Secret Moments - Chapter 2

TALA'S POV

I thought it would be better to change now while he was in the shower than change later. I ripped off my clothes changed into a pair of black underwear and black bra. I have this thing where they always had to match, and I didn't get any further into changing because I heard the bathroom door open. I turned around and squealed, "What are you doing?" At Jace who was standing just outside the bathroom with only a towel wrapped around him. I covered my eyes with my hand otherwise I thought I was going to start dribbling.

"Well I didn't have any clothes," he stated matter-of-fact.

"Oh. Shit. Sorry. One sec," and I practically ran out of my room. I went to my parents because that was probably my best bet to find clothes to fit him.

After going through three walk in closets and what felt like twelve sets of drawers I found a pair of faded blue jeans and a black hoodie Jace could wear, a pair of black bonds underwear thinking he would need some. I handed Jace the underwear and jeans, managing not to look at him.

"Okay put them on." I ordered.

"Are you not going to give me the hoodie?"

"Nope I have to dress... That!" I pointed to the bullet wound. "Come over here and sit there," I had looked up to see a clean sculpt body strolling towards me.

I opened my fully packed first aid kit, pulling out tweezers a pad and some tape to dress it. I also opened the little compartment and pulled out disinfectant, a little dish and an alcohol wipe. I gestured for Jace to sit down in the spare seat next to the desk, which he gladly took. Leaning over, I dabbed the alcohol wipe around the wound I used several wipes until it wound was clean, now for the tweezers.

"This is going to hurt," I warned.

"Yeah I figured," he sounded sarcastic, although he nearly came across serious.

I dunked the tweezers in the disinfectant before I started to dig around the wound, it took me a while but then I finally found the bullet. Every time I would hit his skin with the tweezers Jace would hiss. His hands were white from squeezing the armrests of the chair so tight and for so long.

"And... I got it!"

I pulled my tweezers out to show Jace the bullet, that had been stuck in him. His facial expression was quite peaceful as he stared at the bullet. I wiped over the wound again with another alcohol wipe. I held up the pad and it came to rest in the right spot, taping around the corners was difficult, because the pad wasn't square, it was a circle, so each bit of tape had to be small. As I stuck the pieces into place my hand was touching his muscled arm and chest. I looked up not noticing how close to Jace I actually was, he was looking down, which made us even closer than just a few inches, my breathing was shallow, and I never realized how much I want his lips to touch mine. Jace broke the starring first; he grinned and looked down at my body. It hit me like a ton of bricks; I was still only wearing my bra and underwear. I jumped up from where I sat and bolted to my drawers. I pulled out a pair of extra skinny jeans that were dark blue and a white hoodie with "Unit" written in gold across the front. I had them on within a second, slowly stepping back to where I was sitting, reaching down I grabbed the hoddie I was giving Jace, handing to him, slipping it over his head and smiled.

"Okay we need to get you some clothes. Can you go downstairs to the front door and there somewhere is like a table and it had a bowl on top and that bowl is full of keys, can you get the black ones? There are a few sets of black but if you read the charm thing it says Porsche." I asked.

"Yeah sure," he threw over his shoulder already walking out of the room.

I laughed and ran to the bathroom, I brushed my hair, when I heard, "When I"m Gone by Eminem," playing somewhere, then I realized it was my phone.

I ran out of the bathroom and straight towards my bed where I had thrown the phone. I picked it up, and started making my way to the bathroom again, but I answered it.

"Hello?!" I spoke polity as usual.

"Tala?! I"m not your real mum, and your dad isn't your real father, we're leaving you, don't try to contact us, because we don't want to speak to you or see you again. We're leaving you with the house and the money, we have our own, everything is yours so be safe. Goodbye..." My mother or not as she stated just hung up.

I could feel tears coming, turning around, I saw Jace standing in the doorway holding the keys.

"How much did you hear?"

"Pretty much all of it."

"Okay, well let's go," I scrunched my hair into a messy bun and walked out of my room.

I walked in to the garage, it was another of my passions, I did first aid and mechanical things. I loved fixing cars, my favorite was my black Porsche 911 Turbo, that I had put together from just a half destroyed shell. I also had put together a 2009 Austin Martin DBS which was bright red, a Bugatti Veyron EB16.4 that was gray and blue, a Lamborghini Murcielago that was an awesome green and a Dodge Viper Coupe that was yellow. I had kept about 12 other cars that were the best, although I have restored hundreds and sold them.

I got in my Porsche, started the engine, I plugged in my phone and, "I don't wanna care right now by Lupe Fiasco and MDMA," blasted through the speakers. I heard Jace's door close and I was burning rubber up the ramp to the driveway, at the top there's a tight corner you have to turn to get onto the driveway. I drifted around and accelerated to 120, every corner I just drifted I didn't want to slow down, we were at the shopping center in minutes. I'm not even legally allowed to drive a car yet but that has never stopped me, I've got a fake license and ID, I love the options money gives you, but I only usually use the money I have made my selling my cars. I parked and Jace just looked at me with his eyebrows raised.

"What?!" I snapped.

He just shook his head and started towards the electric doors. After about seven hours of non-stop shopping and six trips to the truck, I hired for all out stuff and one million dollars spent literally. We decided to head home.

