All that I know by now, is that my heart is hammering fast. I stood on my heels and to pull him closer. My arms were snaked around his nape, pulling him down to enclose the space between us. My fingers were crawling on his hair, my lips are busy brushing against his soft lips.
He bit my lower lip, making me open my mouth as his tongue entered it. I removed my hands on his nape and moved it down to his chest, pulling him a bit to make a gap.
I opened my eyes and averted my gaze as I caught my breath. I closed my eyes and shook my head. My cheeks are burning, and my lips felt sore. My heart keeps thumping fast and loud, and I can feel that I look flustered after that heated minute.
I saw him tilt his head using my peripheral vision, his hands are now inside his pockets.
"Hmm...where did you know how to kiss?"
If I can only be eaten by the land right now, then I will humbly jump on the hole. This man just got my first kiss! And...I am not sure if it was great because I don't have any experiences to compare to.
If he made my heart pound so hard...then was it considered great?
I shook my head. This is not the time to think about that right now. I tried to conceal the embarrassment I am feeling right now and glared at him.
"Why did you kiss me? You got no manners at all. You should've asked for my permission!"
"If I asked for your permission I suppose you would've slapped me. And you got no chance to complain, you enjoyed it, anyway." He smirked and stood a step forward.
"What? Don't come near me!" I crossed my arms and hugged myself. I don't know what more will I do if he would do it again!
"Why?" He didn't listen to me, the brute even had the guts to put his hand on my waist and lift my chin up, making me stare at his dark, intense eyes.
"Tayla, you no longer have the chance to run. The moment you responded to my kisses, I concluded that you also like me. You are now my girlfriend." A smirk slowly formed on his lip, the same, proud face I hate from the past is now making my legs tremble.
"No. Y-you said you will try it on 10 dates and–"
"It only took a date, one jealousy fight, and...a kiss. Why would we make it harder for us, hmm?" He moved his face closer, I moved my face backward and tried to stare at my side.
I gulped.
"Kissing doesn't mean we need to be in a relationship." I furrowed my brows. I want to suddenly slap myself. Many times, I told myself I don't like this man but kissing him back made all his intuitions right.
"Then what should we be? Flings? What would I be? Someone who can kiss you, and someone you can kiss back with no labels at all?" He removed his hand from my waist and sighed.
"I won't settle for less, Tayla." He shook his head.
He messed his hair and went towards the coffee maker to turn it off and transfer it to a white mug.
"You have another girl, and you can probably get her in your hands so why–"
"I said I don't have any other girls!"
"Then why did you dance with her? You even touched her and..." I stopped talking. Memories from that night are flashing inside my mind.
"See, you are jealous. That girl is just someone I know..." he reached for my elbow and tilted his head, revealing his strong, square jaw as he glanced at me with his serious orbs. "But not someone I like."
"If we would be a couple, then does it mean you can dance with just someone you know, but not someone you like?" I raised my brow.
"You think I'm gonna give a cheater-in-the-making a chance?" I disappointingly smiled and barked a burst of sarcastic laughter.
"Fix your mindset, Auton." I pushed his chest away and stormed out of the kitchen.
I took about half an hour thinking about that kiss inside the bathroom. I even turned the water into cold. The ways his tongue glided inside my mouth, the way he tilted my head to make the kiss deeper and my mouth to be more accessible...told me that he was an expert.
The thought of him kissing another girl made me open my eyes and turn the shower off. I can't believe I got so crazy just because of a short kiss. It made me feel so territorial that I kept on thinking that I can't give him to another woman.
I shook my head and went out of the bathroom, wearing a white bath towel to cover my naked body. I made the things I usually do and went out of my room to attend to Auton.
He was sitting on the sofa, his legs spread widely while his eyes were focused on the television. When he heard my steps, he tilted his head and glanced at me. His arm was spread in the backrest.
"Done?"
"You're still here?" I arched my brow and rubbed the towel on my hair.
"I've been waiting for you, we haven't talked in a while so..."
I sighed and slowly walk towards his side and sat.
"That kiss..." he breathed. "If you hate it so much, then you can just forget about it–"
"I don't want to." I shook my head and interrupted his words.
"I...I don't like you that much for now. But I have a bit of feelings for you. I don't hate that kiss." My eyes dropped at my fingers, pinching each other as I tried to put all the shyness to it.
"I don't like the idea of you, being with another woman except me." I shifted my gaze towards him, I licked my lips and gave him a short smile.
"Maybe we can try to work things out."