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It's now been 3 hours since I saw Landon.

I haven't stopped thinking about him, the way he walks, talks, dresses, just all the minor details about him have me so hooked onto him.

So I thought the best way to get rid of someone from your mind is to drink.

And that's what I did.

Though, it didn't to shit.

The only thing it did do was intensify it.

I casually started a conversation with Violet as she tells me about some smelly blonde hair guy that spilt a drink on her.

I then in that split second see the boy who has been invading my mind lately.

His eyes were strained on me, the sunlight illuminating his grey eyes.

I felt my heartbeat run faster at the sight of him.

He was wearing black basketball shorts and he wore no shirt, leaving his chest on display.

He had tattoos all over his chest, running down his shoulder onto his arms.

Tattoos were displayed everywhere around his toned chest.

He had a tattoo of a rose with fire around it on the side of his rib, and some other ones along his chest.

His chest was just how I expected it to be, really toned and muscular with far to perfect abs.

He's not muscular to a point where it looks like he's on steroids, but just to a point where it'll imitate you on how strong he is naturally.

He's just perfect.

I started walking over to him and saw girls watch him like hawk.

Their posture straightens and thighs clench at the mere look of him.

I mean, I can't blame them honestly.

I watch as he watches me walk to him his jaw tightening.

Most likely from the alcohol, I feel brave and wrap my arms around his neck nuzzling my head there too.

His muscular arms wrap around my waist and hold me securely to him.

I breathe in his manly smell and kiss the tattoo that lays on the side of his neck.

He then grabs my legs and pulls me up to his waist.

My legs wrap around him and I blush at our intimate position.

I lean back and look at him.

I study his face and then look down at his lips.

So fucking delicious.

It was like I was in a trance staring at them so soft and full.

They were a cherry red colour making them stand out more.

I watch his eyes follow my every move as I lean closer and now only an inch away from tasting him.

But then Andre's voice rang through my ears as he calls out to me.

I giggle as I see Landon's face turn mad as he watches Andre approach us.

I move down to stand on my feet, Landon's arm stays around my waist, holding me tightly to his side.

"Hey, Andre," I say to him softly.

He smiles at me.

"Are you gonna go in the water yet?" Andre asks.

I thought about it and decided to go to the bathroom first before my bladder explodes.

So I told him I would be coming soon and as I was about to go Landon tells me he's going to come with me, to which I don't mind at all.

We make it there and he leans against the wall next to the bathroom doors.

I walk in and see only one stall closed so I take the furthest stall away from that one.

I don't know why but every time I go to the bathroom in public with other people inside, I just feel so awkward.

Nevertheless, I do my business and get out of the toilet only to be met with a hand covering my mouth and a body pushing me against the wall.

I try screaming but my voice is muffled by the person's hand.

I look up at the person to see a guy with blue eyes and black buzzed hair, he looks to be around my age.

His strong arms hold me against the wall as I try to squirm away and tears start falling out of my eyes.

He leans down to my neck and starts kissing it and I immediately feel like throwing up.

His cracked lips kiss down my neck.

"Shh, don't fight it, baby girl."

His voice was raspy and dark.

I stop moving hoping he'll take his hand off my mouth, thankfully he does and as soon as he removes it I call for Landon's name as loud as I could.

He cut me off halfway by slapping me across my cheek harshly which sent my body flying to the ground.

I then cower away in fear as he nears me again.

I hear the bathroom door slam open and see Landon's emotionless face but his eyes held worry.

That soon was replaced with pure rage when he saw me on the ground.

His cold stoned face turned even colder.

His jaw clenched harshly, his fists going white from clenching them.

His grey eyes nearly black as he sees the sight of the man.

The man stepped back away from me, putting his hands up in surrender.

Landon walked over to him slowly as he backed the guy up into a wall.

"H-hey man, I-Im sorry I-I didn't know that was your girl" He says as his voice is shaking with fear.

Landon wraps his hand over the man's throat squeezing it tightly and the boys face goes pale.

He starts gasping for air as Landon moves his arm up pushing him up against the wall.

I watch as the man starts turning blue and Landon's eyes are sinister as if he is ready to kill.

Landon watched him as he helplessly tried to get Landon to stop.

This is by far the scariest time I have ever seen Landon.

"L-landon" I try to muster out but my voice comes out raspy.

He then stiffens at my voice and closes his eyes, then opens them again as the darkness starts to fade away in them.

He releases the man and he gasps breathlessly for air almost looking as if he's going to pass out.

Landon turns to me and walks over to me slowly.

I just watch him as he makes his way over to me and bends down to my level.

My tears are still flowing down from the current situation.

I look down at my shaky hands as I watch the tears fall.

I feel his hand move to my now stinging red cheek gently caressing it.

I lift my head slowly and look at him through my blurry eyes.

And I was shocked to say that this was the first time I saw the emotion on his face.

He was worried.

His normal emotionless facade was replaced with worry.

As his eyebrows furrowed very slightly and he had a small crease in his forehead.

His grey eyes now looking like a storm but it held worry.

He stares at me and wipes away the tears falling out of my eyes.

His eyes then look at the red handprint on my face and his eyes darken again, his finger gently graze over it.

I sigh at his touch and lean into it.

His eyes glance back over to mine.

"I'm,

He says quietly but then inhales a deep breath and closes his eyes and continues.

I'm sor-"

I cut him off by placing my arms around his neck and crying softly in it.

He hesitantly wraps his arms around my back and rubs my hips gently, trying to calm me down.

"It's okay, Landon." I tell him through my croaky voice.

He continues to rub my hips with his thumbs and kisses the side of my head.

I then lean away and he stands up and holds his hand out for me to take.

