LOVED TWO

Ophelia lied but only because she did not see the need to let him know her real identity. She went to chill around there but it was not the same campus and every time she wanted to party hard she left her campus and travelled all the way to party. 

“Toria,” he said as though he was testing the name on his tongue. “Toria” he said again and this time his tone was telling her that he liked it. “That is a pretty name for a pretty girl like you” he said in a way of complimenting her. 

“Oh really?” she asked pushing herself forward and slowly taking her hand off his grip. She was used to men swimming around her because of her looks. She smiled briefly and it was suddenly replaced with a frown.

“I have to say that is such a nineties thing to say” she added which made him shift uncomfortably in his seat. “Just joking” she finished raising her hand in the air.

He took a deep breath and forced his teeth to show through a small smile, she was giving this off-putting air to him. “Should we have something to drink?” she asked taking the bottle from the table and shaking it in the air. 

“Let me” Cade said taking the bottle from her hand and then proceeding to top two glasses for them.

“Ahh I see chivalry” she commented taking the glass from his hand while playfully brushing against the back of his hand. Her fingers left a hot trail over his skin. She took the cup and moved back before taking a sip. 

“Some good stuff here,” she said before downing the entire glass down her throat and gesturing for him to pour her another glass. 

“You see I don't usually drink this much but I guess I get a cute guy to look after me if I get a little drunk,” she said as she took the cup to her mouth again. The content of the cup was gone faster than he was able to top up her glass. 

“So do you come here?” he asked referring to the school he had just managed to graduate with honours from. 

“Here? Why do you ask?” she asked dropping the cup to the table in front of her. 

“This is a small campus and I would be very angry with myself if I did not notice a beautiful woman like you” he said and she let out a mocking laughter. 

“You really do have an ego” she let out. It was as though she was trying to make him uncomfortable with her comments from time to time. “Do girls help inflate that ego?” she asked and he nodded. 

“I am in fact the most desirable young man on this campus and I am very popular with all the students” he added with a hint of bragging and she smiled.

“What a mystery, I don't know you,” she said and he shifted uncomfortably again. “I wonder what that is” she added stroking her chin and pretending to think. 

“Maybe you are new?” he asked and then clapped his hands together as though he had managed to crack the mystery. “Are you one of the high schoolers touring the school?” he asked and she chuckled.

“Do I look eighteen?”

“Maybe you took a year off?” he asked and she shook her head. 

“I am not a high schooler or a new student and I do not know you” she lied. Even though she was not from that campus she very well knew who he was, he was just as popular as he thought he was, and his ego deserved to be that big. She did love putting off men who could only survive on the attention they had around them. 

By default, Cade changed the topic because it was now no longer favouring him and moments later she was tipsy and now inching closer to him by the second. “Want to dance?” she asked shaking her hand in the air. 

“You are already getting drunk, how do you intend to get home?” Cade asked worried at how much she had drank. 

“Come” she whispered beckoning to him with one of her fingers. He shifted his head his ears were right beside her mouth. She hiccupped loudly into them before going off with a giggle. “Oops sorry” she said closing her mouth with her hand. 

“This is a secret” she said lowering her voice. Cade couldn't believe that the same woman with a sharp mouth from moments ago was now acting so cute. 

“What is the secret?” he asked turning to her, he was so close to her that he could feel the breath on his face. 

“If you do not stop pestering how can I tell you?’ she asked and he raised his hands as if to give up in surrender. 

“My bad” he said and she nodded and pulled him closer. 

“There are rooms upstairs,” she said in a giggle. 

He wondered why she said it was like a secret, he already knew that he was sure that everyone on that floor knew that there were rooms intimating hotel rooms up. They were usually the centres for those who wanted to have a good time while clubbing. 

“You can take me there” This time her voice was louder than before. “Do you want to go there?” she continued maintaining a loud voice. 

“What?” Cade asked shifting a bit back. In the past, he had never had a problem making out and ending up in a room with a woman he had barely met but for some reason, it was so different this time, he did not want to do that to her especially now that she was drunk.

“Where do you live, i would call you a taxi or a driver” he suggested holding her back. 

“I do not want to go home, do you want to make out?” she asked outright, he shook his head took out his phone out of his pocket and tapped away on it. His phone was out of his hand in a swift motion and he looked back at her, she switched off the phone and threw it on the couch beside them and in a swift moment, her mouth was on his kissing him. 

He did not know it but he was kissing back and by the time he had come to his senses, she was in his arms stark naked and her ginger hair filled the entire bed.

“What just happened?”