The majority were clothes, shoes and electronics it was all for Jace. I told him I had to go to Woolworths and get groceries, and I told him to go buy some more clothes. Once I finished I had to find Jace again and that was going to be hard in a huge shopping center and he doesn't have a phone yet.

Well it actually wasn't that hard, I just felt drawn to a little antique shop on the other side of the mall. It was a mission to get there with a trolley full of food, and so maneuvering it through people was difficult. And there I saw.

Jace in the shop looking at the lady scan something he must be buying, the lady gave him a small brown paper bag that obviously had something inside it. Jace turned and looked surprised to see me standing in the doorway, that expression quickly changed to an amazing half-smile that I officially loved.

We left, after that I made Jace drive the truck while I drove my Porsche home. I cleaned the kitchen with Jace's help and then put the groceries where they needed to go. I had made Jace put on a fashion show, while I laid on my bed sipping a sprite, grinning at everything we bought. I set up his phone and added my name, I also bought him an iPad and MacBook which I plugged then in and charged them.

"This is my last one!" He yelled from the bathroom.

He came out wearing some black and white patterned vans, blue baggy jeans with Ed Hardy across the bum and skull patterns down the left leg. He had a dark gray almost dark blue singlet with a tiger face on the front and was holding one of those dress protectors in one of his hands and in the other was the little brown paper bag. Jace looked amazing in the singlet showing his beautifully tan toned arm muscles and he had on my favorite brand, Ed Hardy. Jace had his nice lopsided smile on again when I realized I was starring.

"What are they?" I pointed to his hands.

"Well there for you," his voice tinges of laughter, "Come here and have a look," he held out the dress bag.

I immediately jumped off the bed and raced to him, I grabbed the bag and ran to the bathroom. I was so excited to see what was in the bag; I unzipped it, surprised at what I found.

JACE'S POV

I heard the zip on the front slide down, then a surprised gasp. In my opinion the dress was beautiful. It was black, which I gathered was Tala's favorite color although she's not that into it, but she's not emo or goth. The dress was shot and tight, a boob tube with three material flowers towards the left of the dress barely under her breast, it had a sash like piece of material from just under the flowers draping around the right side and re-joining at the lift side seam.

I also bought her a lovely necklace, the color was slightly more green than teal but it was still mesmerizing, the diamond was a small heart which had little claws holding it in place. There was what looked like two silver bunny ears, one was smaller than the other, the longer piece of silver was where the chain would go through and in the middle of the two slithers of silver was a small white diamond. I also bought a silver bangle with flower and small swirling vines carved into the delicate piece.

Breaking through my thoughts Tala walked out of the bathroom in the dress, she looked, there was no word for how she looked, I couldn't help but stare. With her hands on her hips, the dress showed every perfect minor detail, she was perfect. Now it was my turn to blush, noticing that I had been staring for way to long.

"So does it look okay?" Her voice was shaking with excitement, she was almost jumping up and down.

"It looks amazing and these are for you, it's a necklace and bangle," I opened the paper bag and tipped it up slightly so the contents of it fell gracefully to rest on the bed sheet. Motioning Tala to come over, I held out my hand for hers, she placed her hand in mine, with my free hand I gently slid the bangle into place onto her wrist.

""Oh My God! It's beautiful," she was staring at the bangle and then looked at me, "Thank-you so much."

"That's okay but I still need to give you the necklace," I picked up the necklace still holding her hand and turned her around so she was facing the full length mirror in front of us. I stood behind her letting go off her hand to drape the necklace around her neck. I did the clasp and let go of her, Tala just looked down in awe, she turned around still looking down to face me.

"Th-," she looked up, Tala was so close I could feel her body heat, she was surprised to be so close. "Thank-you there beautiful," her eyes brimming with tears.

Her tears started cascading down her cheeks, letting out a heart breaking sob, both of her hands covered her face and she started to sink to the ground. I caught her before she hit the grounds, wrapping my arms around her waist. Tala buried her face in the side of my neck, her sobs wracked her whole body. We stood there for what felt like hours, days even years. Somehow we ended up lying on the couch, Tala was closest to the edge with her head on my chest and her arm over my stomach, her breathing was light and even, my arm still wrapped around her waist. I moved my arm just the tiniest bit so I could look at my wound, I noticed that Tala was lying on it and it didn't hurt, I slowly took one corner of the dressing off, what I saw surprised me, there was not bullet hole.

That's when Tala woke up, "Hey, sleeping beauty," I smiled.

"Hey, how long have I been sleeping?"

"Only about an hour, so what was all that about before?"

She put her head back down on my chest, "Well you heard that phone call," I could feel her light breath on my neck and the wet patches from newly forming tears.

"Mmhmm, well let's get you some water, you don't want to get a headache."

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Comment Replies:

Daina W. - Yeah I noticed that, and I know it didn't go well but I changed my plan, so I think it will suit more and be more interesting than boring elements.

Shandi - Thank you so much. Yeah personally I like them as well. But I've got more characters coming and a lot of them so it should be good. Keep reading.

Ashley - Thank you! I'm glad someone thinks that. I love the vote of confidence. Yeah well Jace is a bad boy but he can"t remember being one. You"ll find out and keep reading.