The Rose on Her Back

Zac POV

I never saw her after she ran off. For the whole day I couldn't concentrate at all. I kept thinking about her. I knew I shouldn't I mean I don't even know her. After school finished I went home. When a thought hit me, instead of going home I went to the lake house. If she came out from there then she must be living there.

I parked my Car at the main house and then I headed for the lake house. Once I was at the front door I opened it quickly and came in. I looked at the watch it said it was two thirty so I decided to look around. I went to the master bedroom. I opened the brown door and looked around. The room was empty and clean now. After this morning I thought that more people are going to be here but I guess they didn't need to stay any longer.

I wonder who was she they were talking about. I went to the wardrobe to look for any clues all I got was some clothes and undies and bras. They weren't anything special but what I noticed that most of her clothes where black, grey, white and dark blue. Since I didn't find anything useful I went downstairs. I was hungry so I went to the kitchen and I made myself a sandwich. After hours of being there and waiting for her to come here I finally heard the car.

I looked up and I saw get out from her car. I quickly ran and hid myself in the bathroom on the first floor. With hopes that she doesn't come here.

Rose POV

Have you ever been so afraid that you have no idea what to do? I have. It was Him always. I tried running away. Believe me I did but he always finds a way to creep into my world. Through my dreams or my life and he won't stop until he sees me dead on the ground with blood coming out of me as I hold on for my dear life for the last few minutes.

Oh back the point. Do you know how hard is to run around in high heels for the whole entire day? Well it's bloody hard! By the time I found the best phone for my and Zac's safety, I, Rose Hathaway had huge blisters on my feet. I was sitting in my Jeep breathing hard and crying my eyes off with my head on the steering wheel.

After what seems like hours of crying, I bushed my tears away and looked at the time. It was already six thirty which meant I had to be home. I started the Jeep and drove off. It didn't take me long to get to the lake house. I parked my Jeep and got out. Locking the door I went straight for my front door.

I opened the door, stepped inside and closed it behind me. I walked to the closet near the stairs and took one towel. I knew someone was in the lake house. Call it a sixth sense or something but I knew it was Zac. I saw him naked! Now he's going to the same thing to me!

'Zac you can come out now.' I said.

'Shit!' he answered.

He opened the bathroom door on the first floor and came out. He looked at me, well more like glared at me but who cares.

'You can go home now, you know.' I spoke while pointing my finger to the front door.

'What are you doing in my lake house?' He asked.

'Didn't your father tell you?' I asked innocently.

'Tell me what?'

'That one of his friend's daughter is going to stay here for a year, till I finish my last year of high school.' I stated confused. 'I thought he did. Weird, maybe I should leave. I mean I have money. I'll find a motel or something…' I kept talking to myself ignoring Zac.

'Oh no that won't be necessary; you can stay here since you're my dad's friend's daughter.' He blurted out quickly. I smiled at him, of course my fake smile since I can't produce real happiness for a long time now. I started to take of my white blazer, shoes and then just to tease the teenaged hormonal guy I took off my black tank top. I looked at him.

'Oh you're still here?' I acted surprised. He must have saw my scar and tattoo on back. My tattoo runs down from the left had side, across my lower back and finishes mid-thigh on my right. The design is a rose in the middle of my lower back and the its roots with its little thorns spread on my left hand side and my thigh.

I looked at Zac. His blue eyes filled with lust and passion. I ignored him and went upstairs to my bathroom. I finished undressing and hopped into a hot shower. After what seemed like an hour I finally felt clean and clam. I stepped out dried myself and put my undies, bra and a blue t-shirt that was three times my size. I didn't bother putting anything else on since I knew there was no point.

I walked downstairs. I looked around. Zac had left the lake house. I sighed. I went to the kitchen. I was hungry. I decided to make myself pasta. I gathered all of ingredients and chopped what I needed to be chopped. I was mid-way of chopping my onion when Alex entered the lake house.

'Hey Alex how are you.' She smiled. She walked to the kitchen and sat on one of the stools.

'I am freaking fantastic!' she screamed at me sarcastically. I looked at her and before I could open my mouth she went on.

'Do you wanna kill yourself? I heard from the guards about your little stunt! Who do you think you are!? A bodyguard?' she asked

'Well yeah.' I answered. 'That's why I was hired you know. It's my job.' I answered calmly. 'Didn't the senator tell you that?' I asked?

'No.' she stated.

'I see… well does he know what happened this morning?' I asked.

'Yes! The whole freaking house knows. They all think they are some kind of a hero.' I pouted.

'I am no hero, I am no better than the man I killed this morning.' Alex looked at me and smiled sadly at me. Although we met yesterday we practically felt like long lost sister that finally found each other. She came to my side and put her hand on my shoulder and hugged me. I dropped everything I was doing and hugged her back.

'Let it all out Sweetie.' She whispered. I started to cry. She stroked my hair and kept telling me everything is going to be okay.

'Why don't go watch some TV while I finish the dinner and after that we will that about Zac and his awesome torso.' She said. I could practically see her smile. I laughed and agreed.

Mr Turner's POV

I looked at the clock. It was already eight o'clock in the evening. There was a knock.

'Come in.' I said

An older guard came in. He was the one on the night patrol. He looked at me. I motioned him to sit down. He slowly came and sat in one of my leather armchairs.

'So what happened this morning?' I asked going straight to business.

