A visitor in my bedroom

(LANA’S POV)

I never thought that I would ever see myself standing so close to Atlas ever. He had pulled me in to a corner in the hallway and for me it suddenly seemed like we were the only ones in the world.

My nose was already filled with his cologne and it took me back to yesterday. I knew that my cheeks had gone red again, I could feel the heat.

“You don’t have anything to say to me, do you?” He asked me.

His voice was as sexy as the rest of him was. Not very deep but hoarse in a kind of cool manner. It made my legs shake.

I would have thought that being so close to him would at least show me his imperfections but his face was perfectly sculpted and my brain suddenly stopped functioning properly.

“That’s funny. Your book made me think that you had a lot to say…..” He said and I was shocked when his eyes fluttered to my lips briefly before he added in his alluring voice, “And a lot to do.”

I could feel my breath hitching in my throat.

“I…I am really sorry for sniffing your clothes and I’m sorry for…..” i swallowed and my words ended unable to say the rest.

I had a flash of him naked in my head again.

“Sorry for……” He asked me cooly as his eyes sucked in to mine.

Now, I know that after what happened yesterday I had imagined about a thousand more ways our meeting could have gone. But let me reintroduce myself to you as the biggest dreamer you can ever find.

With a second chance today plus having him so close to me in a tight corner, one would think that I would do something different.

But I stammered tongue tied for words and I was very relieved when someone opened a door in the hallway and I had the chance to slip out of his grip and hurry away quickly.

(ATLAS’S POV)

Well I’ll be damned! I thought as I watched her walk away quickly. I couldn’t help but chuckle.

It was not just funny but undeniably cute.

Finding out who Alana Delaware was didn’t turn out hard at all. For someone like me it was very smooth. All I had to do was go to the principal’s office were I spoke to the secretary, Miss Jones in a straight forward manner and with my charm that made her smile at me very brightly.

“I need to find out about a student that is supposed to tutor me. Her name is Alana Delaware. I lost the information slip I received from my teacher.” I lied.

With the way the words in the notebook were written, I knew she had to be someone intelligent.

“Right away, Mr Shaughnessy.” Miss Jones said fluttering her eyes lashes at me.

Flirting between a teacher and a student is not allowed and I know that but I also know that I am handsome beyond imagination and as I have mentioned before, females do tend to throw themselves at me. So that included the older ones as well.

Miss Jones had given me enough that I needed to know about Alana for the moment . She was a scholarship student in her senior year like me and we had a couple of classes together. Just as I had predicted, she was really smart.

I understood why I had never seen her then. She was among the kids that were called the scholarship nerds. She was not popular and so she was not in my line of vision. I took note of when she had her classes and that was when I noticed her avoiding going to class.

Having her cornered in the hallway was hotter than I would have thought.

While at home, I could not help but replay the scene over and over in my head. The way I had bent over her. Those large beautiful blue eyes that had stared back at me in fear and panic. The way her pretty pouty lips opened and closed each time to show she was nervous.

Also, this time her hair was not in a bun and it cascaded down to her waist like a smooth blonde waterfall. She smelled like fresh sweet cocoa and she looked so innocent yet filled with a lot of thoughts.

Before I slept, I read one of the paragraphs again .

The things I would do for him. The things I would do to him. The things I would say to him. The way that I shall touch him. If only he would let me. If only he would let my fingers trace in heart shapes, my lips moving slowly over his body as he directed me…..

The words aroused me! As I could not help but imagine what I was reading.

I wondered before I finally slept, if she was willing to keep running away fro me.

And I received an answer the next morning when I realized that she did not show up to school.

But she did not know that I was ready to keep chasing.

(LANA’S POV)

I bit my lips as I remembered how the day before had gone. Each time I did, I stared down at my arm where Atlas had touched me and I could not help but smile goofily.

He had touched me.

Even if it was for a brief, split moment. I could not believe the way I was feeling a rush of emotions remembering the way he had looked in to my eyes and wishing that he had made my dreams come true by just kissing me right then!.

But all these wishes and when it came to putting in effort, I failed woefully.

I had lied that I was not feeling good so that I could miss school the next day. There was no way I could go back to that school for now knowing that Atlas had not only found but read the contents of my notebook! At this point, I was not too crazy to be thinking of the exchange student program….or was I?

Mum felt guilty that she had given me a cold, I felt guilty for lying to her but the guilt reduced when she came by my room at midday to tell me that she had received a transfer of her payment from the cleaning I had done at the Shaughnessy family pool house. She had thanked me because she had even gotten a positive review and a huge tip.

Even though I was very relieved and thankful to God that I had not put my mum’s job at risk, I could not help but wonder what Atlas was up to. Was he doing this so that I could thank him? Would he require me to pay him? Would he let it slide?

These thoughts bugged me the whole day and so when mum told me that I had a visitor downstairs that evening, I was scared to my bones. I went down shakily to see who it was.

I was relieved and still disappointed when I saw Travis waiting for me, seated anxiously in our small living room.

“Travis. Hy. What are you doing here?” I asked him.

He stood up with a smile.

“I didn’t see you at school and so I brought your notes over for you.” He told me quickly handing them over.

“Thank you very much.” I said truly grateful.

“Do you want something to drink?” I offered.

“I would have loved to but i am already late so I have to decline.” He said.

He looked nervous and I smiled kindly at him.

“Are you fine? I mean you missed school .” He said

“Yeah I just came down with a little cold.” I lied.

“Well I do hope you feel better.” He said

“Thanks.” I escorted him and told him bye before returning to my room.

Just as I did, my phone rang. It was Paige.

“Hey baby girl! How are you feeling now? We called the house and your mum told us you were sick.” She said.

“I am. Just a little cold.” I said feeling guilty for the constant lies. “But I’m getting better.”

“We missed you at school today.” She said.

“I missed you too. Travis just left. He came by with my notes for me.” I said sitting on my bed cross legged.

“Ooooooh. Go Travis!” Paige said and I could picture the mischievous grin on her face.

I laughed. “Stop being silly.” I said.

“Come on, you really don’t see how much he likes you? He is always….”

Paige lunged in to one of her talks about how Travis likes me and I was initially listening until I heard a noise from the trees outside my windows. Perhaps it was a squirrel, I thought and still holding the phone to my ear, I went to close my window shut.

But as I approached the window, something happened. The curtains moved aside and someone slipped in to my room.

Atlas Shaughnessy was casually dressed in sneakers,grey sweatpants and a hoodie but still looking like a fucking god!