Eternal

I caught Lawson watching me intently when he suddenly took hold of my hand and led me to the dance floor.

“You really should ignore what you hear in this place love, it’s all inconsequential anyway.”

He placed his hands on my waist and pulled me flush against him, as I coiled my arms around his neck and swayed along with him to the music.

“Why was that guy so intimidated by you?” I asked, wondering if he would actually give me an answer.

“You saw what I did to your boyfriend’s arm right, and you wonder why people are wary of me. Damn girl, you really are an enigma.” He said it with a playful tone, but I could tell that he was being serious.

“Yes, I certainly did see that to be fair it was kind of insane how quickly you could do that,” I replied hoping that my masquerade of emotions was still up to the task after all the alcohol that I had consumed.

“It was nothing really, all you have to know where to apply the pressure, but enough about that. I do have to ask though, what the hell were you doing with someone like that. He really was an awful example of the human species.”

“Honestly, it was because he asked. And I guess I just wanted to see if I could make myself feel something for him. I tried really hard too for the past year and a half, but there was nothing there for me. He was definitely more invested in us then I was, while he was planning vacations, I was trying to come up with the best way to end it with the sappy idiot.”

He laughed at my choice of words and I smiled back at him before my face fell back into its usual dead pan expression.

“I think there may have been better ways then telling him to run off a cliff, but you definitely have the flare for dramatics down, I’ll give you that.”

I shook my head at his teasing, hating that it came so easily to everyone else, where as I had to work damn hard to pretend to be normal. I was getting sick and tired of it, I just wished that I could stop pretending once and for all.

“I think the fact I forgot to say the words ‘your dumped’, might mean that we are effectively still in a relationship,” I replied and his smile slipped away from his face.

He released himself from me and took a couple steps back, before gripping my elbow and leading me away from the throng of people and out towards Kat’s car.

“I think it was pretty obvious that it was over between you two, even an idiot like him could have seen that,” He said this while opening my door for me, yet he would not look at me.

“Have I pissed you off, caused you are definitely giving me the cold shoulder right now.”

He walked around to his side of the car and climbed in, before finally looking right at me.

“You kissed Malachi, even though you still thought you were taken, what the hell were you thinking.”

“Hey I have no idea what happened between myself and that guy, one minute I was trying to convince him to return to his little tarts and then the next he’s gripping my hand and my thoughts don’t feel like my own anymore. It’s only because I knew that they weren’t that I managed to get control over myself again.”

Lawson looked shocked by my confession, then he quickly shoved the car into gear and sped off back down the dirt road.

“Where are you staying tonight?”

“Probably the back seat of my car, it’s kind of impossible for me to go back to where I live at the moment.”

“Look I’m sure Kat wouldn’t mind if you crashed with us tonight, that’s if you want too of course, if not we can get your things and then I’ll drive you back to your car.”

“Where would I even sleep?”

“There’s a couch or my room, but I will not be giving up my bed, so that is completely down to you,” He stated; not once taking his eyes off of the road.

I found myself agreeing to stay at theirs, but no way in hell would I be spending the night with him.

Chapter Eight

Lawson

We stepped inside and I realised that the couch wasn’t going to be an option for poor little Unya, seeing as Kat had decided to throw a party of her o

wn while I was out.

The living room was littered with empty bottles and bodies, luckily none of them were dead. Otherwise, I would have had no idea how to explain that one to Unya.