thing.”
“Yes, I’ve realized that you are a shy guy!” I smiled. “But don’t worry, I'll teach you how to dance tonight.”
I supported my hand on his waist and led him to the dance floor. Natanael stopped in the middle of some people who were dancing. He looked around and noticed that the other guys were putting on quite a show on the dance floor. They danced in front of some flirtatious girls.
He looked back and saw me before him. I smiled and started to move my body gently. My sandals were still by the pool and I was dancing barefoot.
“Follow my movements,” I commanded him looking at his face. He continued standing, watching my movements as I danced in front of him. I raised my arms above my head as my waist and my hips moved with sensuality and lightness.
Natanael shook his head, looking quite confused.
“That's too hard!”
He refused to move his body on the dance floor in front of me and a hundred more people. Natan was afraid of making mistakes and looking silly in front of everyone.
“Try it! It is not difficult!”
I kept moving with the music. Involuntarily I turned my back to Natan and pulled my hair over my right shoulder, bringing forward my left shoulder.
Natanael's dark eyes fell on my back and I knew he could perfectly see the tattoo of butterflies on my back. They were beautiful, perfect and fascinating. I was sure he thought so too.
He seemed mesmerized by my body as it moved. Gently I danced like a snake, going up and down without stopping.
Natanael became even more hesitant. He remained still.
His right hand rubbed his forehead. I turned to face him and stared at him in the eyes as I continued to dance. At the time Natanael’s gaze moved down to my red lips, I could sense he felt strongly tempted, confused and lost at the same time.
Finally, he pulled back, saying, “I'm sorry, but I don’t dance!”
He took two steps back and walked to the side, stepping off the dance floor. I stopped moving and started walking barefoot hastily behind him.
“Natan! What happened?” I questioned at his back.
He stopped walking and turned to face me. I looked in his eyes. They were timid. His face was pale and bland. Natan was really very shy.
“Excuse me.” He looked around. “Get another guy to dance with you! Really this kind of thing is not for me!”
He turned his back to me again and started walking toward the gate. He was leaving without saying goodbye to me.
Immediately, my shoulders moved up. I looked around, feeling like a fool after being left on the dance floor by an extremely shy guy.
“Wow! He is very strange!” I muttered to myself and walked toward the pool to get my pair of gold sandals.
The desire to dance had disappeared. My motivation had accompanied Natanael’s departure and made me feel no longer interested in the party that was just beginning to come to life. All the others there were having a lot of fun.
Chapter 12
On Monday afternoon
Peta
With the end of classes, I had to return to the college library to finish completing my summary about the artistic representations. The reading room was packed and all the tables and chairs were full with students. I was sitting at the dividing with a table full of books and notebooks with a young woman I did not know.
She was also making some kind of summary to be delivered to her teacher.
Moments later, the girl got up and carried her lesson materials with her. The chair in front of my table was unoccupied.
My body was bent as I was reading a paragraph in the book and trying to assimilate it. My lips were holding a pen while I was writing with the other hand.
Suddenly, a shadow appeared before me blocking out the light. I raised my head and gazed up.
What I saw standing before me made me look down again and look at the pages of the book another time.
“Hello,” a hesitant male voice said.
“Hi,” I answered politely but completely serious. I didn’t want to face the