Dark Chemistry

Chapter- 3

"Daddy, let me know that I'm your only girl,

The only man that I need in this gangster world is you."

Natalia's POV :

Tendency to forbidden stuff is a natural habit of human beings, especially teenagers. We try to avoid them, but sometimes curiosity grows inside us. Our mind tells us, "Why don't you just try it for once?" But our brain says, "It's forbidden. Don't think about it".

And at the end of the day, we choose our mind, our impetuosity. Most of the time, we make huge mistakes by listening to our minds, and we regret them later.

I was one of those kinds of eighteen-year-old curious teenagers. It's not like I had a huge propensity for forbidden stuff, I just wanted to have fun with my friends and I wanted to be free for a while. But right now, I was feeling like I had made a mistake in going to that club. It felt like his dangerous ocean blue eyes were still on me and watching me from everywhere. I couldn't help but think about him all the time.

I was lying on my bed, staring at the ceiling. It was 7:30 in the morning. Last night I arrived home at 9 pm after a quick dinner in a restaurant. My parents and granny didn't suspect me because Reema's toothpaste and toothbrush worked.

I could barely sleep at night because whenever I closed my eyes I only saw him, his hypnotizing blue eyes and his dangerous smirk.

I got up lazily and headed to the bathroom.

After freshening up, I threw myself into a loose navy blue shirt and black jeans. I brushed my long hair, braided it and put some lipgloss on my pink lips.

I went downstairs and saw mom was making breakfast, dad was reading the newspaper, Ellerie and granny were nowhere to be seen.

"You're awake so early today." Dad fake-widened his eyes.

"Yeah. Early rising is a good habit." I smiled tightly.

"Oh really? At least, give some credit to your granny." Mom chuckled.

"Mom.. " I groaned.

I ate my breakfast silently and then dad drove me to school. My mood was kinda off today because of last night. I tried to shake off all the thoughts from my head but for some reason I couldn't.

• • •

"God, I hate physics. Was it very important to invent this subject?" Reema huffed.

"Yeah, of course it was important. Otherwise, the modern world was impossible." I rolled my eyes.

"Ms. Morales and Ms. Rauf, you two are irritating the whole class. If you can't concentrate, then you can get out of my class." Our physics teacher, Mr. Kibria, threw daggers on us.

"We're sorry. It won't happen again," we said together.

"I hope so. If it happens again, then I'll complain to the principal and your parents. Understand?"

We quickly nodded.

Delilah, Amrin and Sima looked at us and gave us a sly smile. I knew those bitches told him that we're whispering. I swear I could grab their hair and slap continuously across those caked faces!

"Bitches!" Reema hissed under breath.

After the horrible physics class, we went to the cafeteria as it was our launch break. We took the same bench from yesterday and started eating burgers.

"Why are all the problems chasing after us nowadays?" Reema sighed.

"Don't know. We couldn't have fun for those bitches," Marjan said angrily.

"I told you many students of our school go there. But you didn't listen to me. Now look, we're f*ck*d *p." Reema crossed her arms.

Here we go again.

"What?! You're blaming me now?! You're the one who wanted to go first! And we're not sure that they saw us!" Marjan fired back.

"Shut up. You told us how much fun in a club, so I just wanted to explore."

"So it was all my fault now, huh?! Ridiculous!"

"Yes, it's your f*ck*ng fault. And that's why I wanna kill you right now."

"Natalia! Say something! She's blaming me!"

"What will she say? She's on my side."

"Of course not. Natalia! Are you sleeping?"

"I'll dip you in a pond and I know you don't know how to dive." Reema grinned.

"You b*tch. I'll tell your mom that you stole a hairband from a*****e last month."

"What?! No! I didn't! You did!"

"Will you two stop?" I raised my head and scoffed.

"Talia, what happened to you? You're acting weird today," Marjan knitted her eyebrows.

"What? No, I'm fine. I was enjoying your awesome debating skills. Right now I'm feeling like I'm in a debating club. Why don't you two join the club already?" I laughed.

I didn't want to tell my best friends about last night. I thought it was normal, he just looked at me but didn't touch me or didn't throw any vulgar comments. Though it was quite weird and scary, I just wanted to forget about it.

"You... I'll tell your granny that you stole five bucks from her bag which was under the mattress," Marjan started.

"Yes. And I'll tell Ellu-bear that you were the one who shattered his favorite toy last month," Reema uttered.

