Twisted Twice, Twisted Mine - Episode 22

Adeline.

I scrub at my eyes as I make my way down stairs, I glance at the grandfather clock below the stairs and it's barely past 10.

Levi shouldn't be out of bed, it's a weekend.

I've come downstairs to find him because it's obvious he isn't working out and I have to get my morning Levi fix.

I walk into the kitchen to see him standing there and I don't access the situation, just walk up to him and wrap my hand around his torso.

"Good morning sunshine" I say into his back and he stiffens.

I do too.

I step away to look over his shoulder and Aaron is standing there with a foreboding look.

My heart drops to my stomach.

"What's wrong?" I ask, dreading the answer to that question. 

He hands me a tab and I glance at Aaron before looking back at the tab. 

I feel a sense of dread at the headline, it's a wonder that they hadn't caught a whiff of me all this while, I had actually wondered, seems my grace period is up. 

On the screen of the tab are photos of me, laughing with Levi, it's the one where Aaron sprayed water on me and Levi tried to shield me.

It looks like a scene from a movie, there will be no doubt about whom I am to Levi, there is another photo of me and him kissing and Aaron is standing the background with the pipe and laughing at us. 

My face is blurred and the writer is asking whom she, I, am to both of them. 

I turn to face them. 

"Is this bad?" I ask them with a hint of foreboding. 

"Not necessarily, it's obvious that they didn't get a clear shot of your face so you are in the clear" Aaron says and I become confused, what's the problem then? 

"What's the problem?" I ask, my eyes going to Levi, I wrap my hands around myself, does he suddenly not like me because people are now aware or speculating? 

Is he tired now? Is the thrill over now? I take a step back and he immediately pulls me in, realizing that his cold shoulder is getting interpreted by me wrongly. 

I immediately feel better when our body colide. 

"What's the problem babe?" I ask again? 

"It's just... This person got past the gate and into the compound, he got close enough to take photos of you, i stay in this remote part because I want privacy, if this had happened sometime else I wouldn't have made a noise, but I have you now, you are precious, and also I have crazy fans who think hurting me or mine is a good way of getting my attention "He finishes and I come to a conclusion. 

So he wasn't angry at me? But at the face that I could have gotten hurt? How sweet is that? 

I lift my self on toes and peck his lips. 

" I'm right here baby, I'm fine, no thing's happen "I could almost here the yet at the end of that statement but I ignored it. 

I should probably be scared that his mother could find out about me at best or that James could find me at worst but I just don't care right now. 

I have just 5 days with this man, I'm not going to spend it being scared that something might happen, or looking over my shoulders. 

"It's fine sweetness" I say and his face melts at my endearment, he smiles in my face. 

Shit

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. This man is all mine. I turn to Aaron.

"I don't have anything to wear for our beach trip today" 

"We will hit a store on the way" 

"I've never been to a beach before" I say. 

"Well be ready for a time of your life" Levi says in my ear and I smile even as my eyes are still on Aaron. 

Aaron shakes his head at our goofiness and he picks the tab exiting. 

Coming to the beach was a wonderful idea, I've never been before and I don't know why I never felt the need to come before. 

I turn to see Aaron and Levi acting like kids in the ocean, splashing water on each other. 

I totally forgot to ask Levi about his trip but I think it went well, seeing as Aaron is laughing and not moping. 

We've done everything you can think of since we got here, I've gorged on illegal cotton candy that my stomach feels round, I'm sure it's off in the black one piece I'm wearing. 

I wave at Levi when he turns to me, sweet jesu, he's in beach shots and the sun is doing glorious things to his hair and abs. 

Aaron looks like he stepped off a GQ magazine, shit, I'm surrounded by fine men. 

I turn away and my eyes land on a child building a sand castle, I smile, I love kids, another child walks up to the first and it's obvious they are twins. 

I smile, I love twins better, I watch as they build together and I get a sense of deja vu. 

I suddenly have a feeling to cry, I feel suddenly sad like I could die., I raise my hands to my eyes and I feel tears there. 

Images flash before my eyes, they go as fast as they come and it leaves me bereft, a sense of grief grips me and my hand creeps to my chest where it hurts the most. 

I look around for Levi and he's watching me, already taking steps towards me, I begin to hyperventilate and I feel my breath shorten. 

I can't breathe. 

Why can't I breathe? 

Levi gets to me and I try to reach out to him but the edges of my vision darken. 

Thunder rumbles over head and that's all I know before everything falls away and I slip into the darkness of nothingness.