Guardian Lover – Chapter 20 – Sisters, sunbeds and swimming lessons (Part Two)
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"Hi braces, long time no see (as Gio sat by Kate's side listening to her conversation on what she couldn't tell but he was all ears as he listened attentively to his gorgeous and scrawny English girlfriend as Antonella sarcastically remarked to Betty) Giovanni is really into Kate isn't he? He so liked you once but you so made him sad and I hated you for that. I'd never seen him so ill when you ran off, when you didn't want him. Me though I was so glad, I don't think you're good enough for my brother, he's the best and so handsome, all the girls want him, well all the pretty one's anyway. Yeah, but now look at Giovanni he's so mega happy and you're going to be left on the shelf big time even with your new hair cut and cool wardrobe. You had your chance but now he wants Katy…who I think is gorgeous and a lady and a 'proper' writer not some two bit magazine editor, huh no she's cool. Anyway Gio say's you and Daniel are going to announce you're a couple soon, he says so it's just a matter of time and that's okay.
Oh that is so annoying though (Antonella continued) I mean …I like Danny, he's so handsome and rich but when he's tired of you in a couple of years and he will be…. I mean you are so not going to age well and when you're getting divorced and I'm older I'll tap him….ha Gio's words, is my brother cool or what?……Mind you braces….. what does that mean by the way…..tap? Whatever …….but well the thing is ……he's like ancient isn't he….like you?"
Looking over at his sister and Betty and suspicious of a conversation that could not be good especially knowing Antonella's views on Betty Suarez the Rossi heart and ball breaker Gio shouted……
"Hey come here Antonella, leave Betty alone she needs her rest….time to go for a walk"
"No, no I want to swim, come on Gio, please teach me to swim, you promised. I'll tell momma if you don't, then you know what will happen Bro…..yeah Gio ear ache that's what, so what do you say, will you …oh will you…pretty please? (Pointing her final and most potent weapon at him as she turned on her puppy dog eyes, pleading, the tears ready to fall, Oh Glen Close my inspiration eat your heart out she'd thought) I've got my arm bands and pretty soon you said I'd be ready to go free with a little help and I so want to be able to swim when I get home. Sonia Grassmere can swim a width and she is so cool if I could swim that as well I'd be sure to get an invite to her birthday party at the New York sports centre next month…please, please I'm begging you Gio……I'll be good for the rest of my time here and for momma…….honest, cross my heart like Whoopi Goldberg in Sister Act. Hey, (looking at Betty like a piece of crap on her shoes she'd just trodden in Antonella sarcastically continued) maybe braces could help she hasn't got anything to do but sit here reading and watching you two……?"
"You cheeky little madam (Betty shrieked, ready to slap the naughty young female but aware she'd be in serious trouble with her doting brother as she toned down her voice)…..Oh No….thank you that's okay next time maybe….(hitting Antonella's shoulder whilst Gio wasn't looking) ..in your dreams you brat…."
"Go on Gio (chimed in Katy, I'm off for a nap and telephoning home, work to catch up on as well family and friends) we can go for out beach walk later yeah, before supper that would be nice. So yeah go teach Ant ….you know you want to and she says she'll be good for the rest of the holiday, pretty irresistible I'd say wouldn't you Gio.?
Come on Mr Misery lets' get your costume…..lets' see those pecks and sexy legs they never come out to play any longer and believe me that is a waste, isn't it Betty? (Who pretended not to hear her) Teasing him as he got up and he in turn pretending to be completely worn out Kate grabbed Gio's arm in hers and strode away, the female to catch up with her life and the male to obediently collect his belongings. However, Gio's clothes were very near to the pool as he regularly swam in the morning when no one was around enabling him to quickly return; unseen and unheard as Betty whispered to Antonella…..
"Antonella Rossi, you are so naughty trying to make me swim when I don't want to…"
"Why braces are you shy, you wear your swimming costume under there but you never go in the pool are you afraid, you are, aren't you? …your chicken" (making chicken sounds….)
"You are so hateful what is it with your family and farmyard noises, one a duck now you a chicken and I'll have you know….I fell into a pond when I was little and it….traumatised me and ever since….try as people might I've never been able to get into a pool…..I would die of fright….so please….don't ever do that again…do you understand Antonella….?."
