Escaping Him

The lake

“How’s your day?”

“Huh?” I looked over at Bryan who was staring at me intently by the living room hallway.

“Your day, how was it?” He asked me as if I was a child. I felt a little angry at his attitude, but it was partially my fault. I’ve been pretty absent today; I can’t seem to focus on anything.

“Oh, it was okay nothing out of the ordinary.”

“Right.” Bryan said before rolling his eyes at me.

“What’s wrong, babe?” I looked over again at Bryan, but he was already leaving the living room with his back to me. I pulled myself off the couch to go follow him. He was walking towards our bedroom. “Bryan?” I called out his name but then he slammed the bedroom door in my face. “Bryan, open the door! This isn’t funny! What did I do?” I whined as I tried to open the door. It was no use; I couldn’t get the door to open.

“Go away, Keira.” I heard him whisper. There was a water droplet that fell on my hand. I brushed my cheek and felt more water. Suddenly there were so many tears overflowing. The feeling was so overwhelming, I couldn’t help the sobs that escaped my mouth. I quickly moved my palms over my mouth to cover the noise.

“I’m going out.” Hoping for him to open up the door to stop me. There was no response, I walked away from the bedroom. I was back in the living room, looking around when my eyes fell on the key to Bryan’s Jeep. Should I wait for him to calm down or should I take the key. I decided to go with the latter. Grabbing the keys on the way out, I made sure to slam the front door. As I slid on top of the driver’s seat I wondered where to go.

It has been an hour of driving with no idea where to go. This was all new to me usually I would just follow Bryan around. A beautiful lake came into view. Deciding to stop and look, I put the Jeep in park. I jumped out and found a bench to sit on that overlooked the lake. The moonlight reflected on the waves of the water; it was breathtaking. I sat there for what felt like 15 minutes when I felt a hand on my shoulder. I jumped off the bench and turned around screaming.

“Forgive me, I didn’t mean to give you quite the scare.” I felt goosebumps suddenly when I heard his deep striking chuckle.

“Professor, what are you doing here?” I breathed out. When he was near it was as if I forgot how to speak.

“Call me Damen,” His eyes were looking at me so intently. My cheeks were flushed, I don’t think I could handle looking at his face right now. My eyes quickly found their way everywhere but his face. I heard him chuckle again causing me to take a glance. He was now smirking at me right before he became very serious as he said his next words. “I’m enjoying the view.” His eyes became almost black again. “Would you mind if I joined you?”

“Join me?” I whispered.

“Yes, on the bench.” He nodded his head towards where I was sitting before.

“Oh sorry, okay.” I mumbled. I sat back down on the bench as he sat next to me. We sat there in silence looking at the view. Even though it was quiet, it was the opposite of awkward. It was a comfortable silence. After about 15 minutes of silence he turned his face towards me.

“What made you come out here this late at night?”  I turned to face him when I heard his voice. He watched me with fondness and longing. Then I remembered why I was here. I felt a tear escape traveling down my face before I could brush it off, I felt Damen’s hand resting on my cheek as he brushed off the tear with his thumb. As if his reaction opened something in me, more tears formed I couldn’t stop them from falling.  I closed my eyes to try getting a handle on my emotions. Then I felt his other hand brushing my back up and down. I couldn’t handle my emotions anymore. I buried my face in Damen’s chest as I hugged him clinging to his shirt. I let all my emotions out. His arms wrapped around me as he rubbed my back soothingly.

“Keira,” He whispered as he kept rubbing my back. “It’s going to get better.”

“Damen, please don’t leave.” I started hiccuping as I picked my face up from his chest.

“I’m here, I’ll never leave.” I felt his hand rubbing the side of my face causing me to look up into his eyes.

I didn’t realize how close we were. Our faces were so close only separated by a few inches. I was in awe observing his features.

“Do you feel better?” He whispered to me as he rubbed off the tears from my eyelashes.

Then reality hit me. He’s my professor and we are way to close to each other for it to be appropriate. Guilt took over me as I thought about Bryan. I jumped out of Damen’s embrace.

“I’m so sorry about this professor.” I apologized to him before I started walking back. His gentile smile turned into a disappointed frown. I felt a stabbing pain in my heart. “Bye.” I mumbled before I walked off. My hands were shaking too much from the guilt eating me alive, I couldn’t get the key to open the door of the Jeep. A hand wrapped around my unstable one as another hand sat on my shoulder. That when I felt his back-touching mine.

“Here, let me help.” He whispered huskily in my ear. I could feel his hot breath on my neck. A wave of lust overcomes me, and my core starts to throb. The door finally opened. He placed his hands under my arms. Picking me up off the floor and placing me safely in the seat. Damen started putting the seat-belt on me.

“Thank you.” I was barely about to breath out. I could still feel the burning sensation of his hands on me when he had placed the seat-belt. He gently closed the door and took a few steps back.

“It’s my pleasure. I’ll see you tomorrow in class, Keira.”

“Good night,” I told Damen. I turned the engine on and drove back home.

I was outside of my bedroom door. I didn’t know if I should open it and sleep next to Bryan or if I should give him space and sleep on the couch. Deciding to just face the problem head on, I twisted the doorknob. Pushing the door open to see an empty room. Taking a few steps into the bedroom, I noticed a note on the nightstand. 

I picked up the note while I sat on the bed to read ‘Staying over at a friend’s, be back tomorrow.’ Letting out a heavy sigh after reading the note, I placed it back on the nightstand. Picking up the side of the blanket to get in I started feeling so cozy wrapped in warmth. Finally, I started drifting off into sleep to dreams of stunning blue eyes and lips kissing every inch of my body.