I Don't Want to Love Him, but I Just Do...

(Disclaimer: All the potions and spells used by the witches and wizards in my story aren't mine. These recipes belong to their rightful owners. The rest of the plot, characters, and everything else is mine.)

Chapter 5

Previously on I Don't Want to Love Him, but I Just Do...

• "Okay, first of all, Mr. Giracho, I was already forced by my father to get married to the guy who has bullied me every single day since I first started school; second, I don't need my soon- to- be- father forcing me to let go of my friends now! Yes, I'm friends with werewolves and witches and wizards. There's nothing wrong with that!"

• "So, you still want me to marry her, Dad?" Sebastian raised an eyebrow.

• "How can you do this to me?" she looked to the ground, not wanting him to see how hurt she was. "I thought you loved me, Tom. I thought you were nice. But you're no different than any other jerk out there," she wanted to just crumble to the ground again, but she didn't allow herself to.

• "Lyn," Ali called to her, "have you picked a maid of honor yet?"

Next Step

Lyn was still sleeping deeply. Her face was down on her bed with a wedding magazine stuck to her cheek. She had stayed up extremely late last night looking for nice designs for the wedding cake. Her father had agreed on a three month planning period for the wedding instead of one month, so she had to plan very quickly. It's always been her dream to have a huge wedding, whether she was going to marry Sebastian or the most perfect vampire alive.

Although, she did have a lot of help with all the planning, which was a huge advantage. Sebastian's sister and mother came four times a week and so did Ali and Catheryn -her maid of honors- to help her out.

Picking her maid of honors wasn't that difficult because she really didn't need to pick. Both of them were the perfect choice for the position. It made them both happy, and it helped Lyn more with planning this wedding; and she needed all the help she could get. Between the wedding, school, and being a princess, she was completely stressed out.

That morning, Lindy, the housekeeper, walked into Lyn's room to start dusting off the furniture. She had her black hair up in a bun with a blue dress on that reached up to her knees. She noticed that Lyn was still sleeping and looked at the time. She shook Lyn's shoulder to wake her up for school; she only had ten minutes to get there.

"Señiorita," she called in a whisper.

Lyn stirred awake, rubbing her eyes before checking the clock. Her eyes widened and she had a mini heart attack. "Crap, crap, crap!" she jumped out of bed and hopped on each leg to put on her shoes. "Thanks for waking me up, Lindy!" Lyn ran out of her room, grabbing her backpack, and ran to school with her vampire speed. When she got to her locker, she still had five minutes till the bell rang to get to her first period. She sighed relieved.

Jandro noticed that Lyn was finally at her locker, and he walked up to her, his hands in his pockets. He was wearing a white v-neck shirt with black pants, and his brown curly hair was gelled up as usual.

"What's with the pajamas?" he laughed as he leaned his shoulder against the locker next to hers.

"What?" Lyn asked, confused, putting some of her textbooks in her locker.

She closed her locker with a loud clank and looked down at her clothes; she was still wearing her matching tangerine- colored pajama shorts and string top. She quickly opened her locker again to look at herself in the mirror she had on the door. Her hair was a complete rat's nest, and her eyes couldn't have bigger bags underneath them. She put on a face of horror and a sudden wave of embarrassment flowed through her. Jandro quickly covered her mouth because he knew a scream was coming.

"Shh!" he tried to shut her up. "It's not that big of a deal, Lyn. You don't want to attract any attention."

Lyn nodded her head, feeling the sting of Jandro's feverish hand on her mouth. She tried to breath in and out, hoping nobody else saw her. "I'll just, you know, go home and grab some cloth-" the bell suddenly rang throughout the school. "Are you serious?" she began to get nervous.

"It'll be fine; you're only wearing pajamas. It's not like you're in your panties," Jandro chuckled. "Now that would make a scene."

Lyn gave him the death glare, but she couldn't help but smile. She closed her locker again and they started walking to Calculus class.

She wrapped her arms around her chest, tucking her head in a little. She looked around the hallway as everyone started giving her funny looks. She tried to ignore them, but she ended up hiding behind Jandro, anyways. Everything will be fine. They're only pajamas. Just try to get to class, she tried to make herself feel better.

As she kept walking straight, she accidently bumped into something hard. She hadn't really been able to look over Jandro's massive six foot, two inch structure. Her vision was completely covered.

She had hit her backpack against the person's shoulder, causing it to drop to the floor. She picked it up from the ground and hung it behind her on both of her shoulders.

She noticed the tall, athletic body of Sebastian talking to a group of girls that were usually always following him. She bumped into Sebastian's shoulder.

Lyn raised an eyebrow at him when he turned around to see who had bumped into him. Her full lips in a thin line, getting really irritated by him. She always seemed to find him everywhere.

