A Touch Of Darkness

01

    Today was my first day of college, I walk around looking for my first class which was english. It was dark and rainy today so I was trying to rush into another building which was labeled "building 2." Which was a lot of help.

    I roll my eyes walking into the building. I see a room labeled art, math, home and economics. I keep walking until I find a room labeled english. The bell rings right when I get in the door. Relieved, I go find a chair in the back and sit down.

   The teacher assigns us some class work and tells us to get started on it right away while she hands us the papers and a book. The paper says the assignment is due a week from now, which gives me plenty of time. I get started on it immediately not wanting the teacher to get angry with me on my first day.

    After about 30 minutes of reading the book and writing down notes the bell finally rings. I sigh and head pack to my dorm.

I walk into my dorm finding a girl with long blonde hair, about 5'4, with blue eyes. "Hello?" I speak. "Oh hi I'm your roommate, Abby." She says holding her hand for me to shake. "Hi I'm Ella."

"How was your first day? This is my second year." She smiles. "It was good, I had one class today though."

"Okay, well let me know if you need any help finding your way around. Im heading out." She pauses to look at me. "Would you like to come?"

"Where are you heading?" I ask.

"A party."

    I take a minute to think about it before I answer, "Sure."

    "Alright let's go." She says as she walks out of the door.

We get to the parking lot, and I don't see any cars.

I stand there for a second confused. "Where's the car?" I ask.

She looks at me weirdly but then shakes it away. "We are waiting for my friends, then we will walk."

I nod my head in agreement.

We wait there for about 5 minutes until I see a group of people walking towards us.

    "Hey guys!!" Abby's squeals, "I haven't seen you guys in so long. How have you been?"

     I block out Abby's voice as I study the group of people my roommates friends with. There are 4 boys and 2 girls. The girl on the very right has bright blonde hair with blue eyes, and the girl next to her also has blonde hair but a lot darker with brown eyes. They are both gorgeous.

     I look at the 4 boys that are standing next to them, the one on the end has tattoos with dark brown hair and is wearing all black, he seems like he keeps to himself when the other 3 boys seem outgoing and definitely cause trouble. 2 have blonde hair with brown eyes and the other 1 has brown hair with blue eyes.

     Abby's voice brings me out of my thoughts by introducing to me her friends, She points to the 2 girls. "This is Hailey and Maddie." She says as they smile and wave to me. "And she points to the 3 boys, "This is Max, Jake, and Logan." and then she points to the mysterious one, "and this is Noah."

    "Hey guys." I say. "My names Ella, it's really nice to meet you."

    "Okay! Let's go to the party shall we?" Abby says.

    They all nod and start to walk down the street.

    I walk behind everyone else trying to keep to myself as I feel a tap on my shoulder, I look up and see Noah.

    "Hey." He says in a deep husky voice.

    I take in his appearance, he is very pale and his blue eyes are a deep shade that almost make me feel like he can see right though me, he has big pink lips, with a very sharp jawline, and is quite literally towering over me.

    "Hey." I say back.

    His eyes travel up and down my body as he says, "i've never seen you around here, you're new."

    "Yeah, I just moved here a few weeks ago."

    "Hm." He nods as we continue walking.

     I hesitate before asking, "Do you like party's?"

     He shakes his head, "i'm not really the party type but my friends dragged me out here."

     I nod as we finally get to the party.

     Noah gestures for me to go in before him so I do, the place is filled with a bunch of drunken people.

Once I get into the party Abby's friends all seem to go their separate ways except Noah and I.

"Let me get you a drink." He says as he makes his way to the bar, I follow him and I cant help but notice most of the party are whispering and staring at who I think is us.

I shake off the feeling and order my drink at the bar. I go to give the bartender my card but someone swats my hand away. "It's on me." Noah says. I smile up at him, "Thank you." He nods.

Noah and I walk over to the sitting area and find all of our friends.

I find myself a spot and sit down as I drink my drink.

After a few minutes I finish my drink, "I'll be right back i'm going to go get myself another drink." I tell them.

They all nod as I get up and go to the bar.

"Get I get a water please?" I ask the bartender.

She nods and goes to get my water.

I sit there in silence until a man comes over and sits next to me. "Hey, want to do some shots it's on me." He smiles.

I hesitate, "Uh I really don't h think that's a good id-" I stop myself, "Sure why not?"

He orders us some shots when the bartender comes back with my water.

She comes back with silke shots and we both down them in a second. He orders some more and offers me a drink.

"I'm going to go dance." I slur.

I get up and find some people to dance with.

I felt eyes on me but I couldn't bring myself to care as I swayed my hips to the music.

After what seems like forever of dancing I feel a pair of hands on my hips. "Ella, I think we're leaving now." I hear a familiar voice say.

"Noah?" I slur.

"Yeah it's me let's go." He says as he leads me out of the party.

I stumble at his side.

He stops walking for a moment, and just as i'm about to ask him what he's doing I feel a strong pair of arms pick me up bridle style and walk me to my dorm.

Feeling very tired I doze off into a sleep.

~~~

    My eyes slowly open as I feel myself being lightly put into my bed.

    I try to remember what happened and quickly realized Noah was still in my dorm.

    "Hi." He says.

    "Hi, Thank you for taking me home i really appreciate it."

    He smiles, "Yeah no problem anytime."

    I begin to feel very hot, I try to take off my shirt wanted to change into my pajamas, but I get tangled up in my shirt.

   "May i?" He asks gesturing to the shirt.

    I nod feeling embarrassed.

    He takes off my shirt respectfully and tucks me into my covers.

   "Goodnight Ella." He says as he turns off my light and opens the door, leaving.

    "Goodnight Noah." I say before falling into a deep sleep.

Hey guys! I'm really sorry it took me so long to post a chapter to this book, but I hope you enjoyed this chapter!!