1. 24 hour YouTube Challenge Pt. 03


    Date: 5/26/2024, Categories: Interracial Love, Author: byFirsttimewriting 

    Authors note: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, events and incidents are the products of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

24-hour Challenge

Two PM to Three PM

Elli ran flat out until her lungs hurt from sucking in the cold air to fuel her pumping legs. The trees had swallowed her up, hiding her from any would be pursuers. Not that she considered it likely that Deke or Jay would come after her. Aside from the fact that both Americans seemed unnerved by the freezing conditions they found themselves in, Elli thought it more likely that they were still sat in the van complaining about her dramatic if somewhat hysterical reaction to being dumped by Ahti.

Ahti.

Elli couldn't believe that he had overreacted so badly to the harmless video's she'd uploaded on her channel. So, what if the other soldiers he was serving with had now seen Elli in her underwear? Why couldn't he be happy that she looked so good? Wasn't it better for those soldiers to be jealous of Ahti's good fortune having her as a girlfriend? He should have been thanking her, congratulating her, not levelling ultimatums at her.

She wished she had thought to say all that when he had called. It wasn't too late though to have her say. Elli searched in her pocket for her cell phone, pulling it out and calling Ahti's number.

The phone rang five times before going to voice mail. Elli tried again, a ...
    ... single ring before she was switched to the recorded voice of Ahti requesting her to leave a message. Dodging her calls was one thing but he was simply refusing to answer them, rejecting the calls as soon as they came in.

Elli had been upset and tearful as she had run blindly through the woods to this spot, her sensitive nature a surprising inheritance from her father. Her dear Papa was often to be seem cuffing away tears as he watched a romantic comedy on the TV, completely at odds with his normal tough guy exterior. The feeling of righteous anger that bubbled now in the cauldron of her heart was from her mother's side of the family. Soft eyes, gorgeous smiles and a capacity for a short temper and a long memory, that was what Elli had inherited from her mother and her grandmother before her. The short temper was off its leash as Elli began typing into her phone.

'I could live with you not supporting me 100%. I could live with you having doubts about my choices in life. I could never live with you treating me as inferior, stupid or naïve. Fuck you Ahti, fuck you for taking so long to show me the real you.'

She wanted to hit send before she would have a chance to second guess herself, to reconsider her words. However, she didn't. Elli didn't regret her choice of words. She had spoken the truth as she saw it, but while not regretting them she didn't actually want to cause Ahti pain. Short temper aside, Elli was soft hearted, good natured and while his behaviour had hurt ...
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