In Love with a Star Page 10

  “What do you mean?”

  “Am I better or worse than when you used to peep at me from your bedroom window when I undressed?”

  “Oh, my God! I didn’t know you were aware of it!”

  “If you didn’t want to be noticed, you shouldn’t have forgotten to turn off the light, also the small one next to the window”.

  Leny blushed deeply, but her mind get lost into oblivion soon after.

  Feeling his turgid and hot member slide on her, while he kept kissing her face and her neck, made her moan shamelessly.

  When he took her nipple into his mouth and sucked it with voracity, she felt her whole body stiffen and contract especially in her lower belly, where her soul seemed to melt.

  Chris went on tormenting her and playing with her breast with his mouth and tongue, while he put his hands closer to her most private parts.

  He found her incredibly wet and victim to small contractions which made him go crazy with impatience even more.

  When he touched her softly between her legs, Leny started to tremble overwhelmed by her body’s reaction and afraid of that invasion which had scared her so much in the last years that she hadn’t let anyone touch her.

  She felt his fingers moving along her vagina and then making room inside her.

  “You’re so tight”, he whispered starting kissing her once more.

  Even if she was terribly excited, Leny couldn’t wipe that fear from her mind, the pain she had felt the morning after the high school party, so when she felt the hard top of his member between his thighs, she stiffened scared.

  “Are you ok?”, Chris asked her worried, stopping to look at her. Leny was trembling and her frightened look was worse than a cold shower.

  “Yes, I am. I’m just excited”, Leny lied wiping away a solitary tear which got lost in her hairline next to her temple.

  “You don’t look so. You’re crying. If you don’t feel like doing it, you can just tell me”, Chris got nervous and troubled at the idea of causing a reaction like that. He had longed for her many times, but he had never thought of scaring her.

  Was it possible that Leny was so disgusted by him?

  “No, the truth is I’m…I’m not used to it, that’s all. After Ethan, I’ve never…I’ve never done it again and…you see…I’m afraid of not being so…able”, Leny explained sincerely, but she omitted she was terrified of feeling what had happened with Ethan once more.

  “You mustn’t be scared. You’re gorgeous and I’m craving for you”, he tried to calm her down, but he understood there was something else as well. Something untold. Something she thought would make him suffer.

  “I’m longing for you too. It’s only that…”.

  “It’s only that you’re in love with someone else”, Chris ended in her place, reminding what Emily had said when they had come back from the spa.

  “That’s not true”.

  “Leny, please, don’t lie to me!”, Chris replied dry, standing away from her, who tried to stop him.

  “No, wait! I…I want to do it. With you. Really”.

  “It’s better if we don’t. Forget it”, Chris ended getting up from the bed and starting to get dressed.

  “Chris, please…Wait…I’m sorry but…”, she tried to stop him imploring, moving to him and covering herself with a blanket.

  Chris stopped overwhelmed by the suffering he was reading in her amber eyes.

  “Leny, I must apologize. I kissed you and dragged you to bed without wondering if you agreed or not, but it’s evident I disgust you and I can accept it, even if it makes me suffer. I’m sorry I forced you to…”, Chris explained fast while he finished to get dressed.

  “No!”, Leny shouted exasperated, shaking her head vigorously and trying to forget what he had just said.

  “I’ll let you dress up peacefully! I’ll go and tidy my grandpa’s things”, he warned her coldly before he closed the door behind his back.

  Shaken by thrills and by what had just happened, Leny realized she would never let Chris think he disgusted her. It was all Ethan’s fault. And now it was time to tell Chris, before their relationship went completely to hell.

  She got dressed fast, scared but hopeful too, and she ran to the living room where she found Chris with Emily.

  “Emily, what are you doing here?”, Leny burst out surprised when she saw her.

  “Leny, you aren’t ready yet!”, Emily fidgeted running to her cousin.

  “What for?”.

  “For the party! Hasn’t Sheila told you about the party they are going to have for me and Chris before we leave?”.

