Twenty-Nine. Night

*Lore Sokolov*

I knocked on her door.

"Yeah!" She said and I came in, shutting it behind me.

She was getting into bed.

I waited and sat beside her as she got comfortable.

She gently moved, resting her head on my lap.

"You're okay, Lore. It isn't your fault." She whispered.

"I feel wrong. Like I hurt you." I couldn't shake the guilt.

"You didn't. I absolutely avoided taking about him and that situation. I still didn't after doing some sexual things. I gave you nothing. That is one-hundred percent not your fault. You didn't hurt me. You love me. I know you do." She moved, her entire body wrapped around my leg as she hugged my thigh with her arms, one leg over my calf.

"You swear?" I pet her hair.

"Absolutely." She said.

She shut her eyes.

"What are you going to do to him?"

"Who?" I asked.

"Cannon."

"I don't think I've ever heard that name before." I smiled.

"Lore, I'm serious."

"So am I. As far as I know there is no man named Cannon Martinez after this." I sighed.

"After what?"

I didn't answer her and she sighed.

"What is something you want from this vacation?" I asked.

"I want to wear a silk, gorgeous dress and dance in it barefoot and be dipped while dancing like a princess that weighs nothing." She smiled.

"Yeah?"

"Mmhm."

"Let's pick a dress tomorrow?" I asked.

"I'll love you forever."

"I hope so." I sighed.

She held onto me, I pet her hair.

"I know what I want."

"What do you want, sweetheart?" I asked.

"Please, let me know if this makes you or Hale uncomfortable. But I love you both individually so much and fell in love with you both for different reasons. As you are two different people obviously." She began.

"Mmhm."

"And... I would like my you know... firsts since I won't properly count tonight to it, to be individual. If that makes sense." She muttered nervous.

"So... do you want an individual date and then you know, intimacy following that?" I offered.

"I think it would make it easier. And that way I feel a deeper connection to you both just because being with you both is like a high I can never properly think through. Two men for a girl like me is... amazing but overwhelming. I think I'll feel less anxious and that way I feel like I'll feel so good when I'm with you both in that way as well." She explained.

"Can I call Hale up here?"

"Yeah."

And I rang him.

He was up here in a second and sat beside me, minding her curled body on my leg.

She told him what she told me.

He looked at me.

"If that's what she wants I'm fine with it." I told him.

"Okay, then I am as well. Any idea when your time frame would be or do you want to give it a few months?" He asked.

"I'd like for it to happen here. I want to see where you both grew up and explore a bit. I'm honestly fine with whenever." She said.

"Okay, love. Well we can get that planned and figured out for you. Tomorrow, pa wants to take you out. He's cooled off, in fact he's about to be home and I think he might come say goodnight and apologize. But are you okay if he takes you back to the metro?" Hale asked, rubbing her back.

"Yeah." She nodded.

"Are you positive? I want you comfortable here. Don't do it to please anyone."

"I'm not. I enjoy time with your parents." She answered.

"Okay."

The garage opened.

"We're stepping out-"

"Wait! Can you come back? I don't want to fall-"

"We're getting ready for bed. We will be back." I kissed her head when I stood.

She nodded.

We left the room.

"Rock paper scissors on whose night is first?" He smiled.