“What does he say?”

  “He is asking me to have a coffee.”

  Yoli caught immediately their plastic cups from their hands and threw them to the trash.

  “What are you doing?”

  “Tell him yes. There is coffee in shortage.”— And talking to a surprised Mia, she proceeded— “We are leaving.”

  “Girls!”—Both of them, immediately stopped.

  “I love you both.”

  “And we love you, darling”— they shouted from the gate. “Enjoy and do not refrain. Take a shower! Everthing he gives you is as half of what you deserve.”— Mia threw her a kiss to the air.

  “Thank you.”

  Once the door was closed, Yoly was jumping like crazy.

  “Oh...yes, yes...and yes!!!”

  “Yoli! What’s the matter now?”

  “Oh, my God! He is coming here. He is coming to pick her up”

  Yoli held Mia by her hand, who was equally glad as her friend, jumping both ones in a crazy fun jumping movement.

  Only you who can see me

  It was humanly impossible that simple jeans fitted as the best to a man. Nico didn't belong to this planet. At least, in the planet where she moved.

  Just as another mother, she was always running to and fro, trying to fulfil her duties as the best as possible, and none of them was easily in contact with this kind of men.

  She watched him thoroughly from tip to toe, and she thought that Nico definitely wasn't the guy who she could hit at the entrance of the supermarket or school.

  A random hairstyle. His waist, not thin, not wide, just wonderful. Long legs which seemed to be slim, but they showed his thighs with well-developed muscles, envy-provoking to men and angels.

  There was a contrast, between his white shirt without spots and his tanned skin after long hours making sports in the open air. Its sleeves ended just down his elbows. Over there, these arms were able to hug in the best comfort gesture.

  “Please, stop it, Suzie, shut your mouth. Stop dreaming and thinking bin that hair still wet, that small bunch of hair, which falls on his forehead. So warm as it’s owner. And that lovely scent that emanates from his skin. Wood, plus herbs and leather?” — She thought it was a dream.

  Suzie deeply breathed while she was looking at the menu.

  “May God help me! It is impossible to stay in front of him without carving for his chest, feeling his embrace. Enough Suzie...Enough! You are a grown adult. You can. Repeat yourself...You can”— talked her last words in an audible voice.

  “God, you can...”— she repeated herself.

  “Of course you can, but do you need God for deciding between coffee or tea? Sue... are you ok?”— Nico couldn’t understand.

  “Yes” (“More than a woman who salivates, I am a crazy woman who speaks alone in a high voice”) “I am perfectly ok.”

  “Would you prefer one of these brunches in the menu? It is a bit late for having breakfast and I am starving.”— Nico spoke with hunger.

  “Of course.”

  “Sue... do you have fever? You're warm and your look is a rambling one.”— He put his hand on her forefront. Nico started worrying because of his girl's distraction.

  “I am pretty fine”— “considering that my legs are trembling, my heart is beating like crazy, and I about to dive into your arms.” she thought —“I am perfect!”

  “It's great because I am delighted in having you all for me” —. He couldn't refrain his happiness.

  “(One more thing! Now, that perfect smile. From what pattern did your parents take you from? )”

  Incredibly handsome, easy going and pretty hungry as it seems to be.

  “Are you going to eat all that stuff?”— She wished to talk about nonsense so she could avoid thinking in that beautiful smile.

  “Yes, I'm afraid. Tonight I was in a party with a fairy tale lady and I was so focused on her that I almost didn't have dinner.” — He made her a lively wink

  “Or perhaps, your lady wanted to give you enough room, but you didn't let her do it.”

  “Or perhaps, this lady felt my strong arms when he holds her, and the beautiful scent which radiated from her body, when my hands were touching her and drew her near to me” — No way, she and I were thinking only in keep on caressing each other. — Nico was bent over the table, nearly touching Suzie's forefront.

  She couldn't avoid blushing while remembering their kiss in the garden. That beautiful and perfect kiss.

  “A man of my size needs to be strong. I don't know when I will wrapp and protect with my body to a gorgeous woman.”

  He was daring too much, but it was lovely to see those cheeks, blushing as being burned, because of the embarrassment. And that bit of bite in her lower lip was killing him. Her lower lip was a bit humid, and he only could think in biting her from tip to toe until hearing her sighing.

  Suzie didn't talk. She was mute. Literally, mute. Nico thought that he would postpone his naughtiness for a better time. Suzie wasn't one of his bitches. She was different, and he was able to wait for her, all the time she needed. He tried to calm down all the hot temperature created by his own words.

  “It is pretty soon for rushing into her arms, put her on the table, biting her little by little. Make her cry, asking him to open his shirt and...Let's think in another topic... right now!”

  His body, in the middle of his legs, was asking for the same.

  “In a couple of hours, I will have my class with the kids.”

  “Kids?”

  “Yes. Didn't you know? I am a gym teacher in the sports club in town. Today, we will be training in the indoor rock climbing gym. I assure you that I need to be perfectly fit, because these little bucks, have the ability of wearing out any trainer in less than a week”— he smiled.

