Touch Me While I Taste You

Chapter 43

43

Arabella Rivera

I hated this. I hated that I cared. I hated that I had such a feeling towards, him. He didn’t deserve it. He’d been an asshole ever since he’d started speaking to me.

Going as far as dirtying me. Mocking me for his own amusement. And, kissing me without knowing that he had unintentionally drugged me.

Gwen was right. Mother was right. Everyone was right about, him. He was chaos. He was bad and he was the worst person to ever care for. But he was, human. He had emotions.

And my fucking body can’t seem to let go of the way he kissed me. One fucking kiss and my eyes can’t seem to stop wandering around for a glimpse of him as I walked the half empty halls.

Fuck him. Fuck him and the feelings he painted inside me.

I was good with just getting a glimpse of him through my window. I was okay with hearing the girls’ laughs and fearful

mougar my www.WORLY WITH aring the girls’ laughs and fearful screeches as they climbed the tree to his window.

I was okay with hiding behind my curtain to scrutinize his actions. I was okay with him ignoring me like we weren’t neighbors for years. I was okay with it all.

But suddenly, like a gust of wind knocking down an empty cup, everything changed. Now Haiden’s eyes meet mine every time I look out my window. Now m y heart leaps into a frenzy when he so much as speaks to me. Now I can’t seem t o get him out of my head. I hate it.

“Dude what the hell got into you back there!? Are you fucking crazy, one more strike and no graduation, no school, no college. You’ll be stuck here”

“Don’t you think I fucking know that?” His voice made me halt in my tracks I was stupid to think that I wasn’t wandering the halls in search of him. In an odd way, I needed to know that he was okay.

“But I couldn’t just stay there and act like what Jamal was saying was okay man. He -fucking disrespected her-”

Tucking disrespected ner

Who is this ‘her’ they keep speaking of?

“Would it be worth it?” The distinct male voice interrupts Haiden’s vexed tone.

be worth it?”

over towards the closed door where their voices came from. In a sick way, I liked the sound of his

a few confused penetrating stares from teens who passed by.

of her.” The boy finally uttered. For a few

Haiden answered in a short clipped tone that weighed

this time I could feel the tension emanating from within the closed classroom. So caught u p in my eavesdropping, I didn’t quite hear their approaching footsteps until I heard the clicking

clicking of the

to my face to embarrass me even further as my eyes snap to a set of dark eyes

you later man.” He mumbles to Haiden and nods stiffly at me.

the guy knew

discoloring under his eye. Did the other guy get a hit without me

didn’t even care to be

in trouble if Gwen

a blank stare as he leans on the doorframe with ease. “Eavesdropping I see?” His question was not one you’d

clicked his tongue, upper lip lifting to flash a quick smirk. “I’m

didn’t fail to realize that he was avoiding answering my question. But by doing so, it only seem to make the curiosity rage on. “You

doorframe and swiftly pushes his hands in the front pockets of his sweater. Without so much a sa warning, he utters dryly. “Why should I? It’s not like you’d care anyway.” He brushes

“Why don’t you stick to your own problems and your so-called perfect

so-called perfect life

he walks away, too unsure of what he’d say next. His words were harsh and I was ashamed to admit that my heart pained when

  1. me.

He was right.

stick to my own problems and not meddle in his. I don’t think I

literature class knowing Mr. Boyd would b e there. The man never seems to leave that classroom. Sometimes I feared that i fa fire were to break out, someone would have to drag the unwilling begrudging man out with more

“Come in.”

eyes

not bothered to lift his head. On the desk before him was a

awkwardly for a few seconds, Mr. Boyd finally spares me his attention. His dark eyes lift to my awkward form and he

brows pinched together. “Did you

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