I Swear, I Am Not A Cinderella |Book 2- The Fairytale Academy|

Chapter 15: |A Conflicted Bitter Confession|

Under the faint moonlight, the shadows of the tree leaves hovered upon Zeno's fair porcelain face. His golden hair fluttered on the cold breeze and his eyes glowed in the dark as I stared into them speechlessly not knowing what to do.

To be honest, it was kinda scary to hear Zenon speaking like this. Especially when I know, he meant every word. I quickly broke the intense eye contact and looked at the floor rubbing my fingers.

My eyelids twitched and my dark eye lashes that hung low were trembling lightly. Simultaneously, multiple conflicting thoughts flooded my mind.

Eh..

What is he doing..?

W-Why is he acting like this..?

Does talking about B-Bluebeard really make him this mad..?

And..

And.. More than that..

It is alright he is very angry...

But.. Why is expressing it on this manner?..

I mean...

The Zeno-kun.. The person I like right now is..

I closed my eyes tightly feeling my face blush ferociously.

..is ....standing too close to me, Dammit!!

T-Too c-close that, I could almost feel his b-breath on my face...!

I then bit my lips taking some courage and soon looked up at him again deciding I could not be like this forever.

This was when, I noticed that by this time his initial anger had all gradually disappeared and he was now looking at me with a peculiarly shy expression on his face.

My deep green irises trembled like gelatine at that.

Zeno was currently gazing at me with a mild tint of redness on his cheeks.

His palm then, lightly caressed my face. He touched my lips and dragged it with his thumb with his blue eyes lightly gleeming as though in daze.

My heart pounded fast unto my ribcage and I tried moving back only to hit the tree on my behind. But, unfortunately with Zeno trapping me like this with his arm, there was absolutely no way for me to escape at all.

I gently placed my one feet on the tree as Zeno's face gradually drew more closer to me.

Soon, Our lips were only centimeter apart. Our heartbeats and breath synced into an harmony as we stared into each other.

Uncertain of what was gonna happen I closed my eyes again more tighter than before, with a flushed face. Behind my sights, I could hear Zeno chuckle at me in a low voice, as though he thought of me as a feeble creature.

The cold breeze of the alien-ish purple skied forest brushed the two of us and a low cry of what heard like crickets echoing from the corners. There was also few more unsettling sounds behind us.

But, the two us were in no position to notice all of that..

From the tiny peek of an eyelid, I soon noticed Zeno soon slowly closing his eyes as he pulled my chin forward roughly towards him and-

Psk...!

The two of us almost immediately moved apart the second we heard some strange noise on the background to the opposite directions.

"Oohoi.. Did anyone else notice you coming..?"

From a distance two students from our school rushed on the path in a hurry.