Love and broken hearts

A/N: betad by koira 5.27.08

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Chapter 5

Marko turns the music on louder and starts singing along. I glance at him quickly; his eyes are closed and he is swinging to the beat of the music.

“Did I not ask you to be quiet?” I ask finally and try to move my thoughts away from his beautiful singing voice. Marko stops, looks at me; blinking his big eyes and then he smiles, looking disturbingly innocent.

“I thought you said that you weren't in the mood to talk, I didn't realize that singing was also forbidden.” He answers turning his head slightly to the side.

“Well it is, I asked you to keep quiet.” I answer; I don't know why I'm being so rude to him.

“Someone definitely has a hat on too tight today.” He sighs and turns the music down a bit, staying quiet himself. After awhile I look at him again, he is still swinging with the music, his lips are moving but no sound comes out. A smile appears on my lips; it's amazing that something goes through even the thick head of Mr. Paris Hilton.


Finally we reach the nearest market. I drive to the parking lot and park the car. Marko jumps out and starts hopping towards the entrance; I mean literately hopping.

“Baby come on!” He calls me. I would like for the ground to swallow me at this point. Three guys that are leaning against the wall of the store are looking at us in a bad way. I wonder briefly if Marko is trying to get us both killed by acting so gay. I hurry after him to the store; I don't want to stay and find out.

That guy must have a screw loose somewhere, I think to myself as I watch Marko jumping around happily in the store like some kid on Christmas morning.

“Jesse, Jesse come and take a look; there's some funny looking thing over here, I wonder what it is? What do you do with this? ...Oh there, my favourite! Must have! Delicacy pudding! Do you want some? I wonder if the others like them...” He thinks to himself and apparently decides to take enough for everyone; just in case. He brings the puddings into the shopping cart. I wonder; what belly does he eat those with??

“Pete doesn't like me eating treats too much. He says that if I get fat; he'll dump me, but my metabolism has always been fast and well, I don't really eat sweets that much, but I like these delicacy puddings.” He explains to me. Oh, isn't he cute. I smile. Wait; hold back there for a moment, I did not just think that Mr. Paris Hilton is cute?!

The three men from earlier are standing behind us in the queue to the counter. Marko looks at them, sucking on his bottom lip, a thoughtful expression on his face. Finally he leans in closer to me.
“What do you think Jesse, have those guys ever heard of a thing like shower? They smell bad, they smell like cows.” He whispers.
“Shh...we talk in the car.” I tell him, I'm afraid that those guys might hear us and kick our arses once we get outside. They don't look at all friendly and Marko is right about their smell. I carefully sniff my nose at it.


I place the groceries in the trunk. Marko is already sitting in the car, he didn't even offer to help, I even had to carry most of the shopping packs by myself. Well, it would be a great tragedy indeed, if Marko happened to break a nail or something. I've come back to my senses; Marko is not cute, he is not sweet, he is just an annoying blonde with air placing the space where you should find the brains.

“Where are you ladies going?” I hear a voice from behind me, –great, it’s those three big, cow smelling jerks from earlier. I walk over to the driver’s side of the car and open the door. I decide not to answer. Personally; I don't see any ladies at present. I look at Marko, who seems to be checking out his nails at the moment. Well okay, I see one who is a bit questionable. “Hey, we're talking to you!” One of them yells. Still, I see no reason to answer. I sit in the car and close the door after me. I start the car and drive off the parking place.

I soon notice that those jerks are following us with their car, the traffic is slow and they are practically right behind our rear. I soon become a nervous wreck. Marko places a cd into the player, and soon a man’s voice starts singing in Russian. My palms are sweating; I gaze through the rear-view mirror.

“Russians are so hot; don't you think that Russians are hot Jesse?” Marko asks.

“What?” I have a hard time concentrating, other than the fact that those guys are probably trying to get us off the road. “I like Russians...” Marko continues. Is he like completely oblivious of what's happening here?!

“Dammit.” I curse, I don't usually curse, but I think that it's allowed in a situation like this. Marko looks at me and then to the back window, then back to stare at the road ahead of us.

“You missed our intersection.” He points out calmly. I sigh fretfully; I'm not good in a situation like this. I haven't even had my license that long, I'm beginning to panic; big time. We are going to get killed, aren't we? And my last moments are spent with this blonde with air in his head while this Russian guy is singing his heart out...
“Shit.”

“Calm down Jesse, we're going to make it. I've never heard you cursing before.” Marko smiles, how on earth can he be so calm?

“You do realize that those guys are trying to force us off the road?” I snap at him. Once again he looks out from the back window.

“They must be pretty horny, for trying to get some ass from two gay guys.” He says and continues. “How typical; long enough time spent without the warmth of a woman and then they're not so straight after all.” He sighs. I look at him quickly and then back at the road ahead of us.

“Marko, I'm pretty sure that this is not about that, this is about those guys hating gay people and therefore they want to beat us up, or kill us, or something!”

“Oh, you're still so sweet and innocent, that it's almost touching really.” Marko smiles. I decide not to even try and understand his logic anymore, until he decides to explain it. "One of the guys pinched my arse in the queue and whispered something that I'm sure you don't want to hear right now... I didn't take him for real though, I guess I should have."

