Forbidden Love

After school was overVictoria noticed that Stephan hadn’t really been in school most of that day, ‘must have been skipping again’ she thought. She headed down the corridor to his room and knocked on the door. Stephan woke up from the sound and groggily got up and opened the door.

“Hi Stephan,” she said brightly and walked into the room.

“HiVictoria.”

“So, what have you been up to?”

“Sleeping.”

“Ah, did I tire you out today.”

“Nah, my dad’s just mad about earlier, I decided to sleep so he wouldn’t bother me.”

“Oh, I’m sorry, what exactly was he mad about?”

“He thought we were going to do ‘things’.”

“Ah…maybe, it could have happened. Not anymore if he’s going to be walking in spying on us though.”

“Speaking of my dad…we need to talk.”

“Well if it’s anything like the talk we had this morning I’m all up for it.”

“No, not like that.”

“Then what is it Stephan?”

“He wants us to…”

“What does he want us to do?”

“He wants me to break up with you.”

“Oh…”

“Yeah…”

“Well, are you?” There was a long pause as he thought, of course he didn’t want to but he knew he had to.

“He thinks that we’ll get too far and end up hurting ourselves.”

“We hurt ourselves more when we didn’t have each other.”

“You have a point there I guess.”

“Stephan, you never answered me. Are you going to leave me?”

“He thinks that everything will go bad, that if we did do something bad could happen, I suspect he’s talking about babies or something.”

“Nothing bad will be happening Stephan. We’ll be very careful if something did happen.”

“Okay, that’s nice to know, I don’t want kids yet.”

“Stephan, so what are you going to do…please don’t break my heart here.” Break my heart…those words hit him the hardest.

“I almost started cutting again today.”

“Don’t do that, never do that, I can’t stand it when you hurt yourself.”

“I don’t like it when you hurt yourself either. I didn’t do it because I thought of you, and how much you would hate me for it.”

“I could never hate you Stephan.”

“Are you sure, even when I tell you what I have to do?”

“What do you have to do?”

“I need to break up with you. Wait – don’t say anything yet. I need to break up with you because dad said that if I don’t then he’ll kick you out of the house.”

“He wouldn’t”

“Believe me; he seemed really serious about it. He said if he kicked you out of the house then you wouldn’t be his anymore…and you’d get kicked out of the school.”

“He’d kick me out of the school too?”

“Yes. He said he would send you off too. Send you far away to some foster home so I would never see you again.”

“He can’t do that! We have to stop him!”

“Victoria, we can’t stop him.”

“Stephan, don’t give up. We can’t, not if you want to stay together.”

“Of course I want to stay together, but we can’t fight this. The only thing we can do is to go along with it.”

“So you mean, end it. Really end it and never had a day like we did this morning ever again?”

“No, no, no, no, no. I would never do that. Never.”

“Then what are we going to do?”

He thought for a second then responded. “We’ll break up.”

“No…”

“Not really break up Girly. Just act like we broke up, at least around him. Then we can act like we did this morning all the time, as long as he’s not around.”

“Are you serious?”

“As serious as I can be.” There was a long silence in which neither of them talked, they just sat there. She was sitting on the edge of the bed not moving or saying anything, and he was sitting there watching her. A single tear fell out of her eye.

“What’s the matterVictoria?”

“Nothing…I’ve just over come with all this.”

“What do you need, I’ll do anything. Just tell me.”

“Just stay here with me.”

“Okay, I can do that.” She leaned against him and he held her there. “It’s okay Girly, just let it out, I can be your shoulder to cry on whenever you want.”

“Thanks Stephan,” she said as he continued to rock her back and forth like one would do with a baby. Eventually she just fell asleep in his arms, everything was quiet once more. He laid her down in his bed and got in next to her. If only his dad would just let them be together, then this would be a happy sleep, not one happening only becauseVictoriacried herself there. At least she was there. They still had each other. That was Stephan’s happy thought as he too fell sleep with her.