The Runaway Gypsy

Say what…no for real say what?

As a bag of McDonalds comes across the seat, I let his words roll around in my head. Tomorrow is my birthday,I’ll be nineteen that’s not old enough to get married, doesn’t me not being here mean the year of courtship got put on hold seeing how there was no one for him to court? Where is a loophole when a girl needs one? He is staring at me like there is something wrong with me, and really there is but I don’t think we think it’s the same thing as the other one thinks it is “what, why are you staring at me” he inclines his head towards the bag of food I haven’t opened yet. I let out a huff and open the bag and shove out a few fries and stuff them in my mouth “happy a**hat” he nods and looks out the window. I turn to look out my own window and notice we are not going towards my family’s building. For a matter of fact we are going the opposite way “where are we going, this isn’t the way to the Dakota” he turns and let’s out a hmm sound “where are you taking me” he turns back to his window, then down to his hands as he says “no this isn’t the way to the Dakota, I don’t live in the Dakota building, to mid-evil for my liking” I wave my hands around in front of me but he acts like he don’t know what that means “why would I care where you live, the whole point of dragging me back here is to put me in front of my father, is it not” he laughs in my face at the, full blown belly laugh like I have just said the most hysterical thing he’s ever heard in his life. I passed insulted hours ago so I’m not insulted but I still have no idea why we are going to where he lives or why he finds this funny. After he regains his composure I give him a pointed look “well if looks could kill you’d be a free woman, the reason we are going to my apartment is because all your things was moved there months ago. Your brothers got a lead on you and Landon sent men to watch you and make sure you didn’t get lost again, when he sent the men, your father sent all your belongs over to my place. I figured you would want to shower and pull yourself together before we went in front of your father. However I doubt anything you owned will fit you now.” Is he for real calling me fat right now? My father had all my belongs sent to a strangers home, he threw my stuff out so even if I wanted to go home I guess I’m not welcomed there “why would my father throw my stuff out? And are you for real calling me fat right now, I have never been fat in my whole life” I might be short but I have never been over 120 in my life even when I tried I couldn’t get it done. Truthfully I’m thinner now then I ever have been, being a run away and broke makes meals few and far between some days. He is looking at me like he is shocked “your not fat Laila, even when we first meet that night at your party a year ago, I thought then you was the tiniest thing I ever laid eyes on, but now I’m half scared to even touch you for fear of braking you your so thin. If you 95 pounds soaking wet I’d be shocked. Your father sent your stuff to our apartment, he figured it would be helpful to have your things in your home where you would be when you returned. I asked your mother and my sister to put them in the guest suit, till you are comfortable with me then we move them into the master closet” I give my self a look over, I don’t think I’m that thin. I haven’t seen a scale in a while but I don’t think I have dropped that much weight. But my jeans are bagger then they should be and I had to add a few new hole to my belt over the past year but I never paid that much attention to it. I feel like my father has threw me away, as if he doesn’t want me in his home any more. It’s not bad enough that he brokered me off to a stranger but now he sent all my things over to that strangers home. I never felt like a homeless runaway till now, now I do tho. I don’t notice I’m crying till Bo puts his arm around me and pulls me to his side and whips the tear from cheek “don’t cry darlin, I promise I’m not the big bad wolf and I don’t bite. We will take everything at a snails pace if need be. I won’t let anyone or anything harm ya. Not even that father or those brothers of yours.” At his words I put my face in my hands and sob. I let the tears flow freely and let the flood of heart brake out “darlin it’s ok I promise it is, I know this is all messed up and I’m sure your scared of me and everything to do with me but I swear I’m not that bad” I cry a little more and Bo rubs small circles on my back to comfort me. When I gather myself a very little bit I blurt out a question that has been bothering me for some time now “why are you being so nice to me, I ran away to avoid you and now you are being so nice, on the jet you jumps Lucas and punched in the face, I punched you in the back, you keep standing up for me and I’m nothing but mean to you. You got me food cause I was hungry, I have been mouthy and everything else so why are you being so nice to me” he smirks and laughs a little “darlin I’m the second oldest of six kids. I’m one of two boys the rest is my sisters and trust me you ain’t half as mean as they are on their good days. I know you didn’t run away from me, I didn’t take it personal. If I would have been in your shoes I would of hightailed it out of there to. Heck even Nova said you did the right thing that and I agreed, that went over great with Lucas and your father by the way. Your the most beautiful creature I ever seen Laila even if we wasn’t oathed I woulda made a play for ya, I’d have to be brain dead not to.” He keeps talking but I’m no longer listening, I’m amazed at what he is saying to me not the part about his sister but about how he doesn’t blame me for running