"I had to stop myself from falling for him.
He and I were lines, drawn by different pencils, formed by different hands. He was a smooth and straight line, one without curves or jagged edges, a line that was almost perfect, a line you would be sure enough to infinitely extend. I was a much different line. I wasn't perfectly straight. I'd been redrawn many times and my different strokes overlapped one another. I had rough texture, sharp edges and drawn by a sloppy hand but somehow, someway we had met at some point. We were no longer parallel lines, we were intersecting lines-crossed at one point but never meant to meet again. That's what I needed us to be. I needed us to never meet again. But as hard as I try to resist, I couldn't deny that the urge was still there. Something inside me wanted his lips locked with mine, his hands fidgeting with my hair, the taste of his tongue as he started to take in the whole of me. He was right. I had lost myself in him. I wasn't the tough, indurated 'me' that I had built over the years. All along I was in control of my emotions, trying my best to get my head in the game all the time, doing my best to be careful. All along I built up walls around me to protect myself from the possible hurt and pain this sadistic world had to offer only to be torn down by somebody I detested, somebody I should be detesting, someone I shouldn't be falling in love with. The sudden thought of him was enough to send my heart skipping beats." -- Lauren, STEEL (Aurum Trilogy Book 1)