Falling For A Criminal

Falling For A Criminal - Chapter Nine

Watching Haydn leave the room seemed to bother me way more than it should have. There were a million, billion, trillion, gazillion reasons why I knew it shouldn't have, but the way he looked when he left threw me off; confusing me in a way that I didn't quite understand. Sure, I was just some weird girl who he went to school with, and he was a teacher screwing, drug dealing, bad boy, but that didn't mean anything—not at the moment anyway.

Why I was thinking about this in the first place only added on to my confusion. Haydn was nothing to me but a boy who broke into my room and fell asleep on my bed with the smell of marijuana radiating off of his amazingly sexy body.

I groaned at the thought; there was really something wrong with me if I was calling him sexy—in my mind or outloud didn't matter! That only meant soon I would be swooning over him just like every other girl, and I didn't want that to happen. I wouldn't let it happen!

The sound of a door opening interrupted my thoughts, and when I turned to look, I saw the shape of a familiar blond walking in. Her face was flushed and the way she wouldn't meet my eyes kind of threw me off, but I'd ignore it for now. It's not like she could keep secrets from me anyway. “I see you're finally awake.” Looking up, she smiled and sat down in the chair where Hadyn was only a few minutes ago. “Are you OK? When you got to my house you were. . . I don't even know. You looked traumatized.”

Shrugging, I looked down at my reconnected IV's and blew out a sigh. “I was hoping I'd wake up to you being here, but I guess Haydn had other idea's. Speaking of which,” I looked right into her eyes; holding a gaze that I knew she couldn't look away from, “why were you with his brother? Is there something you're not telling me?”

Quickly averting her eyes, she shook her head and looked around the room, as if looking for a distraction. “Not at all. You know everything that's going on-”

“-look me in the eyes and tell me that.”

Hesitating for only a second, she looked up at me and gave me her best poker face. “You know everything that's going on.” We held eye contact for a few seconds before she looked away and down at her phone as if waiting for a text or call from someone. I knew that I wasn't going to get any answers this way, so I simply looked away from her and leaned back in the bed. So many thoughts were parading around in my mind, and once Haydn's face appeared again, I couldn't help but feel myself smiling—subconsciously of course. The way his eyes lit up when he saw that I was awake, how he continued to laugh about something in an almost too sexy way, the way he-

Damn it, Adriana, stop it! I blew out a sigh, but not before thinking about one more thing. When I had woken up, he had been right in my face and he had every opportunity in the world to kiss me. And he didn't. The fact that he threw away the chance to kiss someone surprised me, but not as much as me realizing that I wanted him to do it. There was no way that I was beginning to have feelings for him, but I couldn't help but wonder what it would be like to kiss him. His soft lips on mine, his hands on my hips and our bodies pressed up together as we-

“What are you thinking about, Adriana? I've never seen you so focused.”

Looking down at Cassandra at the sound of her voice, I shook my head and bit my lip nervously. Had it been obvious that I was thinking about Haydn? “How long was I out, anyway? The last thing I remember was running away from some guy and then I woke up here.”

She nodded, a quick flash going through her eyes before she spoke. “I don't know, you showed up at my house freaking out and then you kind of fainted. I didn't even get the chance to ask you what happened because you fell and hit your head—pretty hard, by the way. The fact that you don't have a head ache right now is a mystery to me.”