“I was really scared.” I said quietly, looking down at my hands.
“Hey.” Jacob said tipping my chin up so I would look at him. “I’m fine, I promise… Now come here and kiss me, I can’t bend forward very well.” He winked at me and I placed my hand on his chest and pushed him gently until he was laid down, then I hovered above him and kissed him gently. He wound his hands through my hair and angled my head to deepen the kiss, I let him. The kiss was hot and left me in a euphoric daze, the things this man could do to my body without even trying. I snapped out of my daze as I heard the door click shut; I looked around but there was no-one in the room.
“Did someone come in?” I asked Jacob.
“Yeah, it was only my brother.” He said as he went to pull my head closer to his again.
“He probably wants to see if you’re ok, let me go find him.” I pulled back from Jacob and he shook his head.
“He saw that I was fine when I was lying in bed being kissed by you.”
“Why don’t I ever see him at your place?” I asked. I had always wondered why I never saw him and why I hadn’t met him yet.
“He temporarily moved in with a friend of his… I don’t know why, he is secretive with those sorts of things. He still comes by to visit.”
“I would like to meet him soon, he is your family.”
“You are my family.” He kissed me again and this time someone knocked on the door. We looked at the door as Matt poked his head inside.
“Oh shit, sorry Matt. I should have come to get you.” I said, standing up and moving away from Jacob so Matt could talk to him. They did a fist bump and started chatting. Bonnie was standing by the door. “What was that earlier with Matt?” I whispered to her.
“What do you mean?” She whispered back. We were both looking at the guys to make sure they couldn’t hear us.
“You throwing yourself at him and kissing him?”
“Oh… Um… I was worried about him.” She shrugged her shoulders.
“Is something going on between you two?”
“I’m not sure… We have been texting back and forth a few times…We haven’t really discussed it any further.”
“Do you want something more?”
“I really don’t know what I want.”
“What are you two whispering about?” Jacob asked. He’d made me jump and I didn’t know what to say.
“Rose was just telling me of her plans to sponge bath you later.”
“Really?” Jacob had the biggest smile on his face. Bonnie turned to me, with her back to the guys and mouthed the word ‘sorry’.
“Only if you’re good.” I winked at him. The door then opened and a different nurse came in.
“Right, we have your discharge papers. Everyone out, Mr. Peters needs to change.” Matt and Bonnie left and I didn’t move. The nurse looked at me. “Oh, you must be the fiancée.” She smiled at me.
“Uh… Yeah, I’m Rose. I can help him… I’ll need to do this at home anyway.” I moved towards Jacob and pulled back the covers so he could swing his legs over the side of the bed.
“Ok, I will leave you to it… I will be back in five minutes.” I nodded at the nurse and she left the room.
“Fiancee huh?” Jacob chuckled.
“That’s what Matt told them… Come on; let’s get you dressed so I can get you home. Have you got underwear on underneath that?” I asked, nodding my head towards his hospital gown. He pulled it open to show me he was completely naked. “A no would have done… Is this what I’ve got to look forward to over the next few days?”
“Are you really going to look after me?” He asked as he slipped his boxers on. I noticed he winced in pain when he tried to bend, so I put his feet in his shorts and helped him pull them up. “I won’t bother with a t-shirt, that’s gonna hurt. My zip up hoodie is over there.” I helped him slip his arms in and then I zipped it up for him.
“Yeah, I’m going to look after you. I’m not leaving your side until you are better.”
“What about your parents?” He asked, as he slipped his feet into his trainers and stood up.
“Sit in the chair until the nurse comes back. I don’t care about what they say, you need me and that’s all I care about… Besides I’m gonna be eighteen in a couple of weeks then they can’t say anything.”
“Then you can move in with me.”
“What?” I was surprised by what he’d said. He had never mentioned this before.
“I want you to move in with me.”
“You want me to live with you, your brother and Matt?” Four of us living together in the flat; that wasn’t going to work.
