At first sight

Chapter 10

Later that night, Rose,.Mikey, and I decided to go out for a couple of drinks,.I decided to call some friends of mine, Frank, Ray, and Bob and invite them to the bar with us. Before we left, Rose slid on a black form fitting dress and black heels, and straightened her hair. She looked sexy, I wanted to rip of her dress. We met Mikey in the living room and left together,.meeting the guys at the bar.

"Hey, guys, this is Rose, my girlfriend. Rose, this is Frank, Ray, and Bob"

Rose flashed a perfect smile and said hello. We all sat down and took some shots and a had a couple beers, hours later, we were all stumbling down the street, singing out of tune all the way back home. When we got home, we all sat on the.living room floor, Rose came back with a bottle of tequila and vodka then she sat down.

"No, babe, we're already drunk enough"

"oh, hush gee, let's live a little. I wanna play a game of truth or dare. Except no truths, just dare and for every dare we do, you have to take two shots, and if you don't do the dare, you have to take off a.piece of.clothing"

We all looked at each other, Frank.grabbed the bottle.

"I'll start first,"

Frank opened the bottle and poured some of the liquor in a shot glass and gave it too Ray, he drank it.

"Ray, I dare you to go outside and strip down to your underwear and walk the streets for 10 minutes"

Everyone looked at Ray, he scratched his head for a few seconds and stood up and walked to the bathroom. Seconds later, he came out in his underwear and headed to the door, we all got up and ran to the door, watching Ray walk outside in the cold air, snow crumbling underneath his bare feet, he kept flinching each step, Frank yelled at him.

"Dance like seductively, singing 'my milkshake brings all the boys to the yard'!"

Ray did as told, and we all began laughing our asses off. people walked past Ray, staring at him like he's crazy. He finally came in, skin was rose red, he quickly put on his clothes took two shots and wrapped himself up in a blanket. We sat in a circle again, it was my turn to Dare Rose.

"I dare you...."

Hours later, me, frank, and mikey were the only ones that was striped down to our underwear, Rose was drunk from all the shots she'd taken after her dares and Ray was asleep on the coffee table, I got up and picked up Rose bridal style.

"okay, guys, it's late, and we're all wasted, so we're going to go to sleep, we'll see you in the morning."

As I carry Rose upstairs, Bob yelled out"use protection!" I chuckled. I closed the door behind us and tripping over Roses shoes on the floor and fell on the floor, landing on top of her, we both groan in pain.

"I'm sorry, hunny."

Rose wrapped her arms around my neck and we stared at each others eyes, I crashed my lips onto hers, and we began making out passionately, I rub my hands all over her body,and tug at her dress, I begin to slowly slide it up, revealing her black lace panties, I lightly moaned, then she grabbed my hands, she smiled, but then it faded, she lightly pushed me off of her, and sat on the bed. Tears filled her eyes, I kneeled in front of her and grabbed her hand.

"I'm sorry, I know you're not read-"

"It's not that....ill be right back."

she grabbed some clothes from her bag and left the room, minutes later, she came back wearing her black shorts, and a band tee. She sat on the bed and motioned for me to sit next to her. I did. She looked me in the eyes and began to open her mouth to speak.

" Gerard....Remember when I began freaking out on you and kicked you out of my apartment?"

"yeah..."

"And I keep telling you I'm not ready to have sex with you yet..."

"yeah.."

"well, it's because I am hiding something from you, from everyone. No one knows. It's my haunting past..."

Her eyes got watery, she held on to my hands tightly, and looked down, a tear escaped and fell to our hands. I.was feeling worried and nervous. I was anxious to what she was going to tell me. She finally looked up at ms and turned her back towards me, pulling her shirt over her head, revealing her back, but not taking off her shirt. I looked at her back and covered my mouth as I studied the scars and bruises. She finally let out her cries, I kept my eyes on her back.

"In my previous relationship....he was abusing me...every chance he got he would hurt me...one day, I found out I was pregnant with his baby...I didn't tell him yet....but after a month I decided to tell him...he got so angry, and just started beating me, he took a leather belt and whipped my back with it, and..."

She cried harder.

"and he took hot candle wax and poured it on the belt and whipped me with it some more...I was laying on the floor later that night feeling sore, my back was bleeding...I had a sharp pain in my stomach so I went to the bathroom, and I was bleeding like crazy, so I snuck out the door and went to my neighbors house, she was a physician, and I told her what happened. She took me to the hospital and they checked me out...I miscarried the baby....I died a little and cried my eyes out...I never came back home...I stayed in a hotel and searched for an apartment here and moved..."

She pulled her shirt down, covering her back now, and facing me.

"That's why I freaked out...I'm scared to get close to a guy...and I didn't want you to see-"

I cut her off by crashing my lips on hers, and pulled her into a tight hug.

"I'm so sorry, if I ever see the bastard, he's gonna regret for what.hes done to you. I just want you to know that I will never ever hurt you...thank you for sharing that with me, I know it was hard, your secret is safe with me..."

Later that night, we just lied in bed playing with each others hair until wr fell asleep.