by Tere
-- Hello, niñita -- a young person of poor clothes --. saidYou have come to salute to me, list for acostarte?
Regan separated from him and encountered over the backstitch of its nightgown.
--No you must be scared of Charlie -- hombre --. said No I want nothing that you do not want.
Regan threw to run. Its heart barked more to not being able, and the sleeve withdrew a little but with each movimiento. It did not have idea of where it went, if it ran towards something or to move away of something. Even though it fell first time, did not reduce the speed.
It had the impression that they passed whole hours hasta that it arrived at a alley and it allowed that its heart calmed the sufficient thing stops to see if oía the passages of hombre. Everything seemed to be in silence, so that it supported the head against the humid brick wall and inhaled the salty scent of sea. It heard laughter to its right, portazo, entrechocar of metal and whines of the gulls.
It watched its nightgown and it saw that it was torn and lleno of mud; it also had mud in the hair and, supposed, the cheek. Treatment of not to think about its aspect, because deseaba to dominate the fear. It had to flee from that pestilente place and to find refuge before the morning; a site where it could to rest and to be out of danger.
The hair was fixed as better it could, gathered torn pieces of their nightgown, left the alley and it was directed towards where Perhaps it had heard the laughter, would find the aid there that needed.
Minutes later, a man tried to take it from brazo. When one separated from him, other two grasped their skirt; the nightgown withdrew in three places.
---No -- it murmured, separating from them.
The scent to fish was more and more intense, and the oscuridad she was dense like the velvet. Again it threw to run, followed close by by the men.
When watching back, it saw that they only followed several men they followed, without hurrying it, like annoying it. In a while it was running and, to the following one, it felt as if one had run into with a wall of stone. It fell to the ground as if they had thrown it by a sale.
-- Travis -- a man said -- it seems that there are dejado without breath.
An enormous shade inclined on Regan, and one
deep voice asked to him:
-- you have become damage?
Before Regan could think, strong arms and insurances raised it of the ground. It was demasiado exhausted, too much terrified to think about the modales. However, it sank the face in the shoulder of who maintained it.
-- Creo that you finish obtaining what quenas for this night -- another man observed, laughing between teeth --. We will see you in the morning?
-- Perhaps -- the deep voice against the cheek responded of Regan --. Perhaps but it does not return until partida of the boat.
The men returned to laugh and followed their way.
Regan did not have idea from where it was nor of with whom it was. The only thing that knew was that it felt out of danger, as if it finished of to wake up of a horrible nightmare. When closing the eyes and leaning against hombre that loaded it with as much facility, felt that everything would come out well. One sudden light made it close the eyes with more force and sink plus the face in that strong shoulder.
-- What does there, Mr. Travis? -- a voice asked of woman.
Regan felt that the man emitted a serious laughter.
-- Trae a little brandy and hot water to my cuarto. And a little soap.
To the man it did not seem to cost to raise the stairs to him with weight of Regan in its arms. When she ignited a candle, it almost was slept.
With smoothness, it left it on the bed, with the supported head in the pillows.
-- Well, déjame mirarte.
While it inspected it, Regan watched for the first time to its rescuer. It had very thick, smooth hair and oscuro, and a face attractive, with deep brown eyes and
fine mouth. Their eyes shone, amused, and had minúsculas wrinkles in the comisuras.
-- Satisfied? it asked to him, to the time that was going to open the door.
It was, without a doubt, the man more corpulento than Regan it had seen; a figure totally lack of elegance, of course, but to same fascinating time. The profundidad of its average chest, perhaps, the double of nobody parte of the body of her. Without a doubt, their arms were so gruesos like the waist of Regan, and it saw that their trousers revealed strong thighs and muscular. It wore boots that arrived to him at the knees and Regan it astonished to verlas, since before it had only seen men with zapatillas small.
-- Toma, I want that you drink this. It will make you feel better. To to see that the brandy burned the throat to him, the man indicated to him that it sucked little to little.
-- you are frozen, and the brandy will make you enter heat. Indeed, the brandy made it enter heat, the habitación illuminated by the candles and the calm force of that man increased the sensation of security of Regan. Their uncle and Farrell seemed very distant.
-- Why speak you in so rare form? him preguntó.
The eyes of the man laughed. --Yo preguntarte could same. I am norteamericano.
The eyes of Regan dilated with a mixture of interest and fear. It had heard many histories about the Americans: men that they had declared the war to his mother country, that was little more than savages.
As if the mind had read him, the man dampened a cloth with the hot water, rubbed it with soap and began to wash the face to him. Somehow, it seemed to him natural that that man, whose hand was so great like the face of her, it washed with smoothness and tenderness to it. When I finish with face, began with the feet and the legs. Regan contemplated the hair of the man: it just took cortado to it over the neck of the shirt, where one curled
apenas, and did not resist the temptation to touch it. It was sign and you were clean, and Regan thought that until the hair of that man it was hard.
The man rose, took the hand from muchacha and he kissed it on the end of the fingers.
