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And as delusional as I might have thought I was, the truth was that I had never been more aware than I was at that moment.

I opened the car door and ran toward Kendra.

My heart pulsed in my chest in an absurd way. It felt like I was doing the hardest cardio workout of my life, but the truthwas I was just running up to the girl who had been on my mind for too long in the wrong way.

Once inside the building, I saw her going up the stairs and I followed behind. As soon as I stepped onto the correct floor, I called her name.

Kendra's eyes widened in my direction.

“Are you crazy?” She grumbled, eliminating the space between us. It was late and there would be zero tolerance for noise at that time, I knew that.

“Sorry.”

She huffed, out of patience.

“I hate people considering making fun of my sexuality.” Kendra actually seemed very angry now.

“It wasn't a joke... I know what I said later may have made it seem like it was, but it wasn't.”

She laughed, mockingly.

“You’re drunk, go to sleep, Veronica.”

She turned her back to me, but I didn't let her move much. I put myself in front of her once again.

“Fuck, wait!” I let my hands touch her denim jacket and lightly squeeze her arm under the fabric.

“I want a kiss.”

Kendra shook her head in denial.

“No, you don't... You're justtoo drunk. You don't understand what you really want.”

I took a step forward and she took a step back until I turned her around and pinned her to one of the hallway walls.

“I know what I want, Kendra. I... I don't know why or when I first wanted this, but you're a menace. You dominate more of my thoughts than you should and... ever since I saw you in that storehouse... I...”

I saw the air being drawn greedily through her lips and I completely lost my breath or my words.

“I know…” Kendra whispered. “I felt it too that day, but…”

“No buts, Ken!” I complained.

With our eyes aligned like stars in the sky. Like a fucked up destiny, where there weren't many explanations, things just were as they should be.

“I'm going to kiss you now.” I warned, but I waited for the blonde head to nod slightly before finally standing on tiptoe and letting my lips touch hers.

The taste of alcohol was mixed with the chocolate we had for dessert, but what stood out most was the explosion inside my chest. It was like I had been waiting for this kiss for too long. It was like the song “A Moment Like This” by Leona Lewis, some people search their whole lives for a special kiss, and it wasn't like I was looking for something, but I definitely found it.

I felt dizzy with her perfume mixing with the air I breath, but at the same time it was as if an anchor was holding me to the ground.

Suddenly, her hands grabbed my arm, pulling me even closer to her. Her breasts brushed against mine as our hips also came together. The kiss intensified in the chaotic way a kiss from me and Kendra should be.

Almost desperately, I raised my hands to her neck, feeling the skin pulse before being surprisingly thrown against the wall when she reversed our positions. The pain from the blowwas nothing and the hand stuck to my neck, pressing, made magnetic waves run through my entire body.

Breathless, I looked into the deep blue eyes and saw a Kendra I had never seen.

She was visceral. And raw. It was complicated, fearful and too intense.