"Okay, okay….sorry braces….I won't do it again (eager to get away) …..Oh Gio……bro…..great you've got your shorts on ….let's swim….."
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Her hair flowing in the Californian day as the breeze flew from the ocean that lay before her, her hat shading her head and her dark sun glasses covering what remained of her face there was nothing to do but enjoy the day. Daniel and Betty would be returning to New York soon and Mode and Betty had to admit she had benefited from her break. Somehow everything was in perspective now her aim from her childhood had been her writing and she was determined now to go head on and make the most of her chance. A fashion magazine now but one day, very soon she would as she'd told Claire have her own magazine; all she had to do was concentrate and forget about men especially the one she'd listened to and glanced over her sun glasses at all afternoon. His joy playing with his sister, his childish mannerisms that tugged at her heart knowing all she wanted to do was join them and his sheer openness of nature. She had never seen that fully until London, he'd dazzled her and she had to admit it to herself, she'd truly missed him since. As she watched Antonella run towards the house in need of a rest after all her joviality and play her elder brother remained in the pool, floating around, splashing, seemingly ignoring her but still full of energy, it seemed nothing tired Giovanni Rossi.
Standing up her yellow sarong clinging to her white swimming costume completely protecting her from the bright glare of the sun as she'd lain on the shaded lounger reading William Shakespeare, (a gift from Daniel last year and she carried it everywhere with her). As hard as Shakespeare was to understand Betty adored his prose and take on life especially his attempts at love; if only she could talk to someone who knew and shared her love of him. Daniel was her friend but he would never find novels interesting unless they had gossip or lots of pictures. Slipping her canvas shoes onto her feet, preparing to walk away, return to her room Betty was startled as a voice she'd thought lost to her echoed from the pool. Warm, silky and curdling her insides at each sound as she froze on the spot no longer able to leave..…..
"Have you read Hamlet yet, that's my favourite Shakespeare how it shows the wonderment of madness when jealousy takes hold …..I just love it….I'm a tragedy kind of Guy and you B….I thought you were a Jane Austen kind of girl….how come you've got that, not your type of read I'd have thought…."
"You're not swimming anymore then (as she recalled his sentence and calmed herself) hmm Daniel gave it to me last year, I got home on my birthday ….you know that night you …well you tried to do your best for me…I will never forget that night Gio…..you didn't have to do that but you did and I never really thanked you properly….Well when I got home he'd left it for me ……I never really picked it up but after London I just felt I should ….I so loved Romeo and Juliet…..Gio ……I ……"
"Oh, yeah, okay, my pleasure on both occasions, I enjoyed myself…..a lot…… and Danny brought it for you….Wow! He must love you a lot…….in his own way…I mean to do that for you (trying to back track his conversation)"
"No Gio he's just got lots of money and he knows I love novels and who better than Shakespeare …no he isn't able to talk with me about them, love them and learn from them not like…well no…..so I try and fail to decipher them but I'll go on trying I'm not afraid of anything anymore you taught me that….."
Standing up lifting his wet, watered body from the pool so she could see every inch of him, all of him…… in full view, his trunks clinging to his every muscle, his thighs bulbous and taut from his exercise and his smooth, hairless chest rippled, nipples erect from the now chill air, his waist broad and curved and his outstretched arms perfectly toned. His hair off his face, his brown eyes penetrating hers as his mouth slowly opened and he whispered over to her….
"Then come on over here and let me teach you to swim (sensing her excuses coming)….quack….I'm gonna quack every time you come out with an excuse Suarez…you know you can't win I'll cheat and lie to get you in here with me….so come on….unless (smiling, his eyes drawing her in)……you want to play safe that is…..?"
Wow, he was small but perfect Betty thought as his back rippled as he stepped back into the pool and gently turned around, his arm extended once more and offering her his hand smiling and pleading with his eyes as he called to her again….
"Come on in Betty, it's warm and there's nothing to fear I'll watch over you …trust me …you do don't you….? Take my hand ……."
