SIX

She heard Damon give a loud curse right before a snap sounded behind them. 

"What the hell?!" Damon cursed, stepping in front of Kara as he looked around the jungle, searching for the threat, "Have you seen anyone else come here, Kara."

"I told you to wait for me, didn't I?" Kara flipped around as James voice rung around the empty jungle from behind her.

She found him standing with his arms crossed over his chest, his jaw clenched tightly as his glare pinned Kara in her spot in shock while her heart thudded hard in fear. His anger was as apparent as a bright, shining day. 

"What are you doing here?!" Damon exclaimed, staring at James in shock.

"None of your god damn business!" James did not spare a glance in Damon's direction. His eyes glaring at Kara, "Get out of here." James snapped at Damon.

"Why should I?" Damon asked arrogantly, "You get out of here. No one invited you anyway."

"Actually," James' gaze swung to me, "She did!"

"I and Kara come here-" Damon started to say but Kara cut him off midway, 

"Damon, please don't fight." she murmured. Her head felt like it was about to explode because of irritation and fear. She could not believe that James had decided to follow her here. She knew that this was not her fault and she had done her best to wait for him as long as she could and he was the one who had decided to not fulfill it like an self centered person but still the look in his eyes was not something that she liked for herself.

Damon turned to her and said softly, "Kara, please do not support him right now."

"I am not supporting him!" Kara insisted, inching closer to him and putting her hand on his tight fisted ones, "I just don't want you both to fight today."

She had barely managed to get the words out of her mouth when James grabbed her wrist in a tight grip and started dragging her towards the church. 

"Tell him to get out of here." James snapped.

Kara turned and saw Damon already walking to the driver seat to get inside the car.

"I will see you at home!" she shouted.

"Fucking hell!" Kara heard James curse as he snatched her forward while sliding his hand in her waist and hurrying to get inside the church.

They had barely crossed the threshold of the main door of the broken church when he pushed her forward to pin her against the old, dusty wall, his hand was still gripping her wrist very tightly, making sharp pain to shoot in her whole arm.

"You forgot what I had told you in the morning, Kara?" James gritted through clenched teeth in anger, "I had told you that I will bring you here! Why did not you wait for me?!"

With each word that came out of his lips, his anger increased and his hold on her wrist tightened to unbearable level,

"James, you ar-" Kara whispered but James cut her in the middle, 

"I told you that I will come to bring you here. Why don't you ever listen to me?! If you wanted to come here with Damon, why even bother with me, huh?"

"James, my wrist!" Kara cried out in pain. His hold had tightened so much that she was sure her bones were going to break.

~~~Past~~~

Kara's struggles stopped but she did not raise her eyes to look at James. Her aloofness always irked him because most of the time she was intent on staying as close to him as possible even when he pushed her away.

"Move!" Kara mumbled.

He did not. He was blocking the doorway and she knew that there was no way in hell he was going to let her go until they talked.

"Tell me why you came here." James repeated.

Kara hesitated for a second but then decided to answer him to get out of the room as soon as possible, "I know why you pushed me down the wall." she mumbled, "I saw the snake beside us."

James eyes widened in shock. He had not realized that she had seen it. He did not want to freak her out, that is why he had pushed her down the wall when she did not jump. The snake was quickly slithering towards them. He had tried to tell this to his parents too, but they had just accused him and shouted at him instead of listening to his reason.

"I came here to tell you that I was not angry with you. But you..." Kara's accusing gaze shot to James, "you pushed me so hard. My leg hurts."

James looked at her with a guilty look in his eyes. He was apologetic for his behavior. His anger always wrenched out the worst behavior from him but he never hurt anybody. And Kara was the least person that he wanted to hurt. But this time his anger had brought out the worst of him when he saw Kara standing outside of his room.

"Sorry."James muttered while taking a step forward in her direction.

"Sorry for what?" Kara mumbled but did not look at his face, ignoring him completely.

She could see his feet in front of her eyes as he came to stand just a feet away from her.

She felt his hand lift up. His hand came up to grab her chin gently and lift it up to stare into his eyes as he replied,

"Sorry for pushing you down the wall and sorry for pushing you down when you were out of the room as well."

James eyes held sincerity and gentleness. This one look, this one stare that James always gave Kara was enough for her to go soft on him.

But then he bent down his head and softly kissed her cheek, and that was the moment when her heart raced a bit faster in his presence for the first time.