The Lost And Forgotten Memories

      Four more days later. No matter how much Edward would like to lie on the sand under the hot sun, he does not have time. Today he has finally met Natalia’s grandmother, Adriana, who dreamed of it for a long time. When he met Letitia and Anthony, the man was a little nervous, but now he is absolutely quiet and confident.       “Oh, I’m so happy you and I have finally met,” Adriana says amiably with a slight smile, sitting at the kitchen table with a cup of sweet tea. “I really wanted to meet you before my granddaughter’s wedding with you.”       “Natalia has told me about it many times,” Edward replies with a shy smile, hugging Natalia around the shoulders while sitting in front of Adriana.       “I’m aware of what happened to you. But I’m happy you have finally solved all of your problems.”       “Yeah, we relaxed and started to do our business. Getting ready for the wedding, rehearsals with the band, etc…”       “Oh, Natalia has told me so much about your band. I heard that you’re going to release your first album and start performing around the world.”       “It’s true,” Edward confirms with a slight smile. “Tomorrow or after tomorrow, our manager will come back to the city, and we will meet him to discuss promoting our album.”       “I’m glad. It’s such a great chance to go to all the countries of the world and discover something new. Visiting some places is more interesting than viewing pictures in magazines and on a TV.”       “I agree, you have different impressions when you experience and do that instead of listening to stories of people or viewing photos.”       “I mean it.”       “I can’t wait to start traveling around the world. I’ve never been abroad, but I would be happy to go somewhere.”       “Where would you like to travel much more?”       “Well, erm…” Edward stutters, looking aside for a second. “It would be great to go to Spain or Mexico… Visit all the countries where people speak Spanish.”       “Is that true you know Spanish well?”       “Yeah, I know Spanish, but am not fluent in it. But I think I could quietly have a dialogue. I’m lucky that my teacher gave a lot of attention to the talking practice. She did it well. Not just because she lived in Madrid for many years, but also because she had a talent for explaining everything clearly and easily.”       “M-m-m, that’s how…” Adriana pronounces thoughtfully with a slight smile. “Te puedo enseñar a hablar Español a la perfección, si quisieras.”       “Eso sería muy bueno, señora Lascano,” Edward replies confidently. “Mi gusta Español.”       “Wow! What a very beautiful accent!”       “Gracias, señora,” Edward thanks with a slight smile.       “Good job, Edward, you speak Spanish very well. It seems like you lived among Spanish people for many years.”       “No, no, I’ve never lived somewhere except New York. As you heard, I’ve known Spanish since school and later learned something on my own. And your granddaughter taught me a lot and fixed all my mistakes.”       “He didn’t almost make them!” Natalia exclaims. “His pronunciation was a little poor, but we’ve fixed it.”       “Good,” Adriana smiles shyly.       “I’m not surprised that Natalia knows Spanish so well,” Edward says confidently. “She had such wonderful teachers like you and Mrs. Rochester.”       “Actually, not just them…” Natalia replies with a slight smile.       “Yes, my Spanish husband taught all of us to speak this language.” Adriana nods. “At first, Letitia and I learned to speak Spanish from Enrique, then we started to teach Anthony, and later we gave our knowledge to Natalia.”       “Let me show curiosity, Mrs. Lascano, how did you understand your husband at first if you spoke different languages?” Edward asks.       “My husband was fluent in English. He lived in the USA for a few years with his family, but later he decided to return to Mexico. And some time before he moved, I met Enrique and started to speak to him well. He was very nice to me and treated me like a queen. His kindness and care conquered me, and I quickly fell in love with him very much. And for him, I was even ready to leave the USA and learn Spanish from the beginning.”       “And you left?”       “Yes, after the wedding, which we celebrated in Mexico. At first, it was hard, and I was a little worried. But thanks to my husband’s help and belief in me, I quickly started to understand people and speak Spanish well.”       “Did you get used to different surroundings quickly?”       “Well… At first, I was kind of sad and scared to be in a different country. But after getting used to it and learning Spanish, I started to consider Mexico my second home. I would say I liked living there more. There were things that were very close to me.”       “By the way, Mother said she accepted that man immediately and even started to call him her father,” Natalia confesses.       “Call him a father?” Edward frowns slightly. “Erm, wait, Mrs. Lascano… Wasn’t your husband the father of Mrs. Rochester and Natalia’s grandfather?”       “No, Enrique was my second husband,” Adriana laughs amicably and drinks some tea. “I got divorced from my first one, Letitia’s father, when my daughter was a child. It was a bleeding passion… Dexter and I were too young when we got married… And when we had to run into some difficulties with watching our home and raising our child, we realized that we couldn’t get through that. I mean, we didn’t want to work on our relationship and weren’t ready for problems.”       “That’s how…”       “So, after living for one and a half years in a marriage, we decided to divorce. It happened without scandals, but we argued about how much time each of us could spend with our child. But Letitia eventually stayed with me, and her father was obligated to pay alimony. And he was allowed to see his daughter at any time with no limits. But we didn’t get any money, and he didn’t rush to visit us. Well… He showed himself a couple of times to try to reconcile with his daughter… And he arrived at the hospital when Natalia was born. And then Dexter didn’t show up anymore.”       “Wow, I didn’t know it…” Edward wonders truly.       “I don’t regret divorcing him. If I had stayed with Dexter, I wouldn’t have met the man, who changed all my life for the better.”       “You say your second husband treated you well?”       “Not just me, my dear. Enrique accepted Letitia warmly and got her love quickly. Since he was with her all the time, my daughter started to call him a father and still considers him the one.”       “What about the real father?”       “My daughter doesn’t like to talk about her real father. One day, they had a big fight over something when they met. I still don’t know why. But after that, Letitia banned everyone from mentioning her birth father and started to consider my second husband the one.”       “That’s how!”       “And after her conflict with him, she changed her last name Thatcher to my maiden name, Morrison. I remember Dexter being mad and upset because of that for a long time, but he accepted it later.”       “I guess the conflict was serious…”       “My daughter was thrilled when Enrique and I told her that we wanted to get married and move to another country.”       “And wasn’t she really jealous?”       “Come on! My daughter was strongly attracted to my second husband! I was really worried that she could not accept her new dad, but I was worried for nothing. Enrique loved children very much, but he didn’t have his own. So, he treated my daughter warmly. He never cared that I had been married and given birth to a child.”       “Interesting…” Edward smiles slightly.       “Letitia is grateful to him for everything he did for her. He did give her really much: a provided life, a brilliant education, a good experience at work, and much more. My daughter and I would’ve hardly lived so well if we hadn’t had Enrique. We couldn’t get even a cent from her careless daddy. Dexter is a good man, not cruel. But alas, he is a terrible husband and father. He can’t take responsibility.”       “But Father wasn’t poor when he met Mother,” Natalia notices confidently. “He worked and earned enough.”       “Your father kind of reminds me of my second husband. He’s also caring and tender toward his close people, but he is harsh and severe at work.”       “Did you like him when your daughter brought him to introduce you to him?” Edward asks.       “Oh, yes! I liked Anthony immediately when Letitia brought him to the home of Enrique and me.”       “But how did they meet if Mrs. Rochester lived with you in Mexico?”       “Natalia’s father often travels around the world for his business. You know that he’s a journalist, but he was not famous before. And he didn’t always know foreign languages. He regularly used the services of translators and spent a lot of money on teachers. Letitia said Anthony was madly happy when he started a talk with her in broken Spanish, thinking she was a Spaniard, but heard his mother’s speech. So, they started to speak a lot from that moment on, and she helped him with Spanish. We all fixed all his mistakes. And some time later, Anthony surprised us with his knowledge.”       “Did Mr. and Mrs. Rochester decide to live in the USA after the wedding?” Edward asks.       “Yes, Letitia returned to the USA, and my husband and I stayed in Mexico, but we sometimes visited them and called them often. It wasn’t hard for us to buy a ticket from Mexico to the USA because my husband wasn’t poor and was one of the best lawyers in the city. And when my granddaughter was born, Enrique and I came here more frequently to help them raise Natalia. That girl also loved my husband very much and called him a grandfather and saw her real one a couple of times.”       “I can’t even remember how he looked…” Natalia confesses thoughtfully. “I mean, I know how he looks in photos, but I don’t feel that we know each other. That I remember him… But I never forget Enrique, and I often remember the days I spent with him. He was a wonderful man with a kind heart and a pure soul.”       “Ah, my birdie, I also miss him…” Adriana sighs quietly with sadness in her eyes. “It was so hard for me to accept the fact that my husband died. I couldn’t come to myself for a long time, and my daughter often went to Mexico to be by my side, grieving for her stepfather, whom she loved so much.”       “Didn’t you move to the USA after your husband’s death to be closer to your family?” Edward asks. “Weren’t you afraid to stay alone?”       “Ah, Edward… I got too used to Mexico for several years. I had everything there… I couldn’t find the courage to leave it all. And Letitia didn’t persuade me. She told me to do what I wanted and promised to accept my decision. But fate told me that I should’ve come back to my motherland. One day, I felt bad and decided to go to the doctor. And after tons of tests, I was overwhelmed by the news about having blood cancer.”       “Yeah, I know…” Edward nods with sadness in his eyes. “Natalia told me very much about it when we just spoke. She couldn’t calm down because she might’ve lost you.”       “I know. My granddaughter has always taken everything too seriously…” Adriana softly caresses the hand of Natalia, who smiles shyly, while having her head rested on Edward’s shoulder. “Yes, my illness was very hard, and I can’t say I’ve recovered. But with the help of God and the amazing care of Anthony, Letitia, Natalia, and the doctors, I have come half way. I feel good now.”       “Not many people can recover from this illness,” Natalia notices quietly with sadness in her eyes. “The Internet is full of articles about thousands of people, who die from it every day.”       “Babe, don’t read everything they write on the Internet and say on TV. They always say some nonsense that a million people believe. I haven’t watched TV for ages, and I got rid of the one I had at home. And I only check out the Internet when I need it.”       “You’re right.”       “Remember, a true faith, a sense of purpose, and positive emotions are the best cures for any illness.”       “You’re right,” Edward agrees confidently. “I’ve experienced so much over the past years. Sometimes I thought my life was over… And nothing would be the same… But later, I realized that many things depended on your mood and what you were ready to do to solve one or another problem. And when I learned to believe that it would be fine, believed in myself, and started to pay less attention to everything, I got much better.”       “Ah, dear, you understand me so well. Yes, when I heard about my illness, I was shocked and wanted to let everything happen as it wanted. But some time later, I told myself that while I had a chance to fight, I could not give up. And as you see, I’m sitting in front of you alive and cheerful.”       “I’m happy your therapy helped you, and you went through the hardest things. Keep doing the same, Mrs. Lascano, you can do this.”       “Aw, thanks a lot, Edward,” Adriana smiles widely. “You’re so kind and nice…”       “Sadly, saying something nice is the only thing I can do.”       “It’s going to be enough for me.”       “Edward and I really want to see you at our wedding among the guests,” Natalia replies shyly, taking Edward under his arm. “I really want you to share happiness with us. With Raquelle and Terrence.”       “My sunshine, I will not miss this event, not for anything!” Adriana replies confidently, taking Natalia’s hands. “You know that I’ve always dreamed of being at your wedding and seeing you in a beautiful wedding dress. This wish was my motivation to fight my illness. I told myself I must’ve gone to the wedding of my beloved granddaughter, and it helped me survive.”       “Come to our wedding, Mrs. Lascano, we will be waiting for you,” Edward invites amicably. “And I truly hope that you will find a common language with my parents.”       “I heard about them from Natalia, Letitia, and Anthony. And I know about your older brother. I know that he is a close friend of my granddaughter.”       “It’s true. They’re close friends. They met when nobody knew about me.”       “I’m sure that he’s really a good guy.”       “By the way, do you know Raquelle, Natalia’s best friend, and my brother’s fiancée?”       “Of course, I do. I’ve known Natalia’s friends since they were teenage girls. Raquelle, Anna, and Helene are very good girls. I recently talked to Helene and Raquelle and was nicely surprised by how they grew up and became more beautiful.”       “And because Natalia’s friends date the men, who befriend my brother and me, we spend time all together.”       “Great! I personally always feel comfortable in large groups of people. I don’t like being alone for a long time. I always need to talk to someone. I’m very talkative. I’ve been talkative since childhood.”       “I know.”       “You know, Edward…” Adriana drinks some tea with a slight smile, puts her cup aside, and folds her hands on the table. “I really liked you. I’ve been talking to you for one and a half hours, and I can see that you’re a very good man. Sweet, decent, shy, and educated…”       “Thanks, Mrs. Lascano,” Edward thanks gently. “It’s also a pleasure for me to talk to you. And I’m glad you aren’t disappointed.”       “So, Grandma, I said you’d like Edward,” Natalia says with a slight smile. “Do you believe Mom, Dad, and me now?”       “Yes, my birdie, I do!” Adriana replies confidently. “Now, I’m absolutely sure that your fiancé is a gem. Yes, I thought he was good, even when just listening to everything you and your mother and father said. But now I’m in love with this sweetheart. And I see that he loves you so much.”       “Don’t doubt it,” Edward replies confidently, embracing Natalia cutely and pressing her close to himself. “I love your granddaughter with all my heart and will give my everything to make her the happiest and most beloved one.”       “You’ve already done it, Edward,” Adriana notices with a wide smile. “I clearly see the gloss in my granddaughter’s beautiful eyes and her true wide smile that says everything instead of her. Even now, Natalia is sitting next to you and shining with happiness. And you look at her with such tenderness.”       “It can’t be otherwise.” Edward caresses Natalia’s cheek and head tenderly, while she smiles shyly and gets a blush on her face.       “How can’t I shine from happiness when my beloved man, whom I wanna make happy, is sitting next to me?” Natalia adds softly.       “Oh, how cutely she’s pressing herself to you…” Adriana pronounces with admiration. “And how tenderly she looks at you… Gosh! My soul is singing!”       “Grandma…” Natalia laughs shyly.       “And my granddaughter started to dress much more beautifully and spend much more time in front of the mirror. She’s always been our fashionista, but now her father, mother and I see her examine her clothes and check out some fashion magazines and catalogs.”       “I want my man to admire me.”       Natalia presses herself closely against Edward, wraps his arm with her arms, and puts her head on his shoulder. And the happy man does not stop looking at his sweetheart with tenderness and hugs her as if she is a treasure that costs a million dollars or is so expensive that money can't say how valuable it is.       “Gosh, how your man looks at you!” Adriana smiles widely, putting her hands together. “You are kind of literally his priceless and most beautiful treasure in the world.”       “She is,” Edward replies confidently with a shy smile. “Natalia made me as happy as I had never been before. She is the best thing that’s ever happened to me. Thanks to this girl, I got everything I wanted for many years.”       “If you keep treating my granddaughter like a queen, you two will be very happy.”       “I will give my everything to make her life wonderful and take care of her the way Mr. and Mrs. Rochester did it.”       “I believe you, dear.” Adriana puts her hand softly on Edward’s hand placed on the table. “Now I’m blessing you two for concluding a marriage with a quiet soul and heart, just like my daughter and son-in-law did. With a man like you, no threat will threaten my beloved Natalia.”       “With me, she will forget what it’s like to feel pain and disappointment.” Edward hugs Natalia with both arms, presses her close to himself, and kisses her cutely on the top of the head, while she puts her hand on his chest with a wide smile. “You will see a smile and happiness on her face every day.”       “I’m putting great hopes in you, darling. Don’t make Letitia, Anthony, and me disappointed. We believe that we are giving Natalia to the trustworthy hands, and she will not regret deciding to spend her life with you.”       “No, Grandma, I’ll never regret my decision to be with Edward,” Natalia says confidently with a wide smile. “He is a reason why I’m living and breathing. I don’t see the meaning in living without my sweetheart.”       “I wish your relationship was as strong as the brick wall.”       “Thanks, Grandma.”       “Thank you, Mrs. Lascano,” Edward thanks confidently.       Adriana smiles widely at Edward and Natalia, while they, holding each other’s hands placed on the table, answer her back, look at each other tenderly, and rub the tips of their noses against one another. The woman spends two seconds watching her granddaughter and her fiancé with true happiness, and then Anthony comes to them, being cheerful enough and smiling.       “What are you talking about?” Anthony asks.       “About the wedding, obviously,” Adriana replies cheerfully. “About the future married couple.”       “That’s true,” Natalia confirms shyly.       “Great!” Anthony exclaims. “So, what about a wedding day, young people? When do we save our business for later?”       “Natalia, Raquelle, Terrence, and I are thinking about it yet, but we already started the discussion,” Edward replies confidently.       “Pick up the wedding day soon, my dears,” Adriana says with a slight smile. “I must know when I should get ready for such a long-awaited wedding. When I should go to a store to pick up a dress and a hair salon to get some hair care.”       “M-m-m, so, you’ve accepted Edward as the husband of Natalia,” Anthony notices with a slight smile, comes confidently to Adriana, and hugs her around the shoulders. “Am I right?”       “Right, my dear. Right.”       “So, what can you say about Edward, Mrs. Lascano? Does he deserve to be the husband of my daughter and our new family member?”       “He does, Anthony, he surely deserves it!” Adriana says confidently and puts her hand on her heart. “I’m gonna be honest, I’m literally in love with this man! Edward is such a kind, gentle, and shy man… And he’s so handsome, tall, thin… God was so generous when creating such a beautiful creature.”       “Is it your final decision?”       “Yes. I approve of the choice of my beloved granddaughter.”       “Letitia and I said you wouldn’t be disappointed in Edward!”       “I should’ve made sure about it. And I wanted to look at the one, who stole the tender heart of our Natalia.”       “So, you did! A young, well-educated guy from a wonderful family, who can surely provide for my daughter.”       “I see. And I also like how touchingly Edward treats Natalia, and how she looks at him! All this time, I had tender feelings when looking at them being cute for each other.”       “Oh, you haven’t seen him protect my daughter furiously when something threatens her. Edward is ready to tear anyone down to hurt Natalia like a loyal dog. And her mother and I really need to know that she is loved and protected.”       “Don’t worry, Dad,” Natalia replies with a slight smile. “I feel totally safe with Edward. While he is next to me, nothing threatens me.”       “We don’t doubt it, darling,” Letitia’s voice rings, while she comes to everybody with a shy smile. “But I hope that you and Edward will never have to get into a terrible situation. Your father, grandmother, and I wouldn’t like to be worried if something happened to you. And Mr. and Mrs. MacClife don’t want to worry about Edward.”       “Anyway, you, Mrs. Rochester, and you, Mr. Rochester, and you, Mrs. Lascano, can be quiet for your daughter,” Edward replies confidently. “I fear nothing when danger threatens my fiancée.”       “May it happen, Edward. Anyway, you better start thinking about getting ready for the wedding. Nothing is ready, and you haven’t decided anything yet.”       “We’re working on it, Mom, don’t worry,” Natalia makes sure with a slight smile. “Now we’re gonna have much more time to focus on that.”       “Don’t think of anything bad, my birdie,” Adriana says softly, caressing Natalia’s hand. “Life is too short to spend it on negativity.”       “I don’t. Vice versa, I’m thinking of good things that are going to happen in the future.”       “That’s right, daughter!” Anthony exclaims cheerfully. “It’s so nice for us to finally see you happy.”       “Now, I’ve got no reason to be sad,” Natalia shrugs. “I’m really happy. Happy to be surrounded by my beloved people.”       “It’s very good,” Edward pronounces with a slight smile, caressing Natalia’s head. “We all need to know that you’re happy and have no reason to be sad and worried.”       “No, sweetheart, don’t worry.”       Natalia shares her shy smile with everybody, who shares the same one with her, saying nothing for two or three seconds. And then Letitia looks at the watch on her hand and breaks the silence settled in the air.       “Oh, alright, Mother, it’s time to go to the hospital,” Letitia says thoughtfully. “The doctor is waiting for you.”       “The hospital?” Edward frowns slightly. “But why? Something serious?”       “No, no, it’s alright, don’t worry,” Anthony calms down with a slight smile. “We just need to get the results of some tests that Mrs. Lascano made a few days ago.”       “Not only that, but also much more,” Letitia adds thoughtfully.       “Will you leave for a long time?” Natalia asks.       “Who knows, sunshine,” Adriana shrugs. “But I hope we’ll do everything quickly.”       “Will you stay with us then?”       “I will see. If I’m not too tired, I will stay with you.”       “While we’re doing our business, you can stay with Edward,” Anthony suggests and smiles mysteriously. “I believe you will find something to do.”       “Okay…” Natalia gets a little blushed.       “I’m sorry that we talked a little, Edward,” Adriana smiles shyly. “I hope you will tell me more about yourself, your family, and your band the next time.”       “I’d be glad to meet you again,” Edward replies amicably.       “You will have time to talk,” Letitia says confidently. “But sadly, we’ve gotta leave.”       “Yes, Mrs. Lascano, let’s go,” Anthony makes a calling gesture. “The doctor will not wait.”       While Letitia hugs Adriana around the shoulders, the woman drinks the rest of her tea, gets up slowly, and goes to the living room with her daughter and Anthony to take something. Edward and Natalia go to the living room after them, taking each other’s hands and watching them leave with slight smiles.       “Oh, the heat hasn’t been over yet,” Anthony sighs tiredly. “Going outside still gets me horrified.”       “They say, it’s gonna be a little better tomorrow or after tomorrow,” Letitia replies thoughtfully.       “I wish. At least, we will be able to work well.”       “Yes, the heat always puts me to sleep,” Adriana notices a little tiredly. “There’s no wish to do anything but lie and read a book.”       “That’s what I mean!” Letitia exclaims. “Anthony and I have so much work, but it’s so hard to focus on something because of the heat.”       “That’s good our car doesn’t get overheated while being parked in a closed parking lot,” Anthony says confidently. “I will start a motor quickly now.”       Before leaving, Anthony, Adriana, and Letitia take their things and say goodbye to Natalia and Edward by hugging them, shaking them by the hand, or kissing them on the cheek amicably.       “Bye, my dears, don’t be bored,” Adriana waves her hand shyly.       When Letitia, Anthony, and Adriana leave the apartment, Natalia locks the hall door and smiles widely at the thought that she and Edward stayed all alone. And the man is also thrilled with it, definitely wishing to hug his sweetheart as tightly as possible and kiss her with great passion and love, as he looks closely at her from head to foot with admiration.       “So…” Natalia pronounces with a mysterious smile, coming to Edward spreading his shoulders confidently. “We’ve stayed alone.”       “And I’m very glad about it,” Edward replies in a low, nice voice, presses Natalia to himself with an easy movement, and puts his arms around her waist, while she spreads her shoulders, sticks her breasts up, and raises her head. “Oh, I’ve been waiting for this moment…”       “Yeah, I see how excited you got.”       “It’s super hard to hold yourself down when your beloved fiancée is next to you,” Edward purrs, rubbing the tip of his nose against Natalia’s nose. “Who looks so stunning today.”       “Aw, sweetie…” Natalia runs her hands over Edward’s hair with a wide smile. “You always know how to make me smile.”       “That’s what I want. I wanna see your breathtaking smile much more often.”       “You always see it.”       “I want more.” Edward touches Natalia’s forehead with his forehead, smiling widely at the feeling of warmth spreading over his body. “More and more.”       Natalia says nothing, puts her arms around the small of Edward’s back, and goes to the living room with him.       “Hey, you better tell me what you think of my grandma,” Natalia says amicably. “Did you like her?”       “Oh, your grandmother is a precious woman!” Edward exclaims. “She was so kind to me and accepted me from the first minute.”       “She liked you a lot. And I said it would happen.”       “Yeah, now I can say your family has accepted me and approved of our marriage.”       “Anyway, I saw no reason to be excited.”       “I wasn’t too worried,” Edward shrugs. “Something told me everything would be over much better than I expected.”       “Well, your family had accepted me a long time before we actually started to date,” Natalia notices shyly with a slight smile, stopping, turning to Edward, and taking his hands. “Your brother, your mother, and your father…”       “I can’t find a reason why they could not accept you.” Edward caresses Natalia’s cheek tenderly and tucks a strand of hair behind her ear. “If some from my circle had claims for you and didn’t understand why you’re with me, I’d be very surprised. And piss that person off.”       “I didn’t actually make any efforts to get the love of your friends and family,” Natalia smiles shyly. “Everything happened by itself.”       “I guess that’s what helped you conquer me and my surroundings. Nobody hints that something is wrong with you. Simplicity, kindness, and shyness – that’s what bribes a person.”       “This is how you bribed my family, sweetie.” Natalia caresses Edward’s cheeks with both hands with a tender smile. “You always behave very naturally and shyly, and my parents liked it so much. Just like my grandma. She adores people, with whom she can talk about anything. Kind, light, and able to joke and accept someone’s jokes…”       “Hey, is Mrs. Lascano always so communicative? I thought your grandmother loved to talk and say something about her life.”       “Yes, Grandma Adriana is really very communicative. And as she said, she doesn’t like being alone. She always needs someone; otherwise, she gets bored.”       “She’s always been the one?”       “Yes, one day, Mother said Grandma felt very bored when she had to watch her for many years after she was born. Grandma missed talks, but her friends were also busy: married, studying, working, or raising children.”       “And how did she meet that Mexican?”       “Enrique ran accidentally into her on the street and almost struck her down. Of course, he apologized, asked if Grandma was fine, and then they got into a talk, introduced… So, everything happened somehow… And they got the love for each other!”       “That’s how!”       “My grandma has always been the life of the party. As you know, she easily found a common language with the doctors, who gave her therapy in Mexico, and talked to them like friends. She likes to say something, and Enrique loved listening to her. She kind of reminds me of Mr. Cameron because of that. He’s always been the life of the party and doesn’t love being alone. He likes listening and talking…”       “They’d definitely find a common language. And she’d get along with my parents. Father and Mother expressed a wish to meet your grandmother.”       “We’ll organize their meeting someday. Or my mother and father will take my grandmother and go to your parents’ home.”       “Right. Our families love coming together.”       “I’m glad they get along so well. And it’s good to have so many people, who you can talk to and have a good time with. Big companies are a paradise for such people like my grandmother.”       “Undoubtedly. But having a beloved person, who you adore so much that you can’t describe it, is much better.”       Saying these words in a low, nice voice, Edward kisses Natalia cutely on the cheek with a wide smile and caresses it with his lips. That’s why the girl gets slight blushes on her cheeks from the wave of shyness, and a true smile full of tenderness appears on her face.       “It’s so good we’ve finally gotten a chance to spend some time together,” Edward notices in a nicer, lower voice. “The lads and I spent a few days paying a lot of attention to our rehearsals. And today, we decided to have a rest. So, don’t be mad at me for forgetting you a little.”       “It’s okay, the girls and I were also busy with something,” Natalia replies with a slight smile, slowly wrapping a strand of hair around her index finger. “But today, we also decided to take a break. And pay attention to those we love. Who we terribly missed…”       Natalia gives Edward a cute, tender kiss on the cheek and, keeping her hands on his shoulders, rubs the tip of her nose against it, while he smiles widely, hugs her tightly, and caresses the small of the girl’s back with both hands.       “So, what are we gonna do?” Edward asks with a sly smile. “What does my blue-eyed beauty want? What would make her happy today?”       “I just wanna be with you,” Natalia purrs with a slight smile, caressing Edward’s cheek tenderly. “Just feel your pretense… And nothing more.”       “M-m-m…” Edward runs his fingers through Natalia’s straight, perfectly soft, loose hair. “That’s how…”       “Better say what you want.” Natalia strokes Edward’s hair down, caresses his face, and puts her hands on his chest, not stopping to look at him with tenderness in her eyes. “You’re my guest, and I must do my best for you to feel good here.”       “I’d feel good anywhere if you were with me,” Edward purrs with a tender smile, rubs the tip of his nose against Natalia’s nose, and runs it or his open mouth over all the parts of her face, the skin on which is incredibly soft and velvety. “Even if you do nothing, I will be freaking happy.”       “M-m-m… When I start to do something, you’ll go crazy. Slowly but rightly.”       “I am already…” Edward whispers, takes Natalia by the hips much tighter, and hides his face in the curve of her neck, on which he leaves a couple of slight kisses, breathing in the smell of her tender skin and making the girl smile shyly from a slight but nice shake all over her body. “From the smell of you…”       “Oh, MacClife, here you go again…” Natalia laughs shyly.       “I haven’t started it yet.” Edward slowly runs the back of his hand over the curve of Natalia’s neck and slides to her naked collarbones. “But you already want me. I’ve gotta do nothing. Just to look at you.”       “Me? Want you?” Natalia moves her eyes aside for a second. “Come on!”       “You want, you want, I see it in your eyes,” Edward purrs with his head proudly raised and a wide smile, leaves a couple of short kisses on Natalia’s lips, holding her by the back of her head, and caresses tenderly the curves of the girl’s neck with the fingertips of his hands. “The way you’re breathing… The way your gorgeous body is shaking…”       “I see you can’t want to deprive me of a will and make me obey you,” Natalia notices with a sly smile.       “I don’t have to,” Edward pronounces confidently in a nice voice, grabs Natalia’s face, and caresses her cheeks tenderly with his thumbs. “You’ll do everything I want for me.”       “And who said it?”       “Your body. It literally gets soft when it’s at my mercy. When my hands touch it tenderly.”       “As you see, I’m still standing. I haven’t gotten soft.”       “It’s a matter of time, beauty.” Edward runs his hands over the curves of Natalia’s waist, gets underneath the skirt of her white short dress made of chiffon, and squeezes her buttocks tenderly, smiling smugly when hearing her quiet moan. “I’ve gotta apply some effort, so you melt like wax and obey me in everything. Just like you do it every time. At first, you pretend to be hard-to-reach and make me work hard, but then you beg me to give you pleasure.”       “Do you naively believe it’s gonna be the same this time?”       “You won’t resist me very soon.”       “M-m-m, maybe, I will…” Natalia steps back from Edward slowly with a sly smile and looks at him with some kind of provocation, running her hand tenderly from the top of his head to his chest. “Don’t even hope to win. Especially so easily.”       “I’m not afraid of difficulties,” Edward says confidently with a mysterious smile, caresses Natalia’s head tenderly, barely touches her earlobe with his fingertips, and plays with a small earring in the form of a gold heart. “Especially when the award is waiting for me in the end. Such a beautiful one… Such an attractive one…”       Keeping his shoulders spread and his head proudly raised, Edward leaves a couple of tender kisses on the area behind Natalia’s ear, while her breath becomes heavier and more uneven, and his hands slide slowly over the curves of her waist and her thighs.       “I missed you so much…” Edward whispers in Natalia’s ear, which he caresses tenderly with his open mouth and a quiet breath. “I didn’t see you for so many days… Didn’t feel you…”       “Don’t get excited, pretty boy,” Natalia smiles slyly and grabs Edward’s face, ticking out her breasts and bending her back. “Hey…”       “Why? You and I are alone!” Edward leaves a couple of kisses on the curve of Natalia’s neck. “Nobody will bother us…”       “You’re in a rush.” Natalia steps back from Edward softly, not stopping to look at him with a sly smile on her face with her head proudly raised. “Don’t you wanna play time and enjoy every moment?”       “No, babe, when such a stunning, sexy beauty is standing in front of me, I can’t think of playing time,” Edward replies in a much lower voice, looking at Natalia from head to foot with a mysterious smile.       “But you try hard…” Natalia caresses Edward’s cheek with her fingertips and runs her hand slowly over his chest. “Pleasure is a thing that must not be easy and quick to reach. So, it’s much more desired and more long-awaited.”       “Would you resist my awesome body so easily?” Edward asks in a low voice. “Which wants some caress. The caress of the most beautiful girl in the world.”       “Don’t worry, sweetheart, I shall reach it and pay attention to every single centimeter. But now I wanna play a little.”       “Do you like teasing me?”       “Yes!” Natalia exclaims. “I like! Very much! Because it’s much easier for me to control you.”       “That’s how?”       “You’ve never been able to resist my caress.” Natalia shyly gets her hand underneath Edward’s shirt with short sleeves and caresses tenderly the bottom of his stomach with her fingertips, feeling how tense it is. “And even try at least to pretend that you don’t care.”       “It’s impossible in the case of you…” Edward pronounces with a little hoarse in his voice.       “Well, I’m gonna be a little insolent and use your weakness. So, you’re my hands… So, I can easily make you do anything.”       “Ah, you’re a kitten with the horns of a devil!”       “Yes, I am.” Natalia fixes the collar of Edward’s shirt, looking into his eyes confidently, flirting with him openly, and runs her hands over his hair. “I love being mean and teasing. It gets me excited…”       Natalia gives Edward a slight, short kiss on the lips, tenderly squeezing and pulling his hair on the top of his head with her fingers. Then she steps back from the man again and looks at him with a challenge, while he cannot find the will to move his eyes off her.       “Do you really wanna make me suffer?” Edward purrs in a low voice, comes to Natalia closely, runs the back of his hand over her cheek, and runs his fingers through the lady’s soft hair.       “Yes, I want,” Natalia says confidently with a cute smile, runs her hand underneath Edward’s shirt, and caresses his naked back, seeing him aim to get closer to her instinctively. “You’ve gotta wait for a while.”       “I’ve been waiting for too long.” Edward barely runs his lips over the curve of Natalia’s neck and reaches her collarbones. “You’re my weakness… I give up in front of you…”       “It’s not a secret to me.”       “Ah, if only you knew that I wanna hug you freaking badly…” Edward puts his arms around Natalia’s waist, looking into her eyes with a tender smile. “As tightly as possible! And kiss you with great love. Kiss every single centimeter of your gorgeous body…”       Edward gives Natalia a continuous kiss on the lips that lasts for a few seconds and makes both of them feel a slight shake and a fast heartbeat. And then the girl pushes the man softly off her with a sly smile and caresses his face with her warm hands.       “Hey, hey, not so fast, my love,” Natalia purrs quietly, strokes Edward’s hair down, and runs two fingers over his lips that she looks at like charmed. “Don’t rush…”       “Maybe, we will not waste time?” Edward smiles slyly, running his hands slowly over Natalia’s thighs. “We both know we want each other right now. So, why do we hold ourselves down?”       “Ah, Edward…” Natalia sighs with a slight smile and starts running her hands slowly over Edward’s chest. “I’d love to attack you with great pleasure, too. Take these clothes off and caress your gorgeous, naked body…”       “Do this then!” Edward leaves a couple of kisses on the curve of Natalia’s neck, which he has not touched yet, making her feel a slight shake and a sense of nice warmth over her body. “Get used to seeing me like this. You’re my sensitive girl, who may easily faint from a surplus of emotions. But I don’t want it…”       “Don’t you bring me to the moment when I’m about to have my heart stopped by a surplus of feelings?” Natalia sighs sensually with her mouth slightly open when Edward runs his lips over the curve of her neck and leaves a couple of kisses on the front of it. “When I can’t breathe… When I can barely stand…”       “You’re just too sensitive to my caress.” Edward bites and pulls tenderly on the skin on Natalia’s neck. “But it’s not surprising ‘cause I’m imitable at seducing girls. Nobody has been able to resist my charms yet. Especially such sensitive and vulnerable beauties.”       “Listen… Let’s… Not try to get everything at once and… Leave a little bit of sweet food… For later.”       “Oh, no! I don’t wanna wait anymore!”       Edward gives Natalia another continuous but more exciting kiss on the lips, while one hand of his is placed on her buttocks, and the other slides over her back up and down.       “Besides, you know well that I adore sweet food,” Edward notices with a wide smile, moves some of Natalia’s hair off, and runs his fingers through her golden strands. “And you’re like a delicious candy packed in a beautiful wrapper.”       “Many adult people give candies to children only when they deserve it,” Natalia replies with a sly smile.       “If I ain’t allowed, I can steal a candy. One. The most beautiful one. The most delicious one. The most favorite one.”       Edward kisses Natalia tenderly on the temple and gets down slowly: from her cheeks and cheekbones to her shoulders and collarbones. The girl closes her eyes unwittingly from pleasure and starts breathing unevenly, literally feeling a crazy heartbeat in her head and sometimes making sensual sighs. But when the man slightly bites the soft, tender skin on the blonde’s neck, she starts laughing shyly.       “Hey, what are you doing?” Natalia asks softly.       “Oh, damn, Natalia, you smell much more attractive today,” Edward says in a low voice with a quiet breath, leaving short kisses on the curve of Natalia’s neck and breathing in the smell of the skin of it.       “Oh, my gosh…” Natalia pronounces.       “It’s okay, baby, relax.” Edward, still paying attention to Natalia’s neck, runs his hands over the curves of her waist, her back, her thighs, and her buttocks. “Relax…”       “Gosh…” Natalia bends backward, leans her head back for a second, and laughs shyly. “How playful you are today…”       “I just have a wonderful mood,” Edward whispers with a tender smile, touching Natalia’s forehead with his forehead and looking into her eyes confidently. “Just like I always do. When I spend time with my beloved girl. But I hope you’ll help me make it much more wonderful. Would you do this? Right?”       “I think we have a lot of time to spend together and help each other elevate our mood.”       “I know I’ll be satisfied.”       “But I don’t exclude that my parents will spend a night with my grandma again. And I’ll stay here alone. Well…” Natalia smiles mysteriously and walks her fingers over Edward’s chest with a playful smile. “Maybe, not alone… If my beloved man stopped making me feel lonely.”       “I’m gonna tell you more, my sweet Natalia.” Edward grabs Natalia’s face softly. “I do want to use any moment to stay with you for as long as possible.”       “If I could, I’d be with you all day long. I miss you so much when you’re far from me.”       “It’s gonna happen, sweetheart. We’ll finally see each other every day.”       “I wanna wake up next to you every day so badly.”       “I dream about it, too, beauty. You can’t even imagine how much.”       “But now we can spend as much time as we want.”       Natalia kisses Edward cutely on the cheek with a shy smile, putting her hands on his back, looks at him for two seconds with a tender gaze, takes his hand, and goes to her room, while the man follows her without any resistance.       “Today, I don’t need to go anywhere and do anything,” Natalia says confidently. “So, I’m all yours.”       “The most important thing is that nobody bothers us,” Edward replies thoughtfully.       “Why should someone bother us?”       “What if my brother or one of my friends wants not to let me spend time with my beauty? What if someone just feels bored?”       “Don’t worry, sweetheart, your bro has more interesting things to do. And your friends have some business. Trust me, they surely don’t care about you now.”       At this moment, Natalia comes to her room along with Edward. She comes to the dressing room and fixes her hair and makeup, while the man sits on the bed, not stopping to look at his fiancée and watching what she is doing with a tender, charmed gaze.       “Ha, I’m afraid that someone is annoyed by the doggy, which doesn’t stop being jealous of his owner and gets kind of excited when someone kisses and hugs near him,” Edward laughs shyly.       “I think the doggy has already understood everything and is now trying to beg for mercy and swearing that he won’t get jealous and break someone’s stuff,” Natalia assumes, making her eyes up with black eyeliner.       “Oh, c’mon! Peter doesn’t actually care that Sammy broke the shelf at his home and jumped up on his bed. He’s mad ‘cause the doggy doesn’t let him stay alone with Helene and give her pleasure.”       “You know, I’d also be unhappy if a dog didn’t let me come to my man and did everything to get my attention.”       “It’s okay, he will have to accept it someday,” Edward replies confidently. “Someday those lovebirds will start to live together and even get married. So, Sammy will have to accept and realize it anyway.”       “And are you and the lads thinking about starting to torture Peter, so he tells you the day of his wedding with Helene?” Natalia laughs shyly, fixing one of her golden strands.       “He hasn’t said he’d like to marry. But I don’t exclude that it will happen when he finally moves to a better place.”       “If they decide to do it someday, I will be happy for the two. Rose and Marshall fit together very well.”       “We all like them, my sunshine, trust me,” Edward smiles shyly.       Natalia also cracks a slight smile and puts on a little bit of the perfume with a nice, light aroma on both sides of her neck, while the man is scanning the girl’s gorgeous body and smiles widely, not stopping to admire her and silently noticing that she looks fabulous in her short, strapless, sweetheart-neck white dress.       “Okay, it’s better now,” Natalia whispers with a sly smile, looking at herself in the mirror.       “Ah, Natalia, you’re gorgeous anyway,” Edward laughs shyly.       “But I wanna be more gorgeous.”       “Do you wanna drive me much crazier?” Edward gets up slowly from the bed, comes to Natalia from behind, puts his arms around her waist, and gives her a tender kiss on the cheek, while she smiles widely and gets blushed when she sees her beloved man in the mirror. “Huh? Sweetheart?”       “You’ll lose your mind anyway. It’s super easy to seduce you. A couple of looks and a tender smile before you’re lying at my feet.”       “Nobody would resist such a stunning beauty,” Edward tenderly kisses both of Natalia’s naked shoulders and, feeling how the smell of the incredible female perfume gets into his nose, does not reject the temptation to leave a couple of kisses on the curve of his sweetheart's neck. “And especially me…”       “Oh, MacClife…” Natalia sighs with a slight smile and makes a quiet moan with closed eyes.       “How much my girl loves beautiful clothes…” Edward kisses Natalia cutely on the temple, running his hands tenderly over her arms. “How much she letting me watch the beauty.”       “I’ve always loved dressing up,” Natalia smiles mysteriously. “But now I love it much more. I want you to have the pleasure of looking at me.”       “It will always be a pleasure for me to look at you,” Edward slightly moves the head of Natalia’s thick hair aside and leaves a couple of kisses on her naked scapula, hearing her quiet, long moan. “Because I love you, no matter what you wear.”       Edward nuzzles his nose against Natalia’s hair with a wide smile, caressing her belly tenderly with both hands and feeling her strands, which are soft and as smooth as silk and smell wonderful. And the girl has nothing but to enjoy being in the strong and loving arms of her man and feel his breath on her neck, which makes her moan quietly and realize that her knees shake slightly, her body gets goosebumps, and her heart stops.       “You’re so beautiful…” Edward pronounces in a low and nice voice with a tender smile, running the tip of his nose over Natalia’s hair and breathing the smell of it, while his hands slowly slide over her belly up and down. “So attractive… Oh, baby, you’re driving me crazy…”       “You do this to me…” Natalia smiles shyly with closed eyes.       “I must take you somewhere… I must show everyone my irresistible beauty… Show my beloved girl…”       Edward leaves a tender kiss on the area behind Natalia’s ear and caresses it with his open lips, while his hands slide over her belly, and then his finger squeezes the female breasts tightly but tenderly, making her make a sensual, continuous moan.       “Oh, gosh, Edward…” Natalia pronounces in a little hoarse voice with a heavy breath.       “I know, babe, I know,” Edward purrs with a sly smile, grabs Natalia by the throat, leans her head back, leaves a couple of kisses on the front of her neck, and runs his open lips over it. “I’m imitable…”       “You’re driving me crazy…” Natalia makes a quiet moan again, realizing that her heart stops when Edward leaves a tender kiss on the front of the girl’s neck and runs his warm hands slowly over her collarbones and breasts. “Oh…”       “So, beauty, don’t you wanna resist anymore?” Edward moves his hands slowly to Natalia’s thighs and caresses them tenderly after getting underneath the skirt of her dress, while his lips leave a short kiss on every single part of her face. “Are you ready to give up and melt in my arms?”       “Who said it?”       “I thought I’d play with you a little,” Edward confesses with a sly smile and leaves a short kiss on Natalia’s lips, her chin, the front of her neck, her collarbones, and the open part of the lady’s big breasts. “You gave up quickly…”       “It seems to you,” Natalia grabs Edward’s face with both hands and gives him a tender, continuous kiss on the lips, moaning sensually at times to let him know she likes it. “Seems…”       “You can say anything, but your body never lies,” Edward runs his hands over the curves of Natalia’s waist and her belly, feeling that every single muscle of her body is very tense and hearing the girl’s uneven breath. “Oh, how much it likes what I’m doing…”       “We’ll see what’s gonna happen to yours if I work on it enough,” Natalia rubs her nose against Edward’s neck with a slight smile and nuzzles in the curve of it for two seconds, feeling a little dizziness when she breathes in the natural smell of the male skin mixed with the smell of the perfume that he usually uses. “Oh… What’s gonna happen to me… If I keep feeling this smell?”       “The more I breathe in your smell, the more I want you. The more I wanna give you a great pleasure…”       Edward hugs Natalia a little tighter, leaves a short kiss on the back of her head, her temple, her cheek, her shoulder, her collarbones, and the curve of her neck, and gets her involved in a continuous kiss on the lips, to which she immediately answers. While she sometimes makes quiet moans, his hands slide confidently over her belly and thighs, his fingers squeeze and massage her breasts tenderly, and his fingertips barely touch the tender skin of the lady’s collarbones and her neck.       “Oh, Edward, you’re imitable…” Natalia sensually sighs and leans her head back with a heavy breath, while her warm hands caress Edward’s arms wrapped around her waist and neck.       “Hey, have I told you the white color fits you so much?” Edward purrs with a tender smile and runs the back of his hand over Natalia’s hair. “That I adore it… Especially when you wear clothes of this color.”       “Many people say the white color fits me…”       “They’re right…” Edward leaves another tender kiss on the curve of Natalia’s neck and runs his open mouth over it. “Maybe, you will wear white clothes often? Especially, this gorgeous dress?”       “You like it so much?”       “Very much… You’re so tender but so sexy… Please, sweetheart… I wanna see you in this dress as frequently as possible…”       “Okay, honey, I will do anything for you,” Natalia replies in a lower voice with a slight smile and bites her lip slightly. “I’ll wear this dress every time I get a chance. Anything to make you happy.”       “And drive me much crazier…” Edward purrs with a sly smile and runs his fingertips very slowly over the tender skin on Natalia’s neck, her collarbones, and the open part of her breasts.       “Yeah…” Natalia pronounces slowly, shaking slightly, and feels how her heart stops because of Edward, who slides down and runs his fingertips over her belly and the curves of her waist. “Okay… With pleasure… I adore this dress, too… It’s so beautiful… I feel confident and sexy in it…”       “I can’t deny…”       Edward tenderly caresses Natalia’s cheek with a wide smile and kisses it, but then he snuggles his face in the curve of the lady’s neck, breathing on it with hot or cold air and making the girl make quiet, continuous moans and feeling how her heart misses a beat, and she can barely breathe and gets hot from the wave of emotions.       “Sweetheart…” Edward pronounces in a low voice, running his hands slowly over Natalia’s thighs and caressing her ear tenderly with his open lips with a wish to whisper something in it. “I wanna carry such a beauty in my arms… And become a forever slave of hers…”       “I don’t mind it,” Natalia smiles cutely. “You know that I love it.”       “I know,” Edward kisses Natalia cutely on the cheek and easily takes her in his arms, while she starts smiling widely and puts her arms around his neck. “As my queen loves it, I must make her wish come true.”       “But don’t overstrain.”       “I will not, sweetie, don’t worry. There’s nothing hard about taking my sweetheart in my arms and carrying her a little.”       “Nice to hear it.”       Natalia, holding Edward’s face with both hands, rubs the tip of her nose cutely against his nose and gets him involved in a continuous kiss on the lips, to which he answers with pleasure, still holding his beloved girl in his arms. A much wider smile appears on his face when she leaves a few kisses on the curve of his neck at some moment and runs her soft lips over it.       “M-m-m, oh, yeah, babe, you know how to drive me crazy,” Edward pronounces in a low voice.       “It’s just the beginning, pretty boy,” Natalia smiles mysteriously and runs her lips slowly over some parts of Edward’s face. “You’re gonna feel very good soon.”       “I don’t doubt it.”       Edward places Natalia carefully on her feet, grabs her face, and gives his fiancée a tender but continuous, harsh kiss on the lips, to which she answers with pleasure, keeping her hands on the curves of his narrow waist and running them over them slowly.       “M-m-m, I believe you got too excited,” Natalia notices in a low, quiet voice with a mysterious smile.       “I just started it, baby,” Edward purrs. “But I promise you will only think of me giving you pleasure in the end.”       “Are you so confident?”       “Like never ever.”       “Wrong!” Natalia turns her back on Edward with her head proudly raised and goes two steps back from him. “Sometimes plans may go wrong.”       “I am sure about mine at one hundred percent.” Edward comes confidently to Natalia and tenderly caresses her shoulder and the curve of her neck with his lips from behind, while his hands slide over her arms, the curves of her waist, and her thighs. “You want me, but you don’t wanna say it.”       “Me?” Natalia acts to be surprised, rounding her eyes.       “But it’s okay, you will be yelling it soon,” Edward says confidently, moves a part of Natalia’s hair aside and, putting his hands on the girl’s belly, pays attention to the nape of her neck, on which he leaves a few kisses, and which he caresses with his open lips.       “Oh, my gosh…” Natalia sighs sensually with a peaceful smile and closed eyes, bending her back slightly.       “Relax, beautiful…” Edward whispers in Natalia’s ear, which he caresses tenderly and bites slightly, while his hands get underneath the skirt of the dress and confidently caress the front and back of her tense thighs. “You’re too tense. Though, I’m doing nothing yet.”       “Stop caressing and caressing me to make me lose my mind,” Natalia makes a quiet moan. “I will relax then…”       “Sorry, girl, but it’s impossible. When you’re near, I can’t resist the wish to touch and kiss you. If you want this not to happen, you have to tie me.”       “Don’t worry, I shall do this on our first marriage night…” Natalia says under her nose with a sly smile, biting her lip slightly.       “What did you say?”       “Me? Erm… Nothing… I said nothing!”       “Look at me.”       Edward grabs Natalia by the chin and turns her head on himself so that their eyes meet. The breath stops, the heartbeat gets much heavier, and there is a slight tickling and a sense of a nice shake in the abdomen. The distance between them is so small that even a hard resistance seems impossible. The lovers’ eyes slide over every single part of their faces but are manfully focused on the lips that they wish to kiss so badly.       “Okay, I look,” Natalia laughs shyly, caresses Edward’s cheek tenderly, and moves a couple of dark strands of hair off his eyes. “And what? Why are you silent?”       “So, do you wanna tie me?” Edward chuckles quietly, not stopping to look at Natalia tenderly. “Did you decide to be a little sassy? Did you watch over your soon-to-be sister-in-law? Or my brother, a lover of slight perversion?”       “Oops, I didn’t actually mean to say it… It was a surprise! But you made me tell you about it!”       “I made?” Edward chuckles kindly. “You’re a chatter that could easily reveal all the secrets!”       “Not truth! I can keep secrets!”       “Yeah, your friends don’t even try to hide that you say everything that’s supposed to be secret.”       “No! That’s not the truth! I’m not a chatter! It’s… Your spells impact me this way!”       “Not only spells…” Edward runs the back of his hand tenderly over Natalia’s cheek with a mysterious smile. “Not only…”       “Actually, it was a joke!” Natalia says.       “So, did you tell me everything and decide to take your words back then?”       “I really joked.”       “A first word is more important than a second one, my darling.” Edward claps Natalia playfully on the nose with his finger. “I know what you’ve got in your gorgeous head. And I know how to make you tell me all the truth.”       “Maybe, you will kiss me?”       “Okay… I shall kiss…” Edward briefly looks at every single part of Natalia’s face and kisses her shyly on the corners of her mouth and the area behind her ear, while she starts breathing heavily even after a slight touch of the lips of her beloved man and a feeling of his breath on her skin. “With pleasure…”       Edward runs his lips over the tender skin on the curve of Natalia’s neck with a quiet breath, while his hands slide over her belly and hold the lady’s breasts from the bottom. The girl starts making quiet, sensual moans with a sense of heat and dizziness and bends backward like a cat, sometimes caressing the man’s tough arms wrapped around her waist. And after adding some fuel to the fire, MacClife, Jr., smiles slyly at some moment, grabs his fiancée by the throat tightly but tenderly, and brings his face to her ear, in which he wants to whisper something.       “Now, you won’t get off me,” Edward says with a sly smile. “You will be mine very soon… Bitch!”       After pronouncing the last word with special pleasure, Edward gives Natalia a continuous, passionate kiss on the lips, during which he runs his tongue confidently into her mouth and caresses especially sensitive areas in it. The girl starts moaning much louder and much more frequently and bending backward much stronger like a cat, literally feeling her fast heartbeat in her temples.       “Oh, Edward…” Natalia sighs sensually when Edward breaks the kiss for a second. “Gosh…”       “I want you…” Edward whispers with enjoyment, looks at Natalia with a bedroom look, puts a hand on her cheek, and caresses it with a thumb, while she smiles tenderly at him. “My blue-eyed beauty.”       Edward gives Natalia a much deeper and more sensual kiss on the lips, keeping his hand on her belly but later starting to caress her throat softly and confidently and massaging her breasts with a second hand or running his fingertips over the open part of it. Meanwhile, the blonde caresses the man’s hands placed on her belly, strokes his hair on the top of his head, runs her fingers through his dark strands, and runs her hand over it, still moaning sensually and aiming to press herself to her fiancé as close as possible.       “My queen…” Edward pronounces with a wide smile, breathing heavily enough, literally feeling the beat of the heart, and enjoying a slight shake and a nice sense of warmth that gets obsessed with his whole body, while he confidently runs the tip of his nose or his open mouth over the tender skin on the curve of Natalia’s neck. “You’re driving me crazier and crazier…”       “You’re crazy…” Natalia sighs quietly, turns on Edward slowly, and runs her hands through his hair, but later she moves them to the nape of his neck, while he caresses her back and face. “But I like it.”       “Next to such a stunning girl, anyone will lose their mind.” Edward leaves a couple of kisses in the hole in Natalia’s neck, making her make another sensual moan. “So, I can’t do it… I don’t want it… I won’t do it. Because you’re mine. Mine…”       Edward gets Natalia involved in another continuous kiss, during which the two bite the lips of each other slightly, pull the bottom or the top one, and use their tongues actively to caress the most sensitive parts of the mouth and bring their beloved person to unearthly pleasure.       “Did you decide to bring me to another heart attack?” Natalia asks in a hoarse, low voice with a heavy breath, touching Edward’s forehead with her forehead and holding the man by the nape of his neck with both hands.       “And you decided to bring me to that,” Edward replies in the same voice with a loud breath, running his hands confidently over Natalia’s spine up and down.       “Just in case, the door is open.” Natalia leaves a short kiss on the area behind Edward’s ear, which she caresses tenderly with her lips. “The entry from the apartment is free.”       “Are you already kicking me out?”       “I'm just warning you in case you wanna run away.” Natalia caresses Edward’s shoulders, moves her hands slowly to his chest, and caresses his stomach confidently, looking into his eyes closely. “I ain’t gonna hold you. But it doesn’t mean I will not wish to make you a hostage of mine.”       “I’d become a hostage. At my wish…” Edward leaves a short kiss on Natalia’s lips with a greater passion and a heavier breath, and runs his tongue over the girl’s palate, using the moment when she opens her mouth slightly. “I’ve said you’re my weakness… The weakness that makes me lose control of myself…”       “And I get weak for you…” Natalia pronounces in a low, hoarse voice, running her hands over Edward’s torso, getting them confidently underneath his shirt, and letting them slide over the man’s back with a more sensual moan. “I forget everything in the world next to you…”       “Damn, how sexually you moan…” Edward pronounces with a quiet growl full of enjoyment. “And move… And look…”       “I can’t be a column and say nothing when I have such a sexy man by my side,” Natalia moves her hands to Edward’s stomach and caresses it confidently underneath his shirt, caressing his earlobe playfully. “Whom I wanna undress so badly…”       “M-m-m, someone wants something hot…” Edward notices in a low voice with a heavy enough breath.       “You aren’t the only one to be allowed to get your hands underneath my clothes and caress everything,” Natalia smiles slyly, pulls Edward’s top and bottom lips, kisses them tenderly, gets her tongue slowly into his mouth, and runs it around his tongue. “I also wanna touch your body and caress it.”       “Okay, baby…” Edward leaves a couple of short kisses on Natalia’s lips and the area behind her ears. “If you want it so badly, I’m giving you a chance. My perfect body and I are all yours.”       “Did I ask you for permission?”       “Nope, but I’m giving it to you.”       “I don’t need it. I can do anything for you. At any time. At any place. Because you’re mine… And you only belong to me…”       “I will give you to nobody…” Edward leaves a short kiss on the curve of Natalia’s neck and a few more tender and long ones, understanding that the smell of his beloved girl drives him crazy. “Nobody, dolly…”       “I need nobody…” Natalia shakes slightly, hugging Edward tightly, pressing herself to his chest, and caressing his back with both hands, which are still underneath his shirt, while he tenderly holds the skin on her neck or bites it. “But you…”       “Damn, you make me feel like a hungry wolf…” Edward leaves a few kisses on Natalia’s collars and the open part of her breasts, which he caresses with one hand with great pleasure, while his second hand is placed on her tense buttocks under the skirt.       “I can barely stand because of you…” Natalia makes a quiet moan with rolled eyes, while her long white nails sink into the skin on Edward’s back, feeling an exciting warmth from the up to the bottom. “I feel bad…”       “It’s okay, baby, you’re gonna feel much better soon,” Edward assures with a smug smile and gives Natalia a continuous kiss on the lips, while his hand keeps caressing her breasts confidently, giving attention to her tough nipples that he stimulates with his thumbs.       “Please, Edward…” Natalia makes a much more sensual moan, bending her back slightly, shaking her buttocks smoothly, and aiming to press herself closely to the body of Edward, the torso of whom she caresses confidently with both hands, and the hair of whom she pulls sometimes. “Please… M-m-m…”       “Quiet, quiet, don’t get so tense…” Edward whispers with a slight smile, caressing Natalia’s buttocks tenderly and running his fingertips over her spine and the naked parts of her straight, gracious back, and runs his open mouth over the open part of her breasts, which he holds from the bottom. “Relax, girl… Relax…”       Natalia says nothing and keeps making much more sensual moans, squeezing Edward too tightly at times, getting her hands underneath the man’s shirt, caressing his chest and stomach, and moving her hand to the male groin at some moment. Meanwhile, the man smiling widely squeezes the girl’s buttocks with both hands and runs them over the side, the inside, the back, and the front of her thighs, while his lips caress one of the curves of his fiancée’s neck, cover it with kisses and squeeze slightly the tender female skin that he barely bites or caresses with the tip of his tongue. At some moment, Edward runs the tip of his nose over the curve of Natalia’s neck and leaves a few more short kisses on it. Then he steps back a little and thinks about something for a second.       “You know, I think something is missing…” Edward says thoughtfully, frowning slightly.       “Something’s wrong?” Natalia asks in a little hoarse voice. “Do I… Look bad?”       “No, no, you look stunning… Just… Erm…” Edward bites his lip slightly. “I have something for you.”       Edward looks into the small pocket of his shirt with a mysterious smile, takes something, and shows it to Natalia. The girl immediately opens her mouth and smiles shyly, seeing her favorite gilt necklace with a pendant in the form of the letter “N,” which was stolen by Eugene Wainwright on the day they met.       “My necklace!” Natalia gasps happily.       “Yes, it is,” Edward nods confidently with a slight smile. “The necklace that you lost.”       “Oh, gosh…” Natalia closes her mouth with her hand for a second, then takes the necklace from Edward’s hands, and looks at it. “I thought I lost it forever… My necklace… Which you gifted me…”       “No, sweetheart, it didn’t get lost.” Edward caresses Natalia’s cheek and head tenderly.       “But… Where did you find it? Wainwright stole it!”       “I found it on the way when the lads and I followed Wainwright,” Edward explains. “It was lying on the floor in the abandoned house where that stinker was hiding. I mean… Peter found it. He saw the necklace and called me ‘cause he doubted. And I immediately recognized your favorite jewelry.”       “I can’t believe it… My necklace came back to me… Oh, my gosh…” Natalia looks at her necklace again and notices that it has a different clasp. “Gosh…”       “By the way, when I found this necklace, it didn’t have a clasp. It was probably lost when Wainwright took the necklace from you. I had to make some efforts to change it. But the necklace has finally returned to its wonderful owner.”       “Did you change it?”       “Yup, I did. It was hard to find something good, but I did it.”       “Oh, my God, Edward…” Natalia smiles tenderly at Edward. “Thank you… Thank you so much for giving my amulet back! I… I don’t know how to thank you!”       “Don’t thank me. Just be happy that a part of me will be with you again. Wherever you are.”       Natalia closes her mouth with both hands for two seconds and smiles widely, literally jumping from happiness like a child. Then the girl wants to put this jewelry on her neck, undoing the clasp. But when she does, Edward offers his help with a slight smile:       “Help you?”       Natalia gives the necklace to Edward with a slight smile, turns her back on him, and lifts her bag of hair up. The man quickly places the jewelry on the girl’s neck and does it up. And then, succumbing to temptation, he kisses tenderly the nape of her neck two times, runs his lips slowly over it, and caresses his sweetheart’s shoulders with both hands. The blonde looks at the first letter of her name with a wide smile and puts her hand on it with a sigh of relief. Then she turns to MacClife, Jr., watching her with a slight smile and gives him a much more delighted gaze and a tender smile. And then Natalia sharply shortens the distance with eyes full of gloss, grabs Edward’s face, and gives him a continuous and passionate kiss on the lips. The man answers this gesture back with pleasure and puts his hands on the hips of his sweetheart, pressing his fragile and slim girl as close to himself as possible.       And when Natalia breaks the kiss, she looks at Edward for two seconds with tenderness in her eyes, not hiding her wide smile. Then she puts her arms around his neck and presses her body against him as closely as possible. He hugs his fiancée around the waist with pleasure and caresses her back and head tenderly, nuzzling his nose into her shoulder. Also, he smiles shyly when feeling a couple of shy kisses on the curve of his neck and a nice tickle of the lady’s puffy eyelashes.       “I love you, sweetie,” Natalia confesses with a slight smile, caressing Edward’s head and stroking his hair on the back of his head. “Very, very much.”       “I love you, too, my beauty,” Edward replies softly and kisses Natalia cutely on the temple, running his hands over her back. “My blue-eyed blonde…”       Two seconds later, Edward and Natalia step away a little, and the girl looks at the pendant that she takes in her hands again.       “You know, I almost accepted the fact that I lost it,” Natalia confesses shyly.       “I wanted to give it back to you a long time ago, but I always forgot about it,” Edward replies confidently. “I always had your necklace with me when I planned to meet you. But it happened that I forgot about it at all…”       “At first, it was a little sad that someone stole your gift from me, but then I got better.”       “If you want, I can gift you as much jewelry as you want. Now I’m able to gift you something gorgeous and expensive. Not cheap stuff bought nobody the hell knows where.”       “I’d better get a cheap gift that you chose with love than something expensive bought to get off.”       “No… When I gift something, I do it with all my heart. And I will never gift you something to get off you. I wanna make you happy.”       “Anyway, I’m madly glad I got my favorite thing back. Now I feel like I’m in a safety cocoon. Where I feel very good and quiet.”       “While I’m alive, you’ll always be in this cocoon.” Edward puts his hand on Natalia’s necklace hanging on her neck and looks into the girl’s eyes with a slight smile, while she feels how the heat of the man’s soft hand warms her up inside. “No matter if we’re together or separated. Never forget this. And fear nothing and nobody. I shall let nobody hurt you. No-bo-dy.”       “I fear nothing next to you,” Natalia pronounces softly with a slight smile. “Because I know that my man will do his best for nobody to hurt me. And he will not let a bad person get closer to me.”       “It will happen, my magnificent queen,” Edward promises confidently, grabbing Natalia’s face and caressing it tenderly.       Natalia smiles widely and gets blushed again, while Edward looks at her with great admiration in his eyes and kisses her cutely on the tip of her nose at some moment. And then the girl presses the man to herself with a mysterious smile, and looks into his eyes or at his lips with some kind of provocation for two seconds. After hesitating a little, she puts her arms around his neck and gives him a continuous kiss on the lips, to which the man answers without resistance, hugging her tightly by the waist with a feeling of a fast heartbeat. At first, everything happens very tenderly and shyly, but later the kiss slowly gets much deeper, more passionate, and more assertive, pulling, squeezing, biting, and licking each other’s lips and bringing their partner to the all-embracing ecstasy by caressing each other’s mouth with their tongues. Both of them moan quietly from pleasure and breathe heavily, and there’s a slight blush on their faces. A slight dizziness is the reason why they think they are about to lose the ground, the fast heartbeat echoes in their temples, and a sense of the heat is getting stronger.       At some moment, Edward leaves a few exciting kisses on the curve and the front of Natalia’s neck when she leans her head back, holding her much more tightly, while the girl leans her body back with sensual moans. The man also pays attention to her naked collarbones and the open part of her breasts, while his hands slide confidently over the curves of her slim waist, her breathtaking thighs, and her tough buttocks. And a little later, MacClife, Jr., leaves a couple of kisses on the area behind her ears, which he tenderly caresses with his lips and the tip of his tongue, and takes his fiancée in his arms. The girl laughs shyly and starts caressing the face of her sweetheart and covers it with short, tender kisses, being happy with every deaf moan that he makes with a blissful smile. Edward comes to the bed, seats Natalia on his laps, and keeps kissing her greedily on the lips, caressing her throat, shoulders, collarbones, buttocks, and the inside of her thighs. Then he kisses his sweetheart on the area behind her ear, bites her earlobe slightly, runs the tip of his nose over the curve of her neck, leaves a few tender kisses on it, slight pinches, and a couple of wet paths. While she makes very quiet but incredibly sensual moans and sighs, caresses his shoulders, head, and face with a slight smile, squeezes his soft black hair tightly but tenderly, and runs her tongue slowly over her fiancé’s palate and around his tongue. Her warm hands confidently rub his chest and stomach underneath the shirt and above it, and she shakes from touching every single well-worked muscle on the body of her sweetheart.       A little later, while Edward leaves kisses on her shoulders, collarbones, cleavage hole, and chest, Natalia bites his ear shyly and caresses it with her open mouth, covers generously the neck of her beloved man with short kisses and pinches the skin on it slightly. MacClife, Jr., closes his eyes with a blissful smile and pays special attention to his fiancée’s breasts, which he massages with pleasure and caresses with his fingertips and his open mouth, not forgetting about the thin, gracious lady’s neck, her attractive collarbones, and her naked thighs and buttocks. After caressing her between her legs, he immediately feels that it’s hit enough here and makes her make a sensual moan with a feeling of the tormenting tension in her abdomen when he squeezes the inside of her thighs tenderly. At some moment, Edward places Natalia carefully on the bed and keeps examining her gorgeous body and giving kisses and caresses to it, making her languish when he does everything too slowly, tenderly, and shyly or behaves like a hungry wolf and wakes up a passionate side inside him. The girl pleases the man’s ear with her quiet, sensual moans, bends her back backward, gets her thighs tense, and breathes heavily enough with the thought that her head goes around. And she stays absolutely relaxed, while his warm hands caress her thighs, buttocks, knees, the inside of them, and her thin ankles.       At some moment, Edward raises the skirt of the dress to caress the front and the inside of Natalia’s thighs with his lips and leaves a couple of kisses on the naked part of the bottom of her belly, struggling with a wish to take off her white knickers that perfectly fits her dress and caressing her crotch with his fingertips. While she shakes her thighs slightly, as if she is begging him to do this. And when MacClife, Jr., pays some attention to her abdomen, caressing it with his hands and lips and covering it with tender kisses, she squeezes the blanket tightly with her fingers in passion, thinking about how good she feels. Later, Edward gives Natalia a passionate, continuous kiss, during which he massages her big breasts like a boss and does not forget about her tough nipples, which he can feel well through the lady’s chiffon dress. He pays some attention to her neck, grabbing her by the wrists at some moment and pressing her hands tightly to the bed with a heavy breath.       Getting so busy with this process, MacClife, Jr., does not notice how his fiancée places him easily on the bed, raises herself above him, and starts a more passionate, more exciting kiss, which is the reason why he takes a breath away. The heated blonde caresses his lips with sensual sighs, and pulls and bites every lip before she reaches the man’s neck, which she covers greedily with tender kisses. The smell of the skin on it clouds her mind, making her absolutely powerless to the man, who is running his hands over the curves of the lady’s waist, back, all the parts of her thighs, and buttocks with a blissful smile. After covering his neck with kisses generously and running her lips or the tip of her tongue over it, Natalia gets underneath Edward’s shirt and caresses the bottom of his tense stomach tenderly. Then she opens his torso confidently, runs her hands over it, and covers his chest and stomach with kisses with pleasure or caresses them with her lips.       It makes MacClife, Jr., much more delighted and wish this stunning blonde beauty, who smiles slyly when seeing that her fiancée does not stop looking at her openly from head to foot with a heavy breath. And he tenses his muscles when the blonde walks her fingers slowly over his naked torso and caresses the man’s nipples with her lips, and then moves her hand to the man’s tough genitals. In passion, Edward dying from impatience holds Natalia tightly in his arms, runs his hands over her back, thighs, and buttocks, and pulls her hair when she bends at him to give a sexual kiss on the lips, wishing to do her best for them to remember these magical moments for a long time. The moments when there are both of them in the world.       

