102 CROSSROADS OF EMOTIONS
ARIEL’S POV
“And what are you doing here?” I aksed Luke, raising an eyebrow.
“I just came to help you out,” he answered, looking around. “I thought you might need a hand.”
“Thanks, but I’m good. You can leave now.” I turned back to the ingredients, to focus on the preparation of the food.
“If I can remember, this is my house.”
“Fine. Stay then.” I said nonchalantly.
As I was about to chop, Luke moved closer to me and grabbed a tomato from the table, observing it.
“What are you doing?” I asked. He didn’t give me a reply. Instead, he took a carrot from the table as well.
“Luke….”
He hushed me, placing his fingers on my lips, looking into my eyes. And as he stirred closer, I began to move backward, all these done in silence, until I found myself leaning against the wall.
“You love complaining.” Luke said softly. “Why?”
I didn’t say a thing as I kept staring at him. I didn’t know if my lips were sealed at the moment, but the power to speak, was not there.
After a gaze that seemed like eternity, Luke moved backwards, laughing silently. He budged nigher to the ingredients, and started doing only God knows what.
“Luke!” I shrieked at him. At this point, my voice came back.
“What?!” He yelled back. But kept on carrying out his nonsense.
“I’m trying to cook here. Stop doing shit with those ingredients!” I bawled at him
He shook his head, with a grin. “But Ariel, you know I’m just enhancing the flavor with my expert tossing skills.”
“Tossing skills? This isn’t a salad, Luke! Get your hands off that tomato!”
“What’s the worst that can happen? A little veggie rain never hurt anyone.” Luke threw a carrot at me.
carrot, and gaped at him immediately.
gone nuts?”
rude now, Ariel.” He smirked, and threw a tomato in my
landed on the wall,
the part of
-
up.
Luke and moved closer to him. “What are you doing?”
does it look like I’m
a war zone. Can we please save the
an eyebrow. “And since when did this place become
cook most of the times around here. So
times, and you can’t even bother
a weird
eyes downward, and I found his
his hands promptly. “Like I’ve said, save this food fight for another time. Not now Mr.”
fun in that?
gave him
gotten into this guy
with the flour, but I stopped
my eyes down. “Luke, if you throw that flour,
throwing the flour all over the
magical, flour–filled kitchen. Isn’t it beautiful?” Luke
beautiful, all right. But
grinned. “I
“Say what now?”
Luke
backwards, “Don’t worry, sir. I’m
like a
made me a mess!”
ean
clean up this mess, alright?”
my head. “No, you don’t have
hand firmly grasped mine, tugging me towards him. Before I knew it, I was pressed against his chest, the sticky
closer to him. And at this point, I felt a surge of butterflies in my stomach as our
this man. He
that the feeling he had for me was nothing but hatred. Then on another hand, he would begin these actions, making it look like there was some passion for me right within him.
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