Duplicity [h.s]

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these pictures will come in major handy for this chapter, im bad at room descriptions. ALSO LOOK HOW SEXY THOSE BEDROOMS ARE IN THE LAST PICTURE

Daytona Beach, a place I never thought I would be.

The drive was long, but I slept a lot so it went by quicker than expected. We were suppose to arrive around noon, it's a seven hour drive.

It was around eleven thirty when I peeled myself out of my bunk bed after tossing and turning for the past thirty minutes. I wanted to go to the lounge area of the bus so I could look out the windows for a bit. I want to see if we're in Florida by now, I was really excited to be here.

When I was a kid, all my rich friends would take family vacations to Orlando Florida for Disney World. I remember always seeing pictures of the palm trees and beaches, so it always was a little dream for me. I'm sure I hyped it up more as a kid, because not everyone gets as excited about Florida as I do.

I stood between the dark bunks and hobbled through very quietly so I wouldn't wake up any strangers hidden behind the curtains. Shuffling over to the soundproof door I press the button so it slides open to the lounge at the back of the bus.

To my surprise, Nova was in here already.

She was sitting cross legged on the couch watching television, eating a bowl of cereal. She froze mid slurp with the spoon in her mouth, her eyes landing on mine.

"Hey!" She mumbles over the cereal, dropping the spoon in the bowl with a puffy cheek smile. Her mouth was full.

"Hey!" I exclaimed back, she seemed happy to see me, I stepped in and let the soundproof door shut behind me.

She chewed quicker to speak, but during that I notice how her happy eyes turned to slight shock and she suddenly choked on her cereal like she saw something that startled her.

I widen my eyes and took a cautious step forward towards her, thinking she was choking choking. She put out her hand to signal she was fine, just inhaling down the wrong pipe. When she got most of her coughs down, she looked back up at me with some startle.

"What the fuck happened to you?" She coughs while acting like I was attacked by a bear.

"What do you mean?" I was still standing in the middle of the room, the sound of the television behind me mixing with her settling coughs.

"Your neck Aven!" She finally gets the words out, looking at it.

I didn't even know what she meant before I immediately brought both my hands up to each side of my neck. The second I made fast skin contact to the left arch, I sucked in a sharp breath because the skin was painfully tender.

Realization hit me, and I felt like the biggest idiot.

I completely forgot about the multiple harsh hickeys littering my neck from two nights ago. Immediate embarrassment caused my cheeks to go pink, because I literally forgot to hide them.

"Oh my god that was from a human!" She saw the awkward look on my face.

I swiped my hair to the side of the massacre, covering it. I didn't even know where to begin when telling her where it came from, I knew that was her next question.

"I forgot." I whine and walk over to the circular couch to sit.

"Who did that to you?" She asked quicker than I thought, putting her half eaten bowl of cereal down on the window ledge behind me.

"I'm embarrassed." I slump on the couch and bring my knees to my chest, tossing my head forward to rest on them.

"Was it someone in the band?"