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      Terrence is now sitting at home with Raquelle. The man is sitting on the bed in his room with his legs bent under him and sorting out the material for songs that he has ever written alone or with his bandmates. There are many filled pieces of paper, an acoustic guitar, a couple of pens, and a few colorful markers on the bed. MacClife, Sr., is closely examining every single piece, fixing or adding something, and putting something on different sides. But at some moment, Terrence writes something on one of the papers for the last time, collects everything together, puts it on the table near the bed from his side, and glances at the window, through which the shoots of the hot sun get into the room. Maybe, the man would be happy to sit near the pool or swim in it, but today is such a hot day that only real lovers of heat could get the courage to go out to walk. And Terrence feels very good at home, where an air conditioner is working and keeping a comfortable temperature in all the rooms.       Terrence just stares at the window for a few seconds and thinks of something nice that makes his mood better with a slight smile on his face. Then he glances at his smartphone placed on the table, looks at it for two seconds, takes it, unlocks it, finds out if he has missed calls or messages, scrolls the feed of tweets on Twitter and photos on Instagram, likes something, and leaves a couple of comments. After finding out that nobody has dragged him, his band, or his close people into a scandal, the satisfied man puts his phone aside with a calm heart and looks around the whole room. A little later, Terrence gets up from the bed a little lazily, comes to the window, and watches what’s happening far away from him for a few seconds. Then he moves his eyes to what is on his table placed near his side of the bed, comes to it, looks at some things, taking them and wrapping them in his hands for a long time, and puts a big bunch of pieces of paper on the writing table.       When he looks around the room again, MacClife, Sr., pays attention to his acoustic guitar placed on the bed. He comes to it slowly but confidently with a slight smile, takes it, and installs himself comfortably on the bed, bending his legs under him and putting his instrument in front of him. The man just plucks the strings randomly for a few seconds, and then he starts singing the lyrics from a certain song and playing the melody on his instrument. Not thinking too much, Terrence plays a short intro and starts to sing something simple that elevates his mood much more, shaking with the rhythm with a slight smile on his face and sometimes looking at the open window that is barely covered with a thin white curtain getting up and down depending on the wind.       Three or four minutes later, MacClife, Sr., strikes the last chords and sings the last lyrics, finishing the performance by plucking all the strings of the guitar slowly. Then he just sits on the bed for a few seconds, pressing the instrument to himself and looking into the distance with a slight smile. At some moment, the door of the room opens, and Raquelle enters here, having her hair up, fixing her white towel, with which her wet body is wrapped, on the way.       “Oh, gosh, this hot weather is driving me crazy,” Raquelle confesses tiredly. “Even a cold shower doesn’t help.”       “They say today is the last hot day, and tomorrow is gonna be better,” Terrence replies thoughtfully.       “I’d be madly happy.” Raquelle looks at her face in the mirror. “Gosh, I’ve got such a red face…”       “It doesn’t make you less beautiful,” Terrence calms down with a slight smile. “My beloved tomato.”       “I’m a tomato?” Raquelle laughs shyly.       “As red as it is.”       “I’ve gotta admit it…”       Raquelle says nothing for two seconds and laughs shyly, looking at herself in the mirror, but then she comes to Terrence, sits down next to him, and glances at the guitar in his hands.       “Hey, what were you playing?” Raquelle asks. “I heard you singing something a few minutes ago.”       “Well, nothing special,” Terrence replies shyly, putting his guitar aside. “I just got one song stuck in my head and wanted to sing it.”       “Is that one of the songs from your band’s album?”       “Nope, that song was released literally two months ago. I listened to it somehow and liked it so much.”       “Maybe, you will play something from the album?” Raquelle caresses Terrence’s cheek tenderly with a slight smile and moves a couple of strands off his forehead. “At least one.”       “Sorry, sweetie, but I can’t do it now.”       “Please, sweetheart…” Raquelle begs with pity in her eyes, sits behind Terrence’s back, puts her arms around his neck, and runs her hands slowly over the man’s chest. “Sing… For me. You know how much I love listening to you.”       “I know, my sunshine,” Terrence smiles shyly. “I’ll play any song you want with pleasure. But you’ll hear what’s gonna be included in the album only after it’s out.”       “But, Terrence…”       “No, cutie, you’ve gotta wait.” Terrence tenderly touches the tip of Raquelle’s nose with a finger with a much wider smile, making her laugh shyly.       “I promise I will tell nobody.” Raquelle hugs Terrence tighter from behind and kisses him on the cheek very tenderly and cutely. “Even the girls. Won’t you even sing a couple of lines? For me? Your beloved fiancée?”       “No, I’ll be singing only after the album’s release,” Terrence shakes his head with a sly smile.       “Okay…” Raquelle sighs quietly and steps back from Terrence.       “Don’t worry, baby, you’re gonna love the work of the lads and me. We gave our hearts to it and worked very well.”       “And how long do I have to wait? I’m not fed up with just one single! You threw us a bone like a dog and believed it would be enough!”       “Patience, my beauty, patience.” Terrence caresses Raquelle’s cheek tenderly and tucks a strand of loose hair behind her ear. “I completely understand that you can’t wait to hear me, the incomparable and super-talented Terrence MacClife. But I promise, you will not have to wait for too long.”       “I’m not the only one to die from curiosity.”       “Soon, you and all the fans of the band will listen to our album and go to our shows.” Terrence runs his hand over his hair with his head proudly raised. “I’m gonna give my everything and show my eternal talent.”       “I don’t doubt it,” Raquelle laughs shyly. “It’s impossible to strike your infinite self-confidence out of you.”       “You’re right. Impossible. Because I am unique. Freaking attractive. I am still desired by millions of girls around the world.”       “Oh, MacClife, you’re incorrigible.” Raquelle gets up slowly from the bed and comes to the dressing table to make her face better, starting with applying crème under her eyes. “I’ve been trying to understand what would make you doubt yourself, but I’ve found nothing yet.”       “Don’t waste your time, babe,” Terrence advises with his head proudly raised. “Nobody has made me feel ugly and worthless.”       “You’re too self-confident.”       “Yeah, I don’t hide that I don’t suffer from a lack of self-confidence.” Terrence puts his hands back and leans on the bed with them. “And what could be wrong with me? I’m a handsome man with a perfect body, gorgeous hair, great charm, and many talents! I have everything for happiness, and my beloved, freaking attractive girl, who I proudly call my fiancée, is by my side.”       “You know, I don’t also have problems with my self-rating and love myself, my body, and my appearance. But I don’t say it openly and let everyone know that the people surrounding me are thousands of times worse than me.”       “I’ve never said people around me are worse! I just let everyone know that I have nothing to be shy about or ashamed of, and I like everything about me.”       “Don’t remind me of it for the millionth time. Everyone knows you consider yourself Apollo.”       “Am I not Apollo? With this body! With this appearance!”       “Be careful, honey, if you cross the line, people will start to call you a narcissus that always admires themselves,” Raquelle laughs shyly, powdering her face. “If they haven’t done it.”       “Hey, I ain’t a narcissus!”       “But you act like a narcissus!”       “Narcissists don’t have feelings, but I do have them! I’m jealous of nobody, and I don’t use people for my own benefit… I don’t exaggerate my success and lie about what doesn’t exist.”       “But you need to be called irresistible and attractive at least once per day.”       “Who doesn’t need it? Everyone wanna hear the words of love, respect, and admiration every day! It’s quite fine!”       “Explain it to those, who believe you suffer from narcissism.”       “Don’t worry, Raquelle, it’s gonna be fine,” Terrence replies confidently. “The most important thing is that my close people know who I am. And other people can think whatever they want. Everyone has the right to love or hate me. I make nobody love me.”       “Anyway, you should be a little shyer. Or you’re gonna keep being the object of ridicule for all your friends.”       “They can laugh as much as they want! I do know that those people admire me secretly, respect me, and consider me an authority.”       “Okay, arguing about it with you is worthless.”       “And yeah, I forgot to say that I recognize my dignity and my shortcomings. And narcissists don’t notice them.”       “And it makes me happy.”       While silence settles in the air for a few seconds, Terrence tenderly watches Raquelle doing nude makeup to make her skin color better and get rid of redness, working skillfully with tubes and packs of eyeshadows, and finding something among decorative cosmetics.       “Why did you fall into silence?” Raquelle chuckles.       “I’m watching my stunning beauty get more beautiful thanks to all of those things,” Terrence replies with a slight smile. “I love this thing, you know…”       “I should do something to my face. To stop looking like I burned in the sun or left a hot shower.”       “It’s not very red… You’ve just got a little blushed cheeks.”       “Not truth! My whole face is red!”       “Oh, remember mine when I burned in the sun somehow after lying on the back of the house for too long.”       “Oh, I remember,” Raquelle laughs shyly. “Your friends had a lot of fun…”       “Aha… The men always laughed at me and called me nobody the hell knows who until my burns were gone.”       “I couldn’t also hold my laugh down,” Raquelle notices confidently, making up her eyes with light eyeshadows.       “My skin is just very tender and sensitive. I can’t lie under the sun for a long time.”       “I wanna open a secret, honey: there are sunscreens that protect your skin from burns.”       “Thanks, sweetheart, but I know about them.” Terrence runs his fingers through his hair with a slight smile. “Though, a true king of beauty and grace will not get worse because of burns.”       “Would you think you’re handsome even if you're dirtied in mud?”       “Ha, I would be perfect even in a bag of potatoes! I’d make it look so good that people would love it immediately.”       “Oh, yeah, your fans would buy all the bags for a few minutes.”       Raquelle finishes doing the last things about her makeup, putting on a little bit of mascara and running a big brush over some places on her face. The girl looks at herself closely in the mirror and nods confidently with a slight smile on her face.       “If I wear cheap clothes, they would be as valuable as anything that is shown at Fashion Week,” Terrence says confidently.       “Yes, yes, unknown brands should invite you to promote their clothes to get popular,” Raquelle laughs shyly, looks at herself in the mirror for two seconds, and steps aside.       After turning her back on Terrence, Raquelle takes her towel off and puts it on the chair. While the man’s pupils dilate immediately at the sight of the naked girl with a straight back, tough buttocks, thin and long legs, and a slim waist.       “Yeah…” Terrence pronounces in a low voice with a wide smile, looking at Raquelle from behind with interest and starting to dream of what he would do to this gorgeous naked body without scars, birthmarks, or anything else. “You’re right…”       “Don’t choke with saliva when staring at my naked ass,” Raquelle gets blushed with a shy smile, takes a short satin light purple robe carefully placed on the back of the chair, which is put against the writing table, and puts it on graciously.       “Hey, why did you put on your robe so quickly?”       “Should I walk without clothes for a whole day?”       “What if you walk naked for me a little?” Terrence smiles slyly, slightly spreading his legs. “So, I admire you… You’re freaking fabulous when you're nude… Looking at your curves, my fantasy gets super wild.”       “Close your mouth, MacClife.” Raquelle ties the belt of the robe around her waist so that her collarbones are open, and her breasts are barely covered with tender silk, as if she decides to tease Terrence on purpose while he is twisting on the bed nervously. “What you saw is enough.”       “Ar-r-r, my mean bitch!” Terrence growls with enjoyment, seeing that Raquelle’s buttocks are barely covered with tender purple silk, and swallows up nervously.       Raquelle smiles slyly, comes to the mirror again, fixes her robe slightly, giving special attention to her décolleté, crossing her long, naked legs that Terrence examines very closely, biting his lip slightly, and squeezing the blanket tightly. And when the girl decides to fix something in her makeup and starts to look for something among her cosmetics, the man gets up from the bed, comes to her with his head proudly raised, and puts his arms around her waist.       “By the way, I’ve got a wonderful mood today,” Terrence confesses with a slight smile and, spreading his shoulders, places his hands on Raquelle’s belly. “And you make it better… Thanks to your eternal beauty. And your skill of showing yourself…”       “I’ve got someone to teach me to demonstrate myself beautifully, even in a bag of potatoes,” Raquelle replies shyly with a slight smile.       “I don’t have to teach you.” Terrence leaves a tender kiss on the curve of Raquelle’s neck and the nape of it, making her smile shyly. “Because you are incredible at this thing.”       “I’ve gotta learn to praise myself to the sky as well as you do it.”       “With me, any insecure girl feels like a sexy hellcat.” Terrence rubs the tip of his nose cutely against Raquelle’s cheek, hugging her a little tighter and putting his arms around her waist and neck. “With such a gorgeous man like Terrence MacClife, any girl can discover the side that she didn’t know about.”       “Yeah, you managed to make me a pervert,” Raquelle smiles slyly.       “You’ve always been the one.” Terrence kisses Raquelle on the temple and runs his lips tenderly over her open shoulder, sliding his fingertips over the open parts of the skin of her arms and breathing on the girl’s neck with a hot breath that makes her heart stop. “You didn’t just have the one to help you let go of the tiger that you kept locked for a long time.”       “Hey, Terrence, stop seducing me, and let me put myself in order.”       “Do this! I don’t bother you!” Terrence leaves a short kiss on the area behind Raquelle’s ear, which he caresses tenderly with his lips, while his fingertips slide over her arms tenderly. “Make yourself beautiful. And I will watch.”       “You know I can’t do anything while you’re standing near me and doing this.” Raquelle shakes slightly with closed eyes and lets go of the thin brush that falls to the table.       “I know, any girl’s knees get weak when standing next to me.” Terrence runs the back of his hand over Raquelle’s cheek. “Many of them resist, but they eventually get under the influence of my spells.”       “Gosh, let me end it,” Raquelle laughs shyly when Terrence kisses her on the cheek.       “C’mon, Raquelle, leave all these things,” Terrence suggests in a quiet, low voice. “You’re attractive and gorgeous anyway.”       “Okay, do what you want!”       While Raquelle looks at herself in the mirror and looks for a hairbrush that she needs, Terrence presses her close to himself and confidently caresses the nape of her neck with his lips.       “You drive me crazy, cutie…” Terrence pronounces in a quiet, low voice and grabs Raquelle by the curves of her waist with both hands. “And after you walked naked in front of me, I lost my mind.”       “Hey, MacClife, don’t even start it!” Raquelle exclaims, raising her index finger. “Don’t start it, I say!”       “You know, I think I haven’t given you enough attention for a long time. The problems, the rehearsals with the band, the tiredness… But now I’m ready to fix it.” Terrence leaves a short kiss on the curve of Raquelle’s neck, holding her by the shoulders and feeling how she exhales with a shake. “I’m ready to give my sexy hellcat as much attention as possible.”       “Did you hear what I said?”       “And today, I want something spicy.” Terrence moves his hands to the curves of Raquelle’s waist, slides down, and confidently caresses the front and side of her naked thighs. “Something passionate and hot…”       “Can’t you wait for five minutes?”       “I can’t. I missed you so badly.” Terrence moves his hands to the naked curves of Raquelle’s waist and runs his warm hands over her belly underneath her robe, feeling that she gets a little tense. “I missed caressing your fabulous body. Unreal pleasure.”       “Let me put myself in order, and I shall be happy to give you attention,” Raquelle smiles slyly. “Though, I’m not sure yet.”       “I want you…” Terrence pronounces in a low voice, takes the sleeve of Raquelle’s robe off her shoulder, and leaves a few kisses on it, losing his mind from the smell of lavender shower gel mixed with the natural smell of the lady’s skin. “I want you right now… I want you to prove that you are imitable again. That nobody can drive me crazy the way you do it.”       “Hey, hey, not at once, pretty boy,” Raquelle pronounces with a mysterious smile in a low, nice voice, gets off Terrence softly, and puts the sleeve on her shoulder. “I know you’ve got hot blood, but don’t act like a hungry wolf.”       “I am really a hungry wolf…” Terrence caresses Raquelle’s belly with both hands, moves them to the curves of her waist, runs them over her breasts, collarbones, and the curves of her neck, and caresses her ear with his lips. “Hungry for female caress…”       “Sorry, I can’t help you.”       “Don’t be stubborn, babe, you do want it.” Terrence leaves a short kiss on the curve of Raquelle’s neck and squeezes her breasts like a boss with both hands, making her make a quiet moan with rolled eyes. “Why do you hold it down when you want my sexy body?”       “After I finish putting myself in order, I shall give you attention. Can’t you wait for just a few minutes? Sit on the bed, watch… Dream… Get ready to become my slave soon.”       “I’d watch you. If you put yourself to order absolutely naked…” Terrence carefully takes the robe off Raquelle’s shoulders and leaves a few kisses on every one of them, while his hands massage her breasts confidently. “If you gave me a chance to admire you for the look that makes you look much sexier.”       “You’re crazy, MacClife,” Raquelle laughs shyly, steps back from Terrence softly, and puts the robe on her shoulders again. “Just crazy.”       “Why?” Terrence runs his hands confidently over Raquelle’s naked thighs, squeezes her buttocks tightly for a second, and runs his fingertips slowly over the girl’s spine. “There’s nothing bad with a man wishing to see his beloved girl naked. You are my fiancée, and I have the right to see your gorgeous body.”       “Okay. But you’re gonna have to work hard.” Raquelle turns on Terrence and fixes his shirt shyly with short sleeves. “Don’t think I’ll give up on you if you feel up my ass and breasts a couple of times. It doesn’t get me excited. At all.”       “Doesn’t get you excited?” Terrence smiles slyly, sharply presses Raquelle to himself with one hand, massages her breasts with the fingers of his free hand, and stimulates her nipples, while his lips caress one of the curves of her neck and smooth it with kisses. “We will find it out now.”       Wishing to tease Terrence a little, Raquelle bites her lips and strongly holds herself down so hard not to moan from pleasure. But her body is not definitely going to join this game, getting covered with slight goosebumps and bending somehow.       “M-m-m, are you pretending to be hard-to-reach again?” Terrence chuckles quietly and leaves a few kisses on Raquelle’s breasts, which are barely covered with her robe, while she leans her head back with closed eyes. “Okay, babe, pretend. I’d be happy to play a little. And rejoice after breaking this unbreakable wall.”       “You won’t break it…” Raquelle pronounces in a quiet, low voice with a mysterious smile. “No.”       “Wait, cutie, it’s just the beginning.” Terrence runs his lips over the front of Raquelle’s neck. “A warm-up… All the girls pretend to be hard to reach at first. But when they are in the hands of a talented man, they immediately become wet bitches, who are ready for anything to finish it in the end.”       “I am not one of them. You can do anything, but I will not care.”       “And when you said it, I got a victory.”       “But this time, you won’t seduce me.”       “It’s okay, when I go to the main stage, you, bitch, will be screaming loudly, moaning, and begging me to fuck you.” Terrence presses Raquelle sharply to himself, grabbing her by the nape of her neck, and leaves a short, harsh kiss on her lips. “And if I tie you to the bed and deprive you of the chance to run, you will have to give up.”       “You're talking about perversion again!”       “M-m-m, I do feel how excited you got…” Terrence purrs with a mysterious smile, leaves a short kiss and a slight pinch on the front of Raquelle’s neck, and just runs his lips over it, feeling how the girl’s body shakes and hearing her sensual moan that she cannot hide, while she leans her head back.       “Oh, shit…” Raquelle pronounces as she gets her buttocks a little tense.       “I know how excited you get at just one thought about what I can do to you. About the pleasure I can give you.” Terrence moves his hand to Raquelle’s buttocks and growls quietly while squeezing them tightly and massaging them confidently. “I’m a professional at that…”       “Hey, professional, save your perversion for later.” Raquelle steps back from Terrence softly. “I need to get my hair done.”       “C’mon, dolly…”       “Get off, I said!”       With these words, Raquelle, looking at Terrence with a sly smile, puts a hand on his chest, pushes him off softly, and tries to go to a different side of the room. But the man runs to her from behind immediately, presses her sharply against himself by the waist, and grabs her tightly by the throat. That’s why she shakes strongly and gasps quietly, trying unsuccessfully to break free at some moment.       “Quiet, baby, quiet…” Terrence pronounces in a low voice. “Quiet…”       Terrence sharply inclines Raquelle’s head aside and leaves such a passionate kiss on her neck that she takes a breath away for a moment, her heart beats out of her chest, and she can barely stand on her feet because of dizzying emotions that make the girl shake and make a loud, sensual moan.       “Don’t dare to move,” Terrence says confidently with a sly smile, covering Raquelle’s neck with kisses, caressing her throat tenderly with his fingertips, and moving his free hand slowly from her belly to her thighs but coming back later. “You will not get off me.”       When Terrence gets his hand underneath her robe and confidently caresses her flat, naked belly, Raquelle shakes automatically with a quiet moan and tries to break free. However, the man presses her sharply to himself and grabs her by the throat much tighter when whispering quietly:       “Quiet, quiet… Quiet!” Terrence sharply pulls Raquelle down when she tries to break free with a heavy breath. “Don’t move, I said! Don’t move! Quiet, I said!”       Terrence leaves several much more assertive kisses on the curves of Raquelle’s neck and bites the skin on it slightly, while the girl makes a loud, sensual moan, feeling a fast heartbeat in her head.       “Ah, you’re my hellcat!” Terrence pronounces with enjoyment, running his hands over the curves of Raquelle’s waist, her thighs, and her belly, massaging her breasts confidently, and stimulating her tough nipples with his thumbs, while she is breathing heavily with rolled eyes. “My sexy hellcat that drives me crazy!”       “Please, Terrence…” Raquelle pronounces in a hoarse voice, being mad at herself for being absolutely powerless in front of Terrence. “Please…”       “And don’t hope for tenderness. Today, I wanna be harsh and passionate.” Terrence gets his hand underneath Raquelle’s robe and massages her breasts, being happy that she does not wear a bra. “And insolent.”       “Have you ever been tender and shy?” Raquelle makes a quiet moan and bites her lips slightly. “You’ve been an insolent, shameless scumbag, who believes he can feel me up forever from the beginning.”       “Girls like it. I haven’t met a girl, who doesn’t get excited by confident men, who behave harshly and passionately.” Terrence gets one of Raquelle’s shoulders naked and leaves a few kisses on it. “Few people like good and shy men. They just befriend them. To have hot sex, they look for such sexy and confident men like me.”       “Insolent and shameless, you wanted to say?”       “Don’t talk too much, babe. Otherwise, you will get no pleasure.” Terrence runs his hand over Raquelle’s belly and caresses the inside of her thighs confidently. “M-m-m… You’re already wet and warm… And it’s just the beginning! What’s gonna happen to you somewhere closer to the end? M-m-m…”       “Oh, damn, Terrence…” Raquelle whispers in a shaking voice. “Please…”       “Quiet, sweetheart, quiet.” Terrence grabs Raquelle tightly by the throat and runs his free hand confidently over her belly. “Relax…”       Terrence leaves a short kiss on the curve of Raquelle’s neck, massaging her breasts confidently, stimulating her nipples, and enjoying the quiet moans that the blushed girl breathing heavily makes.       “I would be so happy if you took off this robe and showed me everything you were given by nature so generously,” Terrence says in a quiet, low voice, running his fingers over the curve of Raquelle’s neck and running his hand over her belly, thighs, and buttocks. “If you walked here naked again…”       “No, I don’t want…” Raquelle replies in a hoarse voice. “I don’t want anyone to come here and see me like this.”       “What if I lock the door?”       “Erm… No!”       “C’mon, baby.” Terrence tenderly kisses the area behind Raquelle’s ear and her earlobe and bites it slightly. “Are you gonna hide all of this from me? Hide your gorgeous body that I admire so much…”       “Don’t even dream, MacClife.”       “If you make me happy, I will have the pleasure of showing you my perfect body, which you’ll be able to caress a little.” Terrence runs his hands underneath Raquelle’s robe and caresses her naked belly and thighs. “It needs attention, for your information.”       “But I need to get my hair done!”       “Okay, babe, you can pretend to be hard-to-reach,” Terrence smiles slyly and runs the tip of his tongue over the area behind Raquelle’s ear. “Your shyness gets me much more excited and makes me wish to possess you.”       Terrence leaves another short kiss on the curve of Raquelle’s neck and bites the skin on it slightly, making her shake sharply and make a continuous, sensual moan. And using the fact that the girl raises her head, the man caresses her throat tenderly with his fingertips and leaves a kiss in the hole in it.       “Ah, Raquelle, my fucking sexy bitch…” Terrence pronounces peacefully with a wide smile, runs the tip of his nose over Raquelle’s collarbones, takes the robe off her shoulders, kisses them tenderly, and slowly runs his lips over the nape of her neck and her naked scapula. “What a lucky man I am… A lucky man, who managed to get the sexiest cutie in the world.”       Terrence leaves a couple of wet paths on the curve of Raquelle’s neck and the area behind her ear with the tip of his tongue, while she often sighs with a heavy breath, bending her back and sticking out her thighs so that they touch the man’s tough genitals.       “I wish everyone, who wanted to be instead of me, were jealous,” Terrence says with a sly smile, takes off Raquelle’s hair clip, with which her hair was fixed on the top, puts it aside, ruffles it a little, runs the tip of his nose over it, and caresses the skin on her head with his fingertips. “Because I’m able to touch, caress, and kiss any part of your body as much as I want.”       Terrence moves the head of Raquelle’s disheveled hair aside and generously covers one of the curves of her neck and the front of it with kisses, caressing confidently the lady’s thighs, hips, and belly, moving his hand to the girl’s crotch at some moment and starting to caress it skillfully with his fingertips.       “Oh, shit, Terrence…” Raquelle moans sensually with a feeling of a slight tickling and a heavy breath.       “So what, beautiful, will you agree to obey me?” Terrence asks in a low voice with a sly smile, caressing Raquelle’s ear with his lips and stimulating her nipples that got a little bigger with his thumbs after getting her breasts naked and massaging them a little. “Or do I keep caressing your gorgeous body?”       Terrence slowly moves his hand to Raquelle’s thighs with a sly smile, caresses the inside of them, and stimulates her smooth pubis with his fingertips, making the girl's thighs tenser with a feeling of tormenting tension.       “Oh, gosh…” Raquelle makes a sensual moan and does it two more times with a sense of heat and slight dizziness, shaking her thighs back and forth unconsciously. “Gosh… Gosh…”       “Quiet, quiet, sh-h-h…” Terrence closes Raquelle’s mouth tightly with his hand, making her moan loudly and move her bedroom eyes to him. “Take care of your voice. Because you will have to scream very loudly.”       Terrence leaves a few more short kisses, slight pinches, and tender bites on the curve of Raquelle’s neck, getting pleasure when she sensually sighs with closed or rolled eyes, being unable to resist such an unearthly pleasure even if she really wants it.       “Good girl…” Terrence purrs quietly with a sly smile, running his free hand over Raquelle’s belly and caressing the area behind her ear and her naked breasts with his lips. “Good… Good…”       While Terrence leaves a couple of kisses on the front of Raquelle’s neck, still keeping her mouth closed, she unconsciously moves her hand to his groin and squeezes tightly the male penis that gets into her back. It makes him feel a slight shake all over his body and take his breath away for two seconds.       “So, can’t you wait?” Terrence smiles slyly, turns Raquelle on himself sharply but softly, and presses her close to himself, grabbing her by the curves of her waist and looking at her sweetheart with a bedroom look as he is breathing heavily. “Can’t you wait to give pleasure to my gorgeous body?”       “If I wanted, I’d undress you a long time ago,” Raquelle pronounces in a little hoarse, quiet voice, looking at Terrence with a little blurry look. “Make you scream and beg me for much more.”       “Don’t worry, babe, you’re gonna have a chance to do it,” Terrence says in a much lower voice, touching Raquelle’s forehead with his forehead. “You want me to death. And I want you to death.”       “Excellent, then, you will wait for a while.”       “No, I can’t wait.” Terrence leaves a couple of kisses on the curve of Raquelle’s neck, holding her face in his hands, and the girl’s naked breasts, which he caresses with his lips. “I want you right now.”       “It’s okay, you’ll change your mind…”       “I can’t believe you, bitch, dare to talk, while Terrence MacClife himself is giving you pleasure,” Terrence says confidently, caressing Raquelle’s thighs and buttocks. “You don’t relax, babe. Though, you should relax and give yourself to me.”       “Well, I can hold myself down. But you give up shortly after you’re called with a finger. Though, you’ve never even tried. You’re absolutely worthless at that.”       “I don’t need to pretend to be hard-to-reach. My main goal is to be able to seduce and know a girl’s weaknesses. But I do it much better than you think.” Terrence caresses the back of Raquelle’s thighs confidently. “Here’s the proof… You got wet. Much wetter than a few minutes ago.”       “Any idiot can feel the breasts and the ass up insolently!”       “Not everyone can feel them up to make a girl moan loudly from pleasure before someone gets into her.”       “C’mon, MacClife stop bragging!” Raquelle puts the robe on her shoulders and fixes her hair slightly. “You felt me up – that’s enough!”        “Hey, where are you going? Come here!” Terrence presses Raquelle tighter to himself by the waist when she wants to go aside. “I said you wouldn’t get off me easily!”       “If it’s so, I will have to deal with you.” Raquelle presses Terrence sharply to herself, holding the nape of his neck with one hand. “Now it’s my time to drive you crazy and make you whine like a hungry puppy.”       Raquelle gives Terrence a very passionate kiss with a loud, heavy breath, doing this as if she can find some air that she lacks so much. The man does not get confused, grabbing her face tightly and running his tongue over her palate after her tongue goes around this one. The fingers of the girl’s hand stroke his hair, and another hand slides over his back, neck, and chest. And she does not get confused because her fiancé looking blushed and breathing heavily squeezes his fiancée’s buttocks with pressure. At some moment, Raquelle sharply steps back from Terrence with a sly smile, while he looks into her eyes like charmed.       “So, pretty boy, get ready to beg me,” Raquelle says in a low voice, caressing Terrence’s cheek tenderly. “Beg me to drive you insane.”       “Just one look at you provokes a hurricane inside me,” Terrence replies in a low, hoarse voice with a heavy breath, looking at Raquelle with a hungry look from head to foot. “Makes me dream of what I’d do to you if you… Lied naked on the bed…”       “Maybe, later. But now I wanna do something much more interesting.”       Raquelle runs her hands over Terrence’s hair, neck, shoulders, neck, and stomach up and down very slowly, enjoying this moment completely, while the man swallows up nervously and looks at the girl flirting with him openly like charmed.       “Ar-r-r, you, bitch!” Terrence swears with enjoyment.       “Oh, yay, MacClife, c’mon!” Raquelle sighs sensually and runs her tongue over Terrence’s auricle. “Make me mad! Make me dream of killing you! Or at least torture you in a bed enough!”       “Don’t worry, baby, I shall make you mad later,” Terrence presses Raquelle sharply to himself, grabbing her by the waist, and looks into her eyes with a sly smile. “Not at once. Or I will not be able to hold myself down because you’re freaking sexy in anger.”       “You know, I also want you when you act like a wild animal and show rudeness.” Raquelle runs her hands underneath Terrence’s shirt and runs them confidently over his naked torso, feeling every single well-worked muscle that makes her shake. “I wanna give myself to you completely…”       “I know, cutie…” Terrence purrs with a sly smile and, running his hand over Raquelle’s back up and down and massaging her breasts with the fingers of another hand, leaves a couple of exciting kisses on the curve of the lady’s neck and a short wet path. “I know…”       “Don’t forget that we’re following my rules,” Raquelle gets Terrence’s hands softly off her and runs her hands over his stomach and chest. “I rule the process.”       Raquelle gives Terrence another continuous, passionate kiss, during which she bites, squeezes, and licks his lips and caresses some parts of his mouth with her tongue, making the man moan quietly from pleasure. After breaking the kiss, the girl leaves a few short kisses and pinches on the curve of his neck, while the man is breathing heavily enough with closed eyes and feeling a crazy beat of the heart that echoes in his head.       “Damn, Raquelle…” Terrence pronounces in a quiet, little shaking voice and makes a very quiet moan of pleasure.       “Don’t be so tense, pretty boy,” Raquelle says in a quiet, low, seductive voice, running her hand over Terrence’s hair and sliding to his heart. “It’s okay… Breathe deeper…”       “Ar-r-r, you dare to mock me!”       “Not at all,” Raquelle shakes her head with an innocent smile. “I don’t even dare to think about it.”       Now Raquelle runs her hands over Terrence’s whole body, caresses tenderly his shoulders, forearms, and hands, and walks her fingers slowly over the spine or the chest of her fiancé.       “Relax, honey,” Raquelle pronounces in a seducing way and starts to walk slowly around Terrence, running her hand over his stomach, while he does not stop looking at her like hypnotized. “Relax…”       After standing behind Terrence’s back, Raquelle starts massaging his wide, tough back confidently.       “That’s good…” Raquelle smiles slyly, puts her arms around Terrence’s waist, and leaves a couple of kisses on the nape of his neck while he smiles shyly with a sense of tension in his groin. “Good boy…”       “M-m-m, did my baby decide to give me pleasure?” Terrence asks in a little hoarse, low voice. “And kill me slowly…”       “I just started, Terrence,” Raquelle whispers in a low, nice voice and leaves a short kiss on the area behind Terrence’s ear, which she caresses tenderly with her lips. “I don’t wanna get you overwhelmed. No matter how much I wanna take these clothes off you and suck you enough.”       “You love torturing me!”       “Learn from the professional!”       Raquelle starts to walk slowly around Terrence again and runs her hand tenderly over his chest, not stopping to look into his eyes with a hungry look and biting her lip slightly.       “Oh, damn, I think it’s getting hotter in the room,” Raquelle says in a low, seductive voice, gets underneath Terrence’s shirt and caresses his abdomen with her fingertips, making him shake slightly and feel a nice warmth all over his body.       “Yeah…” Terrence pronounces quietly with a slight smile and raises his head. “You’re right…”       “You’re gorgeous, MacClife… And incredibly sexy…” Raquelle moves her hand slowly to Terrence’s crotch, but then moves it off sharply and reaches his shoulder. “And very impatient.”       Raquelle starts to walk around Terrence again and runs her hand over his chest, stomach, and spine underneath his shirt, while he clenches his hands into fists nervously with a heavy breath, and his eyes are set on the young beauty in a short robe.       “How I can be patient when…” Terrence pronounces in a low, hoarse voice and moves his bedroom eyes to Raquelle when she stands in front of him. “When such a stunning beauty walks in front of you… A goddess of beauty…”       “I’m holding on,” Raquelle smiles innocently, biting her lip slightly, runs her lips over the curve of Terrence’s neck, and leaves a couple of kisses on the front of it, while her hands squeeze and pull his hair tightly. “Though, you’re so hot… So hot that I feel dizzy…”       “When I work on you better, you’ll not have any thoughts about resistance,” Terrence purrs with a wide smile.       “Of course, you’re freaking sexy in these clothes…” Raquelle runs her hand over Terrence’s chest and gets underneath his shirt to caress his abdomen. “But if you take off everything and show me your gorgeous body, I shall forget everything in the world.”       Saying these last words, Raquelle raises Terrence’s shirt, runs her hands over his stomach, and wants to unbutton it. But the man takes her softly by the wrists and moves them off.       “Quiet, quiet, hungry tiger,” Terrence smiles slyly. “Don’t rush to undress me.”       Terrence presses Raquelle sharply very close to himself, hugging her by the waist.       “Yes, I’d have a great pleasure to show you my magnificent body and set up the fire that you’re burning with inside you,” Terrence adds, caresses Raquelle’s neck tenderly with his lips and moves his hand to her décolleté, which he caresses softly. “But I don’t want to give you everything at once. When you get a tasty piece of cake, you’ll definitely dream of another one. And if you eat absolutely everything, you won’t even wish to look at this one.”       “Excellent!” Raquelle puts her hands on her hips. “You don’t wanna undress, but I should walk naked for you?”       “Yes!”       “Aha, keep dreaming!”       “Don’t be mean, baby.” Terrence takes the robe confidently off Raquelle’s shoulders and gets her breasts naked, which he caresses with both hands, lips, and tongue with great pleasure. “I will get what I want anyway.”       “Hey, get your hands off me!” Raquelle sharply moves Terrence’s hands off her breasts and puts the robe on her shoulders. “Nobody allowed you to feel my breasts up!”       “I don’t have to ask for permission,” Terrence says with his head proudly raised, runs his lips confidently over the curve of Raquelle’s neck, the smell of which he breathes in, and stimulates her nipples with his thumbs, chuckling slyly when hearing a quiet, continuous moan of the girl, who rolls her eyes. “It all belongs to me. And I can do anything I want to your body. Whenever I want. And wherever I want.”       “Ar-r-r, scumbag, I hate you…” Raquelle growls quietly and shakes slightly with a quiet moan. “I hate you for… Getting weak… Next to you…”       “M-m-m, yeah, babe, you’re starting to get wilder.” Terrence gives Raquelle an assertive, continuous kiss on the lips, during which he works his tongue actively in her mouth. “C’mon, dolly, get as mad as possible. Make me wish to slap you enough.”       “Move your hands off me!” Raquelle starts to resist, trying to get Terrence’s hands off her. “Move off, I said!”       “I see someone wants something much hotter…” Terrence smiles mysteriously and grabs Raquelle tightly by the throat, still kissing, biting, and licking her lips with a loud, heavy breath, while she cannot hold down sensual moans. “It’s okay, Raquelle, it’s okay… We’ve got a lot of time… I will have time to do everything I want. Caress, slap, tie, and untie…”       “Scumbag!” Raquelle throws irritably with a heavy breath. “Lover of perversion!”       “And you’re incredible, baby.” Terrence slightly bites the skin on the curve of Raquelle’s neck in the most sensitive area, pinches it, licks it with the tip of his tongue, and eventually kisses it so that she shakes with a loud moan, bending her back strongly.       “Oh, damn!” Raquelle pronounces loudly with a heavy breath.       “Sh-h-h, don’t yell like this,” Terrence says in a low voice, turns Raquelle sharply with her back to him, closes her mouth tightly with his hand, and runs his free hand over her abdomen and naked thighs while she tries to say something and sighs sensually with rolled eyes. “Sh-h-h…”       Terrence caresses the inside of Raquelle’s thighs a little, runs his fingertips over her pubis, gets two fingers into her vagina, and stimulates her clitoris with slow, teasing movements, noticing how wet and warm it is between her legs. That’s why her breath gets heavier, and the sweet tension is getting born somewhere in her abdomen and putting the girl under painful torture.       “So, do ya like it?” Terrence smiles slyly and runs his lips over the curve of Raquelle’s neck and the area behind her ear, still keeping the girl’s mouth tightly closed, starting to stimulate her clitoris with faster movements, and chuckling quietly when he hears her whine quietly and feels how she gets the bottom of her body tense. “You’re so shaking, bending and moaning!”       When Raquelle tries to break free sharply, Terrence pulls her down immediately, squeezes her throat much tighter, and runs his hand over the girl's flat, naked belly.       “Don’t resist, bitch!” Terrence pronounces in a low voice.       “Let me go,” Raquelle demands quietly in a strongly hoarse voice. “Let me go now!”       “Only after I do everything I want.” Terrence gives Raquelle an assertive, continuous kiss on the lips, raising the girl’s head up and running his tongue into the girl’s mouth without hesitation, while his hand confidently squeezes the lady’s breasts, and his fingers stimulate her tough nipples.       “A-r-r. I shall kill you, asshole… Kill!”       “Be mad, babe, be mad,” Terrence runs the back of his hand over Raquelle’s hair and moves a small strand off her eyes. “In anger, you’re fucking sexy and make me dream of spreading your legs.”       “Do you wanna kill me?” Raquelle asks in a low voice. “With a slow, torturing death…”       “How can I do it?” Terrence caresses Raquelle’s cheek with the back of his hand.       “Stop hoping that I’ll walk naked in front of you and make your dirty wishes come true.”       “You will, baby. You will.” Terrence gets one of Raquelle’s shoulders naked with a sly smile, kisses it tenderly, turns the girl on himself, and leaves two or three kisses on her collarbones and breasts, which he holds under from the bottom. “Very well. You’ll do anything for me…”       “Why should I?” Raquelle chuckles quietly. “Just because you are Terrence MacClife? An insolent and self-confident rooster, who believes everyone goes crazy for him and must lie at his feet!”       “Any girl would sell her soul to take your place.” Terrence gives Raquelle an assertive kiss on the lips with a heavy breath. “Those, who I dated before, are surely biting their elbows. They will not find a man, who can please a girl better than me. I am the only one, who can get any girl excited for a few minutes. And such passionate and non-obedient ladies like you need only a few seconds.”       “Serious?” Raquelle laughs quietly and runs her hands over Terrence’s chest. “No, MacClife, it’s been nobody the hell knows how much time, but you haven’t made me go crazy. Of course, you’re trying hard, but… I don’t feel anything.”       “Who are you trying to lie to?” Terrence smiles slyly and grabs Raquelle tightly by the buttocks with both hands. “You’re now fucking wet and hot! Waiting for me to throw you on the bed, undress you, and caress your body until you beg me to fuck me.”       “Go to hell, fucking pervert.”       