My tongue brushed against her warm, soft lips. Hope gave a small gasp.
Gawd I just thought I'd give her a kiss, not a French kiss! Maybe I'm moving this way too fas-
I realized my tongue was still on her lips when her tongue met mine. I slowly slid my tongue into her mouth. Her mouth was warm and wet…it was like a pure sugar rush when we kissed. I felt her arms wrap around my neck as I ran my fingers through her fiery red hair. Her fingers lightly traced around my neck and up to my cheeks. Her gentle warm hands pulled my face forward slightly, deepening our kiss. I pulled her close to me, close enough were I was able to memerize her scent. She smelt like a summer garden that rain had just covered. I wanted to stay like this, it felt so…..right; her being the in my arms with her arms around my neck, the two of us kissing, it felt like Xana could have taken over and everything would have been okay because she was here with me.
"Hope! What on earth do you think you're doing?!"
Our kiss was broken but two women pulling us apart.
"Mother! Mom!" Hope exclaimed.
A blonde woman had Hope by the arm and a Brown haired woman was gripping my arm tightly.
I didn't realize but both our hair and clothes had been messed up when we were kissing, then was no way we could get out of this.
"Well young lady, what do you have to say for yourself?" the blonde woman said.
"Well I um…..um…." hope brushed her hair out of her face and nervously laughed, "um…heh heh…how was shopping?"
"Your mother asked you a question Hope." The woman holding my arm growled.
"You've been cutting yourself again!" The blonde woman shouted grabbing Hope's arm.
Hope let out a cry of pain when the woman gripped her arm.
"Let her go!" I shouted.
"You stay out of this you boy. You've poisoned our little Hope's mind plenty already." The brown haired woman shrieked as she gripped my arm tighter.
"Stop it!" Hope shouted.
"We'll just have to take this from you then!" The blonde said taking Hope's dagger.
"No!" Hope screamed, "That's all I have left of dad!"
"You should have thought of that before you cut yourself again!" the woman gripping my arm threw me to the side, "I think you should leave now boy."
"I think we'll take this to the pawn shop tomorrow." The blonde said looking at the dagger, "It will be at least three dollars. Ow!"
Hope stepped on her mother's foot and grabbed the dagger.
"Come on!" I grabbed her hand and ran outside.
We didn't stop running until we reached the school. We were both out of breath.
"Thanks." Hope said.
"What's with them?" I asked.
"Is there a place around here where we can talk in private?"
I thought for a few minutes, then I decided the docks would be the best bet.
We sat on one of the rocks and Hope threw a rock in the water.
"I didn't know there were docks here." Hope said
"Oh yea I usually come here when I want to be alone." I told her.
Hope sighed.
"Do you want to talk about it?" I asked.
There was a long silence until Hope said something,
"When I was little…my father was lost at sea. He used to take me sailing all the time. One day we were out on the sea, he decided I was old enough to go on one of his errands with him, there was a storm. I fell over board, he jumped in to save me. I woke up a week later. I had been unconscious, the crew found me washed up on land. They took me to the nearest doctor. They stayed in town for a week, looking for my father….one day they thought they found something. It turned out that it was just his Bonnie Scottish Dirk…his dagger. They kept looking. But nothing turned up. I stayed at the doctor for a few months. Half a year later I was put up for adoption. I stayed there for a year. Then Sue and Ellen adopted me."
"Adopted?" I asked, my voice was quiet and shocked, "But what about your birth mom?"
"She…." Hope continued, "She…She was a clerk at my home towns grocery store. It was a small store. Some people broke in, mom was the only one there. They…the robbers…the robbers beat her up, then let her suffer like that. She was in the hospital for a week. Then they came back…and they…" Hope swallowed and tears started to roll down her face.
"You don't have to tell me everything if you don't want to." I told her. There was a long silence between us.
"She's dead." Hope said, "It was on the news. That's the tape Sue and Ellen make me watch when I've done something like…"
She stopped talking.
"Hope?"
"When I've been with a boy." She said.
"What?!"
