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"C-chace", I stuttered his name as he planted his hands in his pocket and stepped forward to stand in front of me. As I looked up at him closely, I realized that he hadn't changed a bit in the looks department; he still looked good looking and dashing as he did when I saw him last year. He was wearing a white t-shirt with a silver-greyish jacket over it and a pair of blue jeans.

"How are you sweet butt?", he asked softly as he brought his right hand slowly out of his pocket and touched my forehead, tracing his finger over the stitches marks which are still visible from the injury.

"I am fine, how are you?", I asked him with a small smile. It felt weird to have his finger on my forehead, but at the same time it felt good. He removed his hand and put them in his pocket again.

"Well, as you can see, I am still the bad boy who had left you", he said and smirked as I looked down at my feet, guilt taking over me.

"About that, I am so sorry to know that you had to go through so much because of me", I apologized and I felt a bit better now that I had finally got the chance to apologize to him face to face. In response, he just smiled and took my hands in his slowly.

"Don't bother sweet butt, what's done is done. It's the past so forget it", he said and smiled as he gave my hands a light assuring squeeze.

"Sometimes past is hard to forget....." I whispered to myself.

"Did you say something?" chace asked, dragging me out of my thoughts. I just nodded my head in negative to his question.

"Let's sit and talk until the university tour starts", I offered and he nodded, so we both went and sat on the sofa.

"So how's life?" he asked and I smiled as I remembered hunter.

"Nothing much, just that me and hunter are in a relationship", I stated and his face changed immediately.

"You mean you are his girlfriend?" he asked to reconfirm and I nodded in confusion.

"Oh...." he trailed off as he looked at his hands which were placed on his lap.

"What's wrong?" I asked as I placed my hand on his shoulder to get his attention.

"Nothing much, it's just that I didn't expect you to accept his proposal, I mean what happened that day, I thought you would hate both of us", he confessed and I gave his shoulder an assuring squeeze.

"I can never hate you both because it wasn't your fault. I was just naive and stupid to come between two bulls", I joked to lighten up the mood and I saw a tiny smile on his lips.

"Are you both here for the tour?" suddenly a lady in her mid-thirties interrupted our conversation.

"You got that right", chace said as he flashed a charming smile towards her. Yep he's right; he is the same old chace who can flirt with anyone anywhere.

"Could I know your names first so that I can compare it to this list", she asked as she showed us a writing pad with a paper on it which consisted lists of names of students coming for today's tour.

"I am Sophie Wilson and he is Chace Grayson", I got up from the sofa and introduced us, chace following me. She nodded her head as she scanned through the list of names.

"I am Diana and I will be your guide to give you a tour of NYU", she introduced herself as she shook hands with both of us.

"Please follow me", we followed her immediately without another word. Me and chace were following her but in awkward silence. Suddenly, I slipped on something and was about to fall on my butt when a pair of hands saved me.

"Looks like you still fall for me", chace teased me, as a familiar smirk came onto his face, the same as the one he had when we had first met.

"Looks like over-confidence is still a virtue for you", I replied and he laughed as he brought me back up to my feet.

"Your still the feisty good girl I had left", I hit his shoulder for calling me feisty.

"Whatever", I said and took longer steps so that I was now walking ahead of him, next to Diana.

We all assembled in a group and Diana took us on the university tour. The tour was for about 1 hour in which Diana showed us different classrooms, blocks, dorms, canteen, etc. I tried really hard to focus on the places she was showing to us but thanks to chace, my focus was getting disturbed as he kept troubling me during the whole tour. He was performing acts which were irritating such as bumping my shoulder time to time with his, flirting with other girls in the group, he even hit my butt once when I was walking ahead of him and when I turned around to glare at him, he mouthed the words sweet butt and instead of getting angry, I blushed and turned in front again.

After the tour was over, Diana took all the students who were staying in the dorms to drop them off whereas the students who didn't use the dorms were dismissed. Me and chace decided to go for a coffee so that we could talk about how our lives been for the past 1 year.

"So how was the boarding school?" I asked as I took a sip of my cappuccino.

