Chapter 4 - Uncertain Meeting with the Ex

Natalia's POV :

Tendency on 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 it later.

I was one of those kinds of eighteen year old curious teenagers. It's not like I had a huge propensity on 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 to go 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 barely could 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 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 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 came 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 goes 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 store 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 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 gonna 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 came 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 a relief washed over me.

"I knew you'd come."