"You look like you just saw a ghost wearing a bikini on Halloween!"His smirk was annoying as he took her coffee gently from her hand, and dropped it on the top of a shelf where Rachel could not reach. "Can I take off your jacket? I want to see you."Rachel, after some seconds, nodded shakily. She even tried to make a joke."You're literally seeing me right now, or did you just go blind?"" Shut up!" snapped Norbert as he helped her out of the leather jacket and threw it on the bed."Isn't it so weird that we're in this position right now? I would have never believed I'd let you blackmail me into this... Are you going to kiss me? Cos' you shouldn't.. " She was babbling, she knew that. But God knows she couldn't help it.And he knew that too. He placed a finger on her lips, muting her. And then he played with it, trailing his finger on her lower lip.In a calm voice, an irony to hers, he spoke, "I didn't blackmail you. We both made a decision. And yes, I'm about to kiss you."He looked

What started out as a a normal day for Rachel progressed into a pretty messy one. The moment she'd snagged her toe on the chair on her way out, she should've known evil lurked in the corner. After that scene with Norbert, the thought of almost seeing him completely naked still clung to her mind. She walked briskly on the pedestrian walkways, cheeks reddened. Guilty her thoughts were screaming out loud. Or, she was carrying a placard that read in bold letters 'I WAS THIS CLOSE TO SEEING NORBERT KARTER'S ROCKET FELLAS!!' She shook herself off the thoughts and focused on her set goals for the day. She had plans tabled out with bullet points on her journal. The first thing was to drop application letters to a few restaurants she'd selected close to the college. There had been no sign of rain whatsoever. No drizzle, no wind, nothing. Next thing, rain came pouring heavily. Unfortunately, the universe was not smiling at her, because she hadn't made it to the firs