"Your hand!" Not getting a response or even acknowledgement, I scowl and drag him to the nearest bathroom.
Fortunately for me, it's a girl's bathroom. I lock the door behind me and turn on the lights.
"Are you okay?"
I feel his breath on my neck and immediately goosebumps are popping on my hairs and my hairs are standing straight up. I fidget and turn around and immediately back up into the door. Kaleb's face is about 3 inches away from mine.
"I...I...um yea! I'm fine!"
I sound high pitched and over eager. I flush under his gaze and the corner of his mouth slightly rises.
"Do I make you nervous?"
He comes even closer, almost touching but not quite. Unable to form a coherent thought, I just shake my head.
"You sure?"
He slowly raises his finger to the edge of my sleeve and slides his finger down my arm, painstakingly slowly and softly. I shiver and I see him smirk. His finger is almost to my hand and suddenly I jolt away as pain blossoms and sends spikes through my arm.
Kaleb notices my grimace and almost immediately his eyes darken and the mischievous glint in his eyes is gone. Now he's put up a wall and I'm left confused and lost. His eyes take in the dark purple hand print on my wrist and narrow in anger. Without thinking, I place my right hand, my good hand, on his cheek and turn his face back up to mine.
"I'm fine" I whisper.
His narrowed eyes turn on me and I almost flinch at the cold glare I receive. Hastily, I drop my hand and navigate around him. I turn on the cold water and locate the first aid kit under the sink. Turning back I pull Kaleb towards the stream of water and carefully wash out his wounds. He doesn't flinch even once which makes me wonder how he can guard his expressions so carefully and not feel pain.
"I'm sorry."
He whispers so softly that I almost miss the words. I glance up and notice that his eyes are back to the normal shade of emerald so I nod and resume the cleaning while he continues to stare at me. After I'm satisfied that the cuts on his knuckles are relatively clean, I open up the antibacterial wipe and gently wipe away the rest of the blood.
In a few minutes, I'm done bandaging and wrapping his hand in gauze. I look up at Kaleb and I'm startled to find him still staring at me but this time his eyes are softer. Hypnotized, I stare right back. Remember how I said I suffered from stupidity syndrome? Well now it kicks in. He leans closer and there's barely any space in between us and just when he's about to close the gap, I knee him in the groin.
He makes an alarmingly high choking sound and crumples to the ground.
"Oh my God! Oh God! I'm so sorry!! I have no idea what just happened! I don't know why I just did that! Oh God are you okay?!"
My face is red by now and on the verge of hyperventilation.
"You kneed me in the nuts."
Kaleb says is calmly without anger or emotion and I think that's when I start to freak out.
"Should I call the nurse? I'm going to call the nurse. I'll be right..."
Flustered and lost I'm sure I resemble a chicken without a head.
"I'm fine kitten."
"Are you sure? Because I can go call...wait did you just call me a cat?"
"Take a deep breath. Just calm down and help me up." Kaleb completely ignores my question and looks at me expectantly. Nodding furiously I blush again and help him up on his feet. "Is there a specific reason why..."
Now it's my turn to interrupt, "Can we just forget that happened! I am so sorry!" Kaleb, obviously being the masochist that he is, laughs.
"It's not funny. I'm embarrassed." I pout and suddenly he stops laughing. His eyes are serious and staring at my lips. I swear I could probably boil an egg on my face because now it feels like my face is on fire. Clearing my throat and I step out of his line of vision and pick up my bag. I can hear the bell for 8th period ringing which means we missed 3 periods.
"Kitten? Thank you."
Before I could say anything else, he brushed past me and exited the bathroom. I was stunned. Almost like a robot, I followed suit and left the bathroom with only one thought in my head. Did he just call me a kitten?!
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I know this is really short and I'm sorry. I'm trying to write the next chapter in Kaleb's pov so I hope you like that! Please vote and leave me comments down below! Thank you!
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Forever and Always
ChickLit"You can't just expect me to say yes!" Feeling tears burning behind my eyes, I swallowed thickly before continuing. "For years, you were horrible to me and now...nothing has really changed. If this is just a dare or a bet, please just tell me and I...
