Hero
Shock and a bit of fear fills my body as I see the unknown guy in my living room kissing Catarina and holding her hands tightly, close to his body. At first the worst possibility comes to my mind and that's that she is cheating on me, but then I see the tears on her cheeks, her hands are trying to get away from his grip and she tries to move her head away while she is letting out some sobs. I also remember that she would never cheat on me. Now my heart breaks seeing her like that and I immediately realize What's going on. That must be her ex. I run to them fastly and wrap my arm around his neck tightly. He is huge, tall and literally fat, also he smells like mixed alcohol and weed. I pull him back by his neck that he makes a step backwards letting Catarina fall on the floor. The first thing I need to do is to get this junky man out of my house. "Who the hell are you??" He yells with a raspy voice and punches me in the face hardly, but I don't care about that now. "Her boyfriend and owner of this house!" I pay him back with another punch trying to make him go to the direction of the door. "Fuck yourself, I don't care!" He yells, cleans some blood from his face and finally disappears from my house when he realizes that he won't fuck Catarina today. Well, I hope'll never again.
I fastly run to my fragile girlfriend and kneel down in front of her. "Catarina, are you okay? Did he hurt you?" I ask worried and hold her shaky scared body close to my chest trying to get any answer from her. "I, I" is all she manages to say and I hug her tighter stroking her back trying to calm her down. It hurts me, this really hurts me, Catarina is one of the rare persons that can be a real life angel, she went through so much in her life, well I only know one story, who knows how many of them are there, but she still manages to smile after everything and she's always ready to help everyone no matter how much her own problems she has. I wish I can give her some days off of holding the weight of whole world on her shoulders, but she is so persistent that I don't know how to help her. Sometimes she needs to realize how to put herself on the first place.
"I'm so sorry" she mumbles against my shirt crying and holding it tightly. "What are you sorry for babe?" I stroke her hair in a comforting way thinking of some ways what can make her feel better. "For this" she sniffs and looks up to me. "I shouldn't have let him in, I shouldn't have let him kiss me, but I didn't know any of this will happen, I'm sorry" she starts to cry harder and I immediately hug her tighter. "Exactly babe, you didn't know any of this will happen, this is not your fault, please don't blame yourself, it's fine" I kiss the top of her head and keep my lips on it for some seconds. My nose is bleeding along with my eyebrow and knuckles, but I don't care, all I want now is to keep this girl safe.
After that we just keep hugged to each other, sitting on the living room floor without saying a word. Maybe it's been some minutes, but maybe it's also been some hours, I don't know and I don't care either. Her head is comfortably rested on my chest as her tiny body is placed in my lap. Luckily she is not crying anymore. I understand her and I understand if she won't want to kiss me again nor let me touch her. "How are you?" I ask with a soft voice and she shrugs her shoulders. "I'm okay, I guess" she says and I kiss the top of her head again a bit relieved. "Good" she turns her head to the other side and looks up to me. "How?" She says and I furrow my eyebrows. "How what?" "How did we fall in love so fast" I stare deeply into her brown eyes full of questions and fears. "That's why it's called falling in love, you never know when you can fall and when you do, it's mostly unexpected and all of a sudden" I say and she nods her head. "I never knew you are so emotional" she says and I furrow my eyebrows. She didn't know I was emotional? "Well, if you saw a man with this house and with a Tesla, would you think he cares about someone the way you care about me?" My heart gets a little warmer on her words knowing that my actions have a good effect on her. That's my whole fucking life goal. "I only care about you, I actually never loved anyone, like I love you" I say and she looks up to me. "Did you just say you love me?" She asks and for the first time ever my cheeks get darker. "I ummm" before I can say anything she climbs on my chest and whispers close to my lips. "Because I love you too" her lips are now pressed against mine softly and passionately and I keep it only like that now wanting to scare her.
