I had a friend

Chap 8

I packed my stuff and wore my black outfit. Mum and dad would catch me if I went through the front door so I took the window. Once I was out, I walked my way to dark London. The streets were empty, unlike dark London where people began their day. I strolled through the dark until I reached the headquarters. Everybody was already there. I sat down and they began planning. I did not have to pay attention as I was not going in the field. I just hacked into files for them and sat there. After the planning, Damien gave me my 1300$. I won't be there on the murder day. I was just about to leave when Cass walked up to me, " Elyssa "
I turned around, "Cass"
"How is your new life?" Her expression was sad but she covered it up with a genuine smile.
" Cass, it's good. I'm enjoying it"
She sighed, "don't you ever miss dark London?"
"I do. a lot. but i-it is not good for me. I have been liking it in the other side of London."
She nodded. No matter how much she tried to hide her feeling, her face gave away.

She missed me.

I missed her too. We were so good friends. I felt like giving up my new life and coming back. But I couldn't, I just could'nt. I hugged her. A tear escaped her eyes but she held it back. I pulled away and assured her that I would be back. Then I left for home.
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" Elizabeth!" Venessa ran up to me.
" Hey Venessa"
"Is your class early today?"
"No, why?"
"I want you to meet someone"
I narrowed my eyebrows but went with her anyway. We walked past the cafeteria. My eyes caught a group of boys in the corner. There were around eight nine of them. I noticed Venessa walking upto one of them. I followed her and we stopped in front of them.
" Hey guys. This is my friend Elizabeth."They looked at me. I smiled. "Elizabeth these are my friends. Actually my boyfriend's friends."
"Oh"
A guy came out of them and walked up to Venessa, kissing her on the cheek.
" and this"she pointed to him," is Andrew, my boyfriend." he smiled at me and I returned it. Venessa glanced towards the big school clock. "Blimey! class starts in five minutes!" I gotta go. see you guys later!" she gave Andrew a short kiss and ran leaving me with the group if unkown guys. Wow. What a friend. Andrew and his gang walked upto me. A guy stood ahead of the others. He was really hot with defined features and a more than perfect jawline.
" Im Daniel."
" Im Elizabeth"
"You don't have that good girl look"
I wasn't a good girl. I frowned, "is that a compliment?"
" it's your wish how you take it. If you are a bad girl, it will be a compliment." he took a step closer. "are you a bad girl?" I did not want to tell these people anything.
"No"
He took another step closer, "well. I don't think so"
"Why not?" He took yet another step. now he was dangerously close. I took a deep breath trying to calm myself but the way his eyes trailed my face just didn't help.
" Because a good girl can't possibly have tattoos" He reached his hand out to push my jet black hair aside showing my phoenix tattoo.
Seriously? that was all he wanted to tell me? I was ready to slap his hand away but I didn't have to.
"Elizabeth!" I looked up and saw James running to me.
I moved away from Daniel. James ran up to me. Andrew and his gang had uneasy looks on their faces. Maybe they were scared of James. He took my hand. Let's get away. I followed him to our classroom. We went and sat in our seat. After the class was over, James suggested we went and bought ice cream. Frankly speaking, ice cream wasn't my thing. I never had it in dark London and it just showed happiness which made me sick. Nonetheless, James bought me one. We sat together on the bench facing the lake.
"James are Daniel and his gang scared of you?"
"Not really. Once, he tried to bully me but I fought back and defeated all of his gang members. All except Andrew because he never wanted to fight me. I have never really liked the gang anymore except Andrew."
"Oh"
"Elizabeth, dont you have a pet name or something?"
"Why do you ask so?"
"Because Elizabeth is a long name"
"You can call me.." I paused. I was about to mention Elyssa but I did not want my dark past to come in. "El"
"Ok sounds cool. What about ice cream girl?"
"That is lame! I'm not even an ice cream!"
"Now you are" he smirked and smeared his ice cream on my face.

I paused.

Anger raged through me, "You did not do that!"
" Oh yes I did!" he got up the bench and ran. I chased him.

Now imagine a scene of a college and then you see a mad girl with ice cream smeared on her face running behind a boy. Well, that was what we looked like. Once I was tired, I went to the bathroom and washed my face. My next class was about to start. I ran and took my seat.

After a long and tiring day, James walked with me till home. We laughed at our stupid incident today.
I was sleepy. My eyes couldn't stay awake for long. Waving him goodbye, I went up to my room. Not bothering to change, I slipped into my comfortable duvet and drifted of to sleep. I was way more than sleepy.

But one thing was sure.

Today was the first time I laughed in the past 5 years...