Chapter 3- NIGHTMARES

It was Sunday 7:35pm, Sabastian and myself were sitting together at the lake looking closely at the shimmering water below with little ripples in the water while the rain dripped slowly from the dark grey rain clouds above. Sabastian then spoke up "god you look so beautiful almost like an angel" when I looked up I saw a charcoal black medium sized wolf with sharp teeth showing hints of dripping bright red blood I tried to look for any sign of Sabastian but I couldn't, all I could focus on at that moment in time was this aggravated wolf snarling at me, my first instinct was to get out of there, I had noticed that when I was running it was pitch black and the only light that shone was coming from the silvery shiny full moon. I was sprinting for my life, I didn't even dare to look behind me because I could still hear the wolf snarling at me from behind, at that moment I thought about two questions, 1. Where was Sabastian? And 2. What did I do to aggravate this wolf? Then all of a sudden it all happened in slow motion I tripped over a stick poking out of the hard rocky ground and had realized I had sprained my ankle on the way down, at this point I was screaming in pain and wincing my eyes shut, when I opened them there was the wolf, the furry beast lunged at me and the last thing I said was "nooooooooooo."

I had woken up in a puddle of sweat and I heard footsteps thumping up the stairs I checked my alarm clock on my bedside table it was 6:45 am in the morning, at that moment the door swung open leaving me with a huge gust of cold breezy air I looked up to see my mum standing in the doorway panting breathless, my guess was that she basically sprinted up the stairs when she heard me scream. "Jade are you alright?" my mum said panting like a dog that had not had water in ages. "yeah mum I'm fine I was just… having a nightmare" I took one look at my mum and new that she thought it had something with my case of depression and anxiety, "hey mum I gotta go to school I'll see you later ok" "ok by honey have a good day and don't miss the bus okay" "ok mum have a good day" "will do." Luckily I hadn't missed the bus, but I had to sprint to catch up and the only spare seat was right up the back of the bus so I sat down and brought out my copy of "one of us is lying" and my earbuds and listened to my favorite song while reading. School was boring as usual phase first up did table tennis, art second up we learnt how to draw cartoon characters but I was distracted then finally it was lunch, I wasn't really hungry or in the mood for food, drink so I just walked over to Violets and my table but was distracted when I glanced out the window and noticed that Sabastian was sitting under a tall, highlight green, with damp wood and long curly vines, Sabastian seemed lost and alone, I looked up to Violet and told her that "ummm….. Violet will you mind if I go and sit with Sabastian for lunch" Violet scrunched her nose and face up as in disgust but she politely said ��yes sure I'm fine here with Charlie" "thanks see ya around okay" I slowly made myself through the cafeteria to the yard and to the tree and sat down next to Sabastian, when I glanced into his dark charcoal black, golden brown gaze and It somehow sent shivers up my spine in excitement. "Why hello Jade how are you?" I took a while to answer and in that time we kept on staring at each other in anticipation, after what seemed like forever I answered "I could be better, how about you?" "yeah I'm fine, why are you sitting with me and not your friend?" now that question took me a very long time to answer, but truly I was thinking of an answer to the question Sabastian interrupted my thinking with "Jade why are you sitting with me?" he gazed at me with no trace of humor in his voice or his eyes, I was kind of scared for a moment but then I realized this was Sabastian I was talking to "I don't know why, part of it seems that I was sick of Violet blabbing on forever and the other thing is you just seemed so lonely, what don't you want me here?" I couldn't hide the disappointment in my voice and eyes "no it's not that at all, it's just no one here likes me frankly I think they're all creeped out by me." "Why would they think that?" Sabastian just shrugged his shoulders like he didn't know what the answer.

"There's the bell, we have English together right so we better be going, and would you like to walk to class with me?" "Sure of course" but truly deep inside my subconsciousness was jumping up and down with excitement.

When Sabastian and I walked into English we were 5 minutes late but Miss A was fine she just told us never to be late again, I noticed as we walked slowly to our seats at the back of the room I could feel hundreds of eyes looking at the back of my head, and loads of gaping mouths most came from the girls in the class, as Sabastian and I sat down comfortably at our seats I heard loads of whisper and chatter around us I took a glance at Sabastian and saw a tiny smirk cross his face.

Today in English we had to wright a summary of a very important stage in our life and explain how we felt, me and my subconsciousness knew that we could whip this task out in our sleep, I casually looked over to see Sabastian already starting and seeing his hands move so quickly on the paper was like watching a master chef or samurai then his gaze came up from the paper and into my gaze golden brown, charcoal black to light hazel nut, Sabastians eyes lit up with humor and danger and it was so memorizing. "Jade! Jade!" I suddenly look up to see that Miss A was standing right above me her eyes dancing with anger "Miss Steele would you please see me after class" I knew it was a question that didn't need an answer.

"Miss you said you wanted me?" "Yes, well Miss Steele today your behavior was very dis respectable to you and your classmates, can you just promise me to behave more respectfully tomorrow in class ok" "ok, miss can I go now please?" "Oh sure sorry to have wasted your time, bye Jade see you later" as I strolled out of the class as casually as I could I turned sharp right and bumped right into the last person I thought would be standing there "umm I'm sorry Sabastian I thought you had already left and went home" I took a quick glance down at my watch and it read 3:30pm, Jesus where did the time go, I looked up from my lashes and I kneeled to pick up my books that were now all scattered across the cold silver, marble floor in the hallway of the school I started to pick up my English book then I felt almost a burning sensation touch my hand "owwww" "sorry, did I hurt you?" he sounded almost hurt "no, it's just your hand is so hot" he nodded as if he were agreeing with my suggestion.

We walked outside together, when we hit the rocky parking space I felt a wet drop of water fall on my nose then when I looked up all I could see was dark grey clouds covering Seattle like a blanket when I took my eyes off of the clouds it started pouring rain down even further, I had just remembered I had missed the bus and I had no raincoat, as if reading my mind all in a flash Sabastian sweeped me up off of my feet and into his muscular arms where I felt safe and like no one else could touch me. He carefully placed me in his Black R8, Jesus this car must have cost a fortune "so you want me to take you back to the diner?" "Yeah that would be wonderful."

The car ride to my house was long, painful and silent, but when I finally saw my house Sabastian seemed to zoom past it "ummm… Sabastian my house is back there" "yeah I know I wanted to show you something." "Fine you can show me but then I'm going straight back home" I really tried to keep the sarcasm out of my voice but I had failed miserably I could see a playful grin slowly grow on Sabastians mouth and fine soft lips. "well good" as Sabastian turned the car key to start up the car I took a long glance outside it was still pouring rain, and I wondered where he was taking me.