Catch Me If You Can

Chapter 10: Fair Play

When he finally got off of me, the sudden feeling of emptiness and misery hit me again. I felt like I really let myself down when I allowed him to manipulate me into this mess. Was I really this weak or was I just scared that he would hurt me even more if I tried to fight him? Why didn't I tell anyone? I could easily put his ass in jail after everything he did to me and I would be finally free. But maybe I was just scared that my plan would fail somewhere in the middle and he would never leave me alone after that.

As I was thinking about everything that just happened and tried to control my breath, he was just laying next to me in silence. I was pretty surprised that he didn't even tried to start another fight or talk shit just like he always do. He was calm, completely quiet and it was driving me crazy. What is he thinking about? Is he plotting and scheming the next move on how to hurt me?

"We should get to know each other more."

Was he serious? He's been making the living hell out of my life for weeks and now he wants to act like we could be friends? I swear he completely lost it.

"Well.. what do you want to know?", I said, trying to sound interested in his offer.

"I don't know... I just want to know who are you besides a pretty face in short-short skirts, who's too stubborn to admit that you want to belong to me."

"Nice try, Jacobs. I would like to know, why are you so fuckin delusional, thinking that I would be more than happy to be your fucktoy."

He quickly got on top of me and put his hand around my neck. 

"Why do you always have to be so fucking difficult?! Huh?!"

I quickly reminded myself that I need to switch my strategy to get under his skin. I knew fighting with him will only create more fights and we will be stuck in this damn loophole forever.

"I'm... I'm sorry, please.. let.. go of me.. I'm sorry." 

He loosen up his grip and sat next to me. I got up as well and crawled away from him. I put my arms around my knees and looked away from him in fear. 

"I'm sorry for saying that. I just have the need to always defend myself around you. Ever since I came her, I've been.. kinda afraid of you. How am I supposed to want to know you, when I'm scared to be around you? I really wanna know what's going on inside of your head too, but I don't know how to get closer when you're always so cold to me."

He didn't say a word. It seemed kinda like he was calculating if I'm bullshiting him or not. I was holding my breath, hoping that we will work this out somehow.

"...you're right. I was cold. But it was never my intention to scare you away. Ever since I saw you for the first time, I knew I wanted to get to know you. But you always gave me an attitude and I felt like an idiot. No girl ever played with me like this. So I didn't know you would be so defiant when it comes to this."

"Yeah, I get it now... maybe we could start over. Without all the games and fights."

He got closer again and softly brushed my face with the back of his hand. He started stroking my hair and then slowly moved down on my breasts. I never wore a bra, so he could feel my nipples getting hard, but I wasn't in mood for anything after the argument. As he was getting closer to kiss me, my phone buzzed.

Where the fuck are you? You're missing school already?

Fuck. Jules can't find out about this. How am I supposed to look all of them in the eyes after failing again? 

"Who is it?"

"My mom.. I mean Lisa.. just checking up on me, cuz I told her I will call but I didn't."

Fuck. 

I got up, grabbed my phone and started typing just to make it seem like I'm actually texting my mom.

"Maybe we should go to school. I don't wanna miss too much, you know I'm still new."

He got up too and as he was standing in front of me, he put his hands around my neck again. I started panicking and my heart started racing. No, not again, please.

"It doesn't matter, we are already late anyways", he said smiling and I was relieved for a moment. I smiled back, just to let him know that I agree with him and told him I have to be at home by 3, cuz my mom wants to talk to me about something. I totally made that up, but I couldn't stand being around him any longer.

He drove me home after school, while he was trying to make awkward small talks and touching my thigh every 15 minutes. I hated everything about him, but my plan wasn't finished yet. But it still worked. He totally ate that up. I was pretty surprised that he was so understanding. Almost like he finally felt guilty for everything he did. I was relieved but also confused about the whole conversation. How am I supposed to act now?

"I told my parents you are coming over today for dinner. I will pick you up at 6. Be sure you're wearing something nice. Bye beautiful." He smiled one last time before he drove away and left me there without giving me the chance to even react. Why would he do this? And why does he want me to meet his parents all of a sudden? Fuck.

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Nate's perspective: 

She really though she got me in my feels with her little mind games. She truly is quite naive. If I wanted to do it my way, I would fuck the shit out of her right there and left her begging on her knees for mercy. But I couldn't do that yet. I had to move slowly, to make her believe I'm actually acting different just so I can finally dominate her for good. Whatever she's planning on me, it's not gonna end well for her.