CHAPTER 6
Céline
Before
Around me I can only hear the music blasting out at high volume. I love this place, I always manage to have fun in one way or another. Heidi and I are terribly late this evening. Our friends have been waiting for us for more than an hour now, but after an endless afternoon of arguments with my parents I couldn't help but take this extra hour to fix myself up and cool off. My plan is very clear: I want to drink and maybe find a nice guy to have a bit of fun, hoping this evening will be over soon. However, everything fades in the background when, joining our friends in the private room, I notice a tall boy with thick dark hair sitting on a sofa. I can't even see his face since he's looking down at his phone.
Then Daniel calls him.
His eyes wander in the room, then they focus on me. I'm pleasantly captivated by the colour of his eyes, our gazes meet for a few moments too long, and I don't know yet that this look will cost me the most beautiful and painful years of my life.
'Lin, Heidi, this is my friend Charles. Sorry if I didn't warn you that he'd be there too, but we decided last minute!' I can still feel the boy's emerald eyes on my body and for the first time in my life I feel a strong sense of anxiety and embarrassment. I don't even notice that everyone around me has gone back to talking and dancing, the only thing I'm feeling are his eyes on me, with the only difference that he has gone back to his seat as well. I don't like being intimidated, but today everything seems to be going in the wrong way, and yet this is another proof. Annoyed by the situation, I throw my leather jacket on the sofa and head towards the exit of the room that I booked a week ago to celebrate my birthday.
'Hey birthday girl, you can't leave! Not after making us wait an hour!' Daniel is right, but I'm not myself right now, I don't wanna have conversations of any kind with anyone.
'I know guys, one drink and I'll be back, I promise!'
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Fanfiction'I don't want to see him, I can't. I could never look him in the eyes again, because all I'd think about is how it was all my fault.' Two years. That's the time Céline has spent away from home. A few hours. A few hours in the big metropolis to chang...
