Forbidden Ecstasy

Chapter 3

"You actually came." said a voice from behind to match the same unnamed guardian from this morning. "Yes, so will you tell me your name and explain to me as to why you'd be following me?" I said as he sat on the swing beside me. He was keeping it simple with his look, a dark blue t shirt with a black, thick sweater over it with dark jeans and dark blue Vans. "I guess so, my name is Derek, your turn." He said, looking over at me, "Brooke, now explain," I said. He chuckled at my impatient behavior as he took in a breath, "You have something about you that intrigues me, is that enough?" I shook my head at him, "Intriguing enough you'll go to the levels of stalking me?" I asked him, my eyebrow raising at his explanation. "Technically, I'm not stalking you. I just happen to be associated with this area, I live about ten minutes on foot away and I always come to the park in the morning. No one's here by the time I am so it's peaceful and with my people back at the house, I need peaceful." He waits for my response as he pulls up his sleeves a bit, slightly enough to see he has a few tattoos but one caught me by surprise.

"Skull.." I whispered, as he looked at me, "Hmm..?" I noticed the skull with the mouth covered in a black bandana as the eyes looked angry. I simply shook my head at the tattoo, No assumptions, can't be true. "So tell me, what's intriguing?" I asked him as I moved from my spot to sit on the bench in front of the park for more comfort. "Well, I'm not so sure, you give me a familiar feeling that excites my curiosity. Curiosity killed the cat, I'm waiting on that. There has to be more to you, I want to figure it out, put the pieces of the puzzle together and see what beautiful picture has been created."

I couldn't help but blush at that response, I will admit it satisfied the need to know what he meant by intriguing, but that tattoo, it's still in the back of my mind...

"If you want to know about me, I'd like to know about you," I admit as I crossed my legs as he sat beside me. "Ask the questions, and I'll try my best to answer them." I nodded in agreement as I started with the basic questions - favorite color, activity, who's in the family he mentioned earlier, if he's in school, what he does for a living, simple things. His responses: blue, going to the shooting range, his friends who act like his family, he finished school, and works the family business he says.

"What about you? What are basic Brooke things to know?" He asks and as I get ready to speak, I was cut off by the sound of drunken laughter. "Whoa, hey man, you got a good looking thing going on right there." One of the guys said, holding his beer bottle as he nodded his head at me with his friend beside him, cracking up. "Chris, Ricky, drunk as usual. Leave us alone, and she's not a thing, she's a lady, respect dipshit." Derek said as he sighed and shook his head. "Ah, well why don't you share the experience with this fine looking lady then huh?" The first one that spoke, I'm going to assume was Chris, said as he drunkenly walked over to me and sat beside me. I cringed and moved as his friend stood on the other side of me. "Don't touch me," I said, grossed out and annoyed. "Seriously, leave, or I'll beat the shit out of you like last time." Derek said as he stood up from his position, getting in their faces as they looked up at him. Chris stood up, "Look, Skull, you're not going to do shit, if you try, Ricky will just do it for me. You wouldn't want that would you?" Chris said with a sly smirk as Ricky tried to trace my jawline with his dirty hands. I got up and slapped him across the cheek, his face turned to the left side as he held his cheek. "I said don't touch me, you fucking cunt." I said as I back away from the now angry and drunken Ricky.

"A feisty attitude and with some kick in the system? Oh, Derek, you snatched up a good treat this time now didn't you?" Ricky smirks as he walked around the bench to stand beside Chris as he stares me up and down with his lip bitten down, "I'm going to wipe that smirk right off that face if you keep looking at her as if she's meat." Derek said, a slight growl in his breath as I see him balling up his fists. "Why don't you give us a little taste of your girl and we'll just leave?" Chris said as he started to try and walk over to me until Derek grabbed him by the collar of his shirt. He grabbed Chris by the neck as Ricky pulled out a switchblade from his pocket, "Ricky, you won't do jackshit. Put the blade away unless I do you the favor and put it away in your neck." Derek said, a deeper voice now as he choked Chris more. Ricky didn't listen and for that, Derek let go off Chris's neck to grab both their heads and smack them against each other as he started throwing punches. The knife Ricky had, fell from the scene as he started getting some punches from Derek as well. I took the blade and saw the serpent logo on it. I took in a breath and looked up to see Derek getting tired and decided to put the blade away in my pocket.