  “I thought that you had your own enterprise. Do you work as a teacher?”— “Not exactly. My legal job is the family enterprise but my loved job is sports. In my leisure time, I teach to disabled children. I seek to share with them the high values in life, by means of open-air sports.”

  “For example?”

  “You see, when we are trekking, every member of the team has to care to the other one. Team spirit is a core value in the mountain. Teamwork and the consequences of not being together, show them the need to count on another person who supports us, protect us, and show respect for any human being. When we are climbing in the mountain, our partner is trusting in us and we trust in our partner. That is our motto.”

  “Handsome, smart, kind. More scores and more ones!” Suzie hid her face on the coffee.

  “How is it supposed to be released from this relationship? I am feeling a complete fool about him! He is gorgeous in the outside and finally...he is beautiful in the inside”.

  “Are you truly fine? It sounds as if you were absent from this place.”

  “...Yes, I was just thinking that someone like you, who has everything in the world, shares your time to children who surely, their own parents don't share their own time them.”

  “That's it! My parents provided us so much, that many times I think that life, is a matter of good luck. It is like, Fortune, share their numbers and a simple fortune action is sealing our destiny for everyone.”

  “Yes, that's true. We hadn't the same lot in life.”— Suzie couldn't hide her sadness, of a damned life.

  “Exactly. I only want to share with them, a part of my good destiny,. My parents loved each other and loved us without limits. That's I want to do. I love children and see how they advance in life. I love their lovely smiles when I enter in class. They don't know that they give me more than they receive from me.”

  Suddenly, Suzie felt that she knew a bit more about this man. Nico was much more than a gorgeous face. She craved for knowing him more deeply. To dive into his most hidden secret. She wanted to know everything.

  “Do you live with your brothers?”

  “What? No, thank you. My brothers are unbearable” — he moved his mouth to one side. — “No, not at all” — Suzie made a negative movement with her head, as refusing his idea— “Tonight, Albert looked like a well-educated man, easy going and with a smart conversation.”

  “That's what I say, unbearable” — his lips moved in disapproval— “But he isn't so handsome as me, isn't he?” — He didn't want to miss a chance of discovering that beautiful brilliance in Suzie's gaze.

  “Are you still fixed on that topic? Well, as you have mentioned this. Yes, he is pretty handsome.” Her gestures were supporting her words.

  Nico released a sound laughter.

  “Was she trying to make me jealous?”

  It was clear that this commentary didn't provoke the desired effect. Nico was an expert in the hunting women art.

  “As you see, my dearest Sue, we are a family of handsome men but I tell you a secret”— he put his lips near her ears— “Since he was a child, his feet are aching all the time.”

  “Nico, please”— he burst in laughter.

  “Come here. I am obliged to leave you at home safe and healthy, or I will get into my car and I will kidnap you. And you will call to the police and it will be compulsory, to tell them my truth.”

  “Which is your truth?”— She played also his game.

  “I would tell them that I am guilty. I cannot be away from you. I enjoy every moment beside you and if I am allowed, I would kidnap you every time I could.”

  “Are you like this all the time?”

  “How is it like? Funny, smart, clever, attractive, irresistible...”

  “And humble!” — she couldn't stop laughing— “Aren't you serious about any topic?”

  “I am serious about you. I am... only, about you.”— Suzie kept silence.

  “And now, what are you thinking about? Your eyes are telling me everything all the time.”

  “I was thinking that, now that I am talking to you, it sounds like this Nico doesn't fit with the one who made the speech tonight whatsoever.”

  Nico felt euphoria. He was happily jumping. She caught is core nature in a very few hours. “Please, explain yourself.”

  “Please, listen: you like open-air sport, you love helping to people, it is very clear you don't believe in the classes division, and if I add, your fresh air and your easy-going temper, it doesn't fit in no way, in an international business profile.”— Nico could feel as if his heart was beating madly. He wasn't wrong. This woman was completely different to the other ones. That difference, which he was seeking in a woman for a long time. This difference, allowed her to see him just as he really is. He was a man to love and be loved, without limits or terms. Love, which could not be conceived based on a mansion wealth, a sports car or a silly enterprise. Love which only meant, a couch, a blanket, and their bodies linked as one, sharing their warmness. Apart from his mum, this was the first woman who could discover his inner being, just as he was.

  The other women in his life, only saw in him, a handsome guy, cars, expensive dinners. But he felt that he was more than that. He was craving for true love. He could see that in his parents, as he was growing. That's why he loved children so tenderly. Children could see him just as he was. And they loved him just like he was.

  “Okay, let's see. I still don't understand why you are the Director...”

  “I'll explain, you, I shouldn't be. That position belongs to my brother Albert, but when his wife died, he didn't want to work any further. Our mother's loss, plus his life's love, was too much suffering for Albert. Someone else should take charge of the situation and I was around.”

  “I see”— Albert was very handsome, but while she was talking to him, she found his sadness on the bottom which long-suffering people show, and Suzie knew enough about it.

  “At the very beginning, I believed it could be only a few months, but, as you see, time became longer. I don't want to push Albert. Time will help him to heal so much pain and I will all be at his side to help him.”

  She stretched her hand and couldn't avoid a caress over his face.