When Raquelle wants to turn around, Terrence being tense enough presses her sharply to himself, holding her by the nape of her neck, and kisses her on the lips too greedily. The girl resists on purpose and beats him on everything she can reach, not caring that he gives more and more pressure every second and covers her neck with kisses with a loud breath. While one of his hands caresses and squeezes her naked buttocks and slides over her straight back, and another one greedily takes the sleeve off her shoulder, moves her hair aside, and caresses the area between her scapula.       “Bitch, you loved playing on my nerves, and you keep doing this,” Terrence says with a mysterious smile, breathing heavily enough and feeling how his heavy heartbeat echoes in his head.       “Do you know what a good girl would do if she knew about all your dirty fantasies?” Raquelle asks in a hoarse voice, squeezing Terrence’s hair tightly with the fingers of one hand and sinking the nails of another hand into the nape of his neck, while her bedroom look is set into his eyes. “Hit you between your legs! Fuck you off… Put her finger against her temple and call you a sick bastard…”       “My methods of seducing would be good for any girl. Even the shyest and most insecure one. She’d taste it once and never be able to forget it.”       “If I tolerate your tricks and haven’t run away from you, it doesn’t mean it will happen to anyone,” Raquelle says confidently as she runs her hands through Terrence’s hair and slides over his naked torso.       “I just love something very hot and spicy,” Terrence grabs Raquelle tightly by the throat, runs his free hand over the curves of her waist, and squeezes her buttocks. “You are the only one to give me what I want.”       “Hey, if it’s not a secret, how many girls have run away from you because you’re a pervert? An insolent, self-confident, sick, and sly pervert!”       “No one. No girl has left me because of my sexual fetishes. Nobody has been able to resist what I did to them. I was born to give them pleasure.”       “Come on!”       “But sadly, not everybody answered me back and became the same sexy and perverted bitches like you. Nobody can be compared with you. Nobody has driven me crazy and made me so wild, hungry, and excited. Nobody, babe…”       “But I’ve never been a pervert.”       “Anyone becomes a whore thanks to me. A whore that knows how to give a man pleasure.”       “Praise yourself, MacClife, praise.” Raquelle caresses Terrence’s tough back, shaking slightly when she touches every single muscle of his body and feels the smell of the skin on his neck, on which she leaves a couple of short kisses. “You’ve always been imitable at that.”       “I am imitable at everything, cutie,” Terrence says with his head proudly raised and shoulders spread. “There is nothing that I can’t do.”       “Don’t ask for compliments and make me praise you.”       “I wouldn’t mind hearing a couple of nice words.”       “You wish!”       “M-m-m, someone hasn’t definitely gotten her ass slapped for a long time,” Terrence says with a mysterious smile, squeezing Raquelle’s buttocks tightly with both hands. “Someone hasn’t been punished enough…”       “And you went absolutely loose.” Raquelle bites Terrence’s earlobe with no warning and runs the tip of her tongue over the area behind it, making the man, who gets a slight blush on his face, shake sharply. “I haven’t grabbed my whip for a long time…”       “Ar-r-r, I’d be happy to tie you to the bed with handcuffs,” Terrence growls with enjoyment, breathing heavily enough as he looks at Raquelle like she's charmed, while she caresses his abdomen with her fingertips underneath his shirt. “Tie your eyes… And kill you… In a nice sense… Slowly… With a torture… So, you, bitch, whine with pity, moan loudly, and beg me to take you…”       “What was I thinking of when I agreed to become your wife?”       Raquelle walks around Terrence slowly, stands behind him, and starts to breathe on the nape of his neck with hot and cold air and caress it tenderly with her lips, letting her hands slide over his torso and paying attention to the man’s tough genitals.       “Being terribly lucky to become the wife of the sexiest man in the world,” Terrence replies confidently with a sly smile in a little hoarse, low voice.       “Did you mean the most insolent and self-confident man?”       “Listen, sweetie, if you decide to give me pleasure, stop saying what I don’t actually care about now.” Terrence smiles slyly. “My body is all yours, and my ‘buddy’ is impatiently waiting to get caressed by your good hands or tender lips.”       “I’m afraid your ‘buddy’ will have to wait for a long time,” Raquelle gets her hands confidently underneath Terrence’s shirt and caresses his naked stomach from behind. “Very long…”       “Ar-r-r, you’re an asshole!”       “Don’t care to deny you dislike it,” Raquelle whispers in Terrence’s ear and leaves a few kisses on the curve of his neck, biting tenderly some sensitive parts and running the tip of her tongue over some of them, while the man feels too hot. “I see you’re shaking… Getting too tense…”       “It’s your fault.”       “I know you want me to death,” Raquelle replies with a mysterious smile in a quiet, low voice, walking around Terrence and looking into his eyes, and puts her hand on his heart that is beating crazily and about to jump out of the chest. “Oh, how fast your heart is beating… Just like mine is doing it… When I’m near such a hot and sexy man like you.”       “I want you… Very much… And I will not calm down until I get what I want.”       “Me too. But my wish to play with you and make you whine is way stronger.”       Raquelle sharply gets close to Terrence so that there is no space between them. The girl looks at the face or lips of the smitten man with a devouring look, as if she is hinting that she is dying from a wish to give him a very, very passionate kiss. But after teasing him a little with just one look, she steps back from her fiancé with a mysterious smile on her face. When Terrence tries to run up to Raquelle and press her close to him, she gets back again and shakes her finger and head, as if she says that he is not allowed to touch her body yet.       “No, no, you’re not allowed to touch,” Raquelle says confidently. “You’re only allowed to watch.”       “What do you wanna do?” Terrence asks.       “Play time for a little bit longer.”       After looking at Terrence with a sly look, Raquelle starts shaking her shoulders and thighs slightly as if she wants to dance something sexy for her sweetheart. The girl goes around the man and starts to move her whole body like a professional dancer, trying to please the one, who looks at her with such a hungry look. Little by little, her movements become faster and more confident, and she has the pleasure of showing her best dignity.       “Don’t look at me like this,” Raquelle pronounces with a sly smile, squats down slowly and graciously while standing with her back turned to Terrence, gets up in the same way, and keeps moving her whole body. “And close your mouth.”       “Hellcat,” Terrence pronounces with enjoyment, watching every single movement of Raquelle, who often rubs her buttocks against his groin, and not letting him touch her. “I can’t wait to fuck you! As cruelly as possible!”       “Leave your dirty fantasies with you.”       “Turn your face on me, babe,” Terrence says in a quiet, low voice, watching all of Raquelle’s movements with admiration and feeling ready to obey this beauty. “Let me look at you.”       “Yes, my lord.” Raquelle does what Terrence wants, turning on him slowly, and keeps bending before his eyes in a beautiful and seductive way.       “Ar-r-r, you’re gorgeous…” Terrence growls quietly, holding his chin with a heavy breath and a perfectly straight back. “So gorgeous that I wanna see you naked…”       “Relax, pretty boy…” Raquelle purrs quietly, throwing tender, shy smiles at Terrence, biting her lip or finger at times, playing with her hair, and starting to caress her body as sexually as possible. “Sit down, breathe deeper…”       “Stop the fuck mocking me!”       “I’m not mocking.” Raquelle slowly runs her hands over her breasts, the curves of her waist, and her thighs, not stopping to look into Terrence’s eyes and sighing sensually. “At all…”       “It’s okay, cutie, you will pay for everything soon. For every minute that you provoked me.”       “But how?” Raquelle brings her face so close to Terrence that he swallows up nervously with a heavy breath, feeling a strong tension in the muscles of his stomach. “Tie me to the bed and feel me up from head to foot?”       “It’s one of my wishes,” Terrence brings his face to Raquelle’s lips to kiss her.       “Hey, hey, what are you doing?” Raquelle gets Terrence softly off her, putting her hands on his chest. “Stop! No!”       “You said I wasn’t allowed to touch you,” Terrence excuses with a sly smile.       “Kisses are also not allowed!”       “Babe, what kind of ban?” Terrence laughs shyly. “It’s me, Terrence MacClife, your fiancé! Who must not ask for permission to kiss and caress his fiancée.”       “You can’t be patient, MacClife… You can’t…” Raquelle runs her hands slowly and tenderly over Terrence’s torso. “You give up immediately. But I feel bored, you know.”       “Not truth! I am very patient!”       “Even in this case?” Raquelle, shaking her thighs confidently, takes the robe slowly off her shoulders and runs her fingertips over her breasts, which she, however, covers shyly.       “Yes, baby, take it off…” Terrence nods with a mysterious smile, throwing a look at Raquelle’s naked shoulders and collarbones. “Take this robe off, finally!”       Rolling her eyes up dreamily, Raquelle weakens the belt tied on her waist and teases Terrence, pretending that she really wants to take the robe off her.       “Wait, bitch, I will deal with you…” Terrence promises confidently. “You’ll moan after what I will do to you.”       Two minutes of the dance drive Terrence crazy and make him much more sure that he wants Raquelle to death right here and now. The girl keeps provoking the man on purpose, standing with her back turned to him, shaking her thighs and buttocks much more energetically, and squatting down and getting up at times. She lets him look at every single part of her body and sometimes caresses some of them with sensual moans. Terrence holds himself down for some time and does nothing for some time, just watching Raquelle with admiration. But then the man succumbs to the temptation, and his hands react to the lady’s thighs, which he caresses tenderly. The beauty reacts quietly and keeps seducing her fiancé with dances and caresses of her body, and barely touches his tough crotch with her buttocks. She does not pay attention to the fact that the man’s hands raise slowly to the curves of her waist, slide over her arms and her flat belly, squeeze and massage her breasts, reach the collarbones, and caress her neck tenderly.       At some moment, MacClife, Sr., hugs his sweetheart from behind, takes her hands, wraps her around her axis, leans her body back, and kisses her lips with all the passion. At first, Raquelle gets confused, and starts to resist automatically with quiet moans full of demand. But then she relaxes under the influence of dizzying emotions and the nice warmth and lowers her hands with a blissful moan. After a short, passionate kiss, Terrence places his fiancée on her feet and leans on her forehead with his forehead with quite a heavy breath and a fast heartbeat.       “Making much more sure that you’re freaking sexy,” Terrence says in a low voice with a wide smile and runs his hands confidently over Raquelle’s beck. “You’re the only one to be able to make me a wild animal.”       “And I’m making much more sure that I stood in the way of the filthy male,” Raquelle replies confidently in the same low voice. “A fucking pervert…”       “Oh, babe, you haven’t met prevents yet. Next to some of them, I’d seem like an innocent angel.”       “Huh, you can’t be called the one. You’re too far from an innocent angel.”       “I can be anyone. An innocent angel, a sly rat, a heartless bastard, and a pervert horndog…” Terrence squeezes Raquelle’s buttocks tightly with both hands and leaves a short kiss on her lips. “Anyone… Just tell me about your wishes…”       “Get off me.”       “Do you want me to slap you?”       “You better slap yourself.”       “Ar-r-r-r! I always say that such untamed cuties like you get me excited.”       “And I always say that such filthy perverts like you irritate me to death.”       “Did you mean, you terribly like?”       “Oh, MacClife, get off me… I’ve got no time to deal with you.”       “Oh, no!” Terrence grabs Raquelle tightly by the throat with a little filthy smile. “You won’t get off me easily. You will make any wish of mine come true. Do anything I’m gonna tell you.”       “Why should I do it?”       “You’re the only one to take the fire inside me down.”       “It’s not my fault that you get easily excited just because I walked in front of you in a short robe and blinked at you two times.”       “Don’t say you’re indifferent to this masterpiece,” Terrence fixes the collar of his shirt with his head proudly raised. “My gorgeous body that any girl dreams about.”       “Usual body. Just like any man has.”       “Nope… It’s special… It’s hot… Exciting…” Terrence takes Raquelle by the wrists and runs her hands over his torso. “Can you feel how you’re shaking?”       “I feel how I wanna slap you.”       “Ah, babe, I don’t understand how you could actually resist when the owner of such a beauty is standing in front of you,” Terrence wonders and slowly releases the buttons of his shirt with a proud look to let Raquelle see his naked torso, the view of which makes her take a breath away and swallow up nervously. “You just look at this beauty! The beauty that millions of girls dream about!”       “M-m-m, did you decide to think of the old times and run naked?” Raquelle smiles slyly.       “I like walking without clothes. And hiding this beauty is a sin.”       “All perverts love it.”       “C’mon, babe…” Terrence takes Raquelle by the wrists again and runs her hands over his naked chest and stomach, smiling widely with a feeling of a slight shake and a nice warmth. “Don’t be shy.”       “Oh, shit, I feel kind of hot…” Raquelle moans quietly with a heavy breath.       “M-m-m, how sensitive you are…” Terrence smiles mysteriously, comes closer to Raquelle, grabs her face, and runs his finger over her lips. “How it gets you excited…”       “Ar-r-r, I hate myself for being powerless… Powerless for you.” Raquelle runs her hand over Terrence’s cheek and neck to his abdomen. “I do wanna say, ‘I’m ready to be your loyal slave, my king.’”       “You’ve said it.” Terrence runs his hands confidently over the curves of Raquelle’s waist and her thighs, leaving a few short kisses on the front of her neck and biting especially sensitive parts. “You’ve given yourself to me…”       Raquelle makes a quiet, blissful moan and sharply tries to get out of Terrence’s strong grip. But the man prevents it immediately, pressing her to himself by the waist.       “Quiet, quiet, where are you going?” Terrence smiles slyly. “Stay here, bitch!”       “Let me go!” Raquelle demands harshly with a heavy breath. “Let me go now! I swear you will regret it if you don’t let me go!”       “Come on!” Terrence, holding Raquelle by the back with his hand, massages her breasts with the fingers of his free hand and bites and sucks a small, sensitive area on the curve of her neck like a vampire. “Would you refuse something like this?”       “I swear I shall hit you if you keep licking and feeling me up!”       “You’re bluffing,” Terrence says confidently, covering Raquelle’s neck with short kisses. “You actually want me to do this.”       “I’m not kidding, MacClife,” Raquelle replies in a lower voice with a sly smile. “If you don’t leave me at your wish, I shall make you do it.”       “And I madly love hard-to-reach girls,” Terrence runs his lips slowly over the curve of Raquelle’s neck, while his hands slide underneath her robe and caress her naked buttocks and back. “If you slap me, you will wake up a stronger fire inside me.”       “Keep your hands with you.”       “I see no reason to do this.” Terrence leaves a short kiss on the area behind Raquelle’s ear, which he caresses tenderly with his lips and the tip of his tongue. “You know what may happen to you if you provoke me, but you keep being a mean bitch.”       “What could I do if some filthy males must be brought back to the earth at times,” Raquelle replies with a sly chuckle.       “It’s okay, babe, I haven’t just started the main course. I haven’t prepared you for the dessert, after which we’re gonna feel so good.”       While Terrence leaves short kisses on Raquelle’s breasts and collarbones, one hand of his slides over his buttocks confidently, and another hand caresses her abdomen and pubis and pays attention to the inside of her thighs, gets a couple of fingers into the lady’s vagina, and stimulates her clitoris confidently. At first, the girl makes sensual moans with closed eyes or rolled, presses herself close to the man, and bends her back slightly. But at some moment, she looks into MacClife, Sr.,’s eyes with a sly smile, while he stimulates her clitoris much more actively and leaves a few short kisses on her lips, which he bites, pulls, and pinches. After choosing a good moment, the girl steps back sharply and gives him a strong slap in the face. The discouraged Terrence wincing grabs his burning cheek strongly and rubs it energetically. Then he slowly moves his eyes to Raquelle smiling slyly at him with her head proudly raised. Tense silence settles in the air, during which the lovers look at each other with a heavy breath, feeling the burning heat that their bodies spread.       A few seconds later, Terrence grabs Raquelle’s face tightly and kisses her greedily on the lips with a heavy breath, while the girl obeys him without resistance and makes a sensual moan. While he bites, pulls, and licks the lady’s puffy, soft lips passionately and caresses her mouth with his tongue without shyness, she squeezes his hair tightly and runs her free hand over his naked torso, suffering from slight dizziness and catching the air greedily in between kisses.       “So, bitch, you’re in trouble!” Terrence pronounces with a sly smile in a low voice. “You won’t get off me. You’ll do anything I say.”       “We will see it, asshole,” Raquelle replies quietly with a heavy enough breath.       “You’ll have a chance to work your mouth. But now be nice to shut up and just moan.”       Terrence brings Raquelle to the door that leads to the dressing room and presses her sharply on this one. Then the man presses himself tightly to the girl, leans on the door with his hands, and gives her a much more passionate kiss on the lips, which he bites, pulls, and licks with a stronger pressure. A little later, MacClife, Sr., grabs her tightly by the throat with one hand and starts to caress his fiancée’s waist, belly, thighs, and buttocks with another hand, while she is breathing heavily like after a long, intensive run and bends for him like along with the music of a snake charmer. And when her fiancé starts to stimulate the lady’s clitoris much more actively, the girl squeezes her thighs tightly with a feeling of the sweet, tormenting tension in her abdomen.       “Damn, Terrence, damn…” Raquelle makes a quiet, sensual moan, sinking her nails into Terrence’s back and putting her arms around his naked waist.       “Enjoy, babe, enjoy,” Terrence says with his head proudly raised and leaves a couple of short kisses on Raquelle’s lips with a heavy breath, holding her by her naked thigh. “You’re gonna feel fantastic soon…”       Terrence runs his tongue over Raquelle’s palate and around her tongue and pulls her lips, while she runs her hands confidently over his chest and back, which she scratches with her nails. His passionate and wet kisses on her neck, collarbones, and breasts make her moan sensually and sigh heavily with a feeling that she is powerless in front of this man. A little later, Terrence takes Raquelle in his arms and goes to the bed, while she puts her arms tightly around his neck and leaves a couple of short kisses on it. He places her carefully on the bed, bends at her for one more hot, burning kiss, and leans on both of his hands, while she runs her hands over his naked back with sensual moans. At some moment, MacClife, Sr., sharply raises the hands of his fiancée above her head and holds them tightly, caressing her ears with his lips, sucking her earlobes tenderly, and leaving short kisses and wet paths on the area behind them.       “Quiet, quiet, don’t move,” Terrence pronounces with a sly smile and presses Raquelle’s hands tighter to the bed after she tries to break them free. “Don’t move, I said!”       Terrence gives Raquelle breathing heavily much hotter and wetter kisses on her neck, collarbones, and breasts, feeling an incredible pleasure after every single sensual moan and sexual movement from her.       “Ar-r-r, you’re my hellcat…” Terrence growls quietly with enjoyment, biting the skin on the curve of Raquelle’s neck and her collarbones, and running the tip of his tongue over the open part of her breasts. “Sexual hellcat…”       Terrence lets Raquelle’s hands go, gets her breasts naked, and squeezes them tenderly but tightly, not refusing to caress her tough nipples with his lips and tongue, while his hand slides over the curves of the lady’s waist. At some moment, the man raises her robe and runs his open mouth over her abdomen with a heavy breath, feeling how tense the girl’s thighs are, and how wet and warm it is between her legs. Later, MacClife, Sr., actually unties the belt of the robe and puts its edges aside. His pupils dilate immediately at the sight of the naked lady’s body with perfectly smooth skin and well-worked muscles. Terrence succumbs to the temptation to run his hands over Raquelle’s soft, flat belly with a wide smile and leave a few short kisses on it, making her bend her back and roll or close her eyes with a feeling of all-embracing bliss.       “Damn, Terrence, damn…” Raquelle sighs sensually, pressing the back of her head tightly against a pillow and bending one leg at the knee. “Damn…”       “Relax, babe, don’t be so tense,” Terrence pronounces in a low voice with a sly smile, running his hands over Raquelle’s thighs, covering them with short kisses, and giving special attention to the inside of them. “Relax…”       “Please, honey, please…”       “Sh-h-h… It’s okay, sweetheart. It’s okay.”       Terrence runs his hands over Raquelle’s knees and the inside of them and lets them slide over her thin legs, on which he leaves a few short kisses. He does not refuse a chance to stimulate her clitoris, smiling slyly when he feels how wet it is in her vagina and seeing her bend her back with a continuous moan. At some moment, the man brings his face to her lips for a passionate kiss, during which the two are breathing heavily enough, moaning quietly, and caressing each other’s mouths with their tongues. The girl tightly presses her fiancé to herself, runs her hands over his back, scratches it slightly with her nails, pulls his hair strongly, or caresses his face with her warm hands, while he holds his fiancée tightly by the throat. She decides to take off his unbuttoned shirt, which she throws aside, and lets her hands slide confidently over the male chest, touching which makes her feel hot and a little dizzy.       While Terrence covers Raquelle’s neck with kisses, pinching and biting the tender skin on it, and leaving wet paths on it and her collarbones, the girl easily places the man on the bed, raises herself above him, and gives him a continuous kiss on the lips, to which he answers with pleasure, caressing confidently her naked buttocks and thighs. She slowly gets control of the situation and starts to drive the man crazy by stroking his face and shoulders, caressing the most sensitive areas with her tongue, and leaving short but exciting kisses on his neck, chest, and stomach. All this time, Terrence breathes unevenly, moans quietly with closed eyes, and squeezes Raquelle’s buttocks tightly in passion or presses the girl as close to himself as possible. While she pays attention to his nipples and penis, making him happy by not acting like an insecure and shy girl and using her skills of seduction to the fullest.       

***

      Peter, Helene, and Sammy decided to go to one of the unpopular beaches in New York in the evening to sit on the sand in front of the ocean and swim in it. While the dog has the pleasure of running around the whole big territory, swimming in the warm ocean, lying and rolling on the sand, and running after insects flying or creeping near him, the lovers are just sitting in front of the water, watching the dog with slight smiles keeping an eye on the bangs with their clothes.       “You just look how obedient he’s become,” Peter says with a kind chuckle, keeping his arm wrapped around Helene’s neck.       “That hooligan has been trying to pity me and begging me for his tasty food for one week,” Helene confesses, pressing herself to Peter with a slight smile and putting her head on his shoulder. “But I didn’t even think of canceling the punishment. And I made sure that Grandma didn’t please him.”       “And I like seeing him like this. I like that he’s ready to do anything for us to forgive him.”       “And notice that he’s been less jealous of you and me. We’re now sitting and embracing each other, but he doesn’t care. Sammy is running around the beach and swimming in the ocean.”       “I hope he won’t start it again,” Peter smiles slyly. “My ass is not iron.”       “I think Sammy doesn’t care about us now.” Helene laughs shyly. “He’s more interested in what’s around. His eyes are full of glow, as if he came to the beach and saw the water and sand for the first time. Even if he’s been here many times…”       “Pray that he doesn’t find a stick and make us run after him. Running in such hot weather is a bad idea.”       “First, it’s not very hot now. And second, Samuel’s running around the beach without sticks.”       At this moment, Sammy distracts himself from the stone that he has been interested in for a long time, pays attention to a little butterfly, and starts running after it with a loud bark like crazy, making Helene and Peter laugh shyly.       “So, now he decided to torture a poor butterfly…” Helene chuckles kindly.       “He’s finally learned to find something to play with on his own,” Peter notices confidently.       “Sometimes a harsh control gives you real miracles. When we started to keep Sammy on a short leash better, we got the result!”       “But the doggy has something that he can’t be deprived of. An ability to pity you. Samuel is a professional at it.”       “I agree. That’s why Grandma Scarlett and the girls succumb to his charms and have tried to persuade me to be less harsh to him. And they secretly tried to give him something tasty.”       “You know, that hooligan can easily impact the men.”       “Do they make you forgive him, too?”       “Aha. They say I’m too harsh to him.”       “Oh, my gosh!” Helene laughs. “Sammy definitely knows that he could easily twist our friends around the finger.”       “Yes, and later, they’re gonna complain about Sammy and say he's bad and got loose,” Peter chuckles kindly.       “That’s right…”       Peter chuckles quietly, and Helene puts her head on his shoulder and puts her arms around his waist with a wider smile. While he hugs her with both arms with pleasure and presses her to himself.       “Hey, what about the band?” Helene asks. “When will you perform again?”       “I dunno yet,” Peter shrugs. “George is gonna come back to New York today or after tomorrow. Then we’ll be talking about the band’s business. But now the lads and I just rehearse, improve our skills, and recall the way to play our songs.”       “You were practicing so hard every single day for one week.”       “Right, we worked too hard,” Peter replies with a slight smile. “And Terrence, as a leader, controlled it and pushed us when we were sometimes lazy and wanted to have some fun… It was cool.”       “And did you decide to have a rest today?”       “Yup. We worked too well and are sure that we’re ready to go on stage at any moment.”       “I can’t wait…” Helene sighs dreamily. “It’s been so long since we watched your band’s performance the last time.”       “Wait for a while, my sweetheart.” Peter presses Helene closer to himself and kisses her cutely on the forehead, holding the nape of her neck. “I promise the lads and I will come back to performances very soon. We’ve only gotta discuss all the questions with our management team and agree with organizations about everything.”       “I can’t wait to see you play drums and hear your incredible singing,” Helene smiles shyly. “I wanna see the happiness and glow in your eyes that you get every time you sing and play.”       “I dream about it, too…” Peter confesses thoughtfully, caressing Helene’s head. “I wanna hear people from the crowd screaming again… I wanna hear them sing our songs… See them dancing along with them…”       “Soon, sweetie, soon…”       “Ah…” Peter, still hugging Helene, puts his hand softly on her cheek, leaves a short, tender kiss on her lips, and shares a cute smile with her. “Performances, band, songs, tour… All of that is surely incredible, and I’m madly happy I have a chance to live it all.”       “Your dreams are coming true.”       “But…” Peter pronounces in a much lower voice, moving his eyes to the ocean for a second and looking at Helene again. “But I get much happier when I spend time with my beloved girl.”       Peter rubs the tip of his nose against Helene’s nose with a wider smile, breathing in the tender, flowery smell that her soft skin spreads.       “You and I finally went out together! Due to the rehearsals with the lads, I didn’t have time for you.”       “I was also busy,” Helene confesses shyly. “I spent time with the girls or went to work…”       “Don’t be mad at me for leaving you without attention. I really wanted to find a moment, but it didn’t happen.”       “Don’t worry, my sunshine, I get it.” Helene caresses Peter’s cheek tenderly. “I wouldn’t have given you enough attention. And… I’m truly sorry about it.”       “I can’t be mad at such a beauty.” Peter looks at Helene from head to foot with a tender smile, noticing that she looks perfect in a violet bikini, which fits her body wonderfully. “By the way, I wouldn’t have thought you’d look so stunning in a suit.”       “You like it?” Helene asks with a shy smile.       “You’re irresistible! I can’t believe you hid this beauty from me all this time.”       “You know, you never showed me yours, too.” Helene strokes Peter’s hair down with a mysterious smile and puts her hand on his chest, silently noticing that he looks freaking attractive in his black swimming suit. “You’ve got just a stunning body… So many girls praise it for a reason.”       “I can say the same about you. And I already feel I’m losing my mind slowly…” Peter moves off a little dark strand of Helene’s hair that gets out of her beautifully brushed on the top and leaves a couple of kisses on her shoulder and the curve of her neck.       “Quiet, Peter, quiet, control yourself,” Helene laughs shyly with a slight blush on her face.       “Why?” Peter wonders truly and leaves a short kiss on Helene’s cheek. “I wanna kiss my girlfriend. Nobody can ban me from this.”       “My jealous boy Sammy is gonna bite you and nuzzle his face in your face again.”       “I’m not afraid of this dog, sweetheart.” Peter runs his fingertips and the back of his hand over Helene’s forearm. “Not afraid…”       “Sometimes self-confidence doesn’t lead to anything good.”       “Don’t worry, Helene, Sammy’s gonna understand who’s the head soon,” Peter says confidently with a sly smile. “I will make the dog understand that his charming owner belongs not only to him, but also to me. I mean, she’s only mine.”       With these words, Peter slowly runs his lips or the tip of his nose over Helene’s shoulder and kisses her collarbone, the curve of her neck, and her cheek very tenderly, while she closes her eyes with a cute smile.       “Anyway, he can do whatever he wants,” Peter says, rubbing his nose against Helene’s cheek with a shy smile and kissing it tenderly a couple of times. “I care about that long-eared one much less. I’ve got a more important and interesting thing to do.”       “As it turned out, you’re a lover of playing with fire. You’re not what you seem.”       “I just wanna make my beauty feel nice and show that she means a lot to me.”       “She does know it well and feels very happy,” Helene, putting her hand on Peter’s cheek, gives him a short kiss on the lips. “Like never before.”       “I’m trying, baby…” Peter runs his fingers tenderly over the nape of Helene’s neck and leaves two or three kisses on it, making the girl shake slightly and breathe unevenly. “And I want you to never forget it or doubt you or my words.”       “Oh, Pete, you’re driving me crazy again…” Helene laughs shyly.       “I know, you like it,” Peter pronounces in a low, nice voice. “And even if you said different things, your body would tell me the truth.”       “M-m-m, could I lie?” Helene sits between Peter’s legs with a blissful smile and presses herself to his chest, leaning on him as if he is something big, soft, warm, and comfortable. “Even if I wanted it, I wouldn’t be able to do it.”       “Resisting me is impossible.” Peter leaves a few more tender kisses on Helene’s shoulder and the curve of her neck, breathes on some especially sensitive areas, and covers her face with kisses, leaving invisible prints of his lips everywhere. “Oh, damn, how soft and nice your skin is… And it smells magically…”       “I believe you’re determined.”       “Very determined.” Peter runs the back of his hands over Helene’s forearms and kisses her shoulders tenderly a couple of times. “Today, I’m gonna relax enough.”       “I’m warning you, if you keep doing this or go further, I won’t answer for the consequences of your attempts to seduce me,” Helene warns with a mysterious smile in a hoarse voice.       “Maybe, I want it!” Peter smiles slyly, looking into Helene’s eyes closely. “I want to lose my mind and succumb to all my wishes and emotions. And make my little girl happy…”       With these words, Peter leaves a shy kiss on the area behind Helene’s ear and bites her earlobe softly, while the man’s hands slide slowly and tenderly over the girl’s shoulders, arms, the curves of her waist, belly, thighs, buttocks, and knees.       “Oh, Rose…” Helene sighs sensually, feeling how her heart misses a beat.       “By the way, I madly missed you when the lads and I were rehearsing,” Peter confesses with a slight smile in a low, soft voice. “You know how much I wanted to see you… Kiss you… Caress you…”       “There wasn’t a day when I didn’t think of you.”       “And a day when I didn’t think of you.”       After putting his hand on Helene’s cheek, Peter gives her a tender, continuous kiss on the lips, to which she answers with pleasure, while his second hand caresses her belly. And when she lets him leave a couple of kisses on the curve of her neck, the girl steps back from the man shyly.       “Erm, not everything at once, sweetie,” Helene pronounces in a low voice with a mysterious smile and turns on Peter slowly. “You’re in a rush.”       “M-m-m, as I understand, do you wanna be a bad girl?” Peter smiles slyly, putting his hand on Helene’s lap.       “Save something for later.” Helene caresses Peter’s face tenderly with both hands. “So, we make it much more interesting.”       “Will you refuse my caress and love so easily?”       “What if I do?”       “You won’t dare.” Peter runs his fingertips slowly over the inside of Helene’s thighs and caresses them with his warm hand, seeing how she tenses all her muscles a little with a heavy breath. “Besides, I don’t show you everything I can do. If I did it, you’d be delighted.”       Peter shortens confidently the distance between him and Helene to kiss her on the lips with all tenderness. But she gets back with a sly smile and caresses his lips with her fingers, not stopping to look into the man’s amber eyes mysteriously.       “Don’t rush, sweetheart,” Helene purrs quietly and puts her hand on Peter’s chest. “Don’t rush…”       “No, I can’t wait,” Peter shakes his head. “I wanna relax. Relax with your help.”       “Oh, oh, how impatient you are…”       “Don’t be stubborn, baby, I know you want me. As well as I want you. We both want the same.”       “Well… Yeah…” Helene rolls her eyes dreamily for two seconds and smiles slyly. “Maybe, I really go crazy with you and am losing the rest of my mind… Maybe, I terribly want you and would give myself to you with pleasure.”       “Then stop pretending to be hard to react and let me give you love and caress. Everything my girl deserves.”       “Yeah, but… I’m not sure if you want the same…”       “What?” Peter rounds his eyes. “Don’t want? Marshall, are you serious?”       “I don’t wanna force you to do anything.” Helene caresses Peter’s hand softly. “If you don’t want, I won’t insist.”       “No, you must be kidding me.”       “I would never dare! Never…” Helene runs her hand over Peter’s naked torso, giving special attention to his chest and his perfect six-pack, touching which makes the girl shake slightly.       “How I could refuse it…” Peter pronounces in a much lower voice, literally forgetting how to breathe, and swallows up nervously after every single touch of Helene to his chest and stomach. “When I… Lose my mind… While you’re near me… In such a stunning look…”       “Don’t swallow your tongue when watching me. I know you saw me in a bikini for the first time. But control yourself anyway. Or you’re gonna feel bad when I’m absolutely naked for you.”       “M-m-m… When you’re naked for me, I will be ready for any crazy thing.”       “Alas, you can only dream about it now.”       “Sorry. You could make me very happy.”       “Next time. Now enjoy what you’re getting.”       Helene gives Peter a continuous kiss on the lips, during which she caresses his face with both hands and runs them over his wide shoulders, tough arms, and the man’s whole naked torso. While his hands slide over her back, the curves of her waist, her thighs, and her buttocks.       “Gosh, how sexy you are…” Helene confesses excitedly with a heavy breath and leaves a couple of short kisses on Peter’s lips.       “Yes, I am, babe,” Peter purrs with a smug smile. “Those, who consider me an irresistible, pretty boy, have good taste.”       “Of course, I knew you had a perfect body.” Helene runs her hands confidently over Peter’s arms, which are as well-worked as his stomach. “But I wouldn’t have thought it would be so gorgeous.”       “It took years to create this work of art.”       “It was worth it,” Helene smiles wider and gives Peter another continuous kiss on the lips, holding his face with both hands. “You’re imitable… Your body is gracious…”       “And it wants a little bit of caress.”       “As much as you want, honey…”       “Don’t worry, beauty, I shall also give enough attention to your gorgeous body and make you feel wonderful.”       “I already feel good… Very good…” Helene runs her hands over Peter’s chest and stomach again, making a very quiet, sensual moan with a wide smile on her face at some moment. “Oh, gosh… May girls, who want to take my place, get jealous of me. This body is mine… I’m the only one to have the right to touch and caress it…”       Helene’s hand keeps sliding over Peter’s torso confidently. But at some moment, she runs the tip of her nose over the curve of his neck, leaves a couple of tender kisses on it, and breathes on it with hot air. That’s why the blond feels a slight tickling in his abdomen that he gets strongly tense.       “Oh, damn, Helene…” Peter pronounces in a hoarse voice with a heavy breath. “You’re driving me crazy.”       “You like it, yeah?” Helene smiles slyly, caressing Peter’s cheek, head, and knee and looking confidently into his eyes. “Do you want more?”       “Yeah… Very much… You can give me much more. I know it.”       “You wish!”       “Please, baby…” Peter whines quietly with pity in his eyes, leaning on Helene’s forehead with his forehead. “Didn’t I deserve a little bit of the wonderful dessert? It’s so delicious that you can swallow your tongue… And wish to eat it over and over…”       “All in time, honey… All in time… Don’t rush.”       Helene puts her hand tenderly on Peter’s cheek and gives him a tender, continuous kiss on the lips, to which he immediately answers, holding her by the nape of her neck and running another hand softly over her neck, collarbones, and breasts. A little later, the girl, making a quiet, sensual moan, puts her hand on his head, runs her fingers through his soft hair that has lost its volume from the water, and pulls it slightly, while he presses her close to himself and caresses tenderly the curves of her waist and back, feeling how the fire gets stronger every second, and the girl’s body gets covered with goosebumps. At some moment, Peter being excited enough covers Helene’s neck generously with tender kisses, holding her by the thigh with one hand. While she moans from pleasure, she presses herself to his chest as close as possible, caresses his back, and scratches it with her nails, breathing in the smell that the man’s hot body spreads.       “Helene, sweetheart…” Peter purrs with a wide smile, running his lips over the curve of Helene’s neck and the area behind her ear. “My beauty…”       “Oh, gosh, Rose, you’re imitable…” Helene smiles blissfully and makes a sensual moan with closed eyes, sitting between Peter’s legs, pulling and squeezing his hair with a heavy breath, and caressing his face with both hands. “Never thought… You’d… Do this…”       “Ah, babe, I can do much more.” Peter runs his lips over the front of Helene’s neck and leaves a short kiss in the hole of it. “Don’t think I can’t do anything just because I seem so shy and quiet.”       “I’ve never doubted you.” Helene runs her lips slowly over the area behind Peter’s ear, which she caresses and bites tenderly. “You just had nobody, who could help you change.”       “Maybe…”       Peter gives attention to Helene’s collarbones, shoulders, arms, breasts, and belly with great pleasure, caressing every single part of his girlfriend’s body with his lips or hands. The girl is not even going to pretend that she does not like it and shows her emotions openly, moaning quietly at times, sighing sensually, and aiming to press herself as close to the man’s body as possible. And he does not doubt that he does everything right.       At some moment, Sammy feeling bored runs to Peter and Helene and watches closely what the two are doing, sitting on the sand in front of the ocean. The dog quickly understands that these people are so obsessed with each other that they notice nothing around them, but he decides not to meddle in their foreplay openly. Instead, he looks around with his tongue out and decides to play and swim in the ocean a little to get wet enough. After playing enough, the retriever steps on the dry sand, comes quietly to Helene and Peter, and watches the girl rubbing the man’s torso confidently with both hands and running them over his naked back, and he feels free to squeeze tenderly and massage her breasts and buttocks with his long fingers. After choosing a good moment, the dog starts shaking the ocean water off himself so that it gets into them. That’s why Helene and Peter break the kiss, step away from each other, wipe the water off their faces, and move their bedroom eyes to Sammy, who looks innocently at the two, wagging his tail amicably with his tongue out.       “Sammy, here we go again?” Helene moans quietly.       The happy Sammy barks two times, not stopping to look at the gloomy Peter and Helene.       “Sammy, what do you need?” Peter asks tiredly and kisses Helene tenderly on the neck. “Don’t ya see we’re busy here?”       Sammy barks again and starts to jump from one side to another, as if he hints at his wish to play with someone.       “No, Samuel, don’t even dream,” Peter raises his index finger. “Your punishment has not been over yet. No tasty food until tomorrow.”       Sammy licks himself two times.       “You’ve been told everything, long-eared,” Helene says confidently and places her hand on the inside of Peter’s thigh. “Your punishment is still up.”       Sammy barks again much louder and much more confidently and chases his tail for a few seconds, making Helene and Peter laugh shyly.       “Sorry, boy, but we don’t wanna run after you in such hot weather,” Peter says tiredly, twisting his hands behind him and starting to lean on the sand. “And we won’t do it. Because games are also banned during the punishment.”       Sammy quietly whines with pity in his eyes and rolls on the sand several times from one side to another.       “Get off, Samuel,” Peter says confidently and smiles slyly. “My little girl wants some attention.”       Peter presses Helene cutely to himself and kisses her tenderly on the cheek, while she presses her back to his chest with a wide smile on her face, sitting between her legs again.       “I left her alone for one week,” Peter adds and leaves a couple of short kisses on the area behind Helene’s ear and runs his lips over the nape of her neck, while she just closes her eyes. “So, I must fix it and give my baby everything she deserves.”       Sammy barks two more times again and starts whining quietly, looking at Helene and Peter with pity in his eyes, while the two rub the tips of their noses against each other.       “Sammy, play along for a while…” Helene says with pity in her eyes and kisses Peter cutely on the lips. “I dunno… Run on the beach, swim in the ocean, or find something…”       Sammy protests confidently by barking loudly and confidently.       “Sweetie, I should also pay attention to my beloved man. I also forgot about him because I was very busy.”       While Helene rubs her head cutely against Peter’s neck, softly caressing his hands placed on her belly, Sammy keeps insisting on what he wants, wagging his tail amicably.       “You know, Sammy, I think the punishment impacts you very well,” Helene smiles slyly. “When Peter and I deprived you of tasty food and took off a couple of your favorite toys, you immediately became obedient. And… It’s so nice for us to see you like this.”       “Yeah, you became a kind of gentleman from blue-blood society,” Peter chuckles kindly. “And I’m very glad you no longer try to bite my ass and nuzzle my face every time I hug and kiss Helene.”       