Page 30 of Blinded By Love

Chris pulls Natalia away from Hayden and I, going towards their entrance.

“Don’t get lost because I won’t find you,” Hayden mutters before walking in front of me and going into another entrance.

I furrow my eyebrows as I watch him.

What’s his problem?

I follow after him. His strides are long and determined as he walks through the maze.

Hayden and I haven’t talked much since we worked on the project in my room. He and I have been keeping our distance. I just feel like every time I’m around him, he will do something irrational and kill me especially with his threat from when we were in the alleyway. He hasn’t mentioned anything about “ruining my life”. My thoughts are occupied with anxiety that he’s giving me whenever I’m around him. After everything I told him that day in my room, I want to keep my distance from him. I hate how he knows that I hate myself.

While I was telling him how I felt, I wanted the world to swallow me up and make Hayden forget about that moment.

It just seems so pathetic especially with how I admitted all that to Hayden as if we were friends.

He’ll probably just use that against me.

After so many turns and many dead ends, Hayden starts cursing and I can tell he is getting frustrated.

The maze walls are tall and covered with green grass. It makes it seem like this maze goes on for hours but I know it doesn’t. It’s a trick to make it seem like it does.

“Let’s try going right this time,” I say, trying to be helpful. Hayden instead goes left. I furrow my eyebrows, my patience running thin with him. He doesn’t have to ignore me. “If you let me help I might get us out of here. You running around and being angry doesn’t help,” I say, avoiding eye contact with him when I say that.

“And you breathing like a fucking dog isn’t helping either,” he mutters.

“I’m trying to catch up to you. You have long legs and walk really fast.”

“Then fucking catch up,” Hayden mutters, making another turn, hitting another dead end.

“If you were going to act like this then you should have stayed out of the maze or maybe gone with Kayden. No one wants to hang out with a mood killer.” I glare at him and rest my arms across my chest.

Hayden turns around to look at me. “Princess, you know you want to hang out with me.” He takes one step closer to me.

“Me? Hang out with you? Why would I want to do that when you make me feel like shit? You make the day get worse every time something stupid comes out of your mouth. Grow up and stop being so childish.”

“I wouldn’t act like this if you weren’t around. Stop talking for fucks sake.”

My eyes turn icy and I feel fire in my bones with the way he talks to me like that. “I’m trying to help you and you’re just being an asshole. It’s like you’ve had it out for me since we met.”

Hayden laughs and it sounds so sinister. “You have no fucking clue.”

“I mean since we’re here and alone, we might as well just air it out. Why are you always trying to make my life harder? It just feels like you’re set out to ruin me. Four years ago we were teenagers and now we're adults and you’re still out for me. What the fuck is wrong with you?” I raise an eyebrow at him, truly confused.

Hayden’s eyes darken and he takes a step closer to me. “What did I tell you four years ago?” I step back a few feet trying to put distance between us but Hayden eats it all up and I’m suddenly against the grass wall. “What did I say, Jaclyn?”

“That I’ll know the true meaning of what being hurt feels like,” I say, in a low tone, I think he might have not heard it.

“Exactly.” Hayden puts his hands on the grass wall near my head and he leans in, his lips hovering over my ear. I shiver and turn my head to the side making his lips touch my ear, just for a second but it feels like ice touched me and my skin is sensitive. It’s never been this sensitive. “I will give you hell.”

Hayden leans back and his eyes make contact with me. Even though he looks like he wants to hurt me. I see heat in them.

It’s confusing. His emotions are giving me whiplash.

Hayden looks down at my lips for just a second before meeting my eyes again. His body is warm against mine, even though he is just cold and almost heartless.

Hayden pushes himself off the wall and starts walking away.

One second, I felt him touching me and the next it feels like a ghost is replacing his touch.

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