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Chapter 7
Gracie closed her eyes and leaned her head against Dominic's back. It felt good to feel the warmth of his body next to her again. Suddenly Dominic dropped his hands from hers and turned around to face her.
He stared blankly into her face. For once Gracie couldn't tell what Dominic was feeling. She titled her head to the side and stared back at him. Gracie could feel her heart pound inside her chest. Not the kind of heart pounding where you're excited, but the kind when you're scared as hell. The beating got louder and louder and she wondered whether Dominic could hear it or not, or whether it was just inside her head, like some goddamned "Tell-Tale Heart" shit.
"What's wrong?" she asked him finally breaking the screaming silence.
He didn't answer her. He stared directly into her eyes for a few moments and then finally shook his head and sat down on the bed.
"What's wrong?" Gracie asked him again with a mixture of sincere concern and annoyance in her tone.
Dominic looked to the floor and continued to shake his head.
"Do you have any idea how bad you hurt me in the past two days?" He replied to her finally.
"I'm sorry." Gracie repeated to him.
"No you don't seem to understand Gracie. I believe that your sorry but I don't understand why the hell you did what you just did! I wake up at like three in the morning and you're not next to me, I go downstairs and you're in the kitchen all packed to go with my daughter! I beg you to stay and you take off. Then you call me a few hours later and ask me to come get Little Mia. I do, and I BEG you to come home and you wont! You tell me that you don't think you love me and that you don't think you can ever come home! I bring Little Mia home but have to take her to Marlena's because when I look into her eyes all I see is YOU. Then the hospital calls and tells me that I need to pick you up because you had your stomach pumped after you supposedly haven't touched the shit in three years! I come and get you and take you home and you follow me up here, throw your arms around me and tell me your sorry. I can't forgive you until I know why you did this to me! I've done nothing but love you, I've never hurt you once and I think I'm a damned good father to our daughter. Just answer me once question Gracie....WHY?" Dominic yelled out and when he was finished he tried to catch his breath.
Gracie at that moment burst into tears and dropped to her knees. She clung onto his legs crying and then finally spoke as her tears sank into the carpet.
"Do you know what it's like to be 16 and pregnant with the baby of a man who's ten years older than you? Do you know what its like to be 18 and getting married to the same man who got you pregnant? I was scared Dominic! Everything seemed to be so damn perfect lately that I had to find something wrong with it. I thought that maybe I didn't really love you and I couldn't go through with getting married, I'm only 18! I looked around me and saw everything I couldn't have anymore. I was SELFISH, I realized that my child hood was long gone by the time I was 15 and I desperately wanted it back! I realized that I really do love you and that I always have but please Dominic, I'm so friggen sorry! I'm so scared right now!" Gracie poured out breathlessly into Dominic's knees crying harder when she finished.
Dominic sat on the bed and took in everything that she had just said. Finally he placed his hands on the top of her head and stroked her hair. He reached down and pulled her up from his knees and sat her on his lap.
"I'm sorry too. I'm sorry that I expected you to be anything more than 18." Dominic said leaning in to kiss her gently.
Gracie returned the kiss and slid back onto the bed. Dominic turned over and climbed on top of her.
"It's been a long time." He said quietly to her.
"I know." She said kissing him passionately for the first time in what seemed like forever.
Dominic broke the kiss.
"Gracie?" he asked her.
"Yeah sweetie?" Gracie replied rubbing the top of his bald head.
"I love you." He said with the most sincerity she had ever heard him use.
"I love you too, and I'll never leave you again." Gracie told him before shutting off the light.
*That Night*
Dominic and Gracie walked out of their bedroom hand in hand and went down the stairs.
"Aww look they made up!" Letty said laughing as they entered the kitchen. She was sitting at the table reading a magazine with the rest of the team eating.
"I think they did more than make up...look at that grin on Dominic's face." Leon said laughing with Vince and Jesse joining him.
Immediately Dominic's face turned red. He picked up his keys off the table and shooed Gracie out the door with him.
"We're going to get Gracie's car." Dominic said smiling and flipping off Leon.
Leon returned the gesture and yelled, "I love you man!" just before Dominic closed the door.
"I love you too dawg." Dominic said right before the door slammed.
On the way to the hotel Gracie had slept at the night before, Gracie lay across Dominic's leg and sang to the song on the radio. It was amazing to Dominic how the song that had depressed him earlier could make him so happy now, and Gracie's voice was so beautiful. She sang the song as if she had written it for Dominic.
I don't remember feeling like this...
Baby...Baby I love you...Baby...Baby I love you.
[Verse 1]
I got this jones forming in my bones (from a man)
who indeed took over my soul, (understand)
I couldn't breathe if he ever said (he would leave),
get on my knees till they bloody red, (baby please)
see I don't know if you get it yet, (just don't know)
He's like the lighter to my cigarette,
(watch me smoke), I never knew another human life
(didn't know) can have the power to take over mine,
So baby baby.
