180 Degrees- Completed

Chapter Thirty Six

I ran my hands through my hair, staring at the laptop on the desk. I'd been here 3 hours and this assignment wasn't coming as easily as the others had. Izzy would be here tonight so I won't be able to work on it now until Tuesday evening. Which is fine. It's not due until late next week. 

I guess my brain is just running through last night like its a catchy song. Every stolen glance, laugh. Every time his hand touched mine or when it laid on my thigh. I could feel the circles he was drawing through my jeans as we watched the film. Purely PG. Not even a goodnight kiss. He'd brought me flowers that had sat on the dash the entire night and every time I looked at them I had to remind myself I was in fact a real person and not someone in a romance novel. 

He was different. Slow and soft. There wasn't a single second where I thought he was rushing it, or that he was pushing things too far. Nor did I doubt his intentions either. He walked me up to my door and kissed the back of my hand before he left after making sure I was inside my room. I just stood there with my back to the door, blushing and giggling like a child. I hadn't had this feeling with anyone else. Not Jasper, not James and not Oscar. 

I was trying to play it cool. He'd text me 30 minutes ago and I was still just watching the notification on my screen. Sat there, screaming for me to reply. I will. I have to go to class soon and I had to reply before then. I didn't want to come across to eager. I clenched my fists and sighed, okay fine. I grabbed my phone, smiling as I opened his texts. 

Morning Beautiful
Hope you're having a good morning? 

Hey! Sorry, I've been in the library working on an assignment. I'm bored and it's going nowhere. How's your morning going?

I closed it down quickly as I saw his bubble appear. Locking my phone and putting it screen down before looking back at the laptop. At least I was half way through? I'm going to leave it there. I don't have any concentration in me today. Too much going on right now. 

I closed everything down, putting everything back in my bag and collecting the books, walking to put them back. I rolled my eyes at the boy stood pretending to read, right where I needed to be. I'd seen him walk in and he didn't have a reason to be down this aisle. Yet here he was trying to find anyway to get me to speak to him. 

I moved around him, putting the books away. 

"You know, you could just ask me and I'd move." I didn't even acknowledge his words. "You can't ignore me forever." I can and I fucking will. Watch me. That was when he started intentionally blocking me from putting them away. I rolled my eyes and put them all on one shelf. I didn't care about the inconvenience for other people. I was being inconvenienced as it was. I turned and pulled my phone out, walking away from him. 

That sucks.
Bored here too just wandering the halls trying to get some inspiration for something
You coming down here soon you might be just what I need.

I chuckled under my breathe. 

"What you laughing at?" I held my phone close to my chest as James walked beside me, trying to look over my phone. 

"None of your business. Don't you have a class?" 

"Yeah but I'd rather be here." I scoffed. Of course. "Talk to me." 

"Nope." 

"Where are you going?" 

"Class." 

"You don't have a class for an hour." 

"Oh look, now he remembers shit." I looked back at my phone. 

On my way down now :) 

"Who's Grayson?" I locked my phone and looked at him as his jaw clicked. 

"Who was the girl at the party?" I told you I could fucking play your game back James. 

"You're still on this? I said I'm sorry." 

"And I said to leave me alone." He groaned as I pushed through a door, letting it slam on him and chuckling at his pained noise before he came back to my side. 

"Where did you go last night? I came by but I saw you get in someone's car that I don't recognise." 

"I went out." 

"Obviously you went out Avery. Where?"

"None of your business." I smiled, looking at Gray down the hall. I sighed, stopping in my tracks and tilting my head at him. He did the same and I scrunched my face up at his smile. "Bye James." 

"Don't play games Avery. You know I don't like it." 

"I'm not playing games James. I'm moving on. You should too." I walked down to Gray, hugging him tight. I hadn't heard a door close so I knew he was still there. "Is he staring?" 

"Looking like he's going to murder me." I chuckled. "Why was he following you?" 

"Trying to fix it." He let me go and smiled at me, tucking some hair behind my ear. 

"Come on. You look like you need a drink before class." I nodded and he put his arm over my shoulder, waving at James as he walked me out of sight. "I'm sorry for what he did to you Ava. I know it wasn't anything to do with me but it's such a douchebag move." 

"It's fine. I'm over it. We weren't together that long anyway. He can sit and think he's still got some hold on me but he's wrong." 

"Okay good." We reached the coffee vending machine and Gray took his arm off me. "I don't want to rush into anything Ava. I want to take this as the right rate for us not what other people are expecting from us." I nodded and he pushed me back against the machine, causing it to rock backwards ever so slightly. We looked up and back at each other as it stopped, giggling. "I had fun last night." 

"Me too." 

"I regretted not kissing you though. Spent all night thinking about how I should have." My breathing stopped as I felt his hand under my mesh top, resting gently on my lower back. No pressure. Just his hand sat there slowly running his finger in circles. My eyes were locked on his again, counting flecks of amber, so lost I didn't notice him moving closer until he was pressing his lips into me.  

There was a flutter in my chest. Quick paced beats that were barely there as the hand on my back applied some pressure to me, pushing me deeper into him. In that moment, the whole worlds stopped spinning. Like time itself was frozen except from us. 

His lips were soft, sweet and slightly sticky; coated in cherry coke. His favourite. He'd told me that last night. I was getting hotter with every passing second, loosing all oxygen I had in my body and I could not even force myself to take in another. Very slowly he took his lips from mine but I couldn't open my eyes. 

"Take a breath Avery." He chuckled and I did. Forcing my lungs to take in a deep breath and let it out, staggered and slow. "Another one for me." He was still so close. Every word out of his mouth I could feel the movement of his lips just atoms from mine. The sound rippling through his chest and into mine. I took in a breath, slower than before and he made it worth my time, pushing into me again. Harder this time. God he was addictive. At this point if he held me here like this and kept doing it, I would skip my classes for the day and leave Izzy stood at the airport. I didn't want to move. I couldn't anyway. He'd rendered me incapacitated.