Hollows In Time (✔️) | 'Hollows' Book Ⅱ

Chapter Seventy-Four

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"Here." Lexi handed me her jacket with a warm smile. I thanked her quietly and wrapped it around my shoulders as Lexi brushed soil off her jeans. To say the climb up from the ditch was hard would be an understatement.

Alexi reached out and grabbed onto my hand. It was getting dark out, and I felt safe in her presence. Which was a new feeling, though wasn't unfamiliar since I had these exact feelings around Jameson last year.

We walked in silence, listening to the twigs crack under our shoes and birds fluttering above our heads. Soon, we arrived back at the inside grounds of the Academy, and I spotted Jameson waiting behind the glass doors.

Lexi opened the door and held it open for me as I watched Jameson's expression shift from worry to relief.

He approached us with a sudden flame of anger that was directed at Lexi. "You're seventeen minutes late." He said, then he turned to me, the anger quickly fading and being replaced with much warmer emotions.

"Hey." He smiled.

"Hey." I responded in a whisper. Did he know that I had just uncovered his heart? That I had just read his letter from all those months ago?

"I don't know if you've noticed, but I did come back with our Special One." Lexi aimed at Jameson, annoyance in her tone. Jameson didn't take his eyes off me, but I could see the scowl form, even if it was toned down slightly.

I broke the eye contact and started to walk away from them, but they of course followed.

"It's almost like we're a family." I said, a large grin on my face.

Lexi gagged. "I hope I'm your big sister or something, because anyone with more than five letters in their name just wastes my time as soon as the relationship starts." She said, concluding her point with a yawn.

"Is that why you gave me that awful nickname?" Jameson asked with a tone of distaste.

Lexi stifled a laugh. "No, I just did that for fun," I laughed at her quip. "But still, you're not my type—sorry."

"No offence taken. In fact, you're not my type either." Jameson replied.

I shook my head. "Can we stop talking about types?" I asked.

Lexi groaned in complaint. "No! We haven't discussed your type yet!" She nudged her shoulder into mine, a sly glint in her eyes.

I ducked my head. "I don't have a type." I told her.

"Well of course you do," she said, her face alight with a hint of scandal. "You like boys with more than five letters in their names." She told me with a wink.

I gnawed at my lip as the Guardian on my other side suddenly went quiet. "Thanks for that, Lexi." I told her with a clenched jaw.

The silence that broke out next made me grow pensive. It suddenly became so real that I was about to tell my two Guardians my biggest secret.

The secret that made me a monster.

Lexi tried to get me to perk up, but I ignored her attempts the whole way to the dorm. Right up until Jameson pulled out the key and gestured for Lexi and I to go in.

"I may be a lady," Lexi spoke up as I nervously stood by my window. "But I can be the first to kick you in the balls if you try to use that 'ladies first' ruse ever again."