Total pages in book: 60
Estimated words: 56606 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 283(@200wpm)___ 226(@250wpm)___ 189(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 56606 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 283(@200wpm)___ 226(@250wpm)___ 189(@300wpm)
Now I laugh, “Johnathon is nothing to worry about. He’s an accountant for goodness sakes. I will leave my location on, like always, chill out. And no one is going to scoop me up to traffic me.”
“I was watching that documentary.” She shakes her head at me. “Famous last words.”
I laugh, “you watch too much television. I have my pepper spray. I keep my eyes open and ears aware. I’ll be fine. Stop worrying, Mom.”
She releases the curl she is working on, “umm there is that movie about the accountant and he’s a psycho for the people who matter and the right price.”
“I was here, hermana, I watched the movie right beside you with Dia. I promise you; our family will be the ones to go psycho to find me if Johnathon doesn’t return me home safe and sound. And I’ll even make sure it’s before midnight, so I don’t turn into a pumpkin or lose a shoe or anything.”
“No offense, Maritza, but your track record in choosing good guys is umm, not so good. There is a reason for me to be concerned and you know it.”
“I met him at a job fair for school, he’s tame. Literally, he’s glasses, button up shirts, bow ties, and pocket protectors.”
She shakes her head at me and keeps curling my hair. “Bow ties are making a comeback. They can be sexy.”
“Where the hell do you come up with this shit?” I laugh.
“Romance novels, you should try them. Ties are hot, and can be used in many ways,” she jokes.
Mariella is my sister, only two years younger than me, she is my best friend. When it comes to my love life, she’s always honest with me. When I’ve had my heart broken by young love, she held my hand and dried my tears. When I got myself in a situation with a man who had ill intentions, she was there to ice my wounds and cover my bruises while I filed the report to keep him away. Thick and thin, she’s always looking out for me.
She’s been my sidekick from the day she was born. First boyfriends, first kiss, she’s been my confidant and picked me back up when a boy did me wrong.
My so-called high school sweetheart, she hated him from the beginning. I didn’t listen and I ended up with a broken heart and he got a broken nose courtesy of my sister. I sigh thinking back.
“Not like this, Bobby.” I mutter pulling away. We’re in my room and I shouldn’t have let him even come inside. My parents are at work, and I’m not supposed to let anyone come over while they aren’t home. Bobby is my boyfriend. We have been together almost a year. He wants to take things further.
I thought I was ready.
I’m not.
Now it’s time to give in and I can’t do it.
Except he keeps trying. Kissing me, hands down my pants, then up my shirt. I push against his chest while pulling my head away from his.
“I’m not ready for this Bobby. Not here, not like this. It doesn’t feel right.”
“Come on Maritza, I’m ready. You can’t leave me hanging, hard and no relief.”
“Bobby, I said not here, not now. I didn’t say no ever.”
“I love you,” he whispers against my lips. He tries to kiss me again, I pull away.
“No.”
“Yes,” he mutters moving in pinning me to the bed with his weight over me.
His hand goes down my pants again. “I can make it good for you.”
Panic seizes me. I love him. How is this happening?
I shove at him, he pushes in closer, his mouth to mine, stifling my words. Bawling up my fists, I pound against his chest as the fear grips me. I try and fail to roll us over. He has me under him with all the control.
“She said no!” Mariella yells coming into my room.
Immediately, Bobby pulls away. I take the moment to jump up from my bed and away from him. He stands, his erection making a tent in his pants. He stalks over to us as I stand beside my sister.
“She said no, Bobby,” she reminds him. “You need to go home.”
“And if I don’t?” he taunts.
“Bobby, don’t make this worse, just go home,” I plead.
He steps into our space. “Maybe I’ll just let Mariella here watch as you give it up. Maritza, you said you wanted this as much as me.”
He’s right I did say that. Only when it came down to it, I couldn’t. I shake my head speechless. How can he say he loves me and talk to me like this?
“Don’t be a dick tease.”
“If that isn’t the most teenage boy thing to say,” Mariella challenges him.
Closing in on my sister, everything happens so fast and in slow motion at the same time. Her hand curls up into a fist, she swings, connecting with Bobby’s face. Blood immediately shoots everywhere.