Stepping from under the parasol, lifting her hat up and fastening her hair with a band attached to her purse Betty unfastened her yellow sarong to reveal her completely to him, curvaceous, in and out in the right places and the outline of her nipples appearing in her excitement. Betty was afraid, water had always frightened her and this was no mean feat for her she was absolutely petrified but it was Gio and somehow she felt….safe…….Walking never taking her eyes off him she slowly stepped forward and forward until shaking she took his offered hand, cool, firm and solid. Gio matched her, he never took his eyes from hers willing her to come to him….until she stood there face to face with him.
He'd watched the white beauty lift her hair and he was glad Betty could not see or feel his reaction in the water God as he tried to stop his excitement she was so gorgeous, she'd changed for everyone else but he'd never seen any thing less when ever he'd looked at her he knew beneath her fear and uncertainties she was beautiful, he'd always known it.
Betty was shaking as Gio took her in his arms and bobbed around in the water with her, panicking he held her firmly; gently turning her around so her back lay against his chest as he wrapped his arms solidly around her waist while she calmed and relaxed until turning to face him a smile beaming from her eyes; trusting him completely. Looking over her head as he always did when he adored her most, knowing she was so brave and she should be his; the muscle that passed as his heart leapt to his throat as he tried to speak. Betty looked up at him in a way he had never seen before giving herself to him he thought as she became limp in his arms. Their bodies completely entwined, her hips against 'him' as 'it' rose to show her how much he felt and she could feel it too, not only exciting her but relaxing her too; knowing he 'wanted' her.
Her groin flinched and trembled as he touched her; not an inch separating them from each other; if left to nature's devices who knows what would have happened as she lifted her head to his lowered mouth and they kissed…….Oh the world closed out for an eternity of a second as they melted into each others arms, body and soul, pouring like an extension of the water they stood in, complete except for the act of love making; with not an ounce of penetration except their lips that shook in their passion and need for each other. Pushing her to the side of the pool so no one could see Gio pressed into her letting her know what he wanted and she didn't fight him, no pulling away, no slap this time simply submission to his will and hers. Taking her head in his hands, gently rolling her mouth in his, tasting her, she tasting him hungry as if not fed for months Gio broke and spoke…..
"B, B….I'm so sorry I…..I overheard you speaking to Antonella about the swimming, your fear of water and I've played all afternoon with her hoping to get you alone, look at me I've nearly washed away waiting, I thought she'd never get tired….."
"Well if that thing I'm feeling is you washed away Giovanni Rossi…wash away more often ……(As he grabbed her mouth once more in a fierce kiss broken only as he let her breath and then peppered her mouth with tiny, gently pecks as he continued……)
"B….Beatrice Suarez I lo……"
"Gio, where are you bro….I've had my rest and ready for part two if you like…..Gio…what are you doing in there, I can't see you……"
Pulling apart, turning Betty quickly to hold her away from him Gio shouted with a croaky voice……..
"Antonella…..I was just….teaching Braces, I mean Betty how to swim….she's a natural look, no fear of water at all ….I knew it …I just had to show her how…..and I will as soon as I can……..What do you say B…..ready for some more?"
"Oh yes….more than ready but not now….I need to go in and wash up ….maybe I'll see you later Gio….but not too late……."
"Yes, yes, I promise….soon as I can …..just got to do a few things first and then we can practice……I mean talk….we so need to talk….."
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I'm getting too old for all this, go on Katy catch her, she's like road runner, I can't remember having this trouble before what's going on have you been having lessons young lady, am I slowing up and when did you get so tall and such long legs? I'm going to have to get insoles in my shoes soon to reach you girl…ha! I swear you're the deli suppliers. Kid your not my proper sister no way ma used to chat him up I remember and he was ginger and tall, yeah that's it you little cuckoo you…momma played away with the sausage supplier from Nashville. That sure explains a lot you definitely don't come from a Rossi stables (as she slapped his arm) Hey, ginger, leave me alone you bully (shouting to his companion walking beside him) Get her Katy, soccer tackle her babe…..like you do me….. you're an animal when you get a ball between your legs woman …Oh my better watch what I'm saying Ant will tell ma and then I'll be wupp assed for certain aye Ant?"
