Watching Her

chapter 26: solution

I heard warnings in my head, knowing how dangerous my next moves were about to be. I needed to be in danger. I needed to feel the thrill again.

I walked to the glass windows, feeling him watch me as he awaited my next actions. He had not just left like I had expected him to. He was still standing there, not knowing in the least what I was doing. I liked this. I liked the uncertainty that was filling his eyes. Those eyes to closed doors, those eyes that needed to let out their secrets one day. I knew I'd be the one to find out what was hiding behind them. To find out why he was always sending goosebumps up my arm when I saw him, when we were in the same room. Some day I would find out, rummage through these eyes and then there would be no end to finding out his secrets.

I would tear down those icy walls. I would break them and run through his thoughts.

I looked back to him, once, before my back turned away again and opened the sliding door near the end of the glass windows. It slid open, without a single noise coming from it and I felt the wind outside.

It was storming. The wind was hitting the leaves of the trees aggressively, making them all sway away. The rain hit the ground, the grass beneath me, ferociously, as if it was attacking the earth. The lightning followed soon, and something inside of me jumped as I saw it near me. A flash of light could make me startle and that was why I loved it.

My hair swayed with the wind and my work out clothes started to cling to me as the rain hit me. I stood on the stone swell, but soon enough stepped onto the grass. It was cold beneath my feet, but I inhaled the scent of the rain as I closed my eyes. The adrenaline was starting to come, but it was not there yet.

I took off my shoes and placed them inside, shortly before I walked towards the pool.

I did not hear him moving away from his spot, but I knew he was watching me do something so utterly dangerous that every mother would have gasped and shouted at me to stop what I was doing. Just that my own mother would not have.

I slowly walked towards the steps of the modern built swimming pool. It had a u- shaped head, but the rest was square. The water even moved a little with the wind as the rain did not stop to fall onto it.

The water was cold, as I dipped my feet into it. I felt the adrenaline in my veins, but it did not surge through them.

I now saw him in the back of my eyes, as he ran towards the door. He kept watching me as I concentrated on the water. The thunder was booming in my ears, but I knew I would have still heard his shouts if there were any. He had not yet tried to get me back.

The water was up to my waist, freezing my bones as I now felt the thrill in my body. I felt free, dangerously free, as I stood in the water, feeling the rain fall onto my face. It was crazy, more than crazy, but I needed this. The lightning was near us, I knew that. And once it would hit the water, I would get electrified and roasted to death, but what did it matter? There was no one else to care about my death.

My best friend was angry at me, my parents had shoved me off to the other end of the world, Mateo did not know me enough, right? I let my hands glide over the water as I watched it move with me. I was drenched, from top to bottom, but I smiled.

Another stroke of light came down to the ground, but it was still far away. It was only a matter of time till it hit the ground here.

"Get out of the water." He seemed slightly mad, but not enough to scare me. He watched me with those eyes, but I still could not see how he was watching me. What feelings he hid behind those walls. What he did not want to show. I know he was not entirely concerned about me, it was just common sense to not go into the pool at a thunderstorm. An unwritten rule I had broken.

I grinned at him, dipping my hand back into the water. Strands of hair clung to my face and I felt my lashes sticking together. I loved it out here. We were alone, closed off from the world. There was no one to hurt me, no one to sadden or anger me. It was just us and he practically did not count.

I turned away from him, to the forest and watched as the rain hit the trees and moss that covered the large stones inside the maze of trees. I hugged myself, took another deep breath, when I heard the splashing of the water.

It was best to ignore him, I just wanted to be alone out here. The thunder was so loud, I barely heard his voice just now, so there was no effort in holding a speech about how dangerous this was. I had always liked dangerous. It kept me alive.

It was not long until I felt his hand on my shoulder.

I could not believe him.

He had actually gone into the water, to me. His white shirt was now see through and I could see the entirety of his abs as the material stuck to him. His hair was even wetter now than before, and part of it clung to his face as well. The veins on his arms were now more visible than ever, especially once lightning hit the ground again. It interrupted his movement for a second, but in this second, I saw how strong he was. How massive his arms and shoulders were.

He made me feel this surge of adrenaline once more, which I did not think was possible, but it was. He looked down on me with a stern expression as I gasped because of the coldness that surrounded my body. My arms were still around me as I waited for him to say something.

"You're so fucking crazy." He breathed out, making something inside me smile. He clenched his jaw, knowing the right decision would be taking me back inside. Yet, something stopped him from doing so, and I was thankful for it.

Okayyyyy, I guess people stopped reading my story or smth, which I kind of understand because I stopped updating for a while. I'll see how it goes because I really wanted to finish this book, but if no one's interested then I'll stop probs.

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