Attracted To The Opposite Of Me(ON HOLD)

Chapter 3

Hailey’s P.O.V

 “So, are you both going to stare at each other like this the whole day?” my aunt’s somewhat playful voice shook Logan and me out of the trance. I blushed and Logan cleared his throat and we started looking somewhere else. Talk about awkward! Karla was trying hard not to laugh at our reactions. “Hailey, would you mind showing Logan his room?” she asked. Oh yes, I do mind! I didn’t say that of course, instead I said, “Yeah sure, why not?” trying to fake a smile. I swear if I spend another minute with him I will suffer from major heart problems but no! People don’t understand that.  I sighed.  “C’mon then, let’s go.”

 Logan had two huge bags plus a guitar case. Ooohh… he plays guitar, huh? That's impressive.  No, focus Hailey! After walking a few seconds, we reached our staircase. I was worried if Logan could manage it with the luggage. “Er…Logan? Will you be able to carry all these by yourself?” I asked, “You need some help?” Usually when you ask people if they need any help they thank you and sort of be grateful, right? But not Logan. I was concerned and guess what I got in return? A laugh. Not one of those pleasant laughs, the mocking ones. Yes, I offered him help and he was mocking me. You really feel special when people show that they are grateful. Note the sarcasm.

 “Aww…isn’t that cute? Can you manage it? Do you need any help?” he said in a poor imitation of a girly voice. I rolled my eyes. How mature….

“Babe, you see this?” he asked flexing his muscles. I tried not to stare at it but it looked as if my eyes had a mind of their own. He noticed that I was practically drooling. He smirked. “Like what you see?” he asked. I looked away blushing hard. Damn him and his muscles. “I can carry four more bags like this if I want so, no need to worry about me,” he said.

“I wasn’t worried about you! I was worried about that guitar….” I trailed off. He raised his eyebrows. Of course, he didn’t believe me. “You know what? Forget it, okay? Let’s go then, Macho man!” I said.

He chuckled and nodded his head at the sarcasm.

We were silent the whole way and at last we reached his room. Wow! That took long. “Here you go. This is your room.” I said, opening the door. The room looked centuries old.

“Okayy… this is clean,” He said and started coughing a bit.

“Yeah, I know. We never used this room so we didn’t bother to clean it.” I said, battling a spider web above my head. I saw Logan absent-mindedly clean the mirror surface and that’s when I thought I should sneak away and leave him alone but that’s when I heard my aunt call out – “Hailey? So sorry but can you help Logan clean his room? I bet it’s dirty. I am going out for a while.” Ah! Always count on Karla to save the day. Note the sarcasm.

Well, being the good girl I am, I said, “Okay, Karla. I will.” I heard the front door being shut. Why, God? Why me? I felt like banging my head on the wall. I can’t be in the same room with Logan. Why can’t people understand that? Ughh…….

 “Hailey?  Oh, for god’s sake would stop day dreaming and start helping me?” Logan’s annoyed voice shook me out of the trance. Hmmm...what happened to the guy who didn't need any help? 

 “Okay, so let’s get started.” I said, wanting to get over with this fast. I picked up a piece of cloth and handing it over to Logan. “Okay, so you clean this wardrobe and the bed and I’ll sweep the floor and organize everything. If possible also clean this table.” I ordered.

“Aye Aye Captain!” he said mock – saluting me. That kinda made me smile. He grinned when he saw me smile. That grin just blew me off completely. It wasn’t that arrogant and cocky smile he usually gave instead it was soft and sweet. I looked away afraid of being caught blushing (again!)

And then, awkward moment over, we started working. I was sweeping the floor and he was cleaning the wardrobe. I laughed out loud when he had a coughing fit as he forgot to cover his nose and mouth. “Rude girl...” he muttered but even he was smiling at his stupidity.

 I had covered most of the area except for the area near his bed. One could clearly tell that he wasn’t used to cleaning his bed as he scratched his head and messily put some pillows here and there. At one point, Logan was behind me and my back was turned toward him and I was moving backwards and then ‘THWACK’. I felt my back hit a wall which was in fact Logan and I turned and I don’t know how but he turned stepped on the wet cloth and slipped and fell on the bed with me underneath him. Don’t ask me how that happened. Sometimes I feel Fate is totally against me and I bet she is having a laugh right now!

 He froze when he looked at me and I stopped breathing. At that moment, I forgot we had to breathe to live. I forgot about every-freaking-thing in this world. I just knew that Logan was currently on top of me, his arms around me and was looking at me intently and he was close to me. His face was so close that I could see all the small details on his face like the tiny freckles on his nose. Even those looked cute on him!

And just like me, even he was examining my face as if my face would disappear any moment.

My heart started thudding like a freaking boom box and I could feel his heart too, beating fast. Maybe, I'm dead. Yeah, that must be it.

I could feel his hot, minty breath on my face which was driving me berserk. So close.

We both were so immersed in looking at each other that we didn’t hear the front door open, nor did we hear someone climbing up the stairs. “Ahem, Ahem.” Karla cleared her throat which shook me and Logan out of our trance. (Yeah, I know. Again!)

We quickly jumped up from the bed. My eyes widened when I saw Karla standing there with her hands folded across her chest. I knew what that means. It means that she is pissed. Really pissed. She had this scary expression her face which I haven’t seen for the past 5 years of my life.

 God, I don’t know what she must be thinking! I must quickly let her know that we weren’t…you know, doing anything and that was the biggest mistake of my life as I said, “Karla, it’s not what you think it is!”

Guess who’s getting the award for the greatest dork in this whole universe. Guess who? Yup, that’s me.

I mentally face-palmed at how cliché it sounded. Even Logan was shaking his head at my choice of words.

 “Uh Huh. Right,” Karla said, obviously not believing me. I am so in trouble. “Did you both clean the room” she asked. We both nodded. “Good. Hailey, come outside with me. Let Logan rest. Hope you feel at home here, Logan” she said, smiling warmly. At one moment she was looking like an angry warrior and the next moment she becomes this loving mother. Weird, I know.

Logan was too shocked to reply but didn’t wait for it. She came up to me, took my hand and almost dragged me out of the room. As she was closing the door, I turned to look at Logan one last time. I suppressed my laugh after seeing his expression. Woahh…That was hilarious. His had this ‘WTF’ look on his face.

 Oh! Wait. Why was Karla dragging me like this? Oh, wait I know. She was pissed and wanted answers and I’m screwed. Yay! Life.

We reached her room and we went inside and she shut the door. “Sit, Hailey.” She said, pointing to the chair. She didn’t look that mad but hey! Who am I kidding? She was a good actress. 

 “Hailey, I am not going to beat around the bush and am going to come straight to the point. I just left both of you for sometime and I come back and find both of you literally on the bed on top of each other,” I cringed at how wrong that sounded. She continued, “So, why don’t you explain what happened up there, huh?” she asked crossing her arms. Bad sign alert!

Alright, Hailey. This is your chance to prove that nothing much happened up there. I hope I don’t screw it up!!! I let out a long breath. I had a feeling that this was gonna be a long talk.

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A/N - Yeah...so that's it. And as usual, vote, comment etc etc.

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