Disclaimer: No I do not own Gunslinger Girl. Raphael and his other aliases yes but the rest of them no.
I am confused. I don't know what to do. I asked Raphael if he loved me and he just stared blankly back at me. He did not say yes or no but something in me was afraid that he meant no. I could not take that, I wished he did not mean no. Did I offend Raphael? I mean Raphael is a boy with principles; I should have respected that. He really looked sorry when he said that he can't kiss me but I was too lost in my emotions to listen to him. I was such an idiot. I may have lost the most important person in my life just because of a stupid kiss. I need to set things straight I am going to apologize.
"Triela where are you going?" O that was Claes by the way.
It was the next day and the sun was up in the sky. Everything looked brighter that day, everything except Raphael's door. I wanted to knock on it but something in me kept pulling me away. Suddenly the door opened by itself and out came Raphael. We looked at each other and said sorry simultaneously. I didn't know why Raphael is saying sorry but I know why I am:
"Raph, I am sorry about last night. After all you are right, we are both just first time lovers, we shouldn't be rushing these things. Could you forgive a silly girl?"
Raphael smiled and said. "How can I say no to my girlfriend."
I blushed but was able to say "Thank you" in a soft tone. I turned to leave when suddenly I felt his hand on my shoulder. I turned around to be met by his lips as they pressed to mine…
Chapter 14 Colori Allineare
True Colors
My legs gave way like the time I was injured in the shooting range, but this time without the pain. However, like before, he caught me before I fell. His lips stayed on mine as I felt his arms wrap around tighter. Seconds lasted like hours as I felt every moment; a feeling reverberated from my lips through the rest of my body. It was a tingle that I wished lasted forever. I may have been a beginner at this but I was daring. I stuck my tongue at his lips begging for passage and he gave it to me. My tongue darted into his mouth as I felt a new place to explore. When his tongue touched mine another wave of sensations ran through me as we continued to be intimate. Little did we know, Claes and Henrietta passed by… they told us that they saw the whole thing when we got to breakfast, but in truth that was just part one.
Raphael broke the kiss, as he looked straight into my eyes. He took my hand and led me into his room. He pressed me into a wall and started again. Aside from the overwhelming sensation, which was the kiss. The fact that when he kissed me now there was no other place for my head to go but the wall made things even feel better. It was like being trapped, but in a good way. Then he lifted me up a bit and carried me giving me extra height, that way I was the one doing the kissing. He held on to me like that until he lost balance and we both fell on his bed. He rolled me over and pinned me on the bed and started making out with me again. After a lifetime he finally broke the kiss and lied flat on his bed. I rolled over and embraced him.
"Screw time, life is short, I love you so much Triela." He said as he held me in his arms.
"I am glad we can agree on one thing, I love you too Raph."
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"What happened?" asked Rico as we had our daily meals.
"Triela and Raphael, they were—." Henrietta was about to say, before I covered her mouth.
"Triela and Raphael were playing around awhile ago." I covered up.
But the cover-up only lasted awhile since the glowing couple approached the table looking very… happy. I wanted to just keep quiet but Rico went to ask them.
"Hey you to two, what have you been doing?"
Triela looked surprised, "I helped Raphael with something." She lied.
Suddenly Henrietta bit the hand I used to cover her mouth and she blurted out.
"What was wrong, did Raphael have something… on his lips?" she said before she started laughing.
The couple turned red with embarrassment as they both turned to me.
There was no use hiding it, I told them that we saw them enjoying them selves at Raphael's door. Triela was ready to deny everything but Raphael just looked around and suddenly pecked her on the lips again!
"Well now it's not a secret anymore, happy?" he said as he checked if anyone else saw it.
All of us fell silent. We did not know what to say anymore, even Henrietta stopped laughing. With that Raphael and Triela managed to sit down and eat.
Later on Joze and Jean approached Henrietta and Rico.
"Henrietta, Rico let's go." They said.
They both asked where they were going and the handlers explained that they were going to pass by some stores and Joze suggested that they tag along. Triela asked if she could go with them and they said that if they can contact Hillshire who has some business with section 1 maybe he'd agree. Raphael is always free to go as he pleased so I guess when he got up it meant he planned to go with them. So I was going to be left behind again. As they walked a certain distance Raphael saw me being left behind so he approached the handlers and said something that I did not hear. With a smile he then approached me and said:
"Claes you have anything to do today?"
"No, the doctors said I have the time off."
"Want to come with?"
"But how? Did Jean and Joze agree?" I said in disbelief.
"They said go ahead. Anyway all you need is a handler's consent and… you don't have a handler anymore. So I'll go with you as you're handler, anyway Hillshire already agreed to just meet us there and he'll stay with Triela."
"… You're the greatest Raph!" I said as I hugged him.