Grabbing his little sister finally and wrapping her in his arms facing away from him and totally fastened in a hold like a wriggly worm stuck in glue she finally gave in but he was exhausted or so he pretended. Gio pecked her on the top of the head and watched her run off on the sand back to his home happy to be free again.
"Katy thank you for being so good with Antonella I know she can be a handful, Ma thinks she's got ADHD or something as nothing can calm her me I just think she's one lively kid and I swear when I was younger I was the same and look at me now I'm normal…ish if you call never being able to keep still or sleep normal (smiling his trademark Cheshire grin) You know when ma was pregnant with her I hated the thought of another kid in the house but I wouldn't be without her and Issy now they keep me grounded. When I start to think of myself I think of them, hey family that's what really matters isn't it, that's the key to everything, monies good but love is priceless?
Hey babe (he continued) have you thought about if you're going to accept John's proposal, I mean it's a big decision you have to be right and ……"
"Gio, (grabbing and kissing him passionately) please, please don't let me leave, I don't want to, it's been so good being here with you again, you have no idea how much I've missed you. When you said you were going to stay in London and not come back to LA I could have died with happiness. I watched you with Betty and it almost killed me Gio, baby….please, kiss me back, for old times sake. (Looking down afraid to meet his eyes) I… I thought you would have come to me in the night …I've prayed you would, needing me as I need you……. but no matter what you didn't'…..why Gio …why? (Taking his mouth in hers again and roughly, pressing herself against him urging him to reciprocate but he only responded for a second and then became unresponsive).
Oh, Oh what have I done, I've upset you haven't I? You don't want to and I'm embarrassing you but ……Gio not as much as myself, I am so ashamed. I thought I could do this, really I did and I've tried not to but holding you when you've cried, loving you when you've hurt it brought everything back I'd felt before. I don't think I will ever be able to love again like I loved you my own, sweet, wonderful Gio it's breaking my heart I want you so much it hurts……" Grabbing and holding her too him Gio gasped out …..
"Katy, honey, I am so sorry babe, if I'd known I would never have included you in this, I wouldn't do that to you, I love you too much for that and Katy I know what it feels like; you know I do. What can I say, how can I help because I can't feel anything, I have no heart left not for anyone but Betty. I can't sleep, I can't eat, nothing tastes good and all I do is think about her…always about her and where she'll be soon with Daniel and its killing me and this afternoon we…..kissed. Katy she kissed me, properly not me kissing her and I think she finally…..loves me…..finally she loves me, I don't know what to think I'm so happy". Watching his friend break down in front of him and holding her shaking body…
"Oh babe, please Katy don't cry, don't do this, maybe (wiping away her tears with his hand) you should call John, yeah you need to speak to him. (Suddenly it dawned on him) God is this how Betty feels about me, was this afternoon just another game and I've misunderstood the signals again….it is isn't it?….Its exactly the same and I keep trying to make…. thinking she could love me as I love her but it ain't gonna happen is it? Jeeze man I am so stupid you know? Realising it wasn't all about his feelings Gio returned to comforting his friend…
Hey, hey…..Katy you are the best girl, I know….but baby you need to go home, we've been here before and it isn't going to work, I love Betty and I need to speak to her, later ….I'll find a moment soon but you have a chance of real happiness Katy don't ruin it for me….I'm not worth it. Now come on, British bull dog spirit aye? I need a coffee and you need a whisky….and Katy, its cool….really its fine…..no hassle… I love you…like a sister …….with sex attached….hey, what did you expect?….it's my thing….."
Thumping him hard as his joke made her sick and smile in tandem they hugged and to any watching stranger they looked like lovers…..
"Come on (taking her hand) you can call John and we'll book your flight home….it's time I think but don't spend too much time on there my bill will go through the roof and I have to watch my last thousand dollars (Seeing her smile Gio whispered) You know anytime you need me Katy as a friend I'm there for you ….always babe……"
Taking her in his arms, upset and in need of affection, which he could always give and he wanted to he remembered that evening so long ago now when Betty had so calmly pushed him out of her life and he wasn't going to do that to Katy Hale. She would always be a part of his past and his future but not as his wife there was only one that would ever hold that mantle but even after this afternoons events he knew it was all play acting and she was already taken….by Daniel, it was her destiny.
