Chapter 34
……. 2 minutes later……
” Did it go???” I whispered again, closing my eyes shut in fear.
” No…… it’s still there……” Vincent cooed, ducking my head further on his shoulder.
……*4 minutes later*…….
” Did it go???”
” No……” Vincent cooed wrapping his warm strong arms tightly, so that I wouldn’t fall, snuggling his head more into me.
It didn’t go?
Is snake making house here……?
I whipped my head to look at it, but Vincent blocked my head ducking my head further on his base of his neck.
” Don’t…… it’s coming towards us, don’t make sound” His words made my heart thump loud now, and I tightened my grip in fear.
I stayed frozen, my heart beating so fast I thought that it would pump straight out of my chest, gripping Vincent like he was my only anchor.
……*5 minutes later*……
” Did it go?”
” No……” Vincent cooed softly, pushing his face into my hair, nuzzling it comfortingly.
No?????
I whipped my head forcefully and looked at the snake direction. There was no snake present there, only dry leaves.
” Heh!!!! There’s no snake!!!” I shouted on his face fuming up.
” It’s just passed now, the moment you turned.” Vincent said with no emotions burried in it.
I gave a long suspicious stare, but Vincent face was blank as he stared back at me without blinking.
We kept looking each other for what seemed like a really long time-drawn together in some inexplicable way-
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Maybe he is telling thruth…? I think it did pass the moment I turned????
I relaxed myself but my heart squeezed suddenly, making me freeze. I am really going to be placed in coffin one day.
I was clutching onto him, wounding my legs around his waist, my arms wound around his neck. Our bodies dangerously touching each other, his breath fanning my face, if he moved a inch little further to me, we would be kissing each other.
No! It’s me again……
I will definitely get murdered by Vincent one day!!!!
” Uh sorry!!” I loosened out grip and tried to wiggle off, but Vincent held me tightly, still clutching my legs on his waist.
” Hey!”
My cheeks reddened as he pressed me more towards his broad chest. My heart started hammering against my chest as my hands had pressed against his warm firm chest, feeling his rapidly beating heart under my palm.
” What are you doing!?”
” Holding you, so that you don’t walk off.”
” I am not a child! Put me down!” I shouted.
He frowned ” You’re not a child, but you’re acting like one. Look at your slipper, it’s torn and you can’t walk with bare foot since you have bandage.”
My slipper was torn, because I had stumbled onto a branch while searching Vincent. He was right, I can’t walk like this but I can’t let him carry me, and I tried to wiggle off from his hold.
” I can walk…… please let me down!!”
” No…… what if you step on some thorn or another anaconda perhaps, you will be dead instantly, I don’t want to waste my time digging a pit to bury your dead body ” Vincent threatened me with death chilling voice.
Hhe!!
He has a point…… but…… me…… Vincent……
” But-”
” Stop wiggling otherwise I will leave you here, be a guest to the snakes tonight.”
” Ah! No no please!!”
” Maybe I should leave you here- anyway you are headache to me, no more Jennie Wilson in my life. I have heard there are so many anacondas out h-”
” Ah no!!! Sorry soorrrry. I am too young to die.!!!” I cried out, desperately clutching on to him tightly, so he won’t drop me down.
Vincent let out a laugh by my behaviour, and my breath hitched seeing him laugh for the first time.
Did he laugh!!!!?
Did king of stone hearts laugh?
He looked so charming with the smile on and I found wishing to hear it again. He wrapped a large a tightly around my waist pulling me further into his firm chest, tucking me safely into himself.
Hmph! He used reverse psychology didn’t he……
He ducked my head onto his shoulder and I couldn’t believe he was holding me like this. I couldn’t grasp onto the fact that I ended in his hug just like that-after all this had happened between us.
” Relax till we reach…” Vincent cooed holding be so softly, so possessively I had never imagined before.
I felt like Papa Baloo was carrying it’s Mowgli while walking through the forest. His large warm hand spread warmth through my cold body, my skin searing where his skin touched mine even through my t-shirt.
He kept walking, none of us starting conversation, completely dead silence, let alone insects and wind talk.
I gripped Vincent tightly, moving my head onto his shoulder trying to place my head comfortably on his shoulder.
” I don’t come here to hurt myself. It’s just that…… I come here……, you know whenever my mind is f***ed up. No humans to judge my scream and shouts. The trees and surrounding makes me focus on the silence, peaceful nature instead of the ugliness of my emotions.” Vincent cooed while walking, holding me possessively.
” I just climb one of the trees and stay for hours. I am just tired of people judging me, even they have a limit for everything, I can’t keep bothering them with my f***ed up life. Just me and the surroundings……”
I closed my eyes tightly, desperately trying to connect all dots-trying to imagine myself in his situation. I felt how wrong I was deep in my heart, I shouldn’t have blurted out without thinking.
” Disappointment and frustration comes from the gap between reality and expectations. So to minimise the disillusionment, you have to realign reality while adjusting your expectations.” Vincent cooed, his voice lacing sadness and loneliness.
I patted Vincent’s head, holding him tightly, looking at him.” You are doing good Vincent. I know you will succeed one day. Keep fighting, I will always support you!”
He tightened his grip around my back in response, his lips curling into a slow, breath-taking smile, and I found myself returning his grip.
” You came all the way here for me…… knowing how dangerous it is for you.” He said in his calm soothing voice I had never heard before.
He walked carefully, rubbing my back softly, patting me to sleep. His hands on my back were soothing, making the cold go away, and the warmth from his body engulfed me.
