The Believer. (Book 2.)

Romania.

After the barge in Zak I am are completely embarrassed. The rest of the GAC boys have now seen us...compromised.
We returned to the party, and we learned that people had been looking for us all night. Whoops.

So for the rest of the evening Zak and I took it a little slower. Staggering up the stairs by the end of the night, exhausted from both the booze and the sex.

The next morning, is an early one. Zak had my bags packed two days before and I didn't even know about it. Thinking about it now, some of my favourite outfits have gone missing. God only knows what else he has packed. Anyway, 4:30am came and Zak was flailing about the house like a mad man on ket.

"Jesus Zak, will you calm down please."  I say.

"I can't, I want this to be the perfect honeymoon for you and I can't find my fucking suitcase with all my stuff in."

"You were messing around in the garage for a while a few days ago. Have you tried in there? " I ask.

"Why would they be in...The garage!" He has a face of sudden realisation. He bolts down the stairs and flies through the door. "Baby!..." He shouts. I come running in after him to see him holding onto two suitcases. "...let's get this show on the road." He smiles. Just as he says these words there is a beeping from the outside. "That's the cab." He beams even more. He hands me my case and takes my hand in his.

We get into the car and drive to the airport. Upon arrival, we are noticed by a few people and they want to get a few pictures which we are happy to do.
When someone comes up to me and pulls me away from Zak to have a chat with me.

"Are you ok?" I ask her. She just throws her arms around me. Taken aback a little I hesitate to respond but something tells me she really needs this interaction. So I gently hug her in return. After she steps back there are tears in her eyes.

"Thank you." She says.

"What for?" I ask.

"I saw the Halloween special..." Zak then comes over as the rest of the fans had left. "...More importantly the interaction with Elliot. And if I hadn't seen that it's possible to find love and escape that hold I'd still be trapped with mine. So thank you." She cries.

"Oh sweetheart!" I sympathise. I then bring her into another hug. "I didn't do anything you know that right. That strength and bravery. That was all you. And you're free." I say. She sighs with relief and let's me go.

"Congratulations on the wedding by the way I hope you two are very happy." She smiles.

"Thank you." We say. She smiles and leaves us to catch our flight.

"Are you ok?" Zak asks as we walk towards our gate. Before I can answer I get a phone call. I look down at my phone:

Unknown number

Me: Hello?

Caller: Tiger? *she weeps with slurs*

Me: Mother?

Mother: Baby it's Daddy... He's dead.

Me:...

Mother: TigerLil...

I put the phone down.

"Babe? Everything ok?" Zak asks. I thought I would cry when my parents died. To be truthful I thought it would be my Mother who would go first, with the amount of drinking and smoking she did. Honestly,she didn't sound any different from when we parted. Slurring her words, damaged vocal cords, I'm just glad you can't smell anything through phones. But no, I guess the beast went first. I smile up at Zak with tears in my eyes. "Sweetheart?"

"I'm fine. It er... it's Elliot. He's dead." I say. Zak doesn't know how to react to this news. And to be honest neither do I. He's a monster and deserves every bad thing coming his way. But he's my dad, if you like, a man who... no I can't even say that, he's just a man who was a part of my life for a while. Zak takes my head in his hand and pulls me to meet his lips.

"I'm sorry. Come on Mrs. Bagans, let's get on this plane and go and have the best week of romance, fun and all the dirty sex we could ever possibly have." He whispers down my ear, causing me to giggle.

The flight we are about to get on is a 28 bloody hour flight. Fucking 28hours. Wherever we are going better be fucking worth it. Zak hands the flight attendant our tickets, which I haven't seen. Zak has hidden everything from me, telling me to keep my head down pretty much all the way round the airport. When we sit down on the plane, Zak leans over and whispers into my ear.

"Want to join the mile high club baby?"

"The what?" I ask with confusion.

"Oh I love how innocent you are sometimes. The mile high club is when two people go into the toilet of the plane, when in the air. And fuck each other senseless." He grins. My eyes widen and my face drops.

"Are you already part of it?" I ask, not really sure I wanna know the answer. Zak laughs and lowers his head a little. "You are aren't you?" I ask. He looks at me with a hardline mouth.

"It wasn't anything bad or anything. It just..."

"How did you both fit. I mean the toilet is small isn't it?" I ask.

"Closer you are the deeper you go in my opinion. But 1st class is different." Zak says.

"Ok." I smile. Zak's head snaps in my direction.

"Really?" He asks with surprise in his voice. I smile and open my book and begin to read. Zak laughs at me. "You've been reading that book for a while. What's it about?" He asks.

"A sadist man who likes tying up women and fucking them, until he falls in love with one of them and marries her."

"Huh." Zak smiles. Just then the captain comes over the speakers.

"Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Zachary I'm your captain for this flight this morning travelling to Romania..." I look over at Zak with a beaming smile. "...today's flight will take us 28 hours and we will reach our destination tomorrow night at 8pm.
So sit back relax enjoy your ride. We shall be taking off slowly. We do have two very important people on this journey today. With Zak and TigerLilly Bagans who are currently on their way to Transylvania for their honeymoon." The entire plane begins to clap. "Congratulations to the happy couple, and on behalf of the cabin and crew, we hope you have the happiest of time together." Zak kisses my cheek and I blush a little with embarrassment. "Over to my lovely cabin crew for your safety information." As the hostess give us the information we needed to know Zak put his hand on my thigh and held me tightly. Oh shit! I forgot he doesn't like heights. Hence why I have the window seat. I take my hand in Zak's and he braces for take off. The engines stars, the seatbelt sign is blinking and Zak is tense. We begin to move and I turn Zak's gaze to meet mine.

"You good?" I ask. Zak shakes his head. I bring him to kiss me as the plane ascends into the air. Once the seatbelt sign turns off and the captain tells us it's ok to take it off, pull away from him and smile.

"I have something to tell you." Zak says.

"Am I going to like it?" I ask.

"Well, we are spending the week here together. Then if you are ok with it. The guys are going to come down the week after and we can all investigate Vlad Tepes castle if you want. And a few other places. I mean I thought why not while we are down here and..." I cut him off with a kiss.

"I would love nothing more." I beam. Zak then pulls me on top of him and brings me to kiss him.

"I love you."

"I love you more." I smile.