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"What would you do if you weren't afraid?"
- Sheryl Sandberg
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CHAPTER-07-Haven't Kissed Anyone Before
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"If you don't stop the car, I'm gonna hit you right on your smug ass face!!" I say him, gritting my teeth and clutching my bag closer to my chest. After my few futile attempts, I'm sitting, forcefully across him on the passenger seat of his car with a question which I have already asked him for the hundred times but Skyler isn't a bit of interested to even pay attention to it.
"If... you do that--" Skyler increases the speed.
"I will do that!! For sure!" I look at him, bewildered.
He laughs, "My dear Mabel, I know that you will do that... but please have some trust on your friend." Him? My Friend? Who has come from nowhere to ruin my last year of high school?
I clench my jaw, "Don't tell me that you are hungry and we are going to Starbucks again!!" He doesn't take his eyes off the road and keeps on driving. Till then my eyes figures out that I'm leading into nowhere but into the woods, "Are you FUCKING kiddin' me!!"
I see him sneering while turning the wheel, "Mabel... I don't like when you swear..."
"Skyler, Where you taking me?" I ask him slowly a little bit stress after looking outside the window.
His car halts in a sudden, so far jerking us with inertia. I scream with my eyes tightly closed, "ARE YOU PLANNING TO KILL ME!!"
"I'm too in this car." He narrows his eyes, unfastening his seat-belt.
I short glare at him, my heavy breathing slows down in rhythm within me as I see his sumptuous smile. Is he really flashing me his million-trillion dollar smile in this sort of situation? He is definitely thinking to get kill today with my bare hands. "Are you gonna stare me for a whole afternoon or would tell me that why did we stop here in this beautiful place? For Camping? For hiking? FOR WHAT!!"
"Hey, it's not a bad idea... just we don't have this camping stuff. Do you have this camping stuff...? I'm dying to have a wonderful trip with you, Mabel..." I see his glowing smile but sarcasm in his tone.
In the same tone of his, I responded, "I wish.. I was having those ropes...so it would have been easy to kill you without leaving any fingerprints of mine around your neck."
He smirks, bringing this sarcasm war at the brink.
I squint, "Why are we here? Why did you bring me here?"
"I brought you here just... so... I can keep looking at you for the whole noon... Isn't it romantic?" His eyes twinkle again with sarcasm. I cannot even tell till what level his answer was lame. I remove earphones from my bag and plugging it in, I drown in the music, ignoring him and his lamest replies for the rest of the afternoon or till whenever.
Fading into the music, I keep the volume max so his voice won't interrupt the melody. I look at his side once and he gestures me to remove my earphones, I see him mouthing something.... gibberish!
"I can't hear you... sorry!!" I say with sass and avert, slightly giggling. He pulls out my earphones just after a second, "HEY!! What's your problem?" I try to take it back but he pulls it closer to him. "Give it back!"
"I will but you won't listen to any music anymore, okay?" Skyler puts him another lamest deal here.
"Nope!" I snatch my earphones back, smiling.
"Then get out of my car!" He unfastens my seat-belt.
"I ain't dying to sit in your car either!!" I scowl. He lifts his gaze up towards me and pauses closer to my seat and places his one hand behind me. Him edging more closer to my face, I lose my voice beneath my throat. I find it uneasy to look into his ocean blue eyes but I try my best to make my expression look stern.
"I said to you before, I need some time to spend it with you... why can't you understand that?" His minty breath tenderly touches my cheek and I guess I forgot to blink while looking straight into his eyes and between my thoughts reminding myself not to look at his soft pink lips. He continues, "You have changed a lot, Mabel..." His eyes try to study my features and his voice quiet raspier than before. My gaze follows his before his eyes halt over my lips. "Especially you're--" He pauses and looks into my eyes. I swear to God, my brain is telling me to push him away, I'm failing to repel myself away from him, my heart, it's just getting captivated to his words.
Slowly my body gets lightened and an urge feels in it to get closer to him and before my hormones could have blasted my veins. I push him away to his seat and he just lets out a chuckle looking at me, "Can I ask you something?"
