Someone Like You

Chapter 19

Zeniyah

We pull up to a broke down looking building far outside the city, from behind the city I can see bright stadium looking lights and I can hear yelling, I unbuckle my seat belt and get ready to yank to door open, the door won't budge and I look at the Sandro glaring at him, 

"Open the door Alessandro," I say angrily. 

"Sorry love it's not safe out there for you, stay in here," he says as they climb out not waiting for me to protest, I watch them pull on their hoodies and walk into a tight alley between 2 of the abandoned buildings. I close my eyes and start humming trying to calm my nerves and curve the oncoming headache.

After a few minutes when I've calmed down the door beside me is yanked open making me gasp, I can slightly see Giovanni's face making me sigh in relief, it's too dark to truly see anything but they place him in the backseat, and he groans leaning his head on my lap. He smells like booze and muds making my face scrunch up. None the less I begin combing my fingers through his hair causing him to sigh and snuggle deeper into my lap. I lean my head back and close my eyes as Alessandro begins driving back home. 

Once we arrive I climb out rushing around and help him out of the car while Tony supports his other side. We walk up the stairs into the house we place him down on the couch in the front foyer and I'm finally able to look at him properly. 

There's blood smeared all over his knuckles splashes of it on his face and his shirt is ripped. I look down at myself and see blood on my joggers. 

"We need to get him to a hospital," I say to Sandro seeing a huge section of blood on his side. 

"It's not my blood princess," he says laughing before wincing in pain. 

"I wasn't fucking talking to you," snap at him making him frown at me. I sigh at his cuteness, 

"Go upstairs, shower, and change, and I'll come to check your wounds," I say sternly. He tries getting up but falls back in the seat I sigh and place his hand over my shoulder helping him up. We walk towards the stairs and begin going up one set at a time. Once we reach the top of the stairs we walk into his room and I place him on his bed. 

I walk into his bathroom, its massive, I fill the huge bathtub up with warm water then see there are jets so I turn those on too before adding some Dove charcoal soap I see.  Once the tub is full of warm water and bubbles I walk back out to Giovanni and find him in just his boxers making me blush. 

I grab his arm once again and sling it over my shoulder helping him into the bathroom, I turn around and close my eyes telling him to take off his boxers and climb into the water. Once he's inside I look at him to see his head leaning back and his eyes closed. I get on my knees beside the tub and grab his loofah before turning off the jets. 

I add more soap and begin washing his body removing all the splashes of blood and mud on his skin. The whole time I feel him looking at me but I focus on washing his torso, then his armpits, then his back, I shuffle lower washing his feet then I go up to his legs once I reach his thigh I hand him the loofah causing him to laugh. 

I grab some shampoo and wash his hair before turning on the ceiling shower and unplugging the drain. I leave his towel on a rail near the shower door and walk out. In his room, I pick up the dirty clothes from the floor and run downstairs throwing them in the garbage after making sure there was nothing in the pockets. By the time I get back upstairs, I find Giovanni dry and in a pair of shorts struggling to apply deodorant. My heart squeezes seeing the bruises all over him. 

"Sit on the counter, where's your first aid kit?" I say to him

He points to the drawer and I go in pulling out a huge metal box marked with the cross. I open it and start by covering some of the scratches and bruises on his torso with ointment. I think to apply gauze to the scratches before moving up to his face. Thankfully there wasn't much damage done I cover up I scratch on his brow and apply some petroleum jelly to his lips which have cracked in a couple of places. 

"I'm hungry," he mumbles after a few minutes. I put away the first aid kit and help him up again and we head downstairs. I sit him at the dining table then walk into the kitchen and warm the tenders and fries with some juice before giving it to him. I grab all the sauces and place them in front of him. I go back into the kitchen and plate myself a slice of pie and make myself some hot chocolate before joining Giovanni. 

He begins eating after I sit in front of him. I sigh getting tired of the silence between us,

"Why?" I say looking at him. "Why would you do this to yourself, do you need the money or something" 

"No yo-you were scared of me and I was angry...I was the reason you got hurt" he mumbles sadly. I frown putting it all together in my head, he went there not only to release anger...but to punish himself. I sighed shaking my head, 

"Giovanni," I say softly and he doesn't lookup. "Hun look at me," 

"Listen I'm not scared of you, you have to understand at the moment I was hurt badly and I just wanted to go home badly, my head and body was hurting and on top of that I was wrapping my head around what I had witnessed," I said to him. 

"I'm sorry princess," he says. I sigh nodding and we continue eating in comfortable silence. After that, I put the dishes in the dishwasher since I'm too lazy to wash them and we go back upstairs and I help him brush his teeth before placing him in his bed. I pull his blanket over him and asks, 

"What are you doing?" I look at him confused 

"Putting you in bed," I say in a duh tone. 

"You're not staying?" he askes sadly. I shake my head in response and he frowns more. 

"Please I can't sleep properly in you don't," I raise an eyebrow but eventually nod giving in. I glance at the time seeing it's almost 2am 

I go down to the room where I was staying and grab my toothbrush. I come back to his room and brush my teeth and wash my face while he sits waiting. I grab a pair of his boxers along with one of his shirts changing out of the clothes I was wearing that had blood on them.  

"Um do you have anything I can tie my hair with, there's a lot of oil in it and I don't want to ruin your pillow or break out," I say to him. 

He rolls over, reaching into his side table drawer and pulling out my silk hair tie from the second time I was here. He blushes handing it to me.

I switch off the light and climb into bed beside him. I lay there with my thoughts trying to keep my breathing as calm as possible. 

"Princess...Zeniyah" I hear Giovanni whisper, I continue to pretend I'm sleeping. He pulls me up and positions me so I'm on his chest and his arm is around my waist. He kisses the top of my head and whispers goodnight as I fall asleep listening to his steady heartbeat.