18 - Forever Mine

After the breakthrough Julian and I had, nothing but that happened. We went back to his small but perfect cabin.

"I think I'm going to turn on my cell phone, I need to know what's going on. If my grandmother called, if João said something... It's already dawn and I have to go back home, I have class and work I do." I spoke while Julian was in the kitchen making coffee.

"I think it's okay." Julian said, but I was still worried.

I grabbed my cell phone off the table and turned it on. After a few minutes it only vibrated twice. It was a message from each one, Florence and João.

Grandma: It's okay, I'm sorry I can't come home today. But your grandmother deserves a treat. I'm sure you'll be fine with your friends. Kiss, I love you.

How could my grandmother be so wonderful? I didn't know how she existed, she was the best woman and grandmother in the whole world, she was always so dedicated to me that she deserved a lot of leisure, dating, going out and having fun, throughout my childhood I never saw her go out with anyone, me I ask if she was ever married, maybe my mother was born out of an adventure.

Boring: Naughty. You can prepare to explain everything to me later. He takes care of himself :)

I smiled when I read João's message, he was my confidant, I knew that with him I could talk about everything. Olivia too, I loved them both equally, but Olivia was more like a friend who wanted support from me, she looked for me when she wanted me to listen to her, she said I was very good at giving advice, which I didn't agree with .

But João was never sad, he was always happy and his happiness made anyone happy. I liked him so much that it felt like a part of me, if I wasn't best friends with him I would easily fall in love with him. Which explained the fights between the girls in our class over his company.

"Any news?" Julian asked pouring me a cup of coffee. I breathed in the wonderful aroma of my favorite drink.

"Everything under control." I replied and took a sip of coffee, it was delicious. "Congratulations, it's not just any coffee I like, but this one is really good." I closed my eyes and tasted it.

"I want to take you to see my house." Julian said looking at me.

"When?" I asked, happy that he wanted to spend more time with me.

"Tomorrow I'll kidnap her in the middle of the night, after making sure no one is watching." He whispered with a malicious look.

"What if I don't want to go?" I provoked. That didn't even need to ask me.

"Who says it's a request? It's a kidnapping." He said and stifled a laugh. I glanced quickly at the clock and it was six in the morning.

"You need to take me now. If I'm not going to miss another day of school..." I asked getting up and putting the empty coffee cup on the table.

"Okay... But first, I want to ask you something."

"What is it?"

"A kiss."

I looked at him smiling and sat on his lap. With one of my hands resting on his shoulder I kissed him, like the first time, I started a calm kiss that soon became a wild kiss. And once again the thousands of sensations invaded me leaving me breathless and my body shaking.

"Now I will take you." He said with swollen lips from the kiss.

I told Julian to leave me a few houses before mine so they wouldn't see us. I took my key that I had asked him to keep and kissed him goodbye.

"Thanks for taking me there. It was really amazing, I loved every second we spent." I said stroking his face.

"I thank you. And... another thing, you and that Harry guy?" I got the impression he'd wanted to ask this for some time.

"It's just a colleague. I won't kiss him again if that's what you're thinking." I said smiling.

"I don't want to see you with him!" growled.

"But I need to. Just until we do the work. Today we're going to finish, by the way, I need to go into his house if I want to find out something about his family to help you." I explained.

"I don't want to get you involved in these things. Leave it to me." He spoke and I felt his distant gaze.

"None of that Julian. I'll help you. I'll go into Harry's house and find out more about them." I spoke and Julian seemed to ignore my sentence.

"I want to take you out to eat somewhere special. This afternoon." He said holding my hand.

"Today I can't..." I said, upset that I couldn't go.

"Why?" he asked, frowning.

"I have to finish a school project, I told you before." I explained a bit confused.

"You're not changing me, are you?" he asked and I felt his voice tense, he wasn't kidding with that question. I felt the same shadow as before settle over his gauze.

"Of course not. It's something I have to do, but being close to you is something I want!" I exclaimed trying to make him understand.

"Eloise…" He growled my name like a spell. "You're mine now, do you understand me? If that guy or anyone else kisses you, I don't know what I'm capable of doing. They already consider me crazy !" He spoke in a hard tone. I shivered when he said that, I didn't want anyone to get hurt because of me.

But deep down, I knew. Those twenty years trapped in an insane asylum wouldn't let Julian get out of there totally normal. However, I would never be afraid of him, I knew he wasn't a monster or a bad person. Julian was just, hurt and needy in love.

"Yes Julian... I'm yours, it's okay..." I whispered hugging him. With his head on my neck he started babbling some things. I frowned but he returned to normal and looked at me as before, with the aura of his blue eyes enchanting me.

