Chapter 11
It was the last week of term and the school was buzzing with excitement for the summer holidays; Cesca was looking forward to spending most nights with Jonah and not having to wake up and leave him to return to the place that prevented them from being together, like a proper couple.
As she walked through the crowded school corridor unaware of her surroundings until one of the pupils pushed into her making her crash to the floor her paperwork scattered everywhere, she turned around to see who had pushed her but they had already gone. A voice startled her and a hand took hold of hers pulling her up from the ground, it was Jonah,
"Are you ok?" he asked with a smile.
"Yeah, I am fine" Cesca said returning the smile, forgetting where she was.
Jonah gathered up all of the work that was on the floor and handed it to her. "Look, I need to talk to you Ces, but not here."
Cesca look worried, "meet me around the corner at lunch, I will pick you up and we can quickly go back to the house."
Jonah smiled rubbed her arm cautiously and left, Cesca sighed, what was it this time? She was finding it hard to concentrate that day, she wasn't really there. Maybe it was because she was worried about what Jonah had to tell her, she felt lost.
Waiting for lunchtime to come seemed like forever but when it did Cesca wished it hadn't. She jumped into her car and picked Jonah up from a few streets away, he got in and said nothing. She drove home, when they arrived they sat in silence at the kitchen table,
"I have some bad news Ces." Jonah said after a while.
Cesca's heart rate quickened "What is it Jonah?" she asked.
"It's my dad, he is taking us on holiday – for the whole of the summer holidays" he replied.
Cesca's heart sank, "no Jonah, you can't go, we had already planned how it was going to work" in a slightly raised tone.
"I know Ces, I am trying to convince him to leave me at home, so that I can revise, I will talk to him tonight, you know I wouldn't want to be anywhere other than here with you."
Cesca's heart returned to its normal pace, she smiled and moved closer to her boyfriend and buried her head into his neck, a silent tear fell down her face, she couldn't bear to be away from him for that long, she needed him, she wanted him, she loved him.
They stayed in this loving embrace for sometime, then the reality dawned upon them they had to go, it would be suspicious if they were both not at school. Cesca knew they had to go but she didn't want to leave the safety of her boyfriend arms, she wanted to stay there forever and for Jonah to never let her go but she knew this would never happen. Jonah could sense there was something up with Cesca, he didn't know what it was but he was sure it was troubling her.
She slowly and gently looked up at Jonah; he could see that she had been crying he didn't understand why he had done something to upset her. He grabbed her face and pulled her closer, he wanted to kiss away the upset and distress his girlfriend seemed to be feeling, if only it were that simple. Time was getting on and Cesca slowly pulled herself from Jonah's warm tender arms she needed to go. She softly said to Jonah
"Jonah we have to go i don't ever want to leave but if we don't go back to school now people will get suspicious and will start questioning things and we don't want that!"
Jonah could understand why Ces was saying this but he just wanted to feel her in is arms again, feel the tender magic that Cesca made him feel. He looked into her eyes and pulled her closer again and before she could speak he planted a passionate kiss on her lips. Cesca was blown away by how much she really loved Jonah and no matter how wrong other people would say it was she wasn't going to stop loving Jonah for anyone.
She looked at Jonah and just giggled and smiled he seemed to make everything feel better. He looked down at her and softly and quietly said
"I love you more than anything."
With that in mind Cesca and Jonah shared another passion filled kiss and left the house and returned to the place where she became "Miss Montoya" again.