I say, walking into the kitchen. I ruffle my hair a little as I smile at them, but my smile falters slightly when I saw the death glare that Selena was sending toward me. She turns away from me and looks back to her cereal, she starts to eat it with a scowl on her face and ignores me.
"Morning, seems like you had a good night." Reed says, wiggling her eyebrows at me.
"What do you mean?" I furrow my eyebrows, looking at her then at Lexi who was sitting beside her. Why is she up? She should be in bed, she's injured. Lexi points at a spot between her collarbone and necks, smirking at me.
My hand quickly goes to that spot on my neck and I blush as I remember the hickey that Reece gave me last night. They all laugh while Reece sends me a smile from across the table, seated next to Kyu. I walk over to him and sit down on his lap. His arm wraps around my waist and I kiss his lips in a greeting. We both smile in the kiss as Reed says, "Guys, literally, have some respect! There's a child in the room!" Laughing softly, I pull away from Reece and look over at Cole who was clutching some cards in his hands while his parents help Alexis' and Selena's parents cook breakfast.
"Do you guys need any help?" I ask them, but Alexis shakes her head, taking a sip of her coffee.
"No, we're fine." She smiles at me politely. I look over to her sister and she glares at me, hatred filling her eyes.
"Selena—" I start but she stands from her chair beside Kwan, the chair pushing back. She grabs her bowl of milk and walks over to me. Before I could say anything, she dumps the milk over my head and it pours down my shirt. "Holy shit." I gasp, jumping off Reece's lap and standing.
"¡Come mierda hija de la gran puta, puedrate en el inferno cabrona, jodate pendeja!" She screams at my face before running out of the room, her parents yelling after her in disapproval.
"Okay, I deserve that one too." I sigh, pulling my shirt away from my skin since it was already sticking. She really does hate me, but I can't blame her honestly. I understand why she hates me.
"Well, that went from 0 to 100 real quick." Reed comments, amused as she grabs her cup.
"What was that about?" Reece asks me, concern filled his eyes and I wave him off.
"She just doesn't really like me." I say, and I grimace at the milk sticking to my shirt. "I'm taking a shower, I'll be back." I turn away and walk to the entrance of the kitchen, about to leave when I hear Reed yelling, "Can I join you?!"
"No!" I yell back and she groans.
Walking back upstairs, I grab some fresh clothes and a towel before entering the bathroom. I take a quick shower, rising the milk out of my hair and washing myself. After I'm done, I change into some jeans, a new shirt and my leather jacket, knowing that we will be leaving soon to Reed's house.
I braid my hair, twisting and turning it between my fingers, I hum quietly as I did this. Hearing someone enter the room, I smile at Reece. "Hey, we're ready to go. Reed says it's five hours till we reach her house so we better get going." He says, and I see that he's already cleaned up our room and taken our things downstairs.
"Yeah, I'm almost done." I say, smiling as he walks over to me.
"I think Reed likes you." He says, frowning slightly as he grabs my hips. I laugh, letting my braids fall against my shoulders and I turn toward him, wrapping my arms around his neck as I look at him.
"You don't say?" I tease and he rolls his eyes. "Yeah, she's been flirting with me and saying some really sexual jokes. I was honestly surprised with how dirty minded she is." I laugh and he chuckles, leaning his forehead against mine.
"Well you're mine anyways," he mutters quietly, a smile on his lips.
"All yours babe." I grin and kissed him. We pull away after a few moments and I sigh in contentment, leaning into his arms and loving the way he holds me against him. It's relaxing and calm, something that we will probably be ripped away from. Knowing that this won't last long, I close my eyes and hold him, just savoring the feeling of him against me. Seeming to notice this, Reece whispers in my ear that he loves me over and over again, making me smile.
Last night after my shower, I told him about everything I went through since I was kidnapped. Reece became furious when he learned that I was almost raped, having gone into a full blown rant. I calmed him down when I said that I saved myself. But when I spoke about that, it's just made me realize how easy it can be to be sexually assaulted. How easy it can be to take that purity away from someone.
I came to the realization that I didn't want to wait for marriage. I'm not going to have my first time with some asshole who thinks it's right to go down on me. Instead I want to have my first time with someone I love with all of my heart, and that person is standing in front of me.
I just didn't know how to do it, you know? Like what if I messed up? Or I'm doing something wrong? Also I heard that it's pretty painful the first time as well, and I am actually going to bleed, and it will be messy and... I just don't know what to expect.
