worse.
“Jennifer, has anyone ever told you that you look good with short hair?”
He didn’t call me Jen anymore. He started calling me by my first name.
He’d been standing at my doorstep–actually, he’d been following me around for the past few days.
I didn’t know if this was harassment, since all the neighbors thought he was way out of my league.
When I tried to shut him out, he simply slept in the hallway And he’d been doing that for days.
“Don’t you have a home?!”
I couldn’t hold it in anymore, and I turned to face him.
He nodded seriously.
“Yeah, I was kicked out.”
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He pulled out his ID and showed it to me.
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“See, I changed my name to Ben. I know you like calling me Ben, so I’m keeping it. Even my ID says Ben now. But
my grandpa found out and kicked me out of the house. You don’t need to feel sorry for me. I’ll just sleep outside. It’s not a big deal. The wind is strong at night, so it’s a bit uncomfortable, and it gets cold, but I’m fine…”
I stared at him. His eyes were looking unusually damp, shimmering with unshed tears.
Bright, but filled with hurt.
I sighed in defeat and opened the door to let him in.
But the moment he stepped in, the first thing he did was push me against the door and kiss me.
The room was still dark, and all I could hear was his ragged breathing.
And his voice, soft yet restrained, calling my name.
His hands weren’t idle, either, reaching places they shouldn’t be, and all I could taste was him.
I struggled for a moment, but he swiftly pinned my hands behind my back.
He chuckled in my ear.
“Jennifer, do you know what it means to fall into a trap? You should be more cautious next time.”
I was too stunned to speak.
This guy was unbelievable!
“Ben! I…”
It seemed like my voice trembled, and that was when he finally let me go.
I grabbed his shirt, my vision blurring, the dim lights from outside flickering and casting tiny spots on the ground, falling onto our hearts.
“I can’t be with you. You know that… My parents don’t want me, and I’m broke. Yes, maybe you have feelings for me. But what good is that? How long can the feelings last? If I hadn’t picked you up that day, you wouldn’t even have looked at me, right? Just like what you said back then. You said, you said…”
I gripped his shirt tighter, tears falling from my nose, dripping onto the floor.
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Chapter 14
