Adaline
I opened my eyes , but closed them shortly because of the light. I rubbed them , and , when I thought it’s safe, I opened them slowly.
I found myself staring at a white ceiling. Furrowing my eyebrows in confusion, I looked around to see where I am.
The medical cabinet? , I asked myself. What was I doing here?
A face popped in front of me , out of nowhere, and it almost scared the hell out of me. I flinched from the sudden closeness.
“So I see you’re awake…” Ayato stated , squinting his eyes at me. My back was pressed to the wall behind me , due to the flinching. He smirked , and leaned back in his chair.
Gladly that I could breath normally , I stood up. I looked around again, biting my lip out of confusion. I didn’t miss that Ayato’s attention flew to my lip.
My heartbeat picked up , and I started feeling dizziness clouding my head. The world around me was spinning.
“Whoa!” Ayato exclaimed, catching me in his arms when I was about to fall. He set me down gently on the bed and shook his head. “The nurse told me that you are going to feel dizzy for about thirty minutes, so don’t make any sudden movements.”
I nodded my head and moved my eyes from Ayato to the white ceiling above.
Silence took upon this room, making it seem awkward. Also, the ticking of the clock in the room didn’t help either.
“So…” I broke the silence, making Ayato’s eyes snap to me. “How did I end up here?”
Surprisingly, he began to chuckle. I grew myself annoyed as minutes passed by of him laughing, waiting for him to sober up and tell me.
“Ayato…” I warned him. With one last chuckle, he finally sobered up.
“Well, you fainted…” He trailed off , making me wonder how I fainted. His mischievous and cocky smirk didn’t help but just to make me wonder more how the hell I fainted and why I don’t remember.
We stood in silence a few good minutes, until I have had enough and opened my mouth.
“And…?” I gestured for him to continue, showing him that I was growing impatient with each second that was passing. He seemed to enjoy this, because all that he did was to smirk.
He looked to the side , only to annoy me more. “Hmm…” He turned his head slowly towards me , a mocking expression on his face. “Let’s just say that I took your breath away,” He winked at me.
My eyebrows shot up at his words.
“What the hell does that mean , Anders?” I rolled my eyes at his words. “Take my breath away? That’s just nonsense,” I huffed through my nose in humour , and pursed my lips.
Ayato shook his head and brought his lips to the side. “Mmm, no , I think is not.”
“If is not, then explain to me what did you mean,” I challenged him, but that only did bad to me because Ayato wasn’t the type of guy to back off. Oh joy!
His lips curled upwards into a mischievous smirk. There was this glint in his eyes that made me want to take back what I have said, yet I don’t want to be the type of girl to back off. I want to show Ayato that I could be strong too, even if my dignity and pride is in the game. Or even worse, my health.
“What if I show you?”
He stood up from his chair , and came in front of me. I turned my head , my cheek landing on the bed, so I could see him. Bad move. The only thing I could see was the lower part. Oh damn.
He crouched down to be eye-level with me and came more closer to me with his face. His smirk was still intact. Nothing changed about it. It was still there.
I gulped, my nerves going crazy from the proximity between us. I also had a crazy feeling of déjà vu.
Did this happen already?
He stood up and sat on my bed, putting his hands on either side of my body , and just like this he had me trapped. He began to lean in down much to my dismay.
My eyes were wide open, any feeling of dizziness already gone. All that I could concentrate on were Ayato’s deep brown eyes, that were practically sucking my soul up.
“Don’t you remember?” Ayato whispered huskily. The sound making my insides melt, a million emotions flying through his eyes and playing with my mind. He was still sitting on my bed, yet now his right hand was on my hip bringing shivers in my body from the touch.
I , on the other side, was staying under him, my body giving up one me with each movement Ayato made towards me.
“I got very close to you,” He tilted his head to the side, his lips parting. My eyes weren’t widened anymore, they began to close , the same as Ayato’s were doing. Yet , we were still lost in our eyes to close them.
“Mhm…” I hummed lowly, the sound making Ayato’s hunger grow, his eyes betraying him. The butterflies in my stomach were giving me a tickling kind of feeling, and the warm feeling in my chest was intensifying. I wanted to scream at him to stop teasing me and to push him towards me, but I couldn’t. My body was frozen, the only thing that I could feel were the shivers, goosebumps and sparks.
It was something took out of a book. Nothing could describe what I was feeling now. If something, I felt complete. I don’t know why, but it felt right to be with him. To have him hovering over my small frame. To have him holding me tight. To have him around me.
It felt just right…
“And, when I tried to kiss you,” He brushed his lips over mine a little bit, not closing the gap, teasing me. His pupils were dilated making his eyes seem black, yet I still could see the dark brown around the pupils. I saw the corners of his lips tugging up into a cocky smile when he was about to say the next words, “You fainted.”
My heartbeat sped up. Oh God.
My face felt hot all of a sudden. No doubt I was blushing. This is so embarrassing.
Ayato’s calm and soft eyes made me relax. He was having me wrapped around his little finger, and how much I wanted to deny that, it still is true.
“I never got to kiss you, though,” He whispered, his minty breath tickling my nose. I could also feel his masculine scent. I wonder what cologne he uses…
No time for this kind of thoughts , Adaline!
