You Belong To Me

26

It's been a whole week since I last saw Ripper. A glorious 7 days. An amazing 10080 minutes. The best 604800 seconds of my life so far.

My school work was improving. My friends and I hung out all the time. My skin had it's healthy glow back. I even had time to meet Andrew, my moms new official boyfriend.

Life was good.

After days went by without seeing Ripper the nagging feeling I had in the back of my head had slowly vanished and I really started to feel like myself again.

The best thing about not having Ripper breathing down my neck any more was I could finally flirt with Lorenzo again without feeling guilty. Don't get me wrong there's still the fact that this 'relationship' type thing we had going on was high inappropriate but at least it wouldn't end with a bullet through his head.

I still remember the look on Lorenzo's face when I told him Ripper had finally left me alone. He looked like a kid at Christmas.

That leads me to where I am right now. Sitting on Lorenzo'a sofa eating Chinese food laughing at how truly terrible the Twilight saga is. I forced him to watch it and now all we could do was laugh at Bella's face every time Edward denied her of her request to de-virginize her.

We were sat rather comfortably on the sofa, at some point I had manoeuvred myself so my legs were out across his lap, taking up most of the room. But he didn't seem to mind.

"Do you actually enjoy this movie? I think I'd rather pull my own eyeballs out than watch the next one." I laughed at his exaggeration.

"I'm sure you wouldn't really want to pull your own eyes out, stop being a spoil sport, this is true love at its finest right here." He scoffed at what I said but continued to watch. I think he secretly liked it, everybody did.

We were at the part in eclipse where Bella, Edward and Jake were having the worlds most awkward sleepover in the tent.

"That Jacob guy should give up on her ass and let her be with the vampire. He's way too good for her."

"I agree, Jacob is too good for her. He should come and find me, I'd love him back how he deserves." Lorenzo looked at me as if I'd lost my mind. Little did he know I was dead serious, I'm team Jacob Black til the day I die.

"How are you doing these days anyway? You know now that Rippers out of the picture?" His serious question caught me off guard. He turned his body away from the TV placing all his attention on me.

I sat up from my current position and grabbed some spring rolls from off the table. If I was going to talk about Ripper, I needed comfort food.

"I'm doing good."

Lorenzo gave me a look that said- do tell more, as he sat up from his slouched position.

"I feel free now. When I was with Ripper I felt like I was suffocating the whole time. I never knew what he was going to do next. I never knew if he was in a good or bad mood. I never knew if we were on our way to dinner or to kill someone. To be honest with you, I doubted whether I'd make it out alive. But here I am today, stuffing my face with Chinese food, watching Twilight and you're not too bad yourself so, what more could I ask for?"

Lorenzo gave me a smile when I finished my speech and pulled me in for a hug. "Well I'm glad you're here too, I promise I won't let him hurt you again."

I gave him a smile suddenly very aware at how close we were. He smelt amazing as usual and I could see his eyes flashing down towards my lips and then back to my face. If he didn't kiss me in a second I would probably faint right here in his arms.