PURIFYING TOUCH...

Chapter 2.

As I walked through the corridors down to the gym, I flattened my skirt back down and ran my fingers through my long brown curls to neaten them up a little bit. I got to my small black backpack and checked if all my stuff was still inside, luckily for me, it was all there, although unfortunately, my fitness instructor was also there. He was an Ibrido too, with light brown hair and the typical blue eyes. For some reason all Ibrido men were just damn sexy, but I could never hit on him. I’m fifteen and Mr De Luca in his twenties. Plus he is my teacher. I don’t have feelings for him or anything; I just think he’s hot.

“Why aren’t you changed and in the gym?” He stood in front of me with his arms crossed. “I had to sort out drama, and then I sort of became the drama.” I put my backpack on my back. “Well then, you better sort yourself out and then be back here tomorrow afternoon for detention.” He sounded almost cruel in the way he said it. Yeah, I know I have a major attitude problem, I’ve been told about 29813653103863712603 times, but I’m usually nice to those who are nice to me, and giving me detention for being dragged away for something I couldn’t help. That was not being very nice. “Are you serious? I was carried away against my own will! Dom literally picked me up, put me over his shoulder and carried me away!” You probably would have been able to have heard me yelling from my dorm, which is on the other side of the building. “You obviously deserved it. Dom would only have done that if he saw that it was the rational and most logical solution to whatever ‘drama’ you caused.” He said sternly. The entire time that we were speaking, he remained still. It annoyed me how calm he managed to stay. Then he continued. “So, you will be meeting me here, in your gym clothes for detention at 4 o’clock tomorrow after school.” Then he walked back into the gym to my classmates. This sucks; I get detention for defending my best friend. I wish Dom had carried me into the gym. I was sort of looking forward to my daily workout. It’s great but tomorrow I get double the workout, which means double the pain. It’s good in a way but I’m gonna feel it the next morning, that’s for sure.

I stopped by the dorm kiosk on the way back to my room to get some popcorn and some chocolates. I couldn’t decide whether to get the peppermint chocolates, or the ones with hazelnut cream inside. “If you can’t decide, you should get both.” I looked over and saw a boy. I saw a very, very good looking boy. He had light blue shorts on and a black “Bullet for my Valentine” shirt on. Huh. He was good looking and good taste in music. He had short brown hair and the most amazing green eyes. Della Luna? I have never seen him before but he must be one. He seemed to be fit, but not a muscly as the Ibrido boys I know. I just don’t get what he was doing at the Ibrido dorm kiosk. He walked over to me. For Della Luna the school day had ended. That’s when the Ibrido train so he wasn’t in uniform, but I was still in mine since I hadn’t had time to change in my room before I left to get my bag. “Hey, I’m Riccardo, but you can call me Ricci.” I handed both blocks of chocolate and the bag of popcorn to the man behind the counter. “I’m Anika, but everyone calls me Nik, are you new here?” I paid the man behind the counter $13 and stood there for a little while longer talking to him. “Yeah, I just transferred over from St. Peter’s in England.” Wow. I guessed he was from somewhere British because he had a slight accent but this hot guy is English too. That’s frickin’ hot. “So why’d you transfer to Australia from Newcastle?” He smiled when I asked this and put his head down. “That is a story from another night” That made me it made me want to be closer to him.  I want to know his story, and I am going to find it out.

“Well then Anika, I’m having a party tonight, just sort of a meet and greet kickback. My roommate insisted on my having one, so I’d like it if you came. It’s house 4? You can even bring someone if you’d like” He smiled hopefully, God he had perfect teeth too. “I’ll see. A friend and were just going to have a night in but I’ll try to talk him into it.” He was beaming once I said that. Maybe he wanted to get to know me better too? Maybe he felt the connection too? Or was I just being an over dramatic idiot. I don’t know. I told him I had to go and he gave me a huge hug. He wore “One Million”. It was my favourite cologne on a guy but he wouldn’t have known that. The hug came as a shock to me; we had only just met like 10 minutes ago. “See you tonight Anika.” even though he had already started to walk away, I corrected him instantly. “It’s Nik, and I said maybe!” I yelled. He turned around and yelled back at me. “Anika is a beautiful name, you shouldn’t change it, and you’ll be there, you won’t be able to resist seeing me again!” I wasn’t sure if I was seeing properly but I think he winked at me with that cocky smile as he turned back around and continued to walk away.