"Whoa! That's not what it seems like! You won't tell anything to them. You promised me!" My mouth was hung open.

"Natalia."

A voice interrupted us. We looked at the direction and our mouths almost fell to the floor. Fardinn was standing there. His hands were in his black jeans pocket, plain white shirt and brown hair was messy.

"Umm.., were you calling me?" I asked awkwardly.

"Well, I don't think there's another Natalia in this whole school." He shrugged.

"What's the matter?" I frowned.

"I've got something to tell you. Meet me in the backyard after school. And, of course, you are alone. Marjan and Reema are not invited."

With that, he turned around and started walking.

"What the he―"

He walked away out of the cafeteria before Reema could finish. We were just blankly watching him vanish outside.

"What was that?" Reema scoffed.

"I have no idea." I shrugged.

"Girls, what if he saw us last night!" Marjan gasped.

"No way! Then he's going to take revenge on us." I gasped too.

"What are we going to do now? Will you meet him after school?" Reema asked, also as afraid as us.

"I don't want to."

"But you should listen to him."

"If he really saw us last night in the club, then we're really f*ck*d *p." I rubbed my face with my palms and sighed.

"Just meet him after school and listen to him. Then we'll definitely find a way," Marjan said.

After lunch, we went back to our class. But I couldn't concentrate on anything. Now another tension was roaming in my head. Three hours passed, like a year. I was really exhausted. When the bell rang, everybody rushed out of the classrooms.

"I don't wanna go." "It's not a big deal, Natalia." Marjan patted my back.

"Yeah, he's not gonna swallow you. Just go and listen to him," Marjan inputted.

"Yeah, I'm going then. See ya." I rolled my eyes and walked down the hallway.

"Don't forget to message us! Bye!" They shouted and waved at me.

I walked on the path beside the football field. A few boys were loitering beside the field. I turned to my left and walked to the backyard. Nobody was there and for some reason I was feeling scared.

I looked forward to the dense trees but Fardinn was nowhere to be seen. Suddenly a hand landed on my shoulder. I jumped forward and let out a loud gasp. I quickly turned around and saw Fardinn chuckling and shaking his head. I huffed as relief washed over me.

"I knew you would come." He laughed softly.

"Was it very important to scare me, huh?" I raised an eyebrow while trying to decrease my heart beat.

"I didn't plan to scare you. It just happened." He grinned.

"Come to the point. What do you want to talk about?"

He reached his back pocket and pulled out his phone and started taping something. He turned the screen to me. I looked at the screen and saw there were pictures of Marjan, Reema and mine. My eyes popped out of their socket as I realized it had taken when we were in the club.

"What the hell?!" I widened my eyes.

"Relax, I won't tell anyone." He laughed.

"Oh yeah, I get it. So you're blackmailing now?" I crossed my arms on my chest and scoffed.

"What? Of course not." He knitted his eyebrows and chuckled.

"Then why are you showing this to me? Why did you even capture these photos in the first place?" I raised an eyebrow as my blood boiled in rage.

"Relax, Natalia. I'm here to ask you why you went to that club last night. That's it."

"And why should I answer you?" I frowned and laughed sarcastically.

"Natalia, Natalia, you're very innocent! You shouldn't have gone there! That place was full of bad people!" he said in a serious tone.

"Well, it's none of your business. Did I ask for your opinion?" I fired back. "Why were you there then?"

"You know my father is the police commissioner. He's working on the recent murder case of that journalist. So I am trying to help my dad. I was there to collect some information."

Well, believable reason for an excuse.

"I know you're mad at me, Talia. I know it's ridiculous to you. But I always cared about you and still care about you." He spilled out.

"Then why didn't you listen to me and choose Delilah over me? Whatever had between us was over a long ago. I tried to make you understand me, but you're all on Delilah. And now here you are suddenly so concerned about me," I scoffed as I felt my heart cracked.

"You know what, go to hell with your beloved girlfriend," I hissed.

Whatever was going inside me, I wouldn't show him that.

"I'm sorry. I'm so sorry for what I did to you. Delilah ruined everything. And when I finally heard everything from Ryan, I really wanted to talk to you about that, but I was nervous. I knew I actually ruined everything and I hurt you. I'm really sorry for everything. It's all my fault. But I care about you," he looked at me, guiltiness was visible in his hazel eyes.

"I don't know, Fardinn. I'm really confused. I don't know what you're planning to do, but remember I will never fall for your sweet-talking," I said in a hard tone.

