The pounding of my heart had somewhat receded by the time I was rushing downstairs. Till then, my heart was furiously pounding against my chest, and my cheeks refused to cool down for a moment. My mind too, was working overtime, and then two parts of me kept berating each other - one part of me wanting to tell him the entire truth, and the other part of me immensely mad at how I could lose my control so easily - and that too not once, but twice. I actually let Neil kiss me, and then I kissed him back too. The smartest thing to do would have been to push him away but no, I had to be a blubbering i***t and a hormonal mess whenever he was close. The kiss had been... other-worldly. It was a mixture of all the kinds of kisses I used to get from Neil - the spontaneous ones that I never had an

