His actions mystify me,

His smile leaves me bedazzled,

I am trying to stay away from him

But it makes me frazzled.

Freya

I woke up in my bed and for a second I felt unsettled. The last thing I remember was Hailey and Alexander talking. And then I drank the red coloured drink, raspberry juice I think and then my memories were hazy. I couldn't have been drunk because I was feeling fine.

But how did I get home?

I closed my eyes tight and inhaling deeply I tried to remember anything. And my mind reacted almost immediately as I got the flashes from last night. All the stupid, stupid things I said to Alexander. My entirely foolish confession, hanging on his shirt and his confession of liking me as well.

Can I die right now? Or vanish will be fine too?

How will I walk to school and face him? I was supposed to hate him, at least not forgive him this easy and I went around confessing to him. Well, that cleared up my weird behaviour around him. I liked the guy. Insane, but true.

Was his confession true or just an attempt to calm down a drunken girl?

What the hell happened? What will I do now?

But what was even weirder was him being super nice to me. Was he the one who dropped me home? My mother will kill me then.

Xander, I called him Xander. Why did I even call him that? But it was so much better than all other shorter versions of his name.

I walked down scared a bit of what might my mother say.

"Freya, finally you are up. Here, have some juice." Mom sounded fine and I dared not ask anything.

"Last night a girl name Alicia dropped you home and you were sound asleep. Who sleeps at a party Freya?" My mom grinned and I gave her a tight-lipped smile.

So, this was the deal. Where did Alicia come from? Did she live at Haylien's place now? Or maybe just visiting her brother?

Whatever the reason, she saved me.

Now all I needed was avoiding Alexander at all costs. But if that guy was serious about liking me then there is no way he will allow that. Butterflies swarmed in my stomach on that thought.

***

I walked in the school corridor hyper alert. Tessa was nowhere to be found and I was freaking out. My friends, I should say are useless. Where were they in the time of need?

"Freya Morenson." A dreadful female said.

Hailey alert.

"You know I never thought you were this stupid." She was mocking me.

I just remained quiet and stared at her in confusion.

"What are you trying to do, trap Alex?" She sounded angry, really angry.

"I am not trying anything," I answered as curtly as possible.

She gave me a dark laugh and grabbed onto my wrist. Her nails dug into my skin and I bit my lip from letting out a scream.

"This is a little warning Freya Morenson. My family is not someone you can mess with, I can really make your life miserable and that includes your mother." She threatened me.

"Hailey, I have heard and seen many threats made by people like you in my old school. I will advise you don't threaten me in this case. Try and win Alexander. You are wasting your time on me." I said as calmly as possible.

An ugly scowl formed on her face and she gave me the look of utter hatred.

"Let go of my hand, Hailey," I said but her grip tightened.

"Never before he had shown this much interest in a girl before. But now you, you infuriate me bitch."

Before I could utter another word, Alexander's voice echoed through the corridor, "Let. Her. Go."

Few students immediately scattered and Hailey dropped my hands.

"Alexander, we were just talking." Her tone was honey sweet now.

Alexander lifted me hand and showed her the nail marks and blood oozing out of them.

"Is this called talking Hailey?" He looked formidable right now.

Anger was rolling off him in waves and crashing on everyone around but surprisingly I couldn't feel it.

He went closer to Hailey and I could see she was trembling with fear. That is the kind of affect Alexander had over people. And now I realised, he has never used this brutal anger on me even when he was bullying me.

"Don't make me angry Hails, you know what happens when I get angry, right?" He threatened her in a dangerously sweet tone.

And she nodded in submission.

"Fiore, you come with me." And with that, he just pulled me along.

I silently followed him along not sure I should mess with him right now.

After a while, we stopped in the parking lot and he was breathing heavily as if trying to calm his anger.

"This is happening to you because of me." He muttered and I felt he was regretting this.

I remembered confessing to him last among the others things.

"You like me?" I asked to get this over with and don't avoid this since I had to face him every day.

He turned to look at me and I saw all the anger from his eyes was gone.

A small smile formed slowly and he said, "After what we did last night, you don't remember?"

Did last night? Was I forgetting something else?

"W-what do you mean?" I asked seriously worried now.

He closed his distance and I stepped back not sure how to react.

"How can you forget? It was the best night of my life." He said quite seriously and I gulped nervously.

He was lying, obviously. Right?

"Alexander, stop m-messing around." I couldn't help but stammer.

"Xander, call me Xander." His eyes bore into mine.

And like I have always known, his violet hypnotic eyes held me enchanted.

"Xander," I whispered and his face lit up with a smile.

He bent even closer, our lips inches apart and my eyes widened with my rapid increase in heartbeat.

"You like me?" He mirrored my words.

And even before I can register the question correctly my head bobbed into a yes.

"Even if you denied it now, you said it last night." He sounded smug and that brought me to senses as I stepped even further now hitting my back into a car.

"See, even God wants you trapped with me." He whispered huskily making birds flutter in my chest.

"I so want to kiss you." He said as if asking for my permission.

"But being with me will but you in a lot of trouble." He mused to himself.

My mind right now was in a haze not understanding half his words.

"Then be my guardian, you said you would be glad to take up the post." The words flowed out of my mouth and I realised I didn't want him gone.

"You really like me?" This time, he sounded almost pleading.

"Unbelievable but yet true," I assured him softly.

There was no denying it. I blurted everything last night.

"What happened last night?" I asked.

He smirked a little.

"Nothing. But from now on lot of things might happen." And he winked at me making my gut squeeze inside me.

"I will be at your place for reading tomorrow." I offered hurriedly looking away from his intense eyes and breaking the heavy air around us.

He pulled me in for a hug as usual and sighed, again.

"Can't wait, Fiore." He whispered into my hair.

"See you then Xander," I whispered back and I could almost feel him smile at my words.

What the hell was happening and what was this undeniable pull towards him?

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A little on the shorter side but I liked writing it. Because I didn't want any more denial from either. Get excited because next few is going to be fun. Alexander was blatant before , now he will be crystal clear with his feelings. :)

Teaser: Xander's elaborate archangel flashes, basketball match and... a bonfire night.

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