Snap Back To Reality

But then I’m not there anymore and I blink and I’m back in this present time and I feel his fingers on my chin and stammer, pulling away from the confusion of the moment and the uncertainty of his touch.

"I don't-" I stuttered, "I can't- I'm not-"

"Cute?" he finished my sentence for me, "Someone clearly hasn't looked in a mirror lately."

It’s hard for me to focus on his words but I manage to and realize the man has a bit of a point. I'd looked in one mirror exactly once in the entire time I was in this body and that was today after I’d gotten off the bus and only even then for just a single passing moment and all of this was new to me but none of it made a damn bit of sense because Blake Hyde was my enemy and my bully and he damn well wasn’t going to be anything more than that. Certainly wasn’t going to be that future my dreams had in mind.

Everything was so confusing right now. The dream and his intentions and the memory of his hands on my body earlier today and the fact that he'd run through the female population of the school in a previous life.

Yeah. Yeah that explains it.

That explains why at that exact moment I could feel my heart pounding in my chest and why he wasn't touching me but still I could close my eyes and feel the memory of his touch on me. It explained why I couldn't shake the image of his abs out of my head and why I felt itchy and warm and squirmy all at once. It explained why when he looked at me, when he smiled at me, I felt my heart start to beat a little faster.

It was just too much. That was it. I was just on overdrive.

Blake bit his bottom lip and shook his head at me, "Should be a damn crime, frankly. Too cute to ignore. Too cute for your own good. And frankly the hoodie thing you've got going on, the whole baggy clothing thing, it just has my mind racing. Can you answer a question for me?"

I blinked. I swallowed. I should run. I stayed as he leaned in close and whispered it in my ear.

"What have you got underneath?"

When he pulled back my eyes were closed and I was struggling to contain something that I could not understand. I managed to open them to see his grinning face, wanting to hit it and hate it and do a dozen other things I could barely process to it all at the same time.

"No, don't tell me," he said instead, "Let it be a surprise. But if you don't mind..."

His voice trailed off as I felt him touch me again. His fingers played on my hip, slipping down a little and sliding into my pocket so quick before darting back away as he stepped back out of reach with my phone in his hand.

Quickly he tapped away at it, flicking and manipulating it until I heard his pocket ring.

"There," he said, holding my phone back out to me, "Now you've got my number and I've got yours."

With fingers that were on autopilot I took the phone back from him and Blake lingered a moment longer before shaking his head and walking away.

"Too cute," he called over his shoulder, "And god am I looking forward to tonight."

When he turned around the corner I felt my knees give out, felt a trembling uncertainty wash over me as my mind tried to process things that it full well just was not prepared to understand. I felt the moment and I lived in it because as best as I could tell that was the only way that I could understand it, but then I remembered who it was that I was dealing with.

Blake was a master of manipulation. He could teach a fucking class on finding just the right buttons to push and make people ****. And more than once he'd played this exact game with me, in my other life. Well okay not this exact game but similar enough that I knew I would be a fool to fall for his tactics.

Blake was clearly leading me on. Clearly he was making me think he was interested. Clearly his plan was to make me **** before he made me exposed and by the time he was through I would find myself humiliated.

No. No this life was going to be a better life, even if it wasn't going to be a permanent one. This life Blake wasn't going to get the better of me.

This time around I wasn't going to fall for his tricks.

Right?

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