Chapter 8 - Lila
Note: All characters in this story involved in sexual situations are 18 years of age or older
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I was frozen in shock, staring at those three little words like I was about to burn a hole through the paper. How could she have just
known
about it? It was impossible! My head started to race with all sorts of questions. How many other people knew? Was it going around? What if the entire school knew already? I swallowed nervously, feeling my heart pounding from the sheer sense of the unknown.
I slowly looked up at the long, wavy sable hair on the back of Lila's head. She seemed to be back to focused on her work. Barring how she actually knew, what was the reason she wanted me to freeze time anyway? Maybe it was something as harmless as simply wanting to talk. I wondered if she was looking for some kind of blackmail to hold over me. Well, I could only hope not.
I took a deep breath and sighed heavily as I prepared to get to the bottom of this mystery. I was going to take the bull by the horns and find out just what it was she was after.
And so, I blinked my eyes and everything fell silent and motionless around the two of us. She didn't even seem to notice, as class was damn near silent and motionless on a daily basis anyway. I let the paper fall to the table and quietly sighed.
"Okay," I spoke up, immediately grabbing her attention as she perked her head up, "I did it." She kept completely still at first.
"That's... that's it?" she asked, her voice trembling slightly. "You don't have to say... 'alakazam' or something?"
"That'd be true if I was a magician," I replied with a slight smirk, "...which I am not."
She gasped as she looked around the room. Her eyes went wide, placing both hands over her mouth in disbelief. Her breathing started to quicken.
"Oh, my god..." she breathed, turning her chair around just enough to look at me, her dark eyes full of wonder and shock. She took another long look around the classroom, her jaw hanging in awe at the sight. The frozen glow of the ceiling lights illuminated the golden undertone of her fair skin.
She then turned her attention back to me as her hands fell away from her hanging jaw.
"I-I... I thought Eve was seriously screwing with me, but this... this is
real!
"
My
jaw then dropped, incredulous at what she just said. "Wait a minute—
Eve
told you about this?"
She glanced away from me with guilt in her eyes as she bit her lip. "Don't... please don't be mad at her," she insistently said. "She... it was an accident. I could tell she didn't
mean
to say it, it just kind of... came out."
I sighed heavily, rubbing my forehead. "How many other people know about this?"
"None!" she quickly exclaimed. I narrowed my eyes at her, skeptical of her reply. "Seriously, seriously. Nobody else knows about it, swear on my life. Eve isn't going to tell anyone else and neither will I. You know, it's just that we're B.F.F.'s so we always tell each other everything... even when we don't mean to."
I stared into her eyes for a moment before deciding that she was being honest. I sighed and nodded my head, accepting her response. Still, even if they did told anyone else–accident or not–who would believe it? It's a long shot, to say the least, to convince someone that some guy at school can just 'freeze time.' On top of that, I could easily deny it. I mean, the only way anyone would believe it is if I purposely did it anyway.
I calmly got up from my chair and rested my butt against the side of the table with my arms folded across my chest. I took a glance around the room myself before looking back at her.
"So," I said, "why did you want me to stop time anyway?"
She bit her lip as her gaze dropped to the floor. Her eyes began shifting back and forth, pretty clearly trying to formulate an answer.
"Well...," she slowly replied, "I, uh, I-I-I wanted to... see this... for myself." She looked up at me with a nod. Her expression was just painted with worry. I furred my brow and cocked my head slightly to the side—she was definitely hiding something.
"And...," I started, "what's the
actual
reason you wanted me to do this?"
She gazed down at her hands as they nervously raked over her thighs continuously. She chuckled nervously.
"That
was
the reason...?" she replied before looking up at me as though asking me if that was the correct answer.
I smirked and shook my head. "You're not very good at lying."
"Well—uh...," she trailed off, biting her lip as she idly fidgeted with her knees.
"You can tell me any day now," I said. "Or I could just make time go back to normal and—"
"Okay, okay!" she quickly exclaimed, throwing her hands out to get me to stop. "Just... give me a minute."
She closed her eyes and took a deep breath. When she exhaled, she slowly got to her feet and looked at me with a nervous smile.
"Do you... uh..., you wanna just kind of..." she trailed off again, causing me to look at her strangely.
"You can do it," I jokingly persuaded her with an amused grin upon my face.
She then quickly blurted out, "I want you to have sex with me."
Well,
that
got my attention.
Now
I
was the one sputtering my words. "Wha– seriously?"
She then walked up to me, placing her hands on my shoulders. I planted my hands on the edge of the table and straightened my back. Her fair-colored hands were shaky, and cold as ice.