Dance of Love

Chapter 9

Daniels POV:

What they did to her, broke my heart. She looked so frail when we got her. It's been about a few days since then and she looks healthier already. But, at night she'll sometimes get these bad dreams that will have her screaming. I'll go into her room and hold her till she goes back to sleep. I want her to feel safe but I can't take away those demons that haunt her mind.

Right now, she sits on the steps inside the pool with Janet. They both giggle about something as I open the screen door and walk towards them. I squint my eyes because of the sun and wave at them.

"How's it going, girls?" I ask.

"We're doing dandy." Janet says. Then her phone begins to ring and she swims over to take the call.

"This is her." She says to the caller. She hears them for a few moments before saying "Oh yes, of course... I'll be there in less than an hour." She then hangs up the phone and looks to us. "I have to go to a hospital to help a friend with a young patient he has. They fractured a couple bones in their body. "She then lifts her body out from the edge of the pool. "I'll see you guys later tonight. I'll bring food." Then she heads inside.

I look at Sophia, and sit at the edge of the pool, close to her. My feet dangle inside the warm water.

"Come in!" She tells me. I smirk.

"You really want me to?"

"Yes" I get up and take off my shirt, I catch her checking out my abs and I wink at her. It makes her blush, a cute pink. I already have a pair of shorts on so I then take a dive inside the pool.

I emerge from under the water, then sit next to her on the submerged step.

"You know, I'm from Australia" I say.

"I know... I picked it up from your accent." I laugh. "True, true"

Then she asks me where my parents are staying. "Both my parents died when I was younger, while traveling on a boat across the Caribbean. I was a baby, and was staying with my grandmother at the time. She raised me, and she lives in a small town in the south-eastern coast."

"I'm sorry."

"No, it's okay. My grandmother is a very sweet lady, she made up for all their love... And, how about you? Where's your father?"

"He left my mother when I was about 12. I remember the last time I saw him, we were at the airport and he was ready to go off. I cried, and he hugged me, telling me that he loved me and how he would call me every day. He never did though. I counted down the days, and stopped after a couple hundred. Then my mother got really depressed after he left, she had one to many vices that she took on. But like Alan Watts once said, 'Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.' She eventually cleaned up, and met my step father. But her habits have seemed to come back after her mother died, I hope that she's doing alright now. I haven't had the chance to check up on her."

"I can find out for you... But going back to your father, men like that disgust me."

"I don't know what my mother saw in him."

"Love can be blinding sometimes, you may not notice your partner's bad side as much as their good."

"That's why I'm scared to love. It breaks you into these tiny pieces when it's over."

"Yeah, after being with Ivy, I couldn't settle with no girl. I would go out all the time, and fuck around. It brought me pleasure, but that was so fleeting."

"But, it wasn't till after I met this one girl that I began to feel that sense of love again, but this time it was different. So much stronger. There's just something about this girl."