W.A.R.M.T.H: The Prologue

Late Night Mischief

                                                                                 Amora

The second I looked into his eyes I was trapped. And even though I knew it, I didn't make a move to look away. And now here I am engrossed in a conversation with a guy who, one, I barely know. Two, I first met him when he was in a holding cell. And three, he is one of the many guys who is most likely to break a girl's heart as soon as he knows he has it. "AJ?" I cut him off mid-sentence. We were in the middle of a conversation about knives because earlier I had tripped and exposed my knife that I had stashed in my boot. He had recognized the brand and went into a very detailed story about how he had stumbled upon a knife just like it in school and when he picked it up the principal had automatically thought it was his.

"Yeah?" he says

"I thought you were here to hook up with Raven?" he gives a small side smile and he looks away "I was. But that doesn't mean I can't be away from her for a little while."

He looks back at me with those amazing green eyes. Amazing green eyes? Did I seriously just think that?

"No Amora, stop it." I say to no one in particular as I whack myself in the head. AJ laughs

"You okay there Amora?"

I smile at him politely "I'm fine. Anyway, that's not what I meant when I said that you were here for Raven. I meant that you were here to hook up with a girl and she brought along me, so you brought along Ren as like a double date thing. But now you're talking to me instead of hooking up with her sooo what are you planning to achieve tonight with me instead of Raven?"

his face goes from amused to hinting on the edges of offended. He looks away from me and speaks quietly

"Am I not allowed to just want to talk to someone?"

"Well," I begin cautiously, I didn't realize I could hurt his feelings but now I feel bad for it. "It's not in your character persona, that's all. It makes more sense for you to have some sort of goal that involves more than just talking."

"I have no goal of any kind with you Amora, I just like talking to you."

Silence stretches between us

"But...why?"

the smile moves back on to his face and I feel relief at the mood change it brings.

"Why do I like talking to you? Well, I don't really know. I guess it's just...easy. Like I don't need to follow any kind of rules. Like in public, I feel like I have to act like a jerk, a womanizer, a "bad boy" and trust me, while I am all of those things and a few more, I need to add quite a bit extra in order to be...me. At least me as the public sees me. And then with Ren, I don't need to act like that but, it's like I need to be depressed and troubled around him and again, I am both of those things. It's just with you, I can really be me. I don't need to be an extreme of either jerk or troubled but an unhealthy mix of both."

He says the last part with tons of enthusiasm and it brings a smile to my lips. He's been doing that a lot tonight, making me smile.

"I like that you think like that. So deeply and thoroughly. You're so different from the person you want everyone to think you are. It's kind of pathetic honestly. How much you want to be anything but excepted by anyone. It's like you feel as if you're not worth their time so you make the decision for them by being this totally irritating, cocky, jerk that no one wants to be around because of his bad reputation."

"Well that was a little insulting." He says jokingly. "And for your information, everyone loves me."

"Totally."