Recalling (as he continued to hold Katy) Betty's last words on that night so long ago now, her coolness towards his feelings, saying she was sorry she'd hurt him and he could take as much time as he wanted and he didn't want any he wanted to stay with her and win her heart properly but she wouldn't let him. He'd tried to tell her when he got back from Rome; he thought he could stay away but that day on Coney Island had shown him he still loved her more than ever. She drew him in with a smile a look, he couldn't help himself and then that telephone call and her coldly closing her apartment door like he meant nothing had near destroyed him. Months and months of not looking for him as if he had never counted or existed and all the time he was eaten by hate that burned from total love and a need to see her and for her to want to see him but she never did…..she never did….God that hurt.
If he could stop that for Katy he would he adored her, he loved her deeply but not in the way he loved Betty. He'd thought of seeing a hypnotist once to wipe her from his mind and heart but he'd grown accustomed to his pain and hurt because he thought he would end up feeling nothing if it went and he never wanted to forget Betty Suarez. If a friend was what she wanted that's what she would get and he'd be there as Daniels best man at their wedding. Seeing Katy prostrate herself in front of him out of unrequited love had made him wake up he could no more make Betty love him than he could love Katy he knew that now, he had to stop fooling himself. Caressing Katy's face and wiping the tears away that poured down he held her trembling body until the tears stopped and she had calmed and ceased shaking in his grasp…
"Shush, shush Katy it'll be fine……..I promise…….don't think you should come to the Mode Ball babe unless you want to bring John….you can stay at my place and I'd love to meet the man whose taking my girl off my hands…okay babe?" Looking up at him like a lost child Katy replied….
"Yes, your right Gio, I know, I know…I knew it would never work but I had to try you know …one last time. I've been fooling myself and I know he's right for me we just needed to clear the air and some space between us, oh what a ninny I am Gio almost loosing my perfect man….after you of course(smiling). Now promise me Giovanni Rossi when you have your first kid you've got to have me as a god mother…..okay? When your old and grey and your wife ignores you tell her to ring me because …..I will always love you…my dishy, sexy, hot Italian love god….."
"You'd better believe it girl….I've got more sauce than Paul Newman me (holding her face in his hands and kissing her mouth so gently)…..that's a deal as long as you don't forget with your first born I'm their cool uncle Gio….yeah I like the sound of that English. Yeah, I can teach him the finer points of coffee making cos let's face it you Brits suck at it…."
"Ha (as she slapped his arm, the tears stopped) Yeah but you lot can't make tea to save your damn lives……..Okay, okay (holding onto his waist as they walked across the sand and up to the house) I'll call John and arrange to my flight for tomorrow….I'm missing home anyway and heck I'm a career girl. (Looking sad for an instant) Gio you do forgive me for all this silliness don't you?"
"Hey, course I do babe, what's to forgive and who wouldn't want a piece of the Gio mayster I mean once tasted I'm like chocolate…..hard to give up and extremely tasty…ha! And who the heck wants tea anyway it's Crap!"
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Watching, always watching from her bedroom window Betty Suarez could not help but be physically hurt as she scanned Giovanni Rossi taking Katy Hale in his arms and kissing her passionately on the lips. Betty had watched them running and playing with Antonella and the way they'd looked at each other, Katy pleading, touching Gio and his response as she was upset and he held her and the hold evolved into an embrace and then a kiss, such a kiss no one could lip hockey like Gio. Oh that should have been hers if only Antonella hadn't disturbed them.
She needed to find him and talk to him and she knew what she had to do now and one way or another she was going to tell him what she thought and felt if he didn't want her anymore she would leave and never trouble him again…….There was only a week left and Katy would be leaving soon she would do it then before Isabella appeared and she lost her courage. Seeing Gio with one woman was enough but two neither knowing about the other but somehow she didn't care, she'd do anything….she would speak to him tonight……
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"Gio can we walk on the beach please, I've always wanted to but I'm afraid of the ocean, jeez I'm afraid of everything, aren't I? Oh and I need to talk to you, no touching please or I won't be able to say what I want to and we have to clear the air, I need to know where I stand with you and Danny there's Danny to think about as well and I know there's someone else you said so in London and I don't want to loose your friendship…again…."
