DarkFall | ✔️

5 | Cheese On Ice Cream

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"Be sure to Taste your words before you spit them out."
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"Mom! I'm leaving for school!" I shout upstairs to my mum who was currently cleaning whatever she could find. I could hear her footsteps clearing the hall as she danced around while cleaning.

"Okay! Have a good day, I love you!" She yells back down at me as I open the front door and walk outside. I inhale a huge breathe as the cold air hits me, sending goosebumps up and down my spine. I watch as when I breathe out, a large puff of smoke appears.

It was almost officially Winter.

I began to walk to the sidewalk beside my house, stopping when a gust of wind nearly knocks me over and causes my red scarf to go flying. It is caught in the breeze for a split second before gently falling back to the ground. I close my eyes, relieved it didn't land in the forest.

With perfect timing, black hoodie guy happens to be leaving his house at the exact same moment this happens. He pauses to look at me for a split second, before getting into the car which his parents must've been waiting in beforehand.

They back out of their drive and turn to go down the street towards my high school which happened to be the only one in the small town. I panic as the blue car speeds up for only a second before halting beside me.

"Would you like a ride Cecelia?" Aidon asks, rolling down his window and flashing me a bright friendly smile. I couldn't help but return it.

"Umm." I panic, trying to think of an excuse so I wouldn't get in the same car as black hoodie guy.

"Em and Amy, they're...waiting on me. We walk together to school." I smile at the family in front of me. I didn't want to invade their private space, after all they'd only been here a few days. They definitely didn't need me invading their private life.

"Ah I see, we'll see you later then." Rose waves as her husband drives the blue car forward.

As they reach about a metre in front of me they beep the horn and I wave and smile, Amy also happened to be walking towards me with a curious grin and we both reached Em's door at the same time.

"Tell me everything." She laughs at me.

*****

"Hey, you never responded to me over the weekend," Aston speaks to me, curiosity in his tone and a mischievous look in his eye. He had met me outside of my class and together we were walking for our lunch that we missed last week.

"Yeah, sorry I was busy." I apologise, feeling bad that I'd forgotten about my boyfriend over the weekend. I honestly didn't really do much, which made me feel even worse for lying.

Friday and Saturday I spent with Em and Amy, the two of them just going over plans for the party that was coming up. They gave me small details, but overall wanted it to be a surprise.

Everyone was invited, the whole school was expected to turn up. But then it was a small town in the middle of the woods - so there was only a couple hundred of us. That's why the wolfs scared me so much, they lived in the woods that surrounded the entire town. We were trapped in a fortress of trees.

As I said...Darkfall was weird.

"You know, a relationship doesn't work if people don't talk." He says, letting go of my hand.