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"You're welcome Claes. Just goes to show that just because I am with Triela now doesn't mean you're not my friend anymore."
I was not lying. Triela may be everything to me but I still care for the other girls. We reached the market place. There both Jean and Joze's cars parked. As soon as we got there I heard Hilshire talk to Triela:
"Triela I am going to be rather busy, why don't you tag along with Raphael and Claes for now." With that he walked away giving me a grin before leaving. It would appear that he planned to leave me with her all along.
"So what do the 2 of you want to buy?"
"I don't know Raphael, should we even be spending you're allowance?" Claes asked.
"Why not, it's not like I can use them to buy a car or something. Money is made to be spent."
We walking into a boutique, Claes and Triela just agreed that they will just look at the clothes but I had other things planned for them.
"Triela look at this." I said, calling to her.
She came over and I pointed at this dress hanging from a rack. It was probably velvet, it was dark purple the and it came with a shawl with silver buttons. I pulled it of and put it over her chest.
"See it looks so cute on you." I cooed.
"Raph, I can't get this from you." She tried to reason out.
"At least try it on please?" I begged.
She sighed and went into a dressing room. Claes stood beside me and said:
"I am not going to fall for that." She said.
"Really now, here's a hundred euros, there is a bookstore in the other side of this store."
Claes looked at me and took the money; she did not know what to say.
"The proper term is thank you. Triela and I will meet you there as soon as we pay for the dress."
She was gone in an instant. Triela left the dressing room and I was just amazed by her. When she put the dress on one of her ponytails came undone and I revealed how pretty she was with her hair down. I was not wrong she looked astounding with the dress. I could not stop looking at her.
"Is something wrong?" She asked.
"No nothing could ever be wrong with you Triela."
She blushed as she stood there not knowing what to do. She went back in the dressing room and undressed and when she got out she gave the dress back to me. I told her I was buying it and there was no way she's going to make me change me mind.
"Fine, but I am only putting it on if you're around." She bargained
"Ok, fine." I said.
She tied her ponytail back and we left the boutique. Before we have gone far, Triela's ribbon broke and her ponytail came undone again.
"Damn I don't have an extra ribbon." She said.
I pulled a red ribbon out of my pocket and offered it to her. She did not want to take it saying.
"If I use a red on one side and black on the other it would look weird."
I pulled a second red ribbon out of my pocket and offered both to her. She looked at me sheepishly and said.
"You've been planning to have me wear red ribbons for quite awhile now have you?"
I smiled and replied, "Well sometimes you have to brighten up Triela, and shades of red will definitely make you look better than black ones."
She undid her other bow and I was able to see her with her hair completely down. She needs to do that more often. It looks so nice on her. She put the red ribbons on and I have to say, red is definitely her color.
"Alright where's Claes?" she asked.
"Bookstore." I said as I pointed out the store across the street.
Taking Claes out of the book store is like taking a child out of a candy shop, nothing short of difficult. But we eventually pulled her out without having to buy the entire store, luckily.
We found our selves on the Spanish steps. We were supposed to meet the rest of the group here so I guess we have to wait here.
"You know they say that if you eat gelatto at the Spanish steps good things happen." Claes said.
So I bought all three of us a gelatto and we climbed the steps. We sat on one of the steps and ate our ice cream or should I say gelatto. Suddenly a police officer ran up the steps towards us.
"Hey you three, meals are not around on the Spanish Steps!"
"This is not a meal sir, it's dessert." I shouted back.
But the officer would not let us unless we wolf them down, so that's what we did, we had to cram our gelatto down our throats, with rather messy results.
"You have some gelatto on you're nose." I told Triela.
But before she can wipe it off I kissed the gelatto of her nose. She looked at me and said.
"You have some gelatto on you're lips."
Before I could say 'Hey that does not count.' She pounced on me and kissed me on the lips. I savored those lips of hers as they touched mine. I told you her lips are addicting.
"Guys stop fooling around someone might see you." Claes said.
At the bottom of the steps"What are you taking a picture of Henrietta?"
"Nothing Joze, just Raphael and Triela fooling around heehee."
"Ok."
We were fooling around a bit when suddenly I saw someone in the distance someone who sent a chill down my spine. Let's see Browline Ronsir glasses, expensive suit definitely from Milan. Shit it's him!
"Raphael what's wrong?"
"What? O nothing I thought I just saw someone."
I can't be him but if it is… What are you doing here? What do you want from me? Why did fate choose this?!
"Lance, Lance, Lance that is quite a number of friends you have made there. Too bad I am here to ruin it all for you. Soon our paths will cross again. Lance, it's bound to happen since you know that we both can't exist on the same plain, looks like we will have to decide that soon!"
The man tips his hat and walks away.