You Complete Me- Dylan O'Brien

Chapter 15

Dylan's POV

Marina stood there on the red carpet, with the spotlight on her. I could feel my heart beat picking up. I have never seen anyone so stunning in my life. She looked absolutely perfect. 

She was wearing a golden glitter dress that complimented her amazing body and tan skin. Her dark brown hair was curled nicely and her makeup was perfect. It wasn't caked on like Nicole's. As she continued to walk in one of her friends made her laugh, and she smiled a bright smile, which caused my breath to hitch in my throat. 

Marina and her friends went right to the dance floor in the middle of the gym. I continue to watch her as two songs go by, but just sitting on the sidelines was killing me on the inside. I wanted to go up to her, pull her close, and dance with her, but I wasn't sure if I should go up to her. I know she's still mad at me.

The next song that comes on is a slow one. Marina and her friends moved off to the side, so I decide to take the opportunity to go over there. This could either go my way, or end up completely shitty. At this point though, I had to know in my head that I at least tried to talk to her. 

With a sudden burst of confidence, I get out of my chair, sending it flying back. I take large strides over to where Marina was standing. She didn't notice me coming at first, but as soon as she did, her previously happy expression went blank. 

"Marina can I ask you a question?"

"What do you want O'Brien? Did your little date leave you?"

Alright I guess I kind of deserved that... "Marina please?" I ask

"Fine" she says pouting

She goes to take a step and fumbles a bit. I reach my arms out to catch her but she balances herself

"Marina... are you drunk?"

"I don't know, what do you think?" She says rolling her eyes

"I'll take that as a yes"

"What did you want to ask me O'Brien? As you can see I was having a fabulous time until you came over and disrupted it."

"I wanted to ask you to dance..."

"Why? Isn't that what your date is for?"

"Can you stop with that? Please? Just dance with me."

"Fineee" she says slurring her words a bit

I link my arm with hers and we slowly walk to the middle of the dance floor. Now or Never by Halsey begins to play. 

I don't wanna fight right now

Know you always right, now

Know I need you 'round with me

But nobody waitin' 'round with me

Marina wraps her arms around my neck and I wrap mine around her waist. We begin to sway to the beat and it feels like everything is moving slow and it's just the two of us. 

I happen to glance to the side for a second and notice a lot of people watching us. I didn't care though, and turned my attention back to Marina who was already staring at me. I can't seem to take my eyes off her for too long. She's so beautiful and she doesn't even realize it. 

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Marina's POV

When Dylan came up to me and asked if I wanted to dance, I was furious. However I was still buzzed, so I didn't feel like fighting and just gave up and went with him. 

As we started to dance, I wrapped my arms around his neck and he wrapped his around my waist. 

He looked away for a second then back at me with the most intense gaze I've ever seen. My knees go weak and it's almost like he knew, because he pulls me closer before I go down. I wanted to break eye contact with him so bad, but something in me stopped my body from working. I'm guessing it was the alcohol but whatever it was prevented me from looking away. 

Why does this always happen to me? I always get stuck looking into those gorgeous brown eyes. His eyes flicker down to my lips and my breathing speeds up. Thank god it was dark, because I could feel my face heating up. He begins to lean in, closing the gap between us. I stop breathing for a second and my eyes begin to flutter shut.

Then out of know where, there's a loud scream from the back of the dance.

"YOU BITCH OH MY GOD"

Both Dylan and I pull apart and whip our heads to the back of the room. Everyone else was already looking over there and walking towards the scene. 

Dylan takes my hand and pulls me to the back. There was a circle and a bunch of people had their phone out recording. I let go of Dylan's hand and push to the front. To my surprise, in the middle of the circle are Nicole and Krista fighting. 

Nicole straddles Krista and begins unleashing punch after punch onto her face

"Hey what the hell! Stop it!" I yell running up to her and grabbing her off of Krista. I push her towards a group of her guy friends who are approaching and they hold her back as she tries to leap at me. I then run over to Krista's side. 

"Kris what are you doing??" I say with wide eyes looking at my best friend.

"That bitch was talking shit about you! She came up to me, calling you ugly and I said take that bullshit back. Then she said, 'or what' and she fucking pushed me Marina! I couldn't let a bitch get away with that. Nobody attacks me and certainly not my best friend" 

I help her back on her feet and let out a sigh. Somehow none of the chaperons had noticed, or if they had, they didn't give a shit. Typical high school

"Alright well are you ok at least? And also you didn't have to do that for me! I don't want you getting hurt!"

"Marina I'm fine.. besides we all know that slut deserved what she got" Krista spat, wincing when she touched a cut on her face

I looked around and Nicole was screaming and making a scene with her friends, and to no surprise my sister was in the group too. Teacher's now noticed and began walking over. 

"Shit, Kris let's get out of here, before we get in trouble"

We snuck out the exit and ran to the bathroom. Once we got there I texted Carlos to meet us at the cars in five minutes. Turns out he was hooking up with some guy in a classroom. At least one of us was having a good night. 

On our way out, I tried to do a quick scan for Dylan, but he was nowhere to be seen. I didn't necessarily want to talk to him, but I just wanted to see him one more time before I left. Even though I was still kind of mad at him, seeing him and being around him calmed me down, which was what I really needed right now.

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Carlos dropped me off at my house and as soon as I stepped in the door, I ran to my room. I didn't want to answer any questions if my parents happened to be home. I knew Amber was still at the dance and I'm sure when she got home, she would yell at me for how Krista attacked Nicole. 

Of course she just had to be friends with Nicole and I'm sure she would take her side over mine. Ever since I started hanging out with Dylan more, we have slowly drifted apart and I don't know why. Yeah she would still help me with makeup and outfits once in a while, but that was it. 

Once I got to my room, I showered fast, got my PJs on, and hopped in bed. I checked my phone and saw that Carlos and Krista were filling Matthew in on all that happened in our group chat. I let out a long sigh and put my phone down

I closed my eyes to go to sleep and my mind went right to Dylan. I'm pretty sure he was going to kiss me, but it got interrupted. I'm mad at myself for getting all mushy around him but I wonder what would've happened if there were no interruption.