“We can get our own place…”
“And how are we going to pay for that?” I asked, cutting him off.
“The fighting pays well, we only need a one bedroom place for now.” It sounded like he had it figured out.
“The fighting? No, I don’t want you to continue…”
“Babe, I have to. Besides, I love it.” He cut me off while I was speaking.
“What about uni next year?” I didn’t want to move in with him if he was going to be leaving me in a few months’ time, that would make it so much harder.
“I don’t know if I’m gonna go uni.” He shrugged his shoulders. I was about to argue the fact with him when the nurse came in. She was going through all of his paperwork and I told him that I would go and see if Matt and Bonnie were still outside. We would need a lift home or I was going to have to order a taxi.
Chapter 20
“Let’s get you into bed.” I said to Jacob as Matt and I helped him into the flat.
“I’m liking the sound of this.” He smirked.
“In your dreams, not until your ribs are better.” Matt helped me get Jacob to his room. Once he was sitting on his bed Matt left. “Do you want a shower? Are you tired?”
“Babe, calm down. Look at me, I am fine… Come and lie down with me.” I shook my head at him.
“I might hurt you.”
“You are gonna have to sleep in the bed with me tonight.”
“I’m gonna sleep on the sofa.” I told him.
“Like hell you are.” He shouted and winced at the same time.
“I don’t wanna hurt you.” I told him again.
“If you sleep on the sofa you will be hurting me more as I will be sleeping out there with you.”
“Ok, fine… Now get into bed.” I’d thought by sleeping on the sofa it would be best for him, but I should have known that my man wouldn’t have been happy with that. While he was getting himself undressed I was thinking back to our conversation in the hospital. He wanted us to live together, I didn’t know if that was a bit too soon, we had only been together for about four months and hadn’t said the words ‘I love you’ yet. I would be eighteen in a couple of weeks and we could talk more about it then. I knew for a fact that Mum and Dad wouldn’t be happy, especially as they’d thought we had split up. Though I couldn’t helped but think how great it would be great to rub it in Amelia’s face.
“What’s got you smiling?” Jacob asked as he climbed into bed.
“Nothing, scoot over. You’re sleeping next to the wall so I can get out easily.”
“And what if I need to get out?” He asked. I stood in front of him and placed my hands on my hips.
“Then I will move.”
“I don’t like sleeping next to the wall.” He complained.
“Neither do I… We need to think about moving this room around so the bed isn’t against a wall.” I told him, looking around for the best place for it to go.
“Great idea, let’s do it now.” He attempted to get out of bed and as his legs reached the floor I could see the pain etched on his face.
“You move out of that bed and you will be in so much trouble, mister.”
“Mister?” He asked laughing, holding on to his ribs.
“Just please stay in bed and relax… I’m gonna get you some water to take your pills. You hungry?”
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nbsp; “Only for you.” He winked. I shook my head as I walked out of the door. It was going to be a long couple of weeks; he was going to be trying to jump my bones at every opportunity. I walked past the sofa that Matt and Bonnie were sitting on. I took a peek at them and was pleased to see that they were kissing. I kept quiet as I went into the kitchen. I got some water for us both and an ice pack; the doctor said using an ice pack would help with the swelling and bruising. I walked back into Jacob’s room and he was flicking through the TV channels.
“Here, use this.” I said as I placed the ice pack onto his ribs. He jumped and swore.
“Shit, that’s freezing.”
“Well, it wouldn’t work if it was warm.” I rolled my eyes at him.
“If that is staying on my body then I’m going to need you to warm me up.”
“Hmm… How do you suppose we do that?” I waited for his answer.
“Body heat is the best kind.” He winked.
“I need to call my parents and tell them that I won’t be home for a couple of days.” I pulled the duvet back over Jacob to keep him a bit warmer. I dialled the house number on my mobile hoping that my Dad would pick up. If I got Mum she was going to make this a lot harder than it needed to be.
