St.Luke's

Anna walked into the bathroom with her towel (and clothes) and sighed. “I knew I’d have to wash the filth off of me soon but why do I feel bad doing it?” she wondered.
She heard girls giggling outside and she nearly fell trying to get to the door to lock it. She leaned against the door and felt the cool air from under the door. The giggling voices could be heard and she listened closer. One she recognized as her friend, Claire, the other, though familiar, she could not place a name or face.
“She was out all night?” the unrecognizable voice asked between her high pitched squeals.
“Yeah, I heard Aaron getting on to her and then you will never guess who stood up for her.” Claire’s voice hurried on.
“If you don’t tell me I will just die!”
“Okay. Okay.” Claire sounded, what Anna thought was, agitated. There was a small pause. Anna knew Claire was building up dramatic effect but she wanted to hear the other girl’s reaction. “Serrano.”
“No!” the voice was flabbergasted.
“Yes.”
“No, way. The Serrano?”
“Yeah.”
“The one that practically every girl in this school dreamed of sleepinth?”th?”
“That would be him.”
“Get out.”
“It’s so true.”
Anna was confused. She knew why every girl wanted to sleep with him. It had something to do with his eyes, or maybe it was the curly brown locks that he had. She could come up with a list of things that seemed to go on forever, but she brought herself back to the present. She turned the shower on cold and waited a moment before stepping in.
When the water droplets hit her body she realized that the filth was caked on in layers. She would be scrubbing all day to get the dirt and shame off of herself. She grabbed the soap and began to scrub the slime off of her skin. Then something hit her. “Why is it so surprising that he stood up for me?”
“Because most of the girls here see me a domineering, possessive, woman using prick.”
Anna found that she could not climb a tile wall. Not only had she been talking to herself (something that one usually sees a sign that one is crazy) but also a very male voice had answered her. She feared poking her head out of the white plastic curtain only because she knew who would be sitting there.
“Hello?” she chanced not wanting to hear an answer and hoping that the response had been an imaginary thought.
“Hello yourself beautiful.” Alex’s head poked behind where Anna was peeking out of the curtain.
Anna jumped for a second time and knocked over her shampoo. Sliding a bit and thinking that she might fall, she reached out for his arm. Instinctively he gra her her and held her. Once Anna’s heart stopped threatening to break through her chest she blushed all shades of red and made a grab for the curtains.
“Didn’t I just say beautiful?” Alex asked with a wicked smile. He pulled her up on her feet and she yanked thewer wer curtain around herself. Alex’s smile turned into a smirk. “I saw you in a lot less last night Anna Belle.”
Anna blushed deep red again and began babbling, trying to regain her dignity. “You pervert! How dare you. . .” something struck her then. “What did you just call me?”
Alex looked at her a moment before replying “I called you Anna Belle.”
Anna froze. Her brother used to call her that. In a strange and twisted way (she hated her brother) she found herself missing her family. Her sister, she knew, was having a blast in college. Shssedssed the goofy smirk her brother gave her when he teased. She missed watching him and her sister have wrestling matches. She missed the game of hide his glasses. She even missed his stupid German accent. (Anna doesn’t actually have a brother, its her sister’s boyfriend that she considers a brother.) She missed the gray haired old folk that were her parents. Their constant nagging and their constant love, the deprivation was starting to set in.
Anna felt the tears that she had run out of earlier come back and press themselves against the back of her eyes. “No. No, don’t cry Little Anna.” Alex tried to comfort her. He walked into the cold water fully clothed and wrapped his arms around her little frame. “Shhh. Its okay. I didn’t mean too, but you kind of curled up on me and then you got hot and threw your blanket off. . . .” Alex thought that him seeing her naked had been the reason for her sudden tears.
Anna pushed away a little and shook her soahairhair. “Its not that.” she smiled despite her tears and though she didn’t look happy she seemed to glow “No, my brother used to call me that. I guess I didn’t know how much I missed my family until you called me t that.” she chocked. She couldn’t bear repeating the pet name her brother had given her.
“Oh baby.” Alex said wrapping his arms around her again, hoping that his hug could melt away her cold hard shell. “Everyone here went through this. We all had familyh drh drawl. Don’t worry. Okay?”
Then something else hit her. The tears dried and her shoulders shifted with the weight of the world again. “How am I going to tell my mother?”
“You need to take a walk outside.” Alex said knowing that a little sunshine would do her some good, but also wanting out of the now icy water spewing down on the both of them. “Come on. Lets get dried off and head out of this dreary little room.” He turned off the shower and stepped out, and took her hand.
Anna grabbed the blanket from the previous night and wrapped it around herself. “Why are you so shy?” Alex asked wringing out his own hair. “I call you beautiful and all you want to do is hide from me.”
“Well…um…I” she stuttered to find the words.
“Hey are you going to be in there all morning or are you going to let someone else use the shower today?” came a voice.
“Coming hold on just a sec,” Anna answered brushing past Alex and reaching for the doorknob.
Alex grabbed hem anm and pulled her back. She could feel every curve and every flaw through their wet clothes (or lack there of) “He may have made you feel like a toy,” Alex breathed into her ear “but I will make you feel like a queen.”
Anna blushed again and exited the bathroom, only getting a quick glance at who had saved her from her embarrassing moment.. “Imani?” Her mind processed. She rushed to her corner and she dressed quickly. Anna went back to the bathroom to get her hair dryer and heard Imani and Alex talking.
“So you have finally gone over the edge have you?” came Imani’s voice.
“No the girl needs me and I feel something with her.” Anna had never heard Alex sound so icy.
“Face it Serrano you need a woman.” Anna heard the girl giggle. “Remember the fun we had love? All the romance and smut anyone in our generation could handle.”
Whack. Anna heard skin on skin contact. “You said woman not whore Mani.” if his voice had been ice before it was a glacier now.
“Like you don’t want it.” Anna could hear the smirk in Imani’s voice
Anna took a deep breath and stepped into the doorway. Her heart and the hairbrush she had been holding dropped. The hand print that bruised Imani’s cheek was no proof that Alex had just said anything. Their perfect frame connected at the lips was all but too muor Aor Anna. Fire spread through her veins as she observed the lip lock.
Before she knew what happened her mouth ran away. “Feel what for whom I wonder.” a small sharp turn and she was out of the room faster than one would say “damn.”
Alex cupped Imani’s cheek and she smiled. “Shall we continue this later, Alex?” she voice husky with lust.
“Only when you dream of me.” her smile vanished. “That was for old time’s sake.” He said with cruelty “That girl who just ran away is one that I need.” with one last peck on the cheek he sprinted after Anna.


A/N: hey sorry its such a short lil chapter but I have college to worry bout so I WILL make time to update only if you keep reviewing!