Peter leaves a couple of tender kisses on the curve of Helene’s neck, while she sighs quietly with a blissful smile on her face.       “So, buddy, listen and remember: this girl is mine, and I ain’t gonna leave her,” Peter adds confidently. “So, you won’t get off me. And you will have to accept the fact that you won’t tear us apart.”       Sammy does not make sounds and keeps wagging his tail amicably with his tongue out.       “Listen, what if we renew this training course for a couple of weeks, huh? It won’t get worse! We could make you learn the lessons that you must do.”       Sammy, using his ability to pity people, starts whining with greater pity as he watches Peter or Helene with the hope of asking him for forgiveness.       “Hey, what if we really make your punishment longer?” Helene asks thoughtfully. “Maybe, you’ll finally realize that Peter can do nothing bad to me and will not really get off me. I will not let him go.”       “And always remember that lying on a bed or sofa and destroying someone’s stuff is bad,” Peter adds confidently.       Sammy starts whining again and inclines his head for two seconds, showing his greatest regret about his actions.       “Yeah, of course!” Helene exclaims. “We know your tricks, naughty boy! At first, you will show your eyes full of pity and then start everything again.”       Sammy protests by barking quietly, comes to Helene confidently, and licks her nose shyly. Then the dog softly grabs her wristband with his teeth and puts her hand on Peter’s knee.       “Are you trying to say you accept Peter as my boyfriend and will no longer destroy his stuff?” Helene laughs shyly.       Sammy barks confidently and sits down shyly in front of Helene and Peter.       “So, what are you gonna say, sweetie?” Helene asks, looking at Peter with a sly smile. “Will we believe the long-eared one?”       “I don’t even know, honey…” Peter replies thoughtfully. “I personally like the sweet and obedient doggy that is sitting in front of us. I don’t want Sammy to become a little monster again and destroy everything in my apartment.”       Sammy starts whining with a great pity in his eyes again.       “And I’m actually mad at you,” Peter adds confidently. “Yes, Samuel, mad! For destroying my stuff at home. For jumping on my bed. Stealing my food from the table. Biting my ass. And much more.”       Sammy barks quietly two times.       “I hope, you understand that nobody’s gonna forgive you for your beautiful eyes,” Peter says with his head proudly raised. “You can whine and lick everybody’s faces all day, but you won’t be forgiven so easily.”       “Did you really get it?” Helene asks harshly. “Won’t you behave like that anymore?”       Sammy barks confidently, comes to Peter, and licks his nose shyly, nuzzling his nose in the man’s face and making him smile shyly.       “Oh, okay, okay, okay,” Peter sighs tiredly. “I’m ready to forgive you. Ready.”       “Yes, okay,” Helene says confidently, creeps closer to Sammy, and grabs his face softly with her hand. “But you must promise that it will no longer happen.”       Sammy barks loudly and confidently two times, as if he is saying, “It will no longer happen! I promise I will be a very good and sweet doggy. But I’m begging you, forgive me…”       “And remember, Samuel, if you do that thing again, your punishment will be much harsher,” Helene says confidently. “Did you get it?”       Sammy barks confidently again in a jump, wagging his tail amicably.       “Okay, damn you, you’re forgiven,” Peter says amicably, waving a hand. “And your punishment has been canceled.”       “Okay, you’ll get your tasty food for being a very good boy for one week,” Helene promises with a slight smile.       Sammy being excited from happiness starts to bark happily, run from one side to another, and jump. A little later, he runs to Peter and starts licking his face, putting his paws on his shoulders. It makes the blond laugh shyly and smile widely. At some moment, the dog strikes Rose and keeps washing his face and nuzzling his nose in it, making the man smile shyly and scratch the dog’s hair.       “Okay, okay, Sammy, stop…” Peter pronounces with a laugh. “I understood that you loved me. Get off me. Stop… Sammy… Hey, you aren’t a cat to wash me! Sammy!”       The happy Sammy washes Peter’s face for a few seconds, but later he leaves him alone and comes to Helene, who strokes and scratches his soft hair covered with sand with pleasure.       “Sammy, my baby…” Helene pronounces with a slight smile. “Baby…”       Sammy barks quietly and presses himself close to Helene, so she hugs him. And the girl does it, pressing the doggy tenderly to herself and running her hands over his back. At some moment, the dog licks the cheek of his owner and nuzzles it as if he wants to kiss it.       “Good boy, good boy,” Helene pronounces softly. “You know that I love you so much and will never leave you. Just remember that I can’t give you all my attention. I’ve got a grandmother, a boyfriend, friends, and familiars.”       Sammy does not react to this and just keeps looking at Helene with his tongue out, fully enjoying the attention from his owner.       “Okay, let’s think you've got it all,” Helene says confidently and kisses Sammy cutely on the nose. “Right, baby?”       Sammy quietly barks, and Helene smiles shyly, yanks the dog softly by the ears, moves her eyes to Peter shaking sand off his hair, and hugs him around the shoulders, pressing her boyfriend and the retriever to herself.       “I’ve got enough love for you two,” Helene says softly, caressing the heads of Peter and Sammy. “Enough.”       “M-m-m, I adore you, my sunshine,” Peter smiles widely.       “Me too, sweetie,” Helene kisses Peter cutely on the top of his head, petting Sammy’s head. “Me too.”       Peter smiles much wider, kisses Helene on the cheek, and presses himself as close to her as possible, closing his eyes from pleasure, while she strokes his hair on his head that is resting on her chest. And Sammy just installs himself comfortably on her laps and yawls contagiously. The girl tweaks his ears, kisses the top of the blond’s head with all her tenderness, and caresses his head. The dog has a great interest in watching how cute the lovers look, not trying to bother them. However, Rose steps back from Marshall some time later and glances at Sammy.       “Listen, let’s play with Sammy a little?” Peter suggests.       “Why not?” Helene agrees.       “We’d definitely have a lot of fun together if we swam in the ocean. Moreover, you and I haven't swum yet. Though, I’d be happy to go to the water.”       “We’re gonna have time. And now the doggy can run a little.”       “Yeah, but we don’t have toys or sticks!”       “No, I have his favorite toy somewhere…” Helene replies thoughtfully. “I’ll check out my bag.”       Helene takes her cloth bag and looks for something for some time. And later, she gets a small, colorful ball with a ringing thing that makes Sammy wag his tail much more actively.       “So what, my boy!” Helene exclaims with a sly smile, teasing Sammy with the bell. “Ready to warm up?”       “And shake your fat?” Peter smiles slyly.       Sammy barks confidently two times, and Helene throws the ball as far as possible. While the happy dog runs to the place where it flew away as fast as a bullet, rising up a bunch of sand, she and Peter get up on their feet.       “Ready for the battle?” Peter asks with his head proudly raised.       “Yes, captain!” Helene exclaims.       “Hold on, Sammy, you’re gonna be super exhausted when going home.”       “That’s right!”       Sammy finds, grabs, and gives the ball to Peter and Helene, and then the blond throws it as far as possible. The tracks of the fluffy creature suddenly disappear after he raises up plumes of sand. Sometimes the lovers try to deceive and tease the dog, which runs fast around the whole beach that he likes so much. And while Sammy finds his prize, Helene and Peter may use the moment to flirt with each other and share tender gazes, hugs, or kisses. By the way, the dog does not mind it and sometimes even waits for the lovers to stop doing what they want and pay attention to him.       “Sammy, Sammy!” Peter exclaims, teasing Sammy with the ball. “I’m here! I’m here!”       Sammy runs to Peter for two seconds and tries to take the ball from him. But the man makes the dog run after him for some time with a sly smile, even if he eventually gives up on his toothy opponent. At some moment, the doggy gives his toy to the blond, but the man throws it to Helene, who decides to tease her pet a little.       “Hey, baby, look what I have,” Helene smiles slyly. “Come to me! Sammy… My sweetheart…”       No matter how fast Sammy runs, and how stubborn he is, Helene does not let him take the toy for a long time, but gives up on him, after all, and pets his head. Sometimes the retriever becomes a naughty boy and does not give the toy to Helene and Peter and makes them run after him. However, the lovers have the pleasure of running around the entire beach like little children and letting themselves relax enough. And while one plays with the doggy, another watches and admires. Just like Peter. He watches Helene with a wide smile on his face and admiration in his eyes, while she thrills with laughter and plays with the excited Sammy. But for a greater part of the time, the man is focused on the wonderful body of his sweetheart. The girl with not very small, not very big breasts, a slim waist, a beautiful flat belly, tough buttocks, and thin legs. Rose managed to see her half-naked for the first time, even though he was sure that a gorgeous body was hidden underneath her clothes. He craves to cover every single part of it with kisses and caresses. Just fantasizing about what he would do to her already makes him feel a faster heartbeat, a heavy breath, a strong heat, and tension.       Peter gets too obsessed with his fantasies and shakes slightly when Sammy runs funnily to him, stands on his hind paws, puts his front ones on his stomach, sinks his teeth into a thin wristband on his hand, and pulls it with a growl.       “Hey, Sammy, stop,” Peter says quietly, getting his wristband softly out of Sammy’s grip. “You’ll tear it apart! Sammy, let my wristband go!”       Sammy lets Peter’s wristband go, barks two times, and starts running around him, while he laughs shyly. And a little later, Helene comes to the blond, ruffles his hair slightly with a wet hand, and wraps her arms around his torso from behind.       “You’re yawing again, sweetie,” Helene says softly with a mysterious smile.       “I just looked at you,” Peter purrs.       “So, Rose, are you still shocked by seeing me in a bikini for the first time?”       “What if someone uses the fact that you’re less vigilant because of watching me like this?”       “You’re just so tempting in this swimsuit that I can’t move my eyes off you,” Peter replies in a low, nice voice. “I tried to imagine you like this many times and… I’m gonna say you met all my expectations.”       “Really?”       “Absolutely.” Peter kisses the tip of Helene’s nose, while she leans her chin on his shoulder and looks at him with a tender smile, still hugging him from behind with both arms. “You’re so fabulous.”       “Peter…”       “I think I’ve said I’m disappointed that you were hiding your perfect body from me.” Peter rubs tenderly the tip of his nose against Helene’s nose with a wide smile and looks confidently into her eyes, caressing her hands that are locked on his stomach. “And not letting me see all your dignity.”       “Sorry, sweetheart,” Helene smiles shyly, kisses tenderly the nape of Peter’s neck and one of his shoulders, and presses herself much closer to him. “I didn’t have a moment…”       “Damn, I should’ve invited you to the beach earlier! I would’ve seen this beauty earlier, not now… And I would’ve gotten much prouder to have such an attractive and smart girl.”       “Well… Maybe, I was just terribly embarrassed to show my body.”       “What? Embarrassed?”       “Yup…”       “No…” Peter shakes his head. “No, I can’t believe it.”       “So to say… I don’t actually like wearing swimsuits. I feel… Insecure…”       “Gosh, Helene, I can’t believe it.” Peter turns on Helene quickly and takes her hands. “How could you feel insecure with such a gorgeous body?”       “The case is not about my body. The case is about a reluctance to wear swimsuits.”       “Don’t wanna wear what you look magnificent in?”       “I wear them only when I have to. But I don’t feel comfortable.”       “You surprised me, Marshall! I’m listening to you and can’t believe it!”       “Yeah, but today I put on the most beautiful bikini that I had.” Helene smiles shyly and grabs Peter by his hips. “To make you happy.”       “You know, you say it like someone said you looked bad in swimsuits. As if someone criticized you too hard.”       “No, no, Peter, nobody told me anything. I just…” Helene tucks a strand of hair behind her ear. “I dunno… Maybe, I just wear them rarely and… I’m not used… I’ve got no claims against my body, but… I can’t feel as confident as, for example, Raquelle or Natalia when being half-naked.”       “Wrong! Such a beauty must not hide her body. Especially from me.” Peter runs the back of his hand over Helene’s cheek and grabs her by the curves of her waist with both hands. “I do have the right to see the beauty that you were given by nature.”       “By the way, you were also hiding your breathtaking body! From me! While all your fans saw you half-naked, I could only imagine how your body looked.”       “Yeah, my blame.” Peter smiles mysteriously and runs his hand over Helene’s belly. “But now we’ve solved this misunderstanding and know what kind of dignity we have. And I am not disappointed in you, my gorgeous goddess.”       “Oh, gosh, Peter, you make me blush…” Helene gets blushed with a shy smile, putting her nose on Peter’s shoulder.       “Still, I want you to show me your body much more frequently.” Peter grabs Helene’s face and leaves a short kiss on her lips. “Would you do a nice thing to me?”       “Only if you made me happy and gave me more chances to see you like this.”       “With pleasure, baby,” Peter smiles widely with spread shoulders and a straight back, hugs Helene by the waist tighter, and leaves a couple of tender kisses on the curve of her neck with great pleasure. “And yeah, I don’t want to hear at least hints on doubts about you. No hints, hear me! You’re a beauty! The most beautiful girl in the world. Most beloved. Most desired. And the most attractive one.”       “I’m gonna believe you for sure,” Helene cracks a shy smile.       “Take a note about it!” Peter slaps Helene playfully on the nose with a finger. “You got it?”       “Got it.”       “Good girl.”       Peter gives Helene a continuous kiss on the lips, to which she answers with pleasure, starting to run her hands confidently over his tough, hot torso. Later, he leaves a few kisses on her whole neck, bites the tender skin on it slightly, and just runs the tip of his nose or his lips over it. While she puts her arms around his neck and runs her fingers through his hair, breathing heavily enough, making quiet and sensual moans at times, and pressing herself close to his body when the man’s hands start to slide over her back, thighs, and buttocks. Sammy watches the lovers with great pleasure for a long time, but later, he shyly touches Helene and Peter’s legs with his paw and barks quietly.       “Sorry, Sammy, I’m kind of too lazy to run after you…” Helene says quietly, while her head lies on the shoulder of Peter hugging her tightly and caressing her head tenderly.       Sammy looks at Helene questioningly, moving his head to different sides.       “I’ve run a lot after you…” Helene adds lazily and kisses Peter cutely under his chin. “And I’m tired… Besides, I’m a little hot.”       Sammy barks quietly again, takes his ball from the sand, and moves his look full of pity to Helene and Peter.       “Okay, okay, boy,” Peter exhales sharply. “Let me play with you.”       “Maybe, you kiss me again?” Helene asks with pity. “Please, Pete… You always do it so that I feel dizzy…”       “Wait for a few minutes, my love.” Peter puts his hand on one of Helene’s cheeks with a slight smile and kisses tenderly another. “I shall play with Sammy a little and kiss you so that you forget everything in the world.”       Peter looks at Sammy and asks him to give him the toy by making a gesture, and the pet gives it to him immediately. The man throws the ball far enough and steps aside, while the dog runs after the ball as fast as lightning, raising up plumes of sand again. The blond teases the fluffy skillfully and does not let him relax for a second, running on the whole beach and shouting out some funny teasers. Meanwhile, Helene goes aside and starts watching Peter with interest, being happy he is so happy and funny and admiring his awesomeness and sexuality. She uses the moment and looks closely at every single muscle of his wide back, tough chest, and muscular arms. It seems that the hair on his arms and abdomen burned under the skin, but it’s actually as blond as the hair on his head, and there is not so much of it. Helene biting her lip slightly thinks about caressing it with both hands and lips and starts to breathe much heavier with a feeling that the beat of her heart echoes in her temples.       While Helene cannot stop looking at the half-naked man, Sammy starts to chase Peter and tease him, refusing to give him the ball at times, running away as far as possible. He actually strikes Rose thrilling with laughter down a couple of times, washes his face again, and dirties him with sand, with which his paws are covered. But at some moment, the blond moves his eyes to his girlfriend and sees how she looks at him with a hungry look. That’s why he smiles slyly, raises his head proudly, and fixes his wet blond hair slightly with an easy movement, hoping to drive his beauty insane. And later, Peter, using the fact that the girl is standing with her back turned to the ocean, comes to her secretly and gets her legs wet by splashing a wave of water over her. That’s why Helene shakes with a quiet squeak and turns sharply on the man, who smiles innocently at her.       “Hey, whatcha doing?” Helene wonders.       “Wanna have some fun,” Peter replies funnily.       “Ah, you wanna have fun…”       “Let’s play, baby!” Peter splashes water from the ocean over Helene again, so that the girl gets wet from head to foot.       “Rose!” Helene makes a loud squeak, drying off her face.       “I feel bored!” Peter gets some water in his hand and splashes it over Helene, whose hair loses its volume, falls on her shoulders, and gets absolutely wet. “I wanna play the fool!”       “Hey, c’mon, stop!” Helene runs her hands over her hair.       “Don’t be afraid, babe, the water is incredible!” Peter exclaims funnily with a sly smile and splashes water over Helene again. “It’s time to swim!”       “Gosh, you’re like a child,” Helene laughs shyly.       “I am a child,” Peter purrs in a lower voice, hugs Helene from behind, putting his arms around her waist and neck, and cutely rubs his cheek and the tip of his nose against her cheek. “The little child that wanna play a little. With his beloved girl.”       “As if you didn’t have enough fun with the lads,” Helene smiles shyly.       “Of course, it’s very funny to spend time with the lads. But spending time with my beloved girl is much more interesting.” Peter kisses Helene tenderly on the cheek, snuggles his face in the curve of her neck, and rubs the tip of his nose against it so that she feels a slight tickling but tolerates it with a quiet laugh. “Who looked at me when I was playing with the doggy…”       “Erm… But how did I look at you?”       “It was like you wanted to eat me.” Peter leaves a couple of kisses on the curve of Helene’s neck, while his hands slide confidently over her belly. “To the last crumb.”       “What if I didn’t look at you? Maybe, I… Looked at the birdie?”       “Yeah, the birdie named Peter!”       “It’s just too gorgeous not to look at it.” Helene caresses Peter’s arms with a mysterious smile, shaking slightly when she feels up his muscles on them. “With such a gorgeous body, the sight of which can make my heart jump out of my chest…”       “Everybody admires it,” Peter replies confidently with a sly smile and runs his lips over Helene’s ear. “And resent that they don’t and will not have a chance to touch this masterpiece. Only one girl can do this. With whom I wanna play a little.”       “What if I say I won’t play with you? I don’t want, I’m not in a mood, or something like that?”       “Please, sweetheart,” Peter whines with pity. “Play with me… I wanna have fun and feel pleasure. Please, please…”       “Okay, okay, baby, okay,” Helene laughs shyly, turns slowly to Peter, and caresses his cheek tenderly. “I shall play with you. But don’t whine as well as Sammy does when he wants something tasty.”       “If you’ve got something, I will be very happy.” Peter runs his hands over the curves of Helene’s waist and her belly with a wide smile. “I will never refuse something tasty. Especially from you…”       “Okay, my hungry, pretty boy. I will feed you with something tasty if you decide to go to my home.”       “Something from the chicken, please.”       “Okay, sweetheart.”       Peter smiles much wider and, putting his hands on her cheeks, kisses Helene cutely on the tip of her nose and caresses tenderly every part of the girl’s face with his lips. But when he gives his sweetheart a continuous kiss on the lips, which he pulls, bites, and sucks softly, the happy Sammy runs to the lovers, barks quietly, and starts running around them, not stopping to wag his tail.       “But first, we’ve gotta play with this restless hooligan,” Helene says, keeping her hands on Peter’s chest.       “Yeah, play with him,” Peter agrees and smiles mysteriously, running his hands over the curves of Helene’s waist, her thighs, and her buttocks. “When he’s finally tired, we can play with each other.”       Sammy barks loudly two times, wagging his tail amicably.       “So what, boys, let’s play a little?” Helene suggests with a slight smile, petting Sammy’s head and stroking Peter’s hair.       “I’m always ready!” Peter exclaims cheerfully.       Sammy runs some distance, turns on Helene, and calls her to him by barking loudly.       “Listen, I think I have something,” Helene says thoughtfully. “Yeah… Minute…”       Helene comes to her cloth bag, takes it, opens it, and finds something like a small rope, and suggests Sammy play with it, shaking it slightly. The dog runs to her as fast as a bullet with a loud bark and tries to catch the prize with his teeth, but his owner teases the retriever on purpose, not stopping to thrill with a laugh and saying something funnily. And a little later, Peter uses the fact that she is very close to the water and creates a big wave that gets her wet from head to foot. The girl yells loudly, immediately pays attention to the man, and splashes a great wave of water over him. Their hair lost its shape, and their bikini and swimming trunks are absolutely wet and attracted to the body. And the dog’s hair gets wet quickly enough. Though, he solves this problem easily by shaking himself and splashing the water on the lovers, who close their faces with quiet moans.       When Helene and Peter start running after each other with a loud laugh, Sammy joins them and does not forget to remind them of himself by barking confidently and doing a bad trick. At some moment, the girl uses the fact that the man gets lost for two seconds and strikes him down easily. That’s why he falls with a loud cry, “Hey!” and gets covered with sand. However, Rose gets up quickly enough, not shaking the sand off him. He starts chasing Helene, who throws sand at the man or splashes water from the ocean over him with a loud laugh and funny shouts. However, the blond always runs aside and answers her back multiple times. And Peter catches Helene quickly enough – or she succumbs to him – and hugs her tightly from behind, pressing her against himself as close as possible. He kisses her shoulder tenderly and rubs his nose against the girl’s temple. At first, Marshall presses herself to Rose with a wide smile and pleasure and allows him to caress her. But when the man tries to kiss her on the lips, she steps back from him shyly and pronounces in a nice, low voice with a mysterious smile:       “No, no…” Helene puts two fingers on Peter’s mouth and shakes her head. “All in time, sweetie…”       “Why not?” Peter smiles slyly. “You want it!”       “Yeah? Who said it?”       “Your body.” Peter, running his hands slowly over the curves of Helene’s waist, leaves a couple of kisses on the front of her neck. “It likes everything I do. It’s shaking…”       “It seemed to you.”       “Don’t be stubborn, babe,” Peter purrs quietly with a sly smile and runs his lips tenderly over the area behind Helene’s ear. “You’re my good girl.”       “You know, I used to think you were quiet and shy. But now almost nothing is left of your shyness.”       “Any person forgets about shyness when they’re next to a beautiful girl.”       Peter shortens the distance confidently between himself and Helene and tries to kiss her on the lips again. But she steps back from him with a sly smile on her face and a shy laugh, shaking her finger playfully. The man tries to do the same thing again but meets a failure. However, it does not make him upset. It makes him much more motivated to get what he wants as soon as possible. The blond tuts with a sly smile, shaking his head, grabs his sweetheart by the waist sharply but tenderly, and brings his face so close to hers that their foreheads and the tips of their noses contact. That’s why both of them feel that they get a slight shake on the skin, and the heart starts beating much faster.       “Do you think you’ll run away from me?” Peter asks in a quiet, low voice.       “Do you think you’ll make me give up?” Helene asks confidently.       “Easier than you think.” Peter caresses Helene’s cheek tenderly with a free hand and slides to her neck, collarbones, and décolleté, not moving his ogle gaze off her, while she looks at the man like charmed with a heavy breath.       “Yeah, I feel nice, I don’t deny it,” Helene cracks a slight smile. “But I feel nothing more.”       “For a while, Helene. When I give enough attention to you, you will not even think of resisting me.”       “Don’t be so sure.”       “Don’t worry, babe, you’re gonna be delighted.”       “Okay. But don’t say that I didn’t…”       Helene does not speak her mind because Sammy watching this romantic scene comes to Helene from behind and pushes her so that she gets much closer to Peter, and her face is two millimeters away from him.       “Hey!” Helene makes a quiet squeak. “Sammy!”       “Good, buddy!” Peter raises his thumb with a sly smile. “I adore you!”       The happy Sammy barks confidently two times and keeps watching what’s happening with great interest. And a short distance causes the chemical, for which Helene and Peter are powerless. They look into each other’s eyes for a few seconds with a little heavy breath, while the girl’s hands are placed on the man’s chest, and he caresses the curves of her neck with his fingertips. After this, the blond grabs his sweetheart’s face tenderly with a mysterious smile, touches her soft lips shyly with his, and gets her involved in a more continuous kiss, which makes their hearts beat faster. Her hands slide slowly but confidently over his body, his chest, stomach, and back, and the man’s fingers get through the lady’s wet hair and caress her ears, face, and neck tenderly. Sammy watches all of this with a gloss in his eyes, just like an especially sensitive girl that gets stuck to the TV screen during love scenes. At some moment, he starts running from one side to another with a loud bark, jumping, chasing his tail, and rolling on the sand.       However, some time later, Helene steps back from Peter and smiles at him slyly, not planning to go too far yet. But it is not enough for Rose, who tries to kiss Marshall on the lips and other areas of her body. However, she keeps him at arm’s length and laughs wetly when she sees the discouraged look of her boyfriend. At some moment, Helene runs somewhere aside with a challenge in her eyes. The man chuckles quietly and starts running to catch the one, who wakes up a strong fire inside him. Not thinking too much, Sammy tries to catch at least one of them, considering it all a funny game.       “Are you challenging me to find out who’s gonna catch Helene first?” Peter asks with a heavy breath.       Sammy barks twice on a run.       “So, let’s see who’s gonna catch her first.” Peter smiles slyly. “And I’m gonna be the one.”       Sammy protests by barking loudly and starts to run super fast as if he challenges Peter silently. The two compete with each other to find out who will catch Helene, who keeps running around the whole beach with a sly smile and making short twists at times. But at some moment, the man and the dog stop to catch a breath and look around, finding out that the girl’s tracks have disappeared.       “Hey, where’s Helene?” Peter asks, doubling over and leaning on his laps with both hands. “Where did she go?”       Peter gets slowly straight and looks around closely.       “Didn’t get…” Peter frowns slightly. “The whole beach is in my view, but she hid somewhere!”       Peter moves his eyes to Sammy breathing with his tongue out.       “Why are you standing? Look for your owner! Where’s she?”       Sammy barks quietly and starts looking around in search of Helene, focusing his eyes on the ocean. Peter also tries to find some tracks of his sweetheart, not noticing that she later shows up out of the big stone not far from the water. Marshall comes to Peter carefully with a sly smile and, using the fact that he is standing in the ocean water, pushes him slightly. The man loses his balance and falls into the water eventually, but he gets up quickly, wipes his face, strokes down his wet hair, and moves his eyes to his sweetheart.       “Hello,” Helene smiles innocently, waving her hand at Peter.       Peter gives a start sharply to catch Helene, but she runs away with a quiet, “Oh, oh!” It lasts for a few seconds before the man runs to the girl, takes her in his arms, and, not caring about her loud whoops, runs into the middle of the ocean.       “No, stop, Rose!” Helene whoops funnily. “Don’t do it! Rose! Rose! Place me! I can barely swim!”       Peter places Helene on her feet and starts tickling her, making her laugh loudly and not letting her get out, hide, or run.       “Quiet, Peter, quiet,” Helene pronounces with a heavy breath. “Let’s talk about everything.”       Helene whoops loudly again when Peter starts splashing water over her and has to do the same to protect herself from his attempts to tickle her. Sammy participates actively in this game and has a lot of pleasure playing with them in the water. The dog saves the girl from a tickling torture by striking the man down and jumps from one side to another when she starts to take revenge on him, and he thrills with a loud laugh, splashes water over her, and tries to cover some parts of his body. However, Peter finds a good moment and hugs Helene with both arms, so that her arms are tightly pressed against her body.       “Hey, idiot, let me go!” Helene whoops loudly through a contagious laugh.       “No, I don’t want to,” Peter purrs with a smug smile, pressing Helene tightly to himself, and runs his lips over the curve of her neck, the smell of the skin of which he breathes in. “I don’t want it at all…”       “You know… The lads impact you badly… They’ve made you an insolent and too self-confident man…”       “It’s not the lads. It’s you, my sweetheart.” Peter moves some of Helene’s hair aside and leaves a couple of kisses on the nape of her neck with a heavy breath. “You make me stronger and more confident.”       “Yeah. And when you get a reason, you become a child.”       “And what?” Peter puts an arm around Helene’s neck, while another arm of his is wrapped around her waist and rubs the tip of his nose against her cheek. “I think I have the right to relax. And I want you to make a company for me.”       “You know I don’t like a tickling. But you do it anyway. You tickle me where I feel tickling.”       “I said I wanted to play the fool.”       “C’mon, Rose, stop!” Helene shakes slightly, while Peter tries to tickle her belly. “Hear me! Stop!”       When Helene gets a chance, she gets out of Peter’s grip sharply and starts tickling him much harder, making him squeak as well as a pig. And since they are in the middle of the water, the lovers try to splash it over each other. But at some moment, the wind brings such strong waves that the girl cannot keep her balance and falls into the water. Though, she comes quickly to the surface and keeps thrilling with laughter. The man chuckles kindly and then reaches for his hands to help her get up. She takes them but pulls them sharply on her with a sly smile. That’s why the blond falls into the water with a squeak, comes to the surface, shakes his head, wipes his face, and coughs quickly.       “Try to catch me,” Helene says with a sly smile, keeping her body on the surface. “Catch me!”       Helene starts swimming away from Peter, who follows her immediately. But the man quickly loses track when the girl pumps a lot of air into her lungs and gets underneath the water. When he gets down after her, she comes to the surface but gets underwater again after catching a breath and pumping some air. And when the blond does the same, the girl swims to him and pulls him sharply down to the water, grabbing him by the leg. Helene comes to the surface and starts to try to drown Peter as a joke, pushing his head underwater but letting him catch some air.       “Hey, crazy!” Peter resents with a cough. “You almost drowned me!”       “I didn’t even think,” Helene smiles innocently and splashes some water over Peter’s face after he wipes it.       “Hold on, Marshall, I shall reach you.”       “Try then. C’mon.”       “Now, brunette. Now I will have a lot of fun with you.”       Peter splashes much more water over Helene and starts a funny hand-in-hand fight with her, during which he drags her underwater. He holds her head for two seconds and then has to fight off the hits that she gives him after she coughs and gets some air. A little later, the man tries to calm the girl down with a continuous kiss on the lips, holding the back of her head with one hand and her cheek with another hand. At first, she resists, moans, and tries to break free. But later, she relaxes with a quiet moan and runs her hands over his hair and face. But when they stop kissing, Helene splashes water over Peter’s face and starts playing catch with him, swimming away from him, or chasing him. While Sammy is frolicking not far from the dry ground, playing with the warm salt water, staring surprisingly at his reflection on the water’s surface, barking loudly at it, and touching it hesitantly with his paw.       Peter and Helene keep having fun in the water for a long time. They do not see that they get closer to the coast and get out of the water, being absolutely wet. Then the lovers start running after each other with a loud laugh. But when the girl tries to run from the man at some moment, he catches her quickly, grabs her by the waist, and bites playfully the soft skin on the curve of her neck in two different places. That’s why she makes a quiet squeak, thrills with a loud laugh, slaps him slightly on his arms, and tries to reach his nose and bite it unsuccessfully. But later, she gets out of his grip sharply, and gives him playful hits on his whole body, while he tries to tickle her. And when Rose gets too obsessed with it. Marshall gives him a strong slap on his buttocks, seeing how he gets immediately blushed.       “Hey!” Peter exclaims loudly.       “For not being obedient!” Helene exclaims funnily.       “Ha! Here’s my answer!”       Peter slaps Helene on her buttocks multiple times, while she thrills with a loud laugh with a red, wet face. A little later, she runs closer to the dry ground but gets caught by the man, who bites her auricle slightly, while his hands slide confidently over her breasts and belly. When Rose’s face is close enough, and he wants to kiss her on the cheek, Marshall bites carefully the tip of his nose with her teeth, making her boyfriend laugh shyly. And while the man thinks of something, the girl bites playfully the skin on the curve of his neck as well as he did a few moments ago. That’s why he cannot hold down his laugh and shakes at the feeling of the tickling. Using Peter’s inattention and looking at him with a provocation, Helene runs closer to the dry ground, while he follows her. They try to catch each other for a few seconds, have funny fights, splash water, and throw sand. And at some moment, the blond does not have time to realize how the girl ends up behind him and jumps up on his back with a funny whoop. It becomes a sudden thing for him, but he starts running around the whole beach and sometimes doing hairpin turns, while Helene whoops for joy and waves her hand, imagining herself as a horse rider.       “Oh, yeah!” Helene whoops loudly and funnily. “Ride, my loyal horse! Ride as fast as possible! Yeah!”       “You better hold on tight, beauty,” Peter advises confidently. “I’m quickening!”       Peter starts running on the beach, riding Helene whopping in happiness on his back, and making some loud sounds. Hearing the female's loud whoops, Sammy distracts himself from his business and gets interested in watching Peter ride Helene on his back, definitely wishing to be instead of her. But at some moment, Rose steps over something and, not keeping her balance, falls to the ground along with Marshall. Wet and covered with sand from head to foot, the lovers do not rush to get up. They keep lying and breathing heavily enough with wide smiles on their faces. But a little later, Helene looks at Peter lying next to her and caresses his cheek tenderly, while he examines every part of her face with eyes full of gloss. The lovers look into each other’s eyes for a few seconds. But then Marshall grabs Rose’s face with a mysterious smile and gives him a very tender kiss on the lips, to which the blond answers with great pleasure, putting his hand on the curve of her waist. The kiss gets much deeper and more passionate little by little, and Marshall starts to behave more confidently, lying above Rose at some moment, while he hugs her tightly by the waist and starts running his hands over her back and head and squeezes her tough buttocks slightly.       Then Sammy moves his curious eyes to the lovers, runs to them funnily, lies down next to them, and starts watching Helene leave a few tender kisses on the curve of Peter’s neck and rubbing his chest confidently with both hands, while he lets his hands slide from the top of her head to her tough buttocks and thighs and smiles widely at the feeling of the nice warmth and a slight shake all over his body.       “Yes, babe, keep going,” Peter pronounces in a quiet, low voice. “Keep going…”       “Gosh, Peter, you’re so irresistible,” Helene says in a little hoarse voice, leaving kisses on all the parts of Peter’s neck. “My pretty boy… Apollo…”       Helene gives Peter another continuous kiss on the lips with a heavy breath and leaves a few short kisses on every single part of his face, pulling and squeezing his wet hair with her fingers. And a little later, she pays attention to his collarbones, chest, and stomach, making the man lose his mind, breathe heavily enough, realize that a fast heartbeat echoes in his head, and enjoy the way his sweetheart’s tender lips and soft hands caress his whole body.       “Oh, damn, I’ve never felt as good as now…” Peter confesses with closed eyes.       “I promise you will get much better soon,” Helene promises with a mysterious smile, leaving short kisses on Peter’s chest and caressing it with her lips, while her hands slide confidently over his stomach. “Promise…”       Peter’s smile gets much wider after every single kiss from Helene, who behaves very confidently to his surprise, and caresses his nipples tenderly with her lips. Then she pays attention to his stomach, which she caresses with both hands and covers with short kisses. The girl notices that he gets his six-pack a little tense and makes a very quiet moan when his sweetheart leaves a few teasing kisses on his abdomen and caresses it with her fingertips.       “You’re crazy, Marshall,” Peter pronounces with a shy smile in a little hoarse voice.       “You’re the one to blame,” Helene smiles slyly, starting to run her hands over Peter’s naked torso. “You make me the one.”       Helene leaves a few kisses on the front of Peter’s neck, caresses the most sensitive areas of this part of the body, and gets him involved in a continuous, exciting kiss on the lips with a heavy breath, and he answers it with pleasure, running his hands confidently over her back and the curves of her waist. And at some moment, the man places the girl easily on the sand, raises himself above her, and takes control of the situation, caressing her lips for some time and leaving a few short kisses on all the parts of the lady’s neck, while she makes quiet and sensual moans with rolled or closed eyes and runs her hands over the man’s back, shoulders, head, or face with a nice shake, a little dizziness, and a feeling that her heart is about to get out of the chest.       “Oh, gosh…” Helene pronounces.       “Since you woke up the fire inside me, you will pay for it,” Peter purrs with a shy smile, caressing tenderly the front of Helene’s neck with his lips, while one of his hands slides over the girl’s collarbones, breasts, belly and the curve of her waist. “You will think better.”       “I doubt… I really doubt it.”       “Wonderful then.”       Peter bites slightly some parts of the skin on Helene’s neck, covers her collarbones with kisses, massages her breasts tenderly with his fingers, kisses some places on them with pleasure, and slides to her flat belly that he caresses with his lips and hands. All this time, the girl moans quietly with closed or rolled eyes, bends backward with a heavy breath, and tries to press the man close to herself, being nicely surprised that he is doing such amazing things to her. And at some moment, while Peter gets busy running his hands over her belly and covering it with kisses, Helene moves her bedroom look aside, and notices that Sammy is lying on the sand right in front of the lovers and, wagging his tail, watches them closely with his tongue out.       “Don’t get excited, Rose,” Helene laughs shyly. “Someone’s watching us.”       “I don’t care,” Peter pronounces with a heavy, uneven breath, leaves a short kiss on Helene’s lips, and slides to her breasts, on which he also leaves a couple of tender ones. “I don’t care…”       “You’re under close control of the naughty doggy. His curious eyes are watching you closely.”       When Peter steps back from Helene, the two move their eyes to Sammy looking at them amicably.       “Sammy, get out!” Peter exclaims. “You’re too little to see what adult people do.”       Sammy barks quietly two times.       “Your owner feels very good now,” Peter says confidently and runs his hand over Helene’s belly, while she makes a very quiet sigh and bends her back backward slightly when his fingers massage her breasts tenderly. “Look! She’s bending like a cat!”       Sammy makes a weird sound much louder.       “Oh, Sammy, what do you need?” Helene sighs tiredly. “You wanna play again?”       Sammy happily barks two times, wagging his tail much more actively.       “Don’t worry, buddy, we didn’t forget you,” Peter says in a little hoarse voice, trying to fix his wet hair with his fingers.       “Yes, boy, we didn’t,” Helene adds with a slight smile and a blush on her face, sits up, and runs her fingertips over Peter’s chest. “I just had to play with this baby. He persuaded me so badly and gave me no choice.”       “You can be very playful, babe.” Peter rubs the tip of his nose cutely against Helene’s nose with a wide smile on his face, while his hand caresses the inside of her thigh confidently. “When you’re so confident and a little brazen, it makes you fucking sexy.”       “I thought you liked good girls.”       “I like. Those, who could also be a little bad. It’s boring to be with too good girls.” Peter runs his fingertips tenderly over the curve of Helene’s neck. “Sometimes I want something spicy. To relax and get new emotions.”       “It’s obviously the lads’ influence. You weren’t like this before.”       “Confess that you like it.”       “Have I ever said it?”       “You can say nothing, Helene. I know it. See it in your eyes. I know what your body says.”       “Oh, Pete, you surprise me at times,” Helene laughs shyly.       “I love you, too, my gorgeous goddess.”       Peter runs the back of his hand over Helene’s cheek, making her smile widely. The girl only gives him a short kiss on the lips, holding the man’s face with both hands, before Sammy barks quietly.       “Okay, pretty boy, let’s give our baby some attention,” Helene suggests with a slight smile, petting Sammy’s head.       “Agree,” Peter agrees. “We’ll have some fun and let the long-eared one do the same.”       “And when we’re tired, we’ll go to my home. I’ll feed him something tasty.”       “Would you feed me?” Peter smiles mysteriously and cutely kisses Helene on the neck. “I also wanna something tasty.”       “Of course, my love,” Helene smiles widely, pinching Peter by the cheek. “I shall feed you. And Sammy. He’s gonna get his treat for a good behavior.”       Sammy barks happily three more times, wagging his tail amicably with his tongue out.       “Okay, boys, stop lying!” Helene orders and gets up. “Get up! Let’s play!”       “Anyway, we can get into the water again,” Peter smiles mysteriously and gets up on his feet. “It’s really cool, just saying. Swimming in it is a pleasure!”       “We’ll surely swim a little later.”       “C’mon, c’mon, boy, get up,” Peter makes a calling gesture and yanks Sammy by the ears. “Stop lying like a seal!”       Sammy needs less than a second to get up and bark loudly and happily. Then the lovers start to throw the ball by one, playing a catch on the whole beach, pulling a rope, and checking out how well he does some commands. However, Helene and Peter do not forget each other and may sometimes share a tender look and half a cute kiss, hug each other tightly, and have some fun, not thinking about anything bad and enjoying the time they are spending together.       

