Poison me, Please. by Christina.D (best summer reads of all time txt) 📕

be way more vulnerable in the forest.’ He didn’t lose the grin. He’s face was close up to mine. I just lightly sighed. ‘So I heard you were engaged now.’ He lost his smile and looked at the tent.
‘Yeah. I am.’ I just looked down at my dress.
‘Why?’ I looked at his face.
‘What do you mean by why?’ He turned to me.
‘What do you see in him? He always leaves you alone. I haven’t seen him even take a glance at you this whole time. Does he even care about you?’
‘You might not see it, but he does love me.’ I looked back down to my dress.
‘He’s just going to dump you when he becomes the ruler.’ I snorted.
‘You sound like a friend of mine I have back home.’
‘Well, he or she was right.’ I just tried to look pissed off.
‘I’m happy with the time I have with him then.’ He slid one hand on my waist and the other went on my chin to turn me, so that I would be facing him.
‘But when he wins, you now you can come to me.’ I stared into his eyes. They were full of hope, and trust. I almost felt like crying. How can I lie to him?
‘He might not even win.’ My voice came out very small.
‘He’s the perfect man for the job, and he has the perfect wife to help him.’ He stroked my cheek. I quickly stood up, as I realized someone was watching. They’re going to start to accuse me of cheating in a minute.
‘I’m hardly perfect.’ Then I just walked away. I walked to Orlando. I didn’t turn back, as I would most probably have gone back and told him the truth. I held Orlando’s hand for the rest of the evening. He introduced me to a bunch of people and I smiled.
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When it started to get dark I shivered.
‘Cold?’ Orlando put his glass down and pulled me aside.
‘No, I’m fine.’ But he hugged me anyway. He smelt fresh; It was most probably some expensive perfume, but it suited him. I rested my head on his strong chest.
‘How comes you left Edward so... Broken-hearted?’ I could hear a tint of laughter in his voice. The woods started to look black, and the sky was a dark blue. The lights around the tent and some scattered around the field made it look very cosy. The soft music in the background almost made me sleepy.
‘He started talking about how I could come to him when you left me, but I didn’t want to look like a complete slut, so I just left it to be like a cliff hanger.’ I couldn’t help myself, so I yawned facing his chest, my forehead was still leaning on him.
‘Tired already?’ He laughed softly in my hair.’
‘Yeah, I guess flirting makes me tired, and hungry!’ I looked up with a pleading face.
‘Ok, come on.’
He left me to stand alone for a few seconds, but then came back with a tray of food.
‘Where are we going to find a table?’ I laughed.
‘Don’t need one.’ He led me to the woods. I hovered for a little while, but then figured, if he would want to kill me, well he would’ve already done it.
We ended up sitting around a tree branch hovering on the floor. He placed the tray of mini snacks; I didn’t want to know what they were, as I was hungry and they looked like they had a lot of calories.
‘It’s a good thing it’s summer, otherwise I would be sneezing right now.’ I stuffed a random thing down my mouth that looked like a chicken nugget.
‘Why? Do you get colds easily?’ He stuffed down some sushi down hi’s.
‘Yeah, I got a cold eating ice cream once, in summer.’ He laughed loudly.
‘Ok, so I’m not giving you ice cream.’
‘But if it’s not the ice cream, than it’s something else. And I need the ice cream when I’m feeling sad.’
‘Ah, we don’t want you sad, now do we, we need you to be happy and flirty. Or whatever reason you want to make up so you can eat ice-cream.’ We both laughed.

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Publication Date: 08-30-2011

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