"Actually it wasn't so bad. The school was strict but it was easy to break the rules without their knowledge. And I love breaking rules", chace said as he emphasized on the word love and took a sip of his espresso.

"So you mean you broke more rules there than Madison?" I asked as I raised my eyebrows in question.

"Yep! Now tell me, how has your life been?" he leaned on the table and folded his hands.

"It was good. Jayden and James have become really good friends with us", I said as I smiled remembering them and their stupid lame jokes.

"I know, they did tell me", he said as I looked at him with open mouth.

"You guys were in contact?" I asked shocked because I didn't know that. Why didn't they tell me?

"We were three musketeers sweet butt; obviously they were in touch with me. And if you want to know why they didn't tell you about it, I told them not to tell anyone", he clarified and I looked at him in question.

"Why would you do that?" I asked confused.

"I didn't want my parents to know that I had sneaked a phone with me to that school as it was restricted. So I just thought that the less people I talk to, the less chances of me being caught", ouch! So he decided to forget me?

"Oh...." I trailed off and for the next few minutes, we sat in silence, sipping on our coffees awkwardly.

"So you're staying with Olivia and Andrea right?" he suddenly asked and I just nodded.

"Where will you be living? Seeing that you didn't go with Diana earlier", I asked him as I grabbed another sweetener because I felt my coffee was still a lot bitter.

"I am staying with Savannah in an apartment", he said and I just stared at him in shock, this means Savannah already knew he was going to be with us.

"She didn't know", he suddenly said, how does he know what I am thinking?

"Because you are thinking it out loud sweet butt", he laughed at me as I glared at him and blushed at the same time.

"Can you stop calling me sweet butt?" I exclaimed as he nodded in disapproval.

"Why?" I whined.

"Because your butt looks sweet and the nickname suits you", he smirked as I blushed at his words. Is it a compliment?

"So you look at my butt every time you see me?" I asked with irritation.

"Yeppers", he exclaimed proudly and I gasped at his boldness. Well, it's chace, what can I expect.

"You're an idiot", I said and scowled at him as he laughed at my face, pinching my already red cheeks.

"You mean an amazingly hot idiot", he replied and smirked as I rolled my eyes and pushed his hand away from my face.

"So are you happy with Hunter?" he suddenly asked and I almost choked on my coffee at his question. I thought he didn't want to talk about Hunter.

"Oh yes of course. He is a really nice and caring guy. Why the sudden question?" I asked him out of curiosity.

"Am I not allowed to?" he asked, raising his eyebrows and giving me a hurt expression.

"No no, I mean that was sudden and out of nowhere type of question", I said as I gave him an awkward laugh.

"Just wanted to know, anyways, let's leave now. We both have things to unpack in our new apartments", he said and got up from his chair, picking his jacket. I nodded my head and got up from my chair, taking my purse and following him outside.

"I will drop you", chace offered but I shook my head in disapproval immediately.

"No please don't, I can manage in a cab", I denied his offer but he didn't let me. After a lot of arguments, I finally gave in and he smiled at me in victory as I rolled my eyes. As we reached his car, I gasped by the beauty in front of me. It was a red color Mazda MX-5.

"Wow.....you have this as your car?" I asked shocked as he gave me an amused look.

"Nope, this belongs to that woman", chace said as he pointed somewhere, but when my gaze followed his finger, I saw an old lady who could barely walk and was using a walking frame stick so that she could walk with a bit of ease.

"Seriously!" I gave him an annoyed look for being sarcastic as he laughed at my face. He continued laughing as he unlocked his car and went towards the passenger seat, opening it and holding it open until I got in the car. Once I was seated, he closed my door and went towards the driver's seat, getting in and giving me a smile before switching the engine on.

I sat there admiring his car from inside but I realized that chace had not yet started driving. I looked at him in confusion and caught him staring at me with his mesmerizing brown orbs, which seemed to captivate me every time I looked into them. And that's what happened right now.

Our eyes were connected with each other, and none of us spoke a word, scared to ruin this moment. Looking into his eyes made my surroundings disappear and this shouldn't happen. I didn't realize until now that I had actually missed looking into his eyes. We both kept staring; silence surrounding us and the only sound in the car was our steady breathings, which seemed to be rising with every second passing. The car smelled like him and I liked that. His eyes then fell onto my lips as I was biting them, because that's what I do when I am in an intense moment. He just kept staring at them and something inside me wished that he would quickly capture them with his soft and welcoming ones.

