Thanks Kaitlee but I don't know how to go back and change it. If anyone knows how to go to previous chapters and revise it please tell me.
If anyone would like to give me ideas about what they would like to see happen to Tibby and Carmen tell me! I hope everyone loved the one of Bee's. A lot of people like her. Including me! HaHa. R&R!
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Lena had woken up when Carmen's hone rang. When se cam back to reality she thought she had dreamed seeing Kostos. But she heard the toilet flush and a tall, tan familiar looking man walk out of the restroom. He had a navy blue polo shirt on and ruffled jeans. He looked like an American!
Lena could not believe he was here, in London! In her and Carmen's hotel room! She had totally forgotten that he had gone to the University in London last summer. She didn't even think of the chance that she would see him. But she had, and he was here, using her toilet!
"Lena, you are awake! I am so glad that you are okay." Kostos said when he realized that she had seen him. Carmen just got off the phone.
"Yeah, I am. How are you here? Why are you here? Not to be rude. I just got a little startled when I saw you back at the university." Lena was talking so fast she wasn't sure if he knew what she had just said.
"Umm… I decided to come back and get my education. Carmen gave me a ride here. And I came to make sure you were okay Lena. You are never rude Lena. I would be startled too if I was in your position. But we need to talk…alone please Carmen." There was urgency in his voice.
Carmen looked at Kostos then at Lena then back at Kostos. "Sure. You need some time alone, right. I will go write Bee. If you need anything I will be upstairs, okay?" Lena and Kostos both nodded their heads.
"Before you yell at me or tell me how much you hate me I need to tell you something. You remember my fiancée, Marissa? Yes well…she died, in a car accident. During her fifth month of pregnancy she was driving on her way to church. It had been storming all day. She turned a curb and a guy ran into her. She died in the hospital in Athens. The baby died with her." Kostos face had a shadow of pain across his face. Lena didn't know how anyone could live through their child's death, plus a fiancée. Kostos hadn't loved her but she was the mother of his child. She felt the pain of Kostos. All the rage had gone away from her.
"I am so sorry Kostos. Really I am. I don't know how anyone could lose a fiancée and child. It must have been real hard for you." Kostos knew she meant what she said.
"But Len I have come to realize that I love you. I do, so much. Seeing you today has…inspired me to know that we are meant to be. It just is and always will be. Don't you agree?"
Lena thought about Paul. She did like him, but not anything of what she had felt for Kostos. Did she still feel that way towards him? "I don't really know right now Kostos. I mean…it has been a long time since I have talked to you. And when we did it was really, really hard. Almost unbelievable. I can't even express it…"
"Lena…"
"Yes?"
"You still haven't answered my question. Do you still feel the same way about me? Are you still in love with me? Or have you found someone else? I know that me having a fiancée and child hurt you extremely. It would me too. But that's all in the past now. I know I could never love anyone but you Lena, beautiful Lena. You are the only one I can really love with my heart and soul."
"Kostos, I came here to get away. Away from memories of last summer. To get away from pictures and letters of and from you. All of it hurt too much to be locked up in there. I was there the whole year with memories of you. Everywhere I went there you were at the place we almost made love. The Sirtis' house you stayed in during the summer. My house! My room! All those letters. Do you know what I did? I took your letters and read them over and over and over, until I cried so much my eyes hurt! I burnt them all I got a match and went to Bee's house and burnt them in her backyard! Do you know how hard that was for me? Letting all the memories of our love go? Pictures of our grove and of you are gone. Tibby came into my room when I wasn't there and she took them all! Do you know how hard that was?! Do you?!"
Lena was crying hysterically. Remembering those days. She had sobbed on her friends' shoulders for hours in front of that fire. When she noticed all those pictures gone she had gone crazy. Lena had gone all through the house destroying many things trying to find her last memories of him. All she had left from him was one picture that was under her pillow. It had always been there. It was of him and her kissing at the grove. (Effie took the picture.) And her broken heart. She was surprised as much as Kostos what had just came from her mouth.
"Lena. I am sorry. I really am. I know it hurt. It hurt me too. I was going to marry a woman I didn't love, and live without the women I did love. I only had myself to blame for it. I was stupid enough to have sex with a woman I barely knew. Today I don't know what had been going on in my mind when I did it."
Lena looked up at Kostos. That had reminded her about the reason they weren't together. She remembered last summer when he said he was too much of a gentleman to make love with her… they started out slow, kissing. That was all they needed for a long, long time, until she put her hands inside his shirt. He let her explore his chest and his arms and his back, but at last he pulled away. "I have to go," he said miserably. "Why?" He kissed her again. "Because I am a gentleman. I can't trust myself to be one too much longer."
Yes he couldn't have sex with the women he loved but with a woman he barely knew.
"Do you remember last year? When you said you were too much of a gentleman to sleep with me? Well if you loved me and not that other girl, why did you have sex with her and not me? Explain that Kostos. And don't give me that bull shit about being sad about me. I don't want to here your excuses."
He just stared at her intently. That was all he could do. He knew that that would come up in the conversation somehow, but he didn't think it would be like this. He had idea that she was hurt that badly.
I know this was a long one, but I hope you liked it. I had fun writing it. I didn't know where I was going with it. At the top when she was crying she was remembering that night last summer. I got it out of the book. R&R!! Plz…other sisterhood writers I love all of your stories. If you are a sisterhood lover and you don't have a story. Make one! It is so fun. Ask any of the other writers! We need more stories! If anyone wants to just talk look at my email and email me. I won't block you. We could become pen pals, or Internet pals either way.
