Chapter 7

Was it cheating?

"Great, now what am I supposed to do for the rest of the day? Everyone is still at school." I was driving down the street away from the school. I looked in my rear-view mirror and saw Aaron walking back into the school. "God this sucks."

I decided to grab something to eat to kill the time. I still had 3 hours until the school let out for the day. I went to the store to grab some pizza to pop in the oven when I got home. I walked down the aisle and couldn't find the pizza. So I had to go and find someone that worked there. I saw one of the workers walking down the aisle.

"Umm, excuse me, but do you know where I can find the pizza?"

"Uh yes, they are right down that aisle right there. They'll be on the right hand side."

"Okay thank you very much," I started down the aisle that the woman pointed to. I saw the pizza and picked one out.

I walked outside the glass doors of the store and bumped into someone. "Oh I'm sorry; I wasn't watching where I was going." I help the guy up from the pavement.

"It's okay, it was my fault. I should have been more careful." He brushed himself off then looked at me and just stared. It became a little awkward for a moment but then he snapped out of it and put out his hand. "Umm, I-I'm Henry, Henry Blake," I shook his hand.

"I'm Myra De Luca," he smiled and I couldn't help but smile back. He was pretty cute. He had black hair that swooped over his one eye. His eyes were a dark hazel color and he had a lip ring.

"I'm guessing that you're Italian right?"

"Yes you're right," I laughed and he joined in.

"Umm, I hope you don't mind me asking, but shouldn't you be in school? I mean you look like you're probably 18."

"Yeah, but I got into a fight like 30 minutes ago and I got expelled." He stared at me for a moment.

"Why did you get into a fight?" He scratched the back of his head.

"This one girl pissed me off and I broke her nose," he laughed.

"Man, I hope I don't get on your bad side." We laughed together. "Hey, do you have anything to do?"

"No not for like another 3 hours," he smiled.

"How about you hang out at my place, it's not that far from here." I thought about it for a minute. Eh, what's the worst that can happen to me?

"Okay, I've got nothing better to do," he smiled at my reply.

"Okay, I'm just going to grabbed a few things and we can get going."

"Okay, I'll just wait out here until you're done," He nodded his head and walked into the store. I waited around for a few minutes and then he came out with a couple bags at his side.

"Ready to go?"

"Yep, umm do you just want to follow me to my house so I can drop of some stuff?"

"No not at all, you could just leave your car there to. What's the point of driving two cars when we're going to the same place?"

"Yeah I guess so," I walked to my car and he walked to his. When I pulled out, I waved to him and he waved back. I turned onto the street and he followed behind me until we got to my house. I pulled up into my driveway and got out of my car and he did the same.

"Wow this is some house you got there."

"Yeah, I think my mom was crazy for buying it since I'm usually the only one living here, but right now my friend and his mom are living with me."

"You mean you basically live by yourself?"

"Yep, but my friends always come over. So I'm never really alone." He nodded his head and we made our way inside. "I'll be right back I'm just going to grabbed a few things and I need to put this in the freezer." I gestured to my bad that had the pizza in it.

"Okay, I'll just wait here." I nodded and went to the kitchen to put the pizza away then I made my way up stairs to my room. I grabbed my purse from off of my nightstand and went back down stairs to where Henry was waiting.

"Okay I'm ready to go," He smiled and opened the front door for me, "Thank you."

"You're welcome," He shut the door behind us and then we made our way to his car. To be honest, I didn't feel very safe riding with him, but it would save me some money. He opened the passenger door for me and shut it lightly when I got in and then he made his way over to the drivers side. "Why don't you pick out a CD to play?" He pointed to the glove compartment. When I opened it, there was a stack of CDs in it.

"Wow, you have a lot of CDs," I sorted through them looking for something good.

"Yeah I guess I do," he laughed and turned his attention back to the road. I found one that I liked and popped it in. The song 'Better Than Me' by Hinder started playing out of the speakers.

"I love this song," I started mouthing the words to the song.

"Interesting," He started singing to the song and I found myself singing along with him. We sat there listening to the songs that came out of the speaker one after the other. After about 15 minutes of driving, he pulled up into a driveway. The house in front of us was pretty big. It was bigger than my house but it had two floors and a small balcony that extended out. It kind of looked like a smaller version of my house.

"You're house is very pretty," I looked at him and he started to get out of the car. He went around and opened my door.

"Thanks, I'm the only one that lives here. My parents are always away on business."

"I know what you mean; my mother is in Africa right now."

"That's cool, what about your dad?" I slide out of the car.

"He left when I was about six years old." He was silent for a moment.

"Oh, I'm sorry," Help, offered his hand and I took it.

"It's okay; it's been a long time. You kind of just get over stuff as you get older." He nodded his head and we walked into the house.

"Umm, so what do you want to do? Um we could watch a movie and go swimming afterwards."

"Yeah, that's sounds good, but I don't have my bathing suit."

"Oh that's ok; we have some extras up stair from when my sister was alive."

"What happened to her?"

"She died of leukemia awhile back, but we still have all her stuff." He walked over to a cabinet over next to the big screen TV. When he opened it, I could see a huge stack of DVDs. "Here you can pick out any movie you want. I'll go get something for us to eat."

"Okay," I walked over to where he was and started scanning through the DVDs while he went to the kitchen. There was only one that caught my eye; it was called 'The Scream'.

