David shifted on the bed, trying to hug Nina's warm body, when he realized she wasn't there. The half-open bathroom door made him think she wasn't in the bathroom, he called her, got no answer, then realized her clothes were nowhere. His heart involuntarily races, he begins to suffocate, alone in the hotel room. He wondered what was going on with him. What was the problem anyway? Holding the note she had left, he managed to call the spa staff for help, who entered the room after a few seconds.
David had spent the next few hours between massages, yoga, meditation, and other activities that were part of his spa stay package. When Nina returned, he made a point of going down to reception to take her luggage to her room.
Nina was very beautiful. According to her, made up and produced by Kara from head to toe. She wore a black jumpsuit woven into her back, and her hair was tied up in a bun.
They went up to the bedroom together. Once there, they told each other the details of their respective days, while Nina, who didn't like much makeup or high heels, “dismantled” it all. David followed her around the hotel room trying to keep up with the dialogue, since she wouldn't stop still.
"I had a crisis when I didn't see you in the morning."
— Wow, how dramatic! I left a note. And it didn't take long, I'm already here.
Nina didn't know the gravity of the crises Dave was facing. She only knew about the fatigue and stress due to work.
“I'm canceling all my appointments,” David said. — There are many schedules and obligations. What I really need is time to relax and do nothing. A real vacation.
'No, David. Don't do that,” Nina said. “These sessions will do you a lot of good. Need to take it seriously. All these therapies are very good for helping you psychologically and physically. Even though these hours are not mandatory, do not interrupt your treatment. It's only 14 days. It's very little you've been going through.
“Exactly why. In two weeks I will have a thousand appointments. Now I just want to rest. I'm feeling full of obligations here. Or else... you'll have to come with me!
Nina joked that he needed to be alone for a while so he wouldn't get sick of her these past six days. Furthermore, she didn't want to abandon her friends further during the trip.
David actually really wanted to go along with Nina and her friends, take these outings the three of them had scheduled, but he couldn't. He was very responsible for his public image. Both feet were on the ground. And Kara's plans included a farewell to the luau, taking pictures in specific super tumultuous places, and some superstitions about throwing coins into a fountain or leaving a padlock on a bridge.
“I'll go with you, but on one condition.
- Which?
"You'll have to try to set me free."
- Free? Free how?
- Free! Don't try to trap me in bed, don't try to feed on me like you're a vampire and I'm your food source, for example. I want you to try to be with me without having to be between my legs.
After hearing his proposal, the black-eyed David was ready to express himself, he could devour her right there. The more rules she tried to enforce, the more he felt like breaking them. Instead of calming him, she urged him on. It stirred her pride, her wild instincts.
Nina and David spent the rest of that day together.
The next day she participated in his entire schedule. David tried to teach her how to swim, and in the pool they lived a kind of torture for being so close, wet, almost naked, but unable to touch. In fact, they wanted to possess themselves right there again, but even though he had his cock rigid and she had her intimate contractions…they had to hold back.
Between laughter and a lot of gulping water, Nina noticed the catatonic looks that the spa staff directed at David, but he didn't even care.
After the pool, they went to yoga, where between stretches and sensual positions the two needed, once again, to hold their carnal desires. David wanted to have Nina right there on the mat.
Nina had not failed to notice that the Yoga teacher was staring at David when he had his eyes closed, she was mentally fucking him as she narrated the mantra of exhaling and inhaling. Sharp! As Freud said: “thoughts are the tests of actions”.
With each new schedule, things got worse for Nina. She couldn't and didn't have the right to be jealous of David, because she would have to be jealous of the whole world. Her fight would already be lost before the battle, even so she was a little intimidated by all that harassment. The women at the spa were professionals, and although they acted with respect and formality, they couldn't help the desire in their eyes, the different way they looked at David.
After yoga, they decided to go to massage sessions together. When they arrived in the room, Nina was greeted normally by the employees. David, on the other hand, was practically deified by them.
