Dancing with Destiny: Love or Fate?

Catori At'eed 2

"So, everything has been alright?"

"Yeah?" I answered unsure of what other response I could have given. Why was he asking all these questions? Just as long as we don't have "The Talk" I will be fine.

"Did you have fun at the movies?" he asks. "Because I know you went there to meet boys."

"What?" How does he know these things? "No I did not look for guys!" Of course I was lying.

And he didn't say anything for the rest of the ride home.

I step out the car once we get home and sprint head first up to my room so I can think over the movie theater scene. Once I get to my room, I dig in the usual spot, and pull out my purple velvet diary.

Hey Diary.... OMG YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE---

Well you know what I was going to write. But I cant think of what I noticed on his face. There was something. Some feature that stood out to me.

His full lips? No

His straight nose? No

His....EYES!! That's what it was! They were that milky blue color of a blind person. Kind of creepy, but in an unbelievably sexy way.

Immediately feelings flooded my heart and threatened to spill over from my eyes. I have seen those eyes before. Those were the eyes of my parents when I saw them in the morgue. The eyes of the dead, glazed over and dull.

I clutch my stomach, trying to keep the feelings inside, and the tears escape my eyes like golf balls. I haven't cried since their funeral 5 months ago. I continued to cry for half an hour before washing my face, stuffy nosed and swollen eyed. The scalding hot water on my face was so relieving that I just gave up and take a bath. I filled the tub and stepped in, shrieking and pulling my foot out because the water it just a little too hot. I added cold water and stepped in, sinking to the bottom and putting my whole head under the water.

As I am slowly feeling myself suffocating underwater, I want to drown. To feel what my parents had to go through for 10 minutes before they gave up.

I hear a voice- a faint whisper in the back of my head.

"Stoooopppp"

I jerk my head out of the water and suck in a gasp of air.

I hopped out of the tub, and wrapped myself in a fluffy white towel. Not bothering to even dry my hair, I climbed in my bed, not caring that it was 8:40. I could only stare at my slightly pruned hands, pink from the temperature of the water. As I drift off to sleep, I hear a faint whisper.

"Sleep well Catori."

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I jerked up, sweating at 6 in the morning and I could not remember the nightmare I had.

Unable to go back to sleep, I get out of bed. As I was walking out my bedroom door to go downstairs for a glass of water and a granola bar, I hear a vibration. My cell. I grabbed it and pulled the charger out. A text message.

Hey,

Itz malachai. Gud Mornin' wutz ^?

From : 905-830-1111

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How did he get my number?

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Hey, umn, I wud ask u how u got my numba but u wud prob say I hav my wayz. R u stlkn me?-

Catori

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I wait for a couple seconds and get no reply, so I get up and take a hot shower. While I am washing my hair, I hear the same voice that came to me in the tub.

"SOON" it says.

I scream so loud that I frighten myself, and I hurry up, trying to wash the shampoo out my hair and I hear it again.

"Soon Catori," it says.

I look around, trying to find a speaker, or a camera or something that shows that it's a big joke and I am not crazy.

Faint buzzing interrupts me from my search. Holy crap , I think to myself. Its Malachai.