Escape from The Shadows

Chapter 2

So i hope you all, or those who have read my new and first story on here, enjoyed my first chapter. Umm, ... keep reading, my story has a twist plot so i hope u enjoy it. 

Anyways, hope u enjoy.

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 Raven's POV

When I heard this unrecognizable voice asking me why I was crying, I tried to wipe my eyes with the back of my hand but my hand brushed against my left cheek and I cringe from it. As I finally get up and turn around I tried to use my hair to cover the new forming bruise on my cheek. I look up to see a guy about 6' or 5'11" with dark brown hair almost black the length of his forehead, dark-ish blue eyes, and a fair tan. He looked pretty tall compared to my height of 5'6". 

His eyes looked full of concern, and confusion. It kinda made me scared and nervous, here, standing in front of me was a person I didn't even know and they were concerned about me and why I was crying. 

He looked into my eyes, or at least tried to. I tried looking down, but there was something about his eyes that kept me from looking away. After about 3 minutes He finally asks again "Hey... why are you crying, are you ok?"

I finally looked up and into his eyes and said "It's complicated, and I.... I don't really feel like telling a stranger why."

He kept his eyes on mine, "Oh, I'm terribly sorry. I forgot to introduce myself. I am Seth, Seth Luna; I'm currently 21 years of age. I live with my brother, Ethan Luna; he is 19 years of age, and my best friend Blake Foster who is 20 years of age. I am currently single, and I am a fairly anti-social, shy, caring, fun, weird, and loving person, who loves music." 

 I looked at.... Seth and then looked down, and kinda laughed, he looked at me confused. I looked back up at Seth and somewhat copied what he said "I laughed 'cuz of how u introduced yourself., And I am Ray- uhh sorry, my full name is Ravenna Andrews, but people call me Raven or Ray, I am currently 19 years of age. I live with my little sister, Jade Andrews; she is currently 15 years of age. I am a shy, anti-social girl, who is pretty weird. And, I too love music, and am single." 

We looked at each other and started to laugh, for some reason I felt like I could be at ease with him and I could tell him what happened. We both walked from the swing down to a bench closer to the park and when we sat down he asked me "How did you get that nasty looking bruise on your face, and again, why were you up there crying?"

I looked away from him and held my hand to my left cheek, when he used his hand to gently cup my face and turn my head so I was facing him again. I looked back to his eyes and told him "I have an abusive ex... he stalks me and sometimes my younger sister. I saw him today and ... well... he ... he hit me, But I hit him back. That's how I got this stupid bruise, and I was crying because before he hit me, he kissed me, because I now know he is getting cocky, he thinks that he can just waltz right back in to my life and take control of me again, I'm just afraid of what he'll try, or if he'll try and go after my sister."

I noticed that my eyes had started to water, and I think Seth did too, because he pulled me in for a hug. I just stood there, not hugging back. Instead, out of reflex I pushed him away and swept his legs out from under him and knocked him on his back, and I got in a fighting stance. 

When he fell you could see the look of surprise and shock on his face. He looked up at me and I could see through his eyes that my eye coloring had started turning red again. Instantly I tried my best to relax myself, my eyes had gone back to their natural green color. I helped him up and apologized "I'm so sorry, you just- it's .... It's a reflex and you-... you kinda surprised me with that hug. I'm sorry for knocking you on your butt." 

"It's ok, and besides, I should've asked first. So I should be sorry, and I am. Plus. You are very strong, take self defense classes much?"

I looked at him and helped him up, I smiled "Yeah, my dad, he wanted his 'little girl' to be able to protect herself."

"Well you must have a proud dad then, huh?"

I looked down, when Seth brought up my dad; it caused me a few tears to fall out. I looked back up at him and wiped my tears away, "Y- Yea  ... he would be." 

Seth looked into my eyes and after a few seconds of ... awkward-ish silence he asked me a question "Hey .... Umm, you wanna come over... you know to my place. Meet my bro and Blake. You know its cold out here and maybe you wanna go somewhere warm?" 

When he finally stopped he looked at me and saw I had on a 'Thinking Face' apparently, he immediately started talking again, trying to rephrase his words "Oh. No. not like that, you know just to meet my brothers, there might be food there but yea, you know seeing as how we just met and-" 

I cut him off by smiling and starting to talk "It's ok. Really, I wasn't thinking like that. But, yes I'd like to come over."

With that I followed him to his ride, "Wow, he's a handsome one." I spoke softly as I ran my hand down his mane. 

"Thanks, Clyde is kinda cocky about it." As Seth said that the horse whipped his tail and hit Seth with it. 

"Rune can be the same way." 

After telling him I had to be home before 3 to pick my sis up from school. He asked if I had wanted to follow him on Rune, but I told him it was ok and that I'd follow on Rune, so I got onto Rune and followed after him on Clyde. A guy I had just met, and I was going to go to his place to meet his brother and his friend. Even though I felt at ease around him and knew I could trust him, but I was breaking almost every rule in my book. 

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So i hope you guys like my 2nd chapter, sorry if i made you wait a little too long, had some trouble putting it together, but yea i hope you liked it and just wait till the next chapter, it's gonna get exciting 

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