Chapter 9

Alice

That young man thought he had the right to break in wherever he pleased and whenever he felt like it. A fact that made him arrogant and arrogant in my eyes. I did not remember the last time I had been angry with someone, instead of with myself, but I knew perfectly well that the emotion I was feeling at that moment, was not other than that of a good anger. And in spite of that, I could not stop thinking about the fact that the boy had stared at me intensely, as if he liked what he was seeing.

In case looking at me almost naked would not have been enough, it had also been tremendously complicated to not realize that the temperature of his body had risen to physically impossible levels.

"I'm really sorry." he apologized again at the same time he looked me in the eyes in a somewhat intimidating way. I snorted loudly and turned my back, as I felt very uncomfortable at that moment. "I'm sorry I bothered you. I should not have come, I do not know why I'm here." I heard him say thoughtfully, as if he was talking to himself and not to me.

The steps he took to leave the room did not go unnoticed. And when I turned around, the boy had already disappeared from the room.

"Wait!" I shouted at him, almost forgetting the incident and the way I had reacted towards him. I left the room in his search, because I needed to feel that feeling I had felt recently: a strange connection between us. Nevertheless, it may have been only in my mind.

It did not take long to visualize the boy, who seemed surprised to watch me go to him with quick and determined steps. I approached him too confidently and ignored his frown, which showed nothing but confusion. Then, I looked at his warm brown eyes and moved the palm of my hand to his face, slowly. The beat of my heart accelerated and I could see that the boy's breathing suddenly broke. He was aware of my movements and knew what I was about to do: the same thing he had done to me when I woke up from my deep sleep. I wanted to know if what I had felt had been real or just had been my imaginations and I was afraid that this wonderful sensation that I had felt when touching a human being, would not have been true, but only products of my mind. I felt I was maybe starting to lose my mind.

However, when I began to feel the warmth that emanated from his body under the palm of my hand, the boy moved away quickly, as if he had been possessed by the devil. He did not seem scared, but he did not look safe with me at his side either.

I sighed, defeated. Maybe that meant he had not felt the same as me, which was quite likely since I did not remember the last time someone had touched me. I had forgotten what it felt like when someone touched you, that warmth that came from a person.

I stared at him, pretending that his reaction had not affected me at all. After all, it was not his fault that I was something like cursed and he had the right not to want to feel frozen by my simple touch. Despite that fact, it did not seemed to me as if he was in pain when he touched me.

The boy looked relaxed to see that I did not intend to try to touch him again.

"By the way, my name is Skay." he said in a low voice, but at the same time sweet.

I stared at him, trying to react to his presentation. I made an effort to sketch a smile on my face, but I could not. I may not even have learned to smile.

Seeing that situation was beginning to be absurd, I ignored the young man, whose name was Skay, and I started walking down the corridor, with no direction in mind.

"You cannot walk alone through the hallways of the palace." Skay told me to my surprise when he saw that I was leaving without telling him anything.

I ignored him again. Communication with human beings was not exactly my strong point, much less if the person who wanted to talk to me was a scoundrel.

"Someone could see you!" he shouted at my back and then I stopped. Was not that supposed to be my world? Why was I repudiated in him, too?

"Sure... I could scare someone to death just at my sight, right?" I asked without looking at the boy, who I was beginning to feel closer and closer to me. How was I able to feel his simple presence close to me?

When I turned around, he was beside me and frowned.

"Yes." he answered solemnly and the entire world seemed to turn its back to me. Would there be a place inhabited in the universe where someone would see me as a normal person who does not intend to harm anyone?

I rolled my eyes.

"There are many things you do not know about this world and about yourself that I do not even know myself." continued to say Skay.

"In that case, I suggest you explain everything you know." I answered not very convinced and afraid to know what the boy really had to say.

Skay was the one who sighed in resignation and finally said: "It's something long to explain..."

Then, I looked into his eyes, so different from mine, and I answered: "I have plenty of time."