15 Chapter 15

"Hello! Sorry, I'm late." Jamie entered through the apartment door comfortably, a smile hanging on his lips as he wanted to appear friendly yet only his friends seemed to have noticed him, leaving the rest to miss on that joyful smile of his.

"You're here at last. Grab this and start helping, we've been here for half an hour." Theo gave him a brush and literally pushed him towards a room where he walked in, a bit more nervously than before.

"Hello, I'm Jamie." He tried again to speak to the two girls he did not know but were in the room he entered so he thought it proper to introduce himself to them and get to know them.

"Anna, nice meeting you" She briefly turned around to look at him before she got back to focus on the painting she was doing by the window.

"Reina" The other just threw her name monotonously, avoiding turning to see him as she hoped not to be recognized.

Both their behaviours however had left him a bit sad for he felt like he was not welcomed. Nonetheless, he shook that thought aside and proceeded to help with painting, grabbing a bucket from a corner and dipping in it his fresh brush. He went on painting the corner lines for quite some minutes, as perfectly and straight as he could manage, until some paint fell on his shirt and his actions froze immediately.

"No damn it!" He shouted slowly as he got annoyed that he got splashed despite how careful he was being however he took a deep breath and just went on while doing his best to be even more careful.

After some more touches on the wall, two more drops found their way on his shirt to his displeasure, making him literally furious.

"Gosh! So annoying!" He exclaimed right before he angrily took hold of his shirt and took it off completely, only to shove it on the floor right after, an action that got the attention of the two girls that were working in the same space with him and they couldn't help but stare his way now that he was literally half-naked standing there.

"WOW!" Anna couldn't help but express her thoughts with that phoneme of awe for Jamie's body sure was looking great. The fact that he worked out was evident and she sure was appreciating that fact.

"The heck is he doing, I do not believe him, such an attention seeker!" Reina rolled her eyes at him as he criticized him in her head while Jamie realized his surrounding soon and retrieved his shirt from the ground, bringing it over his chest in a protective manner.

"I-I am so sorry, I forgot you were here. I will go change." Jamie lowered his head, feeling slightly embarrassed by the fact that he had gotten so focused on his painting that he literally had forgotten that he had two strangers in the same environment as him and then ran out of there to get another t-shirt.

As he walks down the corridor in a hurry, Jamie happened to meet Sophia, who just looked at him and fell speechless while he just waved hello and sped up his steps towards the stairs.

"The heck have they been doing in there? We were supposed to put things inside the apartment, not to take things off of ourselves" Sophia talked to herself, finding absurd the fact that he was roaming half-naked around then she proceeded to walk to the apartment door with her two buckets of paint in her hands.

"Sophia~Finally you got back. Great!" Dimitra was the first to notice her presence and ran towards her full of enthusiasm while she placed down the paint and left an exhale to escape her lips.

"Yeah I finally made it but why was Jamie naked in the hallway? What did you do to him?" Sophia showed behind her as she spoke and Dimitra gave her an astonished look as she had no idea such a thing happened.

"Damn, what did you do to Jamie? You didn't attack him, did you?" Dimitra shouted towards Anna and Reina, her voice getting the attention of everything around as it was loud enough for all to hear.

"The heck do you take us for? Why would we attack him?" Anna replied in between her laughter as she walked over to Dimitra.

"I don't know, you might have been starving" Dimitra joked further, getting more waves of laughter out of them all.

"Ah, Sophia, you are here" Jay peaked out of his room as soon as he distinguished her laugh among the rest and walked over to her with a smile on his face, a thing that made Sophia's smile disappear before she decided to ignore him and focus on Dimitra.

"Lisa will come a bit later, I will tell you later why. Now I am going to change and come to help." Sophia informed her and Dimitra nodded before letting her go towards their apartment where she walked to casually and unlocked the door, making her way instead and leaving the door to close behind her yet that did not happen as Jay literally sprinted to it and managed to place his hand right before the door would lock him out.

"Why are you looking like that? Are you angry? Did you fight with Shiro?" Jay made his way inside and spoke to her without hesitation, scaring her a bit as she turned around to face him with wide eyes. Her shock however didn't take long to be replaced with a wave of annoyance that made Sophia give him a stern look.

"Jay I am seriously not in the mood to deal with you so please just get lost" Sophia turned around to walk towards her room after replying to him, in hopes that he would not tick her nerves any further.

"Come on, I can tell something happened. Just tell me." He didn't live up to her hopes and instead insisted, taking hold of her arm and turning her to face him right after she had opened her bedroom door.