  “No, she didn’t”.

  “Well, I’m telling you and let’s go now. You’ve got twenty minutes to find a proper dress, wipe those ugly shadows under your eyes and come to the party with me”.

  “But how can I? I can’t. All my things are still packed”.

  “I’ve thought of it, so I brought one of my dresses”, Emily informed her thrilled, going to fetch a big packet lying next to the door.

  “I don’t know, Emily. I’m really tired”.

  “You can’t leave me alone. Please, come”, Emily muttered pretending to start crying.

  Her cousin surrendered in the end.

  “That goes for you too, Chris. Get up and get ready”, Emily stirred him up in a much more authoritarian voice.

  “I’ll let it go”.

  “No, you’re coming”, Emily disagreed pressing him.

  “I don’t feel like”.

  “I don’t care at all. You must come, or who’s taking us since Leny has no car?”.

  “Leny has got her driving license. She can drive”, Chris solved everything shrugging his shoulders.

  “She has chosen such high-heeled shoes, it will be impossible for her to drive! And stop playing the spoilsport now! Wipe away your pissed off look and get ready!”.

  The boy surrendered at last.

  Half an hour later Leny was tottering on her golden and excessively high-heeled shoes and crammed into such a tight dress she was forced to give only short breaths.

  “Emily, this dress lacks a lot of cloth”, Leny noticed feeling uneasy with a completely uncovered hip, her naked back, a wonderful neckline and a slash which almost reached her panties.

  “You’re gorgeous! That’s just what you needed to make your beloved fall to your feet!”, Emily exulted.

  “I’ll wait for you in the car”, Chris intruded coldly, as he just wanted to avoid talks like that.

  “It’s embarrassing! I can’t even walk if I don’t lean on you”, Leny got nervous trying to avoid playing the perfect fool on those golden stilts.

  “Some steps more and you’ll get used to them. You’ll see, you will be able to run on these shoes by night”, Emily comforted her going out of the car park and moving to the pub door.

  “Leny! Emily!”, a voice shouted behind them.

  The three of them turned and saw Ethan’s face coming out of a car window.

  “Ethan?”, Emily whispered, her attention caught by the man who was parking the car just next to Chris.

  “Emily, let’s go!”, Leny got immediately frightened and dragged her cousin away, but the other one addressed a sardonic smile to her, leaving her a bad feeling. It was soon evident she was looking for trouble.

  Leny tried to carry her cousin away, but she got free at once and she moved to the man who was coming out of the car.

  Leny tried to grasp her arm once more, but she lost balance and she would have fallen badly to the ground, if Chris hadn’t helped her.

  She wanted to thank him but she was too worried for Emily.

  “Chris, bring Leny inside. I’ll come at once”, Emily ordered the boy.

  “No, I don’t want to. Emily, come with us”, she shouted to her, but Ethan had reached them and he clung to Emily after a few seconds.

  “I thought you had forgotten me, movie star”, he exclaimed smiling.

  “I could never forget you! Leny has been talking so much about
you, I’ve been wishing till the last moment to meet you before I left”, she answered in a cheerful voice which could just disguise the threat hiding behind, but which was absolutely caught by Leny, who put herself anxiously between her cousin and Ethan.

  The young man misinterpreted that attitude as a sort of need for attention by the one he still considered his ex-girlfriend, he moved close to Leny, pushed by the euphoria of feeling so wanted.

  He put his hand on her uncovered hip and gave her a long kiss in the corner of her mouth, making her tremble and feel sick.

  Luckily Emily came to her rescue and dragged Ethan away, taking him arm in arm.

  Leny couldn’t reach them because of her heels and she avoided falling down badly thanks to Chris’s help.

  “Are you ok? You look…”, he asked her gloomy.

  “It’s my heels”, Leny prevaricated without turning her eyes from Ethan and Emily.

  Ethan had spoilt her possibility of enjoying the intimacy between a man and a woman, but she would never let him hurt Emily too.

  “Isn’t it because of the way Ethan is holding Emily tight?”.

