Loving the Campus Monster

Chapter 5 (His reputation)

Laura

My head feels heavy, really heavy when I start to come to awareness again. Another thing I start to notice is that I'm lying on something soft. I try to open my eyes, but it's hard to lift my lids. My head hurts so much it feels like it might just fall right off. I try to swallow, but my throat feels dry and every breath I take hurts as it wheezes out of me slightly. I take a moment to gather what little strength I have in me and force my heavy eyelids open.

The first thing I see all around me are white walls with no pictures or decorations hanging on them. I frown.

This isn't my room.

The light coming from the lamp beside me on the nightstand is on, but luckily it isn't bright enough to blind me. I look around to see that It's still dark outside the window beside me. I don't know if it's still night or early morning but at the moment I don't care. The room seems vaguely familiar, but my brain is too muddled and clouded right now to think clearly. I do feel like I have been here before as I look around again. I force myself to sit up slowly as best as I can, but it's still too fast. My pulse is pounding behind my ears as I lean up on my arms, but they don't have the strength to push me up all the way, so I end up just leaning my head on the headboard behind me. I want to rush to the bathroom and force myself to throw up, but I don't. Instead, I just close my eyes again.

I'm not sure how long I have been laying here like this, but I think I fell asleep again when I hear footsteps outside the door. I open my eyes when I hear them coming closer. I am ah-washed with confusion. I don't know where I am or how I got here. My mind is still too clouded to remember or to think clearly. And I don't have enough time to try and think and gather my thoughts before the door opens. I look up to see a tall, dark figure walk inside the room. I feel my heart start to pound in fright for a moment before I my gaze lands on his bright blonde hair and hazel eyes looking down at me.

"Well, look here, the princess has finally awakened." He says in a mocking voice as he walks insides and closes the door.

"Hi." I croak as I try to sit up more but it's hard to push myself up when I still feel so heavy. It surprises me when Ross quickly sets down the glass and other stuff he's holding in his hand and on the nightstand beside me before helping me to sit up. Once I am up, he takes a seat on the bed next to me, a little distance away. I try to gather my scattered thoughts before trying to speak.

"W-What happened?" I ask, trying to remember but everything seems to be all fuzzy and jumbled up together in my head.

He gives a hard frown. "You don't remember?"

"No." I try to remember, but it's hard to piece the together what happened, it all seems jumbled up in my mind.

He looks away. "Well, sorry to tell you this princess, but someone... drugged you." He hands me the glass of water from the nightstand. My hands are shaking as I take it and gulp down a mouthful of water to parch my dry mouth.

"How do you know that?" I ask, I don't know if I should trust him. The information is too horrifying to contemplate. 

 I'm still not sure of all what happened to me so how would he know?

He turns his head and studies me. "I notice you were acting strangely when you left your group of "friends"," He air quoted the word "friends" with his fingers, a disdainful look on his face. "So, I followed you outside."

"You followed me?" I don't know how I feel about that. I just wish my mind would clear enough through my jumbled thoughts to make sense of everything that happened.

"Yeah." He turns to look at me again. "It's a good thing I did too, or things could have turned out a lot worse for you princess." He turns away and shakes his head. "I can't believe your friends just left you to walk home by yourself after seeing the weird way you were acting." He scoffs. "Fucking idiots." He adds under his breath in undisguised disdain.