I got out of Julian's car and headed towards my house, his car was still parked there. He would watch me until I entered, his care for me was so beautiful I was enjoying it. I turned back and sent a kiss to the air, from afar I saw the brightness of his rare smile and went into the house.

My grandmother wasn't home yet, which meant it would be an ordinary morning when she got back from school, she wouldn't suspect a thing.

I went to my room, got some clothes and went to the shower, when I took off my clothes, there were some marks on my body, on my neck there were some red marks that I would have to cover with makeup.

I hugged my own body and smiled when I remembered who made them on me. Images of what we did on top of that rock came to my mind and my intimacy was already starting to get wet. Uncontrollable excitement washed over me when I remembered just the way Julian looked at me. Our kiss on that couch before he told me his whole story.

If I continued with those thoughts, I would call Julian back to my room and do whatever he wanted to me that made me scream and shudder in his arms. But it wasn't time for that, we still had a lot to solve.

So I took my shower and got ready, I covered the marks on my neck and went down to get something to eat, Florence wasn't there so I wouldn't have my usual coffee. I took an apple and put a stuffed biscuit inside the backpack.

In front of the house I unlocked my bicycle, locked the house and went towards the school.

I managed to arrive in time, when I entered the classroom, Harry, João and Olivia stared at me. My heart fluttered at the thought that they might have found out about me and Julian. But I carried on acting normally and sat down at my desk.

The teacher started talking about the assignments and told us to sit together with our partner. I looked at Harry implying that he was supposed to put his desk next to mine. He understood and approached.

"Good morning Miss Espinoza." He said smiling with his dimples, it was really cute.

"Good morning Mr. Barriere." I replied smiling too. That morning I was so glad I stayed with Julian, that he trusted me. That nothing would spoil.

"Our work is practically done, now we just have to put it into practice." I said writing down some things that the teacher wrote on the board.

"So today at three at the Lan house library cafeteria?" he asked smiling.

"I think since we're going to assemble it, it's better to do it at home. It can be mine or yours..." I proposed trying to sound as normal as possible.

"I'd rather it be mine. There's a lot of stuff we can use there, we have a pretty big library and everything in that cafeteria." He said excitedly.

"Harry, you lied to me when you said you were John's neighbor. Why?" I inquired taking a weight off my back. But he seemed to hesitate before answering.

"I'm not new here, I've lived here since I was little but I've always studied far away. Finally this year my mother and father let me study close to home. And as for you, you were my work partner , I wanted your number and asked your friend. Sorry I lied." He said with an embarrassed look.

"It's okay... I want us to be friends now." I said smiling at him.

"You are so amazing. Sometimes I doubt you are like this, the first person in the world who has had patience with me, aside from my family, you are the only girl who has spent more than an hour in my company." Harry said that smiling at me, but I felt his sad gaze and I felt my heart ache for him.

"Ah Harry. Don't say those things, you're handsome, rich and Bad Boy, the style of most girls here at school. Even more your arrogance on the first day of school, left them sighing."

"Except your style..." He whispered softly but I heard him. "The girls here really like me, maybe I have a chance with one." He said looking at me.

"There will be. You're a nice guy." I replied by looking away from him and finishing copying some things in the notebook.

All classes passed smoothly, Harry kept looking at me a lot and I tried to figure out what he was thinking. Could it be that Harry's parents were Brenda and Antonio? Brenda died in the fire along with her family, perhaps her father was still alive. But I would find out.

"Want a painted ride?" John asked when we were leaving.

"No, I came by bicycle." I replied.

"Eloíse, I need to talk to you. It's about Matheus." Olivia said.

"Here you go, pissing your ass off with that asshole Matheus!" John raged.

"Shut up! Eloíse, I'll call you later." She said pulling away.

"Argh, girls suck when they're in love! Even more so when it's your sister and she won't stop crying over an asshole."

"Hey, calm down. What's this? There's nothing wrong with falling in love, especially at our age. It's very normal, you see." I spoke defending my friend.

"That's right, Eloise. I don't want that." He said. "You owe me some explaining."

"I slept with Julian." I spoke at once, between us there was no caution.

"What?!" He almost choked on his own saliva.

"He took me for a walk and we ended up sleeping there. It was amazing!" I spoke excitedly.

"Does that take?" John asked with wide eyes. "We'll talk later, I have to finish this work soon. Kiss doll." He said and got into his car.

"Bye..." I waved my hand.

"At three at my house?" Harry came up behind me startling me.

"What a fright!" I exclaimed with my hand on my heart.

"It wasn't intentional." He shrugged.

"Can you pick me up? It's kind of far..." I asked.

"Of course. Just don't be late, if you don't already know. I'll do the work and I'll keep the whole grade myself!" He spoke and turned his back.

"Bob Harry is back!" I yelled at him and got on my bike, he tried to say something but I wouldn't even listen.