Cupid's Sneakers

Chapter 9: " True Love's Almost Kiss "

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*SLAP*

"Ow!" I screeched holding my cheeks. I can't see anything so I opened the lights and so Luke fuming. His eyes darted towards my cheek where my hand is placed covering my stinging cheeks.

I rubbed my cheeks as my traitorous tears slid on my face. I looked at him and saw his eyes widened and fear covered it. He look like he's so much in pain. I almost feel bad. Almost.

"What the hell is that for?!" I shouted at him making him flinch. I glared at him fiercely and my heavy breathing echoing around the room.

"Sh*t! I'm so sorry! I thought you were Birina and I didn't mean to slap you. No! That doesn't sounded right, what I'm saying is that I wasn't going to slap anybody. I'm not a girl-" he rambled. His hands caressing my stinging cheeks which also sends shocks throughout my whole body. It's like painful pleasure?

"Stop! I can't understand you! Why did you do that!?" I removed his hands away from my cheeks, making the sparks gone but still left a tingling sensation.

He rubbed his face and weave his hands in his hair, a trait I've known for years as a sign of nervousness. He averted his eyes away from me and looked anywhere except from me.

"Well! I have something else to do so can you please tell it now!" My eyes twitching in annoyance. My feet tapping and my hands placed in my hips making me look like an angry mother.

"First, I'm sorry I didn't mean to slap you. I thought you were Birina so I dragged you. I was going to give her a warning." He sighed and sat at the nearby table looking at his hands.

"I didn't intentionally want to slap anybody but my hand just flew and BAM!-" He made an explosive gesture. " -so I'm really sorry. I'm just stressed and I just don't want anybody to-ugh! But I'm really sorry." He looked at me his eyes pleading.

I looked at him skeptical if all of this is just a joke but I noticed his eyes it looked sincere and his voice concern. I took a deep breath and sat beside him.

"Luke, I-I just don't get it. Why would you act as if you want to protect me when you lost that job years ago?" I asked looking him straight in his eyes. His eyes reflected a glint of emotion but disappeared before I can blink.

"I don't know. Maybe I was just guilty because I dragged you in this mess." He looked at his hands and kicked a crumpled paper on the floor. I couldn't help but feel disappointed with his answer. Did he just do it because he was guilty?

I know it too good to be true. We stayed in complete silence making me itching for something to say. I look at the floor and swayed my feet.

"Luke, why were you running?" I have enough of this uncomfortable silences in my life! I had experience it more than a regular teen faces.

"Oh! Um.. Some du-dude was chasing me and all." He stuttered. I stared at him confuse. Did Luke stutter?

"Why did those dude chasing you?" I spoke slowly as if talking to a child.

"I-I don't know. I just walked with my phone in my hand and then some dude yelled and I turned around and saw them running towards me. I-I guess I just panicked and started running. Then, I found you and I thought what if they dragged you in. So yeah, that's what happened." He fidgeted.

I stared at him with disbelief. We got stuck in haunted mansion just because some dudes stated chasing him.

"Wait! Let me get this straight, some dude started running towards you and then you panicked causing you to run and dragged me in that mess by making us stuck in that horrible mansion experiencing incredible hunger, attacked by a freaking spider and experienced a semi-earthquake." I started breathing heavily with every word I speak.