John’s hand fell back to his side and just looked at Elliot with wide eyes, like he was realizing that what he was about to do wasn’t right at all, that it was his own blood that he was going to hit.
‘’I’m so sorry Elliot I didn’t know what I was doing please forgive me! Forget what I was going to tell you, you are a man now, you can make your own decisions, hopefully you won’t follow my steps.’’ John started to say as a tear rolled down his face.
‘’John, I think it’s better if you rest, come with me I’ll put you to bed.’’ Hannah told him as she took his hand in hers and started to lead him out of the kitchen.
‘’I’m sorry Elliot, forgive me please.’’
Elliot stood there staring at his father. How did he expect him to forgive him, after all that he had been through. All the pain, the countless therapy sessions, the foster families. He could never forgive that man, he was ashamed to call him his father.
Elliot ran back upstairs and took his suitcase out from beneath his bed and started packing all his belongings. He knew that this day would arrive sooner or later. He took all his saved up money, which had amounted to quite a nice sum over the years and walked out the front door without looking back at the house.
His feet started to move on their own accord and before he even realized where he had been heading he had found himself infront of Desiree’s lovely home. He saw her parents’ car parked, but as he was about to walk away the light in Desiree’s room caught his eye. There she was sitting on her bedroom’s floor with a book in her hand.
Her eyes instantly met his green ones, it was as if she had felt his presence. She placed the book on the floor and opened the balcony door.
‘’Elliot what are you doing out at this hour? It’s freezing!’’ She told him in a worried tone. It didn’t take long for her to notice the huge black suitcase that he was carrying. ‘’Elliot, don’t go anywhere, I’m coming down!’’ She told him as she quickly closed the door and ran down the stairs.
‘’I won’t go anywhere’’ He said in barely above a whisper.
A few moments later Desiree opened the door and took the suitcase away from him, letting him inside.
‘’Your hand are so cold, and your face is so white!’’ She told him as she placed her hands on either side of his face. ‘’C’mon I’ll make you a mug of coffee.’’ Desiree told him as she led him to the kitchen.
After she had placed a mug of steaming hot coffee infront of him she asked him what had happened. ‘’You can tell me everything Elliot, trust me.’’
Elliot gave up and started to tell her everything that had happened in his childhood till that night. Desiree sat there with her eyes wide open as he started to tell her everything. Never in a million years would she have guessed that that had happened to her man.
When he had finished speaking she moved towards him and kissed him. ‘’I’m so sorry Elliot I can’t believe that you have gone through all that.’’ She told him while he sat her down on his lap and removed the tears from her delicate face.
‘’It’s not your fault Desiree, it’s not your fault I’m messed up because of him.’’ He told her as he placed his head on her chest and wept.
‘’Oh baby, you’re not messed up, you’re amazing and I love you so so much Elliot. Never forget that.’’ She told him as she hugged him and played with his hair.
‘’Don’t let me go, Desiree.’’ He told her as he hugged her closer to him.
‘’I won’t, you are everything I ever wanted.’’
After they had spent god knows how many minutes in each others embrace, Desiree took him up to her bedroom and lied him down on her bed, the minute that his head met the pillow he fell asleep. She made sure that he was covered and brought another blanket just in case the temperature got colder, and lied down next to him.
‘’I promise you that tomorrow things will be better, I’ll make sure of that if it’s the last thing I’ll do.’’
26☕
❝Let’s run away together❞
The next morning they both woke up with their limbs tangled together as they felt a pair of hands shaking them to wake them up.
‘’Wake up Desiree and Elliot!’’ Amber said as she shook them in turn. Finally they slowly opened their eyes, and quickly closed them when their eyes met the bright sunlight in the room.
‘’Get up this instant!’’ Her father yelled as she walked into her bedroom.
‘’Fine, what do you want?’’ Desiree said as she sat up in her bed and crossed her arms.
‘’Can you explain to me why there is a guy in bed with you. Did he come in through the window in the middle of the night or something?’’ Her mother screamed.
‘’Oh that’s my fault, Mrs. Lock, I came here after work. I just wanted to see her and we ended up watching a movie together and when it ended I was so tired that I ended up falling asleep here. I’m sorry.’’ Elliot explained himself.
‘’That’s no good excuse, everyone knows that boys your age are after one thing and one thing only! Now get out of my house and don’t you dare see my daughter again!’’ Rupert yelled as he yanked Elliot out of the bed.