  Yes.

  “No, it isn’t”.

  Once inside, Emily and Chris were overwhelmed with congratulations and screams by their fans.

  It took them almost forty-five minutes to calm the crowd down and enjoy something to drink.

  “Here you are”, Ethan exclaimed putting four glasses of tequila on the table.

  “I’m not drinking”, Leny got immediately nervous.

  “Neither if I ask you to do it for me, nice face?”.

  Above all for that!

  Leny didn’t even answer him, so Ethan started prodding the other man of the group.

  “Let’s go, Chris! Are we drinking a toast to the company of these two fantastic cousins?”, he provoked him handing the little glass to him.

  “I don’t drink too”, Chris answered feigning a peaceful voice, which hid his irrepressible wish to drink the whole bottle in a single gulp. He should get terribly drunk to keep standing what was going on in front of him: Emily pretending to be nice to Ethan and Leny staring at her frightened and worried.

  “Is that for the alcohol problems you had some years ago?”.

  “No, it’s only I don’t feel like celebrating”, Chris silenced him, trying to control his wish to punch him and wipe that satisfied smile from his face.

  An hour more went by between tequila and cocktails, during which Emily let Ethan took her to dance and put his hands on her, while Chris signed the last autographs and got rid of his irritating fans.

  Leny instead didn’t move from her place keeping silent all the while.

  The only moving part of her stiff body were her eyes following Emily’s and Ethan’s moves.

  “You haven’t even touched your cocktail since we sat down”, Chris told her, removing her attention from her target.

  “I’m not thirsty”.

  “I didn’t think you would be so touched seeing Ethan with Emily”.

  Leny didn’t answer, but she lowered her eyes giving Chris the idea of having hit the point.

  “So he is the man you love!”, Chris understood smiling bitterly.

  Leny looked at him shocked.

  “You’re wrong!”

  “Really? You haven’t turned your eyes from him for a moment!”.

  “That’s not true”, Leny justified herself knitting her brows.

  “Don’t pull a long face! I can see from a distance you’re suffering in seeing him in another woman’s arms”, Chris admitted irritated.

  “You’re absolutely wrong! The truth is different! The fact is…Oh, my God! Where are they?”.

  She had withdrawn her attention for a moment to talk with Chris and Emily was no more on the dance floor.

  Very scared about what could happen, she took Sheila by her arm while she was passing by her.

  “Have you seen my cousin and Ethan?”.

  “They’ve just gone out…Let me go now. You’re hurting me”, the girl tried to get free, offended by her friend’s rude manners.

  Without wasting more time, she got up and moved through the crowd.

  “But where are you going?”, Chris asked her before he saw her disappear into that mess.

  “I’m going to look for Emily. Wait for me here. I’ll be back at once”, she ordered fidgeting.

  She was able to walk to the exit without falling, even if with difficulty.

  Being careful not to lose her balance, she also tried to run to the car park, where she found in fact Emily with Ethan next to his car.

  They were quarrelling and weren’t aware of Leny’s presence, who was left paralyzed by the words she heard coming from her cousin’s mouth.

  “Just try and touch my cousin again and I’ll make you pay dearly for that, you big fuck!”, Emily insulted him

  Kicking him strongly in his testicles.

  “You bitch! I’ll report you”, he hissed with clenched teeth, crunching on the ground with pain.

  “You’ll report me?! You haven’t probably understood. I said: try to come close to Leny and I’ll make you regret you were born, you fucking rapist!”.

  “All that just for a fucking bang?”, Ethan laughed sardonically trying to get up. “Everyone saw how much drunk she was that night!”.

  “So you took advantage on her, didn’t you?”.

  “I took just what she wanted to give me, even if she really thought I was Hailen”.

  “What a pity you aren’t Chris!”, Emily put him right, slapping him so violently she scratched his face with the ring she had on her finger.

  “So what?”.

  “So what? You raped her, fucking bastard!”, she shouted at him hitting him with a burst of punches to his chest.