away, how he would have done the same thing had he been me. Lucas would have been upset finding them note I left him, I meant it for him only but he must have shared it with my father. I’m sure my other brothers was worried about me but Lucas is irate that I left, but not irate enough to put his life on hold. Lucas has got married and had a child while I was gone so it’s not like he only focused on finding me, seems to me like he had a lot more then just me on his mind. It also didn’t skip me that Bo said he thinks I’m pretty and that he would have made a play for me if we had not been oathed to each other. The teenage girl that I am swoons a little at that. Under different circumstances I wouldn’t have minded meeting some one like Bo he’s tall, devastatingly handsome, muscles and a tony body and looks like he is ready to take over the world, he is nice and that southern twang he has does something to me. I wouldn’t mind him at all if I wasn’t forced into this. We come to a stop in front of a giant skyscraper, which isn’t anything odd in New York City, the door man opens the for us and greets Bo as Mr. Declare and me and Miss. Bo just nods and leads me to the elevators, as he presses the call button he pulls out a key card. When we enter the elevator I find out why, he has to tap it to get to the floor he desires, and when the doors open I see why. The elevator opens to his pent house apartment it’s so high up I swear you can see all of New York City below our feet. It’s a open floor plan so the kitchen, dinning and living room all flows together and all the putter walls is roof to floor windows over looking what’s left of the night sky, there is a long hallway pass the kitchen and a fire place in the living room that flicks on by it self “down that hall first door on the left is your room and bathroom, first door on the right is a half bath and the second on the right is my office, second on the left is another bedroom and bathroom then last door is the master suite, and you can see where everything else is” I look around the massive apartment in awe at the views. It decorated in a Spanish style and is very warm and inviting. I nod but don’t make my way any further inside then the door way. I really don’t know what to do, so I just wrap my arms around my middle and hug myself. He on the other hand walks into the living room and empty’s his pockets into a large bowl that is sitting on a long table that is back to back with a sofa, he also removes keys from his coat pocket and the Rolex he is wearing, I know that nobody can get up here with out a keycard but it seem kind of foolish to leave so many valuables just out in the open like that. He doesn’t seem to notice or think anything of it tho. He turns back around and walks to the kitchen and starts to pull food out from here and there, bread, spreads and cold cuts from the fridge. As he makes a sandwich he gives me a look and point with the knife he’s holding to a bar stool opposite him “sit, you are falling threw yourself, your so thin so if it ends up being my death I catch from doing this so be it but Im gonna fatten you up” I just give him a raised eye brow, and sit where I’m told to. He stacks together a sandwich and slides it across the bar to me, as I remove the bread and pick at bits of it he just goes about making his own and acts as tho he doesn’t notice that I’m not eating that much of it. When he’s done playing chef he bites into his own and gives a “mmm mmm good” that makes me laugh. It’s hard to not like Bo he’s charming, and nice and handsome, if I allowed myself I would probably really like him but I refuse to just roll over and do as I’m told like a good little lap dog. Even if it is my father wanting me to do the rolling over. I shove the plate away with that thought, I would rather starve to death then give in. Bo nods his head finishes his own food then cleans up the dishes and puts everything away then he walks to the living room flips on the tv and sits on the sofa as if I’m not here. After a half hour of being professionally ignored I crack and scream, that get his attention even if it is childish. He jumps to his feet and looks at me by this point he has no shoes on just his socks he’s also undone the top few buttons on his shirt and rolled up his sleeves and I would be lying if I said he didn’t look hot cause he looked hot like super hot. He starts towards me slowly looking all around me trying to figure out why I screamed like I did. When he’s about three foot from me he looks me in the eye “what’s wrong darlin, what scared ya?” I roll my eyes at him and jump off the bar stool and throw my hands up as I let out a huff “nothing I was just enjoying being ignored like I wasn’t even here” I turn on him and head to the hall and start to storm down it but he comes after me “I wasn’t ignoring you Laila I just wasn’t kissing your a**, that’s not my job. You want to play hard to get well I got new for you sweet heart I already got you. You don’t want to talk fine but don’t scream at me because you don’t like the rules you made” I spin spin to face him, kick off my sneaker, pick it up and then I throw it at him as hard as I can and it hits him in his arm that he blocked it with. When he lowers his arms the look of rage that is on his face scares me to my core. He starts toward me and I spin to run away but one sneaker on and the other gone leaving only my sock doesn’t make for good foot work and I end up tripping, as my head meets the cold hard marble floor everything starts to go fuzzy and dark, before the darkness totally takes me over I hear my name being called and hear panic in that voice but I can’t really focus on that because the darkness takes me over before I can.

