True Identity

Chapter 14

"Are you alright, Miss Williams?" The driver asked, scaring me out of my trance of deep thinking.

"Yes, sorry." I said, moving over to my seat and putting my seatbelt on, ready to leave.

"No need to be sorry Miss. Will Mr More...Moore be joining us shortly?" He stumbled, avoiding eye-contact through the rear-view mirror.

"I should think so." I replied, going into my thinking place again because I'm sure he nearly said Morel and that's the second time that's happened this weekend.

The car door opened and Eli slipped in taking his seat while the driver asked if we were ready to leave which he nodded at. Before he could see me looking at him, I turned to look out of my window and was doing so for around fifteen minutes before realising that we were nowhere near stopping and I got curious.

"Coral, you can't ignore me forever. I have a whole day planned for us." He said, as I felt his gaze on the back of my head. I looked down into my lap where I was playing with my bracelet.

"I'm sorry." I said quietly. What else could I have said?"

"There's no need, Coral. I cornered you and that wasn't right but remember what today's about. No inhibitions, no consequences. We get to live in the moment for once and I couldn't stop myself." He explained. He continued looking at me as I thought through what he said. I had jumped at the chance earlier to live a day where anything could happen and no one had to know. Now, I questioned his motives. Two monuments into this trip and he'd made a move on me and before that he wasn't hiding his intentions, I was just ignoring them or maybe going along for the ride to see where it went. I had gotten too caught up in his ideas and had paid the price. It was now clear that the only reason he suggested that was to try and get into my pants and if he thought he'd be successful he'd have another thing coming.

"So that's why you offered that deal earlier. You just wanted the chance to kiss me and have me not tell anyone so you can humiliate me when we get back to school! You're sick! Stop the car!"

"Don't stop the car! Coral, you're jumping to conclusions. That wasn't the main aim today. I was being completely honest with you earlier. I just wanted one day where no one would judge me and I could have fun. I got a little caught up, I'll admit that but even if it was sudden, I would do it again in a heartbeat." I listened to him intently and I did believe him. He had a way with words that made me drift into his enchantment but I kept my head and he did seem true. I had never seen him like this but this was the Eli I liked. The one that didn't have the pressures of home and school life on him. I got him in pieces in the classes we shared but he had to focus even then. But over this weekend he was kind and fun to be with and someone who it seemed I could trust but just from his two extremely different personalities, I was never sure.

"Don't ignore me again." He asked, as I had sat thinking for a minute too long.

"I'm thinking." I mumbled looking out the window.

"From experience, when you think, you shout and jump to conclusions." He replied. "Coral, look at me, please." He touched my shoulder and I looked at his hand and then at him, where he was leaning over the console between us. "I'm not the same person that you may have seen at school over the past three years. If it was anyone else, I would be acting like an entitled dick as that's what everyone expects and it's easier. You are like me and I can't hide from you."

"Why are you telling me this?" I asked, this was unlike him in both of his personalities. I knew he was still keeping secrets, as was I but they were only small personal things that I didn't tell anyone. It seemed to me that he was telling me something that he would never tell anyone if we were in a different situation.