‘’Dad what the hell do you think you’re doing? Leave him alone!’’ Desiree screamed as she got up from the bed and tried to remove her dad’s hand from the tight grip on Elliot’s shirt.
‘’Move away you slut!’’ He spat as he pushed her roughly away, which resulted in her bumping her head on the wardrobe and fall on the floor.
‘’You bastard! How dare you?’’ Elliot yelled as he punched her father and ran to her. Amber didn’t say anything, she just stood in the doorway with eyes wide open and her hands covering her mouth.
‘’Elliot grab my suitcase from under the bed, it’s packed, we’re going away.’’ She told him with tears in her eyes as she held her throbbing hand. She was afraid that she might have a concussion since she had received quite a hard blow.
He nodded his head in understanding and did as he was told. After he had fished it out he helped Desiree up and ran as fast as the could out of the bedroom. Her parents clearly hadn’t expected that to happen as it took them a moment to start chasing after them.
‘’Go into the car!’’ Elliot yelled as he handed her his keys and made his way to grab his black suitcase.
‘’What are you doing come back here! Desiree!’’ Their parents kept yelling as they ran down the stairs. Thankfully Elliot was faster than both of them and they had managed to drive off just as they ran down the front steps.
They drove in silence for a few minutes. The two of them lost in their own thoughts.
Desiree couldn’t believe that she had ran away from home and that she had left her sister behind without saying goodbye. She was already having second thoughts about what she had did and was feeling guilty, but she convinced herself that she had just grabbed the opportunity when she saw it. She was with Elliot now, she was fine and she was going to have a fresh start in life.
‘’Desiree, are you alright? Do you need me to take you to the hospital to check your head?’’ He asked her concerned as he looked at her, still in her pajamas with tear stained cheeks and messy hair, but she still amazed him with her beauty.
‘’I’m alright Elliot, don’t worry about me. Where are we going?’’ She asked him.
‘’Anywhere you want to is fine with me.’’ He told her.
‘’To the airport, I can’t stand to stay here anymore and I think that we both need a little break from this drama.’’ She told him.
‘’I agree, to the airport it is. Let’s go on an adventure!’’ He said excitedly as he grabbed his cold hand in his and gave her a reassuring smile.
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As they walked into the airport with their suitcases in hand as they walked near the desk to buy their flight tickets everyone gave them strange looks as they took in their appearance.
There was something about airports that Desiree had always loved. Maybe it was the rush of people as the
y embarked on a new adventure in a new country or the emotion that was displayed as loved ones returned home. When she was younger she used to go to their airport with her mum and just sit on a bench people watching as they made up stories about every person. It was a thing that they both used to do after a tiring day, but not anymore.
‘’Two tickets to London on the soonest leaving flight, please.’’ Elliot told the women behind the desk who looked suspiciously at them.
‘’Let me see if there are any empty seats.’’ She told them as she typed something on the computer. ‘’You are in luck, there are two empty seats on the plane leaving in just twenty minutes.’’ She told them.
‘’We’ll take them!’’ Desiree told her.
After they had gave her all the documents that she needed and payed they ran as fast as they could towards the gate that she had told them. The plane was going to leave in eight minutes so if they missed it, they missed their chance of freedom.
They got on the plane just in time and the friendly air hostess showed them to their seats at the back of the plane as she gave them instructions where to place their luggage and to call her if they needed anything during the eight hour flight.
‘’Elliot, I’m scared.’’ Desiree said as the plane stared the engines.
‘’There’s nothing to be scared of, baby girl. Just close your eyes and give me your hand. It will be over before you know it.’’ Elliot told her as he kissed her hand and held it tightly.
She scrunched her eyes and without knowing how drifted into a deep sleep.
‘’You can open your eyes now, Desiree.’’ Elliot told her as they were high up in the sky. When she didn’t move her called her name again as panic start to slowly rise. Was she unconscious from the blow that she had received? If anything happened to her because of Rupert he didn’t know what he’d do.
He looked at her, holding his breath, but when he saw her chest slowly rise and fall with each breath he let out a breath of relief.
‘’Sweet dreams, baby. I promise you that everything will be better for us now. You know what they say, change is good.’’ He told her before putting on his headphones as he started to watch a movie on the small screen infront of him.
He couldn’t wait for those eight hours to pass and land in London, he had so many memories in London…
27☕
❝Love like you are 81❞
Thankfully those eight hours didn’t take too long to pass, Elliot had watched two movies and then fell asleep with Desiree in his arms.
‘’Sir, we have landed in London.’’ An airhostess told Elliot as she gently nudged him to wake him up as all the passengers started to walk out of the airplane.
