NovelEnglishPART 2 - CHAPTER 107 JESS I barely made it to the bathroom before the nausea took over. My stomach clenched painfully, and I dropped to my knees in front of the toilet just in tto hurl. My heart was pounding, racing too fast, and my vision blurred. Tears streamed down my cheeks as I gagged again, gripping the cold porcelain, trying to hold on to anything solid while my body turned inside out.
I couldn't breathe. I couldn't see. I was drowning in panic, and if I didn't get my breathing under control, I was going to pass out right here in a puddle of my own vomit. It's not the best way to make an impression.
If I vomited from running too many laps, I would have at least been able to hold onto my dignity - athletes vomit all the time. But this was me, being pathetic and useless and letting Bryan get the better ofeven though he's a long one and rotting in jail.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtI hated him for it-that he still had this small ounce of power over me. I even forgot about it-this feeling where the world could just swallowwhole because Luke was there. He would spend the night, and I would sleep peacefully. When he didn't, I could just call him, and he would be there without hesitation every single time.
If I had called him now, he wouldn't have made it in tPART 2 - CHAPTER 107 20% Voucheru anyway, but I wanted to. I wanted him to sneakback to my dorm before anyone could notice Another wave of nausea rippled through me, and I hunched into the bowl, trying to force air in through my nose.
Suddenly, the bathroom stall door flung open, and someone was pulling my hair back from my face, lifting it gently away from my neck. I barely registered the cool air on my skin, soothing the heat, but I couldn't focus. My stomach clenched again, and I dry- heaved, but there was nothing left.
"Just breathe through your nose, a deep voice vibrated through the fog of panic, steady and calm, like simple instructions could actually follow.
I wanted it to be his voice so badly that tears streamed down my face. I missed him, and I needed him. I needed Luke, but this voice didn't belong to Luke. Of course, it didn't. It was someone else.
Aiden.
It was Aiden. The guy who'd just stood by while his friends humiliatedwas now the one holding my hair, blowing cool air on my neck like he had no other place in the world to be. His hands were warm, strong, and careful, nothing like the detached coolness he'd had on But I couldn't focus on any of that. Another wave of nausea hit, makingdouble over, but my body had already expelled everything it could. The dry heaving was the worst-painful, pointless, and humiliating. All I wanted was for it to stop.
Aiden crouched behind me, his presence overwhelming the PART 2 CHAPTER 15.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmsmall stall. His breath ghosted over my skin as he leaned in, hist voice calm and measured. "In through your nose, out through. your mouth. Slow it down." I tried to listen and match his rhythm, but my whole body was shaking, and my throat burned. My heart was hammering, racing like it would explode, and I wasn't sure if I was about to cry or pass out.
But his voice was steady, grounding. "You're okay. Just focus on breathing." Slowly, painfully, I did what he said. In through my nose, out through my mouth. It was a struggle, but eventually, my breath started to even out. The shaking didn't stop, but it becmanageable enough forto get a few words out.
"This is the girl's locker room," I croaked, and Aiden laughed - like actually laughed. "I'm holding your hair while you spill your guts into a porcelain bowl, and you are worried that I don't have the right body parts for this specific bathroom stall?" Now that he said it out loud, I realized how ridiculous that statement was.
The sensation of rocking on the ocean subsided, and I was able to sit vertically without having the world spin aroundAid was hunched O over me, his brows knotted. "Are you okay?" he asked softly and nodded once, wiping at my mouth. "I should, uhm, I should go explain to coach," I said softly, not sure I would be able to stand just yet.
"I told coach you had bad sushi. You don't have to go back. I could take - you to your dorm Considering m know which room you are in already," Alden offered with a wink, and I rolled my eyes. Ofcourse he knew, he was in there himself, polluting every PART 2 CHAPTER 107 surface.
But I didn't have a choice-he was wanted a shower badly, so I took h
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