Illegal Moves

Chapter 18

Aleks' POV

I did not expect the house to be clean when I got back home. When I put my coat away in my closet and see that all of Iona's clothes are gone, it hits me that she was the one that cleaned it. I go into the living room and plop down on the couch. I reach for the remote on the coffee table and touch something else. I turn to see it. My spare key. She really was giving it back to me, and she wasn't coming back.

My heart ached for her. But I know that I don't have her anymore. I chuck the remote at the tv and go to get a beer. I take the beer with me and hop in my truck. I drive to the nearest place. The strip club.

When I get there, there are tons of girls in lingerie and fish net tights and knee high boots. I go to the bar side of the building and order a beer. As I'm waiting for my beer, a stripper comes up to me. "You want a lap dance?" she asks flinging her waist long hair over her shoulder, showing off her rack. She doesn't wait for my answer. She grabs my hand and leads me to a different chair, across the room closer to the stage that has the pole dancers on it. She pushes me into the chair and straddles my hips and I let her do her job.

I ended up taking her home. It had been almost three months since I had had sex. Now was time to stop that.

Iona's POV

I sit in my living room in the morning, watching Jack and Megan play on the floor. I wasn't really watching them, I was too busy thinking about what Aleks was doing right now. I had all this free time now and I spent it wondering what he was up to. I didn't understand myself. Movement on the couch brings me back to reality. "When is Aleks going to come over and play with us again?" Jack asks me, climbing into my lap.

"Um Aleks is busy now so he won't be coming over anymore. I'm sorry guys," I lie to them.

Jack doesn't say anything just hops out of my lap and starts playing with his toys again. "I'm going to go upstairs real quick, so behave," I announce to them. I head into my room and change out of my pajamas. When I take my shirt off I move in front of my floor length mirror and look at my stomach. I turn sideways in the mirror. I had the slightest bump ever. So slight that if I didn't know I was pregnant I wouldn't even notice. But it was a change from my regular, flat, tight stomach. All my hard work at getting these abs would go to waste. I would get fat and then no guy, especially Aleks, will want me. I change into a baggy sweatshirt and head back downstairs. Jim and Maria are there.

"Iona can I talk to you in the kitchen please?" Maria says heading to the kitchen. I follow her.

"Whats up?" I ask her

"I don't know, you tell me. You have just seemed down lately," she says. I was going to have to tell her sometime. And I trust her.

"I'm pregnant," I blurt out.

"Oh my gosh!" It wasn't an excited 'Oh my gosh' it was a devastated one.

"I know, it's awful. But there is a story and you have to promise not to tell anyone except maybe Jim," "Ok so this Aleks guy that I said I met at work, well I lied. He was my teacher. But only a four year age difference. Anyway, I went on a date with a kid in my class and he practically tried to rape me. Well Aleks showed up at the right time and beat the crap out of the kid. Well then on we had an attraction. Anyway, well the kid, his name is Jason, he had pictures of Aleks and I together in some illegal situations. He said that if I didn't give him what he wanted he would turn the photos into the principle. So he raped me. And now I'm pregnant with his child and not Aleks' so Aleks dumped me." I'm out of breath by the time I finish the story.

Maria stares wide eyed at me. "Iona! Why didn't you go to the police?"

"Because then Jason would have shown them the photos and then Aleks would be in jail and I would be in some kind of trouble I'm sure." I tell her.

"Honey, you've been going through this alone! Maybe you need a counselor that you can share all this with. He can help you deal with this and all your emotions," She explains to me. Her idea wasn't half bad.

"You know what, I will go to counseling. I really think it will help, " I walk around the counter and hug Maria. "Thank you for the great idea. And I totally understand if you don't want a dirty whore like me watching your kids anymore."

"Oh Iona! Don't call yourself that. Did you love Aleks?" She asks me.

"Yes," I respond.

"Then it doesn't make you a whore. It makes you a whore if you were just looking for a quick hook up or something," she explains.

"Ok, thank you again," I say hugging her one last time.

Aleks' POV

So far, nobody's sex even compared to Iona's. It's like they were just going through the motions. They didn't put their heart into it. I guess that's what you get with meaningless sex.

I woke up in the morning with a stranger in my bed. Before I saw her face, I could just feel her body and I thought it was Iona. When I saw who it was, I was so disappointed. This stranger in my bed wanted to go another round in the morning but I sure as hell didn't want to with her so I sent her away. It was a Monday and I had work. I had a major hangover so work could wait till tomorrow. I didn't want to go to work anyway, Iona was no longer in my class.

Iona's POV

Having Daniel around was really helping me alot. For some reason, he seemed to just take my mind off of Aleks every time I was around him. He was a really great friend.

He was my study buddy. After school we would stay after for about an hour in the library and study together. Just because Aleks dumped me didn't mean I was going to let my grades fall. A couple times Aleks had come into the library and seen us together and I could just imagine what he thought about me and Daniel. At this point, I almost didn't even care what he thought.

A/N

Sorry this one was short but it was just kind of a filler chapter, I'm having writers block now that Aleks and Iona aren't together.