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Arms around |Ch : 33

I take in a long breath. I feel my heart sink to my feet. Oh god. Please don't let it be what I think it is. I don't know why but I approach the door and lock it from inside.

Maybe because of the strong urge to just fall to the ground and cry. I'm gonna fall apart real bad. I don't want anyone to see me like that. I sit by the corner of the bed. Every word that I just saw on that text just keeps coming back to my eyes. Again and again and again.

"Evelyn?!" A very familiar voice knocks on the door. "You in there?" his voice cuts through the loud music but it couldn't cut through the words in my mind. I want to hear that voice so bad, but an unexplainable fear wrapped my heart.

The fear that he might say something that I don't want to hear. But I don't understand any of this. We were having such a great time before leaving for the party. And by great time I mean, the freaking amazing kisses and the other stuff.

"Evelyn! Answer me!" His voice snaps me out of the nightmare. "You okay?!" He bangs on the door, really hard. I want to scream. I'm NOT!

How will I face him? I'll cry my ass out if I see him. Imma hold him and bloody beg him to not leave me.

Damn it. I hate this. I hate how much I fear losing him. Why does this feel so difficult?

"Evelyn! Answer me god damn it!" Two more really loud bangs on the door. "Evelyn! open the goddamn door!"

"I'm fine! I'm fine." I lie, I slowly take myself to the door and put my head against it, my palms lay on the door as well. I don't think I'll be able to touch him again. That feeling of touching his body, rubbing his arms, hugging him, having him close to my body will never be the same.

I won't let myself feel that again. But I have to open the door now, or he'll keep screaming and banging on it. I slowly open the door.

He waits for a fraction of seconds for me to completely open the door. Then barges in, wrapping his strong, broad arms around me. His tall figure completely covers me. I feel the warmth. And the urge to cry.

I wish you would've left her sooner. I start breathing heavily. The feeling of lump in my throat won't go away. He tightly hugs me. I feel his hands rubbing the back of my head.

I don't understand.

He pulls away, cups my cheeks with both his hands and scans every inch of my skin before looking straight into my eyes. "You okay?"

I gulp. "Yeah. I'm- fine." I try my best not to look him in the eyes, I don't wanna burst into tears. "Uh, I wasn't feeling that well, so I thought maybe I should lay down, for a while." I say looking here and there, pointing at the bed.

"God you scared me." He lets go of a deep sigh.

"I guess I should go home y'know. We have school tomorrow." I say while rubbing my forehead. "I'm gonna have the worst headache."

"Oh. okay, if that's what you want." He sounds a bit unhappy, or maybe he's just bluffing. I don't know what to believe anymore. "Come I'll drive you home."

"Sure." I offer him a fake smile.

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I just wanna stay like this the whole day. I'm not ready for school. Not ready to face Liam. I doubt I'll ever be.

I get up almost dragging myself to the washroom and clean up. I take a long warm bath, to calm myself down, which apparently didn't work as much as I expected it to. I get out of the washroom and get dressed for school.

I wear a brown cropped hoodie and light blue ripped jeans. Go downstairs to find mum preparing breakfast. I would've been happy about the breakfast usually, but today wasn't usual. I was in no mood for pancakes.

"Honey, are you okay?" Asks mum.

"Mhm, I'm okay." I pause, cause I've to think of the next lie. "I'm, uh, tired.... from tomorrow's party, I woke up with the worst headache this morning." Guess I managed that pretty well.

"Were you drinking?" she asks, seriously.

"Nope, I think it's the loud music and crazy dancing. You know I'm not a big party girl."

"It'll be fine. Lemme give you some coffee." She hands me a cup of coffee.

After finishing breakfast I leave for school. Chloe's waiting, "what took you so long?" she asks. The undying urge to not step out of the house, the bed in fact and not face Liam.

I sigh. "You have to promise me something." I look into her eyes, all serious.

"Okay..."

