Kidnapped & In Love

Chapter 7

Melissa’s POV

“Hey good morning” I greet Dimitry who is in the kitchen filling a pot with water.

“Good morning, how did you sleep?” he asks.

“I slept well thank, and yourself?” I move closer to where he is.

“Not bad, getting used to the couch and floor” he says which takes me by surprise.

“The floor?”

“Yeah” he places the pot on the stove that’s already hot from the burning firewood below in its oven. “I usually find myself on the floor in the morning” he says effortlessly.

“Oh, we need to find a solution” I say, the only solution would be sharing the bed with him. The bed can fit two people that are intimately together because it’s a small bed and we would be rubbing against each other if we shared the bed. The thought of that makes me hot inside.

“Don’t worry about it, I have gotten used to it” he says.

I walk towards the pantry before he sees my now burning chicks from the thought of us sharing a bed. I take out a jar I discovered a few days ago, it contains coffee.

“I found this jar with coffee. I don’t know if it has expired or not. Would you like some?” I ask him as I put the jar on the table.

“I could use some coffee today, I need to either go hunting or fishing for today’s food” he says,

“Can I join you? Staying in this cabin is getting to me” I ask hoping and praying he doesn’t say no. I hate being in one place for a long time.

“Sure, not a problem but be warned it’s exhausting” he says. I pick the mockery in his voice.

“Looking forward to it” I smirk at him then he chuckles.

Dimitry’s laugh and smiles make me want to melt. I immediately turn looking away from him. God what’s happening to me? Why do I keep feeling like this?

I take the leftover bread from yesterday and place it on the table. I wish I had more ingredients like eggs and butter to make scones or muffins, I could use oil, but I still need eggs and some milk.

I take my seat at the table and clasp my hands together holding my chin up.

“Penny for your thoughts?” he asks.

“Oh, it’s nothing” I say.

“May I know that something?” he insists.

“I was just hoping we had more ingredients like eggs and milk so that I make something else apart from bread”

“You’re bored of the food ey?” he asks looking me straight in the eyes. I just shake my head.

Dimitry pours hot water into our cups that he then puts in front of us before he takes the empty seat across from mine.

After our plain breakfast, Dimitry and I carry some containers to get clean water. A basket I am hoping to carry whatever we manage to hunt.

I pick a bucket from the bathroom and put my dirty clothes, a dress, two pairs of leggings and a few shirts. These are all the clothes I have here, the clothes Dimitry packed for me the morning we left.

“Dimitry, I need to do some laundry near the lake so could you give me your dirty clothes?” I say while carrying the bucket out of the bedroom and he shakes his head.

“You don’t need to do my laundry” he says with a straight face as if I am asking for something impossible from him.

“Why not?”

“Why should you be doing my laundry?” he answers.

“Dimitry it’s just laundry” I stare back at him like he is but mine is more of a glare than a stare.

“Fine” he says like a little boy complaining. He walks into the room and walks out with his dirty clothes.

“I don’t want you doing my laundry” he says.

“Well you go out to gather and hunt food for us, so this is the least I can do” I say.

After that we leave the cabin. Dimitry leading the way as I follow him behind. The woods are quiet, all I hear is the sound of the branches shaking and birds flying from one tree to another.

The trees look exactly like the trees I would see from my bedroom window back at the mansion. Maybe it’s not that far from the mansion, but wouldn’t someone have come looking for us?

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After walking a while, I stop to catch my breath. I don’t know how long we have been walking but I am now exhausted resting my arms on my knees while looking at the ground.

“How far are we from the lake?” I ask.

“Not too far, less than 200 meters from here” he says. “You could stay here, and I can bring you the water” he suggests. No way his leaving me alone in the middle of nowhere.

“No that’s fine” I say straightening up and proceeding with the same direction as before.  

Just like he approximated we reach the Lake. He empties the bucket and fetches me some water which he brings to me. I move towards the lake and seat on the ground taking in the beautiful view in front of me. This place isn’t bad at all, it’s so beautiful.

I close my eyes for a moment. It’s quiet and peaceful, the only sound I can hear is coming from the wind blowing the branches of the closest trees and the sound of the low current of water.

This place is truly beautiful. I never looked around the day we arrived here, I was so mad at Dimitry for his decision that put us in the current situation.

I open my eyes and find Dimitry sitting next to me.

“This place is beautiful” I say.

“It truly is, if it weren’t for getting you back home I would choose to live here” I hear him say.

Me too.

I would also want to live here if it wasn’t for me trying to find my way home.

“Since you’re doing laundry let me catch some fish, I can hunt something else tomorrow.” He says,

“Alright that’s not a problem.”

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Dimitry’s POV

I freaked out when Melissa said she wanted to come with me. I usually met up with Tucker who helped me fish, a few days ago helped me catch a rabbit. Today I won’t be able to do that if Melissa comes with me.

