Gold Flower Legend

Chapter 2: Kiss Twice With A Stranger

I didn't want them to catch me so I strode fast with hand wiping to the incessant tears of my eyes. I didn't anticipate that this act of mine would bring me into an accident.

Just as I stepped down my feet out from the shop door, a stranger suddenly popped out from nowhere and precisely pressed his lips to mine.

'Gosh, did I just kissed someone?" I blinked my eyes to get rid of the tears in it. Gradually despite the gloomy surroundings I saw the eyes of the man who stood frozen on the spot.

' Wow an almond pair of gold eyes. Wait. This-this eyes seemed I saw it before? Where?" Well who cares. I didn’t have time now to ponder it since I couldn't remember. 

I pulled off myself first and spared a quick glance at him and my mouth curved a big shape O as I realised how handsome he was. I shouldn't want to leave him yet who seemed still in a state of shock but I heard Polo's voice chasing me. So I scudded across the road and joined in the dark. Straightway, I went to the nearby bar and instantly bathed myself with beer. 

At the bar, I became the center of attraction. Their gazes were focused on me. I assumed maybe they were wondering what I was doing in this kind of place in a bridal outfit, what happened to my cheek, Or maybe they thought I just got dumped. So they even feared to approach me, considering that I needed space.

While me, I gave them a face telling 'mind your own business."

As midnight came, I decided to leave the bar. Apparently, I drank a little too much beer in so I was feeling dizzy and wanting to puke. 

I wobbled as I walked through the door. As if my head suddenly grew bulky for my slender legs and small feet to prop.

I felt it was really coming, thus I ran to the less passers-by road, not too far from the bar, and paved my lungs for nauseating. 

As I slouched of being contorted by my unwell stomach, the edge of my sight inadvertently caught a vivid human form standing at the topmost roof of a tower. 

I stood back suddenly, forgetting my matters and looked up to him. He was as big as a Heron for such a height. I made a thorough observation and later I was certain that it was a man. 

Questions jumbled into my brain, 'Is he going to commit suicide? If yes, how cruel he is for doing that to his own body thinking that he will jump into a 40 storey's tower? Is his life more tragic than mine for him to end his life?' 

I should have shouted at him though it's impossible for him to hear me if not with the three drunkard rude lads who went over to me. They were smiling like a dog roasted as whole.

"Hey, beauty? Why are you alone?" Asked by a duck-like voice lad while drawing close to me. 

My heart has palpitated suddenly with fret and my skin goosebump because I sensed ill from his horny eyes travelling on my body.

"Wow, what a mouth watering meal." Said by the other lad whose eyes reddened by intoxication, and stared at my chest. 

's**t!' I forgot that I wore a dress with a cleavage exposed. 

"What are you doing? Get lost!" I yelled, crossing my hands over my chest and taking contrariwise steps.

I looked around to seek help but it seemed the time accomplied to them and no passers-by could easily notice us since the area was a bit latent. I grope for my bag on my shoulder but-Oh no I left it inside the bar. 

The other one in a brown shirt who looked like a cowboy, laid his hands on each one of the shoulders of his two friends. Then tapped it gently, and sighed. "Come on Bro. Don't be like that. Look, you scare her." He said but his eyes were fixed on me. "Beauty, does your groom just ditched you? If he doesn't want you anymore. You can be with us. Well, we like pretty girls like you."

And they giggled together. I knew it. There's really no sane among them.

"No. Thank you!" I feigned brave and faced them with a stern face. "I suggest you, leave me alone or else you will regret later."

What I said only made them giggle more with hands on their stomach. 

The lad in brown abruptly hopped on me and grabbed my arm. "Or else what? Come on, show it."

"Let go of me!" I wailed and struggled, only to hear a cracking sound coming from my fragile arm. It was slowly crushed by his grip. 

"Hold this acting hard-to-get bitch." He ordered his friends. I guessed, this zombie-frog-like beast or whatever ugly thing I could describe him was the leader of them.