"Hey, (drawn in again by the sight and smell off her Giovanni Rossi seductively answered) better put that right then hadn't we before you leave….let's get you on those sands, I'll keep you safe (going to kiss her as she moved away as of old but he continued) can't have my B afraid of anything now can I….she's fearless? Hey didn't I once say if I loved a girl I'd light a fire on the beach…well …..why not tonight B….nothing like making out on the beach, honestly I've tried it. We can go find that blanket and sit on the dunes and watch the stars fall….the least I can do for my best friend before she leaves me…….what do you say Suarez……? Are you my best friend…..or something more, I think, I feel at times there's more and I've fought it and my loyalty to …well to people who are gone but I can't do it anymore, I want…..I need…will you stay with me tonight B? Then maybe I'll, we'll know…." (Breaking into his conversation Betty gasped…
"I'd like that Gio, very much but first….."
"Suarez, (agitated and turning away and back again, starring at her his patience gone)…..always a ….but first with you isn't there; why can't you just….B….mine? There I've said it; I'm asking you, I won't ask again…. (His eyes a myriad of passion, almost tears, smiling, his arms outstretched, his hands upturned and coaxing her) Come here I want a little taster of this afternoon again before I burst babe" (as she pulled away again). No! Oh I see I keep kidding myself don't I? As you said I'm just a friend nothing else; never will be, you'll never think of me that way, so what was this afternoon, a game? God, don't I ever learn? Today with Katy, I've done it again, man I am so stupid (shaking his head) I was set on walking away, leaving you to Da…… and and…..heck I've got drawn in again by…by your….charms when I was sure of what I had to do (annoyed but completely besotted Gio continued) Oh come on let's walk, let's just get this nonsense over with"
"No you're mis-understanding me Gio I'm just trying to clear the air, you have your secrets and I don't mind that and well I have my career….."
"Yeah, yeah I'd forgotten your damn career that will take precedence over everything won't it, nothing will stop that baby not even Daniel and Matt Hartley. Hartley, he would have advanced your career no end that one….oh yeah he did didn't he until he dumped you Suarez…Hey seems all your men dump you except me I just keep following you like a stupid lap dog wanting you, needing you and all you want is friendship well No…not this time, not after this afternoon. If I can't have you completely I don't want any of it, okay? I'm through, you've won; I'm a friend and a long distance one at that……go be with your rich boy….boys……"
"How dare you throw Daniel and……Matt Hartley in like that if I hadn't kissed Henry I'd still be with him and he's not so bad and why this fixation on Daniel, Oh Oh yeah here we go again the jump out clause appears. (Her eyes opened, dilated and angry as she screamed at Gio) Hey you can talk, women everywhere for Gods sake I can't turn around and not see you with some different girl…you are so predictable…..Kissing Kate this afternoon after you'd kissed me you are so cheap Giovanni Rossi…."
"Women, women what are you talking about again….I have no idea and Betty Katy is leaving tomorrow, she's engaged to a guy in England and well it's time to go home, I was just saying goodbye…do you understand you don't have to sleep with, make love to everyone of the opposite sex you kiss or I'd be Casanova, you stupid woman….…Betty (calming down) I've been thinking….(jeeze here I go again, get a grip he shouted at himself as he continued). This afternoon……..when I was talking to Katy she made me see how I've been with you……. trying to make you feel something you cant….I'm a friend; that's all and Danny well he's …….more than that for you. (Taking a break to calm down further)
Betty I know, Daniel has told me you're heading home next week to New York, that's good and I really do hope you've had a good time here, you look well B…..you look beautiful….you always do to me, now you've taken all that crap off….don't do that again B it's not…you. Anyway; cool it man (he whispered to himself), I guess I'm just saying I won't make any advances to you again B I know you don't want it, I'm not good enough for you and I accept that now, honestly (laughing falsely), I do. B you can feel what you want to and I completely understand now, nothing will change….nothing, this afternoon was a mistake….a crazy mistake…..
