"You know curiosity always kills the cat," He says looking down at me.
"Yeah, But doesn't each cat have nine lives?" I bite my lip.
"Your right, so tell me this. How many lives do you have left?" He keeps stepping closer to me, while I continue ba...
(I also forgot to tell you that candidate 3 won the contest thingy. But still feel free to imagine her any way you want. )
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(Everything but the kitchen sink ice cream)
"Dinner was absolutely amazing," I say in the car. "I'm glade you enjoyed it." He says flashing his killer smile. "Let's stop by that park I need to walk off all of this food," I say truthfully. He nods and pulls over to the park.
This is what happened last time. I went to walk off my food and ended up having to get married. I know weird right.
I got the car on my own and waited for him. We walk together on the pavement moving slowly.
"Oh my god, look it's Berbies, you know that cool ice cream truck that has a different location everyday and you have to look everywhere to find it," I say in aw of the truck 5 feet away from me.
"You wanna get some?," he asks. "Obviously, who do you think I am," I say teasingly. A grin spreads across his face and he smiles. We walk our short distance to the ice cream truck.
"Oh my god, I can't believe this. I've chased you all around town and you've never been there," I say to the man in the truck. "Well, isn't it coincidence that you bumped into it here," he says smiling. "What can I get you two?," the old aged man asks. "I'll get everything but the kitchen sink," I say smiling at the name. "And I'll get pure vanilla on a cone," Seth says. "Why are you so boring?," I ask.
He raises an eyebrow and looks down at me. "If it's vanilla don't you know how many toppings you can put on it and make it your own." I guess I've never thought like that because vanillas boring.
"This is the first time I've heard you say anything smart," I say playfully. He gives me a hurt look then I turn my attention to the man making our ice cream. He puts loads of chocolate syrup, marshmallows, and some type of stuff on it. He hands me the sink shaped bowl filled with different types of hand made ice cream.
"Thank you," I say eyeing the ice cream. "Here you go sir," the man says then gives Seth a vanilla ice cream cone with caramel on it. "That will be $14."
Seth gives the man a $20 bill and says keep the change. We turn away and walk down the path. "What were you like in high school?" Seth's question catches me off guard. "I was quiet, I didn't have too many friends either." I say. "So what changed, now your not quiet," he asks.
"I noticed a lot of people avoided me because I was some freak, so I changed a lot. After wards I was a party animal kinda a hoe, but I've moved on from that. I had changed again after Aiden was born, I became a mom to my nephew because his mom wasn't there," I say.
"Who is his mom?" I scrunch up my eyebrows. "Well, her names Scarlet something, I don't completely remember her," I sigh. "Where'd she go?," He says licking his ice cream. I force myself to look away from his pink soft lips and focus on my gargantuas ice cream.
"She left, a couple days after Aiden was born, she left. We tried contacting her looking for her but she disappeared, like she never existed-," I say as something shoots by my face. I yelp and drop my ice cream.
"Vanessa move," Seth screams. He pushes me behind him and quickly pulls us behind a tree. He pulls out a gun I didn't know he had on him and starts shooting at the person firing at us.
I shut my eyes tightly and hide my face in his chest. Tears flow down my face and for what feels like the longest time. More bullets keep coming and Seth keeps firing. "Fucking James," he mutters. After a while the bullets eventually stop coming and Seth's just holding me.
"Not again please, don't let it happen again," I say while sobbing into his shirt. "Hey, nothings going to happen to you, I promise," He says cooing at me trying to calm me down.
"Don't let it happen again, I can't lose someone again," I sob. "What are you talking about piccola?," he says pulling my body closer to his and wraps his hands on the sides of my hips.
I ignore his questions because I have no clue what he called me. "Sir, I think it's time best to go," a man says coming up to us. "Give us a minute Stewart," he says.
"Come on baby, let's get you home." He helps me walk with on of his hands on my waist with a steel grip and the other close to my butt.
He opens the door for me then walks to the other side the driver pulls off when we're buckled in. I lean my head back and close my eyes.
This is my life now, I thought I wouldn't have to go through this again after the first time but, I guess not.
I have to live with a target on my back and not real love.
Soon we arrive at the house. I walk in and find Aiden and Brandon sitting on the couch watching tv. I walk over to them and clench onto them. I hug them for what feels like forever before I get up. "What was that for?," Aiden giggles. "Nothing baby, I'm gonna go to bed. I'm not feeling to well," I say getting up and walk away towards the stairs.
***
I toss and turn in my bed as I wake up from my bad dream. After I greeted my brother and Aiden I went upstairs and took a shower and immediately got in the bed. It's like 12 now and I'm probably the only one awake. Brandon asked me why I wasn't sleeping in the same room as Seth and I told him I needed space.
I flipped on my side and then shot up. I walked out of my room and contemplated on where to go. I end up in-front of Seth's door. The rain pounding on the out side of the house.
I knock on the door and wait for him to answer. When he doesn't respond I decided to just go in. "I know you don't like me coming down here, but I can't sleep because of bad dreams. Do you mind if tonight I sleep with you?," I ramble awkwardly.
"Yeah of course," he says. I look up at him and see him shirtless. I then look down at myself and see I'm wearing an oversized T-shirt and booty shorts.
I smile and feel my face heat up. "Don't get any ideas buddy," I say weirdly making the situation more awkward. I walk over to the bed and awkwardly sit down. I get under the covers and watch him get under as well. I noticed it was raining even heavier and thunder struck. I moved a little closer to Seth's body and wrapped my arms around his neck.
I snuggle my face into his bare chest. "Goodnight," I mumble on his chest embarrassed. "Good night," he says then reaches over and turns off the light.
Leaving us in the dark.
——— Im sorry for not posting on Friday. I had a busy week and I couldn't find a lot of time to correct it before posting.
This chapter isn't one of my best but the rest will be better, so yeah.
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