The Darkness Surrounding

Chapter Five: Regrettable Mistakes

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Chapter Five:

Regrettable Mistakes

 Nora's P.O.V.

I sit at an empty desk in the second to last row towards the back of the classroom. None of my good friends are in this homeroom and I guess I’m kind of glad about that. I haven’t had much time to myself this summer and it’s good to have a little isolation. But now that my brain isn’t occupied with clothes and girl drama, all I can think about is that guy. Why now, after all those weeks of the dreams, am I seeing him? Am I going crazy?

  The door opens and a low, familiar voice drifts towards me. It’s Jack’s; I could not forget it if I tried. Jack is the only guy I felt completely comfortable around and I have known him since the day I was born.

“Jack,” I call out, beckoning for him to come over to, me without looking up. But that was my mistake.

He walks up to me confidently and when I look up at him, my smile falters. My stomach is sick as I recognize the face by his side.

“Nor, I didn’t know you were in this class,” Jack has a wide, handsome grin spread on to his face. Those large dark eyes crinkle in the corners, partially hidden by thick strands of hair. He and the other boy stand over me, incredibly tall and muscular, and I rise from the chair to give Jack a hug. “I’m excited for another year of school.” He winks and he and that boy sit down in the very last  row of seats directly behind me.

“You know it’s only football and the cheerleaders that you’re excited for. I highly doubt you enjoy the failing grades.”

 “Exactly.” His grin gets wider, “And where are my manners-“

  “In the gutters, just like your mind,” I cut in, receiving a humorous glare.

“That may be so, but I feel strangely rude not introducing Ryder. Ryder, this is Nora.” He nudges Ryder and raises his eyebrows. “Now it’s your turn to show some manners, bro.” No. Ryder was real. It was weird how fast my mind accepted that fact. He wasn’t my imagination playing tricks on me after all. Jack saw him too but it scared me to think I was having dreams about a guy I had never met. Maybe, if I was lucky, Jack was crazy too.

“Nice to meet you, Nora. I’ve heard about you.”  He has an amazingly low voice that is as smooth as butter. I remember him screaming for me in the dreams but it had always been edged in despair. In that instant I forget about my sense of reality. I want to reach my hand out and feel his chest vibrate when he speaks. Wanted to wrap my arms around him and have his voice soothe me.

I snap out of it immediately, and try to compose my features. He does not know me. He does not know I dream about him. He knows nothing.

“Good things, I hope,” I say with an air of breezy flirtation, but on the inside I am breaking. Trying to resist the insensible hold he has on me is harder than people would think. It is like a rope pulling me in. I hate it.

 “Nothing but the best,” that voice was so shockingly beautiful; it is all I could do not to sigh.

  “Ahem, Nor, look.” Jack points a long finger in the direction of the doorway. And my heart stops. There he stands; a handsome wall of muscle ready to knock me down. I cringe as he strides toward us and plunks down in the seat next to me.

“Hey, Babe,” Davy says as he stretches his limbs and puts his arm around my shoulders. It angers me and I push his thick muscular arm off of me. “We have some unfinished business to discuss."                                                 

Davy is my ex-boyfriend and I am glad of it. He was abusive and rude and not to mention strong. I dumped him over the summer and steered clear of him after that. But he is angry now, I can see the fury, seething and cold, in his eyes. I gave him the whole summer to cool down but he was is angry; the man can really hold a grudge.

 “There is nothing to talk about, Davy. We're over and I'm done with you.” I say glancing back at Jack and Ryder. Something in Ryder’s expression catches my eye. Hate. Protection.

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OOOH!!!!!!  So now you know his name (Ryder)!!! anyways...

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