At first sight

Chapter 2

I woke up, dangling in someone's arms, the cold October air was hitting my skin as I shivered but still a bit unconscious. I lifted ny head to look at the mysterious person, the cold air made his breath visible, he was breathing as if he had ran, I could only see his messy, red hair, my eye sight was blurry, I tried to talk, but all that came out were mumbling.

"hold tight, we're almost there,"

Almost there? Almost where? What did he mean by that?  I was still dangling in his arms, bridal style, my arms and legs swaying back and forth every step he takes. Finally I could see some light through my eyelids, I heard a door close, he sat me down on a sofa and put a blanket on me, and left. I was shivering non stop. I could hear the mysterious person talk to himself, and the sound of dishes moving. I blinked my eyes a few times to see clearly where I was. I was in someone's apartment, the mysterious person came with a coffee mug, he gave it to me, I immediately looked up at his face. His beautiful hazel eyes, he had red hair, a sharp nose, and small white teeth, and a lop sided smile, but he is still cute. I slowly put the mug near my lips, and sipped from it and quickly move my mouth away from it.

"Be careful,it's hot..." He took off his jacket and sat next to me. "you make very good coffee," I said, my voice very weak, it was almost a whisper. "Thank you for saving me, I barely know what happened but I know you helped me...thank you"

"....How are you feeling?" "A bit groggy" "I'm Gerard,"

I looked at his beautiful face.

"I'm Rose,"

"I hear you're new here, that wasn't a very good first impression,"

"how do you know, I'm new?" I took another sip of my coffee.

"I overheard you talking to that Hannah girl at the bar, when you left I noticed how intoxicated you were, you were stumbling for god sakes and I didn't have a good feeling about you leaving alone like that, so I kinda followed you to make sure you were alright, but I lost track of you. I heard you screaming and I followed it and saw the bastard that tried to rape you."

"wow....I can't thank you anymore, is there anything I could do-"

" You're amazingly beautiful."

I blushed at my mug, and pulled the blanket.

"Thank you,"

"You can stay here until morning, I don't trust anyone outside this late, make your self at home,"

He grabbed my hand, and our eyes met, chills ran up my spine.

"My god, your hands are freezing,"

Our eyes met again....

He cleared his throat, which broke our stare down.

"You can sleep in my bed, my room is the last door to your left, I'll sleep on the sofa"

He got up and walked to the balcony, he motioned me to come over, I put my mug on the table and walked to the balcony, blanket still wrapped around me like a cape. He takes out a cigarette and lights it.

"you smoke?"

He handed me the box, I took out a cigarette and lit it, I took a puff, putting my hair behind my ear.

"I owe you one for saving me,"

He chuckled.

"you're my personal super hero"

He flashed his lop sided smile. We leaned on the railing.

"We're on the tenth floor, so dont lean to hard or you might fly over, I wont be able to save you then,"

I giggled. We began talking more, telling each other about ourselves and, joked around. Hes a pretty nice guy.

We continued leaning on the railing, he got closer to me and put his arm around me.

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