Vincent POV
I couldn’t get sleep, unwanted image of Jennie crossing my mind. I feel ashamed and all too vulnerable because for a few moments with her, she’d caught me in her web like I hadn’t known better.
” I KNOW! It’s my nickname for every thick snake, do you have any PROBLEM!!!
I smiled rolling over the bed. What a silly girl……
Her scent was over my t-shirt, and it was very addictive. I couldn’t stop thinking about her words, her silliness.
She looked so cute when she was sleeping in the sofa drooling and sleeping like a kid, which she is actually as matter of fact.
I never thought she would be in my house in first thing. I couldn’t take my eyes off watching her sleep.
What is she doing to me!!!????
I came downstairs to relax, I opened the refrigerator to drink something, but my eyes drew to a particular thing.
Lemon chicken was stored in a bowl.
It’s the lemon chicken made by her. I stared at it for few second, battling my mind whether to take it or not. I finally took it out and sat on the counter. I took a bite of it and a smile escaped from my lips, it exactly tasted like my mother used to make for me.
I felt how bad I was deep in my heart, being the worst with her. I wanted to complement her, praise her, yet I was spurting out all the lies. I was a f***ing liar.
I pushed away someone who didn’t even deserve it. I was cruel and emotionally abusive. I was uncontrollable. It was burning me from the inside until it started to suffocate me.
Why do I f***ing live when I can’t even control myself!!!!!!!
I can’t…… and I would never fall in love. It was scary, fickle and volatile. It was uncontrollable and I was terrified of the things I couldn’t control. My past has taught me well.
I had been ready to give my whole life to someone, who only used me and shattered me completely. I can’t trust anyone. I couldn’t trust myself not to completely fall apart if I was stupid enough to fall for someone again.
It’s killing me with unavoidable shame. Jennie has seen more of me than anyone else before. She’d witnessed how f***ed up I was over and over again, yet she was still with me.
If she was smarter, she would be running away, run away from this monster!
Why isn’t she running away from me? Why she had to meddle my life in every way possible?
Why she had to come all the way to my room when I was in pain? Why she had to come the woods just for me, still knowing it’s f***ing dangerous for her????
Why can’t I f***ing resist her, she make me believe I would be able to smile fully, without demons haunting me. Why is she drugging me with her touch, her scent…… her presence?
What is her game now? I stuffed my mouth more with lemon chicken. Umm…… It tastes so good!!!!
Jennie Wilson POV
” Sports meet in Hunsberg university! It’s in a week?” I asked Harper in shock.
” Yeaaahhhhh! ” Harper said stretching her arms and legs. ” You just see me I will defeat each and every one of you in the race.”
” Pffff, I am a daughter of Usain bolt yo! Nobody can defeat me. Hahaaha” Rose laughed richly posing like a super man, her fist raised up.
These kids……
” Okay I’ll get going, bye everyone!” I wavered my hand and started walking, since they had lab and I had class. They had to go Chemistry department and me…… Industrial……
” Bye bye!!!” Harper and Rose shouted at once.
The sports meet was in a week and I didn’t have proper sports clothes to wear. I have to do something. I was walking down through campus, I saw Hayden coming towards me.
” Oh hey Hayden! I was about-”
Hayden suddenly grabbed me by my arm, smashing me against his firm body, and my heartbeat went into a overdrive.
I sensed a white-hot anger radiating from his body, creating some deep fear within me.
” What the f*** were you doing in his house?” Hayden grabbed my chin and made me look directly at his face.
” What are you taking about?”
” I am talking about the f***ing day you completely ignored me for some f***ing psychopath.” He shouted making me flinch in his hold.
I snapped my chin away from his grip, hating the way he was acting now.
” What’s wrong with you Hayden! Stop throwing baseless insults at me. I told you Harper Rose dragged me to Emma house despite telling no, why are you getting aggressive for small small things?”
” Small thing? Here I was so tensed and you say it’s a small thing? Why didn’t you f***ing pick up my call? Why did you kept ignoring me Huh?”
How should I tell him it’s because of…… Vincent.
How should I tell him that I was stuck with Vincent in the dark forest. All alone…… without phone.
” Answer me? Why the f*** didn’t you pick up the call then?”
I stared at him in dismay, knowing I shouldn’t let him provoke me, but it was getting me. “I was busy ok. Your just overreacting Hayden! I-”
” Busy? Busy for what? Busy singing lullaby to that maniac?” Hayden snorted sarcastically.
” Hayden! When you don’t know about the person, you shouldn’t talk shit about them. He…… he is not a maniac! Don’t you know it’s wrong to say it anyone……”
” I can’t believe you Jennie, he bullied you, made the worst out of you in university, now you’re hanging out with him in his house and defending him?”
Hayden held me too tightly, that it hurts. ” That man is ruthless and evil. You don’t know him completely Jennie. His and my father are colleagues, I know how low life he his. He is a drug addict and a abuser. He didn’t even leave her own girlfriend, mentally and physically abused her, he is that much of a monster!”
” Stop it Hayden! Vincent is not like that! I have…… I have seen him, his pain and his scream…… she hurt him…… he isn’t that bad-”
” He isn’t that bad? Do you even hear yourself?” He let out an incredulous chuckle ” Did you fell for him? I didn’t peg you as that type of girl. Or…… Did you sleep with him?”
” Hayden!” I slapped him, tears threatening to fall from my eyes. Hayden looked at me shocked and guilt clouding his eyes.