ARES RUSSO
Lorelai lays opposite to me on the bed. Her back lays falt on the bed while her feet are in my lap. One in my hand and one on my lap. I'm massaging her feet because I want to and because it's a way of spending quality time before tomorrow night and it's the ball evening.
She has a large bag of crisps by her side and occasionally moans at the flavor or the way I rub.
"Why won't you show me your dress?" I has been nagging her this whole time about having to spend alot of money for something I can't even see yet.
"You'll see it on the day." She takes another crisp and chews on it. "I haven't seen your suit."
"I won't show you because you won't show me."
"Okay." She takes her last crisps and pouts at the empty bowl. I take it with a humorous laugh and she kisses as a thank you.
I walk out and grab a new bag to fill the bowl. When I get back, she feeds me a few crisps while I rub her feet.
"For someone who likes building, you have incredibly soft hands." She likes to look at people in their eyes. I don't ever back down from this type of stare, it'll only inflate her ego even more.
"Is that a compliment?" I tease.
"Backhanded compliment." She points a crisp at me.
"I'll take the compliment." I nod my head and she rolls her eyes.
"I like you." She says randomly. "Not in a relationship way. I like you as a person. You irritate me for sure but who doesn't?"
"That was a compliment, please do continue." We both laughed together for a while.
Her laugh was airy and light compared to her normal voice. It was contrasting to her personality and I loved it. Even though I was laughing louder than her, I could still hear her laugh. It made me laugh even more before she laughed even more and we just threw a whole fit of laughter. I even forgot why we're laughing because we just kept laughing. My stomach started hurting and I took a few gasping breaks which made my lungs hurt. She lowered down to giggling and even that sound was a favourite.
"My stomach." She complained. I chuckled a bit before I took a breath to calm down.
"Like I said, please continue." I wave my hand for her to continue and she smiles so wide that her dimples go deeper than I've ever seen them go. I didn't even know dimples could go that deep.
"You're more than just okay, I enjoy your company more than I enjoy anyone's company." She shrugs with that wide smile showing off all her teeth and her dimples.
I mirror her smile without saying anything at first. We spent a whole minute just smiling at each other. She has such a beautiful smile and I wonder why she never smiles but then I don't want her to smile for anyone else. It just feels like a small thing between us.
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It's well after two in the morning and I was awoken by Lorelai who kept shifting in the bed. She was trying to accommodate me, who was sleeping on her back, but I woke up and sat my back against the headboard.
"Cramps?" I asked and she nodded her head. I swing the duvet away and get out of the bed. I walk to the kitchen and make a cup of warm sweet tea for her.
It won't help but atleast she'll have something hot and her very craving: sweets.
I walk back to the room with the cup of tea in hand and place it on her bedside. Her arms are wrapped around her stomach as she gives a small groan. I place my hand on her stomach and rub it soothingly.
"Drink some tea." I keep rubbing while she tries to sit up. "It probably won't help—"
"It will, thank you."
"Does it usually hurt?" I was curious because in all of the four months that we were together, she never once complained about cramps or gave any discomfort.
"No, I've never had cramps before." She takes a sip of her tea and I start to worry.
I may not be a woman or a doctor but she's been really weird lately. Emotionally and physically. She's more gentle and nurturing. It's been weird to the whole house but we never said anything about it.
Maybe it's just her hormones while she's on her period. I know that's such a jerk thing to say but maybe it really is just the changing hormones in her body.
"Can we please go to Dom? It'll ease my worry alot more."
"It's just my period."
"You've had your period before and I'm sure you always more grumpy than usual."
"It's change."
"It doesn't make me worry even less."
"Remember when I said you're sexy when you get worried? I take it back."
"Drink your tea and go to sleep, we're going to Dom tomorrow." I stand up and walk to my side of the bed.
"If he says I'm just fine, I'll get even grumpier for wasting my time."
"I'll rather take that then worry my ass off."
"Is Dom a doctor?"
"Yes."
"Why not just go to the hospital? I trust them more than some flimsy doctor who kills for a living." I stiffen at her words because I never thought we'd actually bring this up.
I attempt to relax my body and just ignore her question. I'm hoping she doesn't get angrier and start demanding answers, she wouldn't do that. I know Jessica did but Lorelai isn't Jessica.
When she's done with her tea, she slips out of the bed and goes to the bathroom. I think she's brushing her teeth or rinsing her mouth out. She slips back into bed and this time, she sleeps on my back. She gently places her head on my back and rubs a soothing hand on my lower back.
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In my ear is a soft heart beat. Lorelai's.
Where my head is resting, the area rises and falls. In a similar pattern to Lorelais.
