Hello my beautiful readers,

Before you start reading this chapter, let me tell you that I have published another book called THE FILM STAR AND HER. Here's a small description:

Abigail Davies had the perfect life in London, perfect parents, amazing friends but despite having all that, she was alone. She chose to run away from all of this perfection and shifted to New York City. Abigail is a shy, gentle and innocent girl who finds happiness by helping others. She is also dying to find true love.

On the other hand, Noah is everything that girls want, sexy, appealing, famous, rich but he has been through a nasty break up and now Noah is in search for someone who can be his distraction in this difficult time.

Call it destiny but few days after having shifted to New York she meets this totally breathtaking and handsome guy, named Noah Grayson who helped her when she was about to get molested by some guy. Few days after having been helped by Noah, she realizes that he is a huge film-star in New York. Somehow, this little misadventure has allowed both of them to get closer.

Will Abigail be just a distraction for Noah or will she be someone more? Will Abigail find the true love that she was longing for or will she be heartbroken?

This book is slightly different from my other books but I hope you will like it. Give it a try and waiting impatiently for comments.

I won't bother you further, you may read Chapter 20 :)

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I walked in the gym with a highly confused expression on my face. I couldn't decipher what Monica had tried to tell me. I'm a hundred percent sure it is not something pleasant. I was so engrossed in my thoughts that I was not looking where I was going and bumped in a chest and I fell down.

"I'm so sorry, Princess, I didn't catch you." Taylor apologized grabbing my face in his hand, inspecting for any injury. I heard a few giggles and snickers from other but ignored them.

"Taylor, my bum got hurt not my face." I chuckled. "And it's fine, don't worry." I waved my hand. From the corner of my eyes, I noticed a bunch of guys sitting right in front of where Taylor and I were and I was surprised to see Caleb, Ryan, Oliver, Nicholas and Matt. Asher was nowhere to be seen and I saw Caleb look piercingly at Taylor and I. what are they doing here? These guys don't share this period with me and how come the teacher isn't saying anything?! Is this related to what Monica told me about Taylor? Oh, God, there are so many unanswered questions.

"The boys and I are going to play volleyball. Want to play with us?" Taylor asked, snapping my attention from the Asher's group of friends. Before answering, I looked where Monica was and saw she was playing badminton with one of the girls. Good. I nodded and decided to ignore them and have a good time. Taylor is my best friend and I will not allow anyone to ruin my friendship with him. "Great."

We started playing volleyball and thankfully Taylor was on my team. And to say that we were having fun was an understatement. We were having a blast because volleyball soon turned into throw the ball on your opponent's face. Taylor and I were laughing like maniacs when the ball was smashing against the opponents.

Moments later, we were all tired and decided to sit on the bleachers for a while. Thank goodness we sat on the opposite side of where Caleb and the others were. However, Caleb's eyes were still on us.

Taylor rummaged through his bag and took out a bottle of water and took a huge sip. Me being me, I not so delicately snatched the bottle from Taylor making him spit everything on the floor. His expression was absolutely priceless and I began to laugh like a mad girl making everyone's eyes turn towards us.

"Guys, I think I know what to gift Taylor for his birthday," Dylan said pointing at the spilt water on Taylor's chest, "a bib." I was laughing so hard that even tears started to fall from my eyes. A blushing Taylor was glaring at Dylan for making fun of him.

"I-I am s-so sorry." I wiped the tears from my cheeks. "But I couldn't help myself." Taylor huffed and crossed his arms against his chest like an annoyed baby.

"Hey, don't be mad." I pinched his cheek and saw his lips turn up slightly. I poked him a few times in the ribs before he gave up laughing.

"I can never be mad at you, Princess." He wrapped his arm around my shoulder, side hugging me. The sincerity in his words could be heard. Gosh, I'm so lucky to have him.

The boys were making fun of each other, each one insulting each other and in doing so, time flew and soon, the bell rang signaling the period was over. It was now time to go home. Damn! Why does time have to fly at a such rapid pace when I'm having great fun?!

"Bye, Princess. See you." Taylor said, hugging me.

"Bye, Taylor. Bye guys." I waved at the boys and made my way outside the gym.

"Emberly." A voice stopped me in my tracks. I turned towards the voice and saw Caleb look blankly at me. The others were nowhere to be found.

"Yes, Caleb." I sighed heavily.

"You shouldn't be with him." He said. Damn it! What is their problem after all?! And this is not the first time Caleb is telling me this. I remember our conversation in the classroom.

"I don't understand what is your problem against him? Why can't you or Monica tell me what happened?" I said frustratingly.

"You should be thankful Asher was not here." He completely ignored my questions. "You should be thankful he didn't see you getting cozy with that Johnson guy." The way he was talking was as if I did something terrible. And I'm a hundred percent sure he saw Taylor hugging me.

"Or else what? Asher would have thrown a fit, just like he always does." I snapped. I ran my hand across my hair, extremely annoyed at what was happening.

"No." He said simply. "He would have beaten the crap out of Taylor." I don't know why but now I'm starting to be scared.

"Wh-why? Taylor's my best friend." I tried to reason.

