Tight Strings: Rules Were Made To Be Broken (COMPLETED)

25: Long speech

I have no time for this.

I forcedly brought my arms to the sides of his face.

Kind of as though I was slapping him with both hands. He flinched and jerked back as he pinched his eyes together with a pout on his lips.

He was lucky I thought of slapping him. The other option I thought of would have left him running to the hospital.

"What kind of self defense is that!?" He asked as he knelt above me and rubbed his cheeks. Releasing his pain a little.

"My very own and it worked." I said as I shoved him off of me, watching as he nearly fell off the bed. "I thought of worse. You're lucky I picked just that." I said as I reached for the chocolate box.

This. I have time for.

I quickly split the box open and scanned the different shapes of chocolate. I picked the square and munched on it, enjoying the delicacy of the melting chocolate and sugar, all the nice tenderness smeared above my tongue the way butter slowly melts away on a pan, slowly enveloping me in a thick yet soft embrace of brown goodness.

It's been long since I had chocolate.

One month to be exact.

"That's an odd face to make when eating chocolate." He chuckled and I ignored him as I took in another. "Have you forgiven me now?"

"No. Not the slightest." I deadpanned as I gave him a bloodshot glare. "You're evil to the core and don't care about anyone but yourself. I mean, how could you do that to me? Actually leaving me in the library and going off to some anonymous place with two idiotic girls that want to rape the same guy."

"Are you actually jealous?" He asked with a chuckle as he sat himself down on the bed after nearly falling off.

"Shut. Up." I hissed as I looked away from him and down at the chocolates.

I have to admit. I think I was.

"Okay." He chuckled some more. "I love you too." He said and I huffed as I rolled my eyes in boredom. "You won't admit it but you like me."

"Don't you have some place else to be, Ash?" I thundered and he sighed out as he crossed his arms over his chest.

"I really like your mom." He said and I rolled my eyes once more, almost feeling as though they would fall out of my eyes.

"Go date her then." I hissed as I stuffed more chocolate in my mouth.

"No. I love you more." He whispered and I did not replay. "You know Riley, when I make you my girlfriend you'll have to at least smile at me once in a while." I laughed out at that to the point I felt like chocking from the chocolate sliding down my throat.

Oh wait he wasn't joking.

"I'm being serious." He deadpanned and I chuckled as I shook my head in laughter. "You think it's a joke? I'm really starting to think you're just here to make fun of my efforts."

"For your information, Ash." I cleared my throat as I pinched my fingers to my thumb and lifted my pinkie to state a valid point. "I don't like people who have a 99.9% chance of cheating on me. It would cause brain trauma if you do not know. I could get traumatized if I actually fell in love with you only to get betrayed in the worst possible way-"

"And there she goes..."

"You know that people become victims of such circumstances that result to a 50% chance of them becoming psychologically disturbed that they result to certain habits, in quote and unquote, that could lead them to follow the path of evil, evil being murder and also kidnapping. Others might go to even worse terms as someone who tortures their loved ones because they couldn't find it in their heart to watch them live a bright life with others. I'm not saying I would go that way. Of course not, I'm perfectly prepared for such situations, I'm just assuming that if I do fall into a toxic relationship with you and that it is one sided, I could become the victor and you the victim. Which of course would promise you either years of torment, manutirtion, lack of vitamin D from the sun light, but of course there are other ways of getting vitamin D, I'm just assuming, plus you could get pale and wrinkly because sunlight --whether you like it or not-- is very essential for the human development not only for warmth but it's actually good for your skin if taken at a lighter dosage. Plus, sunlight also helps keep your day a bit better as it boosts your happiness in a certain degree. However, being a victim could cause serious illnesses and also cause trauma since you will be forbidden to make contact with whomever you know-"

"I understand now." He rolled his eyes as he sighed and glared at me for some odd reason. "I won't cheat if you become my girlfriend."

"If I don't you will?" I asked in boredom and he smirked as he crossed his arms over his chest.

"Can't say." He said and I rolled my eyes with a heavy sigh. "Fine I'll stop. Then will you have me?"

"Unless I can trust you." I said as I began to eat the chocolates again.

"What's there not to trust?"

"Your very existence is untrustworthy." I deadpanned and he huffed as he growled under his breath.

"Ouch." He sighed out only to suddenly feel his fingers on my cheek. "You're so mean."

"Don't touch me." I hissed, slapping his hands away. "Your hands are dirty."

"Mm-hm."