LUCAS

chaper four: using oh s**t handles

An hour later Lucas came back "well that was fast" “I would have been here sooner but I had to pick up a few things" I eye the bag in his hand "what did you bring, half of your room in that big ass bag" I say smiling as he sets the bag down and cuddles up next to me on the couch. "So mister Black tell me about yourself" he smiles " okay I like the colour black, I love bacon, I grew up in England and I have a dog named Rusty. now your turn, do you live here alone?"

"yeah" I look down at my hands I really don’t want to talk about my family "why?" he asked confused "where’s your family" I cross my arms holding myself "family is not part of my life, all I really had was my mom then after her it was Alice and after Alice its Carlos" I hug myself to just get any form of comfort "what do you mean by after?" a knot forms in my stomach "my mother cared enough to save me but I don’t know where she is now and Alice was my dance instructor she looked out for me but when she died of a heart attack things got worse for me so I came here got a job at the diner and never looked back" confusion clouded his face “but they said you’ve been working there since you were twelve. Why? I mean Alice took care of you and so did your mom so why work at the diner?" I sigh, not looking at him feeling his eyes burn a hole in my head.

"My mother always worked when I was born and at the time my father wasn’t in the picture and when he was he made things hard, until on day my school teacher started to notice some things and then I got sent away for a while and that’s where I met Alice if it wasn’t for her I don’t know where I would be. The place I was sent to it went even worse and I was told to get a job they didn’t care where or how but you had to pay them and if you don’t they punish you" the memories of the darkrooms and the beatings flooded my mind reminding me of some of the scars I have. I didn’t know I was crying until Lucas wiped my tears away.

"Alice was the only reason I stayed there as long as I did, she always said I had a natural talent for dance so she mentored me, when she was my age she was a professional dancer but had to retire after breaking her hip in a car accident. After her death I came here got this house from Carlos’s mother and I have been here ever since" he pulls me towards him wrapping me in his warm embrace placing a soft kiss against my temple "I’m so sorry you lost her I can see she meant a lot to you" he whispers.

It’s the first time I told anyone other than Carlos about my past, nobody would want someone as broken as me so I never told anyone. the worst part is there is more to that story, but I cant tell him he wouldn’t understand.

"My father died when I was 14 in a car collusion he flew out of the road trying not hit a drunk driver but ended up getting hit by a truck in the process, he died two days later in ICU. My mother and I were a wreck but we survived. After my father's death we almost lost everything, luckily I got a job and we moved here."

"Now because of that job I can take care of my mother and so much more, the people that I work with became like family" I could hear how his voice cracked when he spoke about his father his father must have meant the world to him "I’m sorry about your father. Losing a parent that means the world to you can really damage a person and the pain stays for a long time" he gave me a weak smile a tear rolling down his cheek I softly wipe his tear away holding his face in my hands I look up at his tearstained eyes "I’m here for you okay" I leaned towards him kissing him gently and this kiss wasn’t laced with lust but with care.

The rest of the day we just talked getting to know each other. Lucas isn’t like I made him out to be he’s actually caring, funny and kind unlike how he looks, he has that typical batboy look that just screams danger, but to my defence he is our school's badboy with the leather jacket, fancy car, good looks, skipping school, always in detention, never doing homework and having all the girls drool over him but he’s different...

"okay balance the sticks in between your fingers like this" he tries to explain and I just stabbed the dumpling with my chopstick "or you could just do that" he says chuckling making me smile.

After dinner we decided to watch some movies and just relax. the last thing I remember was watching Aquaman before I drifted of to sleep.

I woke up to the smell of frying bacon and eggs falling off the couch I stumble into the kitchen to find a shirtless Lucas frying bacon the smell makes my stomach growl.

I sit down on the counter next to the stove facing Lucas as he flips the bacon "good Moring bella" he says handing me a plate of toast with eggs and a fork. Eating the eggs first " I didn’t know I had that much bacon" I say eyeing the fourth packet he empties out into the pan, I take a bite of my toast with avocado watching him. He smiles and moves in between my legs his hands resting at my sides his scent flooding my senses " I know its almost Asif you knew I would be here" he smirks leaning forward slowly taking a bite of the toast in my hand without breaking eye contact. He gave me a quick kiss and went back to flipping bacon, damn that was sexy.

After finishing my toast I hop off the counter going to make some coffee. I wait for the water to stop boiling when his hand snakes around my waist from behind as he feeds me a piece of bacon and leaves a open mouthed kiss on my collar bone sending a shiver down my spine, when the water stops boiling he leaves to flip the bacon again and by the time the coffee was ready so was the food.

I decided to take a shower after breakfast and pulled on my black lingerie, a black lace bra with a short and a long sleeved crop top luckily my cuts are almost healed, since Lucas came around my night mares have stopped and I don’t know why or maybe I’m to busy for my nightmares to even try but at least it helps.

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"so I thought that we could go to the shooting range today and let out some frustrations" Lucas says drying his hair still wet from his shower. I haven’t been at a gun range in years or even touched a gun since I last saw my father "sure why not but I’m driving" I say and grab his car keys "when did you get your car here anyway?" I ask eyeing the black Nissan GTR black edition in my driveway "when I came back from helping my boss" he climbs into the passenger seat and I hop in the drivers seat starting the engine "okay just take it easy with my car" he warns making me laugh "you might want to buckle up" I say reversing out of the driveway "no I don’t like the feeling of being restrained" okay Lucas I warned you I smirk stepping on the gas flying past cars.

Running four red lights "calm down, take it easy! liv take it easy!" Lucas yells trying to buckle up holding onto the roof of the car I just laugh and check the mirror noticing a cop car behind me it pushed me to go faster. I lose the cop when I took a turn through a parking lot and then through a construction site "slacker" I laugh eyeing the mirror.

We drive for a few more minutes before the cop car catches up to us I pull over waiting for the cop to come to us and I open my window.

"Sir do you know-" he stopped mid sentence when he noticed its me "hey Olivia how you doing girl" Tom says relaxed "hey Tom I’m fine, your boss got you working the streets again huh?" he nods "yeah you know he can be a real ass sometimes" he mentions and I look over at Lucas who just stares wide eyed I concentrate back on Tom "yeah I feel ya but I gotta run Tom baye" I start the car up again "baye girl just remember use the short cuts so that the cops wont catch you" he says and greets Lucas and by the look on his face he still doesn’t know what’s going on "got it, stay in the blind spots baye tom" I wave and drive off speeding at 200km/ph.

In no time we near the gun range its just around the corner. I pull the handbrake up drifting around the corner and park in the parking space outside the old gun range, I look over at Lucas who’s eyes were as big as golf balls breathing heavily gripping the panic handle like his life depended on it.