Getaway

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Athena

I am stunned. I don't know what to do or say. Atlas, the boy of my dream is right in front of me. He has a playful smirk on his face, but I can't concentrate on anything because he is standing less than five feet from me. Every second that passes, the more I think this is a dream. He can't be real.

"Athena!". Paige screams from behind me. She starts to shook my arm, trying to snap me out of the shock I'm in. A ferocious growl is heard in front of us. The both of us turn our heads, searching the source of that sound. But after hearing it after a few more seconds, I realize that I know that sound. Of Atlas, in the dream, he used to do that quite a lot. And the reality hits me like a truck.

He is real.

So why did I dream of him? I never heard of someone dreaming of somebody they never met.

"Love". A barely whisper was heard among all the silence. Atlas falls to the ground on his knees repeating the same word all over again. A sudden urge to help him, to take all his pain away comes to me. So thats why I start moving my legs towards him.

"My love". Atlas says moving his head to look at me. I kneel down in front of him and grab his cheeks in between my hands. He moves his head foward, so it is a little more pressed against my hands.

"You can't imagine how long have I wanted to do this". His hands moves up and they put themselfs on top of mine.

"I-your real?"

"You offend me, I thought you already knew". Atlas tells me, trying to put a smile on his face but fails miserably, and it appears a pained expresion.

"Did you really think I wasn't real?". I nooded. How could I ever imagined that the guy I dreamed about would turn out being real.

He puts his forehead against mine. His eyes meet mine and I was surprised of all the emotions I was seeing.

"Its okey". Atlas tells me and gives me a closed mouth smile.

"Athena? What the hell is happening right now?". And that phrase of Paige made me come to reality. What was I doing? I really don't know. Was I being irrational? Pretty much.

So I tried to free me from him. Moving my lower body side to side. A few times my hips touched his stomach and a gasp escaped my lips.

"I assure you, you don't want to do that. Its provocative to some part of my body". He gives me a playful smile and then moves his head to look directly at Paige, giving her a hard glare.

"Don't"

"What?". Paige asks a little confused.

"Don't talk right now. I'm enjoying the moment till it last"

Paige nods her head, but its clear she is still confused. Atlas turns to me and starts massaging my hands, to try and relax me; because I didn't even notice that I was starting to hyperventilate.

"Everything is going to be okey". He, in a very gentle way, started to blow towards my face, coming to me firstly at my cheeks, making a shiver walk over my body. Then it arrived at my lips, making it instantly to separate them at least an inch apart.

"No it won't. Everyone is seeing this, in my most vulnerable state"

"Nobody is seeing this, you want to know how; when I entered I locked the door. Nobody except me and Paige are here with you. And I wouldn't have let anyone see you like this"

"Its true. The boy that was with us, I kicked him out"

With his words, I felt more realxed; knowing that nobody has seen me like this. Since Harry started that with me, I changed. I tried not to show my emotions, locking them inside me, making sure no one could see me. Putting a barrier between my rmotions and people. Making the things people say to me not have much effect on me. Or at least I try. I can do it with most people, but with Atlas I find it very complicated.

But I can't get emotionally attached to him. I don't know him at all. He is still a stranger.

I pull away a bit, and surprisingly he lets me. I look at his eyes, and I say words that surprises me.

"I can't. I can't do this. I don't know you and you barely know me. I need to go home and you need to leave"

"I would wait a lifetime for you"

"Only when you're ready to accept me"

Atlas gets up and he stretches out his hand for me to get up too. I do it and the second I'm up he puts his head in my neck. Smelling me. I don't try to move him, knowing it will be hard for him acording to his behavior in these last moments.

"See you soon, love. I have a feeling that it will be sooner than you expect"