Hostage

Alicia’s POV

I sat together with Zack in the doctor’s office. We sat alone, still waiting for him, a nurse had brought us inside and told us that it would take a couple of minutes…
This time Zack doesn’t sit behind me near the door, this time he was directly sitting beside me, holding my hand.
He had talked to me about god knows what the whole time, I knew he wanted to distract me, he even began to tell me what his first tattoo was about and which, he told me he would recommend a tattoo artist for me and would come with me.
I never thought of getting a tattoo but he was so enthusiastic about it that I didn’t stop him.
How could he not, he was tattooed all over… as far as I knew…

Damn it, again he had succeeded with his distraction, suddenly the door swung open wide and a man peeked inside, “Oh sorry, I thought my wife was here. Sorry.”
“Get out.” Zack barked.
The man vanished and I looked at Zack surprised. “What was that?”
“What, what if they had an examination on you right now and just let some guys walk in here, that’s not funny. They shouldn’t just let people peek inside these room, I mean… hello…” Zack looked angry and I smiled.
“No harm done. It’s okay.” He nodded. “Yeah, sorry, maybe I am also a little nervous.. I don’t know.”
He looked sheepishly at me and I smiled, but honestly I had a small hope that the guy that peeked in could have been Matt, Matt that wanted to be there for me, like he had told me…
That he would support me… I remembered him telling me that he would be there, but he wasn’t…
He probably had better things to do.
I shook my head, how could I be thinking about him, when I had someone sitting next to me who really cared and was there for me.

“Alicia, can I… tell you something?” Zack asked and I turned towards him.
He was holding my hand and stoked it softly with his thumb, his fingers were rough but I liked the feeling of it.
“Sure, tell me. Another tattoo story?” I grinned a little.
“No, nothing like that. I thought about this, about us… and I want to ask you this before you become the results, this shouldn’t look like I only waited for you to know if you are healthy or not, because for me it wouldn’t make a difference.” Zack said finally and I frowned.
“What do you mean? What do you want to ask me?” I asked him and Zack leaned a little forward.
“Alicia, we had a date and we spend a lot of time together, I know things from you that not many people know. I feel closer to you then to anybody else. I want to be with you and ask you if we make the next step, if we make this official?” I looked down and frowned a little.
“Shit, when I thought about this earlier it sounded better, let me try again…” I put my finger in front of his plump lips silencing him.
“It’s okay Zack. I got what you meant… I promised me that I wouldn’t make any decisions before I know what is really wrong or not wrong with me. But Zacky I would love to just say yes… but I can’t… I mean… Don’t get me wrong… I want to I just… don’t know what I want… Oh sorry this is so confusing.” I stuttered and I felt so bad.
I would love to tell him yes, I wanted to but… in the back of my mind was not only the cancer creeping his way into my thoughts… also Matt was still present… even if I should know better than that.
“Alicia, listen… I didn’t want to put any pressure on you. I just wanted to let you know how I am feeling. I’m not asking you to marry me… not yet.” He grinned and I shook my head, even in a situation like this he was joking.
“Stop it, ZACK!” I nearly yelled.
“Listen, give me a chance, just tell me what you feel, could you imagine us being together? That’s all I want to know.”
“Yes, of course I can.”
“See, not so hard, was it?” Zack asked and I shook my head and somehow my mouth opened and replied.
“Alright, let’s try, but Zack I am damaged good. I can’t promise you anything…” I tried to explain but he shut my mouth with his, I widened my eyes, our first real kiss, not the small peck on the lips I gave him earlier… but this time we were interrupted when the door opened again.
“Mrs. Davis, I have the results to your test.” Dr. Travis walked inside with a file in hand and looked at us not showing any surprise when we hastily backed away from the kiss, such a professional.

Matt’s POV

This day had been fucking amazing, we played the whole afternoon golf, or well I played and Brian drove around with the golf cart.
We went back to his home and Chelle was already waiting for Brian, kissing him enthusiastically and not even paying attention to my presence anymore.
“Alright, I see… you got some business to attend… I’m gone.” I waved but the door closed without anyone looking my way again.
Fine, great friends…

I drove over to my house and saw Val’s car still in the driveway, I had a small hope that she left but she was still here or she came back, she had the second key to my home, since I exchanged the locks and she had stayed with me.

I parked the car and went to the front door, I heard Bella bark and announce my arrival.
“Shhh.. baby… that must be daddy, right? Let’s have a look.”
I pushed the key into the door and turned the knob, Val stood in the doorway when I opened looking at me.
She wore a short black dress, her blonde hair was falling in curves down her shoulders, her make-up was nicely made and her red lipstick highlighted everything.
“Hey…” I greeted her a little helpless.
“Hey babe.”
“You going out?” I asked her with a shrug.
“Is that an invitation?” Val asked.
“Not really, since I just came home, but you are dressed up like you wanted to go somewhere.”I sniffed and smelled a very familiar scent.
“What is that? Did you cook?” I asked her with a frown.
“I don’t want to go anywhere, I made this for you. And yes, I cooked, I made dinner for us. You wanted to take it slow, right? You are confused… So I will give you a little reminder of what we had when we were together, you and me… at the beginning of our dating. Us having dinner, going out… just you and me… maybe that will help you to find your way back…” to me… she didn’t say it but she didn’t have to.
“I am sorry Val, but I am exhausted, I really appreciate you doing all this and you really look amazing, why don’t you just call Chelle… or well no not her, she is occupied, but may Lace or Kim or someone to have a girls evening? I am not such a great company, I wanna head to bed early.”
Val shook her head and stepped forward, her index finger moving on my chest up and down.
I didn’t pay her much attention and pulled my phone out and was about to turn it back on and check my messages, but Val grabbed my hand and took the phone away.
“Nope, I am not going anywhere Matt. And you don’t need that now, be a little longer unavailable, that won’t hurt. I am here for you. I told you so and it will be like that… and if you wanna head to bed early, I am positive that I could make your stay there a very pleasant one.”
She tiptoed and pressed her red lips to mine but I pushed her away gently, shaking my head.
“No, Val. I.. I told you… I can’t and I.. shit… Please will you just leave?” I asked and I saw the hurt look on her face.
Her eyes watered and damn, she knew I couldn’t stand that.
“No, Val… I didn’t mean it like that. I am sorry, alright. You just took me by surprise… but it’s still true I won’t be going to bed with you, we can have dinner and spent the evening together, but I want you to sleep at your home tonight.”
Val looked up to me and I saw a sad smile, “Alright, the dinner must be ready. I am sorry, I didn’t mean to… force you to anything, I just thought… doesn’t matter… Come, let’s eat and see what the evening brings…” Val grabbed my hand and we walked together towards the kitchen.

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