Fine, crap I've said too much again. Suarez…..B oh man I've had enough of this….. (Racing off blanket in hand back to the villa) I'm going to bed…..to ….sleep …if I can…..so hey, just leave me alone……….okay? Please leave me alone…I'm done……"
"No Gio I …….you don't understand……I've learnt so much lately, what I feel for Daniel and what matters in my career it's nothing compared to you……God damn it Giovanni Rossi, you infuriating man, why are you running away again, you always give in" as she dropped down on the sand lost in her thoughts and full of anger and frustration.
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It was dark now, he'd stood at his bedroom balcony watching her sitting there for hours just in case the stupid woman decided to wander too far down the beach and get her self drowned from the incoming tides. Finally she strolled towards the house and he could relax, would she always be a bother to him he thought, knowing the answer.
Daniel was out in Laguna partying with a couple he'd met at the local fair, Antonella was locked up on her computer never to come out again and Katy after talking to John, a lot of crying and a sleeping tablet was out for the count until her alarm was due to go off and she'd be catching her flight, no goodbyes necessary they had already been said this afternoon, so Gio restless as ever closed he bedroom door and tried to relax.
Slipping off his shoes, his cotton slacks and white shirt he strolled into his walk in shower room. Turning on the warm flow of water he stood beneath it hair pushed down and water cascading over his naked body. Nothing would close his mind off no matter what he did, he wouldn't sleep tonight and it was always the same old dream that would leave him spent and frustrated on waking so he was in no hurry to put his head down.
Pounding, pounding on his skull now as the minutes past the floor of the bathroom soaked from the torrent of water. Soaped and lathered, his hair cleaned Gio leaned across the wall, looking at his reflection as the mirrored tiles that encompassed this room looked back at him but with a difference. There looking on him, his body for her view and no shame shown (he didn't feel any it was natural in his mind to want to show her) stood Betty Suarez. Gio never moved an inch, he simply lifted his eyes to her, a mean look almost as if there would be no more advances from him if she wanted him she would have to come…..and get him, he was going nowhere.
Mesmerised he watched her, like a poltergeist in the night creeping up on you once you've closed your eyes or blinked a little nearer every time. Imagining he was dreaming again and this was no sight to believe he'd seen it many times before. That black hair, those brown eyes and those hips he wanted to engage just calling to him as he whispered….
"Go away woman you fill my dreams like nightmares don't torment me while I'm awake now, will you give me no peace? Jeeze what have I done to deserve this …..please, please I can't take it anymore….."
"Then take me it replied….I'm not going anywhere if you won't believe me let me show you …."
Taking him in her embrace, his shock reaction as if he'd been attacked as his arms rose not sure what was happening to him or what he was experiencing he called out ……
What the fuck….Betty….what are you doing here, her body right next to him, her lips only centimetres from his, wanting to taste him, to feel him as he gasped……don't start something you can't finish Suarez I've had enough of playing games I'm a man with needs"
As she kissed him gently on the lips afraid and shaking beneath the water that now enveloped her the moment was as if her first time with a 'man' and she knew it would be as all her other lovers had been boys. Sensing her fear he stroked her back, her hair, her face as if in the presence of an angel. Pushing himself between the pounding water so he could see her, read her intentions as she looked up at him, child like, submissive and full of love or was it lust, he didn't care he was lost, no turning back.
Lifting her top over her head to reveal her naked breasts Gio lowered his mouth once more to hers, looking at her opened eyes as he held and caressed her nipples one by one, watching, enjoying as he saw her eyes closed and her head lay back in pure pleasure. Gio was in heaven, her breasts were beautiful, he'd known they would be, so soft, heavy and reactive to his touch and his mouth as they simply jumped in his grasp…
"Beeeeeeeeee" he mumbled.
Lifting his head as he kissed her once more, brushing her hair away, kissing her eyes, her nose, her neck not missing a part of her as he turned her to lie against his front, pulling her right into 'him' his hands systematically falling and wrapping around her hips to her lower groin, playing, touching her as she leant into him, moving in and out as if him. His hands rose to cup her breasts once more, rotating so gently like mixing bread dough as her nipples became rigid and he kissed her neck to further ignite her as he turned her to face him once more, her mouth, his mouth agape in pained need.
