Devotion {l.h.}

Chapter Six

Katarina’s POV

It was already 9:30 p.m.

Since Luke left all I had managed to accomplish was having my shower and getting into my polka dot pyjamas.

Solid effort Katarina.

I stared at my phone for a minute, wondering if he had messaged me something else while I was in the shower.

I shook my head. I was acting stupid.

Why would he text me?

I wouldn’t confess this to anyone if they had asked me, but there was something about Luke, something that made me feel drawn to him, something that made me hang onto every word that came from his pierced lips, something that made me attracted to him.

I climbed into bed and thought about what I would wear tomorrow. Hopefully I could impress him.

You’re not like this Katarina. You don’t obsess over clothes or shoes, let alone a boy. Be careful. Don’t let him in he will just hurt you. My subconscious warned.

I pushed her aside and settled in bed, prepared to dream about Luke.

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Luke’s POV

I couldn’t sleep last night.

Calum’s indirect threat kept replaying in my mind.

He has the video.

What if he used it against me?

I would be ruined.

The reputation that I had tried so hard to build would come crashing down.

Everyone would see me as weak, and that was not something that I was prepared to accept.

I drove into the university car park and parked in my usual spot. Everyone knew that this was “Luke’s spot”. No one dared to take it.

I walked slowly across the parking lot; I didn’t see Katarina’s beat up Toyota. I did see Calum’s car though. I took out my keys from my pocket and walked as close to his car as possible, lightly grazing my key against his car door.

Bastard.

I walked into my lecture theatre and took a seat at the front. The same spot that I was in yesterday. There were a few other kids in the room but none that I knew so I sat at the front of the class like a total loser.

I pulled out my notebook, and stared at all the concepts I had in mind for the assignment. The one word that stood out the most to me was the word “love”. I shuddered.

That was the one topic that I had wanted to do the least but it seemed the most obvious choice to represent going into the world.

I was distracted from my thoughts by the sound of a male laughing and a woman giggling.

Calum and Katarina.

They walked into the room, each armed with a coffee cup in one hand and a notebook in the other.

Why were they together?

I looked away before they had a chance to catch me staring.

Tempted, I looked back over to Katarina to find her looking back at me smiling.

She looked… pretty in her yellow sundress. 

I tore my eyes away from her body and looked back at my notebook.