Secret obsession

CHAPTER 10

I went to school today since I was feeling better. Actually, I could have come yesterday, but I don’t want Henry to see me like that, so now I feel more confident, and I’m ready to face Henry at school, which might be a little bit hard to do since Jake and Kim never leave me alone. It is like all of a sudden they want to spend more time with me. They even stop kissing each other when I’m around them, which is so weird, it makes me feel more uncomfortable than when they were sucking each other's faces.

We are sitting in the cafeteria, eating, and chatting when suddenly Kim looks at us with her suspicious-excited eyes.

“Guys” she starts. “It's Friday!” she shouts, stretching her arms to the sky. She seems very happy about that. Jake and I stay quiet, waiting for her to continue. “Oh c’mon! Don’t you remember that we were supposed to go to dance today?” she claims, looking at us disappointed.

“Oh! That!” Jake and I say at the same time, before laughing at our coordination.

“Yes THAT” Kim looks at us annoyed “so… are we going or not?” She is now in her tense mood with us, but I do want to go. After all, I had already invited Henry.

“I’m going!” I say, smiling and raising my hand. “It will be fun.”

“Well, I think you don’t leave me another choice”, Jake sighs “so I’m going too”. He gives up. After all, it's not like he likes to dance. The only reason he comes with us is to take care of us, plus there is another chance for him to make out with Kim.

“OK then, we’ll see each other at my house”, Kim finishes the conversation standing up pulling Jake's hand to go to class together.

“Princess, I will pick you up at 7 alright?” Jake manage to tell me before leaving the table.

“Am… no, thank you, I guess I will ask my mom to take me there” I shyly smile at him, hoping he doesn’t ask any questions, because I don’t want to explain to him that Henry will be going with me.

Jake looks at me analyzing my answer, but decides to let it go since Kim keeps pulling him to go to class. They don’t go to class together, but Jake always takes Kim to her classroom before going to his.

I left the table after them and then decided to text Henry and let him know about the plans for today.

Me: “Hi Henry, I hope you are not busy today because we are going to dance.” I wait for his answer while walking to my classroom.

“I’m sorry, beautiful, but I told you I will go with you if you accomplish what I ask you to do – The Most Handsome.”

Me: “Well, I came to school, so I think you should go with me, it will be fun” I keep texting and walking no paying attention to the rest of the students walking by me. It doesn’t matter since I’m getting close to my classroom.

“It’s true, but you haven't let me kiss you yet – The Most Handsome”

I blush instantly, and smile like a fool. I actually didn’t want to talk about that because it makes my heart go crazy, and I know a lot of people at school. I don’t want anybody to notice me reacting this way. I bite my lip to stop me from smiling, then I get another text from him.

“Actually, you just have the perfect chance to let me kiss you, or at least to let me bite that lip – The Most Handsome”

Oh my God! My heart stops, I stop looking at my phone and look up to face Henry standing in front of me, tilting his head, raising one eyebrow and giving me his half smile, melting my body completely.

“Hi beautiful” he says, playing his eyes from mine to my lips. “I guess you feel better now, right?” he asks, trying to make me talk.

I’m still looking at him, blushing more and more, feeling nervous that he is too close to me and that someone might notice how he makes me feel. I open my mouth a little bit trying to say something when he gets even closer to me, so close that the only reaction I manage to have is closing my eyes, then I feel him breathing in my ear.

“I think you should breathe” he whispers softly, making me exhale. I didn’t know I was holding my breath again. It's so annoying. Henry chuckles and then asks, playing with my nerves. “So… do you have something you want to give me?” he asks, bending a little bit, making himself the same size as me.

“Yes!” I finally manage to say, clearing my throat and trying to return to normal. He stands up smiling, it's clear that he is having fun looking at me like this. “I wanted to give you the address of the place we are going today” I say playing dumb, which I think is something I’m good at lately.

Henry laughs a little bit, then he throws his head back to look at the ceiling. He sighs annoyed, but at the same time I can sense that he is starting to give up.

“Ok beautiful” he looks back at me smirking. “I will go with you tonight, IF you kiss me right now” he raises both eyebrows, waiting.

