“So.. all this time she was..” I could see the tears trying to spill down Quxxin’s face.
“Babe! Please don’t cry!”
I rushed over to him, and wrapped my arms around Quxxin’s waist. Quxxin looked down at me, sighing he hugged me back.
“I just can’t believe of all people who would rape you, that it would be my little sister…”
I pulled away from Quxxin, and looked up at him. “Excuse me?”
“You didn’t know?”
I shook my head, and then looked at Miranda. “You little bitch.” I breathed.
Her eyes went wide, and she stood up. I could tell she wasn’t scared about the way I was looking at her, but more at the way Quxxin was looking at her.
“I-I-I-I didn’t mean to..”
“Get out of here Miranda.” Quxxin growled.
Miranda ran from the room, and even I quivered beneath Quxxin at the sound of his voice. After that, Quxxin pulled me closer to him, and I felt a small tear hit my shoulder.
“I should have known, I could’ve protected you..”
I turned in his grip, and looked up at him. “It’s not your fault…”
I hugged him, and rested my head against his chest. Quxxin cried silently, and I slowly began to join him, deep haunting memories coming back as I did. I breathed out slowly, even though it sounded a little raggedy.
Quxxin pulled away from me, and looked down. “She got it from our father you know..”
“What do you mean?” I asked, looking up at him.
“I mean the fact of how she is, she became so traumatized by the abuse that she started doing things, I didn’t think it escalated to this…”
“You mean that your father…”
“Abused us? Yes, I still have a few scars..”
“So then the first time I saw you, who was your mother arguing with?”
“My step-father, who is much, much nicer.”
I nodded, and then went back to hugging Quxxin. “Please, never leave me.”
“I’m trying to keep myself from doing exactly that after seeing what I did….”
“Oh…”
He looked down at me again, “Come on you… We need to get out of this school.”
“Right.”
I watched as Quxxin walked over to pick up his guitar case, and my stuff. He walked back over, and then lead me to the door, which he opened for me like a gentleman. I smiled, and stepped through the door, and waited till he exited before we walked to my locker. I took my stuff from him, and shoved it into my bag. I pulled my bag from my locker, and then watched as Quxxin closed my locker, and replaced the lock. We left the school building, and rather than me calling Jillian to ask for a ride, or taking the bus, I walked with Quxxin.
“So that whole time, Miranda was…”
“Yeah… I was scared to say anything..”
“Come on, she can’t be that scary..”
“You’re right, but then again, I had to deal with that for a few years..”
“Ah.. I see..”
Quxxin looked down at me. “Aadin…”
I looked up at Quxxin, “Yeah?”
Quxxin wrapped his arms around my waist, and pulled me closer to him. I looked up slightly, as he leaned down. His lips came just a couple inches away from mine, his hot breath spreading over my face.
“I love you…” He whispered, before he kissed me deeply.
Our lips melded together, and my arms went around his neck, fingers tangling up in his fading purple hair. After pulling away, I looked at him
“I love you too.”
Quxxin smiled, and then hugged me close. After checking the time, Quxxin asked me if I would like to have some dinner with him.
“Yes, of course! I just gotta call Jillian, and let her know.”
“Ok.”
Quxxin handed me his phone, and I quickly called Jillian.
“Hello?”
“Hi Jillian. It’s me Aadin, I’m going to have dinner with Quxxin if that’s ok.”
“Yeah, of course, have fun!”
“Yeah, I will.”
I hung up after saying good-bye, and then handed the cell back to Quxxin. He smiled.
“We good to go?”
“Yeah..”
Quxxin then lead me off for dinner. We didn’t go anywhere fancy, just a fast food restaurant. We both had burgers with french fries, and we ate peacefully. I wasn’t really worried about anything.
“Hey, Quxxin?”
“Yes babe?”
“Do you want to come hang out at my place after this?”
“I would love to.”
I smiled, and then shoved the last of my burger into my mouth. Quxxin was already on his french fries, and I picked up mine. I stabbed a french fry into the small mound of ketchup I had, and then grinned.
“French fry massacre!”
Quxxin frowned, and then looked up at me, as I began stabbing french fries into the ketchup. Quxxin laughed, as he watched me. I smiled and then began popping the smushed, ketchup covered french fries into my mouth.
“You are one weird one.”
I smiled, “You know it!”
Quxxin chuckled slightly, and then leaned over, and shoved one of his own fries into my ketchup. He then picked it up slowly, and held it out to me. I smiled and leaned down a little and took the mushed fry between my teeth. A small half-smile came across Quxxin’s face as I pulled the fry from his finger.
I ate the fry, and the took his hand near the wrist area, and began licking his fingers clean of ketchup.
“Oh fuck, that is hot..” Quxxin breathed.
I smiled a little bit, and then went back to my fries.
“Oh sorry…”
“No, it’s ok, I don’t mind, I just kinda got use to the fact that stuff like that is gonna happen between us… I mean, things did happen in the past, but that doesn't mean that we can’t do stuff…”
“Are you sure?”
“Yeah… I’m sure.”
Quxxin smiled a little bit. “Well then…” A mischievous grin crossed his face.
