Black Roses - Part 5

Black Roses – Part 5

"I'd fight for you, I'd lie, It's true, Give my life for you. You know I'd always come for you."



   Several weeks passed for the married couple and there wasn’t even a single trace that HP had any idea what was going on between Duncan and Courtney. The two have been keeping the fact that their married to themselves so well that even Sebastien, who’s been living at the couple’s house recently, didn’t  know they were more than just boyfriend and girlfriend.

   Courtney got onto her knees, walked above the white down blanket on her bed to her newlywed husband and took his face in her hands. Duncan grew a flirty grin on his face then straightened his posture from his upright sitting position so he could reach his Princess’ face better before sliding his arms around Courtney’s skinny waist, wrinkling her baby blue spaghetti strap tank top just slightly.

   Tilting her head and leaning closer to Duncan’s face, Courtney caressed her nose onto his as they both grew a warm friendly smile before closing their eyes and pressing their lips against each others.

   Courtney removed her hands from her husband’s face and locked her arms around his neck, neither of them losing their appetite for each other’s taste. Feeling a warm hand crawl up from under the back of her tank top, she gently pulled away from Duncan and looked into his beautiful blue eyes.

   “Is it okay if we, um, don’t use protection this time?” Courtney asked with hesitation.

   Duncan let out a sigh, knowing Courtney still wanted to fulfil her dream of having children, “Courtney”

   “Please? Just this once” Her voice grew quieter and Duncan knew his beloved Princess wanted to cry.

   Not wanting to apologize for the hundredth time these past few weeks, Duncan slowly shook his head then observed his lover look down and felt her arms remove themselves from his neck.  

   It then went into an awkward silence, with neither of the couple talking or moving. Desperate to make Courtney speak to Duncan again, he broke the silence.

   “Do you really want children?” The punk asked quietly then reached his right hand out and stroked his love’s cheek.

   Courtney nodded before Duncan closed his eyes and let out a deep sigh, “I can’t believe I’m saying this” He let out another sigh, “But if you want children that badly, I’ll” The delinquent took a pause before finishing, “I’ll let you go find another man to fulfil your dream”

   Duncan really couldn’t believe he was willing to let the girl he loved so sincerely run away from him if she really wanted to. Courtney wanted children, and with her husband in a serious gang, that’s not possible, not under HP’s strict rules at least. Love is powerful, but you have to overcome that emotion in order to protect the ones you love, and Duncan knew this way too well.

  Tears quickly ran down Courtney’s face and while keeping her drowning eyes locked at Duncan, she barely spoke, “N-No w-way” The punk gave her a “Are you sure?” face and Courtney spoke again, “I love you way too much to ever leave you. I promised on our wedding day that if anything ever happened to either of us and we couldn’t be with each other, I’d never fall again, and I intend to keep that promise” Courtney took a sniff and her voice became really tiny and high pitched, “I love you with all my heart and soul, and I can’t imagine my life without you Duncan, I love you”

   Duncan, deeply touched by his Princess’ words, wrapped his arms tightly around Courtney while he felt her tears fall onto his shoulder and Courtney’s arms tighten around his chest.

   “I love you too, Courtney” He whispered, “I never thought I’d even be in love with a girl, and here I am now, spilling my heart out to you and saying all this romantic shit I didn’t think I had in me”

   Courtney couldn’t help but chuckle at what her love just said, “You’ll never leave me right?”

   “Never”

   “You promise?” Her tears began to escape her eyes much slower than a few moments ago.

   Hanging from her neck and gently lying on Duncan’s back, Courtney saw the red rose locket the delinquent gave her during their engagement, and a shy smile appeared on her face. I’m never going to take this thing off.

   “With my life”

   Courtney let go of Duncan and looked at him with a smile, recovering from her tears, “Can we just do it once, protection free?”

   Duncan bit his lip.

   “I just want to try it once, I won’t ask for it ever again, Duncan”

   Taking his time and making a decision, Duncan looked into Courtney’s eyes before telling her his decision, “Just once”

   A smile cracked on both of their faces as Courtney leaped onto Duncan, knocking him down on their bed, and kissed him intimately for the rest of the night.


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   “Yeah?” Duncan heard Sebastien speak through his cell phone a couple days later. The two were sent out by HP to watch over something and make sure whatever HP asked them to observe was successful. Even though the night was still very young, both the gang members had a feeling the plot was to damage the opposing gang that nearly killed Duncan, as a small payback and a warning at The Darkness’ power, “Okay. Yeah, I’ll tell him”

   “What is it?” Duncan asked his friend.

   “HP said to look out for a bright red Honda with the left head light broken. He said something about a bomb placed into there and it’ll blow up at ten o’clock exactly, which is” Sebastien quickly looked down at his watch and did some calculation, “In two minutes”  

   “The car over there, right?” Duncan asked, pointing to the bright and slightly worn down Honda a couple metres away from them.

   Sebastien got up from his knees to take a glance at the car, before kneeling back down behind a large dark green metal garbage container in a small alley way, “I think that’s the one”

   “Didn’t HP say the car had a broken head light?”

   “Yeah”

   “Then that’s the one, cause only one of the lights are on”

   “Okay” Sebastien no longer sounded depressed over what happened with his fiancée a while back. He probably still hates HP for killing his love, but Sebastien is learning to move on from it, “Thanks again for letting me stay at your place”

   “Don’t thank me, thank Courtney. Even if I wanted to kicked you out, she’d drag you back into the house and then you’d hear her yelling at me later before kissing me all over again” Duncan snickered, knowing Courtney could never stay mad at him for too long before springing herself back into the punk’s arms.

