Dominic

I knew that was possibly the sweetest thing he has ever said to me, but be that as it may, I looked down at him with a raised eyebrow, I never heard an expression like that before so I said, "Did you just make that expression up?"

He shook his head. "Nah, a girl I was fucking last year said it to me, she said it was a reference from a book she read. I just thought it was cute and figured this was a fitting time to say it."

He did not just say that.

I punched him in the stomach. "You're a prick!"

He grunted out and then laughed and he gripped his stomach. "You're amazing."

I went to hit him again but he quickly grabbed me and pulled him down to his side, he lowered his head and ran his nose from the tip of mine to between my eyes then kissed that spot. "I do live you, I swear it."

"Dominic," I breathed, my stomach twisting in knots and my chest constricting. It was borderline painful, but a good type of pain; that was how I knew I felt the same as him. "I live you too."

He closed his eyes and smiled again, tugging me towards him. I closed my eyes as well and fell asleep in his arms, perfectly and happily content.

"Stop smiling like that Dominic, it's starting to freak me out!" Ryder snapped to Dominic as we finished having breakfast, and they started to get their coats on so they could leave.

Ryder and Bra

Dominic snorted at Ryder then looked at me. "I'm just happy."

I flushed.

"Please tell me you used a condom? I'll kill you if you get pregnant, Bronagh!" Bra

I gaped at her. "We didn't have sex!"

Bra

My face went beetroot purple!

"We didn't have sex!" I repeated and look away from her and everyone else.

"She's right, we didn't have sex, what you heard was me getting a fucking amazing blow-"

"Dominic!" I shrieked.

He burst out laughing and so did Ryder.

Bra

"Bra

Why were they doing this to me?

That stuff was supposed to be private!

I tried to make a break up to my room, but Dominic caught me at the end of the stairs and lifted me back against him.

"Don't be embarrassed, those two were fucking last night so they can't say shit about what we did."

Okay, that was disgusting.

"I don't care, you shouldn't have opened your mouth; that's supposed to be private! I won't ever be givin' you oral again if-"

"I'll never mention anything like it for as long as I live, I promise. Don't cut me off when I've only started getting some, please."

I inwardly smiled; I had all the power here, and it felt good, really good.

"Okay but no more talkin' about it, I don't like it."

Dominic kissed my cheek. "Deal."

He just hugged me from behind then, and it made me smile.

"You have to leave now," I said.

He squeezed me. "Yeah, yeah, I know. It's girl's day. Blah, blah, blah."

I laughed. "I'll see you tomorrow. We can hang out all day, okay?"

"I'm holding you to that, bitch." He gri

He leaned in, pecked my lips then jumped backwards still laughing. "Bro, move it!" he shouted.

Ryder laughed when he walked out to the hall and had seen Dominic dodging my punches like he was shadow boxing. I couldn't land a single hit, and it bugged the hell out of me.

"Let's go bro, we've got business to attend to."

I stopped trying to hit Dominic and looked to Ryder. "What business?"

He smiled at me. "Just some family business."

I raised an eyebrow and turned to Dominic. "What is the family business? You never talk about it, you told me it's not important but I still want to know about it."

The silence that followed gave me a sick feeling in my stomach.

"I'll fill her in. Go on, get goin'." Bra

Ryder and Dominic looked at her, and after some sort of silent communication, they nodded and left. I stood staring after them for a moment before turning to Bra

"Please tell me they aren't drug dealers," I joked.

Bra

What?

Fucking what?

"What is worse than being a drug dealer?" I gasped.

Bra

I stared at Bra

"You can't just say somethin' like that and then walk away!" I bellowed as I stormed into the kitchen after her.

She glanced at me over her shoulder and shrugged. "I'm puttin' the kettle on. This is a conversation that requires a cuppa."

I knew she was right when I felt my hands shake and my knees start to knock together, so I made my way over to our kitchen table and slumped down onto a chair.

"Run this by me again, our boyfriends work for a drug dealer? A dangerous drug dealer?"

Bra

"You're jokin'! I don't find this fu

Bra

"Dominic would have told me if he was into shite like that! He wouldn't have pestered me into goin' out with him if he was tangled up in things as bad as drugs! He doesn't even smoke Bra

"I never said he took drugs. None of the lads do drugs, but they are all involved with them. Except Damien."

I stared at her for a long, long moment, as it all began to make sense in my head. All the hushed conversations between Damien and Dominic, then Ryder saying Dominic fighting in school brought them unwanted attention, and then Dominic telling me he didn't fight for fun but for 'family business', a family business he wouldn't tell me about.

I suddenly burst into tears. "I can't b-believe… why would he… oh my God, I'm goin' out with a drug dealer!"

I covered my face with both my good and injured hand and sobbed like a baby. My chest was hurting me, and my stomach was lurching something terrible. I knew I was going to be sick. And I was, all over the floor next to me.

"Don't move, I'll clean it up. Just stay put and focus on breathing so you can calm yourself, okay?" Bra

I numbly nodded my head at her while staring out to our back garden through the back door glass. I ignored the vile taste in my mouth and forced myself not to think of the pain in my stomach. But nothing I did stopped my chest from constricting in pain.

"I'm breakin' up with him," I said as I continued to look out at the back garden.

Bra