Secrets (under revision)

(9) Stay with me

{Chapter 9: Stay with me }

' The man in the black cloak faced me. Even though I couldn't see his face - I could still fill his eyes on me. It felt like they were burning right through me to my very soul. "Blue.." the man said his velvet smooth voice which was panged with the sound of regret. Unlike the man times when his voice wavered with no emotion at all. "I'm so sorry. Please forgive me it I did it for you...for your protection."  He finished as he turned an walk away with out a glance back. Then I started to fall with great speed as if I was falling from the sky.'

I awoke painting for air. My hair was plastered to my face from the sweat and the taste of cloves lingered in my mouth. Slowly I got out of bed and got a shower to get the grime out of my hair. While showering I got the feeling that I was forgetting something but, I couldn't't remember what it was. Yet, I knew it was important. After getting dress still thinking about yesterday and my dream - I went to my dresser to check my phone. I had eight missed calls and three text messages from Jace and Eve.

Eve: Where are you. Were headed to the coffee shop just meet us there.

Jace: SKYYYY where r u. Saxons all ready here where are dont keep us waiting.

Eve: Why aren't you answering any of mine and jaces calls? Where r u? Oh well were all headed home see you monday at school.

 Putting my phone in my pocket I decided to grab a thin jacket to keep away the morning chill. Before heading to work. I walked causally through the layer of fog that has seated its self on the road before me. Still a little scared of what happened the other day when I walked alone, even if it was my imagination. By the time I got to the end of the road the fog had fully lifted letting the sun hit my face. 

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As I walked into town I slowed my pace down as I approached the coffee shop that's around the corner from Reader's Heaven. I took my time walking past the coffee shop like always to inhale all the lingering aromas of coffee and worn paper from the people leisurely sitting around reading. I noticed a boy Ive never seen before he was looking at his hands with great concern. He was sitting farther back in the corner than everyone else, cloaked in darkness from the shade of the caramel brown awning.

Then I noticed, I was caught staring, he looked up from his hands and his eye’s locked with mine, he gave me one of those sideways half grins. The kind of grins where the left side of his mouth rose slightly higher than the right. I tried to look away but I was locked I couldn’t took away from him  no matter how hard I tried. Once I was able to unlock myself from his gaze, I took a glance at the old clock on the corner and noticed - I was late. So I rushed to work, before Shelby my boss noticed I was late. I was stacking books in their rightful place to give of the impression I’ve been there for some time now, but I just couldn’t get the boy from the coffee shop out of my head. What was all that back at the coffee shop. What happened back there, I wonder what he was thinking when he caught me staring at him? And what was up with the grin he gave me or was it even to me.

Breaking my train of thought, I heard Shelby hollering for me.

“Grey where are you, I need help bringing in the boxes of books from outside”.

“I’m coming,” I replied back to her. Trying to shake all the previous thoughts of the boy from the coffee shop out of my head without any luck.

Once we got half way through bring the boxes inside. Shelby left for the day and went home, so I was left to run the store by myself. Finally down to my last box to bring in, I stumbled upon my own feet and dropped the box making books go scattering all over the sidewalk. Trying to hurry and gather the books, someone knelled down and helped me. As I looking up I noticed it wasn’t just someone, it was the boy from the coffee shop. Why is he helping me I wondered?