"It's about Liam." I say and I notice a change in her expressions. "I think he's hiding something from me" I say looking the other way, so that Chloe doesn't see my eyes filling with tears. "I'm not really sure of what exactly."

"Did something happen at the party? I heard you left early. Liam told me you had a headache." she gasps, "is there another girl?" I honestly don't know myself "Cause if there is, first I'll kill that other girl and then I'll kill Liam"

"Chloe No!"

"So there is?!"

"No, it's not about any other girl. It's just that maybe he's losing interest or maybe he's having doubts. I don't know for sure. And honestly I don't wanna think about it. It's distracting me." It's making me want to cry.

"Fine." Chloe offers me a smile. She respects my decision and my own space.

We reach school, Leo joins us from the entrance. My eyebrows come closer to each other at what Leo's wearing. It's a very un-Leo outfit. His face looks less cheerful as well. Though he fiddles his fingers imitating a 'hi' and putting up a little smile.

We walk towards our lockers and I find Liam standing near mine. He wears a white hoodie and black trousers. It's funny how much influence he has over me.

He's so pleasant to look at, it's like I'm programmed to smile, whenever I see him. He waves a 'hi' and quickly checks me out, a shy smile touching his face.

Is he going to talk about yesterday night? Does he know that I saw that text? But I didn't open it. Anxiety starts building up as I approach him.

I didn't have much time to figure out what I'm gonna say to him, if he asks anything about last night. His face isn't giving any hints. What the hell! Does he always have a poker face?

Every foot step towards him increases my heart rate. I slowly sigh. Should I start running back? I almost reach him.  He scans me "Hey gorgeou...." And I decide to give him a smile and walk past him. Towards the washroom.

Oh gosh! It'll be super awkward.

I wait for a while inside the washroom until the first class starts. I quickly walk towards the class, just to find the world's most disgusting face before me. Hyde's.

I pause before entering and hold my breath. "You're late. Miss Bay." He says with a creepy smile on his face. He asks me to enter the class and I do. Now I know why Leo is less happy. This piece of jerk has the first class.

I walk in and find Liam saving me a seat. He's such a sweetheart. How can I unsee all this, it's not an act. All this feels so damn real. "Miss Bay, maybe you should take a seat over here." Says 'Hyde: The Bastard'. Showing me towards another seat.

"She can sit wherever the fu-" I cut Liam off.

"Yes sir." I don't want him to get in trouble. Also it's freaking Hyde that we're talking about. That douche bag would steep to any level to get equal. Also it was Liam who beat the shit outta him on fundraisers.

He gives me a cold look, as I walk past him.

Hyde explains the chapters and all I can think about is how sweet Liam is. He just melts my heart with every look he gives me. Maybe that's his 'thing' he can do that to anyone and everyone.

Maybe that's where I'm fooled. I keep fighting with the dilemma of whether I should talk to him or let him speak about it on his own. But what if he doesn't and I just keep falling for his act, keep falling for him.

"Miss Bay, you're the captain." That voice snaps me out of the daze. "You have Jasper and Leo" says Hyde, he keeps giving people different groups for a project which apparently I have no idea about.

Chloe, Liam and Austin are in the same group. I leave the class as soon as Hyde leaves, I feel Liam's sight on me and I rush towards the washroom. I don't really know what the hell I'm doing. It's not like I can avoid him forever. For god's sake he knows where I live.

I run down the hallway then to the left and straight again, and I reach the girls washroom. I go inside for a good 10 minutes. Just walking back and forth and finally deciding to come out. Cause I can't live here forever.

I open the door and baam! There's a tall figure with awesome hair and cute brown eyes, standing right before me. "We need to talk." He grabs my hand firmly and takes me to the nearby isolated area.

"Are you avoiding me?" To which I have no answer, I just stare at him 'I wish you would've left her sooner.' how am I supposed to believe him? "Is it because I left you on your own for a long time at the party yesterday?"

I cross my arms "You tell me." I try to make him spill out the truth.

