Bitten By Love

Chapter 22

***Simone's POV***

Trey finally came back and was driving me home. I wondered if I should just ask him about the picture on his phone or why he saved my number as girl #1. Or maybe I should stop being too curious. The cat was curious and we all know what happened to him.

When we got home I went straight to my room, leaving Trey standing in the living room without saying a word to him.
I heard my dad reminding him that he would have to stay home with me on Wednesday night.

I sat up in bed eating a chocolate and going over the events of the day.  Why was I so unlucky? Or should I say too lucky since I have two hot guys who like me.

Ramon.

He was hot, rich and popular and has never giving me any attention since recently. He was Samantha's friend since she was the hot, popular sister and I was the dull, boring twin. Samantha was friends with Ramon,  Davia and all the other popular kids at school. You know what they say about birds of a feather. I wondered if Ramon only likes me because I look exactly like his friend, Samantha.

Trey.

He is my heartbeat but I was now wondering if he really likes me. Yes he makes me happy but he is definitely hiding something from me. Why else would he save my contact number as girl #1? And how many girls did he have by the way? I shook my head not wanting to think about it.

Then I remembered the picture. Could my life get any worse? Why would Trey have a picture of her on his phone? Was she girl #2?
Tears started welling up in my eyes as the thought of Trey cheating on me flashed across my mind.

Beep. Beep. Beep.

A text came in on my phone from Trey. I wiped my soggy eyes with the back of hands as I tried to read the message.

Trey: Hey babe. What's wrong? Did I do something wrong? Talk to me baby.

Tears flowed down my face again. How could he asked me what's wrong when he knows he's cheating. I tried to control my sobbing.

Me: What do you want Trey!? Why are you texting me? Is girl #2 too busy to talk to you?

Trey:  Babe what are you talking about?

Me: You know what I'm talking about! Why did you save my number as girl #1?

Trey: Oh that.  I did it for your safety. You know I'm a security guard right?

Me: Yeah so what?!

Trey: I have to keep you safe by all means.  If I were to lose my phone for instance, no one know that that number is yours.

I exhaled deeply.  Here I am being insecure and he was trying to keep me safe. But I still couldn't help but wonder why Trey has a picture of Davia on his phone screen. I couldn't think of any reasonable explanation.

I sat down in bed thinking for a while before drifting off to dreamland.

I was wearing a purple dress, walking towards the direction of Sister's rock. The tail of the dress was getting dirty from being drawn on the ground so I gathered it into my hands. Upon nearing the rock I saw Samantha sitting daintily on a lone rock. I blinked twice to see if she would disappear.
"Samantha is that really you?" I tried to keep my voice steady.
She turned her head slowly and I was astonished at what I saw. A scream escaped from my lips.
Her face was wrecked. She looked exactly as the day of the accident with her face smashed and bleeding.
"Find who did this to me Simone. Find them or they will do the same to you!"

"What are you talking about?" I asked.

"I have to go now." She said then there was a load, thundering sound and she was no longer there.
"Samantha? Samantha!! " I screamed as loud as I could, hoping she would hear me and come back.
I started walking in the direction where she was sitting but felt something tugging at the tail of my dress. I spun around to see someone wearing a mask, pulling me towards him.
" You are the one that's supposed to be dead." He said in a robotic voice.
"No! " I screamed as I tried to get away from his grasp. The length of my dress caused me to fall and the guy in the mask was coming closer to me.
I screamed until I could no longer hear my voice. All I felt was a hand ruffling my body.

" Simone." I heard my name being called from far away. I
tossed and started screaming again. I don't know who the man in the mask is but there's no way I'm letting him kill me.

"Simone." I heard my dad's deep voice and I instantly opened my eyes.
Both my parents were standing over my bed staring down at me as if I was an alien from another planet.

"Honey are you ok? " My mom asked, her voice dripping with worry. " You were screaming for dear life! " She sat at the edge of my bed and felt my forehead.

I was roasting with fever and my dad got some ice to help bring down my body temperature.

" Honey are you alright? " My mom asked once I downed the glass of warm milk she had given me.

" Yes. I'm ok. I just had a really weird dream that's all. " I told them.

" Well that must be a scary dream since it had you screaming so loudly." My dad posited.

I inhaled and exhaled deeply. "I'm ok dad."  I assured him and  they started to leave.

Once he got to the door, my dad turned and smiled at me weakly.
"Oh look at the time. Its 3 am. Happy birthday cupcake."

He closed the door behind him and time stood still. How could I not remember that today is my birthday. Samantha would have awaken me from early in the morning to start celebrating our birthday. She always boast about being the older twin although she was born only twenty minutes before me.
I lay awake in bed trying hard not to miss my other half but the venture was rather an impossible one.