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I´m back with a new chapter, yey! This is the longest one yet and if I may say so myself I think it´s the best one so far! Tell me if you agree!
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I opened the door to the gym and went inside; I saw the punching bag swaying. Great I thought to myself, I didn´t want to see anyone I just wanted to beat the shit out of something without having to speak or be polite. I let out a sight and headed for the benches, I put my bag down next to the other bag belonging to whoever else was there. I unzipped my hoodie, took it of and went over to the punching bag. Half way there I heard the bathroom door open and I turned around to see who it was.
The sight of him made the rage I´d felt earlier come back.
"You!" I almost growled and started walking towards him; he took a few steps back as I came closer to him. He did right in doing so, the wrath of Rose Hathaway was something that no one wanted to experience but for him there was no escape.
"Rose, I know you´re mad but if you just…" his words got interrupted when my fist made contact with his cheek, he stumbled backwards but regain his balance rather quickly.
"Fuck!" I said and tried to shake of the pain in my right hand.
"WHAT THE FUCK ROSE?!" He yelled as he held his cheek in his hand. His outburst made me loose it again. I looked back at him and I knew he could see the new wave of fury blossoming inside of me. I took another step closer to him and took another swing at him, this time he saw it coming and grapped my wrist in his hand.
"Stop hitting me!" he said as I took another swing at him with my free hand but he managed to get a hold of that one as well. I tried to wiggle out of his hold but he had both of my hands in a firm grip, but I wasn´t going to let him get away that easily. I raised my knee in a quick motion towards his groan but he managed to read my move and blocked it with his own leg, he pushed me backwards and forced me down on the floor with him on top of me pinning my hands over my head.
"Calm down!" He ordered me; I realized that I couldn't get out of his grip.
"How dare you treat me like that?! What makes you think that you can come back here and use me and then just leave me without a single word?! Do you know how that makes me feel?!"
"Rose…"
"Shut up! I don´t want to hear whatever excuse you've been working on. I don´t need to hear anything from you, your actions speaks for themselves. You obviously don´t care about me anymore, and honestly what you did makes me question if you ever really cared at all!" Once I heard that last part leave my mouth I knew I´d pissed him off. I knew he loved me back then and I knew he still cared about me, but there was no going back, the words was out there and for the time being I was NOT going to apologize for what I just said.
"Don´t you ever dare say that I don´t care about you! You´re the only one I care about! I don´t care about what happens to me as long as I know that you´re safe! I would do anything for you! I LOVE YOU!" He shouted back at me. I looked into his eyes taking it all in, I was still pissed.
"Then why did you leave?" I snapped at him
"I know it was stupid but I needed time to think, I realized how selfish I was last night but seeing you again…I…I just couldn't take it anymore. I needed to be with you, I needed to touch you, I needed to kiss you, I simply needed…you"
"I didn´t mean last night, I meant five years ago" I whispered looking deep into his eyes. He took a deep breath and rolled of off me and laid down next to me on the floor.
"I regret that every day. It wasn't that I stopped loving you, I just knew how much you wanted to be Lissa's guardian and I thought that we would be able to make it work with me being assigned to Christian but I knew that I would never be able to do my job the way I should. I would always worry about you first and foremost and it wouldn't be fair to neither Lissa nor Christian. If it had come down to it I would've save your life before I saved Christians. So I tried to distance myself from you so that you wouldn´t realize what I was planning on doing, and with Lissa´s busy schedule keeping us apart, I…I had a pretty good excuse to end our relationship." His voice was full of sadness as he spoke.
"Why didn´t you tell me this? We could have figured something out." I said in a low voice.
"I knew how much it meant to you to become Lissas guardian, and I knew what a great career you would have, I didn´t want to stand in the way of that. I knew that I would be a distraction and that you wouldn't be able to focus on Lissa to 100% with me there." I rolled over so that I was straddling him and punched him on the shoulder.
"Ouch! What was that for?" He said and rubbed his shoulder.
"For being an idiot!" I said "I don´t care about my career! I care about you; you made me realize that there are more important things to life then work. And when it comes to Lissa, I want what's best for her and that is to have a guardian that can give her his or hers full attention and for the last couple of years I haven't been able to do that. So she and I had a long talk a few months back and I gave her my resignation. She want me to be as happy as I possibly can be, and the only time that is, is when I´m with you. You are the one thing that makes me happy; you are the one I love. It has always been you and it WILL always be you." His eyes searched mine and our eyes locked, he raised his arm and softly put his hand on my neck and slowly pulled me down towards him. He stopped just as our lips was about to touch and looked me deep in the eyes.
"I love you, and I will never, ever leave you again"
"You promise?" I whispered back
"I do" he said before our lips meet in a soft and tender kiss.
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