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Chapter 3
I do not own most of these characters they belong 2 meg cabot.
Suze's P.O.V
"She's the woman, who saved my life. Diego was going to kill me in my sleep, but she saw him and got him before he could finish his job." Jesse replied.
Everyone went quite as if they expected jesse to say it was all a joke. The silence was getting freaky, so I decided to speak.
"look, I know this might come as a shock to you" I started "but that skunk………….i mean maria was gonna off jesse"
Everyone looked at me…………..i guess no one ever called maria a skunk, a name I think she fully deserves
"it's true madre" jesse said after a few minutes of silence " I had gone to bed….. when I was woken up by diego strungling me, I tried to fight free, but it was too late……………I gave up hope until Susannah came and beat deigo off.
Everyone ……..well jesse's mom and dad paused to take everything in. after a while Antonio (jesse's dad) finaly spoke.
"if what you say is true" he paused "then I apologise for my out burst and thank you for saving my son's life"
"it's no big deal" I said "I only did what any true American would do"
"then accept our gratitude" jesse's mom said " and stay with us as long as you wish "
"thank you" it told them
"madre" jesse started "Susannah was supposed to stay at the Mission, but the good father got ill………….,"
" not a problem at all" jesse's mom inturupted "she is more than welcome to stay here as long as she wants"
"Thank you, Mrs De Silva" I said sincerely " you have no idea how much this means to me"
"think nothing of it" she says "and please call me Beatriz, and jesse take Susannah to your sister rooms, they'll give her some more comfotable clothes"
"si mama" jesse replied "Susannah come, I'll introduce you to my sisters"
We left the kitchen, with jesse's arm round mine, you know like them posh people. When we got to the top of the stairs, jesse started telling me which room was for which sister.
"you will be staying in the guest room" he paused and said in barely a whisper "mine is across from yours………and if you ever need anything" he winked "don't hesitate to come"
He's words left me speechless, while he's wink sent chills down my spine.
I couldn't help but blush, I knew what he meant, he didn't have to explain it. And I knew if we didn't go to his sisters now, I wouldn't we able to control actions.
"can we go now" I asked, my voice was getting husky, I was finding it hard to breathe right now.
"careful querida" he chuckled "if someone heard your voice they would think………………."
He moved closer to me, I shivered, I could feel the heat in his breath and it was getting me all hot and bothered.
When he saw my reaction he, moved closer, touched my cheek softly, then trailed across to my lips, and soflty moving down my neck, I stopped him before he could reach my chest area
"jesse don't" I said, breathing really heavy "you parents…….your sisters .they might hear, I don't want to give them the expression that I just wanna ravish you" Don't get me wrong, i didn't hate what he was doing, but a girl's got to save something for his birthday.
"sorry querida" he whispered "I don't know what came over me, it's just hard to think straight when I'm around you"
I smiled "it's good to know , but right now we need to get moving"
He nodded, then motioned me to the room on the left. He knocked sofly, the door was opened by a girl about 15, same skin tone as Jesse, even had the same features.
"jesse" she said, she rushed over to jesse, hugged him, I guess it took him by surprise since he stumbled back a little.
"Mercedes" jesse exclaimed in a happy tone. You could see he loved his sister dearly. another reason I love him, he's so caring.
"this is Susannah" he said pointing at me, I smiled and gave a little wave. "She will be staying with us, and mama said you need to find clothes for her"
Mercedes nodded and motioned me to follow her, I obeyed and followed her inside, the room was about the same size as mine, but hers was lavender coloured, she had all the
Needed stuff, you know a closet, a table where there was all her make-up, mirrors and perfumes. She even had a canopy bed, just like my own.
I sat on the bed, while she went through her closet, trying to find something my size. After a few minutes she brought, an emerald coloured dress, I thought it was perfect, until I saw the hoop skirt.
"look, I don't mean to be rude or anything" I said standing up " but there is no way I am wearing that" I pointed at the hoop
She looked at me thoughtfully, with her big brown eyes. Then said "do you want me to call jesse, so you can talk".
I nodded and sat back down. She put the dress on the bed next to me. Then headed out of the door to find jesse.
Jesse came a few minutes after. He came and sat next to me. "what's wrong querida" he asked. I looked at him with sad eyes, he sensed something was wrong so , he pulled me closer to him, then hugged me.
I could hear his heartbeat since my head was on his abs – his abdominal muscles were deeply ridged, and covered with a light dusting of silky black hair.
I started trailing my fingers softly up and down his chest. Then slowly started untying the ties on his shirt.
Jesse swallowed. Hard.
