we are talking again. Yes, Adam is incredible. He is a once in a lifetime. I know I am treading in uncharted water and I shouldn’t even be there but I can’t help myself. No matter what the consequence, I have to be with him,” said Arianna.
“You know there will be consequences. You are going where you have no right to be. Are you sure you are prepared for what it will cost you? You will have to make significant changes to be with him,” said Nicole.
“I know. I know. I don’t want to think about that right now. This ride on my Peter Pan carpet is my own fairy tale. Sometimes in life, a fairy tale or two sneaks into reality, why not my reality? Let’s just go, there are a couple of boys waiting for us at Webster’s.”
Whenever she saw him, everything but him seemed to disappear. His presence in any room was always noticed.
“Arianna, you look great, come on over here close to me, stay with me a while.” Adam spoke in a soft, tender voice. She knew she would sell her soul to be with him and somehow, she thought, she might just have to do that.
“Adam, you know I’ll always be yours,” she answered him with a wink.
This must be paradise and she would stay here as long as she could. They stayed at Webster’s until the lights came on. Somehow this slight action made her uneasy. It’s the end of the night, a night that will never come again. She hoped this time she had found a love that would not end.
They went back to Beau’s condo where Nicole and Beau drifted off into another room. Adam and Arianna exited to his condo. They put Dylan on and she lay with her head in his lap while he stroked her face. She felt like a nymph. His hands caressed her while his lips kissed her shoulders. He pulled his white polo over his head and laid his bare chest up against her. They kissed again and again, but neither touched the other in any intimate way. There was something holding them back, an unknown abyss they would fall into should they be that close.
Each evening for the duration of Nicole’s stay, they partied. They used the night as their vehicle to the moon. Like holding onto a whip, while licking the cream off the strawberries, these were the times of remembering.
Chapter V
Revelations
After Nicole returned to Chicago, Adam and Arianna were alone for the first time to explore each other. Adam would talk of his secret passions.
“Almost every Sunday since I’ve been 16, I spent digging up dirt on a motocross field. My Dad bought me my first bike the summer we moved to Florida from Pennsylvania. My Mum hated it. She always put her hands up to her face and yell, Jesus Maria . She still does, I’ve had so many injuries, but that’s all part of it. The pain lets you know you’re alive. I’ve never won a race yet, but I’ve placed many times. There’s nothing like the feeling I get when I’m racing. Long before the race starts, all I can think about is being on that track. Sometimes you have to wait all day for your race, but I watch the other riders and work on my bike. They have some incredible spills. Yet everyone here has an addiction to the sport, they just keep on pumping away. Someday I’m gonna’ be a great racer, maybe in Daytona, on the motocross field. Someday I’m gonna’ be somebody great. I know that. Let’s see, I’m 24 now, so girl, by the time I’m 25, that’s when it will be. Where ever you are, I’m gonna’ lay down in your front yard and say, “Top of the world-look at me now!”
Arianna hoped she would be there with him when he was 25 and 85 and all the years between. “To me, you’re already