Touch Me While I Taste You

Chapter 43

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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.

worth it?” Haiden

where their voices came from. In a sick way,

penetrating stares from teens who passed by. I ignored them as I lean closer

boy finally uttered. For a few

a short clipped tone

silence, 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

of

to embarrass me even further as my eyes snap to a set of dark eyes then brown. The boy who

He mumbles to Haiden and nods stiffly at me. “Arabella.” He quickly leaves Haiden and I

that the guy knew my name while I didn’t even know the first letter of

discoloring under his eye. Did the other guy get a hit without me realizing? No that was impossible. I had been to set on

didn’t even care to be seen talking to Haiden.

trouble if Gwen

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

his tongue, upper lip lifting to flash a quick smirk. “I’m really starting t

so, it only seem to make

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 me, not roughly but enough to have me stumble back a

“Why don’t you stick to your own problems and

life and quit worrying

were harsh and I was ashamed to admit that my heart pained when I detected the rough tone of

  1. me.

He was right.

meddle in his. I don’t think I can handle

to the 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

“Come in.”

the tense breath I was holding and pried the door open. Mr. Boyd’s eyes were transfixed on the screen of his phone and he had not bothered to lift

his head. On the desk before him was a half

me his attention. His dark eyes lift to my awkward form and he places his phone down on the desk beside his sandwich.

together. “Did you

big and bold A, preferably in bright red. But

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