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CHAPTERS 02

It was a guy, in his early twenties. He was tall, had dark brown wavy hair, piercing green eyes and had bags under his eyes, I see someone hasn’t been sleeping much lately. He looked so tired and right now, he seemed sad but that immediately turned into anger. His lips were so full and pink, just perfect for a kiss, he had a very sharp, very beautiful jawline that I wanted to retrace with my fingers so badly. His posture was intimidating and I felt weak in front of him while his clothes failed to hide his muscular body. That’s when I noticed his wet shirt and in his right hand a now empty cup of coffee, it suddenly hit me, I bumped into him and made him spill his coffee all over himself…

‘Stop drooling over him and pull yourself together.’ My conscience said and pulled me from my moment of admiration and fangirling.

« Shoot…I’m sorry »

« Shoot… I’m sorry » I said panicking, not knowing what to do, he must be really pissed now. I then turned to take out some tissues from my bag, I always carried a pack of tissues because some things like that might happen, you never know…

As I directed the tissues to offer them to him, he muttered something under his breath, I didn’t quiet hear him but it sounded like the word hate or something like that. I froze when he took the tissues from me making our hands touch, I felt some kind of tingling sparks, it was funny since I never felt this before. But then I remembered what he said, hate ?

« Hate is a strong word you know ? It was an accident, I never meant to bump into you, I’m really sorry if I ruined your shirt. I can only offer to buy you a new one… » I said hesitantly, look who’s talking though, the girl who hates her entire school, and maybe just a little bit herself.

Not guessing what his answer would turn out to be, he just stood there staring at me, like I was some kind of odd creature he never saw before. I saw a glint of affection in his eyes but it was soon gone.

I didn’t want to wait for his response anymore, realizing that he was prolonging the time separating me from my bed, I decided to back away a little while he was cleaning his shirt and I suddenly sprinted to the next street, turned left and arrived at my neighborhood. I watched over my shoulder to see if he was following me, I saw him looking for me, but then I disappeared behind a wall and went straight home.

My house wasn’t too big but it wasn’t small either, it was normal sized. As I passed by the mirror in the hallway of the entrance I put my keys in the plate on the table, and looked at my reflection behind the glass.

All I saw was my pale white skin, light brown medium hair with natural golden locks and the black bags under my eyes probably from lack of sleep and stress too. I was skinny from the top, which meant I had no breasts unlike my three best friends, I had a small chest which I felt disgusted about, but I had a small waist and super curvy hips, my butt was normal not too big nor too small and my legs looked ugly, I always think I have big thighs but my friends always reassured me that they weren’t big, they were attractive and had a nice curve, besides, I was still the skinniest between them.

Some people say I’m average for a 17 year old girl, but I was just 5’5, and believe me that is not so much. My brother and I look the same, people would always recognize us as siblings but I never saw the resemblance between us. I looked more like my father, John, and Ray looked more like my mother, Jane. She was nothing like me, she always had that beautiful smile on her face and had that short round figure with big curves, she always seemed to look full of life and joy, while I just looked like a dead person because of my pale skin and black bags under my eyes, strangers always thought I was sick or something, which made me envious of other girls who had color on their cheeks and had nice curves, but now, well I accepted what I look like, even though it took me a long time to finally tolerate it.

I shook my head and interrupted my thoughts by throwing my bag on the floor and entering the kitchen with my phone and my book. What did I need more than these two objects to complete my evening ? Anyway, I made myself some food and started eating while reading the first chapter of the story.

I soon finished my plate and after putting it in the dishwasher I decided to go to this amazing place in the woods that only I knew of. Our forest has been searched and studied, there wasn’t any danger in the areas that have been searched, but we shouldn’t go too deep through the heart of the forest since it hasn’t been studied yet, and there might be dangerous animals living in there, but they would never come near the perimeter. So I decided it would be nice to take a walk in the woods just behind my house and sit in my secret place whilst reading the book.

Summer hasn’t begun yet and I was determined to finish that book as soon as possible because, well… What other reasons I have except that it was amazing.

The only reason there were woods behind and on the left side of my house was because, my house is located on the end of the street and just in front of the forest, the government hadn’t got time to finish the street so my house was the last one in the neighborhood, and besides, I didn’t want more neighbors in this small street, so our house had an amazing and peaceful location, no one could bother us.