I hesitated for a moment before giving him my answer. I have to think fast. I laugh, feeling confident of my next move.

“I will give you a kiss if you come with us” I say winking at him in a flirting way, and going inside the classroom quickly to avoid his eyes, his reaction, and hopping he didn’t notice how much I’m blushing for acting that way.

I sit looking through the window trying to look distracted and trying to calm myself. I’m the coward type. I never felt comfortable in my life winking or flirting with someone. I hope I didn’t look dumb doing that to him. I’m playing nervously with my hands when my cellphone buzzes. I take it out when the teacher comes in asking the class to be quiet, so I decide to look fast at the screen and see who texted me.

“Ok, you win, I’ll pick you up at 8 – The Most Handsome”

A wide smile is placed on my face and I try to cover it with my hand, so nobody notices when the teacher starts the class.

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It is not 8pm yet, and I’m ready waiting for Henry. I am so excited that I ask my sister to do my makeup for me. I know is something unusual for me and, judging by my sister’s expression, I might be putting too much effort into the situation.

Since I will be going with Henry, I decide to text Kim and let her know that I will see them at the club. She agreed without asking questions, which was something new.

The place we are going to is a club that dedicates Fridays to teenagers. They don’t sell alcohol and close earlier than usual, but it gives you the sensation of going to a real club, is a great place to hang out, dance, and even when they don’t sell alcohol, there are some people that manage to sneak in some.

I’m waiting for Henry in my room instead of waiting for him in the living room where my parents are. I don’t want them to be asking a lot of questions, I keep looking at myself in the mirror hoping I look pretty for him. I decided to wear a dark-blue mini-dress with short sleeves that denotes my curves a little bit more with black high hills that my sister let me borrow. For the record, the dress is also my sister’s, since she is the one that wears that kind of clothes all the time. I didn’t let my sister do my hair since that’s the only thing I like about me, instead I just putted some hairspray to keep my natural waves intact. I look at the clock on my nightstand, ‘8:10’. He is not here yet when I hear the doorbell. I wait a few minutes when my mom calls for me. I grab my cellphone and put it in the small purse and run out of my room very excited. I go downstairs with discretion, hoping I can cover my excitement naturally. There in the kitchen are my parents talking to Henry. When I enter there, everyone turns to look at me and a weird silence fills the entire kitchen. I blush instantly.

“Wow!” Henry says, breaking the silence. I look at my parents, blushing at Henry’s reaction. “I never thought you could be more beautiful”, he tilts his head, looking at me with such a sweet expression that makes me look down. How can he say those things in front of my parents? He looks so handsome too, dressing all in a sexy black outfit, but I’m not saying that with my parents here!

“He is right pumpkin”, my dad comes close to me. “You look just like your mom when she was your age” he grabs me from my shoulders, giving me a warm squeeze.

This is not the first time I have gone to dance with my friends, but it is the first time I get dressed like this to go out with someone else.

“You should go now, we will be here watching movies waiting for you honey”, my mom says, almost pushing Henry and me to the door, and we follow her orders.

Once we are outside my house, Henry looks at me still smiling with a sparkle in his eyes. My face is still blushing without rest. He grabs my hand linking our fingers. This is so new to me, and it feels so nice that I just smile and follow him to his car. He opens the door for me like a gentleman. It feels like a date, although we never said that. While I put on my seatbelt, he goes the other way and gets inside. We haven’t spoken yet. He starts the car and runs it forward. I look at my house and see my parents peeping through the window, which makes me sigh annoyingly.

After going a few blocks, Henry stops the car suddenly and turns to look at me.

“I didn’t want to do this in front of your parents, but you look so lovely that I couldn’t resist anymore” he gets close to me and places a long, soft-warm kiss that I return without hesitation. Once we stop kissing, he fixes himself in his seat and starts driving again, holding my hand the entire time.

We talk about random stuff while he was driving. When we get to the place, there were a lot of people outside, and we could hear the loud music from inside. We get out of Henry’s car, he walks towards me and holds me from my waist to go inside the place. I smile at him while enjoying his touch. We are inside now, and I start looking for Kim and Jake. Kim texted me before arriving to let me know they were going to be at the same table as always. Kim’s eyes met with mine and we both wave at each other smiling. I grab Henry’s hand and make him follow me to the table.

