Her Catholic Heart

Chapter 4- The New Tattoo

I woke up alone in Kelly's room. There was a lot of natural light pouring in making the room feel really big. I sat up and looked around and thought about last night. Suddenly, Kelly had opened the door into her room that connected to her bathroom and looked at me and smiled drying her hair with a towel.

"Hey." I spoke my voice hoarse.

"Hey, how'd you sleep?"

"Good, what time is it?"

She looked me dead in the eye and spoke quietly, "almost noon."

"What?" I panicked and ran across her room to where my phone was and picked it up. Still naked I checked my phone which was under my pants and saw I had 17 missed calls from my mom 9 from my dad and at least 20 separate texts from them asking where I was. "Fuck!"

"What? Who texted?"

"Parents. They called and texted me a lot. They are probably pissed at me."

"Shit. Maybe you should go home then?" She said sounding like a question then a concern. I looked back over my shoulder to her and she looked at me with pleading eyes.

It was quiet for a bit and I thought about how I didn't want to leave her. " how about, I call my mom and see if I can spend longer here, okay?" She nodded slowly and I called my mom. A few rings later she picked up and instantly sighed.

"Gabriella are you okay? I was so worried when you didn't answer anything." The worry in her voice started to dissipate as she spoke and she rambled on till she realized that she was. "We leave tomorrow morning hun. Please come home and help get your things in the cars."

I started to worry. I still wasn't ready to move, and now that I had slept with Kelly, I was even further away from it. Then I said the first thing that came to my mind. "Mom I stayed at Kelly's last night." It was silent.

Suddenly she broke the silence and spoke, "I- uh. Uhm. Are you two okay?"

"Yeah, and well, it happened again."

"Wait, she kissed you again?" And as if she could actually see me I nodded my head. "You guys worked it all out?" I smiled at what she asked.

"Yeah." All though me and her had barely spoke since I had gotten here, I knew me and her were okay again. My grin got a bit bigger. "We did, we uh, talked about why it happened and everything."  Being completely honest with myself though, we hadn't, but our four passionate hours together really seemed to clarify things.

Especially as our minds let go of all the anger and pain in our pasts. As we spilled our secret thoughts so each other while our body's spilled their energy. We connected in ways that we haven't connected before, and it was great.

"Gabe you still there?" My mom finally got through to me.

"Huh? Yeah, yeah I'm here. But can I just stay here at Kelly's a bit longer? Make the most of my last day? Please?"

I pleaded and then, silence. After a few seconds, there was a bit of mumbling. "Okay, me and your dad will get your things in. Anything you want us to keep in your car for you so we can leave in the morning?"

"Yeah, uh, my art kit, my box that says art supplies, and the trash bags that say doing clothes and summer clothes. That's all I can think of right now, cause I have my everywhere bag. Oh yeah and the bad labeled undergarments. I will need those."

"How about your blankets and pillows and all those?"

"Oh yeah those too. Hey mom, I love you."

"I love you too Hun. Be good okay?"