I take it and then remember the man.

I look at him and see he was now unconscious.

I feel my hand being tugged and see Landon motioning for me to walk with him towards the door.

I follow him and breathe in the fresh air, he turns around to face me.

"Wait here."

I nod silently and watch as he strides back over to the bathroom.

I watch him go in with confusion but then that confusion wears off as I hear the sound of a loud gunshot.

I jump up on my feet in fright but attempt to calm down.

I watch as he gets off the phone with someone while walking out of the bathroom.

He turns to me his face emotionless and he grabs my hand and takes it in his.

The alcohol was now worn off of me and I started to feel better now being in Landon's presence.

He pulled me towards the beach where everyone was.

I spot Violet and Eliot talking to Brayden and some other girl that was there.

I go up to them while Landon goes to Dante and Andre who were close by near my friends.

I start walking towards them and Violet sees me and waves me over.

I make it to them and greet them while smacking Eliot's butt in the process.

"Layla, this is Savannah she goes to our school." Violet says introducing me to her.

"Nice to meet you, I'm Layla." I say back to her with a smile.

"You too." She says smiling back at me.

But then shock washes over her face as she realises something.

"Wait aren't you the girl that hangs with Landon Malik?" She suddenly asks curiously.

I just laugh it off and reply.

"Um, I guess yeah." I tell her shrugging my shoulders.

"Are you guys dating?" She asks me again, curiosity in her eyes.

"Erm no, I don't know if he sees me like that." I say back to her.

Eliot scoffs at that and I turn to him confused.

"Please have you seen the way he looks at you. You're literally the only person I've seen him tolerate including his friends." Eliot says matter of factly.

I just ignore him and turn to Violet and ask if she wants to go in the water with me.

We stay around the beach enjoying ourselves as the moon replaces the sun and the party only gets wilder by night.

There was now a bonfire and the music got louder as time went and more people started coming, some even from the school around this area joined too.

I haven't seen Landon since going with my friends and I haven't seen his friends either.

I decide to wander off by myself around the beach.

I make my way down south a bit towards where no one was.

I sat down on the bench and watched as the moonlight was contrasting onto the ocean and the waves peacefully come and go.

I breathe in the fresh air and smile to myself happily.

I then feel someone sit next to me, but I get a whip of their cologne and know who it is automatically.

I turn my head to see Landon now sitting on the chair beside me.

He was leaned back and his legs spread out while his hands laid on his knees lazily.

His head was tilted back while he watched the sky his apple moving up and down and I had this urge to touch it.

As if feeling my gaze on him his grey eyes locked with mine.

The moonlight shone over his features defining them perfectly, his black hair looked silky under the night sky as it fell onto his eyes.

He looked much more intimidating in the night.

His dead silver eyes shone, and his face tenses as he sat there.

He turns his eyes from me and back to the view of the sky.

Suddenly he got up smoothly and tossed his phone, wallet and gun on the bench and took his shoes off.

I watched him curiously as he placed everything down and he turned to me.

He nodded his head towards the ocean.

I grinned up at him feeling quite brave right now.

I took off my shorts and left my phone there with my things and started to run towards the water.

I got right to the edge and felt how cold it was, and then decided that it was probably not the best idea.

I felt Landon behind me and my breathing started to increase as I felt his arm snake around my waist as his hand rest on my bare stomach.

I felt his breath tickle the back of my neck as he moved his head there, brushing his lips over my neck.

I get caught in a daze and immediately get pulled out of it as I feel his arms tighten around me and I'm suddenly lifted over his shoulder within a second.

I squeal and start hitting his back but was obviously not affected by it at all.

"Landon. Stop, I swear to go-

I get cut off by my body hitting the water.

I rise out of the water in shock as I stare at a now wet and amused Landon.

He smirks at me as he pushes his tongue to the side of his mouth while he looks down at me.

I then forcefully push my hand in the water and splash him.

He doges it just in time and I see his eyes grow dark.

Run bitch.

You can't run dumbass you're in the water.

Fine then fucking swim.

The waters getting colder, let me in your ocean, swi-

LAYLA

I stare at him wide-eyed as I attempt to get away from him but fail miserably as his hands find my waist and pull me to him.

I turn around and smile at him sheepishly.

He looks down at me through his long lashes and smirks slightly.

His arms wrap around my waist in a secure hold, as he rubs his thumbs on my stomach in a circular motion.

I stare up at him in a daze getting lost in his grey enchanting eyes.

He starts to move closer to me, pulling his body against mine.

My breath hitches at the close contact, though it sent me swarms of butterflies at the feel of his skin on mine.

He looked so fucking perfect right now I actually envy him.

His black hair was wet as strands fell down his forehead onto his alluring eyes.

His defined high cheekbones had droplets of water falling down the sides and reaching down to his perfectly sharp jaw.

His full plump lips were cherry red making me want to feel them on mine.

He looked at me through his dark lashes they looked even longer from the water. He leant his face down to mine as I tilted my head up to him.

My lips parted slightly as I could feel his lips near mine.

We were inches away from touching, my breath fanning his and before I could press my lips against him, he speaks.

"Promise me you won't leave Layla." His voice comes out raspy as he whispers.

I look up to him in surprise nevertheless I smile softly at him.

His face and eyes held no emotion containing in them, but I could see the hint of hope in them.

I lift my hand to his cheek and rub my thumb over his high cheekbone.

I can feel him tense at my touch and his jaw clenches slightly.

I look him in the eyes.

"I promise," I tell him softly and hold my pinky out.

With that, he stares down at it for a minute and then latches his big pinky finger through mine as our eyes never leave each other.

I stare at him and slowly lean towards him as I push my lips against his.