Forbidden Love

Chapter 6

I went back in the house locking the door behind me.

I went to the kitchen to get myself a glass of water to calm me down when a tapping on the kitchen window made me drop my glass shattering glass everywhere.

I looked up to see Joe in the window.

"What?" I asked pulling him inside, "You scared me."

"Sorry." He did at least look sorry and he asked me for a pan and brush to clean up the glass.

I sat down and watched him as he cleaned up my mess, I didn't offer to help, "what happened Joe?"

He sat down next to me, "please tell me the truth."

He took my hand in his much larger one. I felt like pulling it away until I knew the story but I didn't. I don't know why I didn't. There was a magnetic pull with him. Even when something terrible happened I wanted to be near him. Especially when something terrible happened.

"We were telling the truth out there. Your brother did turn up drunk off his head. James too."

"That doesn't explain how he ended up in that state."

"Well it was fine for a bit. I hadn't even realised he was there and no one was paying him too much attention. Then he came up to me. I don't know what you've told him or what he's heard but he started saying I wasn't good enough for his sister and telling me to stay away from you."

"I haven't told him anything! He just gets crazy ideas in his head." I felt a blush creep onto my cheeks. Did Joe think I'd been telling Ethan stories?

"Yeah well anyway I told him he was drunk and should calm down. You know drink some water before he goes home. But then my mum hears him and starts making a scene and then asking me who his sister is. It got really out of hand really quickly I'm not even sure who threw the first punch. There were a lot of guys fighting him he didn't stand a chance. Me and James had to dive in when he fell to the floor and pull him out or they would have kept going. When I left my mum was crying that I had betrayed the family."

"Oh Joe! So this was all my fault!" I think of Ethan's beat up face again and how he could barely get into the car. He did that because he thought he was defending my honour, the stupid git.

"No! Why would you think that?"

"Because I told Ethan not to go tonight! I should have known that if he knew I didn't want him there he'd get all worked up and end up there and cause I scene!" I knew I was the one getting worked up now and I needed to calm down.

"Olivia," Joe pulled me tightly against his chest in a hug, I melted against him, "nothing about tonight is your fault. I should have kept my distance from you but every time I'm around you I feel like nothing else matters. But it does matter."

I pull away slightly from where my head lay on his chest so my face is just in front of his so I can look into his eyes when I speak to him, "is that what you're doing now, keeping your distance?"

He leaned forward only an inch so that his lips captured mine and kissed me. An earth shattering kiss. I didn't know a kiss could be this good. My insides melted as he lifted me off my chair and placed me gently in his lap.

I don't know how long we kissed for, our hands slowly exploring each other's sides, not being too adventurous.

I pulled away, "don't you have to get home?" I can't imagine what his mother must be doing now. I'm surprised the search party hasn't reached my house by now.

"I'm already grounded for the rest of my life. I don't see how this makes a difference. Do you want me to leave?"

"No." I answered feeling very sure in my answer as my hand snaked around his neck and into the back of his hair, "No."