It was really weird and confusing. He was standing in front of me, showing me some photos of mine and my friends dancing in a club and then apologizing for some shits that had happened a few months ago. It was confusing, but at the same time it was quite ridiculous.

"I understand what I did. I was the real b*st*rd full of shits in my little brain. I'm so sorry for everything. Just give me a chance. We'll be good friends again." He looked into my eyes like he was searching for something.

"I don't know. I hope you won't leak these photos." I gave him a small tight smile and started walking in the direction where I came from.

"I won't. Don't worry, you can trust me on this. But Natalia, don't go to that club anymore. It's not a good place for an innocent girl like you," he said in a cold, suspicious tone.

I didn't say anything, I just gave him a small nod and walked away. Let out a deep breath and hoped he wouldn't leak those pictures.

I reached my home at 4:30 pm. After freshening up, I went downstairs. Mom was making dinner in the kitchen and Ellerie was watching 'Doraemon' on TV.

"Mom, let me help you."

"No, honey. I'll do it." Mom mumbled while chopping vegetables.

"Let her help you, Arina. She's going to be a useless woman if she keeps tapping on her phone," Granny mocked while knitting the wool.

"Yes. You're right, granny," Ellerie inputted.

This kid!!

I glared at Ellerie and grabbed a knife, then started chopping an onion but God, it was a bad decision. My eyes started burning like hell.

Dad came home at 8 pm, and then we had dinner together. Mom and I made pasta, fried fish and vegetable salad.

I went upstairs and entered my sky cute blue bedroom. I took my laptop and sat on my bed. I scrolled through the social media but horrible murder news was floating everywhere. People were sharing and posting the news. I messaged Reema and Marjan through the online group which we had made a few years ago only for the three of us. I told them everything about Fardinn, and they were also as confused as me.

After half an hour of scrolling and messaging on the internet, I shut my laptop and went to the bathroom.

I was brushing my teeth, sitting on the counter and thinking about the horrible murder. All of a sudden, a loud shattering sound came from my room.

I jumped off of the counter and stood on the floor. My heart started pounding in my chest. I slowly opened the bathroom door and peeped my head out.

A heavy breeze was blowing outside. It looked like a storm was coming. I slowly walked out of the bathroom, toward my balcony and found one of my terracotta flower pots was shattered on the floor.

A naughty white cat was standing there. When it saw me coming, it jumped off my balcony and landed on the big mango tree beside our house. Its huge branches reached my bedside window and balcony. So sometimes naughty cats enter my room through the windows and balcony.

"You little devil! How dare you to harm my babies?" I yelled.

"Oh my little baby plant! Don't worry, I'll fix you tomorrow morning, I promise."

I kneeled down and took the rose plant. Leaving forward, I kissed its leaf and placed it beside another plant.

I went back to the bathroom and washed my hands and my mouth. I went back to my room and turned off the lights except my bedside lamps.

I grabbed my silk nightgown from my wardrobe. I started undressing, I unbuttoned my blouse, then tossed it on the chair and unclasped my black lacy bra. As soon as the bra fell on the floor, the cold breezes hit my half naked body and made my n*ppl*s harden.

I smiled shyly as my cheeks became warm. Then I unbuttoned my jeans and threw them on the same chair. Now I was standing only with my black panties on. I slipped into the nightgown and stood in front of the mirror to brush my long hair and braid it.

I closed all the windows and doors of my room because of the stormy weather. I laid down and took a deep breath.

A few moments later, my eyes felt heavy, and I fell asleep quickly.

A big warm hand cupped my cheek while caressing it with a big thumb. Slowly that hand trailed down my neck, neck to my left breast and squeezed it harshly.

A different kind of pleasure rushed in my veins, making me gasp. I felt warm breathing falling on my neck like someone was lying beside me. It felt so f*ck*ng good and warm. That warm hand slowly trailed down onto my exposed stomach and then slowly went down and down until it touched my―

I jumped up and sat down on the bed. I was sweating badly, and my breath was heavy. My heart was hammering inside my ribcage.

A few moments later, I realized my bedside window was open. But I was d*mn sure I closed it before I slept.

A sudden fear hit inside my soul. My heartbeat increased as adrenaline rushed through my veins.

I looked at the clock, and it was 3:15 am. I sighed and got up from my bed. I took a water bottle from the table and drank some water.

Then I laid down again, but I couldn't close my eyes.