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Chapter 18
Romeo抯 POV
I knocked lightly on the white bedroom door, a cute pink plaque hanging in the middle. I heard a small throaty voice say "Come in". I slowly opened the door and quietly stepped into the room, closing the door behind me.
My eyes quickly scanned the room and noticed all the furniture was white; white dresser, white desk and white bed with white linen. Then I noticed the small figure laying curled up in blankets in the middle of the bed.
As I walked closer a head creeped out from among the blankets and lifted to see me. A small but weak smile spread across the face and my heart jumped up into my throat.
"Hey, Belle" I said almost a whisper as I sat on the bed beside her, my hand instantly wrapping hers.
"How are you feeling?" I asked. She looked so weak and vulnerable I had to block out images of what the burn on her back must look like now.
"I抦 ok just feeling sleepy cause of the painkillers" she replied, her voice low and raspy.
I looked around and spotted a glass of water on the table by her bedside. I let go of Belle抯 hand and picked up the glass of water, manoeuvrings around the bed so that I could hold her up as I helped her drink the water.
"Is that better?" I asked she nodded in reply.
I placed the glass back on the bedside table.
"So I have a little gift for you" I said as I showed her the small brown teddy bear I had placed behind me.
"This is Buster. Buster this is Belle. Buster is my magical friend who helps me get better when I抦 ill" I paused to appreciate the smile on Belle抯 face before I continued, "Now you must understand that Buster is just a loan but he has promised me he will look after you and make all brand new" I said in a ######## Buster voice.
Belle giggled and smiled brightly taking Buster from me and hugging the toy bear. Her face now had a little colour to it and she didn抰 look as weak.
"I never expected this from you?" she looked up at me a small grin on her face.
"What do you mean?" I asked as I sat back in my earlier position and again entwined my hand in hers.
"You being here, looking after me like this" she replied.
I feigned a hurt look on my face which made her giggle quietly, the sound of which caused a small burst of pleasure somewhere inside of me, which actually took me by surprise.
"Why is it so shocking to you?" I asked her.
"I just never expected you to be the Florence Nightingale type, that抯 all" she replied with a light smirk on her rosy soft lips.
"Well I am a man of great compassion. Even though I have my own selfish reason for doing all this" I told her whilst looking now into her eyes.
"Oh and what selfish reason is that?" I heard her voice hesitate slightly.
I moved closer towards her on the bed, our faces only inches apart; I dropped my voice down to barely above a whisper.
"Because I don抰 have anyone else to go to the dance with" I said glad that this made her burst into laughter, until she winced in pain at the movement.
My hand automatically reached for her back around the area where the burn was but I realised before touching her that I would cause her more pain and instead placed my hand on her arm.
"I think I should leave you to rest, I抣l come back later" I said after a few moments once the pain had subsided and she seemed settled again.
"No please stay with me" she said her voice sounded obviously drowsy.
I nodded my head, although her eyes were closed and gave her hand a small squeeze. I manoeuvred around the bed once more so I was leaning back against the head board and lying on her bed. She moved her head and rested it on my shoulder and I wrapped my arm around her gently.
I watched her,
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I noticed my hand didn抰 move away from her face and I began to relish in the pleasure I felt stroking her face as she slept in my arms.
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James POV
"Hey Carmel" I clicked my fingers in front of her face. She was lost in some day dream playing with her food and obviously not listening to me.
"Huh?" she finally responded.
I let out a small sigh.
"I asked isn抰 it good news that Belle抯 gonna be back in school tomorrow" I repeated myself for the fifth time.
"Oh, err, yeah" she replied still clearly no paying attention and playing with her food on her tray rather than eating it.
"Carmel is everything ok? I asked gently, I was beginning to worry about her.
"You抳e been acting a bit distant all week" I said as I reached over and held her hand.
"No everything抯 fine I抦 just a bit stressed. Geometry test this afternoon" she replied with a small smile.
I was going to ask more but Alexa and Theo came and sat with us at our usual table in the school cafeteria, closely followed by JD.
Carmella pulled her hand away from mine as soon as she saw JD approach, I noticed the two make eye contact but neither of them said a word to the other. In fact this carried on through the whole of lunch hour.