[Chorus]
Baby, baby, baby, baby, baby,(baby I love you) baby,
baby, baby, baby, baby, I love it when I hear
ya name, got me sayin' baby, baby, baby,
baby, baby,(baby I love you) baby, baby, baby, baby, baby.
[Verse 2]
See, I could never feel alone with you (in my life),
I gave up everything I own for you (won't
think twice), almost a shame how I'm mesmerized (such a shame),
I loose my thought looking in your eyes (I know why)
because your kisses make my lips quiver and (that's real) and when you
touch me my whole body shivers. (I can feel) now,
I can see how another life(nother life) you
have the power to take over mine cause your my.
[Chorus 2x]
[Verse 3]
Baby, I can't see my worth (I can't see) living here on
God's green earth, you don't know what
you've done to me, (done to me) I never thought
I'd need you desperately,(desperately) it's kind
of sick how I'm stuck on you(stuck on you)
but I don't care cause I'm needing you (I'm needing you)
and how I feel will remain the same (remains the same)
cause your're my baby, (cause your my baby)
listen and when the world starts to stress me out,
(where I run) it's to you boy without
a doubt (you're the one) who keeps me sane and I can't complain
(can't complain) you're like a
drug you relieve my pain (may seem strange)
you're like the blood flowing through my vain, (oooo)
keeps me alive and feeding my brain,
(oooo) now this is how another human life (nother life) could
have the power to take over mine cause your my
[Chorus 2x]
Dominic didn't want that car-ride to end but unfortunately it did. They picked up Gracie's car and drove home. They parked their cars in the driveway of their home and Gracie jumped out of her car and ran to Dominic to hold his hand and they bounded into the house laughing.
When they entered the house Gracie stopped dead in her tracks. There was someone standing in the kitchen with the team and Leon was yelling at him. They stopped when they saw Gracie.
"Hey Gracie baby." The guy said to her.
Gracie was silent for a minute.
"Adam what the hell are you doing here?" she finally said.
Dominic looked back and forth from Gracie to this guy she called Adam. He'd never seen him before in his entire life, but he could tell he had a past with Gracie just by the way she interacted and looked at him. It couldn't be a good past either.
"I came to get my kid." Adam answered her smiling coyly.
Dominic dropped his hand from Gracie's and walked up the stairs.
"I don't believe this shit." Leon said shaking his head.
Shay.
Chapter 7
Gracie closed her eyes and leaned her head against Dominic's back. It felt good to feel the warmth of his body next to her again. Suddenly Dominic dropped his hands from hers and turned around to face her.
He stared blankly into her face. For once Gracie couldn't tell what Dominic was feeling. She titled her head to the side and stared back at him. Gracie could feel her heart pound inside her chest. Not the kind of heart pounding where you're excited, but the kind when you're scared as hell. The beating got louder and louder and she wondered whether Dominic could hear it or not, or whether it was just inside her head, like some goddamned "Tell-Tale Heart" shit.
"What's wrong?" she asked him finally breaking the screaming silence.
He didn't answer her. He stared directly into her eyes for a few moments and then finally shook his head and sat down on the bed.
"What's wrong?" Gracie asked him again with a mixture of sincere concern and annoyance in her tone.
Dominic looked to the floor and continued to shake his head.
"Do you have any idea how bad you hurt me in the past two days?" He replied to her finally.
"I'm sorry." Gracie repeated to him.
"No you don't seem to understand Gracie. I believe that your sorry but I don't understand why the hell you did what you just did! I wake up at like three in the morning and you're not next to me, I go downstairs and you're in the kitchen all packed to go with my daughter! I beg you to stay and you take off. Then you call me a few hours later and ask me to come get Little Mia. I do, and I BEG you to come home and you wont! You tell me that you don't think you love me and that you don't think you can ever come home! I bring Little Mia home but have to take her to Marlena's because when I look into her eyes all I see is YOU. Then the hospital calls and tells me that I need to pick you up because you had your stomach pumped after you supposedly haven't touched the shit in three years! I come and get you and take you home and you follow me up here, throw your arms around me and tell me your sorry. I can't forgive you until I know why you did this to me! I've done nothing but love you, I've never hurt you once and I think I'm a damned good father to our daughter. Just answer me once question Gracie....WHY?" Dominic yelled out and when he was finished he tried to catch his breath.
Gracie at that moment burst into tears and dropped to her knees. She clung onto his legs crying and then finally spoke as her tears sank into the carpet.
