7

Laura

I had lived all my life with the wall I had built around my world. Never been in a relationship, never had a first love, never had a genuine close friend and never had an experience with most typical things in life.

Those walls were crashing now as I felt my back crash in my bed with our lips intertwined with passion burning through us.

When he drove off, I could feel my heart break into a million pieces. I wish it wasn't that hard to see things the same way he saw things and at that moment I felt I had lost him.

As I walked back in, the thoughts of how I lost my job came rushing through my head. I had lost everything.

I rushed out of my clothes, ready to drown myself in the shower. I had only stepped under the shower for a few minutes when I heard the knock at the door.

As I opened the door, seeing him stand by my doorway, my breath ceased for a swift second. I stared at him in shock and maybe disbelief and joy.

He came back.

When his lips met mine, I wanted to push him off me. It felt wrong but I liked it so I finally let him in.

We were burning with passion and desire. We were hungry. I was hungry. I hadn't felt this ever in my life. This feeling was foreign to me. He was my first.

His lips never broke from mine. I had my legs wrapped around his waist and we carefully walked up the stairs to my room.

He lingered above me, staring down at my face and in his eyes, I could see affection. No one had ever looked at me like that.

I had always gotten backlash from people, got used by them or insulted but in his eyes, I see admiration. That was foreign to me.

"You are so beautiful that I feel it's unreal!"

I chuckled shyly and my cheeks flushed.

He lowered his head again and kissed me again. He kissed me with passion, with love that I hadn't gotten from anyone before.

He kissed my cheeks and kissed the side of my neck, my breath ceased when he lowered his kiss to my chest.

"You smell like vanilla."

"That's...that's my favourite...favourite flavour." I stuttered.

"Shhh." he kissed my lips again. "Don't ever stutter," he said before kissing me again and sitting up.

Uhmm...excuse me? That's it about that? I had seen it in movies. When two adults burn with passion and hunger like we just did, they end up in ashes of desires and pleasure with echoes of moans but this was it?

"Laura!"

"Yes."

"What were you thinking so hard about?"

"Me? Nothing." I laughed it off as I sat in bed as well, tucking my towel in well.

"I would like to attend a dinner party with you so I need you to never stutter. Be endowed with confidence."

"Uhmm...yes. Yes, sure. I can do that."

I cleared my throat and nodded repeatedly before getting up from the bed.

"So...are we really dating?"

Dating. I had almost forgotten I had agreed to be his girlfriend. I wasn't certain if that truly was something I wanted with him or if I was ready to finally commit to a person. I had no experience in this and I might mess it all up but I agreed to it without hesitation.

I turned around to look at his face and if I had shown any sign of uncertainty, I knew I could break his heart so I nodded.

"Yes."

He smiled broadly before walking closer to me.

"Thank you."

"Why do you keep thanking me?"

"I should be appreciative. You gave me a chance."

Staring at his face made me realize why I couldn't play hard around him. He is drop-dead gorgeous. His abs were peeking for appearance through his shirt and his height was something that weakened my knees.

"You look so good. So clean."

He cupped my face in his palm and swept the strand of stray hair behind my ear before lowering his head and placing a gentle kiss on my lips.

"Get dressed. I wanna show you something."

"Right now?"

"Yes," he replied and I nodded.

He walks out of the room to give me space to get changed and I kind of appreciate that.

After I was done changing, we both stepped out. I saw a car parked outside and wondered if it belonged to my neighbour.

After thirty minutes of driving and enjoying the thrush of the cool night breeze hitting my face, we finally came to a stop in front of a building. 

"Where are we?"

"An art gallery."

"What are we doing here though?"

"Stop being inquisitive," he smiled and I rolled my eyes.

As we walked in, the lights came on and I wondered if he always had the free pass into all buildings.

The hallway was long and the lights kept coming on as we walked deeper. I looked around the whole place, feeling a little creeped out and he held my hand.

"I'm here," he said and I smiled, giving him a slight nod.

We finally came to the display room and I marvelled at the beauties before me. He freed my hand and let me admire the whole place.

"This place. It is so beautiful!" I said, swirling around.

I gasped at a painting. It has a connection of various colours, forming a circle with a lady in the centre.

"Oh goodness. This is absolutely beautiful. I mean, insanely beautiful!" I half-yelled and he chuckled.

I hadn't ever thought I could be caught in the beauty of art as this.

"Come with me." I hesitated and he held my hand, pulling me to follow him.

We walked past some exceedingly beautiful paintings before arriving at a door and he pushed the door open.

"Is it legal to be here by this time?"

"I own this place." I was still shocked by his words when the lights came on.

"Oh...my...God!"

I covered my mouth with my palm in utmost surprise. I could feel the tears burn my eyes as I had never seen a thing as beautiful as what was before my eyes.

I managed to stifle the tears as I moved closer but it became even harder.

The picturesque looked like it was alive with tons of flowers blossoming with beautiful bright lights shining down on them.

Adlan stood beside me and spoke. "This is the most beautiful thing in my life. I always come here just to stare even if it was in the middle of the night. When things in my life go ugly, I would come over here again and again till I have stared to satisfaction but then things changed that night. The night we met." he blinked back the tears in his eyes and that gave way for my tears to roll down my cheeks.

I have gotten too deep into this than I had realized. There was no going back. There was no declining except I wanted to break this man.

"You are now the most beautiful thing in my life, Laura and I will love you with everything I have."