"querida" he whispered hoarsely "please don't"
"why" I asked. Now I was kissing his chest, it didn't seem like Jesse HATED it either. I could... I could hear him sigh.
"if you continue" he started "I might not be able to stop myself".
I didn't have any objection, it wasn't so hard to forget about what i had just said outside, besides if he just take me and ravish me, so I asked "and what's so wrong with that"
"querida" he warned. His voice was still horse but I still managed to hear the firmness.
"fine" I muttered. I stopped kissing him, but I didn't want to get off him, so I placed my head on his lap and looked at him.
"So what's wrong with dress" he asked "Mercedes told me you refused to wear it"
"hoops" I answered automatically. "I know it's the lamest excuse, but they look horrid not to meantion they make me look fat"
Jesse shook his head, I knew he was gonna trick me into wearing those hideous dresses.
"Querida" he started " you know I would do anything to make you happy"
I nodded, I knew I was gonna loose this, so why bother arguing.
"would you do the same for me" he asked, carefully as if he knew on the next question I was gonna explode.
"yeah" I said carefully. I knew where he was going with this and I didn't like it.
He looked at me. His black eyes were bright on me. "and would you be willing to give the dresses a chance" he asked . when he saw I wasn't even thinking about it, he continued "for me"
I really tried to look away from his eyes, he was now doing the puppy eyes and he looked so hot doing it. Who could say no to those eyes.
I paused, as if thinking about it, for a while. "fine, but I aren't wearing no hoops"
"fine, you win" he said placing his hands in front of him as if defeated.
He leaned down to kiss my cheek, but I moved my head slightly so that he caught my lips.I could sense his shock, but very quickly he recovered and his arm around my head tightened, drawing me closer to him.
Returning my kiss, his lips parted a little and he began to deepen our kiss. I guess we both had forgotten about our previous objections, I thought hazily as I sighed against his lips and hoped that he wouldn't stop...
But he raised his head and moved back. "querida, we shouldn't" he murmured,whilst running his fingers through his dark thick hair
"fine" I groaned staring at him "besides I need to get changed"
Jesse stood up kissed me on my forehead then left the room.
After a minute or so Mercedes, Martha, Josephina came to help me get dressed.
I chose this awesome emerald dress, it was low cut on the chest, I didn't wear any hoops, but I still had to wear a corset. Which wasn't really a bad thing cause it pushed my 34B making them seem bigger than before.
Whilist getting dressed I found out that you have to get dressed for dinner. Everynight. No wonder Jesse never calls me Suze, they are so posh like.
No, I am not kidding. You have to get dressed up. Don't get me wrong I don't hate getting dressed up, but doing it everynight, that's kinda like Kelly Prescott's kinda thing.
After getting dressed, Martha was telling me about the whole sitting plan.
"Padre sits at the end of the table" she paused then added "madre sits at his right hand side, me across, Bella usually sits across Jesse but since you are here, bella will have to take my place"
She paused again, took a deep breathe, then continued "I will sit next to you and the rest of my sisters will take the remaining sits"
She started speaking again, but I couldn't hear a thing coming out of her mouth. I guess knowing the fact that I will be looking straight at jesse during the whole dinner, made my heart flip.
"Did you get that" Martha wanted to know " mama is calling us, it's dinner time"
I didn't really know what she wanted to know, but I guess whatever she wanted to know, my nodding was good enough.
Jesse's P.O.V
"Jesse" said mama, bringing me back from my day dream about Susannah.
"Si mama" I answred lookind back at her. She gave me one of her looks the one she gives my sisters when they are mooning over some guy.
"Hijo" she shook her head disappointedly "you need to stop mooning over her"
I was shocked, not only had mama caught me mooning, but she knew who I was mooning over. This is more embarrassing than the time with the chillies. Never mind that's one nightmare I never want to relive again.
Once I got over the shock, I tried to defend myself. "I'm not mooning over anyone" I said. But when she gave me one of those really looks, I felt the need to defend myself more " honestly……..I am not mooning"
She studied me thouthfully " whatever you say hijo,. What ever you say" she paused, started setting out the table then spoke again "oh I almost forgot, Martha said Susannah disn't like the dress
She didn't even finish since I inturupted as if I hadn't heard her talking "She just didn't like the hoops, she thought the dress was fine. Besides we talked and sorted it"
"So you just talked to her" she said, obviously not beliving my explanation "and she agreed to wear the dress"
I knew she thought something else had happened.I could feel the heat rising on my cheeks, so I looked down on the table as if admiring the wood work. "si" I answered her.