He woke up with a start and looked around him puzzled for a few seconds until he remembered where he was and the reason why he was there.
‘’Sir, we have landed in London, please wake her up and go pick up your suitcases from the airport.’’ The airhostess told him again with a bright smile.
‘’Thank you.’’ Elliot told her with a polite smile as he turned to look at Desiree who was still sleeping with her head rested on his shoulder. ‘’Desiree, baby wake up we have landed.’’ He told her as he placed a kiss on her forehead. After a few more tries she woke up and they both made their way out of the airplane hand in hand to pick up their luggage.
‘’Elliot, do you have any idea where we are going to stay?’’ Desiree asked him after they had picked up their luggage and walked out of the airport together.
‘’Desiree, you don’t have to worry about anything, I got this.’’ Elliot told her as he placed a sweet kiss on her lips and hailed a cab. ‘’To The Millenium Hotel in Mayfair, please.’’ Elliot told the driver as soon as they got in the car and the driver immediately soon sped off.
Desiree pulled out her phone from her bag and switched it on, to see that she had ten missed calls and five text messages from her mother and father. She opened them one by one to see that they all contained the same three words, where are you? As she read the same message over and over again she started to feel a little guilty and wonder if she had took things to far.
‘’What’s wrong, Desiree?’’ Elliot asked her as she saw her frown down at her phone.
‘’Do you think that we did the right thing, running away from our home to another country without even telling our parents where we were going?’’ She asked him as she looked down at her hands.
‘’Desiree, I think you had done the perfect thing, I can see it in your eyes that you have wanted to do this for a long time, you were just too scared. I can tell that there is something about your family that you haven’t told me about which bothers you, and I’m not going to make you tell me if you don’t want to, but you know that you can tell me everything. I won’t judge.’’ He told her as he took her hand in his and kissed her knuckles one by one.
‘’It’s just so hard to talk about it, know one knows about it, not even Alice or Mia.’’ She told him close to tears.
‘’Honey, it’s okay you don’t have to talk about it if you don’t want to. We are in London now, we can both have a new start in life, start fresh, leave the past behind us.’’ He told her with a grin on his face.
‘’That sound like a great idea and I have wanted to visit London since I was just a young girl, I promise that I won’t think about anything that happened, I am just so glad that I found you Elliot.’’ She told him as she leaned in and started kissing him.
‘’You don’t know how lucky I am that a guy like me found a girl like you.’’ He told her as he returned her kiss.
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After a few hours they arrived at the hotel and after Elliot payed for their fair they walked in.
The Millenium Hotel looked just like a palace inside and out, and Desiree was in awe, she had never been to a hotel like that.
‘’Elliot, this hotel must cost a fortune, perhaps we can find another one maybe even a small apartment somewhere.’’ She whispered.
‘’Desiree, money is no problem and I want to treat my princess right.’’ He told her with a smile.
Desiree couldn’t help but grin, never in a million years had she dreamed that she’d find a guy like him, compared to him Noah had been just a friend, Mia had been right, there weren’t right for each other.
‘’Hello, welcome to The Millenium Hotel, how may I help you?’’ The receptionist, who was a man in his early thirties with an amazing Birtish accent asked them.
‘’We would like a hotel room for two, please.’’ Elliot told him in a business like voice.
‘’Let me check if we have any rooms available.’’ The receptionist told him as he gave a smile to Desiree and turned to his laptop. ‘’You’re in luck, we have a suite available.’’ He told them.
‘’We’ll take it!’’ They both said excitedly together.
After they had paid and the receptionist had gave them the key they walked up to their suite.
‘’Oh my God this is amazing!’’ Desiree screamed as she ran into the suite and jumped onto the bed as soon as Elliot had opened the door.
‘’I totally agree!’’ Elliot told her as he jumped on the bed next to her and pulled her on top of him as they looked into each others eyes.
‘’Um I’m going to start unpacking.’’ Desiree told him as she got off him and walked towards the suitcase. She knew what she wanted, and she knew that he wanted it too she could see it in the way that he looked at her but she was a little scared. Mia had told her about her first time and how horrible it had been, so of course she was a little hesitant.
‘’I’m going to call my mother and let her know that we are here.’’ Elliot told her a little defeated.
‘’Your mum lives in London?’’ She asked him surprised.
‘’Yes and I used to live with her until I was sixteen years old, but then I had to move with dad in Chicago and have been living there since.’’ He told her.
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