The Never Ending Train

13 Gamble

"...so...will you go out with me?"

I inhale. Exhale. I knew this was coming. I even planned out how I would reject him. Of course I forget everything I practiced as my mind starts stumbling over itself, words coming and going before I can process what each of them mean.

Dennis looks at me hopefully at first, then sudden realization when I stay quiet, still struggling. Finally, I give up trying to look for the "right" words and just open my mouth.

"I'm sorry Dennis, I can't share your feelings." I open my mouth to say more but decide that's enough and shut it.

He runs his hand down his face and grumbles. Then sighs. "I knew you would answer with that, haha..." He tries for a chuckle but fails. His face continues to fall and I can't do anything to stop it this time because I'm the reason he's upset. He saves me from sitting there awkwardly a second longer by getting up and walking to the door.

"I need some time. Cya, Scarlet." He smiles a little before walking out of the room. We're currently at a little get together hosted by a classmate's friend's sister or something. I'm only here because my friends asked me to come, although they only came as a favor for their friends. And it's like that all around and now this house is overcrowded with around two hundred people and it's blown out into a typical highschool party, although there are only adults here.

I can hear voices and laughter throughout all of the houses but a pair of giggling people become more pronounced as they come up the stairs right outside. Denna, Dennis' ex, all over another guy, stumbles past the open doorway. She catches my eyes for a split second, rocking my heart all over the place.

After that day when she broke up with Dennis, I found out she was in a few of my classes and was forced to talk to her for projects and whatnot. Although it started out super rough, with me getting her a suspension and her almost sending me to the hospital once, we warmed up to each other. And I kind of fell...a little. A lot... really hard. I know she feels the same thing too, the tension is there in her gazes. But at the same time we still fight a ton and have developed a sort of love-hate relationship. Nothing has happened between us yet.

She barely gives my heart time to calm down before she wobbles back to the door. "Hey! Where are you going?" The guy calls after her. Denna doesn't even look at him as she shoves him away, walks into the room, and closes the door. She locks it. The banging soon subsides and we're left in silence, only with the muffle of people downstairs.

I sit up, suddenly super aware of what's happening. She's clearly super drunk so whatever fantasies I have running through my head will have to stay fantasies for now, but I know she's going to make that super hard.

She stands there for a moment. With her cheeks flushed and that dazed look combined with her messy red dyed hair, she looks hot. She looks around the room, like she's making sure we're alone but she looks a little confused, which makes me confused.

Then she locks eyes with me again and smiles wide as she walks over to me. Or more like crawls cause she falls as soon as she takes a step and I lunge at her to catch her, only realizing she tricked me into doing that as soon as she tumbles into my arms.

It's surprising she came up with that considering how wasted she is.

"Scarlet." She murmurs, pushing her face into my personal space. My heart practically attacks my ribs as I fight internally to stay away from her. This is dangerous. I know Denna has a bad temper, if she finds out I took advantage of her, she's going to be super pissed. "You know I dyed my hair because of your name, right?" I pause, still keeping her at a distance with my palm.

I did not know that. She told me she just liked the colour, I didn't know it was because of me. Hecking hell she's so cute and hot at the same time, I can't believe I'm controlling myself right now. But I'm going to give in. I can't, not when her body is pressed against mine and she's saying all these sweet things and she looks like that.