"What's going on here?"

I immediately moved away from Owen as soon as I heard that voice.


Somehow I'd let it slip my mind that Owen was in fact dating someone. I'd let myself be kissed by someone who was already in a relationship and not just anyone but Owen. I felt stupid at that moment. More than I'd like to admit and the idea of diving under the water seemed tempting. But I decided against it and try to fix my mistake, if there was even a way.

"First at school in front of everyone and now in your freaking pool!" She screamed and I could almost imagine one of the veins in her neck combust. "What is she even doing here!"

Guilt could not explain exactly how I felt. They'd probably been in a fight and Owen just wanted to make her jealous by kissing me? But no one was at home when he kissed me. Or did he know that she'd come over at some point?


I felt stupid, mortified and every other word in between. I had just let him kiss me. Not once. But twice and I would be lying if I said I didn't enjoy it.

"What are you doing here, Marlene?" Owen questioned her with an almost frustrated look on his face. "If I remember clearly, we never dated so I don't owe you any explanation." He spoke up almost boredly.


"You will regret this Owen! And you, you. You think he'll actually be with such a low life?" She let out a laugh that was anything but humorous. "He's only using you!" She exclaimed and walked away.

I heard the front close not so quietly, indicating her anger and departure.

I swum over to the edge of the pool and pulled myself out. I felt Owen's eyes reck over me but tried not to pay much attention to it. I walked over to the chair were I'd discarded my things and picked up my towel and wrapped it around my torso.

"Lyra." I heard Owen call from the pool but I continued to pick up clothes and walked away from him.

It wasn't that I was angry at him. I was angry at myself and I didn't know what to do but being around him definetly was not helping.

**********

I had decided to take a shower after what had happened, hoping it would help clear my mind.

It didn't. Not really but at least I felt refreshed.

I got out of the bathroom only to stop in my trucks once I saw who was standing outside.

"We need to talk." Was all he said after pushing away from the wall he was leaning on.

I didn't say anything but just walked towards my bedroom leaving the door open as an indication for him to come in.

I placed my toiletries in the closet then busied myself with re-arranging my books on my table. In the midst of re-arranging, a pen dropped to the floor and I bent to pick it up and once I stood up, Owen was standing in front of me.

He took the pen from my hand and placed it on the table. "Are you done now?"

I nodded my head and looked up at him but diverted my eyes as soon as they made contact with him.

"What just happened?"

I looked at him in disbelief, "I should be asking you that. Look Owen." I stared up into his eyes. "I just want to know something and I want you to answer me truthfully." He nodded giving me a sign to carry on.

"Why did you kiss me?"

"Because I wanted to."

"I don't believe you." I glared up at him.

"Okay." He ran his hand through his hair and sighed. "Thing is, Marlene has been going on for weeks about you liking me and then because of what happened on Saturday, she was convinced that I like you too." He ran his hand across his face, "and then we had a big fight in the morning and I don't know I just ended up kissing you.

"I wanted to find out if you actually liked me and then you kissed me back."

"Me kissing you back does not entail that I like you back."

"We both know it does."

"Why did you kiss me again in the pool?"

He shrugged before smirking. "Because I wanted to and it just proved that you actually do like me."

"Get over yourself." I scoffed.

"So are you saying that when we kissed you didn't feel anything?"

"Did you feel anything?"