Struggles of being a virgin.
"Everything okay, O?" Reece asks me quietly, and I blink, looking up at him.
"What? Oh yeah, I'm good. Why?" I furrow my eyebrows at him and he laughs, smiling at me.
"You said 'struggles of being a virgin' out loud," He raises his eyebrows at me, in amusement.
Ah shit.
"Fuck." I mutter, my face heating up with embarrassment before untangling my arms around him and running out of the room, I could hear his amused laughter as I ran downstairs and outside. Slowing my steps, I see that my friends are already inside Reed's car, waiting while Reed was saying goodbye to her family, yet Selena is nowhere in sight. Reed had to switch cars with her Uncle since she can't fit all of us in her truck so we'll be in his car, and it's pretty spacious. Walking over to her family, I shake their hands and smile at them gratefully. "Thank you guys for letting us stay the night, it means a lot. I can't really express how thankful I am." I say, and Alexis smiles, translating for her parents.
"It's no problem at all, just stay safe and be careful out there, alright?" She hugs me softly and I hug her back, nodding as we pull away. "Keep an eye on Lexi, make sure she doesn't start bleeding and tell her to keep her leg elevated." She tells me and I nod.
"Alexis, I told you before, if something happens like that again, I've watched every episode of Grey's Anatomy. You can trus that I can handle it. I'm basically a certified doctor." I say and she laughs, a grin on her face as she nods.
"Be careful, hun." She says and I turn, waving at the American family who's watching us by the porch. They wave back and smile lightly. I climb into the passenger seat next to Reed who is ready to drive, while Reece gets into the middle seat with the boys, Lexi taking the backseat all for herself.
"Llámanos sí algo pasa, Reed. Tenga cuidado en la calle, Dios se lo bendigan." Reed's Aunt says, kissing Reed's cheek and she nods, smiling at her.
"No te preocupe Tia, nada mas va a pasar. Cuidasen." She waves at her family, before putting the car in drive and she starts to drive down the road. I buckle myself in and lean back, looking over at Reed as she drives.
"You sure we're not a bother staying at your place?" I ask her, a little worried. If she can't have us then I completely understand.
"Nah, you guys are good. We got a lot of space back home." Reed shakes her head, shooting me a smile.
"Okay, great." I smile at her.
"Hey, Reed? You got an aux cord?" Lexi asks from all the way in the back. Reed glances at her from the rearview mirror and nods. She points to the compartment in front of me. Leaning forward, I open it and grab the aux cord.
"Yeah, I got one." She says as I plug in the aux cord.
Lexi hands over her iPod and I grab it, plugging it to the cord. I put it on shuffle and set the iPod down, and we all sit in silence as the first song came up.
We listen to a few lyrics, and all of us say in unison except for Kyu, who just looks confused and says, "What kind of white shit is this?"
Turning in my seat, I look toward Lexi as Reed laughs loudly. She frowns at us. "It's my music!" Lexi says, a small pout on her lips but she didn't look offended, just amused.
"You have horrible taste in music." Kwan says, and she scowls at him, giving him a glare.
"You are so not helping." She says and he laughs while Reece shakes his head.
Kyu then leans forward and hands me his phone, to which I take and smile at him before turning and unplugging Lexi's iPod. I switch the both of them, giving Lexi's iPod back and she grumbles at us under her breath before asking Kyu if he has earphones since she lost hers, and I scroll through Kyu's music playlist. I smile once I saw that Kyu has amazing taste in music, legends like Aretha Franklin, Coldplay, John Mayer, Amy Winehouse, Florence and The Machine and so on and so forth. Grinning, I pick a song and let it play.
The smile on my face was so wide since this was really one of my favorite songs of all time.
"Don't worry bout a thing, 'Cause every little thing gonna be alright, Singin 'Don't worry bout a thing 'Cause every little thing gonna be alright!" We all sing together, shouting the lyrics at the top of our lungs, and the grins we have are plastered on our faces, grins that just can't be wiped away. And as we sing and smile, I let myself believe that everything is gonna be alright.
Maybe it will be. Maybe it won't.
Maybe this is just the calm before the storm.
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*whispers* they gonna fucckkk haha but I'm not doing the smut scene! Hell no, I'll do like the make out scene and the aftermath but no sex scene lol I ain't doing it so don't beg xD
Also, I hope you guys are ready haha no like seriously be prepared 😈