***

      Daniel is spending his time all alone. He decided not to stay at home. He got into his car to go to the country, in a quiet, and silent place where he would relax a little, enjoy the good weather, and breathe in the fresh air. The man eventually stops at a breathtaking place that is far from the city. There are many different trees, grass, and colorful flowers around. The warm wind blows up the face nicely and impacts the mind in a good way, and silence can be broken by the caressing tweets of birds. Perkins decides to work with the material of the band, try to write a couple of lines, and sing something. Moreover, he has some ideas that he wants to make come true. Installing himself comfortably under a big tree with sprawling limbs and bending his legs at the knees, the man comes up with a few very good lines, writes them on free pieces of paper, and sings some of them along with the guitar, picking up the melody, rhythm, chords, and motive for them too hard.       But at some moment, Daniel is done with ideas for new lines and falls into a stupor for a long time, striking out many things that he thinks are bad and unsuccessfully trying to get himself motivated with a guitar play. Later, Perkins thinks it’s a sign that he would better take a little break and just sit and enjoy the wonderful weather. The man writes something for the last time, collects all the papers together, puts them in the folder, moves it aside as well as his pen and his guitar, leans on the trunk of the tree with his back, and raises his head up to the clear blue sky, across which clouds of different forms are drifting slowly. Listening to the calming singing of birds, enjoying the way the warm wind caresses his face nicely, and looking at what is around him with sad eyes, Daniel breathes in the clean air and thinks about something good that makes him smile and relax a little.       At some moment, Daniel exhales slowly and closes his eyes for a few seconds, trying not to think about anything bad so hard. Then he moves his eyes to the guitar placed next to him and the folder and the pen, at which he looks for two or three seconds. He takes his musical instrument, puts it in front of himself comfortably, and starts plucking the strings and striking the chords randomly as he looks into the distance. Every second, he plays more confidently and starts to pluck the strings much faster, shaking his head and moving his leg with the rhythm of the melody. A little later, he stops playing, opens his folder with papers, finds a necessary page quickly, takes some notes, and continues to play more confidently, being happy that the case has moved off the dead point. But when he moves his eyes to the sky again, Perkins thinks about something for two seconds, stops playing, and sings some lines under his nose. Then he sings them a little louder along with the guitar and thinks about something, putting his hand on the strings and looking into the distance.       “Hm…” Daniel says thoughtfully. “I look to the sky… But there’s nobody watching…”       Daniel hesitates for two seconds and starts plucking the strings of the guitar confidently. Then the man sings the lines that he sang before and keeps singing the song in his low but very nice voice, plucking the strings and striking the right chords. By the way, now, when he weaned himself away from smoking, his voice has gotten much better and stronger, and regular rehearsals with the band and alone do good things for him. And he has lately felt much more confident doing what has saved him from boredom, sadness, despair, and grief many times. If he did not have a chance to play music and sing, he would definitely go crazy.       And yeah, Daniel does not suspect that he is not alone in this place. He cannot even imagine that Anna is slowly coming closer to the place where he is now. When she hears him singing a second verse after a powerful chorus of the song, the girl hides two meters away from him, listens to the man with a slight smile, and watches him with interest, while the wind blows up her face and hair slightly. To be honest, she madly missed the magical voice of Perkins, who often sang for her when they were together. His singing makes her so emotional that she even gets tears that she carefully dries off her face, wishing this moment lasted for as long as possible. Daniel suspecting nothing falls into the music and focuses on it, not paying attention to the nature around him, birds, and insects that sometimes fly near him, sit on sticks of trees, or walk on the grass. And the longer Anna listens to him, the wider and truer she smiles with a feeling that she's got at least a little part of what she needs so much.       The low, charming, velvet voice of her dear man is one of those things that she madly missed. And his smile. It's been so long since Anna saw such a wide and true smile on Daniel’s face. He smiled so widely only when they spent time together. But the girl sees that even if the man smiles and sings, his eyes are sad enough. They have no gloss and passion that he had before. And she gets a little sad. Because she sees him like this. Anna barely holds down her wish to let the tears roll over her cheeks and destroy her nude makeup. Though, it’s not such an easy thing. A smile full of admiration appears on her face when the man easily takes high notes, plucking the guitar strings confidently and shaking with the rhythm. Daniel’s singing makes Anna’s heart tremble nicely and literally obeys her if she is still here, leaning on one of the trees with her side with a slight smile on her face and hugging herself with both arms.       Some time later, Daniel sings the chorus for the last time, plays a short solo on his guitar, and finishes his piercing performance by striking all the strings of his guitar. While Anna watches him with true admiration, he smiles slightly at himself and exhales quietly, looking at what he sees on both sides of himself with a sad glance.       “Oh, I wish someone would show me the right way to solve all my problems…” Daniel blunts under his nose with despair. “If everything was as easy as singing… Dreaming…”       Daniel exhales sharply and leans his back on the trunk of the tree, raising his head, closing his eyes for a moment, and just looking up to the sky, while he is still pressing the guitar to himself and plucking some strings randomly. Anna watches the man for some time, feeling how her heart squeezes because he still looks depressed, and his smiles are not one hundred percent true. But then she gets sick of hiding and decides to let Daniel know about her, while he looks around with absolutely dead eyes and presses his guitar to himself as if he has nothing else to hug. The girl leaves her hideaway confidently enough and comes quietly to the man, pronouncing amicably with a slight smile on her face:       “Beautiful song. I really liked it.”       Not expecting to meet anyone here, Daniel shakes sharply from a scare and moves his widely open eyes to Anna, whose appearance gets him especially surprised.       “Anna?” Daniel pronounces surprisingly. “How did you end up here?”       “I arrived here in a taxi,” Anna replies with a shy smile. “I didn’t come here on my feet. I’ve got no car. Even if I can drive and have a driver’s license.”       “Erm… Do you know these places well? How did you come here?”       “I just heard you singing.”       “That’s how… I see…”       Daniel moves his eyes down for a second and barely touches one of the guitar strings, while Anna keeps smiling shyly, not even thinking of showing aggression but feeling a little awkward.       “You know, I missed you singing,” Anna confesses shyly. “My heart trembled nicely when I heard you singing.”       “Really?” Daniel wonders. “You liked it?”       “Very much. I was delighted.”       “Erm, thanks a lot,” Daniel smiles with the corners of his mouth as he shrugs with a sense of awkwardness. “You know that I… I often sing something and… Always write something. So, I wanted to write something for me.”       “And what? It’s going on well?”       “Well… Something’s good, something’s bad…”       “Are your works in this folder?” Anna specifies, looking at the folder placed near Daniel.       “Yup. Here’s everything I’ve written in the past few years. And what I have now. There’s very much…”       “That’s how?” Anna squats down and sits down shyly next to Daniel, who immediately tenses all the muscles but tries not to show it and acts very amicably. “Can I look?”       “Erm, yeah, sure…” Daniel pronounces hesitantly. “If you’re interested in my writing…”       Anna takes the folder placed near Daniel, opens it, and finds the papers with the lines that he had written before she came. Most of them are struck out with bold lines, some letters are outlined multiple times, and some words cannot actually be understood.       “Good, I like it,” Anna approves with a slight smile. “Really. It’s impressive.”       “Just my thoughts that are not connected with one another,” Daniel replies shyly. “Maybe, I’ll write a full song with these lines someday… Or maybe, nobody will hear these lines.”       “Erm, can I fix and add something?” Anna asks shyly.       “Well, if you have some ideas…” Daniel throws his hands up.       “I have. Maybe, you’ll like it.”       Anna takes the pen, rewrites or adds something for a few seconds, and takes some notes, changing almost nothing and just giving her ideas of changing one or another thing.       “Well, look,” Anna pronounces amicably, pointing the paper with the notes to Daniel.       Daniel takes the paper and runs his eyes quickly over the changes that Anna made and gets delighted with the final result.       “Wow, it’s really much better,” Daniel approves with a slight smile. “I, idiot, was reflecting on the way to continue these lines! Why didn't I think about it before?”       “Everything good comes suddenly,” Anna shrugs, putting the pen and the folder near Daniel. “Sometimes a solution comes by itself.”       “I know… Thanks a lot… You saved what I literally buried.”       Anna says nothing, smiles shyly at Daniel, and looks into the distance for some time, while the man feeling terribly embarrassed puts the paper in the folder. But then the girl looks at him and smiles with the corners of her mouth, examining the face that she missed so badly with interest.       “Hey, have you ever thought of recording your solo album?” Anna asks. “You have an amazing voice… You play a guitar incredibly… I’m sure that your album could be a great success. You could play shows for thousands of people.”       “It would be great…” Daniel replies thoughtfully with a slight smile. “But now the other things are more important to me.”       “You’ve always said it would be great to record your own album. So, why don’t you take a risk? At least once!”       “Maybe, I’ll find the courage to do it in the future…” Daniel presses his guitar closer to himself. “But now I’m happy with playing in my band. And I’m only focused on working with it. Moreover, we’re gonna release our first album soon. We need to get ready to promote it… And a tour…”       “You and the lads haven’t performed and given interviews for ages. At least, I heard nothing about it…”       “It’s true. We gave our last interview on the morning show. On which I screwed up everything.”       “And when will your shows start again?”       “Hopefully, soon,” Daniel smiles with the corners of his mouth. “But I can’t say anything. We’ve gotta talk to George.”       “Haven’t you done it?”       “He had to leave the city due to important business for some time. But Smith said he’s gonna come back tomorrow or after tomorrow. And then we will start discussing our future performances.”       “So, didn’t you have any appearances after your last one on the morning show?”       “Yup. Because of me. The guys told George about my situation, they discussed everything, and he promised to solve the problem with the scheduled shows. And they eventually canceled all the performances and interviews…”       “I can’t wait to see you all together on stage,” Anna smiles shyly.       “Soon, Anna, wait for a while.”       “I will surely come to your show and listen to your songs with pleasure.”       “The lads and I will be happy if you come to support us. And the girls will be happy if you join them when they sit in the first line.”       “I will not miss this event, not for anything.”       Daniel just smiles shyly and looks into the distance, being silent for a few seconds and trying to struggle with the embracement that he feels.       “Hey, you haven’t said how you ended up here or what you’re doing here,” Daniel recalls quietly.       “Well…” Anna bites her lip slightly, throwing a look at her hands. “Actually, I wanted to go to your home.”       “My home?”       “Yes. And I went. But nobody opened the door to me. I stood there for a few minutes. And when I wanted to call you, I met your neighbor.”       “Mrs. Adkins?”       “Yes. She said she talked to you this morning and told me how to come to this place.”       “That’s true. We talked a little this morning… And I said I’d leave for a whole day and let her know where to find me.”       “Since when have you warned your neighbors about where you go?” Anna chuckles kindly.       “I dunno… Just because I met her. And because she lives near me, she’s gonna react quickly if something happens.”       “I didn’t know you actually cared about keeping your stuff safe. I always thought you wouldn’t even notice if someone stole something except the musical instruments from your house.”       “Maybe, I’m a bonehead, but not so stupid.” Daniel starts plucking the strings of his guitar quietly, while Anna listens to him with a slight smile.       “Don’t think of anything bad…” Anna pronounces hesitantly. “Just… You never asked your neighbors to watch your house.”       “I don’t ask,” Daniel replies quietly. “I just told Mrs. Adkins I’d leave for a whole day. To keep her aware.”       “Anyway, I’m grateful to her. I found you thanks to that woman.”       “By the way, you would’ve hardly called me. I turned off the sounds of my phone, so nobody bothered me.”       “Yeah, why are you here alone? I thought you wanted to spend time with the lads!”       “We spent almost a whole week together and rehearsed in my garage,” Daniel replies amicably. “But today we decided to do our business.”       “That’s how!”       “We spent a cool time together. We rehearsed and just had fun. We watched a couple of movies, and got my refrigerator emptied… We did many things. We didn’t only swim in the pool ‘cause it must be cleared.”       “Great,” Anna smiles slightly. “I’m glad you had fun. The girls and I also spent almost the whole week together. We were looking for something for the wedding of Edward and Natalia and Terrence and Raquelle.”       “The lads and I talked about it… But kind of… Briefly. We were more interested in rehearsals.”       “It’s time to prepare the grooms. The brides have started it.”       “Don’t worry, the grooms are gonna be ready at the right time, at the right hour. Rose and I will take care of everything.”       “I hope.”       Daniel looks into the distance for a second or two, moves his eyes to Anna, and looks at her closely.       “By the way, you look much better than one week ago,” Daniel notices with a slight smile. “You… You aren’t as exhausted as before.”       “Thanks, I really feel much better,” Anna says amicably. “Not quite good, of course, but not as terrible as I did.”       “I see talking to your friends did good things for you.”       “I don’t know what I’d do without the girls… I don’t know what I would do if I didn’t have friends like them. The girls helped me come to myself a little after the nightmare I survived.”       “Same about the men. They literally save me and don’t let me feel bored and drown in the pool.” Daniel cracks a slight smile. “I can’t describe how grateful I am to them for everything they’ve done for me. For supporting me so well. I don’t know how to thank them. And the girls. They’ve done very much to help me, as well.”       “The men helped me a lot, too… I’m grateful to them for what they did for me with all my heart. And for always being very nice to me.”       “I’m very glad that the men are happy with your friends. With such wonderful girls, to whom I’m madly grateful, as well. They deserve a good rest with good people, for sure. No matter how bored and lonely I feel, I think my friends should stay far from me and be with those, who are dear to them.”       “The lads do really deserve a good rest in a good company. I’m very glad they’re now happy with your friends, who gave me great support as well, and whom I’m really grateful to.”       “They deserve to be happy like nobody else.”       “Yeah. Besides, the guys often complained that they kind of distanced themselves from their sweethearts.”       “You’re right…” Anna falls into silence for two or three seconds and looks at her hands, but then she looks at Daniel with sadness in her eyes. “You and I have also distracted ourselves from each other… And I’m sad because of it…”       Daniel moves his surprised look on Anna, getting a little white and feeling how his heart starts squeezing badly and beating faster.       “We wouldn’t have done it if not for my act…” Daniel says quietly with sadness in his eyes. “Disgusting act… If someone must be blamed, I must be the one.”       “No, don’t say it,” Anna pronounces softly.       “I don’t deserve to be forgiven. People despise betrayers.”       “Daniel…”       “All my words about remembering nothing and not being myself when betraying my close person sound like an excuse. Even trying to prove that I don’t try to excuse myself and just tell the truth will do nothing good. I understand it, and… I can’t resist when I’m… Showered with mud.”       “Please, Daniel, stop…”       “It’s okay, Anna, don’t worry. I understand everything and ain’t gonna argue with you. If you wanna think I’m bad – alright. Insult and even beat – it’s your right. I deserved it. And I can’t mind it.”       “Daniel, please, stop excusing yourself,” Anna begs quietly, looking at Daniel with pity in her eyes. “I believe you…”       “Honestly, I’m surprised that you came to me and started a talk,” Daniel confesses. “Even though you could pass by and pretend that I wasn’t here.”       “Actually, I wanted to talk to you about this situation.”       “Talk?” Daniel stares at Anna questioningly, shakes his head, and puts his guitar aside. “Did you go to my home to do this?”       “Yes, I wanna solve this question as soon as possible,” Anna confesses shyly. “We should dot the i’s and make the final decision about our relationship.”       Even though Daniel has been getting ready for the worst for a long time, he is madly afraid to hear that Anna wants to break up with him and cannot forgive him for betraying her. Locking his fingers tightly, the man swallows up nervously and tenses all his muscles, looking at the girl with sad eyes, while she is also terribly nervous.       “Erm, yeah, sure…” Daniel pronounces hesitantly in a low voice, clearing his throat. “Speak. I’m listening to you closely.”       “You know, Daniel…” Anna pronounces hesitantly, tucking a strand of hair behind her ear, and starts to finger over nervously. “I was reflecting on the situation a lot. Very much… And… I wanted to do something that I would never regret…”       “So, did you make a decision?” Daniel asks hesitantly.       “Yes, I did. And I’m ready to tell you that. Right now. And… I hope you will understand me and… Accept it…”       “I will accept any of your decisions, Anna. Just tell me what you decided, and I will support you.”       Before saying something, Anna sighs heavily and purses her lips for two seconds, looking tense enough and a little scared.       “I was reflecting on my feelings for a long time…” Anna says quietly. “My wishes… What would be better for me. And… I took a note of the words of the people, who told me about you: my parents, the girls, the men, your sister… They all said the same. But at first, I wanted to hear nothing and fell everything on deaf ears. I mean… I didn’t… I closed my ears. Not to hear people trying to explain your act.”       Daniel says nothing and just lets Anna speak.       “I won’t deny that I was terribly mad at you for some time. I madly hated you and didn’t want to hear or see you. Any mention of you got me irritated. I was ready to strangle anyone, who just called your name. On that fateful day, you literally killed me. My life was ruined. Instantly. I thought I’d never be the same… I’d never be the happy girl, who didn’t know what tears and sufferings were. Even if my life wasn’t so happy, and I was educated harshly, I could find the reasons to be happy. I tried to hold on this time. But alas, I could not. It was stronger than me…”       Anna falls into silence for two seconds and sighs heavily.       “I thought nothing but that event could be worse,” Anna confesses quietly and nervously swallows up. “That cheating was the worst thing that could happen to a person. But the situation with Julian and his father made me realize that it wasn’t the truth… Wishing to take revenge on you for cheating and prove that I could be happy without you, I trusted the terrible man blindly. When I met him, I had a plan. I was obsessed with a wish for revenge. However… It led to catastrophic consequences… Everything almost ended badly. Julian bit me through immediately and didn’t let me do what I wanted.”       Daniel says nothing again and swallows up nervously.       “But at some moment, I realized that it was stupid to revenge you. For what you didn’t want to do. Deep inside, I understood that you weren’t yourself when that gal started to accost you and pretend to be your fiancée. But I didn’t wanna confess it. I thought it was an attempt to excuse your disgusting act. I refused to tell myself that… I needed your help and protection. I wanted you to be next to me. I wanted you to save me from that hell. To make me wake up.”       Anna swallows up nervously and sighs quietly.       “I was resisting when I got your help. I was mad at you… At my parents. For trusting you so easily. At the men and the girls. For excusing you so hard and trying to pity me. At your sister. Everybody, who said something good about you. But after realizing that the situation was hopeless, I accepted your help… I thought a little and decided… It would be better. For me. Besides, I had no choice. And I was sick of living in that hell.”       Anna tucks a strand of hair behind her ear.       “Moreover, I wanted to see what you would do for me. To prove your loyalty. To prove your regret. I thought that action would speak a lot for you. Though, sometimes I thought you did all of that to get off me. To whitewash yourself for my parents and those you hurt. But I forgot about it when I saw what I wanted. I started to wonder if I would do the right thing by making one or another decision much harder. Wouldn’t you betray me again? Did you really regret it and want to get me back? I had tons of questions, answers for which I should’ve found.”       Anna falls into silence for two seconds and moves her eyes aside for a moment.       “I think you understand that it’s hard to forgive someone after a betrayal and trust them again,” Anna says quietly with sadness in her eyes. “Sometimes it’s impossible. If you betray once, you will betray over and over. Cheaters can’t be trustworthy. As well as violators. They promise to be good but keep betraying and hurting your feelings again and again. Because of these people, you should always be careful not to be betrayed and deceived again.”       Thinking these words are the claim about the final breakup, Daniel swallows up nervously and nods, holding his emotions down and pretending that he does not feel a strong pain, which is the reason why his world is crashing.       “Y-yes, sure…” Daniel pronounces in a low, little shaking voice. “I understand… If you decided to break up… It will happen. I respect your decision…”       “I haven’t said everything,” Anna replies quietly. “Listen to me until the end, please.”       Daniel silently moves his sad eyes to his shaking hands, while Anna feels how painfully her heart squeezes.       “A couple of weeks ago, I hated you wildly…” Anna says a little hesitantly. “I was ready to insult and blame you even for what you didn’t do… I blamed you for my problems and wanted your life to get much worse… Your friends to turn their back on you and not to wish to be your friends… I didn’t only wish you to die. Still… Any mention of you made me crazy and reminded me of what you did. I would’ve strangled anyone, who would’ve started to talk about you and excuse your act. When our friends tried to excuse your act and prove that it happened against your wish, I barely held myself down not to fight with them.”       While Anna falls into silence for two seconds and looks at her hands, Daniel nods to let her know that he listens closely to what the girl says, looking at her with sad eyes full of despair.       “But now everything has changed…” Anna confesses hesitantly. “I’m not going to say bad words about you… I don’t wanna insult, humiliate, and blame you for all your sins… After so much time had passed, I found the strength to believe you and realize that the people around me told me the truth. The truth that I didn’t want to accept due to my offense and anger… I always knew that my close people never lied to me. But I was sure that I had been deceived. That everybody was so used to seeing you and me together that they couldn’t accept the fact that everything was over.”       Anna sighs quietly, glancing into the distance.       “Besides, I see regret in your eyes…” Anna notices quietly and slowly moves her sad eyes to Daniel, who is fingering over nervously. “You’re regretting it now. It’s not a lie. Now I believe it. And I really appreciate the fact that you were honest with me. You did a good thing when you didn’t excuse yourself and find stupid reasons for your actions. Instead of beautiful words of love, you looked into my eyes and honestly said, ‘Yes, I cheated on you.’ Not everyone would find the courage to recognize their mistake honestly and say confidently that they’re guilty.”       “I think it’s the only thing I could do for my best,” Daniel replies quietly, looking into the distance with his dead eyes.       “Maybe…” Anna smiles slightly. “And you got a chance to do something that would’ve shown how you really treated me. And you used it, proving what was more important to you.”       “I did it for your calm, Anna. To let you live a good life, do whatever you want, and talk to your friends as much as you want. I just did my duty for you and your parents.”       “I know… And I’m really thankful to you for giving me a chance to live quietly again.”       “It’s nice to know you appreciate it.”       Anna falls into silence for two seconds and swallows up nervously, and then she breaks hesitantly the pause that may only be broken by the singing of birds that fly by here:       “Hey… Can I ask you one question?”       “Sure, you can,” Daniel replies amiably.       “Say…” Anna pronounces much more hesitantly. “What do you feel now? What do you feel about me? Did something change after our breakup and during the time we were separated?”       Maybe, Daniel would say confidently that he madly loves Anna and dreams of getting her back and making her the happiest girl in the world so badly. But since the girl dropped a hint that they were over, the man doubts if he should speak out his feelings so openly.       “Erm, what do I feel?” Daniel asks hesitantly, while his eyes run scarily from one side to another.       “I wanna know if you have some feelings,” Anna says quietly. “I wanna know what you’ve got in your head.”       “I… I’m not sure… You’d like to know it.”       “Don’t be afraid, Daniel,” Anna pronounces softly with a slight smile. “Tell me the truth. This is everything I want to hear from you.”       “You’re sure?”       “Yes.”       Strong excitement is the reason why it’s getting harder for Daniel to breathe and hide his feelings deep inside. Now he looks like an insecure, terrified boy, who was pushed into the corner to get something from him. He has to apply a lot of effort to brace himself and say just something, even if he does it very hesitantly:       “Nothing has changed since the moment when I talked about my feelings the last time. My feelings are the same…”       “Really?” Anna rounds her eyes.       “Does it really matter now?”       “It does matter to me. As important as never ever…”       “Anna…”       “You know, I…” Anna shakes her head, looking at Daniel with greater despair, realizing that it’s quite hard for her to breathe because she struggles with some feelings inside her so badly and tries to overcome them to tell him something important. “I…”       “Are you okay?” Daniel frowns slightly.       “I…” Anna sniffs quietly with despair in her eyes. “I can’t live like this anymore… I can’t…”       “What?” Daniel opens his eyes widely. “What do you mean, ‘you can’t live like this anymore?’”       “I can’t…” Anna pronounces with much greater despair, breathing too heavily and feeling that the tears are coming to her eyes. “I can’t… I can’t…”       “Hey, what’s wrong? Why are you so nervous? And crying…”       “It’s unbearable…” Anna makes a quiet sob. “Unbearable. I can’t take this anymore… I’m sick.”       “Please, Anna, stop being so nervous,” Daniel wants to touch Anna’s shoulders softly and caress them, but he holds his wish down at the last moment, clenching his hands tightly into fists. “It’s okay…”       “I’m sick of lying. I'm sick of pretending that nothing is happening. I’m done. Done. I can’t do this anymore.”       “What? What you…”       But Daniel does not speak his mind because Anna still breathing heavily grabs the man’s face sharply but softly and kisses him crawly on the lips as if she has been dreaming of doing this all this time. The man not being ready for this twist barely understands what happens only when he closes his eyes and feels like he jumps briefly out of his skin, and his heart starts beating much faster. At first, Daniel answers the kiss, but he is literally afraid to move and do something wrong. But then he relaxes a little and succumbs to such a great temptation without resistance to use the moment when the girl kisses him at her wish, holding Perkins’ face tightly in her hands. So impatiently. So excitedly. As if she cannot breathe, but he can be her air.       Because everything happens too fast, Daniel forgets about what he wanted to say before Anna kissed him on the lips so passionately and the fact that they kind of broke up. So, he falls into this kiss and answers it with pleasure, even if he keeps his hands to himself with the thought that he somehow promised himself not to touch this girl, even with a finger. But Anna does not hold herself down and behaves confidently enough, caressing Daniel’s face and hair with both hands and making his heart tremble nicely because she kisses him shyly, tenderly, and touchingly, or passionately, greedily, and impatiently. This kind of closeness still makes them feel slight dizziness, a fast heartbeat, and an uneven breath and does not give them a chance in a battle with their feelings, which are stronger than any offense.       Even if Daniel seems too insecure and madly scared by something, this moment does not become less magical. And his fear of just touching Anna does not prevent him from enjoying the kiss with his beloved girl. She madly likes kissing this man, who has always been incredible at this. Who is the only one, whom she would easily trust herself and her life. Because Anna sees well that something kind of holds Daniel down, she tries to help him feel comfortable, still caressing his face, ears, and neck with her warm, soft hands. However, he answers the kiss anyway and succumbs to it without resistance, even if he lets her control the process.       But a little later, Daniel suddenly realizes what’s happening and falls into a deep stupor, surprisingly asking himself how it happened that Anna and he started to kiss. He tries to make himself sure that this is just a dream and imagination. Or it might be the last kiss. Maybe, she decided to say beautifully goodbye to him and let him go. This thought is the reason why he does not get as much pleasure from the kiss as he did some time ago. And using the fact that Anna’s passion gets a little weak, Daniel breaks the kiss softly, steps back from her, and looks at the girl questioningly, shaking his head and jabbing a little excitedly:       “Wait, wait, wait, wait… I didn’t get it! What does it mean? Why did you kiss me?”       “I can’t resist my feelings anymore,” Anna shakes her head with some despair in her eyes. “My real emotions, which everybody knows about without words. But which I was trying to kill until the end.”       “What?” Daniel opens his eyes widely. “So… Do you want to…”       “Try to start everything again. I’m not able to fight with what I have no strength for. And I want to do my best to tear off this page with the terrible events from our lives.”       “Erm…” Daniel swallows up nervously and shakes his head, barely realizing if it’s his dream, or if Anna really hints at the wish to come back to him.       “Yes, I’ve said many times that I’d never forgive you and will not be with you,” Anna says quietly. “I really didn’t want to come back to you, and I literally cursed you. But now everything’s otherwise. When I calmed down a little after all those events and thought of everything better, I found the strength to realize that you don’t want it.”       “But…”       “Really.” Anna glances aside for a second and moves her sad eyes to Daniel, while the wind blows up her hair slightly. “It’s hard to live and have a deal with cheaters and betrayers. Because you never know when they may betray you. But living without a beloved person, for whom you’d sacrifice anything, is much harder. I mean, it’s impossible. And no matter how hard you try to make yourself sure that you’ll overcome the pain of separating, it won’t help you. You’re gonna keep dreaming of being with the one, who is dear to you. I mean… You can do this. But first, it takes a lot of time. And second, I don’t want it. I don’t want to change a thing. Because I’m sure that… I will not find anyone, who is better than you. There is not a second version of you. And there never will.”       “Are you…” Daniel pronounces hesitantly with a heavy breath. “Are you ready to forgive me? After the disgusting act I did to you?”       “At least, I want to try. I’d better try once than regret doing nothing all your life when you have a chance to do it.” Anna bites her lip slightly, throwing a look at her hands. “Even if… We can’t do this… I at least won’t regret it… Regret giving you no chance.”       “But… You said cheaters didn’t deserve forgiveness!”       “Yeah, but I didn’t say I wanted to break up with you.”       “But…”       “I can’t and don’t want to hide my real emotions, Daniel,” Anna confesses with pity in her eyes. “I was trying to make me and the others sure that I didn’t want to hear about you and make them believe that I had no feelings for you for a too long time. That’s not the truth. And now I want to tell my parents and friends and you about them. I no longer want to hide the truth and lie to me and the people.”       “Anna, listen, I…” Daniel pronounces quietly and hesitantly.       “After what you did, leaving it unnoticed would be disgusting.” Anna puts her hand on Daniel’s, while he shakes slightly, staring surprisingly at the girl, who smiles at him shyly. “I don’t wanna be a thankless pig, for whom someone does everything, but who doesn’t appreciate it.”       “I never expected thankfulness and don’t need praise, compliments, or something like that.”       “Do you think I didn’t notice everything you did for me to help me? No, Daniel, it’s not true! I saw everything! I heard everything! No action of yours stayed unnoticed for me.”       “Really?”       “You did a truly incredible act when you decided to help me get rid of the Potters. Save me from the inevitable death. If you hadn’t been in that place on that day, I would’ve been dead and wouldn’t be sitting next to you now. I would’ve been beaten to death and… Nobody would’ve found me anymore. I would’ve seen my close people for the last time. But thanks to you, I’m now with them. I speak to those, who are dear to me.”       “How could I be indifferent when a sick stinker was beating the innocent girl and trying to bring her to death?” Daniel shrugs with sadness in his eyes. “I would’ve been a beast if I’d left you there and kept driving on the road. My education didn’t let me. My duty to those, to whom I gave a promise, didn’t let me.”       “You did all of that, no matter how hard you felt. I saw clearly how you suffered and got you exhausted… That’s why you were changing. For the worse. And it scared me. Deep inside, I was terribly afraid that you could someday bring yourself to the state when nobody would help you. Even your friends, who were worried about you and always begged me to do something that I could not do because I was mad. And your sister got me really frightened when she somehow said that you… Could easily kill yourself…”       “If I wanted it, I wouldn’t do it.”       “Even if it seemed indifferent to your problems, it didn’t mean I wasn’t worried about you and didn’t notice how you suffered. You tried to hide it so hard, but it was easy to see everything on your face. Even if you were thrilling with a loud laugh and smiling wider than a Cherish cat, I didn’t see that you were really happy. I was pretending that I didn’t care. But it was madly hurtful for me to see you so broken. It… It was hard for me. I wanted to comfort you and take care of you somehow. But I was fighting with this wish. And it was much harder than forgetting about your betrayer.”       “I had the reasons to live,” Daniel confesses without emotions in his eyes. “I couldn’t betray my band that needed me. I couldn’t betray the men, whom I had already framed. I couldn’t leave my younger sister on her own when she needed a close person. I couldn’t make my friends and close people upset and disappointed. A sense of responsibility didn’t let me do stupid things. But if I was all alone, I would be dead. At least, I’d run to the place where nobody knows me. Where I’d start my life over again. Become different.”       “No, Daniel, don’t say it.”       “I didn’t want to act like an egoist by leaving my close people, acting like a pathetic whipping boy, and complaining to everybody about how bad I felt. I didn’t wanna become the one, who speaks a lot but does nothing. I got much worse for my close people after I betrayed you and almost fought with everybody when I couldn’t remember them and was sure that they lied to me. Though, I wanted to become a hero, whom I’ve always played for people. So, I swore to go until the end, no matter how hard I felt. I had to turn off my emotions and feelings. And remember about my responsibility.”       “And you became a hero. At least, for me.” Anna moves a strand of Daniel’s hair off his eyes with a slight smile. “You promised to save me from the Potters and kept your promise. Yes, it was hard and uncomfortable for you to be with me when I ignored you on purpose and dreamed of not having to be next to you. But you did it.”       “It was really very hurtful for me when you ignored me. Even when we were in the same room, you always acted like I wasn’t there. I was a kind of ghost.”       “Yeah, I know. I know how hurtful it was for you to take it all. And I saw what kind of pain you felt. Maybe, you… Also wanted to stop having to see you not to feel that disgusting feeling.”       “I can’t deny it. I wanted to leave as soon as possible not to see you turn your back on me.”       “But it didn’t stop you anyway,” Anna cracks a slight smile. “All this time, you behaved more than just worthily. You looked like a real hero. Before my eyes.”       “It would’ve been stupid to refuse to help the girl just because she didn’t want to talk to me,” Daniel replies quietly. “Even if I deserved it. I’m used to answering for what I do, and I never talk to the wind.”       “I know,” Anna pronounces shyly.       “You’d do anything for your close people. Sacrifice anything.”       “And you proved it. You know how scared I was when you asked everybody to go outside and stayed alone with the Potters! And what kind of horror got obsessed with me when we briefly thought they killed you!”       “I thought that hell would never end. We were stuck in the same place and could do nothing.”       “You risked a lot. You could’ve died! The Potters wouldn’t have pitied you if they’d killed you.”       “Oh, Anna…” Daniel looks into the distance, sighing quietly. “I did it in despair. I didn’t know what to do and was afraid that we were doomed. And… Even if I knew I wouldn’t do it on my own… I decided to do it anyway.”       “It’s insanity, Daniel.”       “I know, but I had a goal and was ready for anything to reach it. And a wish to play a hero had to do with it… Though, I wanted to save you, your parents, and the men much more. That’s what I thought about. I didn’t care about myself. Your lives were more important.”       “But what if we’d lost you?”       “So…” Daniel shrugs. “I would’ve died…”       “If the men hadn’t been there, you would’ve died much earlier.”       “Honestly, I didn’t actually want them to be a part of that. I tried to change their minds many times. But the three were stubborn and told me to shut up when I just opened my mouth to ask them not to be a part of all of it.”       “And I’m madly grateful to them for that. As I’ve said, without their help, the Potters would’ve killed you a long time ago. Julian would’ve done it easily on the day I got beaten.”       “Now I’m also happy they didn’t leave me. At heart, I was afraid that I wouldn’t deal with the Potters alone, but I didn’t wanna confess it. I didn’t want to seem a coward. And as I literally started all of that, I should’ve ended it.”       “But you should’ve thought of the others! You said you wouldn’t have killed yourself if you had wanted to. But you were ready to give yourself to those sick people so easily.”       “Oh… I didn’t think of anything at that moment… I was only obsessed with one wish – not to let the Potters kill you, the men, and your parents. I would’ve never forgiven myself if one of you had suffered or especially died because of me.”       “If they’d killed you, I would’ve preferred dying. Because I don’t want to live in the world, in which my beloved man doesn’t live. The world without you doesn’t make sense.”       “No, Anna, don’t say it.”       “I stayed alive thanks to you. Thanks to saving my life and giving me the strength to live. Even if I got it at a distance. Even if you weren’t near me. I lived for you.”       “You know…” Daniel cracks a slight smile. “I can’t forget how you took a risk for me… You risked and saved my life when I was fighting with Potter with a dying breath. When I wanted to give up on him.”       “And I was sure I did it right.”       “Without you, I would’ve been dead. I had no one to count on. I could only count on myself. And… I didn’t expect you’d decide to do it.”       “I did it for the love,” Anna confesses with a slight smile. “The love that has always been alive in my heart. That has never died. Yes, it slept for some time, but it’s already awake.”       “It was a great risk. If something had gone wrong, you would’ve died.”       “I repeat, if you’d died, I would’ve preferred dying after you. This world means nothing to me if there is not you. I just don’t need it.”       “You know how scared I was when you ran and said you wouldn’t leave! I did ask you to wait outside. I did it to save all of you.”       “My feelings made me piss off my cowardice and do just something grandiose and good. I was sick of making men do everything and acting like a cowardly bunny… Moreover… I was sure that nothing was threatening me. If you hadn’t been near, I would’ve hardly behaved so confidently.”       “But when you ran into the house, I could do nothing.”       “I didn’t care. I just told myself I should’ve done it.”       “Sorry, Anna, but you’re crazy.”       “What could I do?” Anna shrugs with a slight smile. “That was my duty. And you can consider it my gratitude for what you did for me. I’m truly grateful to you for the help and appreciate it infinitely.”       “You risked a lot… And I don’t like that you didn’t listen to me, the men, or your parents.”       “Right, I only thought of you. About you remaining alive and unharmed.”       “Anyway, I’m really happy we ended that horrible story. Now you can live as you want. Nobody will longer tell you how to live. You’re able to decide what to do.”       “And I know what I want to do. I want to be with you.” Anna takes Daniel’s hand with both hands and looks at him with a slight smile. “I wanna be happy with the man, who can give me all I need.”       “With me?” Daniel rounds his eyes.       “I was trying to come to understand myself and my feelings, and decide how to live. And as I decided that I wanted to be with you, I gave my everything to let my offense go and learn to trust you again. Believe that you’re sorry. Start to think soberly. And come back to my beloved man.”       “And… Do you believe?”       “I do, now,” Anna nods confidently with a slight smile. “I was mad, hated you, and thought you were the worst person in the world. But when we started the operation of getting the Potters arrested, I started to melt slowly. Become less categorical to you. I started to show respect and some kind of regret. This warmth helped me accept your help. And after thinking a lot and talking to my close people, I realized I was ready to cross this line and let myself be happy. Happy with the one, who has always treated me like a queen.”       Anna caresses Daniel’s cheek tenderly with a much wider smile, while he looks at her closely, still being tense enough.       “I’m glad to hear it,” Daniel says quietly. “I’m glad you stopped being mad at me. But you had the right to do it.”       “You make me feel beautiful,” Anna confesses with a cute smile. “All the time we were together, you always knew how to make me feel confident. Desired, beloved… You gave me the love and care that my parents didn’t always give me. You’ve always been able to make me sure about something. Your confidence gave me hope. When you say, ‘Baby, it’s gonna get better,’ I believe you. Even during the arrest of the Potters, you confidently said it would be okay, and I truly believed you. I hid myself behind your trustworthy back and… I felt safe.”       “Did you behave so bravely ‘cause you knew I was next to you and wouldn’t have let them hurt you?”       “I’ve already said it. But I’m gonna repeat: I knew that nothing was threatening me when you were near me. And I no longer want to feel like a little, unprotected girl again. I don’t want to lose what’s so important to me.”       “You’ll never feel unprotected, and you can always count on me. Despite any little thing, I shall always come to help you and do everything I can.”       “Yeah, but… I don’t wanna live without you. Without your back, behind which I can hide. Without your strong shoulder, on which I can cry. Without your chest, in which I can nuzzle. Against which I can press myself to feel the warmth and care. Without your tender, strong arms that would hold me tight and never let me go.” Anna sniffs quietly. “I won’t take this. I don’t wanna lose it all.”       “You’re not alone, Anna. You’ve got the people, who will always support, comfort, and help you. They’re very good and trustworthy. Ask anyone, and everybody will be by your side.”       “That’s not what I want. Nobody can give me what you can give. You’re the only one to be able to do this.”       “No, not…”       “I want to be with you, Daniel. I want to feel as happy and beloved as I did before. Now I don’t doubt your feelings and my feelings, and I know what I want for sure. I want us to be together.”       “Do you really want it?”       “I literally die from how much I want it!”       “I don’t make you come back to me. I want to insist on nothing.”       “That’s my wish! My own. Nobody made me come to you and say I want to be with you.”       “You know, I’m gonna be honest,” Daniel says confidently in a low voice. “I don’t want you to be with me because of pity. Because of someone’s wish or plea not to let me do stupid things.”       “What?” Anna rounds her eyes. “You… Do you think I’m lying to you? That I wanna be with you at someone’s plea?”       “I don’t need it. I want you to be with me just because you want it. And do it for your feelings, not for responsibility, a plea, or a sense of shame…”       “Gosh, Daniel…” Anna shakes her head with horror in her eyes. “What are you talking about? I don’t…”       “Don’t pity me, Anna,” Daniel pronounces without emotions. “Don’t be next to me because of pity. Because of a wish not to let me break down or someone’s plea. If you want to be with me because of that, but you still hate and curse me deep inside, I don’t want it. I will not be happy in this case. And you will not get better.”       “Why do you think I want to come back to you because of pity and an attempt to save you?”       “Isn’t that so?”       “No! I want this because I love you and can’t live without the one, who is important to me. There’s no me without you, Daniel. You’re my sun and my everything. There’s no need to deny it. And I no longer want to. I want to be happy and live a quiet life. I’m done with these problems, fights, and sufferings.”       “Did you come to say it so easily?” Daniel shakes his head. “No, no, I don’t believe it. You just don’t wanna hurt me.”       “That’s not the truth!” Anna exclaims with despair. “I swear I wouldn’t play with your feelings and be with you if your face made me feel sick. I’d never date a man I don’t love and make him sure that we’re happy. Please, trust me. I’m not so heartless and shameless!”       “Please, don’t give me a stronger pain. It’s madly hard to me.”       “I’m not lying to you, Daniel.” Anna grabs Daniel’s face with both hands and looks confidently into his eyes, while he gets a little white and locks his fingers tightly. “I swear. I can’t imagine my life without you. Without the one, whom I want to make happy. Who could make me feel the same.”       “Aren’t you really playing with me now?” Daniel asks hesitantly, with a scare in his eyes. “Aren’t you trying to take revenge on me? Tell me the truth, Anna! I'm begging you!”       “Really,” Anna smiles shyly.       “Y-you… Are you forgiving me for what I didn’t want?”       “You deserve a second chance.” Anna caresses Daniel’s cheek tenderly with both hands with a tender smile, moving some strands of hair off his eyes simultaneously. “My feelings and thankfulness for all your actions are much stronger than the offense of cheating on me. I don’t deny that I still have bad feelings. But I think everything will be gone soon if we do our best to overcome it.”       “Really?”       “Yeah. And…” Anna moves her hands off Daniel’s face, looks down shamelessly, and sighs heavily. “Besides, I also did a bad thing to you… I shouldn’t have left you when you had amnesia.”       “No, Anna, you’re guilty of nothing to me,” Daniel replies more confidently. “You’ve got no reason to be ashamed.”       “When I saw you with the other girl, I was so mad that I thought of nothing better but pissing off you and your problems, taking my stuff, and living with my father. Everybody said I did a bad thing. The guys thought I was mean and were disappointed in me until I told them everything. But I wanted to hear nothing and didn’t think I was guilty.”       “Stop. I get it all. You reacted the way anyone would’ve done.”       “Now I understand it wasn’t the best act of mine. That’s why I was a betrayer. I kind of promised to be with the man at good and bad times, but I left him at a hard moment… Even if the man kissed the other girl when he remembered nothing! That’s not an excuse… I should’ve stayed with you and helped you as well as the guys. Even if I would’ve heard no thanks at first.”       “It all started because of me. And the case is not that I cheated.”       “I don’t mean it, either. I’m also guilty of what happened. We had such a big fight that I forced you to leave home and end up nobody the hell knows where.” Anna sniffs quietly and wipes tears off carefully under her eyes. “Because of cigarettes… Because of cigarettes, I started such a scandal…”       “But you were right. I was making my health worse and almost burned my house down when I threw a smoking cigar on the mat.”       “Do you still keep smoking?”       “Nope. I haven’t smoked since the day you and I fought. The cigarette that I smoked on that day was the last one. Something got kind of stuck in my head… But I hadn’t literally let go of a pack of cigarettes before.”       “If it’s so, I’m very happy,” Anna smiles shyly.       “Anyway, I can’t be mad at you for calling me an irresponsible bonehead. It’s true. I didn’t think of the consequences and just did something. And I don’t always think now…”       “I know, but I shouldn’t have behaved like that. If I’d known what would’ve happened after that scandal, I would’ve rather found the courage to accept the fact that you smoked. Even if I madly hate the smell of cigarettes and wanted to make you wean yourself away from cigarettes for your best. Or I could’ve found another way to help you.”       “It’s not your fault, Anna. I got excited on that day. I left home with my wallet at my wish. I went nobody knows where, ran into Wainwright, got hit by the car, and forgot everything. If I hadn’t done that stupid thing, you and I would’ve lived together. And I wouldn't have made many more stupid mistakes. Because of which I almost lost all my close people. I confronted all the guys. And I fought with the men. I applied a lot of effort to beg them for forgiveness.”       “I know.”       “Yes, I would’ve run into Wainwright and found my sister early or late. But I wouldn’t have been so stupid and ruined everything that was so important to me. That I was afraid to lose so much.”       “But it’s not too late to get everything we had back and become happy again.” Anna takes Daniel’s hands, looking into his eyes with a slight smile. “Just tell me you want to be with me. One word of you before I’m with you, despite nothing.”       “Erm…”       “But don’t lie to me. Tell me the truth. Do you want to be with me or not?”       Daniel just starts to realize more and more that Anna is openly telling him about her wish to come back to him and give him one more chance to prove that he loves her. It obviously makes the man happy. He had been waiting for this moment for so long, but he did not believe it would happen until the end. The man imagined it only in his dreams, or sometimes dreamed of them being happy together. Nevertheless, the girl’s words help him feel a little relief and even find the will to smile much truer and wider. Daniel says nothing for a few seconds and just looks scarily at Anna, who is patiently waiting for his answer with a slight smile and the hope that he will make her happy. But then he swallows up nervously and nods hesitantly, pronouncing quietly with a slight smile:       “Yup… Yes. I want. So badly.”       “Really?” Anna rounds her eyes.       “I’m ready for anything to get you back and live all those wonderful moments that we experienced again. I’m dreaming of being with you, taking care of you, and feeling the love that you always gave me more than anything. I don’t wanna be alone anymore. I need a girl. The beloved girl, without whom my life doesn’t have a meaning and seems gray and dark.”       “Daniel…”       “You always treated me as tenderly as my mother. I didn’t get as much love from her as I wanted. But any moments of love, attention, and care were like gold to me. And I wanted to have much more. Sadly, I realized it recently. I realized that I was kind of lonely. My parents always had no time to stay with Cassidy and me longer. I didn’t care about it then, but the older I got, the more I missed that warmth. That love. That love. I started to realize that I needed someone by my side.”       “Cassidy said the same. She said even if you had money, you didn’t feel happy.”       “It’s true. We had a lot of money but little love. And I… Wanted to have someone to recreate the atmosphere of my home. And maybe… Maybe, I was unconsciously looking for what I got from my mother about a girl. I was looking for the one to take care of me as touchingly as she did. And I found it about you, Anna. You became the one I needed. I’d say you became much better than my mother. You did your best to make me feel like I lived in paradise, where I got the same care I got in childhood. I always felt truly happy with you and never complained about anything. I had no reason. I finally stopped feeling lonely for the first time in many years and was happy that I got a close person.”       “Just like I did,” Anna smiles shyly and runs the back of her hand over Daniel’s cheek. “I also felt happy and beloved probably for the first time in my life. It was kind of weird to get so much love ‘cause I wasn’t used to that. But every day, I realized that it was what I always wanted. Nobody else took care of me as touchingly as you. Nobody else was so careful, generous, and gentle… And nobody else took such incredible and risky actions for my well-being. Nobody.”       “I promise if you come back to me, you’ll never suffer, cry, and need something. I’ll give you anything you want and surround you with much better care. Even if I’m not able to do something, I shall find a way to give you what you want.”       “I don’t need too much. I just wanna live a quiet life.”       “For you, I’d do anything – even the most dangerous and terrible thing. And…” Daniel moves his eyes to his hands for a second. “If you want… I can get hit by a car and get amnesia again. I can forget everything again and stare surprisingly at a familiar person and wonder who he or she is. I’m ready to get through it again.”       “No, don’t do it…” Anna shakes her head sharply. “I don’t need these sacrifices.”       “Just remember that I would do anything for you. Even the impossible.”       “I’m only asking you about one thing, sweetie, I need just one thing to be happy.”       “What?”       “Just love me.” Anna fixes Daniel’s hair, which is ruffled by the wind. “Love me the way you can. Protect me like a lion. And save me from any evil. Make me believe I’m beautiful, special, and beloved for you. Be loyal. Never insult or humiliate me… Don’t raise a hand on me. Make me as happy as I was some time ago. Your love, care, and attention – that’s what I need.”       “And you will get it,” Daniel replies confidently. “I promise I’ll give my everything to take care of you like nobody else and protect you from anyone, who will wish to hurt you. If you give me a chance, you will have whatever you want. I wasn’t always perfect the last time, but now I will try to be better.”       “Nobody is perfect. Everyone has their shortcomings. And… If you want to love someone, you should accept at least some of them. Learn to accept a person for what he or she is.”       “I know. But I will try to be better.” Daniel puts his hand on his heart with a slight smile and inclines his head slightly. “I swear on my life that I will no longer disappoint you. It was the last time when you considered me a stinker and a scumbag.”       “Anyway, always stay yourself. It’s much better than pretending to be someone you're not. Someone you can’t and don’t want to be.”       “You’re right. I will no longer trust blindly those, who may try to get my trust and use me somehow.”       “Well, if you forget everything again, you’ll hardly remember these words,” Anna notices with a shy smile. “And… You’ll succumb to the provocations of a mean girl, who will wish to pretend to be me or someone you allegedly love.”       “Maybe,” Daniel cracks a slight smile. “But there’s something that can help you find the right way, even if you remember nothing. It’s your heart. It can always tell you what to do and never make you believe you know someone you’ve actually never met. When I was trying to recall everything, it always gave me the right signs and showed me the right track. But I didn’t listen to it and blindly believed the words of those, who lied to me.”       “Did you feel something for me? Well, erm… Did I seem familiar to you?”       “Of course, I did. Not at once, though. When you were in the hospital only two times, I only memorized your hair. Your long red hair that always gets attention first,” Daniel sighs quietly with sadness in his eyes. “But later, I forgot it ‘cause I never met you after I was released. I memorized something the guys told me, but I forgot it quickly.”       “And what is it like… To remember nothing? Not knowing who you are… Who your close people are… Not knowing who lies or tells the truth… How did you feel?”       “Terrible… I think it was one of the worst experiences of my life. It’s terrible not to know who you are, who the people saying they are your friends are. It’s terrible to look around and realize that it’s kind of familiar to you, but you don’t know why. To look at a person and not to be able to remember them. When I had amnesia, I felt like a little helpless child, whom someone should’ve told and shown everything. It’s okay that I was able to serve myself. If someone had had to become my nanny and literally feed me, I would’ve felt much lousier.”       “Couldn’t you remember the guys? Or did you feel something when looking at them?”       “Only the fact that I knew them somehow. I looked at the guys and understood I had seen them before. At first, I had a hole in my memory, but I slowly started to recall some things related to them. And I recalled the guys in the order, in which I met them.”       “And as far as I understand, Peter was the first one?”       “Yup, he was the first one. But somehow, everything mixed in my head, and I stopped seeing the difference between a lie and a truth. The foreigner washed my brains well and made me believe that she told me the truth, not the guys. I was much more confused… And I eventually believed her. I fought with the guys. I told them to leave me alone.”       “Did you recall something about me?”       “I got some thoughts about you after I recalled something about Peter. But I wasn’t sure whether these were memories or my imagination. But… Examining some photos of you and the music video of the lads and me, in which you and your friends filmed, I memorized you much better. And I started to think of you much more and find you special. I liked you and got strongly attracted to you. I mean, I thought so from the beginning. When I saw you, I immediately thought you were very beautiful.”       “If I’d been with you, you would’ve probably called the memories about me sooner. You spent a lot of time with the guys and called the memory about just something that had to do with them.”       “Your help would’ve been nice to me. I wanted to see you and talk to you. But you suddenly disappeared, but our friends knew nothing about you and wondered why it happened.”       “Yeah, I didn’t do a good thing…” Anna says quietly with sadness in her eyes, as she looks down. “I know I should’ve stayed with you at least as a friend, helped you recall everything, and taken care of you. Pretended that I didn’t see you and that girl… But I didn’t do that… And disappeared… I didn’t wanna hear the guys’ stories about how bad you felt, and how much you needed help.”       “Anna, please, stop blaming yourself for that,” Daniel says quietly. “I completely understand that you left and didn’t want to help me for a reason. Maybe, I was supposed to be hurt, but I’m not mad at all and believe it’s fair.”       “The guys also felt hurt when you couldn’t remember them and blamed them for the lie. But they stayed by your side until the end.”       “No, Anna, when I fought with them, all of them decided to leave me. They said I’d creep on my knees before them after recalling everything and understanding what I did. And… It happened. When I got my memory back and realized how disgustingly I behaved toward the guys, I wanted to shoot and strangle myself. From shame for them. I guess a miracle helped me beg them for forgiveness. Otherwise, they would’ve gotten mad at me and ruined our friendship forever.”       “They just understood everything. And they knew you’d never do that when remembering everything.”       “Anyway, I almost stayed all alone. Again.”       “Nobody will leave you again, Daniel.” Anna takes Daniel’s hand with both hands and caresses it softly from all sides, looking at the man with sadness in her little wet eyes. “Including me. I will not leave anymore, I promise.”       “I don’t want it. I don’t wanna stay alone again. Just like after the death of my parents and the disappearance of my sister. I didn’t even have friends. I stopped to speak to everybody for different reasons. But now I’m even happy that they left my life. Because I met the others. The better friends, who could really be called like this. Whom I appreciate as much as a brilliant. I… I don’t know what I’d do if my friendship with them ended. If I lost them.”       “I repeat, nobody will leave you,” Anna smiles shyly. “Nobody. And you can always count on me. I’ve said I want to come back to you. I want to be the best one for you. The best girl, whom you will never dare to leave.”       “I would not leave you at my wish. And I’ve never left you! I thought and still think you’re mine yet.”       “And I see it clearly.” Anna cracks a slight smile. “Everybody sees it. And I think they’re gonna get a reason to be happy. Because I’m doing what they advised me… And what my heart tells me.”       “The important thing is that you want it. That you’re sure that this decision will give you happiness.”       “I’m sure it will. Because I feel very bad and lonely without you.” Anna caresses Daniel’s cheek tenderly and sniffs quietly. “I need you, Daniel. Need you much more than before. Please, don’t leave me… Stay… Please… I… I don’t know what I’ll do if you leave me. I’ll probably go crazy… Really. Go.”       “I will not leave you at my wish until you ask me about it,” Daniel says quite confidently with a slight smile. “I am not going to leave the one I madly love. But… Even if we broke up, you could always count on me. I’ll always be by your side to do anything you want. No matter whether we date, befriend, or feud…”       “I know. But I want us to be more than just friends or familiars. I’m not happy with it. I want us to date. To be a couple. To be together.”       “Me too,” Daniel pronounces amicably. “I also want us to be together.”       “I’m ready to give you a second chance to become a worthy man for me. And I don’t doubt that you’ll surely use it.”       “I will use it at one hundred percent. Or two hundred.”       Anna smiles shyly and looks down for two seconds, but then she moves her eyes to Daniel and runs her fingers through his hair on the top and the back of his head, while he just looks at her and does not move his eyes with a much wider smile. The girl patiently waits for the man to show some signs of attention and gets upset that he does not rush to do it. Just because he is afraid to get his hands loose after the slap he got from her. At some moment, Anna steps back from Daniel and frowns slightly, seeing how tense and excited he is.       “Hey, why are you so scared?” Anna wonders, caressing Daniel’s cheek tenderly. “You’re sitting here so white as if I’m gonna beat you!”       “Erm, me?” Daniel pronounces hesitantly, opening his eyes widely.       “Moreover, you haven’t touched me with a finger even once. And you’re afraid to sit closer to me.”       “Erm… Well… I…”       “What’s wrong? Why are you afraid to touch me?”       “Erm…” Daniel stutters, scratching the tip of his nose. “I… Erm… Just… Well… I dunno how to explain it…”       “My gosh, don’t be afraid!” Anna smiles shyly. “It seems like a dangerous and horrible person is sitting next to you and threatening you. It’s me, Daniel. Me, Anna.”       “I know, but…”       “Do I scare you so much that you’re literally afraid to move?”       “No, no, the case is not about it. Just…” Daniel swallows up nervously, while his eyes run from one side to another. “You’re probably gonna laugh when I tell you…”       “Excuse me, but I don’t understand you.”       “I just…” Daniel lies down slowly and looks up to the sky with his legs bent at the knees. “I’m just recalling the slap that you gave me on the day we kissed in the hospital…”       “The slap? So, are you afraid that I may slap you again?”       “Well, you know… Erm… I wouldn’t… Wouldn’t like to feel something like that again and… After what happened, I banned myself from letting my hands loose and… Showing initiative. Despite a great wish to at least caress your shoulder or hand. And I keep silent about a kiss.”       “Are you serious?” Anna chuckles kindly. “Are you afraid of me just because of that?”       “Not afraid. But I swore that I’d never touch you again.”       “Gosh… Do you really think I will slap you when I wish to kiss or hug you to death?”       “Agree, it’s unpleasant to get slaps from the one, who you madly love.”       “Yes, I get it, but…”       “I wanted the ground to swallow me up in shame when you did it. And that’s good that there was nobody around. Getting a slap from the beloved girl before people’s eyes is much ‘better’ than getting it when nobody sees it.”       “Oh, my gosh, Daniel…” Anna shakes her head with a chuckle. “How silly you are!”       “You’re laughing?” Daniel wonders. “Are you laughing at my problem?”       “No, no, I ain’t laughing. Just… What’s the point in being afraid when I tell you I wanna come back to you, hug you, kiss you, and press myself to you as close as possible?”       “Trust me, I’m now dying from a wish to hug and kiss you. You know how much I’ve missed all of that all this time! I’m so used to your caresses that I can’t live without them. When I wasn’t able to kiss and hug you, those days were lived for nothing.”       “And what’s your problem?”       “I just don’t want to seem an obtrusive and shameless maniac, who only wants to make his wishes come true but doesn’t think about whether a girl wants it.”       “Did I say I didn’t want it?”       “No, but…”       “Listen, Perkins, are you gonna be sure that I don’t want it if I start to offer myself to you openly? If I start to undress myself and leave you without clothes!”       “I want it to happen slowly. So, you aren’t scared and get used to it again. And until it happens, I will tie my hands up in my mind and…”       Daniel does not speak his mind because Anna bends to him with a kind chuckle, while he is lying on the ground and staring at the sky. She gives him a tender, continuous kiss on the lips, starting to caress his cheek softly a moment later. A few seconds are gone before the girl steps back and looks at the little dumbfounded man with a shy smile, still caressing his face tenderly with her warm, soft hand.       “And what?” Anna smiles mysteriously. “Did you get a slap?”       “Well…” Daniel stutters. “Nope…”       “Why should you be afraid, then? Why do you hold it down if you wanna be closer to someone you love?”       “The important thing is that someone doesn’t mind it.”       “Relax, sweetie, I’ll no longer do that,” Anna promises with a slight smile and kisses Daniel cutely on the tip of his nose. “I shouldn’t have actually done it. I had never raised a hand to men, but I didn’t hold myself down that time. I did it from jealousy and offense.”       “I get it. And I’m sorry about being too stubborn and kissing you almost by force.”       “Don’t be. Although I didn’t show it, I madly wanted to continue that kiss. It was amazing. You still give me incredible kisses and can drive me crazy. It was very hard to resist and not to answer you with the same passion. But the offense got a victory, and I pushed you off.”       “If I’m so insolent again, you can hit me again. Don’t worry, I’ll overcome it somehow. And I won’t answer. I’ve never raised and won’t raise a hand on a girl.”       “No, no, I promise I won’t do what I wasn’t taught anymore. I had no right to raise a hand on a man.”       “It’s okay, don’t think about it,” Daniel smiles shyly, while Anna runs her hand through his hair and strokes it. “I completely get it.”       Anna says nothing and keeps caressing Daniel’s face tenderly, while he cannot find the courage to touch her and just looks at her with a tender smile.       “Hey, will you touch me today?” Anna asks. “Or are you gonna be shy and afraid as well as a bunny?”       “Erm…” Daniel stutters and bites his lip slightly. “I…”       “Don’t be afraid, silly,” Anna laughs shyly. “Don’t be…”       Anna takes Daniel’s hand and puts it confidently on her cheek, which she caresses with his warm and soft hand, feeling good immediately thanks to the nice warmth that caresses her tenderly and makes her feel the love that she madly missed.       “You see, there’s nothing terrible about it,” Anna smiles slightly and moves Daniel’s hand off her face.       “Can I really do it?” Daniel gets excited with a bright gloss in his eyes, raising himself up on his elbows. “Can I kiss and hug you?”       “Of course, you can, sweetie. I’m dreaming about you to do it… And I am allowing you to do anything you want to me.”       “And will I no longer get a slap for that?”       “No, you will not.” Anna falls into silence and looks down. “Anyway, forgive me for that slap. I didn’t mean to hurt you…”       “I can’t be mad at you.”       “I’m swearing solemnly that it will not happen again. Never.”       “I believe you, Anna. Believe.”       Anna says nothing and just smiles shyly. And Daniel’s smile gets wider, but he does not believe what’s happening and is a little shocked with the feeling that this is a wonderful dream. At some moment, the man not stopping to look at the girl sits up slowly and puts his hand a little hesitantly on her cheek for two seconds, seeing her smile wider and wider and get a bright gloss in her eyes.       “Sweetie…” Daniel pronounces tenderly with a slight smile. “Anna… My Anna…”       “How long I dreamed of this…” Anna purrs quietly, rubbing her cheek tenderly against Daniel’s hand, which caresses her face a little hesitantly. “Forever…”       “You know…” Daniel moves his hand off Anna’s face and looks down for a second, exhaling slowly with a shake. “Maybe… I apologized to you when trying to explain everything. But I must apologize again and… Ask you about what I’ve been dreaming about since the day I recalled everything and realized that I made one of the greatest mistakes in my life.”       Daniel takes Anna’s hands softly and looks into her eyes bravely enough, while she watches him closely with a slight smile.       “Anna…” Daniel pronounces in a whisper with pity in his eyes. “Please… Forgive me for betraying you and making you disappointed in me. I’ve said many times how much I regret making the greatest mistake and ruining everything I kept so hard. Everything that was so important to me. Everything that I was terribly afraid to lose. You weren’t the only one to be afraid to lose me. Every day, I was going literally crazy at the thought that I could lose you. And I could not keep the wall that I built. I lost absolutely everything. Because of my naivety and stupidity. Now, I don’t mean that I almost lost my friends. I mean, I became a cheater against my wish and disappointed my girlfriend in such a shameless way. Even if I didn’t want it. I didn’t want to lose the one, to whom I got strongly attracted.”       Daniel falls into silence for two seconds and swallows up nervously, still looking at Anna with pity in his eyes and holding her hands.       “I think I never hated myself so much…” Daniel shakes his head. “I was never so disappointed. I never felt so ashamed. For you. For my friends. For my family. Nothing about what I was guilty of made me feel as sorry as betraying the one I madly love against my wish. I still hate myself. For doing such a disgusting thing to you. Really, Anna, if I hadn’t been obligated to my friends, sister, and band, I would’ve run away and never shown myself to anyone. Especially, you and your parents. Sometimes… Sometimes I believe they should not treat me so well. I’ve made so many mistakes that I don’t deserve it. Not only when I had amnesia but also in my whole life.”       Daniel exhales very quietly, while Anna looks at him with pity in her half-wet eyes and feels that it’s unbearable for her to watch the man, who is not like the one she knew before.       “Although I’ve apologized to them for cheating, I’m ashamed of looking into their eyes,” Daniel adds with sadness in his eyes. “But I’m much more ashamed of you, Anna… I’m really ashamed to look into your eyes after everything I did. But I swear, if I had remembered everything, I would’ve immediately rejected that foreigner and wouldn’t have let her even touch me. I was only loyal to you and did my best for you to be happy all the time when we were dating. I never had anyone, and I didn’t cheat on you when we lived together. And I don’t want to date another girl. I only want to be with you. I swear on my parents’ grave that if you come back to me, you’ll forget what it’s like to suffer, hear insults, and tolerate physical violence. I will never dare to do what Potter was doing to you. Ne-ver! I will treat you like a queen and do everything you ask me about.”       When Anna wants to take Daniel’s hands tighter, he lets them go, caresses her face tenderly, and moves a couple of red strands off her eyes, into which he looks confidently enough. The girl smiles shyly but feels her heart squeeze at how strongly the white, excited man is shaking.       “Damn…” Daniel pronounces in a shaking voice. “I… I would’ve gone crazy if you’d died. If only you knew what kind of horror I felt when you were so close to death after getting beaten black and blue. I barely held myself down not to break down and give a damn about everybody and everything. Those two days were much worse than amnesia. I felt so bad that I sometimes wanted to fall asleep and never wake up. Everybody saw how bad I felt. But they could do nothing. And I was pretending so hard that I would’ve tolerated anything. Yes, they know something about me, but I never told them everything I felt. I thought I’d never feel happiness or smile again… Widely… Truly… I used to think I was strong and unbreakable and seemed cold and insolent. But… After what I experienced, I realized I couldn’t carry such a strong hit. No hit on the face or the stomach can be compared to the pain that I felt when being next to you for hours and waiting for you to let us know you were alive. That was insane. I felt like I was dying. Slowly. With tortures.”       “Daniel…” Anna whispers in a shaking voice, letting the tears roll over her cheeks, while she looks at Daniel with great pity in her eyes and shakes her head.       “I need you, Anna. I can’t live without you and be happy. I don’t wanna be alone anymore. I don’t wanna lose what’s so important to me.” Daniel moves his eyes down for a second and swallows up nervously. “Now I’m not afraid to seem a whipping boy. Because I can’t hide my wishes and emotions anymore. I want to be with you so badly. I want to love you, take care of you, make all your dreams come true, and support you when you’re happy and sad… I would’ve never said it before, but now I understand I wanna take care of someone. I want someone to take care of me. I’m sick of being alone. I want love. Just love. I wanna protect my little girl from bad things and make her feel beautiful and desired.”       “You make me cry,” Anna cracks a slight smile.       “There’s no me without you, my love. There’s no, and there will not be. If you’re not with me. Or if I know you’re dead. I do not need the world without my beloved girl. It doesn’t make sense to me.”       Now, when Anna got through her offense and showed her wish to come back to Daniel, she could not stay indifferent to what he said, looking at her with true pity and pain in his eyes. She knows for sure that she will not let the man go and give him to another girl, who will probably not love him as truly as he deserves.       “Oh, gosh…” Anna sniffs quietly, blinks several times to get rid of the tears still rolling over her cheeks, and wipes some of them off.       “Please, forgive me,” Daniel begs with pity in his eyes. “I don’t try to pity you and force you to do anything. But I really feel very bad without you. I can’t and will not live without the one I love so much like I’ve never done before.”       “I believe you.” Anna runs her hand tenderly over Daniel’s cheek with a slight smile on her face. “You aren’t pretending.”       “I’m not the one, who plays with someone’s feelings. When I love, I love. When I hate, I hate.”       “You know…” Anna pronounces in a shaking voice. “You’ve apologized to me so many times… And I haven’t apologized to you… For starting a scandal because of cigarettes and making you leave home. For not trying to prevent that girl from kissing you. And preferring to run away without finding out anything when you had problems and needed help. Yes, maybe, leaving after seeing someone cheat on you before your eyes is fine. But it is not if a person has trouble, and someone uses their helplessness and weakness. So… Forgive me if you can. I’m really ashamed of you.”       “You have nothing to worry about, sweetie,” Daniel replies confidently, moving a small strand of Anna’s hair off her eyes with a slight smile. “I blame you for nothing and am not mad.”       “I’m very sorry that I didn’t meet your expectations and become perfect for you.”       “No, Anna, don’t say it. You’re the best of all the girls I’ve had. Nobody takes care of me as much as you do. They only cared about the fact that I was growing up in a provided family. They liked my awesomeness. But nobody wanted to give me the soulful warmth, touching love, and amazing care. Nobody.”       “I promise, if you don’t leave me, I shall do everything to get better for you. I will no longer do what I did.”       “I repeat, I’ve got no reason to be mad at you. Of course, it’s nice to me that you confess it, but these things aren’t worth worrying.”       “I promise I will no longer start a scandal because of your habit of smoking. Yes, I did it for your best. But I learned a lesson: we can’t make someone different if they don’t want it. So… I can only wait for you to stop smoking and support your wish.”       “I think I’ll no longer take a cigarette again. I haven’t smoked for a long time and haven’t lately thought about a cigarette. And I must confess that it’s the reason I feel better. Besides, I recently renewed my workouts after leaving them for some time.”       “I can’t remember you having a workout when we lived together!”       “Now I will work on it seriously. It’s time to wean myself away from what I poisoned myself with since my teenage years and fix my health.”       “So, if you’re really determined, I’m madly glad and supporting you. I’ll be happy if you really wean yourself away from smoking. I don’t like the smell of cigarettes and have never tried to smoke. Just like my whole family.”       “Don’t need to. It’s bad.”       Silence settles in the air for some time, during which Daniel caresses Anna’s cheek tenderly with a shy smile, enjoying this moment and being silently happy that he is now able to do this without the threat of getting a slap. While the girl literally melts from pleasure, caressing his hand and closing her eyes at times.       “Finally, I can caress you without fear of getting a slap,” Daniel laughs shyly.       “And I’m finally getting the caress of the one I madly adore,” Anna replies softly, rubbing her cheek against Daniel’s warm and soft hand with a wide smile.       “Now I will catch any moment to caress my little girl.”       “Caress as much as you want. I’d be happy.”       “Hey, I’d like to ask something…” Daniel takes Anna’s hands. “Say, weren’t you really afraid when you decided to hit Potter on the head?”       “Of course, I was a little afraid. But I told myself I should’ve done that. Done just something to save you from that stinker.”       “And weren’t you afraid that he could do something to you?”       “Erm… Well… First, you were next to me, and I felt quieter.” Anna smiles much wider. “And second, you may do many things and become very brave for love. Yes, maybe, it was a moment of despair. But I knew I must’ve at least tried to save you. Instead of standing like a column and watching you get close to being stabbed. I was ready to go crazy from insanity. At the thought that you’d die. You were so close to that because you were very weak and about to give up. So… I put myself together to do just something. For your salvation, a hesitant coward suddenly became a determined, little sassy girl. Who kind of liked it.”       “Really?” Daniel smiles slightly. “Liked?”       “Yup. Although I was worried I could accidentally kill Potter, I’m proud of myself anyway. And I had some fun when I gave Julian a slap in the face and splashed coffee over his head.”       “Oh, yeah!” Daniel laughs shyly. “That was incredible! All of us were impressive!”       “Sometimes it’s cool to be a bad girl for a while. It’s boring to be good all the time.”       “Yeah, sometimes you may be crazy. And you risked a lot by deciding to fight with the man, who almost brought you to another world.”       “I know.”       “But I’m proud of you,” Daniel smiles much wider. “Your crazy act saved my life. You saved me, Anna! You saved me when I needed someone’s help and was dying from exhaustion. I didn’t care who it would be. And that was you. But everything happened so fast that I barely understood what happened. Everything was kind of blurry. I only remember you holding a piece of a vase in your hands.”       “Risking is a noble thing. Sometimes, if you want something, you need to tell yourself you can do it and try to take a risk. So, I did it. And I think it was worth it. Because you’re here, with me. Alive and unharmed.”       “I’m grateful to you for saving me and have owed you since that day.” Daniel caresses Anna’s cheeks with both hands with a slight smile. “Thank you so much for saving me from death, Anna. I will never forget it and will always remember that with thankfulness.”       “Consider it my little thankfulness. At first, to thank you, I could only agree to accept your help and stop being rude. But later, I felt so desperate at the thought that I could lose you that I decided to try to save my beloved man.”       “And now you've done probably the best thing that could happen to me.” Daniel smiles much wider. “You accepted my apology and gave me a chance to be the best man for you.”       “Use this chance correctly,” Anna says with a slight smile, running her hand over Daniel’s hair. “Yes, we’re gonna need time to establish our relationship and forget that you cheated. But I want to get through this with you. I want us to do this together. Learn all the lessons together. And become as happy as we were before.”       “Much happier, sweetie. Much happier.”       The nice, warm wind gets a little stronger but keeps caressing the face tenderly and blowing up hair. Daniel and Anna’s smiles get much wider, and they finally get a gloss in their eyes that nobody has seen for a long time. The man cannot stop admiring the cute baby face of his sweetheart and looking into her bright green eyes, which make his heart beat faster. And the girl finally feels the admiring look of the piercing brown eyes that make her feel needed and desired. Anna and Daniel look silently into each other’s shining eyes full of fire and smile widely for a few seconds, as if they are asking each other for permission to continue this show. And after sharing a wide smile for the last time, the lovers shorten the distance confidently and glance at each other’s lips.       