Chapter 28: “No,”

At times my really dumb brain which is best at making worst decisions also knows when to shut down and just flee.

Thank god it realized it was one of those situations.

Therefore without saying another word but taking a last glance at him I hurriedly tried to escape him.

I had just taken a step when I feel a tug at my elbow stopping me from going any further and his soothing voice down to pleads to stop and talk to him.

Whisking my hand from his hold I turn to glare at him and tell him to just leave me alone but I can’t.

Not after realizing that I love him.

I guess love makes you look at the person differently because right now everything about him is the same and yet so different.

His perfect eyebrows (which annoyingly looks better than mine), his plump pink lips, his sharp jaw and all his handsomeness intact it all remains the same and yet it makes my heart beat faster and makes me nervous.

I am afraid that he already knows what I am feeling and I don’t want that to happen.

How can you love a guy who broke your heart?

I don’t know how but I do and I desperately need a book for dummies that fall for their exes to tell me what to do next.

Sighing I change the topic, “How did you find me?”

He looked at me incredulously and confused by the sudden change in question but nonetheless straightening his back he earnestly answered right away.

“Of course I know where to find you after all I know you much better than you give me credit for.”

Cracking a smile at the last statement he continued, “I went to look for you in your classes but you weren’t there while Denise was and I saw Blu with her dance crew rehearsing not to forget Charlie must be at the hospital right now therefore it meant only one thing you must be having one of those days where you want to be left alone just to think or enjoy your presence alone. Now I know there are quite a few places you could have been right now but I had a feeling I might find you here and it must be my luck because I saw you just in time to see you following the trail.”

I didn’t expect such a logical and long explanation to my question, I was expecting- I don’t know what I was expecting but certainly not this.

Quirking an eyebrow to hide my surprised state I challenge, “I could have been with Andrew.”

Rubbing a hand over his face and glaring somewhere behind me he muttered, his voice taking a dangerous edge at the end, “I had already checked up on that scum before coming to find you. Don’t you dare take his name from your lips or even speak about him, I can’t tolerate him.”

I could actually see a nerve pop on his forehead as he continued to glare. Bizarrely, I felt satisfaction at seeing him get so worked up over Andrew.

I might be twisted to feel this way and for using Andrew’s name to get a reaction from him but honestly it felt great to know that he couldn’t bear the thought of me with some other guy.

Or maybe I am just thinking too much.

“Kitten a second chance is all I ask,” he requests softly green eyes almost begging me to give in. There was a strong determination in his eyes and though there were traces of anger lingering behind, it seemed he was working his best to hide that.

I felt compelled to replay his words over and over in my head until I receive an answer from within.

A second chance doesn’t sound too bad.

Should I give him a second chance? The thought has me feeling warm and giddy.

Before I can delve more into it the trance is broken by a familiar ping sound from Alex’s phone which he ignores and continues to look at me expectedly but I don’t think I can or should answer his question now.

So I open my mouth to say something when his phone starts pinging violently one after the other.

It seems to annoy him but he doesn’t answer his texts making me wonder just who that person might be. He never use to receive so many texts when we were together so who has his attention these days?

“Scarlet I-” he began but is again interrupted by his phone but this time it is someone calling him.

I hate that I still notice so much but either he changed his ringtone or he has assigned this person a different ringtone particularly. Jealousy sparks inside me unwantedly and grows when I see him immediately reach for his phone in his pocket to check the call.

He simply mutes his phone and shoves it back in his pocket as he heaves out a sigh and looks all around for something or maybe someone.

“Let’s go somewhere else to talk. I promise I’ll keep you safe,” he says urgently as he scans the area around us once more.

I know I have no right to ask about his personal life but curiosity has raised her ugly head inside and is urging me to ask him about the phone call and the words almost instantaneously tumble out, “Who was that on the call?”

He looks at me and then swiftly looks away while giving me a brisk answer of ‘no one’.

“Then I am not going with you anywhere.” I stated even though I wasn’t planning on going with him anyway. I am just hoping he spills out whoever that person is.

Could he have a girl in his life now?

That couldn’t be or else he wouldn’t have come to me or is it something else?

I couldn’t remove the thought from my mind and suddenly I could understand how Alex might have felt on hearing Andrew’s name because right now the feelings flowing through me was overwhelming poisonous jealousy.

“Believe me it’s no one special. You don’t know her. Let’s just get out of here first.” He said as he came towards me and taking my hand in his he urges me to follow him.

Her.

He referred to that person as a ‘her’ and that didn’t sit well with me. I needed to know who that person was but I couldn’t just act on my actions without bluntly exposing my jealousy so I stubbornly rooted my feet to the ground to avoid going anywhere with him.

“I am not going anywhere with you and that’s final why should I anyway? You can go wherever you want to. I am staying here.”

“I need to talk to you can you just listen to me just this once?” he sounded a mixture of desperate and aggravated exactly how I was feeling inside.

“No,” I fussed like a kid while trying to detach myself from his firm hold.

“You know what, you can even call Blu to inform her if you like but we really need to talk,” he bargained thinking that I was hesitating because I didn’t trust him but that’s not true I knew he wouldn’t take advantage of me, I am scared I might do something that I might regret if I continue to stay in his vicinity.

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Illustris.