Hope's Romance (On Hold Until Jan)

~Chapter Eight

Recap:

“Marcus, what’s wrong?” I watched as his grip on the steering wheel tightened, making his knuckles even whiter than I thought possible. 

“We have a tail” he said through his teeth, I knew this look. He’s nose started to flare, he was angry.

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Chapter Eight- Followers and Confessions

“What do you mean we have a tail? We are not monkeys, we don’t have tails silly” gosh he should know this, he calls himself a teacher, pfft.

“Oh Hope” he sighed, holding back a smile, at least he wasn’t angry anymore right? “I didn’t mean tail growing out of our butt Hope, I meant we have a person following behind us havent you seen the movies?” I mentally slapped myself, how could I be that stupid.

I know paid more attention to the car following us, when we moved into the next lane, they were right behind us, if we sped up then so did they. Even I knew that their car was no match for a Ferrari, but it was still a pain to be followed, like seriously what did they want? I started to become worried, what if they drove us off the road, and we died, or even worse, Marcus died and I lived.

“Hey, Ssshh” He tried to calm me down, oh god I hope it works, I started to focus on my breathing while he spoke. Breathe in breathe out.

“Hope nothing is going to happen, it’s going to take a lot to kill me I promise, and nothing will happen to you, I promise” He pleaded.

“You read my mind?”  I didn’t really care, it’s not like I was thinking anything immature.

“No Hope, your thoughts were screaming at me, there was no way I couldn’t hear them, you are terrified, climb on to my lap okay?” What! Climb onto his lap while he’s driving, is he seriously mad?

“No im not mad you silly girl, im trying to calm you down, it’s perfectly safe, this car has been fitted with auto drive anyway, I could just type in the address, go to sleep in the back and I would arrive there safe.”

“Mr Corvin, get out of my mind!” I grumbled as I curled up on his lap, breathing in his intoxicating scent.

“It was your face that gave it away; once again, you are an open book.” He chuckled and continued to drive in a reckless way to get away from the car behind us. All fear of us crashing was gone, I felt completely safe in his arms, and I could just stay here forever.  I felt him grab something out of his pocket; I was assuming was his phone.

My thoughts were proven correct when he spoke into it, asking to follow us and track down our mysterious follower. I lifted my head to see if I could see into the car, but the windows were majorly tinted. Oh, well if I can’t see I’ll just go in the back way…

“Marcus, I’ll have a look in their head, see if I can find anything?” He simply nodded; my guess was that he was in my head so he could hear too. I did what I usually did to go into someone’s mind, I looked around until I thought was the right trail, I looked into the view from their eyes to find that It was indeed the right person. I tried to go into their thoughts only to come to a sudden wall, an invisible shield of some sort that stops me from accessing his thoughts. I've never come across such a thing before, so I tried harder, only to find the shield got stronger.  I pulled out of their head, tired and completely confused, how can put a shield in their head to stop me from listening?

“Marcus, you saw that right? You felt that shield?”

“Yeah I did”

“I've never seen that before, it’s like they knew I could read minds or something” He gasped like he’d just realised something, and continued to drive, not saying another word on the subject.

“Hope, we need to talk about some stuff, but please don’t be afraid okay, I don’t want you to hate me, because I... Err” he scratched his head as he tried to find the right words as I silently begged that he wasn’t going to say that he wanted to break up with me.  “I love you Hope” he said softly.

My heart stopped, he loved me? I’d always wanted someone to actually love me, I knew Paris loved me, that was more like sisterly love, and for a moment I remembered Keegan saying he loved me, but now he doesn’t even pass my mind. I realised no one actually loved me the way I wanted them to, Marcus was the first to love me, and I could tell by the love he was sending me through the bond, that he was serious. I burst out into tears and hugged him awkwardly; I was still on his lap after all.

“Hope, im sorry, I should have waited” I put my hand up to his mouth as I sent him all my thoughts for the last few minutes, the reason to why I was crying, and how happy I was.

“I love you too silly, I just, and oh you know” I tried to reassure him, for once I was actually happy. Although the thought of him being me teacher crossed my mind for a second, but I pushed that deep into the back of my mind. I was going to live day by day, take the challenges as they came, not stress over it before they came. Right now I was happy, so that’s all that mattered, even if I did have a year left of school to go, even if Marcus was 5 years older than me, my birthday was in 2 months so I then would be 18. I was aware that Marcus felt guilty; he admitted he loved me while I was underage, so now he felt like a paedophile, but I sent him all of my love and comforting thoughts through the bond. After all he wasn’t a paedophile, we were in love.

Some may say that Seventeen and two months was too young for the ‘True Love’ we all seek for, but this wasn’t just some school girl crush anymore. I would do anything for Marcus; he was now my heart and soul. He was the only one capable of making me feel alive, sure I felt alive when I was surrounded by people but as soon as they left I was left lonely again. In a huge house I was alone but not anymore. Some may say it’s too soon, hell even I thought it was but it was true, and I planned to hang onto it to matter what. I don’t plan on being 17 and pregnant, I plan on cherishing my life, finishing school and making a career for myself, one that is stable enough to look after myself and my family. I knew that Marcus was wealthy, I mean we both were, but neither of us strived off the money, it was just something we had. I was perfectly happy with my style of living and I could only assume that Marcus was too.

I suddenly realised that we were still being followed, it had been about an hour now, and we should have been very close to home, but instead we were in the middle of nowhere.

“Why are we not heading home?” I didn’t try to hide my tiredness from my voice, I was tired after the wedding, and I just needed to sleep, in Marcus’s arms of course.

“There is no way im leading him to where we live, just sleep, you will be at home when you wake up” I needed no further encouragement, I was asleep within seconds, fading into dream that will wake me up into reality, and change my life forever.

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Yes, I know this is short, shorter than usual, but there wasn’t much more I could write, I have big stuff planned for the next chapter, and I reeaally needed that cliff hanger there, to make up for it, chapter 9 will be in two parts, and trust me when I say it’s needed. I have some major stuff planned with the next few chapters, so yeah! Oh and who do you think is following them and why for so long?

Have a nice day/night whatever, and I should be able to upload tomorrow maybe, so vote for this chapter if you want it to be tomorrow, as im going to write it as soon as I post this so go and click that vote button!

Oh and –

Story of the Day is – Silent Love by Somethingtrue

“Charlie has fallen in love with Constance, she's deaf, but determined to go out with her, Charlie, learns sign-language from Constance's sister Cella.

Cella isn't exactly the most open person, and when teaching Charlie to sign, she starts to open up little by little, and let's out some the anger she's been holding in for years.”

I loved this book, it’s something different and it worked out really well, go check it out!

xo Ashleey xo