Chapter 183 - Bite Those Lips (1/2)

How complicated is it to fall in love with someone? How do you think two souls find their way to each other? Do the eyes lead that way or is it the skin? Or perhaps, it's the magnetic pull of the universe?

Actually, it doesn't take a kiss or someone akin to fall in love. Honestly, no one can certainly say how one falls in love. But one thing that's for sure is that it only takes a moment. It can be a moment of laughter or crying with them. Or it can be a moment of hearing that particular person calling your name that eventually did some unexplainable things to your heart. Nonetheless, it can also be a moment of silence you shared with that person where you heard a peculiar melody and only then realized how loud silence could become.

But it doesn't really matter which moment it was. What matters is that when two souls fall for each other, all that's left between them is a yearning. A yearning to be close to each other. And that yearning leads to fear of every goodnight turning into a goodbye. Because souls don't have the notion of time and distance which means for the souls, the absence is like separation. That's why the souls feel the presence of their significant other intensely even through a mere hand held.

For Xiu, him holding her hand as he led her inside the apartment building was really special. As they were in the elevator, she couldn't keep her eyes away from him even now. But Darren was feeling really strange under the scrutiny of her eyes and kept fidgeting.

”Aren't you tired of looking at me already?” he finally voiced out.

Xiu took a step towards him and he took a step back on instinct. Perhaps it was her predatory expression that cornered him as his back hit the wall of the elevator. Xiu placed one hand on the wall and looked at him saying, ”I don't like seeing anything between us.”

”There is literally nothing between us,” said Darren pointing at the way her body was almost pressed against his own.

'Clothes are still between us!' her dirty mind reminded her and Xiu almost puked blood at her own thinking. Where did that come from? Seeing how Darren was looking at her, she kept her straight face and said, ”Well, the heart has no logic and feelings are beyond magic. Then why are we keeping rationality between us?”

”Sweets, who led you astray while I was away? When did you become so... Indecent?”

”You did,” replied Xiu honestly with an innocent look. ”You are doing things to me that I can't even describe in words. But I do know that...” she laid her hand on his chest and drew circles as she went on, ”I really want to bite those lips.”

*Ding*

As those words left her mouth, the elevator door opened and Xiu walked out like she hadn't just been breaking his walls. As for Darren, he finally breathed out not even knowing that he had been holding his breath until now. She came on too strong and suddenly for him. He definitely didn't expect it from her. Wasn't she the shy type? Only alcohol made her brave.

Poor guy didn't know that love always made the shy turn into the brave one and the brave into the shy one. Like himself!