Aren't you scared of becoming a slave to freedom?
As a 17 year old girl whose mother abused her, Naomi has never known what freedom is, only dreamt of it. But now it's her only constant thought. For her, freedom slowly becomes a drug, something she...
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I open my mouth to ask Railey a question but the boy next to her beats me to it. "Railey, do you know her?" He asks while looking at Railey and pointing at me. Okay, rude.
Railey turns her head slightly towards the guy but keeps her eyes on me. "Yeah, I do. She's the girl I met at that first hall they took us to." She says before turning to look at the guy. "Remember? I told you about her."
The guy glances at me and looks back at Railey. "You never mentioned that she was rude." He mumbles softly, but I hear him and so does Railey. She hits his forearm lightly and starts scolding him.
While they're hashing it out, I glance at Raphael and find him already looking at me. We make eye contact and I raise a single eyebrow at him, wordlessly asking him "what". He raises both of his eyebrows and points at himself. He shakes his head and points at me with one eyebrow raised.
Before I can ask him what that means, he motions to Railey and then to me then raises his eyebrow in question. Ohh, What's going on between me and Railey. I chuckle in my head and smile. He should have just said so.
I look at him and he's still waiting for an answer. "I'll tell you later." I whisper in response, he nods and we look back at the pair in front of us.
Railey glares at the guy and tells him to be nice. I think she'd meant for us to not hear that but her voice is pretty loud. She turns back to look at me.
"Would you like to join Wesley and me at our table for dinner?" She asks excitedly, her hazel eyes sparkling brightly. Before my lips can even utter a single word, my head moves up and down in a nodding motion.
I blink and quickly pull out a "sure". Remembering that I'm now a package deal, I look at Raphael. "Sure?" I ask, I can practically feel my eyes begging him to agree. Raphael smiles and shrugs, "Sure." He says, sounding slightly amused.
"Great!" Railey says. She leads us to their table and coincidentally there's two extra chairs around the round pale wooden table.
I place my food on the table and so does Raphael. It seems like Railey and her number-mate had already gotten their food because two trays of food sit in front of them, waiting to be eaten. I'm assuming he's her number-mate otherwise why would he be around her this much? It's a bit too early for friendships to be made but that might also be a possibility.
I take a bite of my food and start chewing. "Hi. You must be Naomi's partner, I'm Railey." She introduces, kindly. I keep chewing my food and watching their interaction. In my peripheral view I see Railey's number-mate, do the same.
Raphael smiles casually. "Nice to meet you, Railey. I'm Raphael." He turns to the guy and his smile widens. "And what might your name be, sweet cheeks?"
The guy keeps chewing while glaring at Raphael. I notice that his glare is more on the light side than the intense side. Progress. The guy ignores Raphael and swallows down his food.