Bo’s POV

“Laila wake up, Jesus please let her wake up.Laila darlin I need you to open your eyes and talk to me baby girl” I didn’t mean for this to happen. I thought if I left her alone and gave her some space she would come out of her shell. When she screamed I thought there was a spider or something, she screamed like one of my sister when they see a bug, I should have known that this high up it wasn’t a bug. I don’t care that she threw the shoe at me, I never would have went after her if I would have known this was gonna happen. She hit her head hard enough to knock herself out and give her a nice little cut as well. I moved her to the bed in the master bedroom cause it was the closest door open, she’s as light as a feather from not taking care of herself for the past year. If I would have known how much it would have hurt her for me to come into her life I would have refused the oath, I wouldn’t have done this to her. Now it’s to late and I can’t time travel to the past and take it all back. I rush into the bathroom and get a cold rag and come back out and try to clear the blood that is running down her face to see how bad the cut is. I press the cold rag to her head to stop the bleeding for a moment and holler for alexia to call Nova. If there has ever been a soul sent to this earth to save my sorry a** it’s my baby sister. The second she answers and says hello I cut her off “Nova I need you here now she feel and hit her head and she bleeding I don’t know what to do I don’t know if she’s hurt she blacked out and I can’t get her to wake up and there is blood everywhere Nova I need help I need your help” I can hear the baby crying in the background, I can hear her telling her husband Lucas to watch the baby and she will be back larger that she is coming up to my place, j can hear her getting on the elevator then I hear the elevator open in my living room and start screaming for her to come to my bedroom she comes running as fast as her little legs will move her and looks at me kneeling on the floor with Laila on my bed “Jesus Bo you had me thinking the poor girl was bleeding to death, you really are the most dramatic man I have ever meet in my life. Now move over so I can see it’s only so long before her brother lands in here and takes this all wrong” I flip from my knees to my but and lean my head against the side of the bed and pray Laila is aright. She’s so think and so frail looking and I have her for all of five seconds and I have already broke her. Not like her family had broke her, they crushed her. You can read it all over her face when they are brought up. No I broke her as in for real broke bones and skin I have caused her to get hurt and I promised her I wouldn’t hurt her or allow anyone else to hurt her either yet here I am. My sisters voice pulls me from my self loathing “hey there sweetness, don’t try anything just yet your gonna feel a little light headed so let’s just slide up and sit for a while. I’m Nova Bo’s sister and Lucas’s wife so basically I’m your sister in all the ways the count but don’t. Nasty fall you took there gave yourself a real shiner to. Wanna tell me what this jerk did to you. Did he lay his hands on you cause I’ll call our momma and daddy and they will flip up here and ran his hide like nothing you ever seen before.” Laila hisses as she sits up and she grabs her head where it’s cut, she looks at Nova like she had four head but answers truthfully “he didn’t touch me, I threw my shoe at him and he came at me looking mad so I went to run and tripped over my own feet” I’m shocked cause my sister would have said I hurt them just to see me get whooped. Nova give me a smile and shakes her head “ well he isn’t the kind to lay hands on a woman, Bo’s alto things but he ain’t like that. Dramatic as they come but that’s about it” I glare at my sister and I’m sorry I called her in the first place now. Laila moves like lightening hit her and tried to get off the bed but the second her feet hits the ground she all but falls down and I catch her as she does “darlin please I’m beggin ya slow down a bit, your gonna be the death of me I swear” Nova rolls her eyes “Bo when was the last time she had a meal” I shrug my shoulders as I set Laila back on the bed. Nova picks up her phone and calls some one I’m trying to focus on Laila so I don’t pay attention to what Nova is saying but Laila is all ears. She goes paler then she was five minutes ago and looks at me “Bo tell her not to let Lucas in here I don’t want to see him he hates me now and he just wants to be mean and say mean things to me I can’t take it right now” I turn to my sister and she is still on the phone giving instructions to Lucas on how to find something in a cupboard. I turn back to Laila and see the tears rolling down her cheek “Nova” I say and my sister turns to me “tell Lucas not to come up here not right now when he is ready to be nice to his sister he is more then welcome to come up here and tell her how sorry he is for being so mean to her but he isn’t welcome one second before that” my