He looked a little nervous. He looked right dead in the eyes and without any hesitation he reported.

'At around six o'clock in the morning there was heard a shot coming from the lake house. My partner and ran to the lake house to see what's going. When we so Ms. Hathaway. She was in the balcony and she was holding a gun the man's head. She without any hesitation shot the man.' I nodded for him to continue.

'She turned our way and we asked what happened and she said it was ''assassination''.' He finished.

'Anything unusual about her behaviour, what did she do after?' I asked. I needed to know that girl won't fail my son.

'Well….' He started. 'When she looked at us her blue eyes were dead. They were really dark, like they held no life at all. After we asked for help, she went to her wardrobe took out some clothes and then went to change. After that she went to the school. I guess she needed to get to know the perimeter.' He finished more to himself than me.

I smiled at him. 'Thank you John. You may leave now and have a rest.' John stood up and left the room. She is a professional as they said. No wonder she is expensive to hire. I shook my head. There were some papers that need to be finished so I got back to work without any trouble.

Rose POV

I finished my dinner happy. I mean the meal was awesome it was so tasty and mouth-watering that I literally drooled when I saw it. After Alex and I finished our meal, I washed the dishes. After I was done, I walked to the fridge and took out two coke cans from there.

I walked to the couch Alex was sitting on. I handed her the can and I sat adjacent to her. I opened my can and took a big drink out of it.

'So tell me do you like him or do you like him?' she asked me. I spat my drink on the coffee table that was in front of me. While coughing I cleaned the table. Once I stopped coughing I answered.

'Gee, nice way to kill me.' She laughed and then brushed it off. 'But seriously tough do you like him?' she asked again.

'Well who is he?' I asked avoiding her question. She rolled her eyes and sighed. 'You know perfectly who I am talking about! I mean come on you must be stupid or something.'

'I don't like him.' I semi-lied to her, 'I mean I am allowed to like him but I am not allowed to be in a relationship with him. That would compromise my work.' I fished quickly.

'Aha, sure it would. You probably would have sex every day and he'll become socially awkward.' I raised my eyebrow at her.

'So have you seen his abs or what?' she asked.

'Oh, I've seen more than abs.' I blushed. Now it was her turn to raise her eyebrow. She gave me I-like-to-know-about-this look. I smiled and continued.

'You remember the day when you came to the lake house for the first time.' I asked. While nodding she answered. 'Oh yeah, Zac had a towel around his hips! Boy that boy looked like a sex God!'

'Well, he was in the shower in my bedroom and I saw him showering because I hid in the walking in closet.'

'Oh. My. God! Did you like see his thing?' She asked.

'Well…'

'Oh my god, was it like big!?'

'Alex!' I screamed at her while blushing and being disgusted by her at the same time.

'What?' She asked. 'A girl has to know okay! If the thing is small then the sex is bad!' She defended herself. I laughed at her.

'Touché, touché my friend.' I laughed with her.

'Well I kinda felt for him since I was kinda of a creep so today I tortured the poor guy.'

'How?'

'Well when I came back home he was waiting for me. We had a little chat, but I was really tired so I kinda tortured him by taking my tank top off by pretending he wasn't there.' I laughed

'You dirty slut!'

The good thing about Alex is that she's a great friend to have. She is funny but creepy in a good way. We continued talking about things till it was eleven o'clock. Before I walked her to the main house I put some skinny jeans and shoes. Of course I took my gun. I needed to get a better image of how huge this place is.

'Are you sure you don't need someone with you.' She asked once we were at her stop. I shook my head and smiled. She stepped forward and hugged me. 'Call me if you need anything.' She said.

'Will do.' I smiled.

Once she entered the house I went to my left. To say the house was huge was just understatement. It was more like a White House! As I continued walking to my left I passed many flowers and beautiful statues. When I saw that I will have to turn I sighed in relief.

As I turned the corner I saw a huge swimming pool. The pool was round. It had those lights in it so I could see the bottom of it.

I really liked swimming and I haven't swum in two years now. I took of my runners, then my skinny jeans and finally my oversized t-shirt. I of course hid my gun under my clothes just in case Zac comes here. I hope the Senator doesn't mind a rebellious bodyguard. I looked to my left and saw no one then I looked to my right and saw no one. I smiled at myself. Without any hesitation I jumped to the pool.

Zac's POV

I couldn't sleep at all. Every time I closed my eyes all I saw and her sexy back. I always had a thing for chicks with tattoos but there was something different about her tattoo. I don't think she got that tattoo because she felt like it. Ugh! Stupid hormones! I blame her!

I got up and decided to go for a swim. I walked outside to the swimming pool area. I heard the water splash. I walked a little faster thinking it was some sort of a thief. I stopped at the sight of her swimming. She looked like an angel. I know it sounds cheesy but what could I do! I walked to the edge of the pool and stood there watching her.

She finally noticed me and stopped at the edge where I was standing. I looked at her and again she smiled sheepishly at me. I raised my eyebrow at her.

'Hehehe,' she blushed. 'Sorry I just felt like swimming.'

'With your undies?'

'Well I didn't really know if you had a pool so when I saw it I just had to.' She blushed.

Suddenly she pushed herself up and got out of the pool. Aghr! She's so sexy! Does she know what she's doing to me! She stood in front of me. I smiled. Yet again she stood to my side and stepped aside. She then grabbed her clothes and left for the lake house. Once again I was left staring at her and her sexy back.