Vanessa "Nessa" Mitchell never intended for her entire life to go up in flames. Literally. One night. One chance of forgiveness. One chance to set her name straight. At least that is until Kaiden Arthur Greenspan comes in. He's arrogant, cocky, and...
"Movie!" I screech forgetting that Archer and I were in the middle of making out. He cackles at my words and pulls me with him to the living room.
"What should we watch?" He asks holding a box with movies. Running to him I rummage through the box and find Beautiful Creatures. I hold it up smirking. "Fine," he groans.
~ after the movie ~
When I wake up, I notice Archer's arm around my side and our legs tangled beneath the blanket. When I try to shift his arm tightens around me and his head snuggles in the crook of my neck.
"Archer," I whisper poking his side. His eyes flicker open and his pupils expand.
"V," his voice grumbles, "you're beautiful." My breath hitches and I feel my cheeks redden. That's when we hear a knock at the door. Archer's fallen back to sleep so I check the door. Looking out the peephole I see nothing, so I open the door and see a letter on the ground with my name on it. I grab the letter and rush to Archer's room locking myself in. I run my gloved fingers over the writing. Slowly, I open it.
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My hands start to shake and my heart rate only increases. Then the phone rings.
"Hello?" I whisper.
"Vanessa," the voice says, "How are you my love?"
"I'm not your love. Who are you?" I demand and I hear Archer start to yell my name.
"You can call me love. I'm no one important."
"What do you want?"
"You," love answers, "its always been you."
"What if I say no?" I ask shaking.
"Then Archer will die," love admits.
"No," I whisper, "please. Leave him alone. Don't hurt him."
"I won't my love. You will."
"What?" I ask and hear the door nob jingle.
"V? Are you okay?" Archer calls and my heart stops.
"Tell him you need a minute," love says, "now!"
"I'm okay Archer, I just need a minute." I say with tears in my eyes.
"Let me in V," He says and I feel tears leaking down my cheeks.
"Good girl. Now tell him you hate him"
"No, I can't" I whisper crying.
"Vanessa. Do it now," love demands sounding angrier. So I take a deep breath and say the words.
"Archer," I start, "I hate you." I hear nothing, then the door swings open. Archer is standing there with a gun to his head.
"V," he says and the gun goes off. Killing him.
"No!" I yell and wake up.
"V, it's okay. It was just a nightmare. I'm here." He says holding me to his chest. I clutch onto his shirt and cry.
"He killed you," I weep shaking.
"Hey, it's going to be okay. No one is going to kill me." He answers.