"oh" she said gently " since Susannah is going to be staying with us for a while, why don't you find her a gentlemen to keep her company"
I winced. I couldn't help it. "I'm sure, she's fine on her own" I said.
Mama looked at me thouthfully, shook her head then chuckled soflty. "we'll discuss this over dinner" she said " and Susannah is sitting across you, for dinner tonight"
I couldn't help but smile, my querida was going to be sitting just a reach away. I just hopped that I would be able to control myself.
I was still thinking of Susannah when I felt someone grab my leg. I looked down and found my little hermana Bella.
"Bella cual es" (bella what is it)I asked worryingly. The way she was grabbing my leg, was kind of edging me towards the stairs, as if she had something important to show me.
She kept pulling me and I kept on asking her what was wrong. Finally she gave up, got on top of the chair and turned my head towards the stairs.
My mouth dropped.
Really. Because coming down the stairs was Susannah, and she was looking like an angel. She was wearing an emerald dress, it made her eyes look bigger.
The dress was low cut making her chest more inviting. I was lost of words. There were no words enough to describe how good she looked.
She bit her lip "I look horrid don't I" she asked, obviously worried. I closed my mouth, then opened it to comment on her dress, but no words came out.
She made a face " I look really bad don't I " she asked again.
I finally managed to answer "you look hermosa querida" I stammered. I regretted my words when my sister started giggling. It took me sometime to figure out what was so funny. I guess I had forgotten that I wasn't the only one that could speak Spanish.
I felt myself go red.
Mama came to the rescue, to my sisters she said "( Girls leave your brother alone) muchachas dejan su hermano solo" she then turned to Susannah and said " you look very beautiful Susannah,………………Jesse will help you to your seat"
My sisters had stopped giggling, but when mama went to the kitchen they started again with the comments.
"Jesse my dear hermano, why don't you tell Susannah what querida means" Martha said with a smug.
I groaned loudly.
Suze's P.O.V
During dinner jesse's sister were still tormenting him, I almost felt sorry for him.Conversation was lively during the De Silva dinner. I found out a lot about the family.
But Jesse seemed uneasy, the whole time; I guess his sisters were staring to get to him.So I decided to find out a bit more about jesse, besides he never talks about himself that often.
"So Jesse, do you have any interesting stories" I asked with genuine intrest. I wanted to find out some dirt about Jesse, and what better way to do so than from his mother and sisters.
"no" Jesse said quickly. It was as if he had something to hide.
"tell her about the chillies" Mercedes said calmly. I looked at jesse and saw him throwing daggers at her.
"chillies ….what about them jesse" I asked softly. I was using one of those comforting voices, the shrinks, my mom used to send me to, when the police started bringing me home.
It wasn't really my fault. I've been brought home by the police a few times, accused of trespassing or vandalism or breaking and entering. It's all cause of stupid ghosts, but you can't really tell the shrink that or by the way, I can see and speak to the dead
Anyway the voice is meant to calm you down and make you feel the need to open up.
Jesse simply looked down. "Jesse made a bet with Dylan" Mercedes started, she paused looked at Jesse, smiled sweetly, then continued " the bet was to see, if Dylan could make jesse cry.
Dylan tried lot's of times to make jesse cry but failed. So jesse went to bed thinking he had won. During the night Dylan came and put lot's of fresh chilli powder in jesse's pants. Jesse woke up crying from the pain" Mercedes laughed "he had to show mama his manly bits"
When the story finished everyone was laughing so hard, except from jesse.
"you…..cried…from…….chilli……..powder" I said laughing in between. I saw how un comfortable jesse was so I decided to change the subject.
"how about, I answer all the questions you have about me" I said. Jesse looked at me ans smiled thankfully. I sighed... God he's so sexy and all mine.
"okay" Antonio (jesse's dad) agreed " where do you come from"
"brookly" I answered. automatically, it kinda made me home sick.
"if you come from Brooklyn" Martha started "then what are you doing in Carmel?"
"my father died, when I was 6" I paused remembering the memories " when I turned 15 my mother started dating Andy, he's a builder, he lives in Carmel.
When I turned 16 she announced she was getting married to Andy and we were moving to carmel. Andy has 3 kids, jake, 18, Bradley,16 and david 12. so we moved here to carmel, I got three new brothers.
Two days ago they decided to take a vacation, camping. I hate the countryside, so I said I would go stay with Father Dom. But today I got bored so, I went to the boarding houses, to see if I could meet new people.
That's when I saw Deigo. He didn't look like a nice man, so I followed him and from him I met Jesse" okay so I made half of it up, but they didn't need to know the whole truth.