By the time Nina found herself, she was already being led away from David by the masseuses. David protested, politely telling the girls that he wanted to enjoy this service together with Nina, as a couples program. Then they had Nina lying on a massage bed with her face turned to the floor, and David lying on a bed beside her.
Nina closed her eyes and tried to focus on what the therapist was doing to her, not David. But when they shifted her position on the bed, she inevitably looked to the side and saw him half-naked with a towel wrapped around his waist, and those women dousing him in aromatic oil and enjoying that perfect body. They giggled as they exchanged sly looks with each other, as if mentally sharing the image of a threesome...
Even the girl who massaged Nina was facing David's bed, watching him (Nina suspected she was also part of group sex).
Nina swallowed hard as the two women around David followed every detail of his defined muscles, feeling him with their hands, with such deep concentration that it exposed their blushes and panting breaths.
After the pool, yoga and massage session, Nina was convinced that she no longer wanted to accompany David on his spa “works”. He agreed that it was an intense schedule, taking up an entire day, and promised Nina that for the next few days they would take time off from the spa. He said he would have all the time in the world to devote to therapy after she left. For all in all, he would be there for a month.
They were both hungry and David could hear the weariness in Nina's voice. She wanted to see people, wanted to be with her friends, without it causing an awkward atmosphere between her and Rich. Being with him felt good, but that intensity came at a price.
David invited her to a vegan restaurant, an open establishment with direct access to the sidewalk, the chairs and tables were inside a heated glass tent in front of the restaurant, due to the winter cold. They thought they could have a normal dinner there, since there was hardly anyone. Both were dressed in very simple clothes, as Nina wanted: hoodies and hoods. Almost like a disguise. All she feared was that it would happen to her, which happened to everyone who approached him when they were publicly exposed in the sensational news tabloids.
Talk goes, talk comes, and some people around them began to show a certain interest in the couple. Nina couldn't even finish a sentence anymore without noticing the tumult building. Some people from the small restaurant at the end of the street were already pointing to their table. Before the fuss had even formed, David and Nina had already left the restaurant. Nina screamed:
"But we don't pay the bill!"
"It was already paid for," David replied.
Minutes later, David's security guards had escorted them back to the hotel.
“It's Saturday night. Let's have our dinner in peace here in the room. So we can continue our conversation,” David said. "The food is already on the rise." Is it okay?
"Perfect," Nina replied.
It was already the third “perfect” to respond, after David had asked three times if everything was okay. And she had the sweetest smile she could manage to say yes, everything was perfect.
- Everything is wonderful, perfect even. The dream of millions of people to be here with you! How I wouldn't be fine, eh? Impossible.
David had already learned some traits from Nina. When she spoke like that, for example, squeezing finger for finger, giving an answer to her own question, as if justifying herself... it was a sign that later she was going to tell him what was wrong. It was just him confronting her.
"If everything is so perfect, then what is it?" David asked. "Are you upset that we ran out of the restaurant?"
'It's nothing at all. Iii, you're getting paranoid, huh!
"Am I going to have to fight for you to let go of what's going on in that little head?" David pressed a kiss to the back of her neck as he grabbed her from behind.
"If all our fights are like that, yes." I want more is that you go to fight! She always managed to get a smile out of him at the end.
"Then let's have dinner." It's going to be okay, Nina.
"I know," she said. — It's just that I stayed all day with my friends, it was so, so… so free. So simple! I can't do anything with you. I'm tired of being locked in a room during my vacation, even if it's with Dave Nichols.
"What do you mean you can't do anything?" We've already done so much in just one week! I canceled everything so we could have more time together. Tomorrow I just have a therapy session.
Nina took advantage of this moment to tell him that she no longer wanted to accompany him in his duties, and that she would even less like to be present at his therapy session. She even forbade him to quote her to his therapist. David asked why this was, and she replied that she simply did not trust that such information could not be leaked to the press. He responded by saying that he didn't want it leaked either, but Nina's concern about this matter bothered him a lot.