  “Sue. Do you have any compromise in the next two hours?”

  “So far, I don't have anything to. I am alone, why?”

  “Everything is said and done”—and he took her hand for making her stand up.

  “What?”

  “Let’s go to the climbing wall. You will love it.”

  “But I am not well dressed for that.”

  “You are perfect; furthermore, I will have to show how a beautiful woman kidnapped me and made me arrive five minutes later. These kids are terrible, they can hang me”— and he pushed her hand so she could not be released so easily.

  “I imagine they could do that”— she spoke with her biggest smile so that she couldn't keep talking.

  Nico bewitched her, and she had no chance to overcome here. The more time she was sharing with him, the more lively woman, hot, and womanly she felt.

  “So, now you don't want to kidnap me?”— and she felt more daring.

  “Darling, so far, I will catch that beautiful smile, those sweet lips and will keep them in a box where the key will be the only mine. And then, little by little, I will conquer your passion heart bits, your love tremors, your skin salty because of your wishes and your body hot, because of my caress. At that moment, I will kidnap you and you will be mine, only mine”— He kissed her with urgency and desperation, of a man who cannot hold himself...

  It is love

  A week later

  A week ago, she couldn't stop crying because of her husband betrayals, his lack of interest, his reproaches, and a thousand lies and infidelity seemed to be endless; even though, without a possible explanation, she was again laughing at a man's funny ideas.

  There she was, at Nico's pretty house, waiting for his ‘surprising and amazing dinner’ and... of course, no previous details foretold yet. Even she was not allowed to get close the kitchen. He offered her a glass of wine and vanished to the kitchen, running as the wind.

  “What is he plotting? Let's make no further questions.”

  And again, he was in her lips, a new smile was born. She was in a perpetual smiling gesture, because of Nico's words.

  Should it be true about that spread idea of ‘real love’ she had heard from other people talking about? Was this what was going on in her inner being? Was it possible that she could live happily, feeling respected, loved, without a shadow fear? Was it possible that a man should replace so much pain and add happiness in its place in a badly hurt woman like she was? Was it true, what her friends had told her about sincere love and the fortune of feeling loved by someone who thinks in you, and needs you and is mad about you and so on?

  Someone who doesn't ask for nothing, but loves you and offers himself with his whole being, sincerely. Could a woman, with a previous experience, fall in love because of a smile, a hug, a caress or a dinner?

  “Hey, here I am”— Nico appeared in triumph mode, carrying a tray with a roasted chicken.

  It looked delicious, but it wasn't no more than a simple chicken, an ordinary roasted chicken, but Nico showed himself so proud with his tray, that Suzie couldn't stop smiling, a new habit which appeared living together with Nico.

  “With a smashed pumpkin as a side dish.” ‘Is he really proud of having cooked just a mere roasted chicken and smashed pumpkin?’

  He immediately served this portion in a plate and his eyes were suspended on her approval gesture, as a child waits for adult's response.

  “Do you like this?” He asked with concern.

  “Of course! It seems to be delicious!”— He was the son of wealthy parents, the owner of two new cars, a lavish house, but there he was, naked feet, with broken jeans and a simple smile, offering her a roasted chicken with all his male pride.

  “Oh...thank you!”— Nico couldn't avoid a relief sigh.

  He sounded as if he was willing to display his cooking abilities, that she decided not to play any kind of jokes about this issue.

  “May I know what is it?” — She asked him very seriously, according to this solemn moment.

  “Just chocolate and strawberry ice. Desserts recipes are a tough issue for me.”

  ‘That wrinkled expression on his mouth...does it sound of an embarrassed little child expression? Oh my God, I want to bite this man...’

  “I love ice!”— He spoke as a funny guy.

  “And I love it, too!” — She sounded as crazy.

  Both of them started talking and laughing and time began to pass only around these two human beings as if planets were circling around them, so they could be together for ever. With Nico, everything was that simple...

  No matter what issue may arise, always Nico found how to work it out. Words were not air filler, in order to finish with a silent moment. With Nico, even silence, was an enjoyable moment. Hours passed through and they were not aware of it.

  “Let's go.”

  “Where?”— Nico smiled pleasantly.— “I don't want to take advantage from you, so far.I only want to show you the terrace.”

  “Sorry”— Suzie bent her head with sadness

  “Pardon?”— Suzie sat down in a wink, hands on her templates.

  “Sue? What's going on? I thought we were having fun.”

  “Yes, of course! A beautiful time! And the meal is delicious! You are an amazing guy”— Her tears were falling among her fingers, unable to be wiped out.

  “Then...why are you crying?”

  “You are an amazing guy.”

  “You have already told me that”, Nico nodded his head.

  “You are awesome. When I am with you, everything is so easy, so simple. Since I have met you, I haven't stopped smiling, and this is thanks to you. I have spent so many years feeling unhappy, that I didn't realize about the importance of feeling alive. And this is thanks to you. But, I...don't know what to do.”

  “Then, do nothing. Just live. Live and smile for me.”— Nico got closer her. He was afraid to scare her, but he was craving to possess her and his body was burning in the inside. Keeping eye contact, he raised her chin and kissed her softly.

 

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