I stand there with a glass bottle in my hand thinking only one thing: what part of his body do I want to hit with this? I don't give a shit that there are twenty people separated from us by only one wall or that my parents and his parents are out there; I don't give a shit if they hear me screaming or not. I was right and he was wrong and he is going to fucking hear it.
He looks up at me, our eyes locking, and I can see his jaw clench and flex at the sight of me poised to throw this bottle at him. His hands curl into fists and then open, again and again, and I can hear him struggling to control his breathing; I feel his heart racing from across the room.
"Apologize," I say barely more than a whisper. I see his jaw moving and I know he's grinding his teeth. The muscles in his arms are flexing, his blue eyes narrow, his freckled nose scrunches up at me for a second as he takes a quick breath in.
"Apologize," I say again, this time with a bite to my voice, my pitch possibly audible to the party we have waiting outside for us.
"Apologize or I fucking lose it." I can feel my pulse beating in my head, my grip tightening on the bottle, my breath becoming shallow. He steadies himself before speaking.
"Not on your fucking life. Get out of the fucking doorway."
I stare him, speechless for a moment before my voice starts rising in pitch. "Where the hell do you think you're going? You're not fucking leaving."
"I am leaving this goddamn apartment right now and I'm not fucking coming home tonight. You can entertain these people, you can explain that because you're so fucking stubborn I had to leave, you can explain that you're sorry that I couldn't be here."
"Are you fucking delusional? This is
your
party, this is mostly
your
family. And you're not coming home?" I say, starting to yell. "Where the fuck do you think you're staying tonight? Is there something else we should be fighting about? Is there something I should know?" He turns away from me, clenching his hands into fists and leaning his body against them into the wall, touching his forehead to it.
"I don't know what the hell is wrong with you tonight," he says, "but you're acting like a psycho. Move your ass out of the doorway or I'm going to move it for you." This should phase me; I'm five foot two, he's six foot three. I'm the manager of a bookstore and he's a former marine; I workout by moving stacks of books around my store, he works out by taking part in the occasional triathlon. At this moment though, I could give a fuck.
I throw the bottle.
He turns just in time to catch it before it hits him in the ass. He looks down at it, then at me. Holding it, I can see that if he squeezes it any harder, it will break. His nostrils are flaring.
I go to speak, but in two steps he is on top of me. His right hand drops the bottle and grabs my face, just around my mouth, pushing me back and pinning me up against the door, his left hand holds my right arm back. My free hand grabs his wrist and he stands there, bending his tall, muscular body down, his face just inches from mine, his hot breath on my skin, his blue eyes staring at me for what feels like forever. I try and pull his hand from my face and it begins to register that I have no actual control anymore. My words are useless here; he has more strength in his hand than I have in my entire upper body. I go to speak again and his hand clenches a little harder. He moves closer to me.
"This attitude of yours needs to disappear," he says, "and it needs to disappear now." His voice is calm and in control, just above a whisper, but very firm; he doesn't blink as he speaks. "If you ever throw something at me like that again, I'm going to put my fists through these walls so many times that you won't even recognize it as a room." I can feel his pulse through his wrist as he continues to stare at me, his hands not easing their grip. "I have never raised a hand to you and I never will, but if you ever push me like this again, I'm going to fucking leave whether you want me to or not. Now I don't give a shit that you think you're right and you think I'm wrong, or that our friends and family are standing five feet outside this door or that every fucking one of them can hear the shit that's been coming out of your mouth. You need to shut the fuck up and control yourself. You're acting like a spoiled bitch and as much as I love you, I'm not putting up with this shit."
He stands there, not moving, barely breathing. My eyes move from his eyes to his mouth, my hand moves from his wrist to his chest, and I gather some of his shirt in my hand. I've never seen him this angry. I let go of his shirt and move my hand to his neck, moving the tips of my fingers along his skin.
"I'm sorry," I whisper, looking back up at him.
With his hand still holding my face, he pulls me to him, his kiss angry and hard as it is needing and gentle. The suddenness of it takes my breath away and I can still feel the adrenaline moving through my body; my legs are shaking, my hand returns to his wrist where I squeeze him hard, wanting him, hating him, loving him all at once. He pulls back for a second, taking me in with his eyes, his hand still on my mouth when his grip softens and instead of holding me back, he's drawing me in again. I can still feel the tension in his body as he lets my arm go and I can feel him with my hands; his arms and back, even his mouth is tensed as if he's still restraining his anger. It's alarming and exciting all at the same time.
His one hand is still on my face and he pushes me harder into the door as his kiss becomes deeper. I feel his other hand move to my ass and then lift me up, pinning me off the ground against his body and the door, his dick hard through his pants. His mouth is hungry for mine and he alternates between soft and slow and hard and deep; our tongues move between playing with each other and fighting with each other, his hands mimicking his emotions. I bite his lips and he pulls back for a second to look at me; he moves to kiss me again and I bite him again. Then he buries his face in my neck, biting, nibbling, kissing, biting. I feel his hand move from my face and slide up my back, his other hand holding my ass as he moves me from the wall and carries me over to the bed. He drops me down and his face pulls away from mine, his eyes travelling all over my body, taking in the way my skirt is scrunched up around my thighs, the way my hair is tangled and messy. The muscles in his jaw flex again and I can no longer tell if it's anger or lust that I'm seeing.
He gets onto the bed, laying himself on top of me as he grabs both my wrists and pins them above my head.