Three Thousand Miles To You(60)
“Alanna I don’t really want to discuss this over the phone, but please don’t leave Michael for a second. These people are the most dangerous people you will ever come in contact with, they do not just kill people, they torture them. I don’t want to alarm you, but please you have to do everything myself and Michael tells you to do, is that understood?”
“Yes, but how can I go on thinking you have killed people.”
“I never killed ‘people’, it was just one person and I was a child. Alanna I need you forget about this for now, put it to back of your mind, I will in time tell you everything.”
How is he asking me to do this, he is straight out telling me he killed someone. How could I possibly forget? Still feeling the love for him that I do, I cannot say no.
“Yes, I understand.”
“Now, please get Michael to call me?”
“As soon as he comes back, I will tell him?”
“Where is he?”
“He went to tell Sophie that I was staying with him tonight.”
“So he left you, again?”
“He will be right back,”
“Alanna that doesn’t matter, he should never leave you alone for one second. If I was there I wouldn’t.”
“Adrian you are not here, and Michael is trying his best.”
“Are you mad me with me?”
“I am not mad at you, but you keep slating Michael, and he is the one who is here with me, not you.”
“Are you going to throw that in my face now?”
“Adrian, don’t be like that,”
“Alanna you seem to have everything covered over there, and you think that I don’t care enough about you to stay with you.”
“Adrian don’t, I didn’t mean anything by that.”
“You don’t think of how guilty I feel about this?”
“I don’t want you to feel guilty, I know that whatever happened couldn’t have been your fault, and we will get through this.”
“If anything happens to you,”
“It won’t I will be safe with Michael, please try not to worry.”
“It’s impossible for me not worry, Alanna there is stuff I need to sort out please make sure you get Michael to call me.”
“I will, I love you,”
“Yes, I know you do.” Adrian hangs up and I see Michael come in through the door.
“It’s sorted,”
“What did you tell her?”
“Does it really matter?”
“Yes it matters.”
“You annoy me Alanna,”
“Yeah well, so do you.”
“Did you call Adrian?”
“Yes he wants you to call him.”
Michael turns away and starts to dial on his black iPhone. I sit down on one of the beds and listen to what he is going to say. The phone call does not last very long and Michael hardly says a word. The conversation consists mostly of Adrian giving him orders and Michael is just agreeing with whatever he says. When he comes off the phone, he sits down on the other bed and begins to take his shoes off. Michael stretches out his long legs fully on the bed and lays back resting his head against the pillow. I never really looked fully at Michael before, but seeing him lie there; I think that he is gorgeous. His hair is so dark and his eyes are ice blue, he has a very strong jaw and dark glowing skin, he smiles and his teeth are like pearls. I would not go as far to stay that he was as good looking as Adrian, but still he is one beautiful man. I feel a little awkward sitting here in silence with him. I do not know how to act around him, since Adrian told me how he feels. This is also the first time I have seen him since he called me a little bitch. I sit further back on the bed and see Michael look over to me.
“You may as well get comfortable,” he says with no emotion on his face.
“Michael I know this is hard and I know that you and I haven’t really seen eye to eye in the past. But I really would like it if we could somehow look past all that.”
“Alanna, I am sorry for the other night.”
“I am too,”
“Why are you sorry?”
“I can sometimes push guy’s buttons, and I tend to make them angry. I don’t know how I do it but I do, so I am sorry for that.”
“You sure do have way of getting under my skin,”
“Again, sorry.”
“I like that about you,”
“Are you crazy, it gets me into trouble all the time.”
“Yes, but your feisty and I like that in a girl.”
“Then you should have met me, before,”
“Before what?”
“Before I met Adrian, I was too feisty. I never spent any time getting to know people, I judged them before I met them, and I when I met Adrian he was the first person I ever met, that I wasn’t my usual self with.”