"Hey" he lifts up my chin with his pointer finger and gives a slow long brush with his lips that ends up in a kiss, "I'm sorry." Liam don't. Don't do this to me. "It's just that I was the host, it was our house and my brother's birthday. I'm sorry if you felt left ou-."

I hug him tightly and he hugs me back.

Why is he pretending to like me? If he doesn't and if he does then why leave me? I don't think I was jumping to any conclusion here. I clearly saw that message mention my name. What am I missing here?

He pulls away and holds my cheeks "I actually kept an eye on you and you seemed to be having fun. You were there by the table with drinks and snacks in your hand. I saw you talking to some girls and then you suddenly disappeared." I kept looking at him. His eyes were filled with concern.

I can't see it. I just can't see the fakeness. He makes me believe everything he says. I want to trust him more and more everyday. His hugs and his presence just makes me feel so much loved and protected.

A smile forms on my face "you were worried?" I ask with a shaky voice. I can't forget the text and neither can I accept it.

A small sigh escapes his lips "Of course I was." His thumb rubs my cheeks. I hold his hand on my cheek and kiss it. My head lands on his chest. I breathe heavily. "Hey." He wraps his arms around me once again. "Did something happen? You seem all shaken up."

"Nuh-uh. I'm okay." I just wanna hold him and not let him go. Why does this always have to happen to me? I'm not that unlovable, am I? "Li-uhm, please." My voice cracks. "Stay"

He pulls back, looking at me all surprised. His eyes are still, right on my eyes. He gently makes me walk back and my back is against the wall. He holds my hands and rests his forehead on mine. "Is there something bothering you that I should know about?"

"Nothing. Really. I just remembered about this guy from my childhood. We were close, y'know." My voice breaks " And then one day he suddenly says that he never really liked me. And he just used to pretend that he did." I was on my way to start sobbing really hard.

Every little memory of Nick came flying back. And I couldn't help but think that there was a big chance that it'll happen again. It'll affect me even worse this time.

He gives two small pecks back to back on my lips. Oh I'm certainly falling for him really hard. I was still shaken up though. Still breathing heavily "Evelyn" he rubs my cheeks with his thumb.

His one hand slides down my side and he grabs my waist. Releases a deep sigh, pulls away and says "I'm sorry." I look him in the eyes while mine was almost filled with tears.

"No you don't have to b-" I try to say when he cuts me off.

"I mean. Maybe we should.... Stop."

"St- Stop what?" my voice breaks, he doesn't even look at me. I grab his wrist "Hey! Look at me"

"There's a lot going on right now" he mumbles under his breath "I don't know, I don't think you. I mean"

"Liam, be precise-"

"You can't get winded up in all this shit."

"What shit? What are you talking about? And you don't get to decide that for me.... If I wanna get involved I will get involved"

He doesn't say anything, just keeps looking at me. Wait, is that a tear in his eyes? "I'm sorry, I can't do this to you"

"NO! NO! Please, you've already done it to me. Liam" I sigh deeply, "please, I don't mind getting involved in any shit, as long as you stay with me, please, hey, you're listening to this right?"

"Evelyn, you've no idea how much control you have over me," he touches my cheeks, my arms his hands slightly shaking, then my neck " Don't do this to me. I'd rather die than see you in pain."

"Please Liam, you- please you can't." and... waterworks.

"Sorry." Gives me a long kiss on the forehead, and leaves.

I stand still knowing what just happened. I don't wanna believe it. But I know that it actually happened, to me, to us.

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A/N

I think the chapters are getting longer. Let me know if you like the chapters like this or shorter than this. Anyways, things are getting a lot more messier than Evelyn imagined. I hope you guys are having fun reading the chapters.

Like I've said earlier, I'll try my best to update regularly. Stick around, the story is approaching the climax, there'll be a pretty good twist, or should I say a handsome twist coming up. 

Until then, Byeeeee   

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