Chapter 8 TOO DRESSY

ARSENIO'S POV

Life is a paradox of contradicting similarities!!!

It was until I felt the ice beginning to melt before I dropped the ice pack and carried her to her room. She had just one arm around my neck and it was like she was trying her hardest not to make skin contact with me.

I bet if she was not in this condition, she would not have come so close to me. She is definitely still angry with me and I guess five years is not enough for her to forget what I did.

"I'll go into my room on my own," She said coldly. She was speaking to me like I am a stranger...like I wasn't someone she knows.

"But I want to..." I started but she cut me off.

"I only allowed you to help me with my foot because our parents were there. Now that they aren't, place me down!"

Her voice was firmer and as much as I wanted to refute her words, I knew not to push things.

I placed her close to her door and she landed with one foot. She applied pressure on her good foot and opened the door before she leapt in.

"Seren..." She slammed the door on my face before I could say a thing. I placed my hand on the door as I fought myself not to knock or bring her door down.

Something crashed and I heard the sound of something falling.

My hand was already on the knob when she shouted, "don't you dare open that door Arsenio. Get going...Please!"

My hands formed into fists and I walked in the opposite direction.

As I walked towards my room, I reflected for the millionth time, what had happened five years ago...

It was her seventeenth birthday and she had chosen to have it at the beach. Our parents had rented the beach for the whole day and so no one was allowed to come close to that perimeter. It was strictly the Vladmiro and Toralba family only!

There was a boy who was infatuated by her at that time and against the warnings of the guards, he had insisted on seeing her. According to the report, he had arrived a few minutes after we did and he was there till noon.

Serena had gone to plead with one of the guards to get her digital camera which she had somehow forgotten in the house when she had sighted him.

He told her of how he had waited for her just so he could give her a gift - a cheap hand crafted bracelet - and out of the kindness of her heart, she had invited him to join us.

She had been so moved by his gesture and gift.

The eagle- like eyes of her dad, my dad and my eyes had followed them subtly as they played carefreely at the shore.

They even took a walk much to my dislike because Serena had been laughing so hard her face had reddened.

That irked me to no end.

An hour later, it was time for him to go back to wherever he had crawled out from and Serena had seen him off.

Who could have thought that the boy would think of using such an opportunity to try something as foolish as kiss Serena?!

I had counted backwards from a thousand and when she had not returned, I took the route they had taken.

It was getting dark and coconut trees stood tall and proud in that area. Her back was pressed to one of the trees and his lips were pressed on hers.

He had been smart enough to try such here because this was far from the eyes of our parents and also a little distance from the eyes of the guards.

'The scoundrel!'

Her hands were not on his body and I knew that the only reason she had not shoved him away was because she was curious. Her lips were barely moving.

Something green and ugly twisted inside of me and contaminated every drop of blood within me but I did not bother to find out what that was.

'Fuck curiousity!' I thought as I rushed up to them and pulled the boy away from her. I dealt two heavy blows to his face and when the second one fell on him, I heard a 'crunch' sound - it must have been his nose but I did not care.

I wanted his head off his fu*king body!

Serena came in between us to stop me from doing any worse.

"Run along" She told the boy and he did probably faster than he has ever done in his whole life.

"Please do not tell parents!" She pleaded as I turned to storm out from her.

I held her arm and pulled her closer to myself.

"Really? Is that what you are concerned about now?!

You said your dream man is a kind and responsible man and I don't see any of those bloody characteristics in that boy..."

I have teased her all her life and this was the first time I ever raised my voice - even though I wasn't shouting - at her.

She blinked and I stared into her honey eyes.

Her face was flushed and her chest was heaving. I could tell because of how close we were to each other and I did something I shouldn't have...something that was my first regret in life.

I looked at her lip and my eyes traced the perfect edges of her bow shaped lips and I felt like kissing her.

I pushed myself away from her.

"Get going Serena"

She must have had an idea of what almost happened and she ran away from there as fast as her legs could carry her.

But sometime during my restless night, after we had returned back to the mansion, I heard a knock on my door.

I was surprised to see Serena standing by the door and I quickly ushered her into my dimly lit room.

"What's wrong? Are you alright?" I asked.

She was standing in a white singlet and a white shorts and despite the poor lighting of my room, I could see her nipples stressing hard on the fabric of the singlet.

Thoughts of her were the reason I was not yet asleep and here she was standing so beautiful and innocently and something depraved and maniac influenced within me wanted to have a taste of that innocence.

I have had my own pretty share of women but Serena called me to me like a siren calling out to sailors on the sea.

It was addictive and charming all at once.