“What are you going to tell them?” Jacob whispered to me.
“The truth.” Jacob groaned.
“Your Dad is going to kill me.”
“Probably.” I giggled. “Hey Mum, it’s me… I won’t be home for a few days, I’m staying with Jacob… We never broke up… He means a lot to me and he has been hurt, so I want to stay with him… There is no discussion… I… Mum, I’m seventeen… Yes, we are careful.” I told her, cringing. I didn’t want to be having a conversation about sex with my Mum with my boyfriend listening too. “I don’t know… You can’t make me do anything… I’m staying here… No.” I hung up the phone without saying goodbye. Mum was demanding that I go home. She was making me feel suffocated recently; maybe Jacob’s idea of us living together would be what I needed. I hated leaving him and I slept better with his warmth around me.
“Didn’t go well?” Jacob asked, running his hand up and down on my thigh.
“No, she wants me to go home… She isn’t happy.”
“Babe, I’m ok if you want to go.”
“You want me to go? You don’t want me to stay?” My emotions were all over the place; I was angry that Mum was still telling me what to do and now I felt like I was going to cry as Jacob didn’t want me here, with him. I was trying everything to keep my hurt and tears from Jacob’s view.
“Of course I want you to stay… Babe, look at me.” I turned my head to look at him. “I would keep you here with me all of the time if I knew you would stay… I just don’t want you to fall out with your family… I don’t have a family and wished that I did.” My tears escaped and they were falling down my cheeks. “Hey, don’t cry.” Jacob pulled me closer to him so that my head was resting on his chest. He was running a soothing hand up and down my back. I felt exhausted. With the worry of him being in hospital and being hurt and the argument with my Mum, my eyes were getting heavy and I was struggling to stay awake.
“Strip out of your clothes babe… I won’t be able to do it if you fall asleep.” Jacob said, lightly tapping my bum to wake me. I climbed out of bed and stripped out of all of my clothes and then climbed back into bed. I wanted to feel close to him and there was no better way to feel that than skin on skin.
Chapter 21
I had stayed with Jacob for two weeks solid and the day had come when I was going home to see Mum and Dad. I spoke to them on the phone every other day, they still weren’t happy that I’d lied to them about me and Jacob being together, and they were not happy that I chose to live with him for the past couple of weeks while he was recovering.
We’d definitely got a feel of what it would be like if we did live together properly and I knew that I would love it. I was definitely open to the idea of moving in with him soon, I still wasn’t so keen on the idea of him still fighting, but I kind of got the impression that there would be no compromising going on there. I would have to see what would happen when he was fully healed. He wasn’t in pain anymore, his swelling had completely gone down and the bruising was just about gone. We’d had sex last night for the first time since his visit to the hospital; I was still worried about hurting him but he said he was fine. I insisted on being on top so I could take control, I could then see if he showed any signs of pain. I took it slow and steady, he kept grabbing hold of my hips to get me to speed up, but every time he did that I stopped moving altogether. He got frustrated with me. We ended up having slow and sensual sex, it was like nothing we had felt before. We both came together and I made sure not to fall on top of him as I climaxed. It was different from all the other times we’d had sex and I knew why; that time we had made love, not fucked. It wasn’t just sex; it went much deeper than that.
“Mum, Dad?” I called out as I walked into the house.
“Rose?” Mum called out as she came rushing towards me. She pulled me close to her for a hug. “I missed you.”
“Missed you too.”
“Is that my princess?” Dad called out, coming down the stairs.
“It sure is, Daddy.” He gave me a cuddle and wheni pulled away I noticed Amelia had entered the room.
“What is she doing here?” Amelia snarled.
“I live here.” I told her.
“I thought you lived with your boyfriend… Who she was told to stop seeing and she carried on…”
“And who you told me you slept with.” I cut her off.
“What? Amelia, is this true?” Mum asked.
“Of course not, she is just trying to stop herself from getting into trouble.”