“Fuck, what should I do? Where should I drive.” I ask him. I don't know this area well.
“Just calm down. Turn left here.” Marko advises me and still I find it amazing how calm he is. I listen to the advise and turn to a narrow sand road.
“I'm not so sure about this.” I tell him as I keep driving and notice that we are still being followed and now we are in some secluded forest road, with no witnesses.

“Trust me Jesse, I promise you that nothing bad is going to happen to us.” Marko tries to calm me. “Turn right and soon after that turn left.” He continues.

A small lakeside cabin comes to my vision.
“Drive to the yard of that cabin.” Marko tells me.


An old lady, who was squatting on the ground, implanting some flowers, stands up and looks at us with surprise on her face as we get out of the car. Our followers have parked their car a little further away.

Marko is smiling wildly, he walks over to the woman and gives her a hug.
“I'm so happy to see you; it's been such a long time!” He shrieks. The woman hugs him back.
“Well it sure is.” She says then, looks at me and then back at Marko. She seems a bit confused. I hear as the car starts and drives off. I sigh with relieve; at least we got rid of them.

“Heikki, come and see who's here.”

“What are you going on about Irmeli?” An old man steps out of the cabin onto the terrace. He looks at Marko and then at me.

“Uncle Heikki! I'm so happy to see you!” Marko smiles and rushes over to hug the man. “I know, I've grown so much, the last time we met, I was like this.” He lifts his hand to his hip to demonstrate.
“Yes, you sure have grown boy.” The man notes and looks at his wife. “Don't you think so too Irmeli?”

“Yes indeed he has. What a handsome young man you've become, you and your friend.”


“Well would you boys like some coffee?” The woman asks.

“Yes, we would love some!” Marko smiles.

We move inside, the woman is offering some buns and cookies for us. Marko chats with them in a happy and carefree manner. I'm eating my cookie and I look at them wondering why Marko didn't tell us that he had relatives around here.

“Well, we should go now. We bought some milk from the store and it turns sour if it stays in the warmth too long.” Marko says finally and stands up. I stand up after him.

“It was nice that you could visit. I hope that you'll visit us more often from now on.” Irmeli says and gives Marko a hug.

“Of course. Have a nice weekend, I'll call you!” Marko promises with a smile and hugs her back, he then gives a hug to the man as well. Who seems a bit surprised by this, I guess he's not a hugger type, but at least he doesn't complain.

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“So who were they?” I ask when we are driving back to Pete's cabin.

“Heikki and Irmeli.” Marko says simply.

“No, I mean, were they like your relatives or?”

“No, they were Heikki and Irmeli, I've never even met them before!” Marko starts to laugh. I look at him in confusion.

“So what you are saying, is that we just sat there having coffee with complete strangers?”

“Yes, it's nice to meet new people, don't you agree? I told you not to worry.” He smiles brightly. I am amazed. Suddenly Marko seems a lot more interesting than he did before; suddenly it seems that he does have a brain after all.

When we reach the cabin we are both laughing our arses off. We’ve been wondering what the couple may have been thinking after we left and if they ever even noticed that they didn't even know either of us from before.

Joni:

Finally I hear as the car drives down to the driveway. I was beginning to get worried. I know that Jesse isn't a big fan of Marko and I don't think that Marko is that crazy about Jesse either. After all Jesse is my boyfriend and Marko might be little jealous of that.

I walk outside, my intention is to pull my baby into my arms and kiss him senseless. I stop in my tracks as I see the two of them. Marko and Jesse are joking and laughing together? Okay what's this then?

To see your boyfriend and the guy with whom you cheated on him laughing together as if they were the best of friends, isn't something that you want to see. It's wrong on so many different levels. I liked it more when they were wrestling in the water together, that was hot, but this? This I don't like.

I hear as someone steps next to me and I turn my head to see who it is; Kim. He looks at me and then at Jesse and Marko with a sneer on his face. I guess he can see just how little I like the new turn of things.

“Interesting, wouldn't you agree?” He whispers with a mean voice, a voice that I didn't know he had in him. He leaves before I have the time to reply.

“What took you so long hon?” I ask when following Jesse into the kitchen. I wrap my arms around him and kiss his cheek. Marko is un-packing the groceries, he glances at me briefly and then continues what he's doing.

“Well, when we left the store, there were these cow-smelling jerks that followed us with their car. I thought they were going to kill us...” Jesse laughs looking at Marko, who is now looking back at him. “I drove by our intersection by mistake, but then Marko helped me and we ended up having coffee with this old couple. Marko acted as though he knew them, when he really didn't!” Jesse explains to me enthusiastically and then they both laugh. Okay...I missed the joke in this completely...

“So let me get this right; some men were chasing you when you left the store and you ended up having coffee with some people you didn't know?” I really am trying to get the funny thing that apparently lies here somewhere.

“Yes, that's right! Heikki and Irmeli!” They both started to laugh again.

“Okay...” I look at them and roll my eyes; this really is kind of scary...


TBC.