The Alpha's Queen

Chapter 11

-Chapter 11-

All of us have our escapes in some way or the other.

Like, when you're sad after a very disappointing day or when you miss someone really bad or when someone angered you or when you just parted with your best friend and you have no idea when the next time you meet them is going to be.

I usually just punch the living daylights out of a punching bag or train till I can't anymore. Or I just sleep it all away. Usually, it's the former, but today I choose to sleep.

After my friends left today, I felt broken. I've never felt this way. Not even when I left them three years ago. They are the only people who I can call family. After my blood family of course. I may have had my ups and downs with my family, but I would kill for them. All that aside, when my friends left, I literally wanted to breakdown in tears right there and then. But I had too much dignity and ego to do that.

So I kindly asked Colton to drop me off at home, knowing that I couldn't hold it together any longer. But Colton being his usual self, didn't listen to me. One look at my face and he decided I needed to be cheered up. I'm usually very good at hiding my emotions. Nobody can break through my barrier—nobody. When I told him I needed no cheering up, I was completely fine, he gave a look that said shut-up and then he said and I quote, "you're my mate, Corinna, you can't hide your emotions from me. I know what you feel. I can literally feel your emotions myself." I decided after that, that maybe I should stop feeling emotions for good. I can do that and I will do that.

He drove me to the best ice cream parlor in town—the brothers Jonas parlor. They had the best ice cream and they also had a pizza place right next door— papa's pizzeria. Their pizza was the best in town as well. Then he took me to this cliff a little on the outskirts of town. The view was spectacular. I have no words to explain the beauty. The cliff overlooked the town. By the time we reached the cliff, it was already almost sunset. Yeah we watched the sunset. And the view of the city? God damn. It looked like the whole city was getting drowned in the colors of the sunset. The reds, oranges, purples, oh, it was so beautiful.

It was a date, apparently. I had no information of that. Nevertheless, I enjoyed it and it was the best first date ever. And it did manage to take my mind off of things. But when I got home, my mood damped again. So I slept. On a hungry stomach might I add. Never and I repeat, never, sleep on an empty stomach.

Coming back on topic, my hungry stomach was one of the two reasons I woke up in the middle of the night. The first one was, well, I felt someone was staring at me. I don't know how I felt that someone was staring at me even though I was sleeping, but I did. And god darn I woke up. At 3 a.m. Only to find that the person who was staring at me was non other than Colton himself.

He was standing there, leaning against the closed balcony doors, and he was staring at me.  My mind was hazy at first and my eyesight a little blurry as I'd just woken up.

"Colton?" I asked rubbing my eyes, as I got up, confused out of my mind.

He let out a breath before he pushed himself off the balcony doors, coming towards me, "Yeah it's me. Sorry I woke you. I had no intention of doing that." He said rubbing his neck sheepishly as he sat on the corner of the bed.

"Well you did," I said narrowing my eyes at him, "You ruined my sleep."

"Like I said, sorry," he replied again, sheepishly.

I picked up the nearest pillow and threw it at him. It hit right in the face as he was not expecting that.

"Jesus woman, what was that for?" He asked as he rubbed his forehead, exactly where the pillow hit him.