I hope tucker won’t show up, maybe we could use a different route to the lake. We left the cabin and walked for a while before Melissa stopped to catch her breath. We were closer to the lake when we stopped for her to catch her breath. I offered to fetch water and bring it to her,  she denied and started walking in the same direction we were heading in.

After getting to the Lake, she was mesmerized by the view in front of us. I also liked this place, I found it to be peaceful just listening to the wind blow and the water currents.

I fetch water in the bucket placing it where she was doing laundry then get to fishing.

I take my shirt off, fold my sweatpants up to my knees, kick the shoes of then get into the water. I am lucky I still have worms which Tucker and I caught a few days back as bait. I put some worms on the hock then lower it into the lake.

When the fishing stick lowers deep into the lake I prepare my hand net and pull it out, lucky me I get one medium sized fish. I keep doing this for a while until I catch two more.

All this while Melissa has been doing laundry and managed to hang the clothes on the nearby shrubs to dry.

“How’s it going?” she asks approaching me at the lake banks.

“So far so good I guess, I caught us three” I say.

“Oh” her face lightens up “That’s great, could you teach me how to fish?” she asks.

“Ahhh it’s not as easy as it looks” I try to convince her against it. Fishing can be frustrating most times, it requires patience and skill.

“It’s okay” she says then takes her shoes off, folds her jeans up and get into the water. “Oh my god this water is so cool.”

“Are you sure about this?” I ask her as she slowly gets into the water.

“Yes” she smiles, I am amused by her, everything she does takes me by surprise. Nothing like Marisa.

“Okay, come over” I wave my hand at her towards myself.

“Oh this water is colder here than it was there” she points back at the banks of the lake. I take her hand and help her get closer to where I am. I hand her the fishing stick while she stands in front of me giving me her back.

We haven’t stood this close to each other since that night we had wine and got intimate. I have missed being this close to her, breathing the air she exhales, taking in her fragrance, hearing her heartbeat.

“Okay, so how do I hold and operate this?” she asks referring to the fishing stick.

“Like this” my arms brush against hers as she’s standing in front of me as I show her how to hold the fishing stick. My hand above hers showing her what needs to me done. This closeness is getting me excited, if we keep standing this close I won’t be able to help myself.

“Hold it up like this, let me get the worms” I say moving away from her to get the worms.

I put the worms on the hook, I stand behind her again and hold her arms “Now we are going to throw it further from where we are” I instruct her, on my mark we swing the stick and the hook flies across landing a distance from us. “Hold it steady until you feel something tagging on the bait” I tell her

“Okay”

Her first try nor the second catch anything. We keep trying until when she’s almost giving up.

“Dimitry, I feel something” she screams.

“Are you sure?” I ask in disbelief, she said the same thing a while back.

“Yes, get the hand net” she yells.

“Start rolling the string back” I instruct her as I grab the hand net.

For real she caught something and it’s big. I help her and we catch a fish so big even I have never caught something that big. In the hand net the fish is jumping around gasping for water and almost jumping out.

“Dimitry make sure it doesn’t jump back into the water” she says all worried.

“I won’t let it go” I say.

We back to the lake banks and put the fish in the basket with the other three.

“Well done partner” I tell her, she smiles which warms my heart.

“Thank you, I couldn’t have done it without you.” She high fives me.

“You’re welcome, I will invoice you later?” I tease,

“Yeah right” she laughs, she accidentally splashes water on me. “I am sorry” she says covering her mouth “I didn’t mean too”

I look at my now wet sweatpants, I look at her, her face very apologetic then I look at the water. We should have some fun, a smile creeps up on my face.

“No, please don’t” she starts shaking her head and moving backwards.

Before she gets further I splash water on her face which wets her hair a little. She screams, for a moment I think she’s mad at me until she starts laughing.

“Get ready to get soaking wet” then she splashes more water on me.

I look at myself,

I am soaking wet. Both my sweatpants and boxers underneath are drenched in water. She’s still giggling, I move closer to where she’s standing.

“Please…. don’t” she asks still giggling.

I stand in front of her, she looks so beautiful. A few strands of her hair are falling on both sides of her face. I raise both my hands brushing them off her face and tucking the stray strands behind her ears.

“Aren’t you going to do the same to me?” she asks, her words bringing me back to reality. I shake my head.

“I have a better idea” I wink at her.

“What?” she asks, puzzled.

Holding her wrist gentle, I pull her further away from the lake banks. “You got me soaked by splashing water at me.”

“Yes” she responds.

“And I will get you soaked by swimming.” I say with a smirk plastered on my face.

“What!! No, we can’t, what if I get carried away by the current?” she stops moving. I turn and face her,

“No worries, these currents can’t carry you away while I am watching”

“Noooo!!!” she cries out but it’s too late, more than half her body is submerged under water.

“Trust me” I say, and she nods her head.

I let her wrist go then float on my back. She watches me for while before she does the same thing.