I parted my lips, making them touch Ayato’s lips just a little bit. That set him off, becoming impatient.
“Cherry?” He called me, looking at me with pleading and lust filled eyes.
“Mmm…?” I hummed again, being afraid to talk. I knew that if I would talk , I would break the moment and also my voice would come out squeaky.
“May I?” He questioned , his eyes wavering at my lips, mine doing the same as well. For a few seconds, it was silence , until I decided to answer, not caring of how my voice was coming.
“You-”
The door burst open, making Ayato get up very fast. My heart was drumming inside of me like it wanted to escape.
“Oh my God, Addy! I heard that you – What are you doing here , Ayato?” Jemima looked at Ayato up and down suspiciously, with her arms crossed over her chest. Ayato shrugged nonchalantly, unfazed by my sister’s look.
“Came to see , Adaline over here,” He pointed to me behind his shoulder. I was still panting, trying to control my breaths. Good thing that Jemima came , because I don’t know what I would do if I kissed Ayato. Woohoo! Jemima to the rescue.
Yet, I feel a little bit sad that the kiss didn’t happened. Judge me , I don’t care, but I miss Ayato’s lips on mine and his arms wrapped around me. I like the kind of feeling he gives me. It is that feeling that got you addicted. You want that feeling to repeat, and repeat , and repeat. That’s what I want right now. The feeling of home, hunger, passion and , most importantly, love to come back at me, to repeat. To consume me.
Jemima cleared her throat , snapping her attention to me.
I furrowed my eyebrws and looked around for Ayato. Where is he?
As if reading my thoughts , but probably reading my actions, Jemima answered, ”He left, leaving the two of us alone to talk.”
I nodded my head.
After a few seconds of awkward silence, Jemima decided to break it.
”What happened , Addy? Why did you faint? When I heard that you are here , I almost shit myself. You don’t know how scared I was,” Jemima pursed her lips and shook her head. I almost laughed at the ”shit myself” part, but restrained myself because it would be very impolite from me.
I sighed and looked at Jemima, apologetically.
“I’m sorry.”
Jemima shook her head and smiled , before saying, “No. Don’t worry about it. But, what made you faint?”
I swallowed nervously , took all the courage that is in me, put my big girl’s pants and answered her question, “I was in the hallways, avoiding Ayato , but then he popped out from nowhere and came in my bubble of space. He almost kissed me and I fainted. Embarrassing enough, there were also students around us.”
Jemima’s jaw fell like in the cartoons. I know that I kind of avoided to say the fact that he told me I’m his , but yeah, fuck it. She doesn’t need to know all.
“He didn’t get to kiss you, right?” She asked after getting over her shocked state. She isn’t that jumpy anymore, which is what is scaring me the most. I guess she learned how to control the fangirling, yet I doubt that you can control it.
I nodded my head at her question.
“He almost kissed you here, right?”
I widened my eyes. Jemima gave me a warning look , which made me nod rapidly.
She pursed her lips and sighed an annoyed sigh, “And then I burst in the room, right?”
I nodded my head slowly. She blinked a few times before groaning.
“I’m such a fool!” She began to face-palm herself. I called for Jemima, to make her stop, but she was muttering words that I couldn’t understand.
“Jemima!” I shouted at her. This seemed to get her attention, because she stopped face-palming and looked at me in the eyes, “Stop it! I also wanted to avoid him, because he is a player just like my ex-boyfriend was. Do you want to happen to me what happened then? Also, my ex-boyfriend assaulted me at the party. Yes, he assaulted me. Good luck that Ayato was there to save me. Anyway, I didn’t let that to get to me , and jump into my savior’s arms. If I would give Ayato a chance, he would just be like my ex-boyfriend.”
Jemima widened her eyes when I told her about the party incident.
“How could you not tell me about that?” She was disappointed, I could see. An uneasy feeling started to form into my gfut, making tears threaten to escape my eyes.
“Because I was afraid he would hear me and that would have made the situation worse. I’m afraid of him, Jemima. I can’t just tell to anyone about it,” I sighed and looked at my hands.
Jemima sighed too. “But, could you just tell me his name?”
I shook my head. “You would make his life a living hell. I don’t want that. Even if he hurt me, he still is a person.”
“Oh my God, Addy!” Jemima exclaimed, getting already frustrated with me, “Do I know him?!”
“Yes.”
“Oh good God, if I find him, please help me. I will kill him slowly and painfully until-” She began to mutter under her breath, making goosebumps appear on my arms from how dark her voice sounded.
“Okay, that’s enough! Let’s change the subject. You just came here to check up on me?” I smuled at her, trying to get her mind off of that things. Surprisingly, it worked , because her face lit up. She shook her head.
“I also wanted to tell you that…” She took a dramatic pause, making my curiosity grow.
“I’ve been chosen to make a project with…” Another deamatic pause. My smile faltered, thinking that it was Tyler who she was speaking off.
“FINNEGAN NICHOLAS JOHNSON!” She screamed at the top of her lungs. The nurse came in , her eyes widened , probably Jemima’s screaming scaring her off. Jemima smiled sheepishly at her and mumbled a little “sorry” . The nurse shook her head and got out, looking annoyed.
Jemima turned to me and grinned. I smiled at her and we bursted out laughing.
Oh God, how I love my sister.