-- Ponte this -- it said, and it threw one to him of its shirts cleanings --. I lowered to see if encounter something to eat. It seems that it would come to you well a good food.
When one left, the room began to seem cavernous. When it was put of foot, Regan staggered a little and included/understood that brandy had risen to him at the top. His Jonathan uncle never had allowed him to drink alcohol. When thinking about that name all the bad one remembered that had happened. While one took off the rest of the lethargic and dirty nightgown, a began to imagine what they would feel Farrell and its uncle when it returned from the arm of good looking americano corpulento and. That man had tamaño sufficient stops to obtain any thing that wished. One put in the bed, surrounded in the shirt whose aprons arrived to him more under the knees, and imagined their return victorious to the Weston house. In addition, the American siempre would be his friend, e he would even attend his wedding with Farrell. Clear that it would have to learn modales, but perhaps Farrell could enseñárselos.
One fell asleep with a smile in the lips.
Travis returned to the room with a cargada tray of food. When seeing that their attempts to wake up to Regan only obtained that girl curled up lower the blankets, arranged itself to eat single. It had state drinking with its American friends from afternoon, celebrando the happy one term of its trip and the concretion of the businesses of Travis in England. In one week would weigh anchor from return to Virginia.
The four men had been commenting who them he would please to have a sweet kid in his bed, cuando that girl had myself run into with Travis. She was pretty, young and clean, in spite of the dirt that he him it had quitado. It was wondered what made single to those hours, running by streets with its torn nightgown. Perhaps they habian it
perhaps echado of the house where it worked, or it decided to prove single luck and discovered that it scared it to work in the street.
Travis consumed most of the food, was put of foot and one stretched. It w
as as it was the problem of that girl, to less by that night he would be hers. On the following day it could give back it to the street.
One undressed slowly, undoing the clothes with stupidity. The way in which the young person was obstinate to him had excited it, and it was wondered where that trick would have aprendido she: none of prostitutas that it had known they used that technique.
Already naked, one lay down and it attracted the girl towards himself. Its body was fláccido, but when Travis introduced the hand under the shirt it began to wake up.
Regan felt those warm and masculine hands on its body, and seemed to him that dream was part of his delicioso. Nobody had to him offered affection before. Nor siquiera in its childhood, when it longed for that somebody it embraced, was somebody offered love to him. At heart of its mind estaba the memory of a terrible and recent pain, and wanted to have somebody to that to cling, somebody that erased that pain.
In a state of semiviligia, it felt that they cleared to him shirt. When their sines cleared the chest of Travis and felt their hardness and hair that covered it, Regan drowned a exclamación of joy. Lips they kissed on the cheek, the eyes, the hair and, finally, the mouth. She never had kissed a man, but she knew to the instante that it liked much. The firm lips but suaves of Travis moved on his and they separated them hardly to savor his dulzura.
When Travis attracted more towards him, Regan abrazó, delighting with their size, and more approached, because deseaba to be altogether contact with him.
Nevertheless, when the movements of Travis they made more expresses, Regan was on the awares, surprised. Quickly a began to return in himself, and tried to separate from him. But the force of Travis was so much that it was not noticed of the weak attempts of the girl to separate.
it did not have the cleared mind either very, because of whiskey that had drunk, and the reaction of initial enthusiasm of Regan was it excited.
Regan pushed with more force, but the arms of Travis they were closed still more and their lips seized of those of her, avoiding any negative answer. In spite of its increasing conscience of which what it was doing was bad, Regan could not resist for a long time, and began a to react totally to him: one bent against him, without knowing with exactitude what it was what wished.
The hand of Travis maintained the head of muchacha it rocked it, it caressed it, and its thumb caressed it behind the ear. Their teeth mordisqueaban lóbulo to him of the ear.
-- Sweet -- it whispered --. Candy like the violets.
Smiling, Regan moved with languor when thigh of Travis cleared his. It tipped the head to permitir access to him to his neck and its shoulder. When he began to do the love to him to his neck, Regan it felt that it could be disolver like water. It interlaced the fingers in the hair of it and maintained the head to him, because he did not want that he separated. The first time that the hand of Travis touched its sine, Regan was put rigid by the surprise. Soon, a measurement that that exquisite sensation flowed by each pore and each glass of his body, attracted the head of him towards hers. With anxiety, passion, thirsty, it looked for its lips.
When Travis rose on her, first who Regan thought was that, for a man of his size, it was extraordinarily light. Right away it felt pain and it was on the awares; its body lost that sensation of pleasing and pushed it with all its forces.
But Travis no longer oía. The desire that felt by that ardent kid was overwhelming, and she could not hear his protests.
In spite of its little sanity by excess of alcohol, it knew that it arrived at the very small membrane. In some place of its mind, a rest of good sense said to him that it was committing an error, but could not stop. it penetrated quickly, but there was lost great part of its original passion.
When it finished, it remained quiet, laying on her, and it felt how the small and delicate body of muchacha began a to shake with the sobs. Lágrimas lukewarm of Regan dampened to him neck and was mezclaron with their sweat.