As if reading my mind, chace started leaning in towards me as I did the same. We kept leaning, both of us lost in this intense and amazing feeling going through our bodies. He closed his eyes and I did the same but I could feel his minty breath starting to blow on my lips, rushing weird feelings throughout my whole body. Our lips were just going to touch and mix when suddenly....

BEEP BEEP BEEP!!!!

We were rudely interrupted by a car honk coming from the car behind us. The sudden sound made me realize what I was about to do and so I stopped leaning in, but it looked like chace didn't. He leaned in but he left a kiss as light as a feather on my cheek, lingering his lips there for a few seconds.

BEEP BEEP BEEP!!!!

The car honk came again and this time, chace looked irritated. He finally backed off and opened his window, waving his hand in the air as I looked at him in confusion, but it didn't take me long to realize what he was doing because he was openly waving his middle finger to the car driver who kept on throwing honks at us. Instead of stopping, the honks increased and so chace finally got down from the car and went behind. I saw what he was trying to do from the side view mirror of the car, but to my utter shock, chace was banging the window of the car and shouting for the driver to come out and so I decided to exit the car to stop chace from the getting into trouble. Suddenly the car door opened and out came a really bulky and well built man who looked really taller than chace and even bigger. Chace eyes scanned the guy in shock and his eyes widened when he realized he had messed with a guy 5 times bigger than him. He immediately turned around and came running towards our car, got in the drivers seat as I quickly got into my seat. Chace first locked the door and this time the bulky man was the one banging on our window, but chace was quick enough to start driving before anything could happen.

Once we were on the road safe and sound, a sudden laughter left my mouth as I remembered Chace's face when he saw the man. It was hilarious and priceless. I kept on laughing holding my stomach and turned to chace who was looking at me with confusion.

"May I know what's so funny?", he asked in confusion as I kept laughing, trying to catch my breath.

"Your face.....your face....it was hilarious" I said between laughter and chace glared at me, and that made me laugh harder.

"Hahaha! You're so funny, oh see! I can't breath", chace said as he gave me a flat look and so I tried to hold back my laughter which was almost impossible, and so small giggles left my mouth.

I continued laughing as chace kept driving in silence, with a flat look on his face. After calming down myself, I finally sat straight in my seat and kept quiet. The silence was killing me and so I decided to speak.

"Chace", I called him but he didn't respond and kept looking in front.
"Chace", I called his name again and still no response.

"So we're playing the silent treatment huh?", I asked and when I didn't get a response again, I folded my hands and looked it front, letting out a huffed breath.

"Fine! If you wanna play the silent treatment, then I am in", I said as I sat quietly for the next few minutes.

"Chace, I am sorry ok?", I finally broke the silence and apologized because I couldn't stand the silence in the car, but he didn't seem to buy my apology.

"Chace please, I know I shouldn't have laughed at you, but even you make fun of me and I forgive you every time, then why can't you?", I kept on arguing with him and apologizing to him, but he didn't seem to reciprocate. I was whining and yet he wouldn't talk to me. Suddenly, a black Nissan Altima came in front of us unexpectedly out of nowhere and chace was able to stop the car on time before our car hit the car in front of us. Chace re-started the car and drove fast so that we were now running parallel to the Altima.

"WHAT THE HELL MAN???", chace opened his window and shouted at the driver of the Nissan Altima while he just rolled his window down and shouted an apology to us.

"Chace it's fine, he apologized, let's just forget it", I tried to calm chace down because he still looked really angry even when the driver already apologized. I was glad when chace rolled his window back up again and started driving faster, leaving the Altima far behind. When a corner came on the road, chace took a side and turned on his seat, facing me with a worried and concerned face.

"Are you fine? Are you hurt? Do you want me to take you to a hospital? Maybe I should just call-", he was blabbering and so I interrupted him to stop him.

