Chapter 5

 When I awoke the next morning, he was already gone. I really wanted to thank him for being there for me. Knowing that he was there made me feel safe. As crazy as that sounds, Justin was the only person that had ever made me feel safe.

 How crazy is that? Feeling safe with my kidnapper. Yep, I really am crazy.

 I climbed out of the giant bed and dressed in a jean skirt and a wrap around black shirt. I was hoping that Esperanza would come early so I could hurry out of this room.

 I looked in the mirror and pulled my hair up into a messy ponytail and slipped a comfortable pair of black flip-flops on my feet.

 Just as I finished getting ready, Hope walked into the room with a smile on her face. She wore a white tank that said ‘Fcuk Like a Bunny’ and a pair of baggy black cargo pants.

 “Hey there.” She smiled at me; her chandelier earrings were shimmering in the light of the room.

 “Hey. Thank God you’re here. I so do not wanna be in this room anymore.”

 “I don’t blame ya girl.” She laughed slightly and leaned against the door. “Just grab a bathing suit. We can relax by the pool later.”

 “Alrightie.” I said and walked to the dresser and grabbed a gold and black halter bikini from it. I turned and smiled at her and then we headed out the door.

 I followed her into a glass elevator. Damn! It was huge. I looked around, getting a perfect view of the pool outside. There was a waterfall that dropped into the huge pool. It looked like there was a small island right in their yard.

 I always dreamed about having a house like this when I was younger. But then reality hits you and you realize your not going to get it unless you become a doctor… or marry one. ^_^

 Hope clicked the button for what I assumed to be the first floor.

I bit my lip and tried to ignore the man standing in the corner with the large gun in his hand. He never really looked at me, he just seemed to stare off at some fixated point. I raised an eyebrow and smirked, he was like one of those British guards with the big hats.

I was tempted to bother him, but I wasn’t going to fuck with a man with a gun that big… and wow that did not sound right.

We entered this huge room, and sat in these huge plush chairs. Hope was making small talk with me. I stayed interested, hoping that maybe I could get the real dirt out.

I wanted to know more about Tommy Ryan, Justin and JC. So far the most we were talking about was music. She had a love for Lifehouse.

“Oh my God… You don’t understand how much I love Lifehouse. Jason Wade is my savior. Did I mention he’s really sexy too?” She laughed as her manicurist filed her nails. “Too bad he’s married!”

“And too bad you’re engaged to Tommy!” I replied and laughed. The woman doing my nails was carefully filling in my acrylic tips. She barely looked and me and didn’t say anything. She actually seemed really frightened, but I decided not to do anything.

“I love Tommy.” She smiled at me. “But it’s okay that I love Jason too.” I couldn’t help but laugh.

“Sure it is. I love David Boreanaz, when I was younger I used to tell myself that I was going to marry him. I even said that he was married just because he was waiting for me to get older.”

Hope burst out into hysterics due to my teenybopper dreams. I set my head down on my arm and couldn’t help but to giggle with her.

“That’s adorable. I used to make out with my Leonardo DiCaprio pictures every night.”

“Oh my God. I used to love Leo!!” I said with a giggle. “I used to watch Titanic and Romeo and Juliet like everyday!”

“OH MY GOD!! I loved Romeo and Juliet. I used to watch it and sit with a box of tissues and cry. During Titanic I’d scream that Rose was a whore and should of let him live.”

“Haha. When Jack died in the movie I cried so hard. I had some old people laughing at me in the movie theater.” I confessed, Hope began to laugh harder until she snorted. This caused me to burst out laughing. It was like a chain effect.

Talking to Hope was like talking to an old friend I’ve known forever. It was awesome because for a split second I didn’t feel like a prisoner.

After we finished with our nails, we changed into our bathing suits and headed to the pool. I lathered myself up with tanning oil before we went.

The way I saw it was that, hey, if I was in Florida, I was going to take advantage and tan my white self. I guess something good could come out of this.

I wore my bikini while Hope put on a black and white bikini that connected the two pieces in the front and the back.

We laid by the pool for a while, just talking about some stupid crap, until Justin and Tommy came down.

Justin was wearing a pair of black shorts and that was it. I couldn’t help but stare at him. Damn, he was built. He was like an Adonis.

Tommy was looking sexy himself in a pair of white trunks that said, “Hope” on them. I almost awed at that really loud.

I could see how much they loved each other in the way that they looked at each other and by the way that they touched each other. Hope’s eyes just seemed to light up when he entered the room.

But then again I noticed that she would space off a little. Especially when his phone rang or he had something mentioned about his business. I didn’t understand it at first, and I shrugged it off but there was something going on that she wasn’t saying.

Justin knocked me out of my thoughts when he picked me up and threw me into the pool. I screamed and when I surfaced I glared at him.

“That was SO uncalled for!”

“Eh, what can I say, you were there and it was an open target.” He smirked at me. I held up my middle finger and then splashed him.

“HEY!” Justin held up his hands as I splashed him and laughed. “I can’t let you get away with that!” He jumped into the pool and soaked me with water.

“YOU ASS!” I laughed and splashed him again. He grabbed me by the waist and grinned.

“That is SO not cool, Natalia!”

“Yes it was!” I said in a singsong tone.

“Psh! Yeah okay. You need to be punished.”  Justin dunked me underwater and I screamed again.

Tommy and Hope were busy making out to notice anything that was going on. Justin let me up from underwater and I hit his arm.

“OW!”

“Aww come on, I didn’t hit you that hard!”

“Yes you did!” He gave me a puppy dogface and I giggled.

“You’re a big strong mobster, I think you can take it.”

He looked a little shocked that I said that at first and then laughed. “You should kiss it and make it better.”

“Nope! You splashed me! I don’t have to. I think we’re even.”

 “How bout a kiss here.” He pointed to his lips. Despite how corny that was, I thought it was adorable.

 “Eh… I guess.”

 I leaned in and gave him a soft kiss on the lips. Just as the kiss started to heat up, I swam away from him.

 Now the pool was huge, so I headed to the other side of it and under the waterfall. Yep, that bastard Tommy had a waterfall in his pool. If only everyone was as fucking rich as Tommy.

 I sat on a rock behind the waterfall and smirked a little. I was teasing poor Justin so much, but it was so much fun.

 Wait, what was I doing?! I was having fun with my kidnapper? I shook my head for a moment and fake smiled when Justin came up from the water.

 God I was so confused. I was going from one extreme to the other. What was wrong with me? Why couldn’t I just be normal?

 Oh wait, I remember why I can’t be normal… it’s because I’ve been fucking kidnapped!!!!!!

 I took in a deep breath and looked at Justin.

 ‘I’m gonna go rest in my room, I don’t feel well.”

 I hopped off the rock and headed out of the pool. Justin followed me and looked really confused. I guess he must of thought he was going to get some or something.

 I excused myself from Hope and headed up to my “prison cell” once again. This wasn’t going to be the last I heard from them today.

 In fact a hell of a lot more was to come.