When Martha finished her speech everybody stood up and applauded her

Lost love - 1

When Martha finished her speech everybody stood up and applauded her. She blushed herself, but she gave a pretty smile to all the people who had gone there to listen to her words. When she was down the stage the people still applauding, her legs were trembling; it was her last speech before the elections.

"Congratulations, Senator" said the people as she walked through the crowd.

"Congratulation, Senator Kent" said a voice she recognize from her back.

"Lionel!" exclaimed Martha when she turned round and saw the face of the man she had missed so much "What are you doing here?", tried Martha to asked to Lionel.

"You asked me to came…" he said and hold her hand to help her to go out the crowd who still applauding.

"Thank you" she said when they were outside.

"It was a pleasure" he said looking at her shiny blue eyes. "People really enjoy you…".

"That's what it seems… but I'm really scared for the elections"

"Why? You shouldn't be, you will win… I'm sure"

"It's not for that… It's because…"

"…. because you remember Jonathan these days?" he added.

"It have already past four years… I remember him everyday, but I just try to remember that there was a person who makes me really happy once ago, I try to forget that I lost him and how hurt were the first days, the first weeks, the first months…" she was becoming sad, her eyes were red and she notices a little cry going to her eyes; but she stopped it "But you really helped me then, and I faced it…" she smiled again.

"I missed you a lot, Martha Kent"

"Me too" she said while they took the elevator to the car park. "How where your business in Europe?" she asked.

"Boring… But I finished them, so I came as early as I could since I read your last e-mail" he said. And he put his hand in his jacket and he took out an orange tulip.

"What's thant?!" exclaimed Martha when she saw him taking out the flower from his jacket.

"It's a tulip"

"I see…"

"I know they are your favourite flowers, so I took it for you from Holland"

"You have taken a flower for me from the other side of the world!" she exclaimed taking the tulip and joining its smell.

"I have"

"You're so sweet, Lionel" said Martha giving him a kiss on his cheek.

She blushed, and he did too.

Then the elevator doors open again.

"I have my car here… did you come by limousine?" said Martha.

"No. I have the limousine in metropolis, I took a taxi"

"Ok… I will drive, so" said Martha as she opened her car's door.

"I can drive if you prefer" said Lionel.

"It's my car. I drive" said Martha.

"O.K." accepted Lionel.

When they were already in the car Martha asked Lionel for his baggage.

"Oh… I left it in my jet. I have to rang from the hotel to ask them to take it there"

"You needn't to stay in a hotel… you can stay in my apartment"

"I don't want to…"

"I asked you to come, and you did… the less I can do is to give you a bed… don't me?"

"Ok, ok… I will give them you address" he said. "So… what's that thing as important that you couldn't say me by mail or phone?" asked Lionel a while after.

"It's complicated… could you wait until we arrived?" asked Martha.

"I'm not sure" joked Lionel.

When they arrived to the apartment Martha took out a pair of glasses and some champagne.

"Are we celebrating anything?" asked Lionel.

"You're return" said Martha smiling. "Are you hungry?"

"No, I've dinner during the travel"

"Great. Me neither… I ate something before the speech"

She gave a glass to Lionel, took the bottle and sat on the sofa. Lionel sat next to her and they stayed a while just looking into each other's eyes.

"We're already here… now you can tell it to me…" insisted Lionel.

Martha left her glass on the table and began to caress one of Lionel's hands.

"When Jonathan dead you became my moral support, my partner during my first months as a senator, and my friend. The time past and we realized that we had become something more than friends, our relationship was stronger than friendship… but I wasn't prepare to find it out, to accept it…"

"Martha…" whisper Lionel.

"Let me finish… I asked you to let it go, to left that feelings apart of us… and I came to Washington and it really seemed that we did it, that we forget that… It have past two years since I'm here, now it comes new elections and maybe I will have to stay here four years more, and I don't want these for years to be as the last two… I mean, I don't want to just see you less than once a month… Lionel, I want to wake up with you every day…"

Lionel didn't say anything, he was wordless.

"Lionel?"

"I can't believe it…" he whispered.

"Well… I… if you don't want it… If… if you have really forgotten that feelings… I…" said Martha nervously and blushing herself.

"No… stop! I do, I want, I… I love you" said Lionel "It's just that… I can't believe it, I was really sure that you had left that feelings in the past, that… that that was just something that happened because you weren't really good after your husband's dead… I tried to convince my self that that was just a dream… that nothing happened…"

"It was real, Lionel… And I want to continue it, I want to continue our relationship since the moment we almost kiss in thanksgiving, because there was a while when I forget everything, when my mind just knew that I loved you… Lionel, I want to wake up everyday thinking that I love you"

"That would be wonderful!" exclaimed Lionel as he moved to be closer to her and they kissed.

The next morning there were two pairs of shoes next to the sofa, a shirt on the table and a blouse on a chair, there were a trousers in front the door and a skirt in the middle of the corridor, there was a bra on the bedroom's door knob, there were a pants under the bed and the sheets were on the floor.

"Good morning" whispered Martha when she opened her eyes and saw Lionel next to her.

"Good morning" repeated Lionel. She had an arm rounding his thorax and she removed it caressing his muscles.

"You look really pretty in the morning…" he said as she kissed him.

"Thanks" she said "What do you want for breakfast?"

"Whatever you want"

While Martha was preparing the breakfast, wearing just her panties, Lionel came with the same clothes of the day before.

"I forgot to ask for my baggage, so I will go to the airport this morning…"

"Ok… I will go with you"

"No, please… I want to give you a present… and I want it to be a surprise…"

"It will not be a surprise if you have already told me about it" she said turning round to kiss him.

"But I don't want you to see it…"

"Ok… so… will we meet for lunch…"

"For lunch and for the rest of the day, my dear… and tomorrow, and the next one, and the other… I will not leave you alone never" he said kissing her hand and her neck.

"Poor of me…" she joked.

TO BE CONTINUED…