"Do you know what it's like to be 16 and pregnant with the baby of a man who's ten years older than you? Do you know what its like to be 18 and getting married to the same man who got you pregnant? I was scared Dominic! Everything seemed to be so damn perfect lately that I had to find something wrong with it. I thought that maybe I didn't really love you and I couldn't go through with getting married, I'm only 18! I looked around me and saw everything I couldn't have anymore. I was SELFISH, I realized that my child hood was long gone by the time I was 15 and I desperately wanted it back! I realized that I really do love you and that I always have but please Dominic, I'm so friggen sorry! I'm so scared right now!" Gracie poured out breathlessly into Dominic's knees crying harder when she finished.
Dominic sat on the bed and took in everything that she had just said. Finally he placed his hands on the top of her head and stroked her hair. He reached down and pulled her up from his knees and sat her on his lap.
"I'm sorry too. I'm sorry that I expected you to be anything more than 18." Dominic said leaning in to kiss her gently.
Gracie returned the kiss and slid back onto the bed. Dominic turned over and climbed on top of her.
"It's been a long time." He said quietly to her.
"I know." She said kissing him passionately for the first time in what seemed like forever.
Dominic broke the kiss.
"Gracie?" he asked her.
"Yeah sweetie?" Gracie replied rubbing the top of his bald head.
"I love you." He said with the most sincerity she had ever heard him use.
"I love you too, and I'll never leave you again." Gracie told him before shutting off the light.
*That Night*
Dominic and Gracie walked out of their bedroom hand in hand and went down the stairs.
"Aww look they made up!" Letty said laughing as they entered the kitchen. She was sitting at the table reading a magazine with the rest of the team eating.
"I think they did more than make up...look at that grin on Dominic's face." Leon said laughing with Vince and Jesse joining him.
Immediately Dominic's face turned red. He picked up his keys off the table and shooed Gracie out the door with him.
"We're going to get Gracie's car." Dominic said smiling and flipping off Leon.
Leon returned the gesture and yelled, "I love you man!" just before Dominic closed the door.
"I love you too dawg." Dominic said right before the door slammed.
On the way to the hotel Gracie had slept at the night before, Gracie lay across Dominic's leg and sang to the song on the radio. It was amazing to Dominic how the song that had depressed him earlier could make him so happy now, and Gracie's voice was so beautiful. She sang the song as if she had written it for Dominic.
I don't remember feeling like this...
Baby...Baby I love you...Baby...Baby I love you.
[Verse 1]
I got this jones forming in my bones (from a man)
who indeed took over my soul, (understand)
I couldn't breathe if he ever said (he would leave),
get on my knees till they bloody red, (baby please)
see I don't know if you get it yet, (just don't know)
He's like the lighter to my cigarette,
(watch me smoke), I never knew another human life
(didn't know) can have the power to take over mine,
So baby baby.
[Chorus]
Baby, baby, baby, baby, baby,(baby I love you) baby,
baby, baby, baby, baby, I love it when I hear
ya name, got me sayin' baby, baby, baby,
baby, baby,(baby I love you) baby, baby, baby, baby, baby.
[Verse 2]
See, I could never feel alone with you (in my life),
I gave up everything I own for you (won't
think twice), almost a shame how I'm mesmerized (such a shame),
I loose my thought looking in your eyes (I know why)
because your kisses make my lips quiver and (that's real) and when you
touch me my whole body shivers. (I can feel) now,
I can see how another life(nother life) you
have the power to take over mine cause your my.
[Chorus 2x]
[Verse 3]
Baby, I can't see my worth (I can't see) living here on
God's green earth, you don't know what
you've done to me, (done to me) I never thought
I'd need you desperately,(desperately) it's kind
of sick how I'm stuck on you(stuck on you)
but I don't care cause I'm needing you (I'm needing you)
and how I feel will remain the same (remains the same)
cause your're my baby, (cause your my baby)
listen and when the world starts to stress me out,
(where I run) it's to you boy without
a doubt (you're the one) who keeps me sane and I can't complain
(can't complain) you're like a
drug you relieve my pain (may seem strange)
you're like the blood flowing through my vain, (oooo)
keeps me alive and feeding my brain,
(oooo) now this is how another human life (nother life) could
have the power to take over mine cause your my
[Chorus 2x]
Dominic didn't want that car-ride to end but unfortunately it did. They picked up Gracie's car and drove home. They parked their cars in the driveway of their home and Gracie jumped out of her car and ran to Dominic to hold his hand and they bounded into the house laughing.
When they entered the house Gracie stopped dead in her tracks. There was someone standing in the kitchen with the team and Leon was yelling at him. They stopped when they saw Gracie.
"Hey Gracie baby." The guy said to her.
Gracie was silent for a minute.
"Adam what the hell are you doing here?" she finally said.
Dominic looked back and forth from Gracie to this guy she called Adam. He'd never seen him before in his entire life, but he could tell he had a past with Gracie just by the way she interacted and looked at him. It couldn't be a good past either.
"I came to get my kid." Adam answered her smiling coyly.
Dominic dropped his hand from Gracie's and walked up the stairs.
"I don't believe this shit." Leon said shaking his head.