TOUGH LOVE

THE FEELING

I ran to stop him from beating this guy but I guess Lenny and Daniel saw what was going on and got there before I did.

The guy was on the floor with a bloody nose and James was being held back by Lenny and Daniel. Before I knew it there was a crowd around us.

"WHAT IS THE MEANING OF ALL OF THIS?"  screamed someone from inside the crowd. Mrs.Tyler had popped out of no where and stood in front of James and I.

James stayed quiet so I had to speak up.

"I- It's b-because these guys were making fun of me and-d —" I was saying before Mrs. Tyler interrupted me.

"YOU" She yelled pointing her finger at my face.

"YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR PARTNER NOW I WANT BOTH OF YOU TO GO BACK TO YOUR ROOM AND I WILL CALL THE MANAGER OF THE HOTEL AND TELL HIM TO CHECK UP ON BOTH OF YOU"

My mouth was wide open... she actually blamed this... on me.

James grabbed my arm and dragged me away from the crowd. He made his way toward the exist still grabbing my arm. I calmly pulled my arm back but he kept walking fast.

The walk to the hotel was quite and fast. We were finally back in our room and I noticed that James was pissed.

" You need to work on your anger issues.." I say trying to lighten up the mood with a sarcastic remark that was mostly true.

"seriously?" James asks while rubbing his temples.

"Violence solves nothing, you know?" I say as I take a seat on my bed.

"what are you talking about?" he ask squinting his eyes at me from the other side of the room.

"If I used violence to cope with shit, a lot of people would be hurt right now. Yourself included."

"I'm not coping with anything Rider. Those assholes were teasing you!" His remark on infuriated me.

"What so you're the only one allowed to tease me?" I ask bravely getting up from my bed and making my way to James.

"I-" is all he could form. I was standing right in front of him. His frame was obviously hovering over me but I didn't want him to know how intimidating he was.

"You put me through hell and your excuse was that you were protecting me!" I chuckled with tears forming in my eyes.

"And then you confess all this shit to me and then ignore me and pretend like nothing happened! Why do you do this to me? Why do you ignore me?"I ask him, choking back my tears. One single tear fell from my eye. Dammit.

He got up and looked at me with those deep green eyes and wiped a tear away from my cheek. His embrace felt nice and warm. I looked at his face and my eyes immediately darted to his lips.

I didn't have control over my body and did the unthinkable.

I grabbed James by the collar of his shirt and pulled him to my face, our lips crashed. I thought he would be hesitant and pull away in disgust, but on the contrary he moved one of his hands to cup my face while his other hand wrapped around my waist pulling me in. My heart was racing and I knew his was too since I could practically feel it from how close he had me.

I was so surprised by his movements that I didn't even realize his tongue had entered my mouth. This is my first tongue kiss experience so I had to improvise but I felt like I knew what I was doing since I heard a groan come out of James. I know I should hate him and hate this but it just felt so good.