5: breathlessly speechless

The long, pointed stick stared at me. The silence between us telling me that its just another day when my blood would be granted to a vampire. To a person, who was hell bent on torturing me. I noticed the stick growing bigger and bigger till he stopped.

"Pull out the damn shirt."

I obliged, no tears making their way down my cheek. I kept my eyes shut hard waiting for the impact to hit me like a tornado. I won't scream, I promised myself.

"Ah!" I screamed, as I shut my eyes in urgency, the stick penetrating a hole through me. So brutal. It was too painful. I fell in the floor, as I felt warm liquid seeping out.

The door to the storeroom shut.

I woke up, some tears here and there as I pulled my knees a bit closer, sucking in a breath. It felt it just happened a few seconds ago. I pulled out my shirt, caressing the mark that still burned whenever it was touched.

The moon illuminated brightly as I looked out of the window, my head on my knees as my lips continued to be pressed in a thin line. I glanced at my watch, some two hours past midnight as I now lay awoke.

My eyes burned with the lack of sleep. I washed them with cold water, thinking that it would numb everything else. Times like these, I would dwell on the thought of what exactly wrong had I done to endure it. Every single time, I would blame the circumstances, him but none of them eased my pain.

I took my phone out as I stared at the person who dominated the gallery. Her. Smiling with her pearly teeth and a mesmerizing glint of innocence prevailing in her eyes. My lips curled. Just seeing her, even virtually tugged a smile to my face.

Even thou the smile was sad.

The smile was full of longing for the girl who broke my heart, crushed it into pieces till I bled and came back. With just another whiff, I know she would work her charm on me and I would be falling once again for her, just like I did, involuntarily or voluntarily.

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I sat at my office, my eyes trained on the business manual copying some stock numbers on my laptop as I typed with hurry. It has to be completed today to submit it to the Stock Department. It has to be double checked and be made sure that no error are spotted.

As if a meteor crashing, someone crashed open the door to my office as I dumbly stared at the owner.

"Sir, she wasn't listening. I tried." The security man said as I dismissed him with a wave of my finger.

She smiled at me. I raked my eyes over her outfit and gulped. The off shoulder top and jeans added more to it.

She looked absolutely breathless.

I suddenly found everything else beside her my target to look. "Hello Shivaay." She greeted.

"Why are you here?"

"To meet you." She said smoothly making her comfortable on the sofa, sipping some water through the straw of the glass.

"Damn it. I had drank with the same straw too."

"So?" She smiled.

"Let me try once again, Miss Anika why are you here?"

"I want to go somewhere and I need you to escort me."

I laughed. "And why do you think I would let you do that?"

"Because I am sweet and beautiful and gorgeous." She replied. I gave her a blank look. "Okay, then because you are handsome and charming and egoistical."

I almost blushed from her compliment when I heard the last word. "The word egoistical isn't going to earn you my acceptance."

"So did the first two words did?"

"Shut up." I said lamely as I ducked my head deeper into the magazine.

"So, please come with me."

"No." I said sternly. Does she think that she can coax me again into something I don't want to do? I am changed, I won't be easy this time.

Oh shut up, you know you will eventually listen to her.

Zip up, conscience.

"Please."

"Pretty please."

"Pretty please with one cup of espresso?" She asked hopefully this time as I bit into my cheek from giving into her request.

"Not working?" She asked sincerely looking at me with her eyes, her innocence almost feigning me.

"Nope." I said popping out the p as I went back typing furiously onto the laptop. Honestly, it was difficult to concentrate knowing she is in the same room as me. My heart beat went wild as certain not so decent thoughts clouded me.

She hurt you, rings a bell? My mind retorted.

"Shivaay," she called after some ten minutes. I ignored.

"Is what you are typing with so much concentration that important?" She said as I heard the amusement in her eyes.

"Hmm." I said distractedly. Let me work Anika, I can't honestly focus my mind.

"So," she stood before me as I looked at her. Go away, please. "If the laptop breaks, would it be a huge loss?"

"What are you implying?" I said staring at her. Her hair created patterns, moving along in various directions as I looked at them.

Distracted Shivaay alert.

"This." She said as I looked to see her clutching my laptop in her hands running.

"Anika, stop being childish." I said chasing her as she jumped and ran again. She stuck her tongue at me. Real mature.

"Anika stop." I said trying to maintain my pace. She was such a good runner to be honest.

"Not until you promise to come with me." She said stopping for a while before running again.

"They are important." I screeched as she ignored me.

Few minutes here and there we both stopped. "Break please," she said trying to catch her breath as if I would oblige.

I finally caught her, but my balance slipped as the whole lot of curtain came showering on us. I had managed to snatch the laptop from her but my hold on her by her waist resulted into a trouble and now she too got tangled among the curtains.

I fell first with a thud, one hand still holding my laptop securely as she came right on top of me.

Then it happened in slow motion, her face slowly landed right in the crook of my neck as my heart beat momentarily stopped.

Someone switch on the damn Air Conditioner please!

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