To Love Thy Enemy

Chapter Fifteen

    In the weeks that followed many things happened in a flash, but mostly everyone walked around eggshells when they were around me and mostly, I stayed to myself. I sat in Noah's room most days and when he came in I would move to sit on the chair away from him that I had moved to face the window, he did not push me to talk or look at him. He allowed me to be angry in the fact that he would not tell me what was going on.

        Maybe they felt as if they were protecting me, and I just felt like I was being kept in the dark like a child. I slept a lot and sometimes I would wake in the middle of the night to someone in the bed with me and just for a brief moment I would feel relief as I snuggled in close. We didn't need to speak, he knows that I'm not ok and for that little while I was able to just be soothed, I didn't allow my anger to push him away, or for my feelings to clog up and me to freeze, I felt a little more at ease and comfortable.

    This morning was no different as my head lay on his chest and I pretended to sleep, I listened to his soft breathing and just thought. This was the only time he didn't seem so stressed, so tired and peaceful, I didn't understand why. But then again, I know what he had to stress about with his job, it wasn't as if he worked a normal 9-5. I kept my eyes closed as I made twirls on his bare chest as he slept and he stirred a little, this didn't mean nothing. This was just one person comforting another, not that either of us was being very comforting right now. 

            I needed that and I clinged to that feeling, I felt him twist and then his arms were wrapped around me and my face was pressed into his chest and I whimpered at the smell of him, he always smelled so good and I learned that he wore a cologne by Dior and it smelled AMAZING, it mixed so well with his natural musk and to me was the most intoxicating thing when I was close to him. Should I be admitting that? I was tempted to wake him up as I moved my head back and looked up and at his face, but I knew by doing that I would wake him up and he wouldn't be a happy camper about it and this gentle side of him would be gone. 

    But what if I just.....I reached up to press my lips against his and he moved his head down and our lips touched, his arms tightened and I slid my leg over him which he very happily grabbed and started rubbing as the kiss deepened and he surprised me by his tongue snaking out and licking my lip, I had no choice but to melt against him as the hunger consumed me.

    "What are you doing to me Catalina?" He spoke against my lips and I moaned at the pleasure of hearing my name on his lips, but not just on his lips against my lips before he deepened the kiss. We were lost in each other when the door came open slamming against the wall and made me pull away completely and freeze, thankful that the blanket was over us as a female voice filled the room "Noah why are you still in bed are you sick?"

        The ice that was going up my spine at this moment in time made me realize that in the throes of heat my shirt had been removed and was now laying on the floor, a very pissed off Noah answered "Get out!" He stated sitting up and I could hear the sweet mother voice turn to a very angry Russian voice "And who exactly do you think your talking to?" Spoke Jenelle, who is Noah's mother. As I laid here with no shirt on, I thought this could not Possibly be any more embarrassing, but yet it gets worse as I feel Noah's hand touch mine with something in it and I realized that it was a shirt, I slowly moved around pulling it on hoping to go unnoticed.

    And then it did get worse as another voice filled the room and I wanted to shrink as Janelle instructed Apollo to handle his son's attitude before she handled it for him. It was at that moment that Apollo spoke "Well love you did just burst into his room unannounced." 

        "Well.....That does not matter, I am his mother I can come as I please." Spoke Janelle.

    "Can we not do this now." Noah spoke and I felt the bed move.

        Nadia's voice came back "Oh are we having a family reunion in Noah's room?"

    Apollo spoke "Just your mother and Noah getting into it."

           "That's not a surprise at all." Nadia Spoke.

        "I get no love, I come back to the states and you don't even get up to hug your momma." Jenelle spoke.

    Apollo laughed "It's not like we gave him much time to react."

            Nadia "Wouldn't have this problem if he wasn't still laying around in bed."

        Noah "Shut up Nadalia." 

            "Stop crowding the boy." Spoke another even more familiar voice to me and when it dawned on me, I threw the blankets off of me tears streaming down my face as I jumped out of the bed not caring how crazy I looked. I threw my arms around my Poppa and hugged him tighter than the day he came and told me he was taking me away.

    "Poppa I was so scared; nobody would tell me what was going on and where you were?" I cried hugging him, He hugged me back and I cried laying my head on his shoulder. The room was quiet besides my soft cries and Nadia who had started laughing softly.

        "I missed you to Lina....But why are you in here? And what are you wearing?" My Poppa spoke.

    And it hit me, I was standing in front of Noah's parents, sister, Mateo and Noah in the shirt he handed me and my shorts. Thank f*****g god I put on shorts instead of going to bed in my underwear.

    "Please get out of my room." Noah spoke placing his hand on his forehead.

    "Meeting in the office now." Spoke Apollo and Poppa at the same time, before everyone was pulled from the room and the door shut. s**t, I should have stayed in the bed.