Hidden Identity (Previously known as Does Hope Exist??)

Chapter 6

Looking up, l saw some tall dark figure behind the wall.

Alex distracted me from the puzzling question of who the unknown was.

‘Come Elyza it’s getting pretty late and we've got science revision to do tomorrow, we better go to sleep early,’ she said.

The minute l turned back to see who the unknown person way they seemed to vanished into thin air, but l shrugged it off as it was the least important thing to me now. Groaning loudly, l dragged myself from the bench; my legs sore from sitting there for more than 2 hours.

‘Don’t groan you need to revision Elyza! You need to pass your exam in order to get into college, she replied.

I was curious as to what had changed her demeanour so quickly; however I was not going to question it.

‘Yes mother.’ l said, indicating that she was acting like a mother now rather than her usual self.

 We walked through the narrow corridor, our footsteps echoing. I had a feeling that someone was following me yet there was no one in the dark corridors. Panic was about to take me over, I quickened my footsteps and finally, thankfully, I reached my room. The first thing I did was make my way over to the bed, without bothering to change I lay on the mattress, the second my head hit the pillow exhaustion hit me and I fell asleep.

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A machine went off right next to my ear; l went flying off my bed and landed face down with a big thud on the cold hard ground. I could hear Alex giggling from the other side of the room.

‘ALEX! I am going to you get you, so I suggest you run as fast as you can and get the hell out of my eyesight!’ l screamed and within seconds l was on my feet chasing Alex.

We ran through the corridors even though we both knew that we should be in revision class. We were running like 3 year old children but felt good to act like a kid for a change.

‘Alex and Elyza, in my office now!’ the assistant head yelled at us.

We both stopped right in our tracks, frozen. The Assistant Head was regarded as the scariest teacher and everyone knew it was incredibly bad luck if you ended up in his office. We both turned around and had matching pale faces as we walked to his office.

‘So girls, is there any explanation for running around like a crazy kids?’

Luckily Alex rescued me from explaining and answered for us.

‘Eh no s-sir we w-were being ch-childish,” she stuttered.

‘AH! I see, okay I’ll give you guys a warning but next time it will be triple detention now off you go to your revision class,’ he said.

Not waiting for another minute we dashed out the office and ran straight to our rooms, got dressed and went silently to our class, both in our own deep thoughts.

As we entered the class everyone in the class, as well as the teacher, knew from our faces of where we have been.

Mr. Paul just the thought of his name sends shivers down my spine.

Our English teacher, Mrs James, told us to take our seat; Alex and I parted ways and sat in our respective seats.

Mrs James quickly informed us what we had missed and then carried on talking to the entire class. Her voice was monotonous and made me feel sleepy, I rested my head on my arms on the table top and without Alex sitting next to me I began to doze off. I was snapped out of that half-sleep I was in when a chair moved beside me.

A smiling Ashton was sitting right next to me; I glanced at the teacher to make sure she was still distracted by her speech before leaning over to whisper to Ashton.

‘What the hell makes you think that you can just sit next to me?’ I demanded angrily.

As soon as he saw how furious I was his wide smile turned into an unreadable expression.

‘The deal, you remember, sitting next to you for a whole week?’ he said while smirking.

His smugness just caused me to get even more irritated. I straightened up in my seat and growled in my throat.

‘Is there something wrong Elyza, something so serious that you feel the need to interrupt my class again?’ Mrs James said annoyed.

I could feel every stare from the class- girls shooting daggers and boys with lust in their eyes. Glancing at Alex she was giving me a look that said; you’ve got a lot to explain later.

‘No, I’m sorry,” I replied looking down with a red face.

The rest of the lesson l I spent sitting there waiting for the damn bell to go. The second it rang l was the first person top dash out of the room – in order to get away from that jerk, Ashton. Whilst running out of the classroom l could hear my teacher call me but I ignored her. I continued to run through the corridors until I reached my bedroom.

Not even a minute passed before Alex was standing in front of me.

‘You got a lot to explain, so let’s take a walk and you can tell me everything,’ she told me.

Knowing Alex would never leave it alone; l followed her with no complaints.

I retold Alex the story of how Ashton had asked me to go with dinner and how he was blackmailing me.

‘Oh my God Elyza he loves you, where were you! He’s trying to go out with you and you DAMN refused because l was hung-over!’ she screamed right in my ear with a frustrated voice.

She was blaming herself for me missing the opportunity to go out with Ashton.

Suddenly someone cleared their throat behind us. Alex and I turned around to see who had been listening in on our conversation. My stomach dropped when I saw who it was.

Ashton.

I could feel the blood rushing to my cheeks, turning into a bright red tomato whereas Alex had a small smirk playing on her lips.

‘Elyza l’ll go get you a drink,’ Alex said leaving me alone with Ashton.

‘So now you’re not just sitting next to me in class, now you’re stalking me, haven’t you got better things to do, like being with Diana?’ I asked almost hysterical.

Ashton just looked at me with an amused look on his face. Every time he looked at me it just seemed to infuriate me even further.

‘Ashton, get out of my sight before I do something you won’t like!’ I screamed at him.

Instead of taking my advice he stepped closer to me, I started to back away from him but he just continued to get closer. After a few steps my back hit a wall and Ashton had me cornered. He leaned into me and I could feel his warm breath on the side of my face and my ear. 

‘Do you know you cute when you’re annoyed?’ he whispered.

‘How about you go and whisper those pick up lines-’ I started to reply.

However before I could finish Ashton cut me off and planted a soft kiss on my lips.

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