H U N T E D ~ T H

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T O M

"I told you not to come in" Her voice was a whisper threw the high shelves of books, I pulled a stack out so I could see her pretty face.

She was on edge today, she flinched at the slightest noise and she had bags under her eyes like she hadn't slept.

I tried to talk to her in the hallway but she told me to meet her in the library and was quick to scurry off.

I'm worried about her, she was fine last night, acting like her only care in the world was when she could get her hands on me next.

Now she looked terrified to be in her own skin. I wanted to hold her, tell her everything okay, but she wouldn't even let me look at her today.

"I missed you" I rested my chin on the bookshelf, looking threw at her as I grinned.

"You should be resting" She was holding a book in her hands, pretending to flip threw it as she glanced around like something was gonna jump out at any second.

"What's with you today?" I asked "you seem on edge, did something happen?"

She looked up, meeting my eyes. She nodded, fear covering her face. My posture straightened, I pushed books to the side and slipped my hand threw, holding hers.

"Someone was in my room, they wrote in my window" Her voice was so quiet I could barely hear her "I know all your secrets, that's what it said."

"Have you told your parents?" I asked, rubbing my thumb over her skin of her hand which seemed to calm her down.

She shook her head no. "They can't know, if they find out then they'll make us leave" She said. I know what she means, she means they'll make her leave me.

"I'll pick you up from cheerleading, we can talk more then" I said, the school library was starting to get busy but luckily nobody was in our isles.

She pressed her lips together, avoiding my eyes, she was hesitating. "No, no, Mackayla" I shook my head, squeezing her hand tighter "I just got you back, I'm not loosing you again."

"Tom, someone tried to kill you, and there is someone in this stupid town who knows about me" She said "I don't wanna take risks."

"Mack—"

"There you are!" Annie.

She pulled her hand from mine, shoving my head threw and replacing the shelf with books. I let out a sigh, resting my head on the shelf for a moment.

"Iv been looking everywhere for you" I heard Annie say.

"I just needed some books for homework" Mack replied, I could hear her tapping the book she was holding.

Before they could see me I slipped away, when I got out of the library I bumped into someone, making them drop their books.

When I looked up I saw it was Mr Kenner. "Sorry, sir" I apologised, reaching down to pick up his books.

I stood up, handing them to him. "Careful where your going, Holland" He raised a brow at me, he began to walk away when I noticed he had dropped a red marker.

"Sir" I called, picking up the red pen. "You dropped this."

He took it without even a thank you, giving me a scowl before storming off. I don't understand why he doesn't like, maybe Mack was lying to me, maybe she is sleeping with Kenner.

No, I would know if she was lying, and she wouldn't do that me. I don't think she would anyways.

"Hey, Tommy boy" Nick flung his arm around my shoulder, pulling me down to him since I was taller. "How's the arm?"