I decided to ask Jordan about this during gym class next.
"Yo, Jordan what抯 going on with you and Carmel? I asked him while we were doing warm ups at the start of gym class.
He paused for a moment before answering, "Nothing were fine".
"Yeah? Then why were the two you so quiet at lunch" I asked suddenly worried about the answer I might get.
"I had nothing to say to her. You抮e reading too much into it" he replied without even looking in my direction.
"Look JD you抮e my best friend I know when you抮e lying. And I also know that抯 something抯 going on with Carmella. She抯 been weird all week and I have no idea why" I had now stopped my warm ups and so had Jordan.
JD just looked at me as if he was unsure whether to tell me something or not.
"Look I know you and Carm are good friends, but I抦 a friend too, for both of you. Just tell me what抯 happened between the two of you?" I asked looking Jordan in the eyes.
Jordan gently shakes his head and then looks up to finally meet my gaze.
"I think you should be asking Carmella, she抯 the only one that can explain" he replied and then walked off as Coach called everyone to the bleachers.
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Belle抯 POV
Ba-Ding!
The message tone on my phone draws my attention away from the mirror on my dresser and I walk over my bed to grab my phone. I feel a smile spread across my face as I see read the message.
Message received from: Romeo
You抮e carriage awaits my fair love x
Just then I hear a car honking and rush to my window to see Romeo leaning against his car looking up at in my window. I smile and wave at him, he smiles and waves back before I gesture to him that I抣l be down in one moment.
I quickly turn back to check myself over in the mirror I was wearing a cute evergreen dress with small pink flowers and intricate blue leaves, which ended just slightly above my knees. I had left my hair open today to cover the bandage area under my dress, just in case.
I quickly added some pink lip gloss to the evergreen smokey eyeshadow and dark mascara.
Then I quickly slipped on my black Jimmy Choo ankle boots, they had a moderate heel (I didn抰 want to look taller than Romeo), I grabbed my handbag and cell phone and headed down the stairs.
Just as I opened the front door I heard a familiar voice, "Morning Izzy".
I turned around to face him and the surprise must have been written all over my face.
"Don抰 look so surprised to see your old man" he said with a half smile on his face.
"What are you doing here?" I asked still surprised that he would be here so early in he morning.
"I came to see if you wanted a ride to school" he asked, sort of.
"No thank you I have a ride" thankful that at least my mother wasn抰 stupid enough to have let him stay over again.
"Come on kiddo, be nice" he said.
"Sorry Dad I just匢 can抰 deal with this right now. I抦 barely recovered from my burn and just you being here isn抰 really helping" with that I went over to him and gave him a quick peck on the cheek. "I still love you Dad I just need time to get over everything that抯 happened", he nodded in agreement and partly in defeat.
I rushed out of the house in relief.
I reached where Romeo was standing still leaning against his car, now with his favourite pair of shades added; he looked like a male model, with the dishevelled hair and creamy skin and those rosy cheeks, not to mention the Adonis like body.
I had to bite my lip to stop from positively drooling in front of him.
He straightened up as I approached him and pulled my into a close but gentle embrace. It was nice knowing he wanted me close but was still gentle knowing my burns hadn抰 totally healed and he didn抰 want to cause me any pain. I liked this new extra caring side of him.
He gently let go of me enough so that he could move his head towards mine,
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Slowly his lips moved closer and I closed my eyes before our lips touched and I felt the cool icy but soft sensations of his lips brushing against the heat from mine. My heart beat faster; I could feel it in my ears blood pulsing away. I felt a shiver go up my spine as his tongue licked against my bottom lip for an instant before entering my mouth and clashing against my tongue.
Half a moment later he gently ended the kiss as I was left breathless and feeling a little light headed.
"Good morning princess" he whispered in to my ear I could hear in his voice the smile I knew must also be on his lips.
"How am I ever gonna get through the whole day at school if you kiss me like that in the morning?" I asked regaining my composure.
"I only do it to make you suffer" he said with a mischievous grin.
"Speaking of suffering Mr Russell won抰 be to happy if I抦 late for class" I said making my way over to the passenger seat of the car.
"Such a prude" I heard Romeo say before he jumped into his seat,
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