5. Matilda. Join him.

"I have no enemies." I replied still staring at him. My eyes were beginning to water as my heart started to beat profusely in my chest. "Just let me pass through." My voice sounded more of a plea I was even tempted to beg. His presence was suffocating me i just wanted to leave. To breathe.

Yet, as much as i wanted to leave there was something about him that called to me. There was something about Him that appealed to me and yet that thing which called to me felt suspiciously dark. It felt ike some evil power that would end up taking the life out of me without me knowing. Like the rat that bites and blows so you don't get to feel its bite.

We both stared at each other in silence. We were the only ones left in the class now and maybe the world. To me it felt like we were the only two people that currently existed. Funny how i wanted to be the first to leave.

I exhaled.

The universe keeps toiling with my plans and feelings and I really don't enjoy it.

"You think so." He finally replied, breaking the silence that threatened to swallow us into an abyss we wouldn't be able to get out of. "Even God has enemies and if God in his infinite goodness and mercy can have enemies, how much you?"

There was a smirk on his face as he spoke. A smirk i wanted to slap away. I could not fathom what the smirk meant or implied but it was beautiful either ways and annoying.

Was he trying to seduce me? Did he fancy me? No it can't be. He's definitely one of those bad boys that liked to play with the emotions of girls like me thinking us to be naive. I might look naive but i was not. Funny he should think to pick me as his first victim. I started to wonder what made him leave his former school.

He took the book out of my hands with such smooth movement I was left speechless. "The faster we drop this the faster we eat don't you think? There is no need being too cautious rose, i don't bite and even if i do i won't bite you at least, not yet." He said plainly like he did not just suggest that we eat together.

"My name is Matilda not rose."

"Matilda," he repeated after me, drinking in my name, tasting it. "Matilda, i like it. You have a beautiful name."

I swallowed. I didn't know what to reply, it was like my mind stopped processing things. He was doing something to me. Imprinting on me.

Before I could come up with something to say to him he was already walking away with my book. I felt like someone was watching us, i turned back but there was no one there so I quickly brushed the feeling away. I blinked and swallowed. I was always afraid.

Then holding my bag tight till my knuckles hurt, I followed him behind. Telling myself that i was only following him because he was with my book even though deep in my heart i knew better.

Even if it scared me the way he made me feel, it was the kind of fear that was inviting, seductive, magnetic. So i followed because i wanted to feed more into the fear. A fine kind of fear.

"So which one is your locker." He asked when we got to the hallway.

I pointed to my locker and he turned his head sideways where I now stood walking by his side. His eyes met with mine while i looked up at him then he smiled mischievously causing my heart to jump and to somersault. I wanted to say something, with the way his eyes twinkled I knew he expected me to say  something But I chose to ignore him. No snide remarks. My brain couldn't come up with anything at the moment and I didn't want to embarrass myself.

I walked away from him, walking past him while I listened to his footsteps as he walked behind me. He took his time while he walked so it wasn't difficult for me to keep being in front as he walked slowly, too slow for a man.

I opened my locker moving aside so he put the book inside.

"Funny that your seat is next to mine and your locker is also next to mine. Is this a coincidence Matilda. Do you believe in coincidences or do you think this is a planned work by the universe." He placed the book in the locker and closed it.

"It sure looks like a planned work since i do not fancy coincidences. So Matilda do you think this is a sign that maybe you belong by my side? " He asked turning around.

His eyes met mine now and he held on to my gaze. My heart stopped.

"Do I have a reason not to believe in coincidences? The Universe will not plan something like this. Can you just let me be and stop saying ridiculous things!" I stuttered.

My hands were shaking and my heart kept skipping beats.

This is ridiculous.

He seemed to have guessed my reply. He turned around to face me with a smile that I would never forget.

"There is not a love story more beautiful than one which starts with a coincidence."

I finally confirmed that he was crazy when he said that and I laughed hard for the first time that day, I did.