In Another Life

Chapter :1

But Ethan had changed.
I was laying next to him on the hostel bed that night. He had been in a bad shape. I could not remember the last time he had slept quite well. Maybe it was the night we first made out. We were exhausted After The first orientation of University of Yale. He had taken history as his major, And i had taken English literature. We still shared French as a minor.
I had called him in my room to rest for a while before he slipped off to his room .
Natasha, my roommate had scored some weed from a local dealer and hence she offered us to get high along with her. Natasha had soon slipped off with Ronald, leaving us alone and High. Ethan had been looking at me continuously, sitting across me on the bed. He grabbed my waist and I moved slowly on his thighs. He kissed me gently once, twice, thrice. He slowly slipped his hand inside my pants , unbuttoning them and arousing me. He kissed me passionately this time.
Soon we were rolling on the bed, attached limb to limb. He moved slowly inside me at first and passionately later. We passed out exhausted and deeply in love.
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Carl Emily Pike, Had decided to not let me out of his sight. He still believed that Ethan could hurt me in ways I would never imagine and therefore We had applied together for Yale. Surprisingly 8 out of 61 students of our Batch had got in through the final selections, I, Ethan and Carl being the lucky ones. It was luck that mattered I believed, But for Carl it was statistics and hard work.
He had been the basketball captain in Mount high. Several tournaments were won only because Carl knew the tricks on the field. 'He is the best' Ross Jonson, the coach often said.
Blond like his mother, Carl had the most beautiful grey eyes, I had ever seen. He was tall like a model from Fashion magazines. Collar stiff, he moved with grace. He had always been popular among girls, sometimes because of his basketball skills, sometimes because of his thick jawline, and rest of the time because of his impeccable sense of humour. He was a charmer in true senses. He had always been.
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Emily pike was a strong Independent woman. By profession Emily diagnosed PGD. She had studied about genes and how various diseases could be transmitted from a parent to the offspring, therefore she decided whether to keep an embryo or not. Andrew Weber, a man of good business skills married her when she was 23. They had a Romantic youth till Andrew eloped with an Indian whore, leaving her and Carl behind. Right from his school to home to his swimming and basketball classes, Emily had handled it all. She had given up on relationships and thus had laid her entire attention towards Carl. He meant the world to her. She would wake up nights with him when Kids at school teased him as a 'runaway's son'. She would tell him to be strong and answer back whenever someone tried to put him down. All day Long she would work in the lab and at night she would work at home. She was a self made woman, who had reached the heights only because of her hard work, And thus making Carl believe the dominance of hard work over Destiny.
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It was the tenth day since our first sex, And we had become passionate about it.
We would skip our lectures sometimes, just to be together in a room. Sometimes he would garb me in the university balcony , come to my room after classes or grabbed me in the parking lot. We were getting better at it, invading each other like never before. We were sharing a bond like never before.
That night as well, we were rolled in passion, while he was moving inside me he got a call, A call that changed him forever.
Edward Decloure and Annie Decloure, had been skinned alive. No one knew who did that, no one knew why they did that but Alexandria was full of gossips.
Some blamed it on Robbers, some blamed it on ghosts while rest of them said that it had to do something with them Adapting English names. Whatever the reason maybe, All I knew was That they had not killed two but three people. My Ethan was left orphan. They had changed him. They had changed him forever.