The two were obedient and each of them quickly clutched my shoulder with a devious grin.

"What are you trying to do? No. Let go of me. Help! Help!" I screamed with all my might as they were hauling me into a hidden side. I felt like my soul suddenly became sober and all alcohol drained out from my body.

Due to panic, I got the leader who was standing in front of me to receive a heavy kick on his groin. 

He leaped with the excruciating pain. A bit later, he furiously grasped my hair. "Damn you b***h!" 

I couldn't control my tears to fall in pain on my scalp like anytime I was going bald. When he was about to give me a deadly punch on my stomach, a popping sound shoved them. He and his companion suddenly flung on air and fell unconscious on the ground.

With the strong force of something that attacked them, I lost my balance. But when my back was about to land on the ground, a warm arm suddenly wrapped on my tiny waist and stopped me from falling. 

Soon after, a sturdy figure revealed before my sight as he towered me. We stared at each other's eyes in a deeper way as if we were connecting to the soul of each other. 

'Oh this enchanting gold eyes again."

I discovered that the man who saved me just now was the man who stole a kiss from me in the shop. 

The influence of alcohol seemed like it possessed me again as I uninvitedly clung my hands around his neck. 

"Did someone tell you how beautiful your eyes are?" I uttered and brushed his eyelashes. 

He flinched on what I did and shockingly, tossed me down. 

I couldn't feel my head as it got bumped badly on the ground.

"I shouldn't interfere with your business. If not because of you a few hours ago, I had not missed my stuff." He said, turning his back at me.

I laughed at him at my mind because his reaction was cute. He was like an i***t teenager who was afraid to get contact with his crush. And obviously his annoyed voice was fake. 

As he heard no noises from me, he turned back and gave me a gentle boot on my side along with a sudden retreat. "Hey, are you okay? Get up."

"Hmmmmmmm!" I only groaned in response. 

I could tell his hesitation as he crouched and observed me. Persuaded that I didn't fake my pained expressions, he squeezed in his arm on my back and sat me up. 

Sadly, I couldn't sit without support so I tied my arms again around his neck and to make sure he couldn't push me, I interlaced my fingers rigidly. 

"You--?" He sighed. "Let go." 

Likely, he did try to pull himself off from me but he halted as he heard me asked. "Are you afraid of me? Or you hadn't been held by any woman before?" 

"Excuse me?" He asked with his brows curved in askance. 

I could see his face stiffened in displease. Seemed like any of my questions hurt his ego.

"Sorry, I talk nonsense. It was more likely, your hands had lay to a lot of women's bodies. Given with your handsome face." I accidentally burped which the smell of alcohol wrinkled his nose but I ignored it. 

I pulled him closer to my face and stared passionately into his eyes. "Am I boring?" 

"This--" 

"Surely am." I interrupted and laughed bitterly. "If not, my fiance would not be going to have an affair with my best friend."

Remembering what happened in the shop, made me sob again. "Now, I regretted not submitting myself to him." I howled and slowly leaned on his chest.

"Hey,hey. What are you doing? Can't you keep a safe distance?" He shook me but I was like a giant thousands of stones who he was unable to budge. "Look at how messy we are now."

I suddenly felt a surplus qualm because of what he did. My upper body was swinging here and there. Luckily, my hand was coiled in his neck. If not, I may have already fallen. But amusingly, he was also quick to give me support.

"Where's your home?"

"I don't have a home." I snuffed.

"f**k! Tell me your home or else I will leave you here alone."

I took myself away from him. Though, eyes filled with tears, I looked up and stared at him. From his eyes down to his lips.

"You are so noisy." I whispered with a naughty smile and before he could react or spoke, I cupped his face and sealed his mouth with my lips. 

I heard his heart beat abnormally. I felt his face become hot and astonishingly, if I had not mistaken though our faces were cohere, I saw his gold eyes suddenly switch into a bloody red.

I didn't know what happened next. I only knew he slipped from my hands as my vision turned dark. And before I passed out, I heard him say, "You are dangerous."