The Golden Girl and the Bad Boy

Chapter 5 - Common ground

After locking up and allowing Liam to ice his bruised head one last time, I stood outside contemplating what our choices of food were.

Daisy's diner....oooooh pancakes

Starbuck's....coffee

Ugh, why does decision making have to be so difficult. Suddenly I felt a pair of toned arms reaching around my waist and awakening me from my trance like state, causing me to bend over and push my elbow back into something hard and firm.

Hearing a grunt of pain, I turn around to see the victim of my violence bouncing around on one leg as if he were on fire.

"Relax Lili, it's not as if i hit you any lower."

Turning around and trying to mask his pain, he glared at me, "what did you just call me sweetheart?"

"I called you Lili. Liam doesn't seem very fitting for a handsome prince like you who is in agony from one blow to the stomach by someone half your size.", I say sarcastically.

"You finally admit that I'm handsome then, took you a while Princess Lilly." , Liam remarks.

"Out of all the hurtful things I had to say, you choose that to comment on....and don't call me that", I tell him turning away, feeling my eyes begin to fill with moisture.

"Hey, what's wrong Lilly? I didn't mean to make you upset. What did I say to make you cry?", he asks quietly, trying to remove my delicate fingers from covering my face.

He slowly and successfully pries my hand away from my eyes and replaces my hands with his. He puts a hand on either side of my face and looks straight into my forest coloured eyes as if he is trying to solve a puzzle. He slowly starts rubbing tiny circles along the sides of my cheeks while still maintaining eye contact.

"I don't understand you.", he comments quietly.

"How could you possibly...you don't know me!", I whisper back half-heartedly.

"Doesn't mean that I wouldn't like to."

After hearing those words, I felt a surge of happiness enter my heart and I felt butterflies begin to flurry around my tummy.

"How about we start right now. Let me take you out for breakfast.", he asks with his hands still holding my cheeks and gazing into my eyes.

Right then and there I knew that this boy would be trouble, because no one had ever made me feel close to the way he was currently making me feel.

I couldn't help but would if I would regret my next words.

"I thought you'd never ask"

Removing his hands from my face and intertwining my hand with his, he leads me towards his death-trap on wheels and as he helps me lift my leg over the other side of his bike, he whispers,"I said that you'd be my Princess, if you call me prince"

He winked at me and got on his bike, leaving me absolutely stunned and speechless with my rosy cheeks and butterflies swarming in my stomach. He turned his back to me, revved his bike's engine and off we went with the wind.