Fighting For Her Love

Chapter 8 - Melody

“We should probably go now before we miss any more classes,” Ace told my friends.

I had been sitting on his knee for over an hour while my friends asked him lots of questions to make sure his intentions were pure towards me. After a while, they seemed to accept that he truly did love me and wanted to be with me forever. I wasn’t so convinced but I also wasn’t sure it mattered.

In the last twelve hours, I have had two of the best s****l experiences in my life. This thing between Ace and I might not last more than a day or two but that was the case with any relationship. I may as well just enjoy the s*x and anything else that happened between us and take each day as it came. This level of optimism wasn’t usual for me but there was something about being close to Ace that brought it out of me, and it felt good.

“Yes, you two should absolutely get to class. I have a feeling you will be missing enough of them in the next few weeks anyway.” Sadie said before laughing and winking at the two of us.

“I will try my best not to be a bad influence on her, but I can’t promise anything.” Ace gripped me tighter and nibbled on my neck. I had been trying my best to cover the point where he had bitten me with my t-shirt but Ace pulled my t-shirt to the side until it was on full display. He then kissed and nipped at the sensitive skin, sending a pleasurable shiver down my spine.

Just as I was trying to convince myself not to skip my classes for the rest of the day and convince Ace to follow me back to my room, he pulled me to my feet. He really was going to follow through on his threat to make me go to the rest of my lessons. Even though I had a massive hangover and nowhere near enough caffeine in my system to combat the tiredness I was feeling.

“Don’t worry Luna, I will take you back to our room and give you everything you need once our classes are finished for the day.” Ace whispered the words in my ear as he led me through campus towards my next lesson. Could he tell what I was thinking or was he just thinking some of the same things as I was?

He insisted on taking me right up to the door of my next lesson before giving me a passionate kiss and walking away. I wasn’t sure how he expected me to concentrate on my class for the next hour after he kissed me like that, I had trouble even walking to my desk after he kissed me like that.

At least microbiology was a subject that I was pretty good at, I would have no trouble catching up on the reading later once my life had calmed down a bit. I wrote down a few notes on the concepts the class was covering then allowed the words to wash over me as the professor explained our next project.

“Is that Ace out there?” One of the girls a few seats across from me whispered to her friend, her name was Kathy and she was part of one of the main sororities on campus. It was strange that I could hear her words so clearly despite the two empty seats between us but maybe that was just because I was hyper-focused on anything relating to Ace at the moment.

Glancing past where they were sitting, I could see they were correct. Ace was standing in the corridor. He was leaning against the opposite wall with his gaze focused on me, the moment he noticed me looking in his direction a smile spread across his face. I wasn’t sure if he had spent the last forty-five minutes out there waiting for me or if he had only just arrived, but knowing he was close made me feel a small flutter of butterflies in my stomach.

“It is, he must know someone in this class.” Kathy’s friend Gale replied.

“He is f*****g hot, what I wouldn’t give for one night with him.” Kathy swooned while looking at Ace in a way that made me feel angry and frustrated.

“I’m not sure it is worth the hassle. Tandi slept with him once and it took her months to get over him, she was devastated when he wouldn’t get into any kind of relationship with her.” Hazel told Kathy while trying to keep her voice down.

“What did she expect, Ace doesn’t do relationships. Everyone knows that.” Gale said while rolling her eyes.

“I heard that he has a girlfriend now. Apparently, Ace almost punched some guy at a party last night for daring to lay his hands on Ace’s girlfriend. My friend told me that he seems to be completely infatuated by this plain-looking plump woman with zero fashion sense.”

“No way!” Kathy exclaimed, causing the professor to glare at her. Kathy gave the professor an apologetic wave and then managed to hold her tongue long enough for the professor to continue her lesson. After a few seconds had passed Kathy turned back towards her friends.

“It’s not like it matters anyway, if he is dating someone like that then he won’t be dating her for long. Someone like him is destined to be with someone like me, not some fat, ugly loser.”

Their conversation continued but I was no longer paying attention to their words. Ace seemed to be convinced that I was meant to be his, but what if he was wrong? Or worse, what if he was right and there was something pushing us together against his will? It must be so terrible for someone like him to be stuck with someone like me.

Maybe it would be better if I distanced myself from him now and let him find someone more attractive than me to be his soulmate. It would hurt to see him falling in love with someone else but at least I wouldn’t wonder for the rest of my life if I was forcing him into a relationship that he would rather not be in.

I spent what was left of the lesson trying my best not to look over at Ace, who I was sure was still standing outside the room waiting for me. If I was going to start distancing myself from him then I might as well start straight away, there was no point delaying it more than I needed to.

Once the lesson was over I let my other classmates filter out of the room, I made sure I got lost in the sea of people. Ahead of me I could see Kathy and her friends close in on Ace and try to engage him in conversation. There was a stab of jealousy and betrayal in my chest just thinking of Kathy touching him but I tried to push those feelings to one side as I pressed my way forward and out of the classroom.

Ace had been watching me all lesson so I should have guessed that he wouldn’t lose sight of me now despite all the people rushing around us. He didn’t even look at the women who were trying to crowd around him, he sidestepped them and came straight over to me. He was standing in front of me, wrapping his arms around my waist before I could even think about telling him to stop.

“Whatever you are thinking, it isn’t true.” He told while looking into my eyes with so much devotion that it made me wonder how I had ever questioned his motives towards me. There was also a sense of calm and belonging that I felt when I was in his arms which I had never really felt before. I had first noticed it when he bit me but it seemed to be getting stronger by the moment, particularly when he was close to me.

“Are you going to tell me what upset you or do I have to make you tell me?”

I shook my head. It all seemed so silly now that he was here and I didn’t want to say any of it out loud. When Ace realised I wasn’t going to give him the information he wanted, he pressed my back against the wall and kissed me. He didn’t seem to care that we were in the middle of a crowded corridor, he kissed me passionately and as though he couldn’t get enough of me. When he finally pulled away from me again I felt prepared to tell him just about anything he wanted to know.

“People have been talking about us, they think I’m not good enough for you and I was wondering if you felt the same way deep down,” I told him, my voice barely audible even to me.

“You are the only one I want from now until the end of time, there is nothing that you or anyone else could do to stop that. You could end my life tomorrow and I would still love you just as fiercely in the next life.”

A small whimper escaped my lips as the butterflies in my stomach were engulfed by the flames of my desire. The comforting feeling in my chest was telling me to trust every word that was coming out of his mouth and for once I decided to go along with that feeling. He pulled my head against his chest and kissed the top of my head before speaking again.

“This is all my fault.”

“How?” I replied, pulling my head off his chest and looking up into his eyes.

“We only completed our bond a few hours ago. With all of the changes that your body will be going through your emotions are going to be all over the place for a while. I should have known better than to leave you alone while you were going through this.” He kissed my forehead before adding. “From now on you won’t be leaving my side.”

“That’s silly, we can’t spend every moment of the day together. We have classes and what about when one of us needs to use the bathroom.” I was trying to get him to see sense but from the smirk on his face, I was sure that I was raising a problem that he had already thought of solutions for.

“Let me worry about all that,” Ace said before leaning forward to claim my lips once again.