“Yes, Dave. I know you're trying your hardest, and that most women fight with their partners for the lack of attention you're giving me. I know, but I want to go to the Coliseum, the Trevi Fountain, St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, the Pantheon, the Galleria Borghese, the Spanish Steps, the Sistine Chapel, among others.
"But didn't you already go with your friends on the second day of the trip?"
“Not to these places. I arrived on the Friday night of their debut party, and I only had Saturday and half of Sunday with my friends. Since then I've only seen the walls of this room.
"Yes," David agreed.
“What I mean is, I don't want to spend my vacation locked up in a spa! I came here with my friends to enjoy Rome. And everything is fine. You act like I'm trying to do something horrendous.
- And what else? David asked.
"And that I was so hasty when I went to get my bags." I already have a paid hotel. We could meet here and there for the five days we have left, but I don't want to be there for anyone like I'm a…
- One what? David intoned his voice. — Proceed.
"An escort," Nina finished. “You see, I meet a man on a dating app the first day I get here, or rather a nightclub, and then I go out for a day with my friends and come to his hotel. After a few days I pick up my luggage and move here. And all we do is get laid!
"Doesn't it seem like a dream?" David said in a very serious voice. "So what are you going to do about it?"
"I'm going back to my hotel," Nina decided. “Actually, I wasn't going to come, but my friends convinced me. I won't be comfortable here. I don't even know if I can unpack my bags. Where am I going to put my stuff? Men don't like it when women invade their space and start to change everything... It's not the same thing. I don't have the money to be at your hotel and it's all getting really weird.
— I agree, it is very strange indeed. Okay, just tell me when you want to go and I'll send someone to take you.
Hearing him speak that way, Nina realized that he might have had his share of patience exhausted. She sat silently around the table and began to eat what he had ordered her to prepare.
The mood weighed heavily during dinner in that hotel room. The two were silent and completely lost interest in all the subjects they had to tell. It was stamped on David's face how upset he was. He didn't like indecision. Nina was impulsive! Still he continued to treat her very well. He even asked her if she wanted dessert.
— I ordered your favorite dessert: “Delicia de pineapple” and condensed milk.
Nina looked at him with eyes as melted as that dessert in her mouth. In the silence, he thought of the conversation he'd had with Kara on her last date with her friends. Nina wanted to be out there with them, and keeping in touch with Dave at the same time, without having to spend twenty-four hours together. It was impossible to try to remain anonymous if she let him come with her, while she didn't want to leave him alone in a clinic, and when she simultaneously struggled with the fear of loving him more than she could handle. She was freaking out inside!
Nina had told Kara and Lyon that she would turn down David's offer to live with him at the hotel, for reasons of pride, because she couldn't afford a 14-day stay with him at a millionaire resort, even being low season. She also said that she didn't want to risk getting attached, as it would all be over at any time. Kara had replied:
- Friend, you are very annoying! I'm also in favor of women's empowerment, I also want to fight against all the injustices in the world and I want a world where women are treated equally, but for that, we must think that to have equal rights, we don't need to diminish men, nor attacking them and not wanting to take away their rights. Matching is not a competition...
...We shouldn't confuse our personal insecurities as a way of showing empowerment. I don't know your heartthrob closely, but so far all you've told us is that he's a dignified man, very patient by the way, and that he really wants to get to know you better, or would have already told you to go for a walk. a long time!
'But that's exactly what she wants: to take a walk, dear!' You don't understand what the problem is,” Lyon said, causing the three of them to immediately return to the mood of laughter and jokes. "The guy fucks!" Fucks hard! He's a maniac... Ok, it's my consumption dream, yours too Kara, but it's not our friend's complicated one. I understand you Niny, you don't want to have to choose between living fourteen days with a movie god, experiencing every possible sexual fantasy, and having to leave us at that. Relax! We are fine.
