Mariah’s POV
I awoke with a loud crash. I gasped and got out of bed. It was nearly dusk when I ran down the hallway to the living room. I covered my mouth at the site. Josh & Jake were tossing punches left and right and I could do was just stare wide eyes. The two men I cared about, beating the shit out of each other. I had to do something. Say something.
"Jake no! Stop it." I came in between Jake and tried to push him but of course, being a guy, he shoved me to the floor and my back hit the wall with a loud noise that followed.
I heard glass break, things fall with a thump on the floor all around me as I lay there semi-conscious. Why was Jake doing this? I couldn't figure it out. Why now? I lifted my head as I watched the fight ensue on. It was like my legs were held together and I couldn't get up. It looked like Josh was winning, I wasn't sure.
I groaned as I forced myself up. My head felt dizzy and all the sounds in me got quiet now. I knew I wasn't dead but the world around me sure felt like it. I was barely watching Jake and Josh try to kill each other and it was scarier than anything else. It was like watching a horror movie unfold before me. And I couldn't stop it. It seemed to real to be a nightmare. I hoped it was. But this was too fucking real.
"Please don't." My eyes dazed though fogginess.
I screamed out loud when I saw Jake the fire poker and hold it back to take a hit. Again, even than, I couldn't get up. My muscles were paralyzed and it was too late. One blow to the head, followed by another to the temple. The sign of blood signified something so dark. Josh was out cold. My world collapsed. Was I really here or is this, no! I was, I couldn't believe this. My life, a piece of my, a big piece was dead.
I wanted to die. I know it now. Nothing mattered anymore. That's when I struggled to get up and I ran straight for Jake. I ran so fast I barely felt the poker stab through my chest. I was numb to everything. It was too late. I could feel my body draining and my heart getting cold. I suddenly felt mounds of sweat pouring all over me. It just appeared out of thin air. I couldn't breathe.
When I fell, it wasn't over. It was just beginning.
My eyes sprung open and I jumped up covering my face. No? It was too real. I looked to the side of me and things were different. I felt my body just to make sure if this was not another terror. I felt him take my arm and held onto me with a surge. It was seeing a ghost. Only neither us were the spirits. But just a second ago, too real to confront. I wasn't ready.
I was balling now. Just breaking down my fears and thoughts. I knew it. Now I knew something bad will happen and neither of us will escape alive. This was more than a premonition. This was going to just happen without much warning. Does he know something I don't?
"Did something happen before? I feel like there's something you're not telling me. Please don't say there's nothing." I had to pull away to look and see if he was telling me the truth.
I was trying to trust him. He placed forehead against mine. Than he looked with almost piercing eyes, like a vampire. It was chilling me. "They know. I don't know what's going to happen but they know. I need time to think of something."
I shook my head, not believe what I was hearing, "They know? They saw us? But how? Oh my god, this is not happening."
"It is. Jake saw me when we were leaving. That was why I was manic on the road. But I got this call from Jake and it freaked me out. It was like he was warning me of something really bad. He said to bring you back. I'm not taking you back there."
I can't go back there. I know I can't. "What did you say back?"
"I just told him off. I said you were an adult and you're not going back there. I'm sick of them treating you like a slave."
I sniffed back and wiped at my eyes, "For most of my life, that's what I was. I couldn't do anything because I was young and everyone in the neighborhood liked them. If I had, than I would get it later."
He nodded gently, "They hit you?"
"After a while, it becomes part of your day. They were building that line for me until I cracked finally. That's why I was there. You know, the hospital. When I was brought there by accident, I was so upset that I was going to be saved. But I wasn't saved by the hospital. I didn't know what it was, and than I saw you. It didn't make sense then, but it does now."
He cupped my face and pulled me in for a kiss. "Maybe we could just go somewhere, you know, before they find you here."
"You would do that for me? Just leave your life and go? Are you sure about this?"
He nodded, "They'll put us both away if we're caught. You gave me so many reasons to live I don't care what I have to do to keep you in my life. Whatever it takes. I love you, Mariah. I would do anything for you."
So much inside me fluttered around as my soul was lifted. I covered his mouth with mine, not leaving a spot untouched. I rolled over on top of him, feeling how hard he was under me. I wanted this. I needed him. The perfect time is now.
I sat up and lifted my shirt revealing my nakedness underneath. Out of nowhere, he flipped me over so he was on top. I wondered why he did this.
"What--" He covered my mouth with his lips.
He pulled back and dropped down to my ear, "Let me handle everything."
I shivered and he caught me. More than caught me, I was tangled in this desire that radiated off of his body. I wanted this man. It was too long since we made love. Too long and forever. I let out a sigh and relaxed under his hold.
I sucked in my bottom lip as he took off my panties, like a lover. I was engulfed into this passion, it was too much. Everything around me was moving so slow.
The wait was slowing as his strong finger penetrated my folds. I missed those hands. And when he pumped it in and out of me, I was practically gripping the sheets. I turned my head side to side and was growing out of control. And he barely did anything yet.
"Josh, ahh, please go, ah, deep. Yeah, like that."
"Like that? I'm just getting started. Let me know how you like it?"
I smiled, "I like everything you do."
This was about trust. If I could trust him in bed, than its limitless. I knew I could trust him completely. I had to test him. I had no one else that I could.
He disappeared under the sheet a little lower than I expected. I felt even more heat as warm air and a tongue brushed me. That was it. I was gone.