He fixed his oval-shaped, emerald green eyes on her; his small, narrow mouth growing into a cheeky smirk once he saw what she was wearing. He started to laugh. "You do know you're at school, right?" he removed the black leather jacket he had on and handed it to her. "Here, wear this," he snickered again. "I don't need you embarrassing me now," he turned back around to talk to the other girls.

"Why'd you give her your jacket, Sebastian?" a vampire girl with honey-wheat hair who was giving a nasty glare with her red eyes, full of envy at Lyn. Her glare almost burning right through her. Her long skinny arms folded across her chest. "Don't you hate her?"

"Yeah, I'm sure he does, but he does happen to be my fiancee," Lyn said smugly. Her eyebrows furrowed, and her lips pressed together even more when she snatched the jacket from Sebastian's hand. She tightened her grip on the leather jacket.

Jandro's eyes widened. Lyn hadn't meant to tell Jandro until he was in a really good mood. She knew things were going to change between their friendship once he knew. He wasn't going to want to hang around Sebastian; therefore, he wasn't going to hang around Lyn as often. or probably not at all. She really didn't want to lose his friendship.

Before the girl could say anything, Sebastian exhaled deeply and looked to the ground. He turned his head, blinking and opening his eyes wide, obviously annoyed by Lyn. "Don't you see I'm trying to have a conversation here?"

"Okay? So what? I don't care who you have conversations with. People just need to respect that we are going to get married!" she exclaimed a little too loudly.

"Can you keep it down?" Sebastian lowered his arms slowly, indicating for her to lower her voice. He looked both ways and bended over a little to whisper to her. "Geez, Lyn, people will find out sooner or later that we're, um, together, if you want to call it that. You don't need to shout it out loud. For now, let me have my fun, 'kay, babe?" he winked at her and turned back around, giving his attention to the group of girls again.

"You're getting married to that leech?" Jandro asked, glowering at Sebastian. "Really? This is that perfect vampire that the king found for you?"

"Oh, no..." Lyn muttered under her breath.

"Have a problem, wolf boy?" Sebastian scowled and stood closer to Jandro threateningly. "Your inner dog instincts making you defend your owner?" he snickered.

Jandro knew he couldn't get into a fight with Sebastian. He really wished he could finally twist his neck and rip him to pieces, but he restrained himself from doing so. He clenched his fists tightly, making them tighter as his anger grew. His nails digging into the flesh of his palm.

Controlling his anger was a different thing. That was more difficult for him; werewolves tend to get more angry than they should because it was just in their nature. His thick, brown eyebrows were quirked in an angry fashion, hostile. He tried to control his shaking. Everything would get worse if he turned into a wolf.

"I'm going to class," he looked toward Lyn. "You would've had enough time to go change. Why didn't you do that instead of waste your time with this idiot?" he glowered at Sebastian one last time and walked away, hitting his shoulder against Sebastian roughly.

That was true; Lyn was already five minutes late for class. She would've definitely wanted to be late to class for an emergency instead of because of Sebastian.

She felt guilty for not telling Jandro right away.

"You're a jerk, you know that?" Lyn shook her head ashamed of Sebastian's performance. Not that she was surprised that he acted that way; she just wanted him to feel bad about himself for once.

Sebastian snorted, amused. "You notice that now? Put on the jacket, why don't you?"

Lyn held up the leather jacket she still had clenched in her hands. "Oh, this jacket?" she smiled sarcastically and threw it on the ground. She stomped on it several times and walked away. Suddenly, she didn't feel so embarrassed anymore.

"He just kept giving his attention to the girls even though you were talking to him?" asked Demi as she placed clover into the mortar she had on top of the table in study hall.

The three witches, Liv, Ali, and Demi, had a project for their potions class that was due the next day. They needed to make an ointment that made anything or anyone fly instantly if they came into contact with it.

Liv was heating the lard in the large cauldron that was sitting on top of a fireplace next to their feet. Ali was measuring the amount of the ingredients they needed to crush in the mortar, and Demi would add those ingredients to the lard in the cauldron.

Lyn nodded her head, answering Demi's question. "Yeah, but I'm tired of talking about my life. What goes on in the lives of the witches? Any crushes?" she laughed and raised an eyebrow.

"Well, there's my boyfriend, Adam..." said Ali smiling.

They all rolled their eyebrows playfully and said simultaneously, amused, "We know."

When Lyn brought up the word crush, Demi looked up at Ethan Johnson, a werewolf, who was sitting at a table across the room. A faint blush formed on her cheeks as she fixed her gaze on him. Her little braids got in the way of her thin- almond, dark brown eyes as she got distracted by his attractiveness. He had an inverted triangular- shaped face with hazel almond- shaped eyes and a broad tipped nose. His eyebrows were a thick chocolate brown that matched perfectly next to his frappe- colored skin tone. He almost always wore a beanie over his head and a basic T- shirt with a pair of jeans.

