Part Nine: "A sad thing in life is that
sometimes you meet someone who means a lot to you only to find out in the end
that it was never bound to be and you just have to let go."

There was a knock on the door.

Knock, knock, knock...

Lexis went and opened it. Vladimir was standing
in front of her.

"Hey. What are you doing here?"

It was odd the way Vladimir looked. He
looked...sad. This was a new look for him, that Lexis had never saw before.
"I...missed you already."

Lexis suddenly had a look of sadness in her eyes
too as they looked at each other. He really did love her, she thought. "Come
here," Lexis said while dragging him in and shutting the door. Suddenly she
pushed him against the door and leaned her body against his. They kissed each
other passionately. Vladimir stopped kissing.

"Don't you have to pack?"

"I can just say that I had a lot more than I
expected." Lexis smiled and kissed him again. While kissing she took off his
shirt and threw it on the ground. She then reached down and undid his pants and
let them fall. Vladimir threw himself off the door and turned them both around
and flung her back on the door. They kissed and his hands went up and down her
back, until he got aggravated with the tank top and practically ripped it off.

"Whoa, calm down. That tank top was not a wild
tiger ready to strike!"

They both laughed, but Vladimir did not care if
he was a little freaky when he took it off the tank top. He loved her so much
that it hurt his heart sometimes. He needed to be closer to her to her and the
tank top was in the way. Being skin to skin with her was the only way he could
make his heart not hurt.

He reached down to her waist and undid her pants
and let them fall. Quickly after he pulled her underwear off, then his. He did
not bother with the bra, he wanted to do it as fast as possible. He leaned in
even farther than before with his pelvis.

"Wait," Lexis was unsure of this. It was a wall.
She thought that it might be more comfortable on the bed. "Are we actually
doing it here?"

"Why not? Lets be adventurous." He put his left
hand on her right hip and lifted her left leg up with his right arm.

"Oh, Vladimir!"

…...

By the time they had finished it had only been
forty five minutes. The ended up on the floor, with Lexis' head on his chest
and her right arm holding his left side. Her legs were wrapped around his right
side.

Lexis whispered, "Vladimir?"

He looked down at her and whispered too, "yes?"

She sighed, "why?"

"Why what?"

"Why did we do it like that?"

"Because we wanted to. That is all. You did not
enjoy it?" He sort of sat up, but only a little bit.

"No, I did, but...We have only been dating for
three weeks and we are going to see my parents tomorrow, and you decide to
throw that at me?"

"I did not throw it at you. You agreed to it."

Lexis was getting upset, "no. I asked you if we
were doing it there and you said why not and then did it. There was no time in
between those to say anything."

"If you did not want to do it there then you
should have said something, screamed it for all I care!" Vladimir bolted up and
looked around for his clothes. Once found, he rushed to put them on.

"Please do not leave!" By then he was not
listening to her. he was so pissed off that if he talked to her, he would
regret everything he said. He gathered his things and went to the door. She
kept saying she was sorry and to not leave.

"I do not care! It is over! We are done!"
Vladimir opened the door and pushed her back inside. Then he slammed the door
and walked towards the headquarters. Lexis was so shocked that she did not cry.
She walked over to the bed and climbed onto it and got into the fetal position.
She had rocked herself a little bit, when there was a knock on the door.

Knock, knock, knock...

She slowly got up and looked through the
peephole. It was Frank. She quickly threw on her clothes and ran to the door.

"Hey." She said it so quietly that she was
almost inaudible.

"Hey. Vlad told the gang that you guys were in a
relationship, but now it is over. What did he do?" Lexis opened the door more
and let him in.

"He dropped a bomb on me. I will just explain
from the beginning...He came over and said he missed me and then we started
kissing. Then we started taking off clothes and stuff. Then he had me against the
wall and he wanted to...do it against the wall."

"That is why you guys broke up?! You guys are
insane! Why did you not want to do it against the wall?"

"I thought we were going too fast, like he just
wanted a quickie. And, do not tell anyone, but he was my first."

"First guy you slept with?"

"Yeah."

"Oh...that explains a lot now..."

"How? That explains nothing!"

"He...wants adventure because he use to
be...gay."

"Seriously? You have got to be kidding me!"

Frank looked serious, "I am not. He really was. And
he did not lie to you when he said he had not done it with anyone. He still was
a virgin when he met you."

"How did you know he said that?"

"I just had a feeling. And you guys will get
over this and get back together. But for a while, no one is going to take you
guys seriously, so watch your back. Do not let people knife you in the back. If
you get what I mean. And I will be going with you on your trip."

"Thanks, Frank. And I am sorry about before. I
did not mean it."

Frank's eyes glistened in the light, "really?
You did not actually mean that?"

"Nah, Frank. I did not mean it. And you might
actually like my parents, they are pretty cool people." Lexis for the first
time in what seemed like a week. Frank was a sweet guy.