“Oh my God! Erin! You look beautiful girl!” Kim shouts, hugging me.

“Thanks” I say smiling and blushing a little, “Hi Jake!” I wave at him happily; Jake looks at me surprised without blinking. He doesn’t answer me and then his face turns serious and his jaw’s muscles start to get tense when he sees Henry is coming behind me holding my hand.

“Oh Hi Henry, it's good to see you”, Kim says, trying to break the ice and avoid a fight between Henry and Jake. “You should order something to drink while we go to dance, right babe?” she pulls Jake to the floor far from us and starts to dance, Henry and I sit at the table.

“I guess your friend is not happy to see me with you!” he shouts, trying to be louder than the music, so I can listen.

“He will get over it” I smile at him, ignoring Jake. I really want to have fun today.

We have been chatting and drinking sodas with Henry, me laughing at every stupid joke he makes, and he keeps staring at me smiling and from time to time he bites his lip. He is very close to me, so I can listen to him, but at the same time I notice he uses any excuse to have contact with me, like touching my hand, my hair and sometimes pulling me closer to him grabbing me from my waist. It is a little bit late and the place will close soon. I haven’t seen Kim or Jake the whole night, plus Henry and I haven’t danced yet, I’m too shy to take him to the dance floor. I’m sitting alone waiting for Henry to come from the bathroom thinking about how I should take him to dance when I feel someone grabbing my hand and pulling me to dance. I look up and see Henry placing us in the middle of the dance floor and starting to dance. I thought he said he doesn’t know how to dance, but he dances very well for me. At first, I was shocked, but quickly got contagious of his attitude and let myself enjoy it.

We have been dancing for some time now. I decide to let myself go and start to dance freely close to Henry. I feel so sexy that I decide to seduce him by dancing. I turn around him and start to get closer and closer to him, moving my hips. He also moves with me. I turn around to face him, and he grabs me from my waist and hugs me to start kissing me. I return the kiss putting my arms around his neck without stop dancing with him. I let a small moan out of my mouth, and I think he couldn’t listen, but then he smiles within the kiss without stopping.

We have been kissing and dancing for some time now when suddenly someone breaks our kiss, pushing Henry away from me. Everyone gasps at the scene and I turn alarmed to see Jake standing in front of him.

“Jake! What the hell are you doing?!” I shout at him angry. Jake ignores me.

“I told you to stay away from her!” he shouts at Henry, shaking furious.

“You know what, Jerky boy?!” Henry says out loud, breathing heavily and irritated. “I had enough of you, you are such a coward that this is the only thing you can do…” he stops talking because Jake punches him in the face.

I have never seen Henry like that. He threw several punches to Jake, making him fall. Jake stands up quickly, punching Henry in the stomach. Everyone is shouting at them while they fight. The owner of the place turns the music off and turns on the lights, all the security of the place comes running, separating them.

“This is enough!” the owner says, standing in the middle looking at the two young boys bleeding. “This is a place to have fun guys! If you have another kind of business, you should do it outside!” he makes a sign with his hand and the security holding Jake drags him outside the place. I run following them and I hear Kim also coming behind me.

“Now go home, boy” the security says, releasing him. “The party is over” then he goes inside again.

Jake is still breathing heavily and Kim goes in front of him trying to clean the blood on his face, but Jake snaps Kim’s hand and turns looking at me very angry.

“I don’t want to see that f*****g guy near you again!” he shouts at me. “Kim lets go!” he starts walking to his car. Kim stays a little bit more and walks towards me.

“If you knew this was going to be his reaction, why did you invite him?” she looks at me with tears in her eyes. “This was your fault, Erin” she says before starting to walk to Jake, who is honking consistently to her.

I stay there in the same place thinking and trying to deal with everything when I feel something warm covering my back and shoulders.

“We should go Erin, I’ll take you home”, Henry says, taking me out of my trance, grabbing my hand, taking me to his car.