I've watched the movie before but it was a long time ago, so I decided that this was the movie I wanted to watch.

Henry came back into the room with some popcorn and some drinks. "Did you pick a movie?"

"Yep," I hopped up from my crouched position and walked over to him with the DVD. I took the food out of his hands and gave him the DVD.

"The Scream, man I haven't watched this movie for a long time." I smiled at him and he smiled at me. I sat down on the couch and he put the DVD in, and then came over to where I was sitting. He sat to close for confort so I scooded over a little bit. He didn't seem to notice.

We watched the movie and eat popcorn. After the movie was over, he yawned and placed his arm around my shoulder. I coughed and shrugged his arm off my shoulder.

"Umm, do you want to go swimming now?" He looked over at me as he asked. I looked out the window and saw the bright light shinning into the room.

"Umm sure," We both got up and he gestured for me to follow him. I walked behind him as he walked up the stairs, and into the first door on the top of the stairs. "Was this your sister's room?" He turned to look at me.

"Yeah, this is the first time I've been in here since she died." I nodded and he continued to the closet on the far wall. "Come here, there are a couple different bathing suits. You can pick out which ever one you want." I walked over to the closet and saw like five different bathing suits to pick from.

"Wow, why did she need so many bathing suits?"

"Well she liked to shop a lot and after she found out she had cancer she shopped even more. She couldn't really do anything else so shopping was kind of theraputic to her."

"Oh, if you don't mid me asking, I was wondering how old your sister was?" He smiled at me.

"I don't mind, she had just turned fifteen before she died."

"Wow, she was really young." I looked at the bathing suits and picked out a stappless two-piece. It was white with a red and black design that wrapped around it.

"You would look really pretty in that," He stared at the bathing suiting, trying to imagine what I would look like in it. "You can get changed in here, and meet me in the backyard when you're finished getting changed." He smiled and then walked out of the room.

I slipped into the bathing suit and looked in the mirror that was hanging on the wall. It looked really good on me. It showed my stumach and was tight. I walked out of the room leaving my close neatly on the bed. I walked down the stairs and out to the back of the house where the pool was.

"Wow, you look amazing," he looked up and down making me blush.

"Well you don't look to bad yourself." He smiled and I smiled back.

"Well come on, what are we waiting for? Let's jump in," He lightly grabbed my wrist and led me over to the pool. He let go and jumped into the pool making a huge splash. I laughed when the water drenched me.

"Thanks," I laughed and he joined in. I dived into the water and swam up to him. "The water feels great," I splashed him with the water and he splashed back. We started laughing and swimming around the pool.

After about ten minutes of swimming Henry backed me up onto the wall. "Umm, Henry, what are you doing?" I stared at him, as his face got closer. His lips were about to touch mine. "Henry, I have a boyfriend." He paused for a moment.

"If you had a boyfriend you wouldn't be here with me and we wouldn't have been flirting with me."

"I told you, I had nothing better to do." I couldn't swim away, because he had his arms on both side and had his body pressed up against mine. He moved his hands to my wrists and pinned me against the wall of the pool. His lips began to get closer to mine. "Henry stop, I told you, I have a boyfriend. Now let me go," I struggled against his grip, but he just held on tighter.

His lips finally touched mine and I didn't kiss back. His lips forced mine to open and I could feel his tongue in my mouth. I bit down until I tasted blood. He let go of my wrists and back away a little bit.

"Ow, you mother fucker. Damnit that fucking hurt." I jumped out of the pool and ran into the house. I could hear him shout from behind me.

"Where do you think you're going?" I ran in the house and shut the glass door behind me. I made sure that it was locked before I ran to the front door. When I opened it, he was already there. I turned to run the other way but he caught my wrist before I could run.

"Got ya," He closed the front door and locked it. "Now I'm going to have a little bit of fun. Just think of it as you apology for biting my tongue." He pulled me up the stairs and into a room.

"Let me go," I struggled against his grip as he pulled me over to the bed.

"Okay," He threw me onto the bed and climbed on top of me. "Just as soon as I'm done," he smiled and took a knife off the nightstand. My eyes grew wide as he lowered the knife and started cutting the top of the bathing suit.

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When he was finished, he lefted me in the bed and walked out of the room. He came back a few moments later and threw my cloths at me. I lied the crying on the bed and just stared at the smirk on his face.

"You can leave now, I got what I wanted."

"You bastard," He laughed and left the room, shutting the door behind him. I slowly got off the bed. My body was so sore, and now I couldn't help but think what I was going to tell Aaron. I slowly put on my cloths and walked out the door and down the stairs.

"Come back if you ever want more," He laughed.

"You're going to be in jail before I ever think about coming back." He shook his head.

"You have no proof, there's no DNA to match up to me and I didn't have sex with you so they can't conferm that you've been assaulted. Oh and don't forget, you don't have to come to me, I can always come to you if I wanted to." He smirk and I ran out the door.

I could feel the tears swelling up in my eyes and running down my face. He was right, I had to proof, no evidence. I started walking down the street to a store. I had to get something for my aching body. I got to the store and bought some pain killers. When I got back outside, I took out my cell phone and called Aaron. The phone rang a couple times but then I heard Aaron's voice on the other end.

"Myra, Myra are you okay? Where are you?" I choked back the tears so I wouldn't worry him.

"Aaron s-somethings happened, c-can you pick me up."