Enthral Azure

Chapter 5

When I stepped into the shower, my mind quickly rushed thinking about Aaron. My mind is swarming with thoughts about him, how his lips would taste like… how strong his arms were when he carried me. No. Stop Lucy. You hate him. But do i? Since he confessed about not sticking the note on my back, something, just something fell off my chest. I have to be mature about this – I can’t hate him over nothing? I shake my head while warm water is flowing on me, washing off the sand on my hair and body. I rinse a sponge and mix soap into it, rubbing it all over me. Applying shampoo on my head and cleaning myself up.

When I’m done showering, and drying myself up, I change into my pyjamas because its 8:00PM already. I eat the leftover dinner my mother left for me, make myself a hot cup of tea, and read a book until I fall asleep. I dream about nothing, thank god. It’s like the thought of Aaron’s face is making me go insane.

I awake to the smell of pancakes. Mmmm. I feel good, really good; in fact I could run 2 miles about now. But I don’t, it’s Monday, and I gotta go to school. I get dressed into skinny jeans and a t shirt, and put on my black converse. I shoulder my back pack, and run down the stairs.

“Good morning, Hun.” My mom says while flipping pancakes and putting it on the plate. She slides a plate of pancakes and syrup on my table. “You look quite chippy.”

I nod while munching on pancakes. “Yeah.” I check my wrist watch – I should definitely get to school now. “Gotta go. School,”

“Need a ride?” I shake my head when she asks. “Okay, Hun. Have fun.”

I roll my eyes while getting up from the chair. “Fun.”  She chuckles. I hope Aaron is here at school today, I’d really like to have a serious chat with him. And, I’m kind of dreading it too. He said he’ll ‘leave me alone’ what does that mean exactly? I sigh and walk out of the door, and head off to school.

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I walk into the hallway to go to my locker. I freeze. Aaron is leaning by my locker, texting on his phone. He looks up and fixes his gaze on me. I stride to him, confident even though my heart is racing like crazy. “I thought you’d leave me alone.” Recalling how we said that on the beach yesterday.

“I – I am. I was just admiring your – you, uh locker.” He gestures to my locker and smirks. Why does he do this to me? Act cool, Lucy. Act cool.

I push Aaron and he stumbles on the guy behind him, I laugh. The guy from behind looks between me and Aaron nervously and slowly steps away, and then bolts out.

Aaron looks back and shrugs, “Weird guy.” He says while I open my locker and retrieve my biology and math textbooks.

“He’s scared of you. Can’t blame him to be honest, with that face of yours.” I joke. But really, Aaron looks like a God; even guys in our school stop and stare.

“Ha. Ha. I’m dying of laughter, you’re so funny Lucy.” He says with fake enthusiasm. I freeze when he says my name; I think my heart just stopped for a second. “What?” He says when he notices my reaction.

“You didn’t call me ‘Little girl’”

“Yeah?” he says slowly. “That’s your name, Lucy? Right?”

“Yeah…” I shake my head. “Why are you standing in front of my locker anyway, Aaron?”

“I just wanted to talk to you.” He smiles broadly, flashing white teeth. I sigh dreamily while I observe his beautiful features. My gaze drops to his body imagining his lean muscled figure, how I saw them yesterday. His eyes – so so mesmerizing –

“Hello?” he knocks on my head, literally. He starts snapping his fingers in front of my face. I shake my head frantically. Oh god, I was just admiring how beautiful he was. Shit.