He glanced up at her from a book he was reading, and she quickly looked away, concentrating on the ointment again. She quickly grabbed the measured rosemary and poured it into the mortar with the other ingredients, hoping he hadn't seen her.

"Oh," Liv looked over where Demi was staring at. "You like Ethan?"

Demi shrugged her shoulders, shy to admit her feelings for him. "It's just a little crush. I mean, I don't think he would ever like me..." she frowned.

"Why not?" queried Ali, placing the measuring tools on the table. "You're pretty and your smart," she smiled. "Have you tried talking to him?"

She shook her head, her eyes widening. "Are you crazy? I can hardly even say hi to him, let alone start a conversation!"

"But that's how it all starts," said Lyn. "You need to indicate that you're interested in him; he's not a mind reader, Demi. It could be as simple as a smile or a wave or you can try to make conversation," she grinned.

Demi looked down to the ground, just getting nervous by the mere concept of having some type of interaction with him. "I don't know..."

"Trust me, it worked with Tom when I first started to have a crush on him," Lyn scrunched her nose up at the thought of Tom again. That was the second time she's spoken about him since the break up. Why the sudden thoughts of him? she asked herself.

"Okay, maybe in a month."

"No, maybe tomorrow!" Liv encouraged. "Come on, he has no girlfriend, he's good- looking, he's smart, he's perfect for you, Demi!"

"I'll think about it..." Demi was unsure about this. She was way too shy and too nervous to speak to him, but she was going to at least try. She's had a crush on him for a long time now, and she finally wanted to do something about it.

Once the bell rang, confirming that it was the end of the school day, everyone grabbed their belongings as quickly as they could and raced out of their classrooms to go home. The way the students were running out of study hall reminded Lyn of the animals that ran as fast as they could away from her when she was hunting.

The three witches said goodbye to Lyn, and they started walking to their houses. Lyn finally felt a flush of relief that the day was over, so she could get out of the school as quickly as possible. She really hoped that she wouldn't forget to change out of her pajamas again.

Though, once she zipped up her backpack, she felt that her shoe lace was untied, and she stayed behind to tie them. When she was finished, she walked out of the classroom and turned to the right toward the front doors of the school. There was still a huge mob of students trying to leave the school, making the hallways impossible to walk through.

She was squeezing her way through the crowd when she suddenly felt strong hands grasp her from behind, an arm around her waist, turning her around. She had no time to think or do anything when a pair of soft lips crashed onto hers. She tried to get free from the mysterious strong arms with all her force, but he was too strong for her. She gave up and just waited there with her arms to her side, as frozen as a statue until he was finished.

When she opened her eyes after he was done, she caught her breath when she saw that it was Sebastian. His green eyes staring into hers with a what-did-I-just-do? expression.

"What the hell is wrong with you, Sebastian?" Lyn pushed him away, her hands on his chest. He didn't even move an inch away.

His arms were still around her waist and even though she was trying to get out of his arms, he still managed to whisper to her. "We have to at least show people that we're not forced to be together."

"Why do you care? You weren't doing a very good job this morning, Giracho," she struggled to get out of his arms again. "Can you let go of me, please?"

"No, you have to listen to me!" he demanded.

"Why should I listen to you? I'm tired of listening to you!" she finally got enough force to get out of his grip. She didn't know if it was because he loosened his arms up or because she was aggravated enough to muster up the strength. It didn't really matter as long as she was out.

She noticed that there was a crowd of people staring at them. "Don't you all have somewhere to go?"

The crowd stayed there, still staring at them. They were so in shock to see two people who hate each other very much kissing out of nowhere.

Lyn rolled her eyes and left, leaving Sebastian standing there with a choleric expression.

She ran out of there as fast as she could, still not believing what Sebastian just did. On her way home, she couldn't help but remember the way his lips touched hers and the way his arms felt around her waste, causing something to drop down in her stomach. She shook her head and tried to stop thinking about it. What was that all about?

A/N: Surprise! I couldn't wait to update on Tuesday, so I decided to update early! Is Lyn falling for Seb or are her feelings coming back for Tom? Thanks so much to everyone who reads, reviews, follows, and favorited this story! Like I always say, it means the world to me! :D These people would include BelievinginTrueLoveForever, Crazyed Vampire, HaterJo, WisegirlNL15, XxxJacobBlackForeverxxX, laurizzle, lovesfairytale, sunshine4evr, xXallegedangelXx, 19-abby-99, AlexandraSterling41, AureliaCrossed, DarknessInYourEyes, KarouBlue, ZisisGirl23, shadow-dea, xoxDarkFallenAngelxox, xxxxLaKerzxxxx, HPKaneChroniclesFan4Life,Hana15498, tinckles, wolf9653, lol2247, L4N498, and two anonymous reviewers! New reviewers are very much welcomed with new ideas or critiques or both! Thanks again! :D I'll be updating the next chapter this Friday! :)