"You do not understand! Leave! I DON'T WANT TO SEE YOU NOT NOW NOR IN MY DREAMS !!" Sophia lost her composure and angrily shouted at him as she retrieved her arm away from his grip quite abruptly.

"What!?! Did you see me in your dreams?!"Jay questioned as that was the only information he had basically retrained from the words she so harshly spat at him. Words that had boosted his confidence and had made his facial expression morph into a sly look and a smirk to take over his lips as he noticed how her face was deemed of colour once he questioned her that.

"Oh no, that's not what I said" Sophia tried to fix her slip of tongue, her eyes breaking the contact with his as she grew nervous under his presence and felt quite exposed.

Her embarrassment however only made him more satisfied for he indeed knew her well and thus knew that she was bad at lying and tended to not meet someone's eyes when she wanted to lie to them.

"What were we doing together in your dream babe?" he stepped closer towards her and Sophia started stepping back, unconsciously having basically left him to walk inside her room.

"We were fighting! Like now, what else could we two be doing anyway!" Sophia gathered her courage and lifted her gaze in order to present to him a stern gaze that despite the fact that she succeeded in doing, the smirk didn't disappear from his lips

"You are lying, I can see it in your eyes." He called her out without a split of hesitation, then laughed as he felt incredible joy at the thought and only that she was dreaming of him.

"If you do not leave right now I will tell Shiro that you are harassing me and see where that takes you" Sophia threatened him right before she placed her two palms over his chest and pushed him away however he did not budge, instead he just looked her straight in the eyes and proceeded to kick with his foot the door and close it shut, behind him.

The loud sound that his action produced echoed around the room as Sophia remained motionless, caught up in his intense gaze and the realization that they were all alone in her room.

Jay took a step towards her and brought his hand to gently ran between Sophia's hair in a way that had her breath entangled over her chest and her thoughts screaming at her to do something to keep him away.

"Is that how I caressed you in that dream?" He leaned closer to her and questioned her in a low, deep murmur that made her chaotic thoughts crash down like dominos.

His breath fanned her lips right before he brushed them softly then brought his hands to travel her back. His hands feel like they were dipped in poison, for she felt her skin burning up everywhere his touch passed by then he captured her lips into a painful slow kiss that almost had her drunk on his taste.

"Is that how I kissed you?" He travelled to her ear, where he didn't hesitate to take her earlobe in between his lips and left his tongue slightly touch her skin, that becoming her signal to react as Sophia tried to push him away yet somehow she ended up being pushed on her bed with him climbing on top of her.

She opened her mouth intending to tell him off yet no words escaped out of her, for her voice felt weak under his gaze and the warmth his body was radiating on above hers.

"Let me make that dream of your a reality." He concurred her lips in a way more aggressive manner this time, taking advantage of her already shocked state and her slightly open mouth to creep in her thoughts and sway her denial with his passion.

"When you have any problems, you can come to me baby. I am willing to listen to anything you want to say. I want to be your safe space, the blanket that hugs your body at night". He spilt his thoughts as he broke their kiss and trailed down her neck in a hurry, leaving behind pieces of his desire for her.

"I want you so badly" He whispered under her skin while taking a moment to listen to her abnormal breathing that came to an abrupt halt as she held her own breath and took hold of his face, bringing it to face her.

"I do not need you, I have my friends to tell my problems," Sophia uttered as coldly as she could manage at that moment, for her mind had made her aware that she was losing herself in the moment and the fact that it was under his touch had to stink her ego enough to make her get a grip and shatter his actions, despite the fact that she didn't really mean her words.

Jay's gaze travelled over her face before it started morphing into a painful expression which she ignored and took advantage of, pushing him off of her, not wanting to see his face any longer.

Sophia curled up on her side with her back turned to him but after a few minutes of silence in the room, she felt two hands daring to embrace her tightly from behind, bringing her to the warm aura of Jay's body.

She could feel his lips tenderly kissing the back of her neck thing that made her shudder but also made her mad. If he wanted her so they why had he not kept her prior to this moment? If he wanted her so, he wouldn't have broken her heart, to begin with.

Jay proceeded to hide his face on her back, bringing her even closer to him and holding her waist gently in his arms in an attempt to soothe the pain that had taken over his heart by the words she spoke to him.

Her rejections were something that never felt easy on his emotions yet right at this moment, amongst the things he truly spoke to her, when she turned him down and discarded him, it pierced his heart deeper than usual.

"Sophia ... The problem is that despite the fact that you may not need me... I- I need you."

--- The be continued ...