Fallin' all in you

13

"Who is the song about?"

"Well..."

You said ,,Well...,, ... there're no way back.

"It's... nothing. I just came up with it. I was 19 when I wrote it."

He looks her dead in the eyes. He knows she is lying. What he doesn't know is weather to ask her to be true or stop and accept being lied. He stares at her eyes, that are mumbling, then at her lips. She just bites on her lower lip. His eyes tavel down, to her hands. Her right hand presses it's fingers, one by one, to the red-coloured side of the guitar's body. These are all signs of panick because of lying. He goes for it, one more time.

"What did he do to you?" he asks, fermely
"I told you, the song is about no one."
"Laura, if I hate something on this planet, that is tomatoes." he says, trying to detension the situation, which he does, a bit. "But also, when people that I care about lie to me. So, what did he do?"
She gives in, at his insistance.
"He didn't do anything. It's just that I was the one who got everything wrong."
"How is that?"
"I was stupid, at that time. I was blind. I just couldn't see what he was actually doing to me. He was torturing me: physically and morally. "
"So he used to hit you? Mother fucker... "
"Yeah, but thank God Theona was there, one day, when things really got out of hand."
"So he used to hit you... what do you mean by ,,things really got out of hand,,?"
"Well, he... um... it's just... "

She gets extremely nervous. She can't take it anymore. She stars sobbing, then crying hardly.
"Hey! It's okay. I'm here. No one is gonna hurt you anymore." he says, taking her hand
"I'm sorry. It's just that he is there everytime I close my eyes. I can't forget him, no matter how hard I try to. Even if I try to replace him with anybody else, in those memories, it doesn't work. He just appears out of nowhere."

Remember when Theona said that significant ,,since,, ? You just found out what that all was about.

"Don't worry about him. I'm here, with you. Is he in jail?"
"No. He has gone to jail 5 years ago and one year later, he has gotten out for good behavior. That's actually why I moved to Canada, to run away from him. Theona has said that she will not leave me alone ever again, so now she is living with me. Mostly to look after me, making sure I don't do anything stupid."
"Do you know where is he right now?"
"No. I couldn't keep track on him. He has changed his name, his phone number, even his cars, everything! If I am not mistaking, he has done it multiple times."
"What was his name at that time?"
"Jonas. Jonas Blake."
"Can you tell me what happened, actually?"
"Well, we were at friend's house. We were celebrating Jonas's graduation with a big party. I was 15, and he was 18. We were having fun and dancing, and laughing. After, like, two hours,he was hammered and he told me ,,let's go get you a drink!,,. You can imagine what has happened next. What I didn't know is that he put something in my drink. I was extremely flaccid, but I didn't pass out. I just couldn't move. He took me upstairs and there is where the magic happened. He knew how much I cared about my virginity, and that I wanted to keep it that way until at least 20, but he didn't care, then. He started undressing me and when I was nude, the door opened and the 13 years old Theona came in and put a gun at his head. He was fucked. That day was the day she started to put track on him, but it failed when he left the country, after some days. She is amazing, the fact that she even tried, for me! She is my guardian angel. I love her, and if anything happens to her, I don't know what I would do."

The heartbreaking silence fills up the room again. She looks up and see him, tears in his eyes.

"You truly love her, don't you?"
"Of course. She has been there all the way, for me."
"You know what? You have never told me about your siblings. What about them?"
"My sister and I didn't use to spend much time together, only since when we joined the gang. Can you believe she has finished a theater faculty, her dream, and now she is part of a gang? She'd always be gone to different theater fests to play different characters, in high school and she loved it. As for my brothers, we have never been very close. I mean my eldest brother is 8 years older then me and the other one is 5 years older than me, so you can imagine why. "
"Why? My sister is five years younger, and we get along wonderfully. I mean we argue about small things, but we spend a lot of time together."
"I don't know... I was pretty dumb when I was little. I would talk about everything with anyone, but after experiencing several bad moments with some, so called, friends, I've started to lock up. I wouldn't talk to people that really were worth it to trust. There for, I started to train for becoming a gang leader. To prevent myself from having trouble with people that hurt me. "
"I'm sorry to hear that. But it's a good thing, right? I mean these things didn't happen, we wouldn't have been here, right?"
"I guess... " she says "Shawn?"
"Yes, Laura?"
"Thank you! I, somehow, feel relieved. Thank you for listening to all my shit."
"Hey, it's not shit at all. And if you need me, I'm here, anytime. Well, unless I go home, in Canada." he says, making her laugh "See? This is the smile I've been waiting for." he continues and she blushes

She stairs at him for a minute. Because of the big height difference, she has never noticed how his curly dark brown hair falls perfectly down his forehead, or his defined chin dimple. She has never noticed the intensity of his hazel brown eyes. Even his lazy eye is perfect. Her gaze falls down to his pink plump lips. Observing her intentions, he smiles. His smile is a pure sea of oyster white pearls. HE is perfect.

He takes takes a good look at her. Because of the big height difference, he couldn't realize how her brown medium corrugated hair falls over her shoulders, or how her brown round eyes are perfectly aligned, continued by a round, perfectly contoured, nose. He watches her lips grinding against each other.

She can't resist the temptation anymore. With no hesitation, she throws her hands over the back of his neck and leans in, continuing with giving him a soft, passionate kiss. He feels the same, so why not responding to the kiss? Their lips move in a perfect sync and it's like they have been craving each other of more than a lifetime. He breaks the kiss for a second, to take a breath.

"Ok, now I feel bad."
"Why? Did I do something wrong?"
"No. It's because I am the one who was supposed to kiss you first."

Not giving her time to realise what she has just heard, he crashes their lips together, again.
He cupps her both cheeks with his his hands and presses their lips together, even more, while she rests her on his face, in the same way. The kiss becomes more and more passionate and delightful.
Suddenly, they get interrupted by the sound of the door opening. It reveals Aaliyah and Theona.

"Oops. Sorry! Are we interrupting something?" Aaliyah says
"HA!!! Told ya! Give me my money!" Theona says, Aaliyah handing her a 10 dollar bill, rolling her eyes
"How long have you been there?!" Shawn asks
"Not much." Aaliyah responds
"Pheww..." he exhales in relief
"Ten minutes?" Theona continues
"Ten min-... ?! Out! Now!"
"Okay, okay! Calm down, diva!"

They get out, then he shuts the door and exhales deeply, smiling at her.

",,Okay, okay! Calm down, diva!,," she mokes the two girls

"So, where were we? " he asks suggestively
"The part where we were sleeping." she says, jokingly teasing
"So you kiss me, and you think I'm just gonna let you get away with it? No, no, no, dear! Not gonna happen!" he says, approaching her, leaning on one knee, next to the bed, which she was sitting on "Laura, may I ask you something?"
"Sure."
"I like you. Do you like me?"
"Umm.. yes?"
"Good, because I want to be your boyfriend. Do you want to be my girlfriend?"
"Hmm... let me think. ... OF COURSE!"
"Thank you!" he says, getting up to kiss her once again before going to bed, next to her
"Hey! You said princesses sleep on the bed. "
"Geez, this is how you treat your prince, eh?"
"Just kidding! Come on!"

So Laura and Shawn are a couple now. FINALLY! How will their parents react?
Find out in the next chapter of "Fallin' all in you"