Pushing her gently against the wall but purposely where he wanted her as she gasped out his name in her passion Gio deftly pulled away her lower skirt (that dropped, like him to the shower floor). His hands cupping her hips as he clenched her thong in his teeth, easing it down to her feet. Standing once more, looking at her for reassurance she wished him to continue he pushed her clothes away as he eased her thighs apart gently and his hand fell between her groin, feeling her reaction to him and it was all good, she was ready as he gently kissed her lips and looked deep, deep into her eyes. He would not be able to stop soon he knew that he was at the point of no return as he looked for her consent and it came as she would soon as her mouth fell opened in a silent scream to be relieved.
Dropping once more to the shower floor he laid her flush against the wall and carefully prised open her legs a little further entering with his lips were his fingers had ventured only moments before to taste her, oh she tasted so sweet, he knew she would she was his flavour, she matched him completely as he gorged on her. Looking up, mad with passion Gio could see the matching excitement in her face, her loss of control ripping into her, she'd never felt this with any other man and he knew it was going to be her first time. He'd danced her first school dance, he'd eased her into water and now he was going to make her a woman, Walter, Henry and Matt may have been there before him but he was going to make her want no other but him.
Open, no warning except his eyes showing how he controlled her but required her permission, no shame just pure love making as he stood in line with her like she had felt in her dreams, erect and rigid as he expertly entered her. Gasping, he held her face in both his hands as he felt the compliance beneath him, no going back now, this was it as his mouth opened on her opened lips breathing each others air as he pushed in and out, quick, hard and fast. No need to be gentle she was no virgin and she was primed and ready for him; to ready he knew and any harder as a novice and she would come before him and he didn't want that he wanted to show her you could take a lover to the edge, pull back and repeat it over and over until you were spent and ready to climax together.
Rhythmically he continued, his eyes looking at her, hers looking at him, their mouths ajar as he moved within her, the action continuing as if exercise each holding on, nearing and the master stopping her as she waited to reach again, every time a little closer to no resistance. He controlled her every feeling, just enough, a little more, hold back, push forward, make her last until he was ready and as she called out for what seemed like the hundredth time and cried out his name as she trembled beneath him for what seemed an eon as he groaned, held the wall, pushing her harder but she felt no pain and let go in her over and over as he emptied himself like never before.
Panting, still within her he lay against her, his weight suddenly noticeable to her now as their passion subsided and his breathing slowly began to return to normal. Locked in her he stood there his legs wide open, her legs wide open conjoined in passion and love until she kissed him gently on the lips and he did likewise, her recovery faster than his as she whispered…
"Thank you Gio….thank you……."
"Betty; holding her head in his hands and engorging on her opened lips as if sighing to calm down a complete act of total love making on his part as he whispered…) I never expected….I never do this….Betty we…" as she silenced him with a look, her eyes dilated, fixed and stunning with not an ounce of concern.
Slipping from her, leaning against her, spent, relaxed, complete, hoping he had finally made her his, she looked at him an air of silence and sorrow and something else as she kissed his lips, a long encounter as if hungry for more as she gently eased away, saying not a word as she left him; so like when she had found him; as if an apparition.
Gio for a moment thought he'd dreamt it all, his wish come true, a cruel joke of fate and his mind playing tricks but as he looked down at his calming reaction and saw her clothes lying on the floor he knew he hadn't, it had all been too real.
Suddenly as if assaulted by an invisible foe the realisation of what had just occurred dawned on him. Looking up, confused, watching where she'd just exited, trying to recover from his exertions, his eyes squinting almost as if trying to comprehend, take in the past moments of pleasure, heaven and destiny he'd waited so long for his heart froze from the recognition and torment that she'd used him again…this time for sex.
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Knocking the door some hours later and getting no reply he slowly made his way inside, hoping for what he didn't know as he saw her lying there as if nothing had occurred, her dark hair spread across the pillow, fast asleep and looking so inviting. Lifting the cotton sheet to reveal her body spread out, open to him he felt a pang he had felt many times before of total desire but he didn't need that he just wanted reassurance and tenderness. As he placed himself beside her, his arms wrapped around her waist as she responded to him by turning to face him and smiling, his heart revived a little from his torment as he spoke….
"Katy, …..please, please……hold me……."
TBC…….