I know I'm laying on Lorelai. She's still asleep so I enjoy a few moments of comfort.
"I'll go see Dom if you're really worried." She whispers ever so gently. It's like mist on a gloomy day.
"Thank you." I whisper back and kiss the lower part of her back. I shift up to her face. I place pecks on her still lips and she slowly shows a smile.
"I think somethings wrong with me." She says and I don't find any sadness in her voice, she's just saying it.
"Nothing is wrong with you. You are probably just sick."
"I want to kill someone." She closes her eyes. "With a rifle. I want to just keep shooting until there are no more bullets left. I want to see so many holes in them. I want to stick my finger in one of them. Their blood will drip onto my shoes but who cares?"
"Who is this lucky person?" I ask with sarcastic excitement.
"I don't know. I just know I want to do it."
"Why don't you go shower while I make you breakfast? I have to go to work today so you and Raeni will be alone. Wherever you go, make sure you're armed. I don't want people attacking you while you're relaxing."
"Like it hasn't happened already." She gets up to go to the bathroom. I jerk up and frown.
"What?"
"I didn't tell you because I forgot." She starts off by saying as she walks back to the bed. "I think it was Luigi but they made a huge number on the spa just trying to kill me."
"Did you—"
"Yes, I stole a gun and was able to shoot at them but whatever gun they were carrying did much more damage than the one I had." She placed a light kiss on my pouty lips and went to the bathroom.
I made the bed and tidied up the room. I guess I need to let it go if she let it go so easily. Doesn't put my stomach at ease but if she isn't worried then I shouldn't be. But I'm still worried. I go out and Stefano is already making breakfast, with Raeni watching him.
If you had to live here and see them together, you'd think they have been together for quite sometime. Stefano just says they're friends but we all know that's not true.
She looks up at him with a gleeful smile and he isn't even looking at her. He's focusing on the breakfast while talking to her. I can see that he knows she's watching him but he won't say anything about it. Maybe he likes having her watch him.
I make my presence known in the kitchen and they both stop with their smiles as soon as I walk in. Their conversation stops and they awkwardly just glance at me.
"Good morning." I smile at both of them.
"Good morning, Ares. How are you?" Raeni politely asks in a small timid voice.
"I'm alright, couldn't be happier." I tease to the both of them and Stefano sends a small glare my way.
"Don't stop on my account. I promise I won't be a third wheel." I open the fridge and take out the carton of juice. Raeni blushes uncontrollably.
Stefano looks at her with awe while I look at him and chuckle a little.
"She'll be as red as the tomatoes you're cooking if you keep looking at her like she just put the sun in the sky." I take a sip of the juice with a tint smirk. Stefano snaps out of his gaze and brings it back to the food. Raeni sighs out the tension and puffs her cheeks.
"I'm going to take a shower." Raeni points behind her and she walks back to their room. As soon as she gets into the room, Stefano smacks a towel on my head.
"That was not funny!" He exclaims.
"It was hilarious!" I laugh and pat him on his back. He eventually chuckles along and continues with the breakfast.
After he's done serving, he points towards his room and leaves. Lorelai comes out of our room and subtly smells the air before her eyes land on the breakfast splayed out. She serves quite alot on her plate and I raise an eyebrow at her.
I'm not telling her to eat less, I'm just really concerned about her sudden appetite. Maybe she's developing or her period.
"I'm really hungry."
"You ate last night at midnight." I state but not as a complaint or insult, just saying it while she eats next to me on the barstools.
While we're eating together, Dom arrives in the living room and groans as he throws himself on the couch.
"Being celibate is not working." He complains. I laugh at him silently and Lorelai rolls her eyes.
"I don't know why you're still doing that." I commented and he shot his head up with a mini glare.
"I don't want another girl to come up to the apartment and announce that she's fucking pregnant with my child." He explained in a frustrated manner before he stood up and came to the kitchen to get himself some breakfast I suppose.
"The blonde bitch is pregnant with his child?" Lorelai asked and I nodded my head. She scoffed and muttered a word I couldn't hear, Dom nodded his head along to her.
The door rattles before whoever is trying to open it realizes that it's locked. They then knock aggressively on the door.
I have never seen Lorelai get up this fast, not that she's always slow but she's not necessarily fast. She dissapears into our room as Dom and I look at each other. He nods to the door and I hear a click of two guns. Lorelai and Dom each have a gun in their hands.
It gets really tense as I walk up to the door and slowly unlock the door. I open it and Jessica topples through and lands on me. I close the door and look down at her. Her bright blonde hair was now dirty blonde, she had many dirty spots like she was dragged through the dirt. I looked up to Dom and he shrugged.