  Sebastien simply shot a smile before looking away.

  “Oh right, sorry dude, forgot there” Duncan realized.

  “It’s all cool. I’m happy for the both of you” He smiled, “Where is Courtney tonight anyways?”

   “Out with one of her girlfriends” Courtney left earlier that night and when Duncan unwillingly – and playfully – wouldn’t let her go, she told him she’d be back before he knew it. The girl who picked up Duncan’s wife from their house looked familiar to the delinquent though. He didn’t know where, but Duncan knows he’d seen her somewhere before.

   “Speaking of which” Duncan noticed Sebastien squinting his eyes at something near the explosive car, “Um, isn’t that Courtney over there?”

   Completely alarmed, Duncan shot out from hiding and looked at the targeted car. There was someone walking towards it and she was wearing clothes Duncan’s seen a couple hours ago. It then hit him why everything about that girl walking towards the car looked so familiar, because Sebastien was right.

   “Oh my God” Duncan whispered before bolting out from hiding and started sprinting to Courtney.

   Suddenly, everything seemed to go into slow motion. Duncan knew there was only seconds left before the bomb takes off, and Courtney was oh so close to the vehicle.

   “COURTNEIGH!!!” He screamed while slicing the air with his arms, running full speed towards her. Nothing was even clear to the gang member, all he knew at the moment was that Courtney was in danger and he was her guardian angel, so he had to save her.

   Courtney turned around at her name, not aware about anything going on, and gave a confused look to Duncan who was metres away from reaching her.

   “GET AWAY FROM THE CAR!!!!!!!!!!” At the back of Duncan’s eye he saw a figure in the driver’s seat of the Honda. The figure was the girl who picked up Courtney earlier and it got to Duncan how he recognized her. She’s from the opposing gang.

   “What?” Courtney yelled back.

   Duncan was centimetres away from reaching Courtney when he saw - in what seemed to be, slow motion – bright orange flames arising from the vehicle with a growing roar from the bomb. Duncan grabbed onto Courtney’s right shoulder, quickly spun himself around and pushed her down onto the ground with the punk sticking to her back.

   Then, everything went back to normal speed, while Courtney was lying face down onto the black paved ground and Duncan on her back, covering Courtney’s head with his arms. They could both hear the loud ear piercing explosion behind them and could feel the thousands of tiny glass pieces and the warmth of the flames against their bodies.

  Sebastien shielded his eyes with his forearm and waited for the explosion to finish, before he ran from behind the dumpster, to the couple to make sure they were okay.

  “Duncan, Courtney!!” He called out, coughing out the black smoke in the air so he could breathe. Walking around slowly from the scene and waiting for the smoke to clear up, Sebastien found the worn out couple.

   Duncan looked down at Courtney and could feel her trembling from underneath him. Resisting the pain from the small glass pieces over back through his cut up shirt, he kissed crying Courtney’s dust filled hair and whispered a few words to her, “It’s okay, don’t cry”.





   “I don’t think that bomb was set to hurt Courtney” Sebastien sat down at the edge of his bed in the guest room and explained his theory to Duncan, “You said the other chick in the car was from one of the enemies right?”

   Duncan leaned against Sebastien’s door way, still wearing his cut up and slightly bleeding t-shirt from the explosion an hour ago, “Yeah”

   “Yeah, so the bomb was to kill the chick, not Courtney”

   “But the point is, Courtney could have been killed” Duncan shook his head and looked down at the ground, “I can’t put her in that kind of danger again”

   Courtney was probably sitting in the couple’s living room, thinking over what just happened and how her “friend” was killed in a car bomb because she was in an enemy gang of The Darkness.

   “But this is what we do for love, isn’t it?”

   The delinquent didn’t answer Sebastien for a minute, because he was reviewing what he was about to say.

   “No” Duncan spoke, shaking his head, “Because this isn’t love going on between Courtney and me”

   Sebastien gave a shocked and confused face but before he could ask anything, Duncan shut his bedroom door closed and walked down the stairs to Courtney. Taking his time down every flight of stairs, Duncan made his way to Courtney in their living room, where she looked up at him with tears in her big eyes.

  Courtney felt an emotion of attraction when she saw Duncan. She wanted to get up and hug him like nothing happened. But there was another side of Courtney who felt ashamed that she nearly gave Duncan a heart attack because she almost got caught into the jacked car.

  “Duncan” She called out quietly.

  “Why were you hanging out with a gang member?” He simply asked with his angry eyes focused onto Courtney.  

  “I-I d-didn’t know” Courtney replied, a tiny bit frightened by Duncan’s tone.

  “You could have been killed!”

  Courtney lowered her head and quietly spoke, “I know”

   There was no talking after that, just the sound of the violent wind blowing against the living room window outside.

   “I don’t know what I’m doing here anymore” Duncan spoke, the anger travelled from his eyes into his voice, “All you keep on doing is getting yourself nearly killed, and I can’t keep saving you”

   Courtney didn’t say anything back, she was speechless and had a bad feeling what was coming up next. She didn’t even need any more words because Courtney was already feeling a pain in her heart, but Duncan said it anyways.

   “I want a divorce”