The One That Got Away.

chap 5

Before leaving I wanted to have a last look at myself.

I stood in front of the mirror, staring at an 18 year old girl, with a good body language and the jet black hair tied into a pony.

She looked beautiful, wearing a perfect silk dress of blood red color which brought the minute details of her face with all precision.
She was neither to short nor too tall, just the perfect height.

"You look good."
I heard Lauren say.

I could see her reflection in the mirror and turned around to face her.

"I know, I can't believe it is me.
You coming?"

Last night we had decided we would go out together today, so our parents won't be suspicious of me leaving the house everyday at this hour, besides I looked different today.
Different in a nice way.

We held hands and called out to our mothers, told them we were just going out to the daily market.
They did not question us back but gave us our deadline to come back home.

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I did not feel nervous, there was a completely different feeling today, like things were going to be just fine.

I couldn't overlook the crowd staring at me when we walked to the market.

We were actually going there to look for him and I was tensed, but different kind of tensed.

"Hey guys, look at her. I would like to bite those pink juicy lips!! "

I heard someone commenting and turned around to see a bunch of guys giving me and Lauren those narrow-eyed-dirty looks.

I had to say something back, I had to fight.

"You are an..."
Lauren stopped me and told me to look on the other side of the road.

I saw him and I could tell something was about to happen.

He came walking towards those guys with full speed and hit the guy who commented, so hard, that his mouth started bleeding.

"Think before you speak to a woman next time!"
He said, giving a look of challenge to the other boys who stood with him.

He looked at me, but then he turned around and started to walk away.
I kept looking.

"GOO...!!" Lauren shouted.
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I started running towards him

I could hear Lauren say,"I'll wait here...Get him."

I made sure she heard my voice, so I screamed,"YEAH."

Now I was actually chasing him and it kind of felt amazing to chase him.
Not in a bad sense though.

Thank God I wore flats, I walked faster than ever and soon caught up with him.

"Hey!"

I was breathing like a dragon.

He didn't reply, so I added, "Now, this is not how treat a woman either."

He stopped at once, looked at me and questioned," What do you want?"

I had no idea what to say but then I did.

"I want answers."

"What answers?"

There was a big tree just across the road.
It had a bench just in front of it, so I pointed towards it and said,"Can we sit? It won't take much time I promise."

I started to walk towards the tree.

I was afraid he wouldn't follow me but then I looked at him, and he started to walk.

This time he walked towards me and not away. It felt nice.

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"Why did you suddenly leave last time?"

I didn't wait for him to settle down and shot the first question right away.

"I had work to do. Told you so. Didn't I?"

He was hiding something. He didn't look at me when he said that, he had never done that, not even once whenever we talked.

I know we hadn't talked much, we just met twice and this was the third time. But till now, whenever we talked he had always looked right at my face and said anything he wanted to.

"I don't want lies, I want answers."
I made sure he said the truth.

"Fine. So listen.
Your father is a very good man but he would not like you talking to me.
You are very good looking and by far the most amazing I have ever met. But our lives are totally different.
There is like, hell and heaven difference between you and me.
I don't want this."

He was saying the bitter truth.
I knew how cold my father could get if he ever found out that I was seeing this guy.
He would hurt him, maybe.

"So listen. I don't want to talk to you because I fear of falling in love with you.
This is not the first time I am seeing you, I have been seeing you for a long time. I mean, not in a bad way but...."

He stopped, maybe he thought he spoke too much.

He stood up and asked," Got your answers now?"

I held him by his wrist and looked up at his face and said,"No, sit down."

I still didn't know his name and inspite of knowing what was about to happen, now I knew he liked me too, and it was time for me to tell him about my feelings.

"What is your name?"

"What. Didn't you unde..."

I cut him off and asked him again,

"What is your name?"

"Adrian Mills."

"Pretty, now you listen to me.
I like you.
I have been liking you for years now. I know my father better than you. I know he can hurt you if he finds out about.....This.
So, I wouldn't do anything stupid and I am sure neither would you to make things that way.
In 9 days I am leaving, I got into the university and I am probably not coming back here anytime soon.

I just want these nine days to be beautiful.
I want to spend whatever time that is left, with you."

He was staring at me endlessly saying nothing.
I waited for him to say something, but he didn't.
I assumed he was in a shock or something.

I had to leave, it had already been an hour of chasing and talking.
So I told one last thing,

"I know it might be surprising and you must be very confused, take your time and think about it.
I'll wait for you by the river tomorrow at 3pm."

I stoop up and walked away.

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Lauren and I walked around for sometime.

Mostly we didn't talk after talking about what happened.

His words were making way into my heart and those exact same words were ringing in my ears.

You are very good looking and by far the most amazing I have ever met.

I don't want to talk to you because I fear of falling in love with you.

This is not the first time I am seeing you...