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PLAYLIST : Slow Hands - Niall Horan

Symphony - Clean Bandit ft. Zara Larsson

     Though we were basically fighting the whole way, there grew a level of comfort between us. We kept up our banter for the whole ride. Boy, he talked non-stop.

     There wasn't a minute of silence. He kept talking and talking and I listened. I've never seen a guy talk this much. It was amusing.

     The ride to school was quick. By the time we reached, I wasn't mad at him anymore. It was the way he spoke, you couldn't stay mad at him for long. He was such a smooth talker.

     That's what gets him all the girls. That and his million dollar smile. No wonder he's a player. I could understand why girls would fall for him.

     The prom was in the gym of our school. We handed over our tickets to the teacher in charge and went in.

     Booming music greeted us as we entered the main hall. We saw our friends standing around a table and went to join them.

     Tiffany was the first one to see us. "Hi," she beamed when she saw the two of us come together, glad that I agreed to her.

     "Nice to see you two bonding," Nate said mischievously.

     "Yeah, you can call it bonding. Or maybe Vivian here is pranking me and I haven't realized it yet," Derek said.

     Everyone laughed.

     "Oh, just enough with those jokes. It's getting boring now," I said, feigning annoyance.

     All of us caught up with each other. Caleb's school too had prom tonight. So, he and Shayna were heading over there after a while.

     While talking, Derek leaned into me and slipped his hand around my waist. The sudden contact made my cheeks feel hot. Tiffany saw this and raised an eyebrow.

     I got my inner composure back quickly, giving her an indifferent look and showing that this didn't affect me. This was normal for Derek; he's like this with every girl. It's just a hand touching my back. Nothing out of the ordinary. Hands touch backs all the time. After like ten seconds, he moved his hand to grab some punch.

     "Come on, let's dance," Nate said to Tiffany and they both went to the dance floor. Shayna and Caleb followed suit and we were left alone.

     Derek's eyes flicked to mine. "You want to dance?"

     "Yes," came my automatic reply.

     He led me to the crowded dance floor. A slow song played in the background.

     I put my hand on his shoulder and he placed his around my waist. Our free hands met together and we swayed to the music. It all felt surreal. I just followed his lead and went with the flow.

     The slow music created the perfect ambience and I felt myself transported to another world, where you don't think about anything, where everything is perfect, where life is lived in the moment and nothing else mattered.

     My thoughts didn't rule my actions anymore. This moment, right here, was magical. I leaned into him and rested my forehead on his shoulder and closed my eyes. He pulled me closer and our feet moved together in perfect sync.

     "You're not bad," he whispered, his mouth lightly grazing my ear lobe.

     I opened my eyes and pulled myself back a little to look at him, all the while swaying to the beats. "Right back at you, casanova."

     His eyes bore into mine, the desire in them mirroring my own. He cupped my face and moved in for the kiss. I parted my lips in anticipation, when I heard the familiar voice calling out my name.

     "Viv. Hi!" Cabe waved at me.

     I gasped and pulled away from him. The moment was broken.

     My eyes went to his arm which was wrapped around his date's arm, a senior from our school whose name I didn't remember. She smiled at us.

     "Yo, Cabe. Ashley," Derek nodded at them. Yes, Ashley. Her name was Ashley.

     I was the only one who hadn't yet made the customary, civilized greeting.

     "Hi, you two," I finally said.

     "So, how's it going?" Cabe asked.

     "Great," I said...before you came to ruin it all.

     Thank god for the music, I might've accidentally said the second part out loud. But no one seemed to have heard.

     A new song played and Ashley nudged Cabe. "This is my favorite song. Let's dance some more, babe," she squealed.

     "See you around," Cabe said and sprinted away from us.

     God, I hope not.

     I looked back to Derek. We were still holding hands. Like we realized it at the same time, we broke apart.

     "That's rhyming," Derek said.

     "Huh...what?"

     "Cabe, babe. Come on, Cabe. Let's go, babe."

     "Hmm," I absent-mindedly nodded.

     A thousand feelings were running through my mind, like a kaleidoscope, all of them mixed in together, merged with each other. I couldn't single out one from the other.

     For a few minutes there, I was zoned out. Dancing with Derek, it felt like this was exactly where I wanted to be. This was all I wanted to do.

     And then I saw Cabe. Seeing him with Ashley felt like he cheated on me all over again.

     Why did I feel that way? No, I didn't still have feelings for him. He was a jerk and I knew it. It was the fact that he kept coming back and pretending that everything was alright and he wanted me back, and then turning out to be a bigger jerk.

     I didn't feel like dancing anymore. I eyed the sitting area in the corner.

     "Can we go and sit for a while?" I asked Derek.

     "Yeah, sure."

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