LAW OF ATTRACTION

CHAPTER 29 : 'OUR PLACE'

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"Are you alright? Do they know it was you?! It's because of me you're in trouble. I'm so sorry!" I ramble on, almost jumping on Alex when I see him arriving by the school gate.

He grabs my arms, making me look at him, and my big eyes scan his face and body as if I hadn't seen him for years and not just a few hours ago.

"No, don't worry! They don't know anything! Otherwise, I wouldn't be here!" He offers me a confident smirk, and I find my breath again, staring in his tenebrous eyes.

"They just interrogated me because of my background with vandalism, but they don't have any clue. The ones who did that are professional badasses!" His smirk broadens.

"Then, why did they keep you for so long?" I ask, the knot in my stomach still not completely dissipating.

"They just asked me some questions, tried to pressure me." He shrugs as my eyes widen.

"I just told them the truth: that I was with my beautiful girlfriend and that I didn't think they needed me to draw them a picture of what we were doing... I didn't lie!" He grins.

I shake my head, laughing, as my worries are eased just by his cocky grin, his confident attitude, his penetrating eyes... all of him.

"Oh! By the way! Don't you need your jacket?" I smile, holding out his jacket.

He puts it on, the black leather fitting perfectly on his strong shoulders. I watch him silently as he sticks his hands in the pockets and stops abruptly, rummaging in all the pockets of his jacket.

"Is that what you're looking for?" I smirk, waving the small packets I've found earlier in his jacket.

His dark eyes widen, and he quickly grabs them from my hands.

"This is dangerous. Don't play with this, if someone sees you..." He towers over me, his low and dangerous voice sending a shiver down my spine.

"I can tell you the same. Why did you bring it at school today, with the cops and all?!" I hold his piercing gaze.

"It was exceptional. I had a delay in delivery."

"And if the cops had found it?!" I ask with wide eyes the question that has been playing in my head with all the other dreaded ones since Alex has been taken to the police station.

"They can't look for two things at once!" He puts back the packets in his pockets, his tone playful again.

"You're reckless!" I shake my head.

"I'm the baddest bad boy!" He smirks smugly and gives me a smooth peck on the lips. "Have you already eaten?" He changes the subject, licking his lips.

"Yeah, but I haven't eaten much... I wasn't hungry." I bite my lip.

"Good! 'Cuz I'm starving! How about we go eat out?" He grabs my hand.

"Yeah, why not, we have a long break." The knots that have been taking up all the space in my stomach are slowly vanishing as Alex is already leading me out of the schoolyard.

"Do you use them? I mean... the drugs?" I break the comfortable silence we're walking in, unable to get out of my head the images of weeds, white powder, pills, and bars I've seen earlier in his jacket. I think this is the first time I see them from so close, actually even from afar; this is the first time I see them for real.