Elyza

Twenty.

"One day I'll stop writing these bitter sweet poems about you.
One day my mind will continue being beautiful even though I'm not thinking about you.
One day I'll get better but today's not the day, so I'll just pick up my pen and start writing again."

-The book I will never write//

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"He won't stop staring at you Ray"

Zoe was right. Dominic decided to stay for dinner and he sat at the opposite table, eating his mashed potatoes slowly but keeping his eyes on us. Or better yet on Raven.

I shivered "I don't like him"

"Does anyone " Aric added. He had calmed down now, I didn't expect him to pat my back and tell me I did well. It wasn't in his nature but I think he respects me now.

Raven pushed her food in front of her and grimaced "His ugly face has put me off my dinner"

We all giggled but my giggle faded away quicker than the rest. Noah didn't come to dinner, his chair on the opposite side of the room was empty. Deserted. I stood up and decided suck up my pride and go see him, to see if he was okay. He hasn't been around since this morning of classes.

"Does any of you know where Noah's room is?" I whispered.

Zoe's grinned so widely, Aric just smirked and Raven, Raven looked like she got punched in the face. I forgot she didn't know much about me and Noah "Why the hell do you want to go to Noah Harrison's room?" She asked.

I shrugged nonchalantly "He um-has my phone, I want to call my parents so..."

What a filthy lie.

Aric smirked even wider and took a sip of his Coke "It's on the west wing, fifth door when you enter through the double doors. Also do you want a condom?"

"Oh my God" I gasped and pushed the image out my head "You make me sick"

I turned my heel quickly and listened to Aric's roaring laughter, his silent laugh, his loud laugh, his oh-my-god-I'm-about-to-fall laugh until my back was against the cafeteria doors. Realising a heavy breath, I began walking aimlessly to the west wing, I don't even know where the west wing was but do you know when you have a gut feeling?

That was it.

I walked through dark hallways, chilly hallways, crumbling and carved out doors until I read a plaque on top of two big double doors which read 'WEST WING'

Fifth door when you enter through the double doors

I pushed the doors open, a cool gust of wind hit me in the face as I coughed out dust from my lungs and throat, the hallway was dimly lit, it looked like a black hole ready to swallow me but the thing which got to me was the shadows were moving, crawling along the floor, along the walls, slowly. So slowly I wouldn't even had noticed if I wasn't staring at them for so long, I flinched when the tail of the shadow touched my feet, not only was the frightening but it felt like a feather touching my feet, it actually felt like something touched me.

In a panic, I ran. Passing door after door after door until I reached the fifth one and banged on the wooden carved door, Hoping it was Noah's room.

The door swung open in seconds and I gulped. It was Noah's room but he was topless, revealing a killer torso; six pack and V-line and well defined muscles. Come on Elyza keep yourself together. He wore grey sweat pants which hung low on his waist, and his hair was wet, I think he just got out of the shower.

"H-hi" I managed to spit out.

He smirked and said "Hi" back

I shuffled my feet "I just came to see if you were alright"