"Chace! I am absolutely fine. Just relax alright?", I said as I shook him by his shoulder and gave him an assuring smile. I took a breath of relief when his shoulder muscles relaxed under my hand.

He then turned towards me again but this time, he started leaning towards me again like earlier. He was coming forward and nearer to my lips every second passing by and so I closed my eyes, waiting for what was about to happen. When I didn't feel anything, I opened my eyes to see chace leaning in, but going to a different direction. This time, he did lean in but he didn't kiss me, instead he brought his hand around me and pulled the seat belt on me, buckling it up and backing off on his seat, leaving me sitting on my seat awkwardly. I feel like an idiot and embarrassed thinking about what just happened.

"Didn't want my sweet butt to get hurt", he said and gave me a small smile, wearing his belt and starting the car. I felt weird just by remembering how close we both were two times today. The rest of the ride was awkward for me, I don't know about him. Even his nickname for me made me feel weird yet.......good.

When we finally reached the building in which my apartment was situated in, chace parked his car. I whispered a quick thank you to chace and got down of the car as fast as I could, not even waiting for a goodbye. But to my confusion, chace switched his engine off and exited his car with me, locking it with the lock button on his keys.

"Why did you get down here? Aren't you supposed to go to your house and unpack as well?", I asked him in confusion as he gave me a cheerful smile.

"Did I forget to tell you that I am staying in the apartment right next to yours?", he raised his eyes brows and asked, as my mouth fell open in shock hearing this piece of information.

"So your my neighbor?", I questioned him again to confirm and he nodded. Great! So now I am stuck being his neighbour. As I was still trying to process this information, I felt my phone vibrate and I took it out of my purse, finding a text message from Andrea.

Hey! Listen, me, Olivia and Savannah are going for grocery shopping since there is nothing to eat. We would have taken you as well but you were not home and time was running out so we left. We will be back soon, till then you can unpack your stuff as your the only one left

Love you XD

"Who's text is it?", chace asked curiously as he tried to check my phone screen.

"It's Andrea; Savannah, Olivia and her have gone for grocery shopping", I told him as we entered the building together and pressed the lift button.

"Oh ok, that means I have the whole apartment to myself", he said to himself and smiled brightly.

"You seem happy to be alone in your apartment for sometime?", I asked as the lift came and we got in it, pressing the 12th floor. Yep! 12th floor. I know it's high but the down floors are all full and we had no other choice.

"Do you know how good I feel when I am free of my sister- I mean devil sister? She makes me do all mine as well as her work. She is a pain in my ass", he said as I laughed at his irritation for her.

"You're so mean! She is your sister and a really nice girl", I defended her as he looked at me with a sad face.

"You're just saying that because she is your best friend and you don't have to stay with her 24 hours a day", he said as he folded his arms around his chest and huffed out a breath, giving out a small cute pout.

"Nope! I am saying this because I am sure you have missed her this behaviour towards you like crazy during the past 1 year you have lived without her", I said with a small smile and he turned his face to look at me.

"You know, your right", he said and smiled in a thoughtful way.

"I know", I bragged and patted myself on my left shoulder with my right hand and looked away from him, waiting patiently for our floor to come. But I could feel chace staring at me from the corner of my eyes and so I turned towards him, giving him a questioning look.

"Why are you staring at me you creep?", I tried to joke and he laughed lowly.

"Nothing", he said as he shook his head and finally looked ahead, and that's when our floor arrived. As we got out of the lift, I quickly fished into my purse and fetched my house keys out of it. Me, liv and Andy had three keys for each and I had the duplicate one.

"Savannah didn't mention anything about you also being with us in NYU", I said as I tried to unlock the door. This is a duplicate key so it was a bit hard to unlock with it.

"Let me?", chace asked when he noticed that I wasn't being able to unlock with this key. I gave it to him immediately without any argument. He took it and I moved to the side so he could unlock the door.

"She didn't know I was coming until few days before. When she got to know, I told her not to tell anyone I was coming", he informed me as he finally unlocked my door with ease and quickly. I thanked him and took my keys back as I entered my apartment.

"Aren't you going to invite me in?", chace asked as he leaned against the doorframe, giving me a puppy dog face.

