Look Me In The Eyes...**(OFF hold)**

Chapter 6

Chapter 6

Rose's POV

I was walking in the woods alone at night. I could hear the wind

whistling through the trees. With the faint glow of the moon I could make out the path . Dozens of animals and other creatures were lurking nearby.

I heard a growl from behind me and the rustling of leaves. My

heart-rate increased and I started to run. I ran away from it in now direction in particulour. I blindly followed the only path I could make out from the moonlight. Soon,It became harder to breathe.

I was frantic, jerking my head everywhere on the lookout. I was

tripping over branches and falling constantly as I turned to look over my shoulder every now and then. I picked up the pace as I heard even more growls and animal sounds.

I reached a Clearing with a bunch of trees surrounding me. I stopped and put my hands on the knees of my torn jeans, gasping for air.

Then i remembered my situation. Those things after ne. I instantly looked up to check the

area around me, my eyes wide, making sure it was safe. Paranoia taking over me. All I could see was trees and bushes.

Suddenly a twig snapped. I turned my head towered the sound faster than lightning. All of my hair whipping in my face, shielding parts of my view.

I gasped.

A few yards In front of me was a tree with a figure leaning against it's trunk. it was too far and to dark see Who it was.

Oh god. Should I go? Maybe they need help? Or maybe they can help me? Only one way to find out.

I moved closer, step by step. I could make out the silhouette of a young man as I neared. Soon I was close enough to lean over and touch. His face was facing in the other direction. I knelt down to put my face the sane level as the figures..

I gasped once again as I recognized his facial features. The dark brown hair combed upwards In different directions, the lightly tanned skin as creamy as ice cream. Slight Muscle noticeable through his shirt and his thin pink lips. His shades were nowhere to be seen and his eyes were shut as if he were resting.

At my gasp he started to move around.

"Ryan..." I whispered. Barely audible.

At the sound of his name, his eyes jerked wide open. And his limp body came to life. His eyes looked around and finally were about to meet with with mine-

"Oh!" I gasped as I jerked awake from the dream. I sat up abruptly in my bed clutching into my covers. I held a hand over my heart and forced myself to take deep breaths. My heart pounding in my chest so hard it felt like drums. The hairs on my neck were raised and goosebumps were all over my skin. I closed my eyes to calm myself down.

"it's just a dream..just a dream" I kept telling myself. I looked

around me just to make sure. Nothing. I shut my eyes let out a sigh of relief.

Suddenly, I heard a slight sound of leaves rustling. I jumped, my eyes wide and My head jerked towards my window, my ragged.breathing returned. I held on to my covers for dear life. I swear I heard Someone out there.

When the coast was clear I took a deep breath.

Rose, just calm down. Your being paranoid. Now About that dream....

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Mystery POV

I climbed up the tree until I could see inside through the window. She was sleeping. I sighed. Then I heard a loud gasp. SHOOOT! She saw me. I looked back to make sure. She was sitting up clutching onto her red covers for dear life with a hand over her heart. Her long, wavy ,chocolate brown hair was a mess as it fell onto her face completely out if place. It looked as though she was taking short breathes. She probably had a bad dream. My eyes were narrowed towards the view fromm her window and The wind suddenly whistled and a leaf fell and covered my eyes. Trying to shake it off my face without losing my grip on the branch, My foot slipped of the thick branch I was standing on and I lost my balance. I managed to Jump off in time in a pile of leaves that I now crushed. I cursed myself for being so stupid. Great. Why didn't I just put a sign that said "Stalker here".

"Shoot!" I whispered-yelled while snapping my fingers.

I saw her looking out the window in the direction of the tree. She didn't see me thank god. I would have never been able to explain myself. I still had a question though. Why is she acting like this? Paranoid and stressed. Was it cause of the dream?

I couldn't help but think about what she might've seen. A small possibility crossed my mind... Was it about me?

I scoffed. Hah, then that would be a nightmare for her.

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Roses POV

I was back in History. The dream still haunting my mind every now and then. Just as the part in tge dream where Ryan opens his wild eyes came, the actual Ryan turned around to look me, asmirk on his face.

"Ahhh!" I yelled. It was so creepy that he turned around on cue with my flashback. I closed my eyes n opened them again to see Ryan staring at me weirdly.

"You okay?" he asked. His voice hinting an emotion I couldn't

recognize on him. Was it concern? Or amusement?

"Uh... Yeah. You scared me for a second." I rubbed my arm awkwardly. Should I say something nice since he asked? "But thanks for ,um, asking.....Rex." I blurted out the last word the second it popped into my mind. Perfect I thought in my head.

He nodded and turned around. Then literally a half a second later, he snapped his head back towards me with with a confused expression on his face. As if something I said caught his attention.

"Umm, my name's Ryan" he said with an amused expression and arched eyebrow. I rolled my eyes. He thinks I forgot his name. Really? I'm not that stupid.

"I know that. It's just my nickname for you. No one else calls you that. Plus. Fredricks has a Rex at the end. It's kinda like the first letter of your first name mixed with the last part of your last name and just spelled with an 'x'. So, I'm gonna call you that." I told him honestly.I looked at him in the "shades".

He just looked at me Back. His mouth very slightly open and his

expression holding a bit confusion and shock. My eyebrows scrunched together. You've done it again, Rose. Made yourself look like a complete talkative idiot. Lyla was right.

"What? You don't like it? I could call you sumthing else like..umm Ricky.." I began to think to myself of the possibilities and began rambling on.

"Rose.." he said softly but I still continued babbling on and ignored him.

"Fred, Freddie?....Nah" I continued lost in my own la la land. I put a finger on my chin, tapping it.

"Rose!" he said louder. I was too lost in thought to hear and plus I was looking the other way.

"Ohh! I got it! How abo-" I was cut off when I felt sumthing on my lips. It was warm and it sent me surprising tingles.

I looked down and saw the finger placed on my lips to shush me up belonged to noone other than Ryan- I mean Rex. I looked at him.

"Finally you shut up." he sighed and took his finger off and immediately my lips felt cold. He ran a hand through his beauti-, I mean his hair. Just normal hair. Why is this so hard for him to tell me?

"As I was trying to tell you..., I ...." he cleared his throat." I like it."

"Like what?" was my stupid response.

"Rex. The nickname? I like it. You can call me that." he told me with a small smile playing at his lips.

My eyes widened slightly...well that was...er what's the word? ... unexpected? I don't even know why he thought telling me this was important, but been if it was or wasn't, he still made sure he let me know. Leaving me confused to what the heck has gotten into him. He actually liked something and told me straight up. Though you could see his obvious hesitation and uncomfortableness but he still blurted it out randomly.

Then he turned around...

I sighed.

"I like you too ..." I mumbled to his back now facing me, too low for him to here.