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You sprinted down the hall to ensure he couldn't see where you went.
For some reason, the tingling sensation inside your veins' a different feeling from anything you've ever experienced.
Sometimes you wondered what happened in your life for it to turn out this way. Was it fate? Did something like fate even exist?
Your hands clenched around the corner in order to stop yourself from slipping. It's softer in noise. Not that he would catch you.
All of it took place quicker than you're able to process. One day you're on vacation, enjoying the cool weather of England, and the next you sat in a plane on your way to New York.
A huff escaped your lips, which you tried to tone down by placing the hand over your mouth. Every single sound's going to give away your whereabouts.
Meeting him wasn't on your bingo card. Nor learning about his crazy friends and family. Life handed you a ticket to a new chapter without your awareness. And you'd taken it.
Your knees cracked after kneeling. Cursing the volume of it, you went back to peeking through the keyhole. Hiding in the storage room's not the most creative, but certainly smart.
These tiny walls held a lot of stuff. Some of it you didn't even recognize. Like someone collected trash off the streets, just to place them here. At least it didn't stink.
That faithful day, when you ran into him, the feeling hit you immediately. He looked into your eyes for a short second, offered a slick smile, saw you blush and decided to ask you out to a coffee.
Later you learned that it's quite uncommon for him to simply ask girls out on a date. Yet he did with you regardless. Did it make you lucky?
The shadow falling over the keyhole caused your breath to hitch. Swearing you're able to smell his scent, you crawled back a little. If he'd look through the small hole, you'd be busted.
Whatever the reason had been – you learned in a short period of time how witty albeit insidious his character truly was.
The doorknob wiggled with the crackling sound of wood. Your heart stopped beating as you only could taste the bitter defeat on your tongue.
He told you crazy stories about his adventures. Things so out of place that no normal person would believe a single fraction. Yet you never once doubted the truthfulness of them.
Vampires, Evil, Breathing that controlled energy of the sun. It's insane enough for a person to bring him into a psychiatry.
Your nerves tingled after the door was opened. Eyes stared up into the one's of the person who'd finally found you. Nobody moved an inch.
It's like danger was drawn to him. Apparently his dad died when he was young. But his grandfather, he was the person where the whole curse began with. Or was it is great-grandfather? Sometimes you confused elements of the story.
»I found you«, he said and leaned the arm onto the doorframe. »You thought you can hide? From me?«
With the sound of your butt hitting the ground, you finally let go all the tension. A shrug's the only answer you had.
He raised an eyebrow before laughing. The sound's rather contagious, therefore you joined him in less volume. But now that the hide and seek game was over, it indeed felt funny.
You then stretched your poor legs. »I thought maybe!« the confidence in your voice came out.
»But you always find me under ten minutes. It's almost like you cheat.«
He crossed his arms, a little frown on his face. »That's such a cruel allegation, (N). I'm just damn good at games.«
The little sparkle around him made you roll your eyes affectionately. You held out your hand afterwards. He wasted no second to help you back to your feet.
Being closer to his body, you saw a slight hint of red on his cheeks. Probably from running after you. So much for being effortlessly good at hide and seek. It had you smirk regardless.
»Alright then, you won.« You let go to brush past him with a smile. »Time to go back and clean the kitchen.«
»Ugh... When did my life go from slaying Vampires to unloading the dishwasher?«
»Since you decided to live with your partner, you dumbass. Now let's go, haha!«