Daniel grabs Anna’s face tightly but very tenderly and gets her involved in a long-awaited, conciliatory kiss, feeling absolutely relaxed and not being afraid to show initiative but not finding the courage to go too far. Such a familiar and madly nice feeling gets immediately obsessed with him after he feels the girl’s soft, tender lips, a crazy heartbeat echoes in his chest, and the wave of the warming heat spreads all over his body. Anna has the pleasure of running her hand through Daniel’s hair on the back of his head and tenderly caresses his shoulder or the nape of his neck, while the man’s warm hands caress her face as if it’s something too important and valuable to him. Gosh, how soft and nice his lips are that are wanted to be kissed over and over! She does not care how the man would kiss her: tenderly and shyly or passionately and greedily. The most important thing is that she wants kisses from her beloved man, who has the right to do whatever he wants to her, knowing well that he will never hurt her or dare to reproach her for something, insult her, raise his hand, or beat her to half-death.       Somewhere by the end of the kiss that lasts kind of forever, the fingers of the lovers’ free hands lock together tightly. And a little later, Anna and Daniel break the kiss slowly but do not step away, look into each other’s eyes full of gloss a little hesitantly, and smile much wider and truer, while one of the girl’s hands strokes tenderly his hair on the back of the man’s head, and he caresses her hair softly. They just look into each other’s eyes for a few seconds with a little heavy breath, looking down or aside at times. But then the man and the girl take each other in a strong hug, which they missed so badly, for the first time in a while, with a sigh full of relief, wishing to never let go of the one, who means a lot to them.       Anna presses herself to Daniel as close as possible with pleasure, putting her arms around his neck, hugging it tightly, tenderly caressing his head sometimes, and just running her hand over his dark chocolate hair, which is still very soft and nice to touch. The girl finally feels what she missed so badly – everything about the man. His unforgettable kisses, amazing caresses, love, care, and tender hugs that make her feel truly beloved and absolutely protected… Her parents’ hugs could not comfort her the way the man’s hugs do. Nobody can press her to themselves so tightly but very tenderly, caress her head and back, give her warmth, and comfort her after hearing her quiet sobs, treating her as if she is the most important and valuable thing that he has. And understanding that it’s not a dream, Anna gets emotional and starts crying quietly, nuzzling her nose into the trustful shoulder of her beloved man. However, it’s also hard for Daniel to believe that his biggest wish came true.       He felt so bad that he was close to despair and a nervous breakdown. But Perkins was pretending so hard that he would have tolerated anything because he had no right to complain as a man. He spent many days and nights at home alone with the thought that everything was over. But now everything is in the past. The man finally smiles widely and truly. Because he wants to. Not because he has to pretend that everything is alright. Now he is really happy and does not feel deprived of something. Anna is next to him, hugging him tightly with tears of happiness and relief, and he is caressing tenderly her head and back, pressing her close to himself, kissing cutely the top of her head two times, nuzzling in it, and running his fingers through her silky red hair.       How much he likes hugging his beloved girl that spreads such a nice warmth. Hugging her is an infinite pleasure and paradisiacal enjoyment. Daniel loves kissing Anna, but her hugs make him feel much better and realize that someone needs and loves him. She is so tender, kind, and friendly… A little innocent angel that needs strong male arms that would hold her tightly and never let her go when danger is close. This baby needs love, care, and caress so badly. Especially after everything she had to experience. And Perkins understands it completely. He gets obsessed with such a strong wave of relief that he can barely breathe. Every time he tries to pump some air into his lungs, something presses strongly on his chest. Even if he is pressing his beloved girl to himself and hugging her tightly, he cannot relax anyway. A heavy burden on his shoulders still drags him down and does not let him get straight with a feeling of easiness. At some moment, Daniel realizes that a tear of despair and happiness rolls down his cheek, and his eyes are wet and red as if he has cried bitterly for about one or one and a half hours.       But right now, he is not afraid to show his weakness and pisses off the stereotype about men, who do not cry, letting all the negative emotions leave his mind and body, so he gets much happier than ever. Daniel thinks of all the words of those, who told him that he would surely be with Anna when the time came. The man realizes that they were absolutely right when they always said he should have believed in the best. And right now, he calls on the memories of one of his dreams, in which he talked to his parents, who told him this girl would come back to him. So, the beloved is now sitting next to him, crying bitterly from happiness and hugging him so tightly as if she is afraid to lose him. At some moment, Daniel sniffs quietly, kisses Anna cutely on the temple, and, caressing the back of her head tenderly, moves his wet eyes up to the sky and cracks a slight smile through the tears.       “Mother, Father…” Daniel thinks with wet eyes. “Thank you… Thank you so much for helping me bring Anna back. Bring my beloved girl back.”       Daniel moves his eyes into the distance and imagines Sharon and Ricardo standing in front of him at the age when they were happy. Looking at their son and smiling at him widely. And the man smiles at them truly through the tears.       “I promise I will not leave her and will become the best for her. I shall show you that I grew up and am ready to be responsible for what I do. Take responsibility for the one I love. You will see, you will not be disappointed. I’m no longer a bonehead…”       Daniel puts his nose in Anna’s shoulder and exhales slowly with a shake, while all his muscles are squeezed strongly from tension. The girl herself does not hear his quiet sobs because she is more focused on the hugs and caresses that he gives her, finally believing that he really missed her and suffered because he almost lost her.       It seems like it’s been forever since Anna and Daniel hugged each other, not paying attention to the warm wind that gets a little stronger. The man still shakes slightly, it’s hard for him to breathe, and he does not care about tears rolling down his cheeks. And the girl keeps having her arms wrapped around his neck and caresses the nape of it or the back of her sweetheart’s head at times. But later Anna decides to break this long silence and say something in a quiet, shaking voice, sniffing quietly, while tears roll down her cheeks from her wet eyes:       “Never leave me…”       “Never,” Daniel pronounces in a much more shaking voice. “I will never let you go. It will only happen in your most terrible nightmare.”       “Please, don’t leave me anymore. I don’t wanna stay alone. Without your support. Without your love. I need it so badly.”       “I’d rather jump in the fire and burn… That do this…”       Anna just hears Daniel speaking in a very shaking voice. How he sniffs and caresses her head kind of nervously. She immediately realizes that he is… Crying and shaking like a bunny under a tree?! After heating his sobs, the girl’s heart squeezes painfully, and she gets tense enough with a feeling of anxiety.       “Hey, are you crying?” Anna rounds her eyes.       “No, no…” Daniel lies hesitantly in a low, strongly shaking voice. “I’m not crying… It’s just hard to breathe… From excitement…”       “Gosh, you’re shaking! And your voice is very excited!”       “I’m not crying…” Daniel sniffs quietly and blinks his eyes to get rid of the tears, still pressing Anna tightly against himself and caressing the back of her head. “No…”       “But I hear you sniffing.” Anna steps back from Daniel and looks closely into his eyes, which he moves aside shamelessly, noticing that they are red and wet, and seeing wet paths on his cheeks. “You’re crying.”       “Sorry…” Daniel wipes the tears quickly under his eyes, cracking a smile at Anna. “Sorry, sorry… I… I didn’t want you to see me like this.”       “Don’t be shy, sweetie.” Anna caresses Daniel’s cheek tenderly and takes his wrist. “I get it. If you wanna cry, do this.”       “It’s okay, my sweetheart,” Daniel tries to pretend to be confident, rubbing his eyes and sighing heavily and slowly. “It’s just a reaction to a great relief… I can’t believe that what’s happening isn’t a dream…”       Anna says nothing, just smiles shyly, and takes Daniel in a strong hug, starting to caress softly and tenderly his back, head, and the nape of his neck, and kissing him cutely on the temple with the hope of comforting the man a little.       “It’s okay, sweetie, it’s okay…” Anna whispers with a slight smile. “Now the bad things are over. You have nothing to be afraid of or ashamed of.”       “And it makes me happy,” Daniel smiles much wider through tears, putting his arms around Anna’s waist. “At least I can stop pretending for the others that nothing bad happened. Honestly… I’m sick of lying… Sick of pretending that everything is okay.”       “I want you to really be happy and smile at your wish. My heart bleeds, knowing you’re suffering.”       “Now it will happen. I will be happy. Because you’re with me. It’s the only thing that I need for happiness… Well, as well as my sissy, my band, and my friends…”       Anna says nothing and hugs Daniel tighter with a wide smile.       “It’s okay, my sweetheart, calm down,” Anna says softly in a whisper, kisses Daniel on the cheek, caresses his head, and fixes his hair slightly. “Don’t cry… Don’t cry…”       “You know…” Daniel chuckles shyly and sniffs quietly. “I think I’m supposed to say these things to you and calm you down. Because you’re crying now… But everything is otherwise: you’re comforting me, and I’m crying bitterly…”       “I’m crying from happiness…” Anna sniffs quietly with a slight smile. “From a realization that I can be happy now. And be next to the one I madly love.”       “And I am happy I can make the one I love so much happy. And be quiet, ‘cause she’s fine.”       “It’s hard to believe it, huh?”       “Yeah…” Daniel steps back from Anna, takes her hand that he kisses tenderly, and smiles at her much wider, looking at her with red, little puffy eyes. “I’ve never hidden that I love you with all my heart. For you, I would do anything. Even give my life.”       “I know, sweetie,” Anna smiles shyly, caressing Daniel’s cheek. “And I love you so much that I’d do the most dangerous things. Even if I may be really scared.”       “I made sure about it when I saw everything with my own eyes and heard with my own ears.”       Daniel and Anna laugh shyly and looks silently at each other with tender smiles for a few seconds, not holding down a wish to touch their sweetheart as frequently as possible.       “Well, as we’re together again, I suggest we confirm the trueness of our promises,” Anna suggests with a shy smile and points her little finger at Daniel.       “With pleasure,” Daniel smiles slightly and grabs Anna’s little finger with his one. “I swear to be loyal to you, to never insult you, to never humiliate you, and to never raise my hand on you. And I promise to protect you from any evil, take care of you, and make all your wishes come true. Do my best for my little girl to be happy.”       “And I swear to be with you, despite nothing, never leave you in hard situations, and not to make you doubt me,” Anna promises confidently. “I promise to be loyal, not to leave your care and love unnoticed, and not to try to change you. I promise to accept any of your shortcomings.”       “I swear with all my heart,” Daniel and Anna pronounce confidently at the same time.       After sharing a tender smile, Anna and Daniel let their little fingers go and hug each other tightly again. The man gives his sweetheart a cute kiss on the cheek and hides his face in the curve of her neck, the smell of which he breathes in with great pleasure, not being afraid to touch her and give her such desired sighs of attention. And the girl having her eyes half-open puts her head on her sweetheart’s shoulder and runs her hands tenderly over his back, looking for a wonderful protector, who could help her feel safe.       A few seconds later, the lovers step away and look into each other’s eyes full of a bright gloss. Daniel grabs Anna’s face tenderly and caresses it, not stopping to look at her with an ogle gaze, while she looks at him with the same eyes and keeps her hand on his chest with a shy smile, hearing the man’s fast heartbeat. And a cute kiss on the forehead makes her a little blushed and smile much wider, making Perkins madly happy. A little later, the lovers sit as close to their second half as possible. Daniel hugs Anna around the shoulders, caresses her head at times, and watches her with a tender smile, while she puts her head on his shoulder and puts her arms around his torso, feeling like a little, protected girl, who finally got the one, with whom she could fear nothing.       “Tell me how you lived when we were apart,” Anna says amicably. “I’d be happy to hear it.”       “Well, nothing special, actually,” Daniel replies thoughtfully.       “Nothing new?”       “Alas. Nothing. At that time, I was only busy with my amnesia, my friends, my band, your problems, and the problems of my sister.”       “By the way, you’ve got a very sweet sister. Cassidy and I got along well when we were in the hospital. I liked that girl. She’s so kind and sweet…”       “I’m very glad you got on well,” Daniel smiles slightly. “Honestly, when I decided to put you in the same room, I was worried. I was nervous because of how you would’ve accepted each other. I mean, how you would’ve done it. Cassidy was nice to you when I told her about you. But I was afraid that you wouldn’t like her because of being mad at me. That you could take it out on her.”       “You know…” Anna smiles slyly. “You planned it well. You agreed to place us in the same room and asked your sister to pity me and make me sure that you were guilty of nothing.”       “I planned?” Daniel rounds his eyes. “No, no, I planned nothing! I agreed on placing you in the same room ‘cause I didn’t wanna tear myself apart between you. I wanted to visit you and her at the same time.”       “C’mon, I know everything! You agreed to place me in her room on purpose. Or placing her in my room. I dunno. Anyway, you did it on purpose. And you even told Cassidy what to say.”       “No, Anna, I swear I asked Cassidy about nothing. She decided to say what the others had said a million times at her wish.”       “Don’t pretend to be an idiot, Perkins. I know it happened for a reason.”       “No, I swear that’s not the truth!”       “Daniel…”       “Oh…” Daniel exhales sharply. “Okay… Maybe, I hoped that Cass would change your mind or at least make you sure not to be mean to me. But I swear, I never asked her to talk to you. That was her wish. Which I, however, supported.”       “Do you support that she scared me to death by saying you could easily kill yourself?”       “Yeah, she crossed the line, of course. But I guess my sis touched your nerve.”       “Right… Cassidy, so to say, hit the bullseye. Hit the crotch. Or just said the words she heard from you, the guys, and my parents.”       “Maybe, she repeated something. Anyway, I’m thankful to her for getting you into a talk.”       “Hey, why did you never tell me about her?” Anna frowns slightly. “Nobody said you had a younger sister. The guys and I only knew that your parents died.”       “At first, I thought she had been dead for many years. I thought she was missing. And second, I felt kind of… Ashamed of… Telling about my sister-addict.”       “Ashamed?”       “I know it’s a stupid reason to keep silent, but this talk wasn’t nice to me and… It was too personal to talk about it even with my close people.”       “Cassidy told me about her dependence,” Anna replies with sadness in her eyes. “The poor girl experienced many things because of that stinker, Wainwright.”       “That’s good that the stinker is burning in hell for what he did.”       “That man was a violator obsessed with young girls and a long-time drug addict.”       “I was shocked when Cassidy told me everything he did to her. I had my hair standing!”       “Me too. That was terrible.”       “The girl was too young but experienced such horrible things.”       “I’m really very sorry,” Anna confesses with sadness in her eyes. “I’m sorry that the girl destroyed herself. And I can’t blame her ‘cause she… Couldn’t just accept the death of her parents and… She was literally alone. She told me about it. She said she’s still missing her parents and can’t accept the fact that they’re dead.”       “Ah, Anna…” Daniel sighs quietly. “I’m missing them, too… And I’m sorry for starting to appreciate what I had too late. I started to appreciate it when I lost everything. I considered that life for granted. I spent money that I got every week from my parents without thinking. I had fun with my friends and wasn’t almost at home. I studied badly. I spent very little time with my family.”       “Is that true the parents of you and Cassidy died one after another?”       “True. It was a turning point for us. I had to forget that I’d get help in making my life better. I only received a half-empty house as a gift from them for my twenty-first birthday. Cass started to take drugs and distanced herself from us more and more. And Mother was going crazy without Father, whom she loved so much, and eventually went after him, believing that life without him would be bad for her.”       “I know. Your sister told me everything.”       “We recently viewed the photos of Mother and Father, which I didn’t take since they died. Since I took everything from their house and sold it.”       “Would you show them to me? I’ve never seen them and don’t know how your parents look.”       “I will surely do it. And I’ll even let you read the letter that Father wrote for Mother in case he was not able to say goodbye to her.”       “Really?”       “I never knew it existed. But Cass and I found it in the photo album. And we were very touched by what was written in it. Dad treated Mom with such love. They had true love. Despite getting married very early, my parents always got along well and lived in peace.”       “So, did you and your sister live well?”       “Yup, we lived well before Father got heart issues. Yes, we had conflicts and misunderstandings, but my relationship with my parents was always trustworthy. Although I loved both of them, I had a much closer relationship with Father than Mother, to whom Cassidy was much more attracted.”       “I get it.”       “You know how much I miss that atmosphere… It was so close… So special… But I, idiot, didn’t appreciate it and didn’t aim to spend time with my family. Even on such a family holiday like Christmas, I always aimed to run away from home and even fought with my parents once ‘cause they literally made Cassidy and me spend time with them. I wanted everything to be over as soon as possible. But now I wanna experience it all again. But sadly, it’s too late.”       “Everyone starts to appreciate something after losing it.”       “You should just grow up to realize some things that children and teenagers don’t understand.”       “Alas, Cassidy couldn’t bear it and started to take drugs…”       “Sadly, yes…” Daniel quietly sighs, caressing Anna’s head softly. “And she was so young… The girl was only thirteen…”       “That’s horrible.”       “At her age, girls play with dolls or steal their mothers’ cosmetics and try on all the dresses in their closet. But my sister was different… She never cared about dolls, cosmetics, or dresses. Cass actually hated all of that. She literally got hysterical when she got a beautiful Barbie doll or a pink dress with ruffles and laces. She always dreamed of the gifts that I got, and she still steals my clothes.”       “She wears male clothes?”       “Yup. Cass always wore my old clothes. Even if they were big for her and hid her good body, my sister liked it. Making her put on a shirt or a dress was an impossible mission from an early age. And she stole something from my clothes, which I haven’t worn for ages.”       “Okay,” Anna laughs shyly.       “Mother tried to make her a girl many times, but all those attempts led to another hysteria of my sister. And she kept wearing male clothes and surrounding herself with friends, among whom there were only boys, and didn’t even try to become beautiful. No makeup, no beautiful hairstyles, and no other girls’ stuff.”       “She felt very lonely, even if she had everything. Cassidy complained that she missed her mother and father, who were busy with their business and could only give her some attention on weekends or holidays.”       “It’s true, my sister and I lacked talks with our parents…” Daniel replies with sadness in his eyes. “And now, when we stayed alone, we’ve gotta be together. We’ve got no one else. I have her, and she has me. And as an older brother, I must take care of my sister until she starts ruling her life. And the first thing she’s gonna get is therapy in a clinic for drug dependence and her psychological trauma.”       “She has started her therapy in a clinic?”       “Yes, she started her therapy. After she left the hospital, I took her home and gave her time to get used to that and get to know the guys better. But two days after the arrest of the Potters, I agreed with the clinic and drove her there.”       “I hope she’ll get well and start to live a normal life,” Anna expresses hope. “Cassidy is a good girl and doesn’t deserve all of that. She’s so young. Her life is just getting started. It would’ve been unfair if she’d suffered from drugs or that sick stinker Wainwright.”       “Moreover, that stinker has sent one young boy to another world…”       “What?” Anna sharply rounds her eyes, staring at Daniel surprisingly. “How?”       “Somewhere one week ago, the lads and I met Blake, our assistant. He disappeared for some time but showed up again. That boy asked us to talk to him, and we agreed to listen to him with reluctance. So… He told us about how his twin brother died three years ago because of Wainwright.”       “I didn’t know he had a twin brother.”       “By the way, his brother’s story is very similar to my sister’s one. But Cassidy survived, and that boy died.”       “So, if Blake is now nineteen, it means his twin brother died when he was sixteen?”       “Sort of. And at the age of fourteen, they ran away from an orphan house where they grew up, wandered around the streets, and lived with kind people…”       “Blake lived in an orphan house?”       “Yup. Since the birth. I don’t know what happened to the parents of him and his brother, but the guys ended up there when they were newborns.”       “My gosh…”       “And by sixteen years, Blake’s brother became a drug addict after getting closer to a bad company and died when he owed too much money to Wainwright and had to work off his debt in a crack house. He just felt bad, lost consciousness, and didn’t wake up.”       “Oh, I’m so sorry about that boy…” Anna shows pity. “He didn’t deserve it… And I’m sorry for Blake…”       “Yeah, the lads and I also feel sorry about him… And I must confess that we realized that Blake wasn’t so bad after our talk with him. We wanted to get him fired, but we got sympathy for him and let him remain our assistant.”       “Hadn’t you replaced him before you talked with him?”       “We wanted to and even found someone. The guy, whom Peter and I have known since we worked with Albert. Good and responsible. He was looking for a job after Sanderson’s studio closed. But we’re still thinking about getting a second helper. We can’t believe Blake after everything he said. Yes, that guy let us know that he didn’t wish anything bad on us and behaved like that just because he didn’t wanna be open and was jealous of the lads and me getting on so well and being loved by everyone. But even if we let him stay, it doesn’t mean he’s forgiven.”       “Well, if that boy wants, why don’t you give him a chance? Moreover, Blake isn’t so terrible at first look.”       “Who knows, sweetie…” Daniel pronounces thoughtfully. “Anyway, the lads and I are understanding people and give a second chance to those, who ask for it. As Blake confessed his fault and apologized, why not.”       “I think it would be right.”       “Maybe. But now we don’t care about Blake’s problems or job. It’s time to come back to work and start to give interviews and perform.”       “Yup, you can focus on it seriously,” Anna smiles slightly. “And make the girls and me happy.”       “Obviously, my princess.” Daniel hugs Anna cutely with both arms, with a shy smile and kisses her on the top of her head. “We’re gonna rock on soon. And I promise that I will not surely screw everything up as I did the last time.”       “Sometimes something goes on much better after a break.”       “Right. We really sound much better.”       Anna says nothing and just smiles shyly, completely enjoying Daniel’s hugs, while he takes her hand at some moment and caresses her wrist tenderly, glancing at the scar that she got after being attacked by the dog in childhood.       “Life is actually getting better,” Daniel notices cheerfully. “Everything’s back in the right places, and we may no longer guess and wait for something.”       “Yeah, but it’s bad that we’ll never know who hit you with a car,” Anna replies with sadness in her eyes. “Maybe, it doesn’t make sense now, but…”       “No, sweetie, we know it.”       “What do you mean?”       “The owner of that car showed up and confessed that he did it.”       “Really?” Anna stares at Daniel surprisingly.       “Yes, he came to me and the lads when we had lunch at the café.”       “And who is that man?”       “Just a working family man. Who was dressed modestly and wore glasses… He was terribly white and terribly nervous when he came to us.”       “But how did it happen that he hit you?”       “That man said he ended up in that place by chance and was in a rush. He was late for a business meeting. And it happened that he struck me down at a high speed. He distracted himself, checked out the glove box to get some papers, examined something, and talked on the phone… And he didn’t stop in time after seeing me at the last moment.”       “Oh, my gosh…”       “That man would’ve helped me, but Wainwright started to threaten him and made him run. He scared him that he would find him and his family and kill them. So, the man got scared and pressed on the gas pedal strongly. Well, some time later, he met me after finding out about me thanks to my band, confessed everything, and begged me not to report the police and sue him.”       “Will you do this?”       “Of course, no!” Daniel exclaims. “He’s guilty of nothing! Why should I destroy the life of the man, who has a job, a wife, and a son? Besides, a girl is about to be born soon. I told him I wouldn’t report him and claim nothing and let him go with a quiet heart. And I didn’t even think of looking for him and trying to punish him. Wainwright was guilty of everything, but he paid for everything he did.”       “I completely support this decision…” Anna nods with a slight smile. “No meaning of ruining the man’s life. Let him live quietly and wait for a girl to be born.”       “I mean the same. I no longer wanna fight and argue. I am sick. Now I wanna live a quiet life and do my business.”       “We all want it, sweetie.”       Daniel says nothing and just looks at Anna with tenderness and runs his hand over her hair. To be clear, a thick strand that is down from her shoulder.       “Okay, there’s no meaning in talking about it,” Daniel says much more confidently and cheerfully. “I don’t want to remember the bad things that we had to experience. It doesn’t make sense now.”       “Okay, sorry about starting this talk,” Anna apologizes shyly. “I just wanted to know what you were doing. I thought something grandiose had happened in your life. But I didn’t know it and couldn’t be happy or upset.”       “No, nothing happened,” Daniel cracks a slight smile and kisses Anna cutely on the cheek. “And you know everything that happened to me from the words of our friends and me.”       “I got it…”       Silence settles in the air for a few seconds, during which Anna keeps pressing herself tightly to Daniel and having her head on his shoulder, while he strokes her hair with his fingers, caresses her cheek tenderly, or kisses her on the top of her head or the temple. But at some moment, the girl glances at the guitar placed near the man.       “Hey, maybe, you will play something for me?” Anna suggests shyly. “Like in the old times! You often made me happy with your performances when we lived together.”       “Play for you?” Daniel smiles mysteriously.       “Yes. Please, Daniel, sing. I haven’t heard your voice for a long time and have madly missed you singing.”       “Okay… What would you like to hear?”       “Anything. I just wanna listen to your charming voice that I missed so badly.”       “Don’t you want to play and sing something?”       “Me?” Anna pronounces surprisingly, opening her eyes widely and tearing her head off Daniel’s shoulder.       “Yes. Do you still remember the guitar lessons I gave you?”       “Oh, I don’t know…” Anna shrugs shyly and tucks a strand of hair behind her ear. “Maybe, I forgot something… I haven’t played anything for a long time… Since we did it the last time.”       “Let’s check it out?” Daniel reaches for his guitar and points it to Anna. “Try to play what I taught you the last time.”       “Oh, I don’t know, Daniel…” Anna replies hesitantly, looking down and shaking her head. “I’m not sure if it’s gonna be good.”       “Don’t be afraid, sweetie, you can do this.”       “Maybe, you will play?” Anna bites her lip slightly.       “Just play what you remember, and I will listen to you. If you’re wrong, I shall fix you.”       “No… I… I can’t do this… I can’t.”       “You can, I believe in you,” Daniel pronounces softly and confidently. “Don’t be shy, princess. Take the guitar.”       Anna hesitates for a while before she takes Daniel’s guitar and places it in front of herself with the man’s help. Thinking that it’s not a very good idea, the girl looks scarily at the man, who nods confidently with a slight smile, thinks about which chords to strike and which strings to pluck, and starts playing a melody slowly and hesitantly. It should be noticed that she is doing this very well. Not as perfect as Daniel, but it’s very good. After listening to her diffident play on the guitar a little, he smiles shyly at the thought that she plays correctly and tries too hard. He does not stop encouraging the girl not being sure about her talent by looking at her and saying something. And thanks to Perkins’ positive reaction, his sweetheart gets a little freer and starts to play much more confidently, clearly remembering how to play. After getting used to it, Anna even starts to sing some words quietly. Thanks to getting vocal lessons, her voice is good enough, and she sings very beautifully, even if she lacks the practice to sing brilliantly.       Daniel does not stop watching Anna with admiration in his eyes and listening to her play and singing that he likes so much. Even if her voice is not very powerful, its melodic and soft tempo is madly nice to hear, and it makes him smile shyly and shake with the rhythm.       “Good, you’re doing this well,” Daniel approves confidently. “Keep doing the same.”       At some moment, Anna gets busy looking at Daniel, who makes her feel more confident, and pays less attention to the way she plays. Perkins notices the wrong play shortly after she starts to strike the wrong chords but does not attack her with hard criticism. Instead, the man just sits behind her and starts to change the position of her hands and shows the correct order of plucking the strings. The girl fixes it quickly and smiles shyly at her sweetheart, exhaling with relief at some moment. And the man keeps listening to his beloved girl, nuzzling his nose in her shoulder and kissing her tenderly on the cheek at some moment to encourage her and give her a little bit of love. Somewhere by the end of the song, Anna plucks the strings skillfully and confidently enough and takes the right chords, her voice is not shaking so strongly, and a slight blush and a wide smile shows up on her face.       Anna finishes performing the song two minutes later. The girl plucks all the strings quietly and inclines her head, while Daniel says nothing for two seconds and just smiles widely at his beloved girl.       “Wow, that was incredible!” Daniel admires truly. “You did it much better than the last time.”       “Thanks a lot…” Anna thanks shyly. “I just played this song by heart…”       “Good job, princess, I’m proud of you.” Daniel caresses Anna’s cheek with the back of his hand, while she smiles and strokes his hand that slides tenderly over her face. “You’ve always learned quickly.”       “Thanks again,” Anna pronounces amicably.       Daniel smiles much wider, while Anna puts the guitar next to her and the man.       “Hey, maybe, you will go to my home?” Daniel suggests in a lower voice with a mysterious smile, caressing Anna’s head softly. “There’s nobody there… And our friends are too busy to bother us. We could be there together, talk, and spend the rest of the day together.”       “Your home…” Anna pronounces thoughtfully with a slight smile.       “I could also give you the robe.”       “The robe?” Anna frowns slightly.       “Yes, the one you often wore at home… Green, silky… I found it under the bed when cleaning my room. You probably forgot it when leaving my house.”       Anna thinks for a few seconds before she understands what Daniel means and smiles wider.       “Ah, right!” Anna gets excited. “My green robe! Gosh, I was looking for it but couldn’t find it a long time ago. And later, I actually forgot about it.”       “And I didn’t even guess that it was under my bed all the time.”       “But I started to think I had lost it.”       “No, you didn’t. I have it.”       “I think I really rushed to leave and didn’t notice how it fell. I threw my clothes in a bag carelessly and didn’t even try to see if I took everything.”       “Well, if you wanna take it, go to my home,” Daniel shrugs with a slight smile.       “Since you invited me to your home, I shall take it tonight.”       “Of course, it’s gonna be sad to lose one of the things that reminds me of you and sleep without it. But I don’t need anyone’s stuff and will give the robe to its owner.”       “What, what, what, what?” Anna chuckles kindly. “Sleep without the robe?”       “Erm…”       “Seriously, Perkins? You slept with my robe?”       “Well…” Daniel rolls his eyes. “Yes… I've been sleeping and embracing it. For almost a week.”       “No… I can’t believe it.”       “I just wanted to have at least something that could remind me of you. And the robe smelled like you…”       “Oh, gosh, Perkins…” Anna laughs shyly, caresses Daniel’s head tenderly, and kisses him on the cheek. “You’re so crazy. Sleeping with my robe! Embracing it!”       “What’s wrong?” Daniel smiles innocently. “There’s nothing weird with sleeping with the stuff of the one I love! If she wasn’t near me, I had to do something. Sleep with her clothes or sniff her perfume… Well, I don’t have your perfume. So, I only had to hug your robe.”       “Gosh, your sister couldn’t probably stop laughing at you.”       “Yeah, it happened,” Daniel replies thoughtfully. “Cassidy has been laughing at me for almost a week. She threatens to take a photo of me and show it to the men. But she can’t do this ‘cause she’s at the clinic.”       “Do the men know about it?”       “Nope. And if they laughed as well as my talkative sis, I wouldn’t care. The men would also sleep with the clothes of their beauties or sniff their perfumes if the girls weren’t near.”       “Yeah, people could do much when being in love…” Anna shakes her head with a shy smile.       “Anyway, Cassidy accepted it with understanding.”       “That’s how…”       “By the way, she really liked your robe. I even suggested she try it on, but she didn’t want to. She prefers comfortable pajamas. Or my old t-shirts and pants.”       “I must confess that I also like that robe.” Anna smiles mysteriously. “And you too… You ate me with your eyes when I was walking in the house in it.”       “I couldn’t resist when such a charming beauty was walking in front of me,” Daniel hugs Anna tighter, presses her to himself, kisses her cutely on the forehead, and moves off some strands of hair that get into her eyes. “Who loved teasing me. Especially when you or I should’ve gone somewhere.”       “Don’t make me blush, Daniel.”       “Just telling the truth.”       Anna says nothing and just smiles widely with a slight smile on her face while Daniel kisses her on the tip of her nose.       “So what, princess, do you agree to join me tonight?” Daniel asks softly, caressing Anna’s cheek. “Or will I have to spend the rest of this day alone?”       “I guess my parents wouldn’t mind if I stayed with you for a while,” Anna replies confidently. “And if they knew I decided to stay with you, they’d be jumping high.”       “Have you told them nothing?”       “No, they are working now. To be honest, I decided to come to you spontaneously. I knew I wanted to do this, but I didn’t know when. But I woke up this morning and… Something got in my mind.”       “Then you should tell them that you’re gonna stay longer with me. So, they don’t get excited.”       “They’re gonna know everything. I ain’t gonna be silent about what many people wanted. Including my parents.”       “M-m-m, so, did you decide to visit me at home?”       “Erm… Okay. I shall accept your invitation.” Anna rolls her eyes, thinks about something with a sly smile on her face for two seconds, and looks at Daniel. “But only if you amaze me with your unreal talent.”       “Do you really want it?”       “If you refuse, I shall insist.”       “Okay, my gorgeous beauty.” Daniel rubs the tip of his nose against Anna’s nose, while her face is turned on him, and caresses her head softly with a wide smile on his face. “For you, I’m always ready to play. Forever.”       Daniel kisses Anna cutely on the cheek, takes his guitar, and places it in front of him, thinking about what to play for a few seconds. After choosing something, he starts playing it immediately, plucking the strings like a real professional, choosing the chords, and singing for his beloved girlfriend a little later. Anna focuses on the song with a wide smile, watching the man with admiration and listening to his voice closely. While he shows his vocals and his guitar play with great pleasure, not stopping to smile tenderly at his beauty and pressing himself close to her like a cat when she runs her fingers through his hair. Daniel feels much more lightness and confidence and much less timidity and fright. And he sins much more sonorously and much louder. He gives his soul to the song. The reconciliation with Anna kind of breathed life into him. And the girl appreciates it highly, watching him do his favorite thing with a tender smile.       Three or four minutes later, Daniel finishes performing the song and lets Anna know it, inclining his head slightly and giving her a tender smile, while she looks into his eyes with true admiration.       “Oh, gosh…” Anna pronounces excitedly. “Daniel… You… You were incredible! I’m delighted!”       “You know, I liked it, too,” Daniel confesses with a mysterious smile. “I didn’t sing so well even at the rehearsals with the lads.”       “You literally got a voice. You struck high notes so easily and sang long ones perfectly.”       “I just began to get outta my limits. I wasn’t sure if I could do this before. But when I believed in myself and worked on it, I got my first success.”       “That was amazing!” Anna exclaims cheerfully. “You never sang as brilliantly as you did it now! I’m really impressed.”       “You just gave me the strength and confidence by coming back to me. I feel like I’m on the top of the world. I’m kind of ready to move a mountain.”       “Your fans don’t know that they’re gonna be surprised after hearing such incredible singing. If you work a little, nobody’s gonna be indifferent. Nobody’s gonna dare to call you talentless.”       “I don’t care what other people think. I care about what you think, my love. Your praises are like a nice melody to me. Every nice word from you gives me much more self-confidence.”       “I promise I shall encourage you as much as possible. But if you want, I will work with you. I did promise to give you a couple of vocal lessons.”       “I’d be happy to become a student of such a wonderful girl, whom I adore with all my heart.”       Anna says nothing and just smiles shyly with a slight blush on her face, while Daniel puts his guitar aside. The girl moves closer to the man and caresses his face tenderly with her soft, warm hands. He looks at her with the same love that a child has when looking at their mother. With admiration, as if they saw something surprising that gave them a strong impression. A little later, Daniel hugs Anna touchingly and tightly presses her to himself, rubbing the tip of his nose against her nose and leaning on her forehead with his forehead, while she caresses his head and runs her fingers through his soft hair. Then Perkins caresses his sweetheart’s cheek tenderly and kisses her on the nose, making her laugh shyly.       And when Daniel gives her a little shy kiss, Anna, putting her head on his laps, looks at him as if she would not mind continuing it. The man understands it well and gives her a more continuous, confident kiss on the lips with great pleasure. She brings his head closer to her and enjoys what’s happening and gives herself to unearthly pleasure, while he, holding her suspended, shows his brilliant skills of kissing that already makes her feel a sweet tension in her abdomen. At some moment, Anna breaks the kiss, sits up, presses Daniel to herself, holding the back of his head, and examines his face when she is very close to him. Then she puts her second hand on his shoulder and caresses his cheek tenderly. He carefully runs his fingers through her red hair with a wide smile and examines the girl’s baby face, which he fell in love with at their first meeting.       A little later, Daniel leaves a couple of very tender kisses on Anna’s lips and the corners of her mouth, feeling a slight shake and a nice tremble of the heart. The nice warmth is spreading all over the girl’s body and gets rid of the coldness that possessed her when she was all alone. And after one more continuous kiss, Anna gives Daniel a tender hug because he looks at her like a little child asking for hugs. The girl runs her hands softly and slowly over his back, and the man puts his arms tightly around her waist as if he is afraid to let her go and presses himself as close to his sweetheart as possible, smiling widely with closed eyes when she caresses tenderly his head that rests on her chest and gives him a cute kiss on the cheek and the top of his head.       Maybe Daniel looks like a child and forgets that he is an adult man, who must be strong. But now Perkins feels so good that he gives a damn about everything and lets himself show much more emotions, not being able to be silent about how happy he is. Now he wants to be with his beloved girl, who does not mind the fact that her sweetheart becomes a little boy, who needs attention, love, and care. Vice versa, it seems very cute to her! That’s why Anna caresses and hugs her big little baby Daniel, who needs her care not less than she needs his care, with a wide smile on her face.