"you mean you beat Deigo up" Martha asked in obvious shock. one thing i hate about Jesse's time apart from Deigo and Maria is how girls are treated as if they can't take care of themselves.
I shrugged "it wasn't that hard, I've beat up bigger guys"
They all looked at me. The whole family in shock, well apart from jesse who was just shacking his head.
"when did you start beating men up" Beatriz asked. Her eyes were so big now, it was really har to keep a straight face. But i managed.
"back in brooklyn, people…….," I smiled at one memory. Dean, he was a jock in Brooklyn, he spanked my arse, guess what I did……………… I kneed him in the balls so hard, he spent the rest of the day cooling them with ice. that was the greatest day of my life apart from when I met Jesse of course
" well most guys think they are better than women. So they used to make fun of me, I don't like being made fun of., boys back in Brooklyn used to do it all the time – well, until I learned how effectively a fist connecting with their nose could shut them up."
They all stared at how calm I was about this, they stayed that way for about 2 minutes, it was like they were under a spell or something, luckly the spell was broken by bella who yawned tiredly.
Jesse moved from his chair, went to bella took her in him arms, I couldn't help but feel jealous. "time to sleep bella" he said softly, she tried to protest but he whispered something in her ear and she immediately relaxed in his arms, she even put her head on his awesomely sexy chest. NOW I WAS REALLY JEALOUS.
"I need to turn in, I'm wrecked" I said. It was kinda a lie, besides it's not like I'm gonna say excuse me while I go suck face with your son, so I lied a bit.
They all stared at me with eyes that were as black and liquid as ink, it kinda reminded me of the first time I spoke to Jesse.
Jesse, obviously sensed the confusion going on, so he went "it means she's tired, that's the way they speak in Brooklyn" he sighed "you'll get used to it…I did"
We said our good-nights and went up stairs. I went to the guest room, to get changed, Jesse took bella to bed, I knew he was gonna take ages since he said her was gonna read he a bed-time story.
I got changed in the bathroom, I guess you ccould say old habbits die hard. While I was still changing I heard someone knock at the door, I quickly put on the night gown Mercedes gave me, brushed my hair, checked my reflection, then went to open the door.
Jesse's P.O.V
As I read bella, a bed- time story, I noticed how quiet she's been, so I decided to ask what was wrong.
"are you okay bella" I asked gently, it was the only way to get her to open up
She nodded, then went "can I ask you something"
I nodded "you know you can ask me anything bella" and I meant it too, I liked being honest with bella, I knew it made her feel safe.
"are you in love with Susannah" she asked directly. Her big eyes shinning at me, as if inhope that I will be honestwith her
I was shocked, but I recovered quickly "why do you ask"
She shrugged "I don't know really" she lets out an irritated sigh "it's just like the books you read to me, you know where there is a beautiful princess…and Susannah is pretty"
I nod "that means you are the prince, besides you kept looking at her, the way Martha and Mercedes look at Dylan. So do you love her"
I ran my fingers through my hair and kept asking myself the same question how can a 7 year old figure out I loved Susannah..in a day when it took me ages to accept it
"yes……….i love her" I answered truthfully
"then go and tell her goodnight, she will be sad if you didn't come" she said lowering her head on the pillow, she stoped me before I left her room "and switch the lights off"
So that's how I found myself infront of the guest room waiting for Susannah to answer her door.
She did later after about a minute.
Answer he door, I mean. She was absolutely breath taking, she was wearing a see through night gown, (Mercedes or Martha must have given it to her,
That's the kind of thing mama buys for them, when they are about to get married) the gown hung on her curves perfectly, it took some real courage for me not to just grab and make love to her.
"Jesse" she whispered quietly, obviously surprised to see me here.
My eyes accidentally wondered from her face, to her chest, I blushed when I saw her staring at me.
"relax" she joked "it's nothing you haven't seen before" I smiled at the memory.
I was starting to fell a bit hot, so I decided to say good-night and leave before I lost control. "I just came to say good- night"
I tried to sound calm; I kissed her forehead and whispered "good- night querida" before retreating back to my room.
Before I got inside my room I heard her whisper good- night.
We both needed an early night, since we both knew tomorrow was going to be hectic.
Because tomorrow was my birthday and my family always make a big fuss about it, even Susannah said she had a gift for me.
I slept happy because I knew tomorrow wasn't going to be just another day.
I couldn't help but wonder what her gift was going to be. Whatever it was, I din't care, but knowing that she actually remembered brought a smile on my face.
Maybe for once things were going to go my way.
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