Falling For You

Chapter Seventeen!

Elena’s POV

It was getting really hot.

I was going to get up but felt someone’s arms around me. Freaking out, I opened my eyes immediately. I saw a window in front of me and I knew that it wasn’t my room.

Remembering someone’s arms were still around me, I screamed and pushed the person on the floor. What scared me even more was that I felt really comfortable in the stranger’s arms.

I blinked a little more, trying the get adjusted to the darkness and found the door. I ran towards it and yanked the door open. My heart rate accelerated when I felt the person’s hands grab my wrists. I closed my eyes trying to stop the tears from pouring out of my eyes. I didn’t want to show weakness. This is it.

He’s going to get me.

He’s going to get me.

I was shaking with fear at this point. I opened my eyes when I felt the person hug me. It was a him for sure as I felt the strong arms and muscles in my back. Hold on, I knew these arms. I knew the warm and woody smell that surrounded me.

“It’s me. Shh. Calm down.”

He whispered soothing words in my ears and I calmed down instantly. I felt my just tensed body relax into him as he was comforting me.

He pulled me back so he could look into my eyes. I felt myself get lost into them for a while.

“I didn’t mean to scare you. You fell asleep and when I called your mom, she said you could stay over tonight.”

I felt myself blush for panicking so easily. Stupid me.

Liam pulled me into a hug again, resting his chin onto my head. Like an instinct, I wrapped my arms around him. My hands came in contact with the smooth skin on his back.

I felt him shiver then tense up under my touch. This didn’t make sense because he was hot. I mean literally. Heat was radiating off his skin on me which helped warm my body. I don’t get how he was hot when I was freezing.

I took notice that he didn’t have a shirt on. Blushing a deeper red, I pulled back and turned around so he didn’t see my face.

“It’s only four in the morning. You wanna change into something more comfortable pants and then go back to sleep?”

I nodded and he walked towards his drawers pulling out grey sweatpants. Handing them to me, I told him to turn around since I didn’t want to walk all the way to the bathroom. I pulled the strings of the pants and tied it tightly so it wouldn’t fall off. I walked back towards his bed slipping under the covers. I felt the bed dip as Liam got on the other side.

I wanted him to wrap his arms around me again since I always felt a sense of security when he did.

Elena, you have a boyfriend now. Even if you are best friends, you can’t act like you are his girlfriend.

Somehow, I felt sad about this but I pushed away my thoughts and fell asleep.

I couldn’t help but to feel kind of empty.

I felt myself being shook.

Earthquake? It is possible? We hardly got any earthquakes here in New York.

I shot up from my sleeping position making everything around me seem too bright for a few seconds. “Liam wake up! Earthquake!”

I was freaking out looking around me for a table to hide under. Scanning the room, I was met with Liam’s smirking face.