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Mike watched as Lea ran off, left the money on the table for dinner and walked up to the bleeding man now crumpled on the floor. He looked at the damage he sustained, Lea packed quite a punch! Mike leaned in close, rage in his eyes, "If I see you go anywhere near her again you're gonna have more than a broken nose. You better hope you learn how to treat women properly before you end up on the other side of it in prison." With that he pushed the man back to the ground and ran after Lea.

When he finally caught up with her they walked to the edge of the ocean and Lea collapsed in the sand with tears in her eyes. "This is why I left Jersey in the first place. Guys think they can take advantage of me because I'm so small." Mike sat beside her and listened, wrapping his arm around her. Mike looked deep into her sad eyes, "What happened?" She stared at him for a moment and he added, "If you don't want to tell me it's ok…" "No!" she interrupted, "I want you to know and to understand why I am this way."

She took a deep breath and looked back at him, "When I was 16 I was dating this guy, he was my first boyfriend. He was two years older than me and I was just so happy that someone actually wanted to spend time with me I didn't see it coming." She paused and Mike pulled her closer to him. She took another deep breath before continuing, "It was our 3rd or 4th date and he took me to a nice little place for dinner, he was drinking pretty heavily and started getting handsy with me. I just thought he had a little too much to drink, he would drop me off at home and we'd forget about it." Tears started welling in her eyes, but Mike noticed she did not look sad. There was nothing but anger in her eyes. "He didn't take me home though; he took me back to his apartment and pushed me into his room. Before I had a chance to react he had me pinned on his bed and was pulling my clothes off. I had no chance he was more than double my size…"

Mike pulled her into his lap, not letting her finish. She didn't need to, he knew exactly what had happened to her and he was seeing red. "It's ok. I'm here now and I promise I'll never let anything like that happen to you ever again." He hesitated, he knew what he wanted to say, but was it too soon? I love you, Lea. She spoke again before he could say it, "As much as I appreciate that I'm not a delicate flower, please don't treat me like one. It's because of him I learned to fight for myself" Mike frowned, "I only meant that if I'm with you I'll do my best to prevent guys from even wantin to try that shit with you. Let 'em know you belong with me. I can see you don't need me protectin' you; ya got one hell of an arm there. Remind me never to piss ya off" Lea smiled at this, "You're sweet" and buried her face in the crook of his neck. The words were out of his mouth before he could even think about it, "I love you, Lea."

Lea brought her head back up and looked into Mike's eyes. She heard him and he sounded sincere, but she had to see it. When their eyes met Mike saw all of Lea's fear and anger wash away. She stared into his eyes for a few moments and he started to say, "Its ok if you don't feel the same, I understand. I know it's too soon, I don't want you to say…" but he didn't get to finish. Lea lifted one finger to his lips and whispered "Shh. I love you too, Michael" and she softly brought her lips to his in a sensual kiss.

They stayed like that for some time, just kissing. Lea knew Mike would never make a move after what had just happened, but she wanted to show him she trusted him and that she was not broken because of what happened in her past. Lea leaned down and brushed her tongue along Mikes lower lip before pressing her tongue into his mouth. She explored his mouth, twinning her tongue with his and Mike lay back on his elbows allowing her to straddle him.

He was getting so worked up and he could feel the heat radiating from between her legs, pressing into him. He was so hard for her it hurt. She was kissing down his neck varying between sharp little bits and tonguing the sting away. She was grinding against him, only the fabric of her panties and his pants keeping them separated. He slowly moved his hands up her stomach bringing her shirt with them. She grabbed his hands and slipped them under the fabric allowing him to continue his trek upwards sliding them under her bra. He grasped her tits hard, kneading them in his hands. He rolled his fingers over her nipples, feeling something he never felt before on the left one. A nipple ring maybe? He laid down fully in the sand and brought her down to lay on top of him. She moaned against his neck. He knew she wanted him and goddammit he wanted her too, but this was not the place or time to do this, not on the middle of a crowded beach with plenty of prying eyes. The first time needed to be just the two of them. There will be all the time in the world for kinky games later, he told himself.

"Lea" Mike managed to get out, though it was breathy, verging on moaning. "Lea we have to stop. I don't know if I can control myself if we keep doing this. I want you so bad, but this isn't the right time or place." Lea looked into his eyes, not able to hide her disappointment, but nodded. She knew he was right. She climbed off his lap and they calmed their breathing a few moments before getting up and walking hand in hand back to the car.

"You know I would have taken you right there on that beach. You get me so hard, but I want our first time to be special, I want you to remember it for the right reasons." Mike tried to explain why he wanted to stop what they obviously both wanted. He had seen the disappointment in her eyes when he asked her to stop. "I know" she replied, "I just can't help it. You do something to me that makes me forget all my inhibitions, all the bad things that have happened to me and all my hang-ups. When I'm with you you're the only thing in my world and I want to show you how much I feel for you, how much I want you, how much I love you." Mike smiled, "Why don't we plan the right time then. It's getting pretty late tonight and I should probably be taking you home soon, but we've got a gig coming up next Friday and the guys usually all stay out after. I'll make sure they have no plans on coming home and you and I can have our alone time." "That sounds fantastic Michael, I can't wait." With that Mike helped her back into the Monkeemobile and drove her home. As much as he was happy that she was excited to be with him, he couldn't stop thinking.

When he got home the guys were waiting for him. He walked into the kitchen and they started asking him question after question at the same time. Mike held up his hand, "Now just hold it, one question at a time fellas." Peter was able to speak first, "We're sorry we followed you on your date, we just wanted to see how it was going to go. We want you to be happy." Micky stepped in, "Yeah so how did it go Mike how did it go? Did she like dinner? Did you kiss? How was it?" "Merciful heavens, calm down Micky. It went pretty well, the meal was good. Then some stupid body builder guy spilled water all over her and tried to grope her." Davy cut him off, "Oh Mike, I'm sorry man, we should have stayed. We could have backed you up." Mike smiled a slightly sad smile, "I didn't need it shotgun, I tried to step in, but he pushed me away. I was sure he was gonna run off with her or hurt her or somethin, and you know what happened? She punched him right in the face, broke his nose too. She's a feisty little one." Micky gulped, "Sh-she took out a body builder, on her own? But she's so tiny, who knew she had it in her?" "Was she ok after?" Peter asked. "Well she was pretty upset, but we had a long talk and I think things are going to be just fine shotgun, don't you worry."

With that he went up to his room to relax and process what happened. He had such a mix of emotions. He was scared for Lea, scared for the fact that she had to learn to defend herself that way. He was happy she could, but that didn't mean he liked it. At the same time he was excited to see what Friday would bring. Mike sighed and tried to drift off to sleep, but it was a futile effort, he was too wound up to sleep.

Just a heads up in the next few chapters I will most likely be changing the rating to M. I'll let you know when ;-)