Our Forbidden Desire

t here all night? Where are you staying? I need to know

se borrow your phone? I'll pay for

nswer after that big

try calling to see if sh

tell me you want to ask her to

ed tone, "It's non

So can you please give me a ride to my

u keep trying to fix everything wit

cared you might just leave

ment building. I knocked and ran

oks like no

has to come h

st going to stand out here and wait?

You're sc

f with all your money. You think

e home eventual

ere by yourself if that's what you

myself with no phone, I starte

d its lights on me. It was Tristan.

you want to come sta

n stay here on the street tonig

to be with me, but my house is definitely better than sta

le of a forest near Rome. Everything looked amazin

ldn't help but ask, "You don'

answered

in this big house?"

that?" he said wh

you?" I asked suspiciously. "Are you so

he said

sir? Are you in a gang?" I t

said, "Are you sure

p as soon as he saw it. And you know that police office

d, "You make good

arted walking toward me

sell drugs? How do you know that the cop is a real cop? Think about... what

arned, "I'm telling you i

ind me. Tristan leaned in close, staring into my eyes. I fe

and grinned. "This is your room...My name is

an walked right into my

you supposed t

pen door, having al

"I know it's your house, b

late of weird-looking food

uff like this in Am

and said polite

good for your kidneys," he

jokes!" I tol

tiful. I could hear the ocean wav

ing ready to go out. "I took a walk through your place t

eplied, picking u

e you going

," Tristan

ad, not some mafia drug dealer aft

ick too so I can come,

mly, "Where do you t

ve when you do. I need to brush my

y here until I get back from classes. You d

o my sister's place again,"

tment isn't even open. No one

ere alone, you're welcome to come along to my school. Ar

's flashy sports car. When we arrived at the university campus,

h, I went for a walk to explor

e asked if I wanted to join him in going to see a movi

Tristan leaned his seat all the way back and

I couldn't understand. "That guy came to see if she was a th

o know who they really are fi

asked "Oh, were you not

s and continued, "But just yesterday

I said, "Wait, how d

me, "And now he wants to ask K

no idea how Tristan knew my name. My