"I know but bear in mind, Emberly, Asher does not like to share. And Asher is not something you should mess with." Caleb said making my eyes widen.

"Share?" I looked incredulously at him. "I'm not a toy, Caleb. And Taylor's my best friend. I will not stay away from him." I replied stubbornly.

Caleb shook his head in defeat. "Well, just be careful. I don't want you to get hurt, Emberly." He is saying the exact words as Monica. Saying that, he left me alone in the corridor.

I walked home with too many things going on on my mind. By the time I reached home, I was really exhausted but was surprised to see my mom and dad so early.

"Hey, sweetie." My mom came by me and kissed me on my forehead. She had a cheerful expression on her face.

"Hey, mom." I replied. "You seem very happy, today." My mom nodded rapidly.

"Yes." My mom replied gleefully. "Your father and I are going to London for three weeks." She stated happily.

"Oh that's great, mom." I told her. Wow, I'll be home alone for three weeks. That's awesome. I always wanted to live alone one day and experience it.

"I know." Gosh, she can't stop smiling. "Go and get ready quickly. We're going to dinner at the Coltons." Once these words came out of her mouth, I froze. Dinner at the Coltons. Shit! I pray Asher's not there.

"Okay." I replied robotically and made my way to my room.

I was about to take my towel and go in the bathroom when an arm was wrapped around my waist and a hand came to my mouth, muffling my scream.

"It's me." Asher's husky voice was heard against my neck. I somehow relaxed in his arm. He slowly turned me against him and I was quite surprised to see his right cheek slightly swollen but decided not to argue.

"What are you doing here?" I asked in a hushed tone. I pray my mom doesn't come and even the room is not locked. He began to smirk at me.

"Well, someone had been quite nasty this morning." He pretended to think. Oh shoot! He is referring to my not so nice comment about him drooling. "Do you know who that person is?" He feigned ignorance.

"Um, no." I shrugged my shoulders and turned away from him but he was too fast to catch me and brought me back in place.

"Are you sure? Because I think you have an idea of whom I'm talking about." He slowly brought his mouth to my ear and whispered huskily making me shiver, "And that person is about to be punished."

I didn't have time to react because soon, Asher's hands started tickling me like there's no tomorrow and I started laughing like a maniac one again.

"A-Asher s-stop." I said in between laughs but instead of stopping he kept on tickling me. I soon lost my balance and fell down on the floor bringing Asher with me and now he is on top of me, clearly not giving up about the idea of tickling me to death.

I tried to swat his hands away but he was too strong for me.

"Say you're sorry." He stopped for a second and I took that time to catch my breath.

"Never," I replied panting.

"Too bad." He continued to tickle me, this time harder.

"Okay, okay. I'm sorry." I mumbled with my eyes closed. He slowed down a little but didn't stop.

"What? I didn't catch what you said." That jerk!

"I said I'm sorry." I slowly said, opening my eyes to see Asher very close to me and it was then that I realized in what position we were. Asher was looking intently at me. his fingers came to my lips and detached them from my teeth.

"I don't want you to bite that lip of yours." He said in what seemed a strained voice. I had absolutely no idea I was biting my lips.

"W-why?" I asked softly.

"Because I want to bite them for you." My eyes widened when I saw Asher's face full of ...lust? No, this can't be. But his face was inching closer and closer to me. we were few inches apart. If I moved my head slightly, our lips would have touched. Do I want this?

I was debating with myself when I felt Asher's hold tighten against my waist and I don't know what came to me but I automatically closed my eyes.

I felt his minty breath against my lips and part of me was really looking forward to feel his lips on me when a knock from my door made us come apart.

I gasped and all my senses returned back to me. I then realized what was about to happen. Asher was about to kiss me and I was about to let him.

I quickly disentangled myself from him and stood up from our previous position. Oh my gosh!

"Sweetie, are you okay?" I heard my mom's concerned voice from behind the door. I glared at Asher only to see him smirking at me, while I was like I passed through a huge hurricane. My heart was beating extremely fast.

"Um, yeah, I'm fine." I replied back running a hand on over my hair. "I just fell and hurt my feet." I elaborated, which was true, in one way.

"Oh, want me to see?" She asked worriedly.

"No, no, no." I quickly replied. "I'm in a towel." I hastily took the towel that was on the floor and wrapped it around my body. I heard Asher's mocking chuckle behind me and I turned to glower at him. He pointed towards me and I then realized that I wrapped a towel around my already covered body.

Oh my Gosh, what a huge fool I am!

"Okay. Well, be careful and come soon." With that she left. Phew. Great escape.

"As much as I would have loved to see you in a towel again, seeing you naked would be just perfect." Asher's words made my eyes widen and I had a feeling I was absolutely red by now.

"Asher!" I slapped him on the chest making him hold both of my hands in his, and he pulled me against his chest, staring piercingly at me.

"See you at the dinner." He said after some time and walked out of my room. He jumped out of my window and made his way to his house. Thank goodness, my room was not that high.

I was still in a daze when he left and then realized that he was going to be present at the dinner. Great!

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