Illegal Moves

Chapter 16

Iona's POV

Monday mornings suck. Especially when you wake up late and you're not even at your house. Yeah, I was still at Aleks'. By now I had my own section in his closet for some of my clothes so it wouldn't be a big deal. The only big deal is me driving him to school. We will have to go 30 minutes early so no one sees us. I hated sneaking around. It just reminded me of how illegal what we are doing is.

I go to take a shower. After a quick five minute shower I do my hair with just my towel around my body. Aleks' enters the bathroom to start getting ready. He comes up behind me and wraps his arms around my waist. He kisses my neck gently. "Can't we just skip today?" He asks jokingly with a whiney voice. I laugh and turn around in his arms so that I am facing him. I peck him on the lips.

"You've already missed a whole week. Any more days and people are going to get suspicious." I inform him. He just smiles and tugs at my towel, trying to remove it. My smile turns into a frown. I push his hands away. "Aleks no," I say backing away from him. "I don't think I'm ready yet since...," pause. "Well you know," I say turning back to look in the mirror and continue doing my hair. He steps towards me and kisses me on the cheek.

"It's fine, you take your time," and with that he strips in front of me and gets in the shower. After I finish my hair, Aleks shouts over the noise of the running water, "feel free to join me if you want," Boy did I want to so badly, but I'm just not ready. The last time I had sex was with Jason and that was not fun, I mean why would it, he raped me. He was rough and forceful and the whole time it hurt, physically. I didn't want to do it with Aleks and find out that it still hurt. My body needed a break.

"I already had a shower," I say laughing and head out of the bathroom, shutting the lights off in the process.

"HEY!" he shouts. That should speed up his shower.

I head into his room and pick out an outfit to wear. As I drop my towel to put my clothes on, Aleks walks in. "Oh, I like what I see," He says laughing. I just roll my eyes and put my clothes on. He comes and stands by me and starts picking out an outfit as well. Before he even picks out an outfit he drops his towel. I really think he was trying to tempt me into having sex with him. "What happened to take your time?" I ask him. He smirks.

"I have no idea what you're talking about," he says unconvincingly. I just wish he understood why I don't want to. I didn't want to start a fight I just wanted him to know why.

"No Aleks I'm serious, come on, put some boxers on," I plead. I go and sit on the bed. After he puts clothes on he joins me on the side of the bed. "It's not that I don't want to, because god knows I do, but..." a long pause, "I'm afraid," I confess. I felt horrible admitting this.

He looks at me worried. He gathers my hands and his bandaged ones. He got his casts off. "What's there to be afraid of, we've done it like a million times," I turn my head to look away from him.

"I'm afraid it's going to hurt," I blurt out, not looking at him. He sighs and moves my head so that I am looking at him.

"Why would it hurt? You're not a virgin," He just wasn't getting it.

"Because," I say looking down at our conjoined hands. "When Jason...," I couldn't bring myself to say it. "It hurt really badly, He was rough and forceful and it caused a lot of pain, even bleeding," I sigh. I was not proud of this. "I don't want to feel that pain again," Tears fill my eyes. He quickly pulls me into a tight hug. I silently cry into his chest. After a long moment he pulls me away.

"Screw school, I'm taking you to the doctor. I don't want there to be anything wrong with you." He looks at me concerned. I just nod in agreement. After he gets himself around we leave for the hospital.