Chapter 14
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"Just keep calm or you'll alert them." She whispered to me and I can feel her breath brush off closely to my face as her face sat only few inches away from mine.
I don't know what to do and I am starting to panic. I can't actually feel my legs and hands. Boy, she got me so weak in the knees. My face is dripping wet. I've never been this close to a girl in my whole life. I'm all worked up because of this feeling I'm experiencing for the first time in my life.
The soldiers already left and are now a few meters away from the house. Then, here I am, I don't know what the heck I was thinking. I suddenly screamed and now I might have put our lives in much danger!
'What the heck, Finley!! Are you crazy?? Are you trying to get us killed?!' my thoughts kept rambling about but I guess I might have just burst from the intense feeling that my heart couldn't contain anymore. Of course, the soldiers probably heard all of it and we can hear them coming back but Scarlet suddenly stopped me from this outrage I'm getting myself into.
"Sire! That sounded like an animal, let's not waste our time looking in there again." A man firmly spoken from beyond the doors.
My eyes closed from the moment Scarlet stopped me and I am feeling a soft sensation against my mouth. And I peek with one eye, if it might be what I think it is and when I opened my eyes completely, I just melted right there and then.
Scarlet's lips were pressed against mine.
Finley's POV
I think my heart just stopped.
My eyes widened at the sight of Scarlet's face on my face! She has her eyes closed and her lips smooched into mine. I literally just froze right there, not knowing what to do and now I think I peed my pants a little.
When the invaders were nowhere heard from above, a sign that they might be gone for real, Scarlet opened her eyes and realized what she has done.
She quickly broke away from the kiss and wasn't able to face me straight.
"I, I'm sorry...that was totally uncalled for." She said with her face wandering from side to side.
There was silence for few minutes for I have not yet recover from the touch of her tender soft lips. I was still staring blankly ahead like some kind of a shocked statue. I gulped real hard and suddenly remembered how I almost exposed us from the invaders. Then I finally spoke.
"No, no, no, I should be the one to apologize. I, I didn't know why I suddenly shrieked. I, I'm terribly sorry! It was what I did that was completely uncalled for." I said swiftly, as if I was doing some kind of flip top.
My heart was still racing. I don't know how she'll react and she might be angry with what I did.
She suddenly smiled at me. It was a genuine smile and I think my heart officially exploded. They might need to clean this space up for my heart's all over the place!
"Well, should we?" she suddenly asked, while pointing up.
I gulped even more. What does she meant by "should we"? Should we what??
"Should we what??" I asked stiffly.
"Should we head on up, silly! I think they're gone now." Scarlet replied with the smile still carved on her lips. Then she giggled demurely.
I felt my cheeks burn and I think I might be turning into a tomato.
'What was I honestly thinking?'
"Oh, yeah, yeah, of course. Let's, let's go back up."
After climbing up from that hidden cellar, we then stand awkwardly across each other for a few minutes.
"Oh, please sit down. Your wound must still hurt." She finally said.
I smiled at her and sat down on the nearest chair I could sit on.
"So," she uttered with a teasing smile on her face.
"Was that your first kiss?" she continued with a smirk.
My face blushed once again. I would look lame if I say that it was because the truth is, it really was! I am already eighteen and yet I haven't kissed any girl yet; not even during those truth or dare games they'd play during middle school.
"Tsk, of course I've kissed one or two before." I lied, trying to sound confident.
"Oh sure, if you say so." She suddenly replied sarcastically.
"Huhhhh!!!" My eyes and mouth widened, big enough to fit a round plate in it, upon hearing her words. I am quite offended. Do I really have no sense of attractiveness in me anymore??
"I mean, you're really handsome but you seem to have a very steady relationship with awkwardness. You're like on a wide spectrum of being awkward. No offense."
I placed a hand intensely on my mouth with my eyes still wide open and I think I've forgotten to blink.
"I said, no offense!" she defended while laughing.
I just stared at her like we were on a staring contest.
"Oh, shoot. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to..." she suddenly said seriously, trying to apologize.
"You called me handsome." I said, maintaining the stunned look on my face.
"You called me handsome. You actually called me handsome!" I kept repeating to her.
"She called me handsome, she really called me handsome!" I then said to myself, a wide smile slowly forming in my face until it turned into a joyous laugh. She looked at me with a surprised look on her face and then she chuckles with amusement.
"Oh please, you really are. It's not a big deal. I didn't say that just so I could be less offensive with what I said." She uttered indirectly at me.
"It is a big deal for me! I mean, have you looked in a mirror? You're just...you know, just wow!" I said to her.
We then smiled at each other, with our eyes locked in, and I can feel this sparks within me, just flying all over the room.
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