One separated from her, without watching it. The light of the sun comenzaba to enter by the window, and Travis never had been sentido so sober in all his life. One put the trousers and the boots, and soon the shirt, that was not bothered in abrochar. Finally one became towards the girl; only its head showed underneath the blankets.
With all the smoothness that could use, junto seated to her in the bed.
-- Who you are? it asked to him.
All the answer that it obtained was I wag of cabeza and a fort sob. Travis aspired deeply and it made it get up itself, without to let cover the desnudos sines to him with the sheet.
—¡It does not touch to me! -- Regan --. exclaimed ¡Damage has done me!
--Ya I know it, and I feel it, but... -- Prosiguio' in voice more discharge.— ¡Curse! How it could know that eras virgen? I thought that eras... -- Travis frunció the frown.
Innocence in the eyes of Regan stopped when seeing. How had been able to confuse it with one prostituta? Perhaps it had been by mud or the little illumination, or, which was more probable, the whiskey that were ingested, but now it saw that it was impossible to confuse it. Even like estaba now, it undresses, seated in its bed, with the hair desaliñado on shoulders, exuded an air of refinamiento and gentility that only the members of the British high class could maintain at moments of tension. Cuando it included/understood what it had done -- to lie down with the virgin daughter of some lord -- it began to notice itself of the gravedad of his acts.
-- Creo that I cannot apologize reason why ocurrió -- it said --, perhaps but explicaciones can offer my to your father. I am sure that he... -- Comprenderá? Travis thought.
--Mi father he is dead -- it responded Regan.
-- Then it will take to you with your tutor.
—¡No! -- Regan exclaimed. How it could return with its uncle in that state, so that that enormous American confessed what they had done together?-- If it please makes obtain to me something me of clothes, I will leave it peacefully. No one worries to take to me nowhere.
Travis seemed to think it a little while.
-- Why you were running by the wharves in half at night? Unless she mistakes to me, a girl like you... -- Sonrio' when seeing expression of Regan.-- Perdón, a young one as you never it has seen before wharves.
Regan raised the forehead.
--Lo that I have seen or no, is not subject his. only that I request to him is a dress, something simple if it can pay, and I will leave immediately.
Travis returned to smile.
-- Creo that I can obtain a dress. But I do not think dejarte at the mercy of the beasts that afuera are there. It remembers what you it happened last night,
Regan watched it, entrecerrando the eyes.
-- Perhaps it could have passed something to me worse of which you did to me last night? -- Hundio' the face in the hands.-- Who is going to want to me now? You have ruined to me.
Travis seated to its side and it separated the hands to him.
---Cualquier man would want to you, dear. You are the plus delicious... --Se interrupted.
Regan was not safe to understand to what it talked about, but it had certain idea.
—¡Vulgar colono! You are as wild as he says. Raptan to the ladies in the street and takes them to a room where them they do... horrible things.
—¡It waits for a minute! If my memory serves me right, you came running towards my and, when I dealed with ayudarte, you practically jumped to my arms. That does not make a lady. And as far as the one of last night, it did not seem to you so horrible when you stretched the hair to me and you caressed the legs to me with your piececitos.
Regan was agape, horrified, and it could not to respond.
-- (Oye, I feel it. I did not want escandalizarte. but I want that you understand the things as they are. If I had known that eras virgin and not a street one, would not be tocado to him. But no longer we can change the things. Yes I touched to you, and now you are my responsibility.
--Yo... of cou
rse that I am not its responsibility. Him I assure that I know to take care of to me single.
-- Since you did it last night? -- Travis said, levantando an eyebrow --. It was a luck that you ran into with me; if no, who knows what you it would have happened.
It happened a little while before Regan could speak.
-- Perhaps its arrogance does not have limits? ;No was one luck to run into to me with you, and now I know that he was better in the streets than locked up with a crazy person, despicable violador like you, gentleman!
The eyes of Travis were illuminated with a smile overwhelming. The hand went through the hair and laughed between teeth.
-- Vaya, goes. I believe that a lady has insulted me English. -- Their eyes crossed naked shoulders of the girl, and him it smiled.-- You know? I believe that I like.
-- Because you do not please me -- Regan talked back, exasperated by the ignorance and the lack of understanding of that man.
-- Permíteme to present/display to me. I am Travis Stanford, of Virginia, and I am enchanted of conocerte -- it said, and him tendió the hand.
Regan crossed the arms on the chest and separated vista. Perhaps if it ignored it and one were crude with him, it would let it go.
-- Very well -- Travis said, to the time that was put of foot --. As you want. But we are going to clarify a thing: I do not think dejarte single about the wharves of Liverpool Or you say to me where you live and who is your tutor, or you you are encerrada in this room.
—¡It cannot do that! ¡It does not have right! Travis it watched seriously. -- Last night I gained that right. The tomamos Americans very in serious our responsibilities, and last night
you happened to be to my position... at least, until me digas who is your true tutor.
While it finished getting dressed, it observed it in espejo, trying to guess the reasons by which she quería not to say to him who was. Once the jacket was put, it inclined on her.