"Are you a vampire? Because they are the ones who need to be invited in", I replied as he smirked.

"If you think I am a vampire, maybe I am one", he teased as I rolled my eyes and went towards the main door where he was standing, after throwing my purse and cardigan on the sofa which was already set neatly in the living room. But it still looked messy because my things were still in boxes, waiting to be unpacked.

"Actually I would have invited you in but I have a lot of work pending, and if you come in, you aren't going to let me finish them", I said as he let out a fake gasp and gave me an innocent face.

"Really? Don't go with all that innocent act on me", I said as I pointed at him and gave him a bored expression.

"Oh sweet butt, you know me so well", he teased as I rolled my eyes at him and tried to close the door, but chace caught it with his feet.

"I have to go unpack a lot of stuff chace", I said with irritation, but instead of leaving, he pushed the door open wide and got into my apartment.

"Excuse me", I said as I raised my eyebrows at him in question.

"You are excused Amore Mio", he said in a weird language as I looked at him with confusion thinking about what did he just call me?

"What's anome meow?", I asked with confusion, trying to pronounce the words he just said correctly, but when he laughed at me, I understood I said it wrong.

"It's not anome meow, it's amore mio. It's not something bad so don't worry", he said as he looked around the apartment.

"Nope! Tell me what it means?", I asked again but he shook his head in disapproval.

"It's my word for you and I refuse to expose it to anyone", he said as he raised his chin proudly and looked at me, displaying to me that this was his final decision. Arguing with him is totally a wastage of time and energy.

"Yes it certainly is amore Mio", he said and I looked at him with wide eyes. I thought out loud again didn't I?

"Yes you did", he replied and I face palmed myself in my imagination. Why am I so stupid????

"Can you leave now? As you can see I have a lot of work here", I said as I pointed towards the boxes which were kept neatly at the corner of the living room.

"How about I help you?", he offered and I raised my eyebrows in question.

"And why would you?", I asked, folding my hands around my chest and tapping my right foot on the floor.

"What? Can't I help my friend?", he asked as he started picking up the boxes.

"Well, knowing you, you wouldn't do it if you don't get something in return", I said as I picked another box up and motioned him to follow me to my room.

"Well, if you think that, your wrong. I just want to help you", he said while I pushed the door open with my hip and kept a hold on it so that he could get in. We both then went and kept the box beside my bed which was already made. Did I forget to mention all apartments in this building are already furnished?

"Fine then, go ahead and help me unpack, but remember I am not giving you anything in return", I said as I pointed my finger at him and gave him a serious look.

"Aye aye captain", he said as he gave me salute and a bow. He then went and brought the third and last box from the living room as I again kept the door open for him. We then got on our knees and started unpacking the boxes. I was busy taking out my story books and novels, setting them neatly on the shelves when I heard chace whistling. I turned to look why he did so and got a shock instantly. There stood chace, holding his hand in the air, but in his hand was my bra, and it wasn't an ordinary one, it was the one with the power puff girls printed on it.

"I never thought you would wear undergarments which had children cartoons printed on it", chace said as he smirked at me, while I still stood frozen on my spot. When I came to my senses again, I quickly ran towards him and snatched the bra out of his hand, throwing it back into the box and glaring at him.

"Now I have your secret", chace teased as I kept giving him death glares.

"Whatever! You know what? I don't need your help anymore, most of the stuff is already packed", I said as I turned him around by his shoulders and pushed him until we reached the main door. I quickly unlocked it and pushed him outside the apartment.

"You really know how to treat a guest", he said as he put a hand on his chest and gave me a hurtful expression, as I rolled my eyes at him.

"Whatever!", I huffed and was about to close the door on his face, but he caught it open with his hand.

"If you ever need help, don't ask me because you have The Powerpuff girls", he said and made fun of me as I just stood there glaring at him because that's all I could do. He finally turned around and started to walk towards his apartment door. He unlocked it but didn't get inside, instead he turned towards me and smirked.

"Bye bye Powerpuff girls biggest fan", he screamed and before I could reach his door to hit him, he quickly got inside and locked his door. I guess the trouble for me is back since the greatest of the great: Mr Chace is back into my life.

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