  Ethan pushed her away, making her almost fall to the ground.

  He was going to answer and tell her he would do the same to her, when he realized Leny was there and someone else behind her, scaring him so much he went back to the car, opened it and made it start with some difficulty because of the trembling making his moves awkward.

  Leny and Emily kept staring at him shattered, while a shadow came out from behind and rushed to the car which was moving very fast.

  Chris was there and he was furious.

  Through the open window, he could punch him in his face, but that was nothing compared to what he wanted to do.

  He had dared to rape Leny…No, he couldn’t even thing about that. He didn’t want to think about that. He didn’t want to hear his mind scream it was his fault as he had left her alone.

  Like a crazy man, he took the keys to make his car start and run after him, but he was stopped by Emily and Leny.

  The first one was blocking his way, while the other was holding him by his hips, making him stop.

  “Chris, don’t do it or you’ll get into trouble. Remember that in people’s opinion you’re a rich, famous and spoilt actor against a poor country boy. You risk a denunciation…”, Emily tried to convince him.

  “I don’t give a damn!”, Chris shouted furiously and pushed her back.

  “Please, Chris. Think about it”.

  “Go away”, he growled against her, opening the car and dragging Leny, who kept grasping at him.

  Shaking her head, Emily surrendered and turned on her heels, but after she had addressed her cousin an imploring glance.

  “Leny, get out of my way”, Chris got angry as he couldn’t see Ethan’s car anymore. He remembered where he lived and he would find him there, if he was lucky.

  “No, Chris, please don’t do it”.

  Chris got free from Leny’s grasp. He turned to her and tried to wipe away the image of the girl terrorized under his body some hours before. Ethan had raped her. He understood everything now.

  “Leny, you realize that bastard can’t get away with it, don’t you?”, Chris explained putting his hands softly on her shoulders shaken by sobs.

  He saw her start, when she heard his cruel voice. />
  It was as if he had got a punch in his stomach.

  He couldn’t stand seeing her so scared of him.

  “Leny. Ethan must pay for what he did”, he added trying to control his voice.

  “I don’t want you to get in trouble for me”.

  “I don’t care”.

  “I do. What happened with Ethan belongs to the past. I don’t even remember…I don’t want to live what happened again. It’s too dangerous”.

  Chris felt his heart breaking at those words. “Ethan must pay for what he did just for this reason”.

  “No, please. If you care about our friendship, don’t do it. Let him go”, Leny implored him.

  “I must do it because I care for you”, Chris decided, trying to convince her.

  “Don’t go! Do it for me, please…”, Leny moaned desperately, catching him by his arm to stop him getting on the car. “Chris, I love you”.

  Those words were able to make Chris’s whole body go to black out. He stopped shuttered, trying to realize what he had just heard. Could he really believe he had heard what he wished to?”.

  “I…I love you. I’ve always loved you. Chris, please…”, Leny repeated trying to wipe away the tears making her cheeks red, without leaving his grasp on the boy’s shirt. “I love you. You don’t know how many times I wished I could tell you, but you were so far away and I…I missed you so much”.

  “Oh, Leny!”, he sighed broken-hearted and happy, holding her tight. “I love you too”.

  It was as if the last seven years had suddenly disappeared for both of them

  Leny threw her hands around his neck and stretched her lips, pushed by the happiness filling her heart.

  She kissed him trying to transmit all the love she felt for him.

  It was a tender, passionate and…aching kiss!

  “I love you”, she whispered moving a bit from him to breathe again.

  “Oh, Leny! You’re all my life”, he told her holding her tighter as if he feared to lose her in a moment.

  “At last!”, Emily’s voice exclaimed, while she clapped at the two lovers. “It was time for you to declare! Leny, I said you would make Chris fall to your feet and learn to walk on high heels tonight. And now don’t waste time: bring me home and then go encamping somewhere. You must make up for seven years of wild sex.

  Leny blushed till her hair’s root, while Chris laughed amused by his dear friend’s easiness.