"She wants everything!" You don't want to have to give up something. You know it's impossible, right Niny? Whatever this story of yours may be, it cannot have freedom. You will not be able to remain anonymous forever, and will have to be very well prepared to provide you with a world of criticism and explicit exposure of your life. These tiny conflicts that you're facing right now, it's just a mere rehearsal of everything to come. Kara said, showing her the internet files.
Then, in the middle of a silent delicacy, David interrupted Nina's thoughts:
- Did you like the food? From dessert?
“Yes, everything was wonderful. Thanks for that.” Thank you, Nina.
Nina got up, went to David on the other side of the round table, and sat at the end of the table facing him, with a narrow space between them. She put a dessert spoon in David's mouth, letting a little trickle between his lips, then kissed him gently. He didn't kiss back, although he felt goose bumps from head to toe.
They were looking at each other with an air of seriousness. They didn't blink. Nina unbuttoned his black microfiber shirt, smeared the candy on his hairy chest, then sucked it back. He gritted his teeth and continued to ignore her with his gaze, preventing the black-eyed David from dominating him. She sat a little higher up at the table and began to smooth the creamy, thick dessert into her panties, her legs spread, her heels propped up on the edges of her chair. David didn't even blink!
Nina leaned forward and tried to kiss him. David turned his face away. She climbed down from the table and sat on his lap, legs apart, nose to nose, held him by the chin, forcing him to look at her, and tried to kiss him one more time. He denied it again, and he denied it every single time Nina tried desperately to kiss him. “Wasn't she the one who didn't kiss”? thought David, purposefully torturing her. Then she quickly got up from his lap and in a frustrated voice said:
“What did I do this time?
“You said sex doesn't solve everything. Your words,” David replied.
"You must be kidding!" Are you going to use this to punish me? Was it because I didn't want to kiss you before or because I was unsure about moving here? I wasn't playing. I really don't like kissing, never did. And when I finally want to try, do you just turn your face away?
"You turned your face away before!" he retorted, rising as well. “And I already said: you are not a prisoner. Unless a man is making you stay, with a gun or using violence, I don't know, he'll always have the choice to go!
- I do not understand.
- I'm sick! You don't know the half... but whoever is having mood swings here is you. We had a perfect day, and you tell me you're going back to your hotel, then you want to seduce me and kiss me, despite having denied me days ago... You can leave! My driver has already been notified.
“If you tell me to leave one more time, David Nichols, I will! And I'm not coming back!
“I'm just saying you have a choice. Want to go? So go! If you're going to stay, stop torturing me! David finished, taking a step towards her, now showing a lot of indignation in his tone and pointing his finger at the door!
After a few tense seconds, Nina came out slamming the bedroom door. She hurried down the hall to the elevator. When she got to the ground floor of the spa building, there were a lot of people there, she saw the emergency exit from the stairs and went in there. I didn't want to run and cry past the reception. She took off her high heels and ran as far as she could until she reached the top of the building, (which wasn't very high) to hide.
It was as if Løv Li's song I miss you played in the background as I ran. I was angry, embarrassed that I had been told not to try to seduce him with dessert, I was confused. I didn't know if that would be the end. A thousand things went through his mind at that moment. She was suffocating, feeling dizzy, a scared, childish little girl. She called her friends Kara and Lyon and then they came to get her.
David had remained in his quarters. He had been standing in front of his bedroom mirror staring at himself from the moment she ran away. He had decided not to insist anymore, he was also angry with her.
David began to get ready. He changed his clothes, as Nina had soiled the one he was wearing. Before going out to have fun, he texted her:
“Don't worry, Nina. I will not bother you anymore. You have my word.”
Nina read that message seconds before stepping out of the cab and into the long-awaited “city luau” her friend Kara had been talking about throughout the trip.