Chapter 2. Hold My Hand

Ivanna Pov's

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I was startled by his one kiss on my cheek. It was like his one kiss ignited the spark all over my body and my heart was beating at high speed, giving me proof that it was alive. I looked at him dumb-headed while he was smiling like an idiot.

"Thank you, Spiderman, for handling me," he chuckled. I wanted to snap at him for calling me Spiderman but his smile is so beautiful... It didn't let me scold him for kissing me without my permission. I turned my head in another direction. 

"Argh... It's hurting" I look back at him when he hissed in pain, only to find a minor injury on his forehead. 

"Ohh god... It's bleeding" I cursed myself for not focusing on driving. If I would then he wouldn't have got injured. 

"It's hurting" He mumbled. 

"I-- I had first aid in my car. Wait" I muttered and stood up to take out the first aid. He was staring at me during the whole process. I was applying the antiseptic on his forehead when a tear rolled from his eyes.

"I'm So--Sorry" I stuttered, feeling bad. I should have been careful. What happened next was enough to shock me. All of a sudden, He hugged me and hid his face in my neck, widening my eyes. 

"Wh--What are yo---You doing?" I asked. Somewhere, I was surprised at the way my heart and brain were reacting around him. I should be furious and shout at him for hugging me but here I'm asking the stupid questions from him like I can't see. Don't know why I was feeling like I'm connected to him.

"What are you doing, Ivanna? Push him" I frowned at myself after a while for not using my mind. I'm letting a drunk stranger hug me in the middle of the road, everyone says right I'm dull-witted. I frowned and was about to push him, that's when I heard him sobbing.

"Are you okay?" I asked nervously, not able to understand what I should do.

"Why did she reject me? why?" He shrieked, crying in my arms. Tears rolled from my eyes, feeling his pain. I hugged him back to calm him down.

"She rejected me for someone else... she rejected me" He sobbed, hiding his face in my neck, not wanting to show his tears to me but at the same time, wanting to let out his pain. The pain of losing someone. The pain from which I'm so familiar.

"How can you think, I can love a person like you? I was just using you like a whore you're. you only tell me where would I get a girl who is ready to spread her legs for me whenever I want to fulfil my lust" Tears rolled from my eyes remembering Stefan's words. We both were letting out our pain, crying in each other's arms.

Two strangers who met for a few seconds were crying in each other's arms in the middle of the road. Maybe because we don't know each other, it becomes easy for us to let out our inner pain.

I don't know how long we were crying, hugging each other like that. I look at our position after I calm down. I was on his lap and my legs were encircled around his waist while we hid our faces in each other's necks. I didn't even realise how we ended up in this position. it was understandable that he was drunk but what had happened to me, why I didn't realise before hugging the stranger. 

Maybe we both were intoxicated by the pain of love. I came out of my thoughts when he parted away from me and wiped my tears with his thumb. I was staring at him without saying a word while his eyes were roaming all around my face.

"What is your name?" He asked. I didn't reply and stood up from his lap.

"I'm not obliged to answer you" I muttered hesitating. I cried with him but that doesn't mean I gave him right over me. It happens heedlessly. 

"Thank you" I looked at him abruptly.

"Thank you for being there with me when I had no one to be by my side" he mumbled and tried to stand up but again fell on the ground with a groan.

"What happened?" I asked anxiously. At first, I thought his leg slipped as he was drunk but then my eyes went to his left leg injury from which blood was oozing out.

"Ohh god" I lifted his pants a little, only to find a deep cut.

"Does it happen because of me?" I asked. He didn't say anything and pointed towards a stone beside him. I put 2×2 together. when my car hit him, he must have fallen on a stone. As a result, there was a deep cut on his left leg.

"I'm sorry" I apologised and temporarily bandaged his injury.

"I did a temporary bandage but who knows how deep the cut is. Let me take you to the doctor." 

"No, thanks. I'm fine" 

"I can see that" I scoffed and extended my hand towards him.

"Hold my hand" He looked at my hand and then at me.

"Think wisely because if I hold your hand then I'm not going to leave it easily" I rolled my eyes at his cheesy line while he laughed and held my hand. I helped him to stand with my support and made him sit in the front seat. The whole time, his eyes were on me like he was observing my every move and strangely, I didn't feel awkward. I sat in the driving seat and drove towards a nearby hospital.

"Why are you looking at me?" I finally asked him.

"Don't know why but you look familiar to me?" I shook my head negatively.

"But we never saw each other before" He didn't reply and turned his face in another direction. I had a roller-coaster day. In the morning I received the award of best CEO then I had an encounter with my ex, Stefan and that encounter was enough to freshen my wounds. I was trying to overcome everything when I met this stranger who claimed to know me. Don't know what else is waiting for me.

I sighed and tried to focus on the road. That's when I felt his hand on my cheeks. I glare at him angrily.

"I let you touch me before that doesn't mean I give you the right to touch me whenever you want" I snarled and pushed his hand.

"I was just trying to clean the spot of tears from your face" He mumbled. I look at myself in the side mirror. my whole makeup was ruined because of crying continuously. I tightened my lips realising he was right. 

"You can park the car at the side and wash your face," He suggested and then smirked.

"I don't want people to get afraid of you, spiderman" 

"Don't call me Spiderman" I growled and parked the car at the side to wash my face. 

"Stop passing that cocky smile" I growled and hopped down from the car. He passed me his handkerchief when I sat back in the driving seat after washing my face. I was about to deny it but he didn't give me a chance and wiped my face with his own hand. Okay, I didn't expect that gesture from this grumpy gentleman.

"Now people at the hospital are safe," he muttered. I scrunched my eyebrow, not understanding what he meant.

"If you wouldn't have washed your face then anyone in the hospital might have had a heart attack after seeing you." I parted my lips in shock after hearing him.

"Then why didn't you get a heart attack? It would have been great if you had died." I scoffed.

"Because I'm not afraid of anyone. I'm brave, spiderman."

"Brave" I laughed sarcastically.

"Relax, now you're not looking like a witch" he smirked.

"That was mean" I frowned, gawking at him shockingly. He laughed when I smacked his arms.

"I'm helping you and here you're making fun of me instead of thanking me" 

"You're helping me because you're the reason because of whom I got injured otherwise you would have never helped a drunk man" He mocked. I opened my mouth to say something in my defence but no word came out of my mouth as he was right. At 3.00 am, I would never take a risk to go near a drunk man who was roaming in the middle of the road.

"halfwit" I muttered under my breath and started driving. I looked at him annoyingly when he started laughing like a maniac.

"What? Why are you laughing?" I growled.

"I'm halfwit and you're insane. What kind of strangers met in the middle of the night in the middle of the road" He laughed. 

"Ohh god... With whom I stuck" I muttered frustratingly and increased the speed of the car to reach the hospital and get rid of this person as soon as possible. 

"Shoot... I took the wrong way" I groaned frustratingly realising I took the wrong way because of talking to this idiot. My eyes shot up when I tried to apply a break but it didn't work.

"What the fuck?" I yelled.

"What happened?" He looked at me.

"Breaks are not working" We both look at each other with terrifying looks and then at the road.

"Aah!" We both screamed together, seeing death in front of us, ready to greet us.