Running From Him (ManxMan) ✔️

Chapter 8: Interrogate

🏃Clark's POV🏃

"Hey Jasmine," Liam greeted Jasmine once he was close enough. "Clark." His beaming smile created a warm yet cold feeling to arrive in my chest, and with out realizing it I was looking away, feeling as if I should've been beat red. Jasmine greeted him as well so I knew I din't have any more time to stall.

"Hi Liam." I focused my eyes on his chin, hoping that The change would calm me down. "Glad you could make it."

"Glad I could be here." He replied with a smile, a flirty glint shining in his eye.

I knew that Jasmine was eating this up, filing away any particularly adorable, cute or cringe moments to talk about, fawn over, or embarrass me with later. Most of the time she all three done in one conversation if not one sentence.

"Why don't we go join the others?" Jasmine suddenly suggested, breaking Liam and I out of the staring contest that, if judging from the startled expression that swept over his face, we didn't realize we started.

"That's a good idea," I added quickly, standing up and adjusting my clothes. "They are going to love you."

"Well that's good to know." He gave me a look but I couldn't tell whether he was joking or not.

Mysterious,

Very mysterious.

"Don't just stand there." Jasmine scolded, impatience ever present in her tone. "I want to see my relatives and siblings rave about Clark's new boyfriend."

I paled.

"Jasmine," I whisper yelled, coming up to her side to try to tell her. "Liam and I aren't-"

"Oh, is this a friend of yours Jasmine?" I heard someone ask.

Oh fudge.

"Oh no Dana," Jasmine said, a light tone of laughter probably hidden in her voice. "He's with Clark."

I wanted to shrink under the multiple gazes that seemed to land on me all at once.

"Really?" Aaron asked suddenly. Basically appearing out of nowhere. He looked at Liam, sending him a plain faced nod, and then looked back at me. "So he's your..?"

"Oh, uhm. He's my-"

"Boyfriend." He interrupted, a charming smile splitting his face as he came to my side. "I'm Clark's boyfriend."

"You have a boyfriend?" Aiden's surprised voice came next. "I never thought you would. Just assumed that you and Ethan would stay single forever."

My cheeks heated, whether from my embarrassment or Liam's body heat we might never know. What I did know was that Liam had just called me his boyfriend.

Well that's a new development.

"Yeah." I nodded, looking away from Aaron's scrutinizing.

I looked to Ethan for help but he was busy shoving Aiden for his comment.

"What's going on?" Mason asked jogging into the area.

I addressed his appearance. Tussled hair, flushed cheeks, and swollen lips?

I itched to ask him what was going on but at the moment the conversation was still on me.

So I had to move it over.

"Liam and I are going out and it turns out people didn't know." I joked, leaning into Liam slightly. "I would've thought that everyone would be used to it."

Loosening everyone up with a joke.

"And no one seems to be talking about why we're here, Aiden and Aaron's five year anniversary." I continued.