Lorelai shot a bullet between Jessica and I which made Jessica and I flinch back.
"Hands off." I don't know I'd that was a warning for me or her but I moved, I moved so fast.
"Jessica, where have you been?" Dom asked in a worried tone.
"I need water first."
"You need to explain yourself first because if you as so much take one step, I will blow your brains out." Lorelai threatened and even I took a nervous gulp before she clicked the gun.
"Under different circumstances, I would've let you shoot her but she has a child and she looks like hell." Dom reasoned before he tried to grab Jessica.
"Give me a valid reason to not shoot you right now." Her finger twitches over the trigger. She wants to shoot her because of what she did to me and I understand her completely but not here.
"What would we do with her body?" Dom asks instead and tries to make a point.
"Burn it, throw it's ashes across the sea." She referred to Jessica as an it. It made me laugh a little inside.
"We can't do that and we won't do that, can we just get her some water and listen to her story?" I insist in a calm manner while pleading with Lorelai. I would hate to get blood so early in the morning.
Lorelais glare hardens on Jessica's frightful face before she lowers her gun slowly. Dom and I sigh in relief but Jessica is still tense. Her body is rigid just waiting for Lorelai to do something. We're all waiting for her to release the tension. If she even will.
"I don't care if you're growing the next president or doctor, I will not hesitate to put a bullet through your stomach and your skull if you even irritate me in the slightest. Got it?" Her voice was low and threatening, Jessica visibly gulped and gripped her stomach tighter.
She nodded her head meekly.
"I can't fucking hear you," she raised her gun again, "I asked if you got it?"
"I got it."
A small sarcastic smirk pulled on her lips and she rolled her head to the side. "Lovely."
"Lorelai—" I began to say but was cut off by her pointing the gun at me.
"You are skating on very thin ice." She scoffed before she walked away and slammed the door shut.
Jessica exhaled and clutched Doms arm as she felt weak. I was about to reach my hands to save her but remembered Lorelais words, it would definetly irritate her if she found me helping her. While Dom was helping her with the water, she sat down on the bar stool and rubbed her dirty face with stress.
"What happened?" She asked and as soon as she opened her mouth, rushed footsteps came and both Raeni and Stefano were dressed in gowns, flushed and one was hiding a gun.
"Jessica?" Stefano frowned before he lowered the gun in his hand and pushed Raeni behind his back.
"Where's Lorelai?" Raeni asked while giving dirty looks to Jessica.
"In the room." I jerk my head towards the room.
"She already did the whole gun point thing." Dom waved his hand around and dismissed the whole seriousness of the situation.
"Why is she still sitting here?" Stefano asked with obvious disgust and he wasn't going to hide it after he found out what happened.
"Better yet, why is she still alive?" Raeni added.
"We need answers and we aren't going to get it from a dead person." I explain is a duh tone and they roll their eyes. Raeni walks to the room clutching her gown in place.
"Stefano..." Jessica called out in a soft voice and if he still didn't know what she had done, he would've made her a snack or talk to her but he just stared at her as though she was a traitor. To his eyes she is. She will forever be one to him.
"What do you want?" He asked in the first serious voice I've heard him have. He amazed all of us.
"I understand that you're angry about—"
"You don't know what I'm angry about." He cut her off with a statement and went back to his room.
"Just tell us the story and you can go back to your room and sleep." Dom sighed in irritation.
So she told us. She told us everything; how Giana and Luigi are plotting against us and how they tried to make her succumb to their side. I had a small git feeling about her story. It was so organized and everything went according to plan. It was the exact same thing that Giana said. Word for word.
Dom bought her story but something felt off and I didn't like that feeling. He guided her to his room so that he can check on her and the baby while I went into our room. Lorelai was seated on the bed with Raeni and they were both typing away on laptops.
"What?" Her tone was bitter. I ignored it.
"I don't have a great feeling about Jessica being here." I made sure the door was closed before I went and sat down on the bed.
"Okay." Lorelai hasn't once looked up from her laptop.
"Lory." Raeni whispered in warning before she frowned at Lorelai.
"Shes saying the exact same thing Gia said. Word for word, like a script. She looks the least bit frightened about it too." I expressed and that's when she looked up.
"I've never trusted her." She comments and Raeni nods her head along.
"Maybe she's in on it."
"How would we know for sure?" I ask both of them and they look at each other. They send eye messages before they look away from each other.
"Let us deal with the bitch. You just continue doing whatever you're doing." Lorelais says.
"What am I doing?" I furrow my brows in confusion.
"Being yourself." Raeni smiles at me.
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