“I’m not in trouble, I’m nearly an adult.” I said to her.
“Well…” Mum started. “I do think it’s a good idea if you stop seeing this boy… He kept you away from your family for two weeks.”
“No, I decided to stay with him for two weeks… I have been staying with him for a lot longer than that.” I decided I was going to get it all out; there was no use in lying anymore.
“You see Mum, I told you she was giving it away.” Amelia said.
“That’s it. You are not to see him anymore.” Mum said. I looked at Dad and he moved to stand with Mum as if to support what she was saying.
“You can’t stop me.” I said turning back towards the front door, getting ready to leave. They would not keep me from the man I love.
“If you walk out of that door, don’t think you can come back.” Mum said. My whole body shook, were they really going to make me choose between my family and the man I wanted to spend the rest of my life with? “Why can’t you be more like your sister?” Mum added. That statement was the one that tipped me over the edge.
“Like her.” I sneered, pointing at Amelia. “You want me to spread my legs for a different guy every day of the weekend? You want me taking drugs? Partying non-stop?”
“Now Rose, stop being ridiculous… Stop making your sister out to be like that.” I looked up and saw Amelia smiling behind them. I would show her, I grabbed my phone out of my pocket and began looking through the videos; I was going to show Mum and Dad the video of Amelia at the club, with the drug dealer. I was confused, where was the video? I looked up at Amelia again and she was smiling even wider.
“What did you do?” I asked her.
“Deleted it.” Amelia replied.
“What is going on between you two?” Dad asked.
“It wasn’t the only copy… Bonnie and Jacob have a copy too.” I turned towards the door.
“Rose.” Mum said in a warning tone.
“I’m just getting some fresh air, I’ll be back.”
***
I had called Jacob as soon as I left the house and told him what had happened and that I didn’t have long but I wanted to see him. I was sitting at a table outside of the ‘Coffee Bean’ when he arrived. He wasn’t wearing w
hat he’d had on this morning, which I thought was strange.
“Hi, baby.” I said as I stretched up on to my tip toes to give him a kiss. When I went to pull away he stepped closer to me so our bodies were touching and he deepened the kiss. He was kissing me with urgency. I pulled away, the kiss felt strange.
“Joseph!” Someone shouted from behind me. Jacob took a step back from me and I turned my head to see who it was.
“Oh my God.” I whispered to myself. Jacob was standing in front of me and behind me. “What the hell?” I shouted.
“Babe, listen I can explain.” The Jacob from behind me said as he grabbed my hands in his. I took a good look at him and then the other guy. When I looked closer I could see that the guy holding my hands was Jacob, my Jacob. I pulled my hands out of his and shook my head.
“That is Joseph, my brother.” He told me.
“Twin brother.” Joseph said.
“Yeah, I think she got that, idiot.” Jacob said to him.
“I… I don’t understand.”
“He must have heard me telling Matt that I was meeting you and where and for some reason he decided to come first.” Jacob explained to me.
“You kissed me? Why did you kiss me?” I asked Joseph. “I’m not yours.”
“You kissed me.” Joseph said.
“I thought you were him.” I shouted, pointing at Jacob. “You deepened the kiss, wouldn’t let me go.”
“What the fuck!” Jacob roared. “What is wrong with you?” He stormed over to Joseph and pushed at his chest.
“She’s a good kisser.” Joseph shrugged his shoulders. “I wanted another taste after the last time.”
“The last time? Oh my God, that was you at college… You called me sweetness.” Joseph was smirking at me and I wanted to slap it off of his face. I turned back to Jacob. “Why didn’t you say anything? Why didn’t you tell me? Was that what caused the amazing sex in the kitchen? You were marking me? Telling me I’m yours, after I had just kissed your brother?”
“Good one man, kitchen sex. Love it.” Joseph said, as he held his fist out to Jacob waiting for him to hit it. He was definitely the cocky one of the twins. Jacob still hadn’t answered, so I took that as a yes to my question.
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