Familiar Stranger

Authors Note: The story that you are about to read I originally had posted upon a fanfiction.net, It's one of the many stories that I have written and that I am very proud of. Of all the Fan Fiction works that I have submitted in the past, this is the one that I have enjoyed writing the most. I hope that anyone who happens to take enough interest to read Familiar Stranger enjoys reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. 

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The petite ebony haired girl sat before the desk located in the middle of the room, She had been staring down at the note book sitting at the desk for the entire period, doodling on the page. She hadn’t even heard the bell ring, she had been lost in her thoughts and the sketch upon the page. It wasn’t anything entirely too extreme, just a wolf and her name. A wolf with haunting eyes. The wolf that had been haunting her dreams since she had moved to Beacon hills half way through the previous year. She was a senior now, two months through her senior year, and still as oblivious as ever to the admirer who had been watching her since her arrival. 

“Wow. That’s amazing.” The voice cut into her thoughts, shaking her out of the trance like state she had been in. She had finished the entirety of the sketch, her name along the top, the wolf and his haunting eyes staring up at the two of them almost as if those eyes could really see. 

Her pencil stilled and her own haunting eyes lifted, the complexity of her eyes had once been something that some people were frightened by, at least they had been at her previous schools. The two shades to them, imperial jade being the dominate of the two, at least then, and then the superior blue outlining the jade. They were beautiful really, but something in them was so haunting, yet deep, and enticing. Some said they couldn’t help but feel a strange pull to her when gazing in her eyes. Like they were bewitched, but then again that was only one of the many rumors that had surrounded her at her other schools. Beacon Hills High was different for her, at least so far. Especially considering the fact that she was being talked to, by a guy, and he wasn’t flinching at the sight of those eyes of hers. 

Maybe he hadn’t noticed them yet, no….he had to of noticed, he was gazing into them. Not at her chest, which some had a hard time resisting as well, or her plump red painted lips. She was not an ugly girl, not even in the slightest, but the rumors that had followed her from school to school had kept most guys away from her. The ones that dared approach her, well, she wished that they hadn’t. They only ever caused her trouble. Maybe it would be different in Beacon hills, though? It had been so far. 

“Thank you,” She finally found her voice, managing to speak even though the eye contact that the two of them were making was intense, he looked away first, though. Isaac, that was his name. They had spoken before, but not like this. Not about something other than school work. When he glanced away she took just a moment to look around, class had been dismissed, everyone else had left, and yet, she didn’t want to move. She didn’t quite want this encounter to end. Not yet. 

“It’s nothing special really.” She admitted as she lifted a hand to tuck some of her stray strands of hair behind the curve of her right ear. 

“This is what you consider to not be special?” He asked, a small grin on his face as he glanced down at the drawing again, his hand motioning over it. He didn’t wait for a response, since her blush and laugh must have been answer enough. “Evangeline? Is that your name?” 

“We’ve been in the same few classes last year and this year and you still don’t know my name, Isaac?” Eva asked, an eyebrow lifting as she awaited his response. Maybe his words had hurt her a little, but then again she wasn’t a significant enough person to be worth knowing. She kept quiet, kept to herself, she liked it that way. It was easier to keep her secret a secret that way. 

“No, I know you as Eva. Seeing as that’s what everyone refers to you as.” He replied, his grin proving that he was being honest and kind of obvious. Maybe he just made her a bit nervous and that’s why that little fact had slipped her mind. 

With his hands in his pockets Isaac glanced around the room, Eva began to get her things together, needing to busy her hands. She fidgeted when she got nervous. 

“So, have any plans tonight?” Isaac asked and Eva nearly dropped her books, well, she kind of did, but attempted to make it look as if she had only been setting them down before she stood. Slowly, buying herself time. When she managed to stand she grabbed her books off from her desk and lifted her haunting hues to his again. Still there was no flinching, no resistance when he stared deeply into her eyes. 

“No, actually, other than homework, but that can always wait…that is if you were attempting to ask me out…I mean, if you’re not and just making conversation that’s cool too, but umm…” Before Evangeline could embarrass herself any further, Isaac released a laugh and shook his head. 

“I was attempting to ask you out, yes. So, how about we exchange numbers and I’ll call you tonight and we can decide when I’ll be picking you up.” Eva and Isaac began the phone number exchanging process. When they finished they began leaving the class room. School was over, their plans were made, and there was no reason to linger in the room any longer. When they reached the hall, soon to go their separate ways, Isaac turned on his heel to face Evangeline. 

“See you tonight, Evangeline.” He said giving her a wink before heading off down the hall. 

With all the effort it took not to let her weak knees get the best of her, Eva turned to go towards her locker as well. Unlike she usually did, she didn’t lower her eyes as she walked along, she didn’t avoid the eyes of those who glanced at her. Instead she smiled and to her surprise she received smiles and some more back. Today was a great day for her. 

If only she knew what was going on just on the other side of the school and how this chain of events would change her entire life.

“You’re right, It’s her.” Isaac was saying into his phone which he currently had held up to his ear as he glanced around the emptying hallway, making sure that no one was tuning into his conversation. As it was, no one would have been able to hear what the other person on the line was saying, no one other than Isaac. 

“Are you sure? Did you check like I told you to?” The voice on the other line was deep and sounding slightly cynical, but the fact that he believed what Isaac was telling him was there, why else would he had trusted Isaac with such a task. 

“Yes, you were right about that too. There is no mistaking those eyes, Derek.” Isaac said. “And she agreed to go out tonight, she has no idea. None at all.” 

“Good. Let’s keep it that way.” Derek replied before hanging up the phone. Isaac did the same before heading out of the school.