"Nope!" I try to sound like before he interrupted in my space, "Because I'm leaving!" I try to open the door but it happens to be locked, I turn around and he is grinning ear to ear.
"If you answer me then I'll let you go!" He looks so unaffected while my blood is pumping in my heart.
"I said 'No' Skyler... Just take me back to school!!"
"You should thank me for helping you to escape from that asylum so-called high-school!" He laughs. OMG, what was he about to do before, I can't stop thinking about it. "You haven't kissed anyone before, right?" His question leaves my body numb and eyes stop at him. Why the hell he has to bring this topic?
"I don't find it necessary to answer you," I say, stealing my gaze at my mobile screen which appears to be dead. Oh yeah. My phone has to pass out right now in this situation.
"Alright don't answer me... I already know." He smirks.
"Think whatever you want to I-D-C!!" I say crossing my arms.
"Definitely. I can think whatever I want to..." He trails, curving his smirk.
Before I could have led my actions his phone vibrates and it is so silent in the car that it could be heard clearly. He attends the call, gripping lightly the steering wheel with his hand.
"Hey... sweetie!" He answers with sweetness pouring from his mouth. He might be talking to one of his bitches. I look at his glove box.
He continues, "No.. Amy. You aren't--!" He pauses for few seconds then speaks and in between, I stretch my arm to open the glove box to check whether this guy isn't planning to kill with some serial killer object. "I will be back home soon and we will play together!!" He pushes my hand back and gestures me to sit quietly. Wait... What? Eww. With whom really is he talking with? "Amy... Wait for me till evening... we will play that game together... Go back to your mommy and wait for me, okay?" I guess he is talking to a small girl. Maybe his small sister...but 'your mommy'? OMG! Is he now messing with a small innocent girl after playing with a woman?
He says after a pause, "Good girl.. Go back and wait for me to get back home... Love you!" I'm thinking the way to far. This girl name Amy, she might be his younger cousin or wait maybe his own daughter. I'm just kidding to myself. How can Skyler have a baby with Kristina?
Skyler keeps his phone aside and smiles at me.
"You sounded just like a daddy--"
"I sounded like what?" He smirks, shoving his phone.
I cough, "I didn't mean that I meant like a Dad!"
He chuckles, "Amy is my niece... and she wanted to play some video games--"
"Got it! No need for the explanation!!" I smile.
"Do you want a drink?" He asks.
"What type of?" I raise my brow.
"Smoothie also counts in it..." He smiles.
"You taking me again to Starbucks?" I say, un-interestingly.
He pulls out two can from the backseat and hands me one, "Just a type of normal juice... no alcohol!"
I smile and as I try to open the can it comes into a notice that it also contains soda which spills over my top and I look at him with a disgusted look. He laughs looking at me. Within his laugh even I chuckle a bit, "Stop laughing.. you should have said to me before idiot that it contains soda." I try to clean my top with a kerchief after he holds my can.
"I have a spare T-shirt.. change into it or you else you will catch a cold!" He offers genuinely. I nod. "Go to the backseat.. there's a bag and inside it, you will get it."
"Don't you dare to look behind..." I head to the backseat, searching for his bag, "Not even from the rear-view mirror!"
"I have seen better... " He winks at me looking in the rear-view mirror.
"Blah..blah..bullshit!" I mock at him and make him laugh at it. It's true he has seen better. Kristina was close to a supermodel.
I pull out his T-shirt from his bag and before removing my top, I check whether his eyes are taken off from the mirror or not and he isn't watching so I hurriedly remove my top, feeling super naked just in my small cups white bra. I get to change into his black T-shirt. I sense his familiar cologne scent. "Please tell me Skyler... when did you wash it last time?"
He chuckles, "I just wore it for few hours so didn't bother to wash it!!" It doesn't smell sweaty but his body scent is so much present in it. I climb to the passenger seat and he hands my juice can back to me, "You look more good than me in my own T-shirt!" I better take it as a joke and sip over my juice. He smiles. Un-eventually I smile back at him, feeling my cheeks flaming.
"Can I use your cable to charge my phone?" I ask him.
He nods smiling, "After a condition..." He wiggles his brows.