Orethas past part one.

That was my eleventh summer when I realized that love isn’t that

simple. Oh that Hemper man what a dark exotic man he was, I remember

how pretty Silvia was she was just about my size too at the time

thick a bit but we were like opposites. Her hair of blonde and her eyes

blue, my hair still my natural brown hair and tiger brown eyes. I

could tell we two were about to fight over Hemper it was almost as a

dramatic fill-up as any other run-of-the-mill school drama. Silvia

was beginning to write letters and leave them in my stations.

It was like reading mail that would try to keep me from liking Hemper

and it was even threatening at times. “Hemper will never want you,

stay away from him.” I remember thinking to myself “No one

will ever tell me to not fight for love to never give it my all.”

but I don’t think I would agree with that statement now after doing

a lot of recalls. How young and innocent I was allowed myself

to entertain the idea that I would fight for him to be favored by him

the most. How quickly that love came crashing down like a bookstore's

shelves all colliding and falling like a messy domino effect.

How I thought and felt about him how ever did I think he would have

held my hand through the years, Hemper was different. I wonder if he

still thinks of the night at the dance. I wonder if he remembers

calling for me over the spiritline even back then. It's almost as if I

am there now even at times, I remember calling to him as he stood

outside. “Hemper, what are you doing here I can't believe you came

here this late at night?” The air tasted fresh and I could smell

his scent in the air, the smell of the lake that was nearby, and the

way the trees swayed in the sparkling of the night as the stars

sparkled and shined like a million diamonds in the sky. “Oretha,

I have come to see you, something called me over. You looked

absolutely beautiful in that dress tonight.” How my heart fluttered

when he spoke to me in that tone. “Hemper, Your hands felt so nice

on me when you held me close….It felt different than the way I get

hugged by others.” At this moment time was still and we looked at

each other as I felt him outside and I stared at him as if time was

still. I could tell he was wanting to touch me as much as I wanted to

connect us and as much as I wanted him to believe that I was

the one who would ever love him. I remember how his name began to

shake out of my lips as I asked him to come inside in secret. “Hemper

why don’t you come on in?” His dark hair shinned in the moon and

sparkled as if he was glossy at the top. His light-colored skin was

just slightly more toasted than mine. His eyes dark as ebony in the

night sky you could see the night sky’s in them even from yards

away, It felt like days past before he answered, I would look around

the room making sure the room was still and I looked down the hall to

see if lights were on anywhere. There wasn’t a sound or light

lit, “Oretha, Oretha let me in… I want to feel the beating of

your heart again like when we slow danced.” I guess he knew how to

sway my heart into movement and into the desire to move. “Of

course…..Let me come down to you.” I whispered as if it was a

salacious and secret love affair, grabbing my jacket and swinging

down the stairs with a swiftness that tappered behind me as if it

was dancing in joy. My hands would shake as I was moving them swiftly

across the wall the slow steady vibrations of my fingers as I got

closer to the door only parting from walls when necessary because of

the sheer darkness. I remember the moment thinking as my hands were

upon the cold summer door, how the dew was sweating in between the

doors. I remember that moment of wanting to run but knowing that

opening this door would mean things would change for me. I knew that

I would not be that same innocent girl, I knew I would feel different

after opening this door. The heat of my breath left my lips as I

opened the door and we were face to face. “Hello..” It was a slow

moment in time and it was as if my heart was waiting for him to make

everything okay... “Oretha, are you going to let me come in?” It

was as if fate or destiny had something funny to say to me as it began

to pour at this moment as he stood in the doorway. “Okay….but we

have to go to the depths of the house...you know underground.”

Walking ahead of him and his hands at my back as we turned into the

darkness of the house. I could feel the beating of my heart matching

that tone in a breath.”Hemper...do you feel how I feel?” I could

feel a heat growing in my ears as we traversed the house and moved

from room to room, eventually making it through to the kitchen to the door

that lead down to the depths of the house. His hands guided to my

hips and he pressed me into the walls “Oretha, you are so

beautiful, you make me lose my breath, you are so cool to me. I

couldn’t believe you fought Silvia because you like me.” I turned

red and felt my heart in my throat coming out of my lips as if he was

stealing my soul away the moment our lips touched. It was a bitter-sweet moment and the way he tasted on my lips, “Let's go down, you

have to be careful there are a lot of steps..” It was all I could

say to stop the kiss that seemed to steal every part of me from my

body. He would bite my lip in parting when my hands turned to open

the door. “I had to...she was telling me to not like you, and I

could tell by the way you looked at me it was different than all the

others…...do you remember how you looked at me on the first day of

school?” Our eyes met as if we were entranced by each other's

presence once more, just like back at the beginning. It was as if our

souls were warmly touching each other. His voice was right at my ear

as he stood above me as I walked down into the depths of the

basement. Crashing into the storage containers that held canned goods

and the other side that followed down into a living space with an

entertainment box. “Why don't we go sit on the couch over there

Hemper and we can talk…. I want to tell you how I feel about you.

I want you to hold me like how we danced.” He was holding on to me

as I followed and took him to the couch. “Oretha … You are the

most beautiful...you are the most kind...you are sweet and nice

to everyone...I wish you would see how I see you..” His hands

rested on the sides of my face as I would press the heat of my face

into his palm as if to hope my face would ever sting in his palms

till the end of time. His left hand at my hips pulled me into his

lap, our lips barely touching as I spoke to him in honeyed words. “I

feel like I can’t breathe when you are so close to me...” The

heat of his hands on me made my body grow as if wild flames were

terrorizing a forest.”Oretha I want you to be the only one to give

me the world… I want to be your world I don’t ever want to leave

your side…..your warmth feels like there is no place I would rather

be.”I knew It would be forbidden for me to already feel this way

for someone else. I knew my parents wouldn’t understand they ould

say I was too young to understand that love would sway you to do

anything under the sun for someone even to give your whole entirety

to them in the moment of confused energies and emotions. To feel our

hearts connecting as one. Where one could only feel warm hands

tracing all over the softness of one's skin. Where one could

understand that our hearts were beating as one as if the very breath

of the other would steal each other's way. “Oretha be the one for

me, be my everything..be forever by my side.” It compelled my heart

body and soul to move with his words. “Of, course. I just want

you to stay and love me. I don’t want to disappoint anyone. My

mother and father wouldn’t approve of us because we are so

different. I am scared… I worry about what will happen. I want to be with

you. I want you to love me Hemper.’ But it was what I wanted and it was

what he wanted I thought things would be okay if we could just keep

it a secret till I could bring it up when I would be of an age that they

would allow me to be freer like my sisters. “Hemper When I see

you in the morning when we are at school I want you to be with me and

hold hands so that way everyone will know that we belong together as

perfect pair.” His eyes sparkled into mine as if our worlds were

colliding and we had no choice but to accept our feelings for each

other and we had no choice in what our future would have or could

have been. For a short while, it seemed as if all was perfect. I went

to school every day and hung out with friends and now I had Hemper by

my side. I thought things were all going pretty well, every day had a

spark to it and my heart raced every day he held my hand. We even

rode on rides that took us into the sky and ate ice cream under the

summer sun. We even swam in the lake and swung under trees and sat by

the park that was filled with every bit of nature's spoils. If only I

knew that the slip of my lips to one of my sisters would cause my

paradise shaken to its core and my life rearranged.

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