Miss Arden {wlw-professorxstudent}

Chapter 11

*There is so much happening in this chapter, I just could not bring myself to separate this at any point. So, here you have almost 5000 words of Katherine and Kalina being a couple without being a couple.
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KALINA'S POV:
I handed Arin a piece of the cake I had just made. Yeah, cake. That's what it took to make my brother shut up about seeing me making out with the woman I had introduced to him as my English literature professor.

I was sure he would shut up about it. He had promised. He never broke his promises, one of the few reasons why I liked him.

At 9 pm, finally lying in bed, I stopped worrying completely. Anthony had dropped by a while ago to tell me that he was having dinner with Ben that night. It took me exactly 5 minutes to realise that that was still the same guy he had talked about for the past two and a half months.

To say I was impressed would have been an understatement. I told him so. He hit my forearm.

Well, he had wanted to know which tie would fit better with the suit he was going to wear. I figured they must have planed on going to an expensive restaurant.

I did not really know Ben at all. He always seemed to vanish whenever I walked up to the two of them. I did not know about his financial situation.

Which had immediately made me worry about him using Anthony like all those other blokes.

Anthony had told me to calm down. I had wanted to. I really had but his countless reassurances, that that thing between them was something serious, only quieted my doubts to a certain extent.

So, after he had driven off, finally decided on a tie, I had laid down on my bed and had turned off the lights, even though, I had not intended to sleep.

I still did not. I wanted Katherine there with me I had realised and now I kept thinking of what it would feel like to have her front pressed against my back while watching TV from my bed. I kept thinking of her lips on mine and how I wanted that feeling to return.

I kept thinking of all the things that made my heart race and it impossible for me to fall asleep.

When hours had ticked by without sleep coming to me, I stood up, opened my window and sat by it to watch the snow fall in the streetlights' glow.

My phone rung out. When I reached for it in the dark, I saw an unknown number light up my screen.

I hesitated but when I saw the location I had a feeling that the person calling was Katherine. So I picked up the call.

The line cracked but I heard the sound of her voice sounding out loud and clear.

"Kalina?", it sounded like she had been asleep.

"Yes?", it was quiet for a little while until she took a deep breath.

"I just wanted you to know that I can't stop thinking of you", she whispered into her phone.

"And I can't seem to fall asleep. I can't. Every time I turn around I am rattled by another flashback of your hot mouth on mine and I just- I don't know, maybe you- actually, I don't know why I called. I think I wanted to hear your voice", she kept talking really quietly and it made her voice a little raspy.

"I'm happy you did. I can't sleep either. I keep wishing for you to be next to me. I want to hug you", I confessed and she sighed.

"Did you want to- I don't know, like come to my place tomorrow? For dinner I mean. I'd cook. I told you I'd tell you about dinner, you know", she sounded so very sleepy, I wanted to take her pretty face in my hands and kiss her until all the thoughts that kept her up had fled her.