Consuming Darkness: Sebastian Sallow

Chapter 5

    -Ronnie-

  Sebastian was waiting for me in the common room when I woke up for the second time that morning. He was wearing tan pants and a white dress shirt with his tie loose around his neck, and the collar not buttoned all the way. He looked slightly disheveled. His hair was slightly more tamed than it had been last night, and when he saw me, his eyes lit up like I hadn't seen before. The sight was enough to make me melt.

"Good morning," he smirked as he very obviously checked me out, causing me to blush. It was not as if I hadn't just been appraising him, but his obvious lack of subtlety caused my knees to grow weak.

"Would you knock it off!" I shoved him lightly. Guilt gnawed at me for not talking to him, for ignoring him, but also for everything that had happened last year. I wanted so badly for this friendship, or whatever it was between us to be able to happen but I didn't know if we, more specifically I, could move past all that had happened.

"Never," he said in a low voice. His eyes raked over my body once more and he winked at me with a laugh. My face felt like it was on fire! I held my arms over my body and stared at him with a challenging scowl.

"Alright, I'll stop," he laughed. Then pulled me close. His hands at the small of my back and my body flush against his. He held my chin between his pointer finger and thumb and softly pressed his lips to mine. I couldn't help but close my eyes in bliss. He pulled away from my lips and whispered in my ear in a low voice. "For now."

His voice sent shivers through my whole body. I looked up, and he smirked at me. "You're trouble, Sallow," I teased, struggling to ignore how badly I wanted his lips against mine again. Trying to ignore how fast my heart was beating inside my chest. He surely heard it or felt it with our bodies so close.

"You've known that since day one... I know you like it," his voice rumbled through me. The closeness of us and the way this conversation was going was making me almost too flustered to do anything but want to kiss him. My thoughts only got more lewd the longer he held me with his charming smirk on his face. Had he always felt this way? We had always been flirtatious, in part because I knew that I had feelings for Sebastian since he took the fall for me when we had snuck into the Restricted Section of the library, but mostly because that was just how Sebastian was, flirty and charming. I had convinced myself last year that I had been different but at the end of last year, when we had stopped talking all together... I thought there was nothing there. But here we were holding each other in the common room, kissing like we had done it a thousand times. Acting like we had barely talked in months and could maybe not even be considered friends.

I pushed him away. "We are in the common room!" I exclaimed quietly, trying not to draw attention.

"Didn't stop us last night," he eyed me with a nefarious grin. I scowled again, despite my blushing cheeks, and he held his hands up in surrender. "Fine. Fine. I'll be good."

I laughed. "Thank you."

"What are we doing today?" He asked, moving closer to me.

"We?"

He walked over to the couch in front of the fire where we first met and sat down as if he didn't have a care in the world. I followed him but didn't sit.

"Well, I have to go to the library..." I hadn't been able to find the book I wanted... there were so many, but I didn't want to ask anyone for help. I didn't want anyone to know what I was up to or that I was struggling with sleep.

"Sounds like a fun plan," he smirked at me. "Then you can show me where you run off to all the time."

I blushed and started to walk away, knowing he'd follow.