sister just nods and keeps right on giving her orders. I want to say she didn’t hear me but I know for fact she did “Nova I mean it I don’t want Laila upset anymore then she already is” Nova hangs up her phone and turns to me “Lucas isn’t coming up he heard you and even tho he doesn’t like it he isn’t brave enough to take on all three of us, Perry is bring it up and it’s only broth” with in minutes I hear Perry shouting for us Nova walks out of the bedroom only to return a few minutes latter with Perry. He circles around the bed to the other side and lays propped up looking at his sister “really did you have to make it look like he tried to beat you soft, was trying to set up a murder scene straight out of csi to hard for you to figure out” she just glares at him “really Laila your acting like a child, the man isn’t that bad. Nova is ten times worst and we all suffer threw her bs with smiles, Bo’s is much the nicer sibling and let’s face he is much the prettier one to” at that Nova starts mumbling under her breath and Laila laughs “there she is, there is my baby sister. Are you done give dear Bo a hard time he looks like he’s been threw the ringer with you tonight between the flight back and now this do you think you can cut him some slack?” She nods her head and Perry ask if they can have a moment to talk. Me and Nova clear the room as we walk back to my living room I slump my shoulder inward and run my fingered threw my hair “Bo give her time, this is all a lot to deal with. We have talked about this a million times. She will come around just give her time” I know my sister is right, I know they are all right because they all agree on this one thing. I nod as I fall onto the sofa “Nova this is a mess, she hates me. It doesn’t help that Lucas is being so mean and bad towards her. He was being so mean on that jet and then when she hit him he swung at her, he for real was gonna punch her. I didn’t think your husband was that kind of man but after last night I don’t know. I seen red when he went open season on his own twin sister, I thought twins was way closer then normal siblings? But I hit him a few times” she nods and waits to see if I have more to say but I don’t. She gives me a look then comes over, bends down and hugs me “it’s ok Bo I would have beat him up to, you just keep being you and before you know it that girl will be head over heels in love with you” when she moves away I let her m but I ask “ what makes you so sure of that she doesn’t seem to like me in the slightest never mind love me, he j at this point I would settle for like” she rolls her eyes at me “she didn’t lie on you, she doesn’t really want a way out of this anymore or she would have used this as one to get just that done” my sister then goes to my kitchen and preps the broth. She sets it out to cool and pulls a coke from the fridge”go get her and make sure she eats this slowly ok” I nod and make my way down the hall way. When I make it to my bedroom door I can hear Laila laughing, and it’s the most beautiful sound I have ever heard, just like she is the most beautiful woman an j have ever seen before. I’m blown away with her. I wish she knew how much she effects me maybe then she would understand. I knock kn the door snd Perry answers with the normal come in . I walk in and tell Laila that Nova made her broth before she left. Laila nods and ask her brother to help her to the kitchen it he allows me to be the one to help her and he leaves the room, she is sitting on the edge of the bed and I can’t help myself when I say “thank you for tell the truth on me, my sister would have done damage to me if you would have said it was my doing” she nods again and I stand in front of her waiting for her to give me a sign that she wants to stand but she doesn’t move she just sits there “everything ok, do you want me to call Nova back or take you to a hospital ?” She shakes her head no but opens and then closes her mouth as if she wants to say something but also doesn’t. Then she does “thank you for saying Lucas wasn’t allowed here, I love him but he hates me and I can’t take that in right now I wish he didn’t I wish he still loved me the way he use to but he doesnt” I don’t know what to say to that, so I don’t say nothing at all. She reaches her hand out to me and I grab hold and pull her up off the bed and she slams into my chest, I didn’t mean to pull her up that hard, but I encase her in my arms so she don’t fall again, her hands is on my chest and even threw my shirt I can feel sparks of heat coming from her to me and my insides melt. This woman does things to me, she makes my head foggy. She gasp as she looks at her hands then up at my face. I don’t know what comes over me but the pull is to hard to turn away from so I give into it and I lean down ever so slowly, and brush my lips against hers. She doesn’t stop me or pull away and after a few heart beats he kisses me back. My body goes up in flames as I pull her closer to me and deepen the kiss. I want her more then I have ever wanted anyone else before.