LAW OF ATTRACTION

CHAPTER 36 : SINFUL BATTLE

So I'm back with songs included in chapters ('ET' by Katy Perry and Kanye West in this one).

So I drink some water, and then, I inhale deeply and get out of the bathroom with a fresh mind. But I don't even get to exhale before someone appears from behind me and grabs my arm.

A jacket falls on my shoulders, and all my muscles get paralyzed. Yet it isn't out of fear as I feel the well-known sparks spreading all over my arm from the point where the hand doesn't loosen its grip.

I'm whipped around in less than a second, and I get out my trance when I meet Alex's tenebrous eyes. I'm breathing again now that I have my oxygen, his intoxicating perfume invading my lungs, yet the rest of my body is still unable to move, even my heart.

"You better get home," he states as if nothing had ever happened, no other word, no greeting, nothing else, and he's already pulling me by the hand.

But my feet stay firmly planted on the ground with all the weight of my heart since two weeks, making Alex turn back to me. I have to blink several times to be sure I'm not dreaming, and when I take in the surrealism of the situation, I start laughing.

"Really?!" Clearly my laughter isn't light or amused, and it dies down in no time.

"Yeah. You're drunk and–"

"I'm not drunk!" I cut him off, jerking my arm away. "I only had one drink, and anyway, it's none of your business," I add, stepping closer and standing my ground.

Though being so close to him is not a good idea, as his gravitational field is attracting me like a magnet.

"Why do you even care, anyway?"

"I don't," he replies simply.

These two words and their coldness feel like another knife in my heart. I become extremely aware of his presence in front of me; it's like my eyes have seen him since a few minutes, but now it's my heart that is gazing at every little detail from his plump lips sealed in a tight line to his sharp jaw, from his jutting Adam's apple to the soft skin of his neck, and mostly his tenebrous gaze that still appears so far away. It's all overflowing me, and I feel it building up behind my eyes. So not trusting myself around him, I try to bypass him, but he steps in front of me.

"Where do you think you're going?"

"Back to the dancefloor." I defy him, liking the way his jaw is tensing more and more with my words. At least I can still have some effect on him.

"To dance shamelessly in that outfit with drunk perverts all over you?! We're in a wild party on a campus, not at some middle school sleepover, you don't know what you're getting yourself into," he seethes dangerously low, leaning closer.

"What I get myself into is none of your business!" I snap, my nerves crackling and my skin prickling with the closeness.

The air around us seems charged with something electric, and the distant but still clear sound of 'E.T.' by Katy Perry and Kanye West coming from downstairs is adding to the tension.

'Kiss me, k-k-kiss me

Infect me with your love and fill me with your poison

Take me, t-t-take me

Wanna be a victim, ready for abduction

Boy, you're an alien, your touch so foreign

It's supernatural, extraterrestrial'