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Worth Fighting For

Chapter 8: Moment of Peace

*Scene takes place 2 week after Karen gets saved*

HAL'S POV

"Can I go now, dad?" I plead.

"No, Hal, we've got to finish this tonight!" My dad bursts in annoyance.

"Ugh, fine" I give up.

"Now here, connect the blue wire with the green wire and see what happens." Tom says.

I connect the blue and green wire together but nothing's happening.

"Nothing's happening, dad" I say.

"That's because I'm not done yet, give me a sec." Tom says.

"Uhhhhh…" I sigh in annoyance and boredom.

Then all of a sudden, I get SHOCKED!

"Ouch. What the hell?" I say in pain

"Sorry, I didn't realize that was gonna happen." My dad explains.

I just stand there with my finger in my mouth, sucking away the pain.

"Alright, fine, just stop being such a baby and go; we'll finish this tomorrow." My dad says.

I give him a cold look then smile "Thanks, dad."

"Yeah, whatever." He says while grabbing his stuff and leaving.

I follow out behind him and go to my room. While on my way to my room I think of Karen, I think of how much I missed her, how much I love her, how much I want to be with her right now because we hadn't had one single moment of peace together ever since she got saved. Either she was being hovered my other guys for her bravery of lasting that long without being killed, or she was with Anne most of the time. It's only 10:00 at night and I'm so not tired, so I came up with the idea of stopping by at Karen's room, hoping she's awake because no one is usually awake by now. So I turn a different hallway at lead myself to Karen's room. I approach her door. I then knock, standing there waiting for an answer. No answer. She's clearly asleep. So I walk away, but as soon as I walk away, I hear her door screech open. I turn around to see, and there she is standing there rubbing her eyes. I guess I just woke her up. Oops.

"Hey, what are doing here this late?" She says tiredly with a scratchy voice.

"I wanted to see you but just go back to sleep; I didn't mean to wake you." I say.

"No forget it; I'm already awake now, so just come in." She says still with her scratchy voice sounding a little clearer.

I nod. I follow her inside, she closes the door and I down on her chair while she sits on her bed.

"Sooo…? How are you holdin up?" I ask just to break the silence and I really wanted to know.

"Fine, I guess."

"You guess?" I say worriedly.

"No, I'm fine, really! I am." She says with a smile but I give her an unconvinced look.

"Prove it." I say flat out.

So she smiles, gets off her bed, walks towards me, sits on me, straddles both of her legs around my legs, puts her hands behind my neck and kisses me. Whoa, now I'm definitely convinced. I know Karen. If she wasn't in the mood or if she wasn't feeling well, she wouldn't be doing this for sure! So I kiss her back. I deepen the kiss, both of us pouring our feelings into that one kiss. I just can't help myself so I finally start moving my hands, one in her hair and one on her back. She starts tightening her leg grip on my legs and scoots her body closer to mine, if that's even possible. I have been waiting for this kiss for 2 weeks. Ever since she got saved he hadn't done this. I mean we pecked each other on the lips had like a 5 second kiss but that's it. But this, this is what we've been dying for, for the past 2 weeks. I open my mouth, peeking my tongue out and licking her teeth begging for entrance. She doesn't decline. So now our tongues are fighting for dominance but no one seems to be winning, so we step up the game a little bit. So she starts to slowly take of my shirt and throw it off my body. I can tell she's impressed by the sight she is seeing because she stopped kissing be and look down at my body. She smile and looked back up into my eyes. I can tell she liked my tan (not too tan, but not pale), my abs, and basically my whole body. I smiled back at her and looked into her eyes. She then brings her legs over and changes her whole position into a cradling position but still has her hands wrapped around my neck. For a surprise, I quickly bring my arms under her legs, and stand up very quickly, startling her.

"Whoa" She says, clearly startled. She giggles and I laugh with her.

I walk with her in my arms in a cradling position and plop ourselves on the bed, not breaking our kiss. I'm hovered over her keeping myself up from squishing her. We're still kissing, battling for dominance, but none of us are giving up. So I slowly started to ride up her shirt with my hands softly. Before my hand reaches the bottom of her breasts, she grabs my wrist and stops me. I look at her in confusion, then I realize.

"Too soon?" I ask.

"Yeah" She says with an apologetic look on her face.

"It's okay" I say.

"I'm sorry" She says with a guilty look.

"No, no, it's okay, Karen." I say, trying to convince her not to worry.

She light grabs my shirt and lightly hits my chest. "No, it's not okay because I feel bad that you're ready and I'm not, and I just don't want you to have to wait." She says guilty.

"Karen, look at me. I don't care, okay? I'll wait forever until you'll ready, even though that'd be agonizing, I still would. I'm not going to force you to do something you don't want to do or something you're just not ready for. I wouldn't do that to you. I promise." I say in a soothing voice. I then pry myself off of on top of her and lay myself next to her.

"I know, but—" I cut her off.

"No buts, Karen. Cuz when do actually do it, it'll be the right day, the right time, the right moment, with the right people. Okay?"

She sighs, "Okay, but the right people will be us together, right?" She asks.

"Of course" I say.

"Alright" She says with a yawn.

I watch her eyes slowly close, while I take the covers and cover her with them. I get up planning to my room until I hear her say.

"Stay with me tonight, please." She says tiredly.

I nod. "Okay"

I take off my shoes, get into the bed and pull the covers over me. Karen scoots close to me, leaving no space between us. She drags her arm over my waist and snuggles close to me. I snuggle back. I put my arms around her a cuddle her tight.

"Thank you" Is all she says.

"Anytime" I respond.

"I love you." She says quietly drifting off to sleep.

"I love you too, Karen." I say hoping she heard me. I see her smile, look up at me, peck me on the lips one more time and then officially doze off to sleep. I then kiss her forehead and do the same. But while dozing off to sleep, the only thing I could think of was that Karen is safe with me, right now, in my arms and I won't let anyone or anything hurt her again. Not when she's with me. And that we finally got what we wanted. A moment of peace.

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