Be Mine

Chapter nine

Days flew by and Tony was keeping me in solitaire. He'd stop me whenever I'd step outside - Everytime I do something he dislikes he'd drag me over to bed and trap me there. His possessiveness got a little irritating at some point and when he told me he was going to go out with his friends, that gave me a chance to at least do something in the house. I decided to call dad again.

"Honey? Are you alright? Why haven't I heard anything from William? When are you coming over?" The sound of his name got my tears welling up. I pinched my lips together, trying to hold them back.

"Everything's fine dad..." I inhaled softly, hoping my dad wouldn't notice the lie in my tone.

"Honey, if something's wrong you've got to tell me." Tears were spashing down my knees, I let out a small whimper and my dad sighed.

"Baby girl, say something.." I swallowed the hugh lump in my throat and managed to sttuter out a few words.

"I had a fight with William.. I think." There was a short pause.

"You think you had a fight with William? What happened?"  I bit my lip, pacing back and forth in my room

"Rose..." My dad's pleading voice drained the life out of me, I burst into cries and I blurted everything out through the phone. I couldn't speak up for him but he didn't interrupt me one - he allowed me to rant on and on. The call went for about half an hour and the doorbell rang.

"Daddy, I have to go."

"Already? What's keeping you so busy lately?" I shut my eyes tightly and reached for the button to end the call. 

"Rooooose I'm back!" I let out an irritated groan and climbed down the flight of stairs, slipping on a sweater since I still had my pyjama top on and I probably wreaked.

Tony took a quick swig on a beer bottle and smirked at me.

"Babeeee! Looking good." He checked me out a leaned over at me, his alcoholic odour burned my nostrils and I shoved him away.

"Have you been drinking?" He chugged down the bottle he held earlier and popped one out of his back pocket.

"You brought another one back? In your pocket?" Tony placed a finger sluggishly over my lips and cupped his ears at me.

"You're loud enough babe, you don't want to wake up the neighbors!" I rolled my eyes at him and I took his hand and placed it around my shoulder. He was muttering nonsense when I was dragging him up.

"Wonder what you taste like, you smell so good..." His tongue darted out and he licked the corner of my lip. Shuddering, I wiped his saliva with the sleevs of my sweater and removed his shoulder.

"Tony, bear with me. I'm not feeling so well and you being slobbery around me isn't helping me out."  We managed to reach the room in a couple of minutes and I threw him over. Tony groaned and rolled over to the side, reaching out a hand,

"Lay with me?" He pleaded.

"No, Tony. I'm getting you some aspirins. Stay put, don't move." Tony cackled and fell asleep immediately - snoring. I went down and gathered a bunch of tablets - figuring out which to give to Tony. I heat a kettle to pour some warm water for him as well. I pulled back to the counter and a bottle of pills caught my attention. I narrowed my eyes at how huge each pill were. There were the size of a thumb. Its pinkish gradient reminded me of seashells - they topple one after another. On the bottle, it was written in dark ink : 'take once a day for full effect. Body will start changing the following day.' The ceiling rumbled, Tony was calling out my name. I hurried with the glass of warm water and grabbed the aspirin off the pile of ransacked meds and ran up. As I opened the door, a cheeky grin played on Tony's grin. He was shirtless. It wasn't as tan as William's, nor was it as built. All I could think about was how warm and comfortable his chest was - how I missed those moments. I shook those hideous thoughts away.

"Here, drink up." I handed over the water and Tony took the aspirins, chugging them down with the water. 

"Thanks, love." I glanced over at the window and I realized William's curtains were opened - he was laying down on his bed with a phone slung on his ear. He was.... Upset. He threw his hands around and his face was grimaced. He was frustrated.

"Come here." I looked back at Tony and he has his hands open for me.

"Not now, you need to rest. Bathe too, if you're strong enough." He frowned and walked over to me.

"Why can't we play first?" He brought me to the bed and had me straddling his lap.

"Tony, please-" His mouth was pressed against mine - he moaned thoroughly and rubbed his hands on my back, bringing me closer to him. I pushed him away with my little arms, and his hands gripped my wrists, holding them back. I was begging him to stop but he got rougher - he managed to slip the sweater off and I wasn't wearing anything else underneath. The thin fabric made him go wild - I yelled at him so he would at least stop, but he gave me a 'screw you' look and pushed me, sending me tumbling down the floor. He stormed away and went inside the bathroom.

I tucked a hair behind my ear and graned. The anxiousness in me grew as I took another glimpse outside the window. And sure enough, William was there. He had an unpleasant look on his face. With a disapproving shake of his head, he stalked inside his room, shutting the window and closing the curtains.