LETHAL

chapter 19

I looked at my room's door as it opened to reveal Enzo in a business suit as if he was going straight to a meeting when he was just another guy from our batch.

Although he looked more like a model then a business men with that charming aura but I looked away as soon as his eyes met mine.

He gave me a brief smile and turned to wear his shoes. "I'll be leaving now." He said and I almost heard my heart shatter into little pieces.

I nodded having nothing to say to him.

"Won't you say something?" He asked and I looked up at him with nothing but a small smile.

"No!" I almost spat but stopped myself. He was too toxic for my pure heart.

Enzo nodded as he got up and I looked at him as he strolled towards me. "Really? Are you sure?" He dipped down to my level and I just stared at his antics.

"Yes, I am sure."

He nodded and turned around and my heart lurched to my throat. Just as fast as he moved around, he turned to face me again and before I could predict anything, his lips were on mine.

My eyes rolled to the walls of heaven as his lips took mine into a searing kiss. His lips were soft and just as he shoved his tongue into my mouth, taste of coffee filled my mouth and I loved it more.

Before I could withdraw my mind from its far places, his arms were around me, as sure and hard. I felt again the rush of helplessness, the sinking yielding, the surging tide of warmth that left me limp. He bent back my head across his arm and kissed me, softly at first, and then with a swift gradation of intensity that made me cling to him as the only solid thing in a dizzy swaying world. His insistent mouth was parting my shaking lips, sending wild tremors along my nerves, evoking from my sensations I had never known I was capable of feeling. And before a swimming giddiness spun me round and round, I knew that I was kissing him back with equal fervor.

His kiss was not at all the same as those movie stars, but one steeped in a passion that ignites. It was the promise of realness, of the primal desire that lived in us all.

"This is what you wanted right?" He asked, cupping my jaw and making me meet his pools of midnight sea in which all I wanted to do was drown.

"This is what you wanted all along Amelia?" He asked, this time more intensely and I felt my heart soure with desire.

"Yes, this is exactly what I wanted Enzo." I replied with the passion and confidence I never knew existed within me.

"Your request is fulfilled now. Take care." He pecked me one last time before walking out, leaving me alone in the apartment ready to haunt me with his fragrance.

I sat down, my legs almost giving up on me. I just sat there looking at nowhere at particular. What had happened to me? I had no idea. All I knew was that I needed to get out. I felt like I couldn't breathe.

Enzo Lastra, what did you do to me?

Rushing out, I started walking to the direction of nowhere.

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It was late and my phone had been ringing continuously. Valenie was calling and I picked up the phone after a while.

"Amelia! Where the hell are you?" Her loud voice came through the other side.

"Out!" I said trying to control my tears.

"Amelia?" Her voice suddenly settled, she was no more yelling but concern took over her tone. "What happened Amelia? Where are you?"

"I-I am at the cafe near the school. I am coming in half an hour." I cut the call and stepped out into the pleasant weather of summer. I walked and walked until I reached our apartment.

I softly shut the front door and saw Valenie sitting on the couch with her head in her hands.

Hearing my footsteos, she looked up and ran over to me.

"Oh my God. Amelia. Thank God you're okay! I was so worried. " she hugged and I felt like that was all I was looking for the whole time that finally I was able to find meaning to my life.

She dragged me to the couch and we sat there engulfed in each other.

"You can tell me anything Amelia." I heard and I didn't know when the tears started to fall. It was physically hurting me right now.

I was at that breaking point and I had zero idea why and what was happening to me. I was in love? No. I was in the initial stages of falling in love? Yes. Will I fall hard soon? Yes.

And then there were some questions that didn't need an answer. I knew what was to come. A messy goodbye and my broken heart leaving town to never return.

"You're scaring me Lia!" Valenie spoke kissing my forehead and I placed my head on her shoulder as I let it all out. The past night had been overwhelming for me. For the first time in my whole life, I was falling in love. And that too for a person who didn't give two f***s about me.

From the very dtart, I knew Enzo wasn't the one to fall in love with. He wasn't a Saint. Everyday he had a new girl by his side. He used girls like tissue paper and sadly to say, I was among those tissue paper.

And I hated myself for it.

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