Loved by a Devil (5 page)

But I still couldn't stand to be in same room with him.

I glanced at him. He was sitting alone.

Hillary was sitting across the room from him, in fact, she was sitting in the desk in front of me. I saw Hillary look in her little make-up mirror, seeing in her reflection. Her mascara was smeared, which meant she has been recently crying. I looked away.

As the teacher ranted on, I could feel Drew's stare boring into me.

Almost twenty minutes past. I glanced at him. His jet black hair was sticking out in many places, which meant he didn't bother brushing it. And under his eyes were bruises that meant he hasn't been getting much sleep lately. I saw that his usually happy chocolate brown eyes were becoming black pools that had senses of sadness in them. Has his skin become more paler too?

Another ten minutes passed as the teacher handed out assignments that we could do for homework, or we could choose to work on them if there was any free time in class. The man handed out the worksheet on top of my desk, and went back to the from of the room to continue talking about something even though no one in the class was paying attention.

I drummed my fingers against the surface of the table while simultaneously tapping my foot. A couple classmates gave me dirty looks, but I ignored them.

When will this period be over?

I could
feel him
staring at me still!

Beads of sweat started to trickle down the nape of my neck. I quickly wiped them away with the sleeve of my sweatshirt. Another ten minutes passed. I sighed in defeat as I got up, grabbed my bag and started walking towards the classroom door.

Hillary stood in my way. "Where do you think you're going?"

"Get out of the way you whore!" I shoved her back in her seat as she just stared at me in disbelief as I walked out of the classroom. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Hillary look at the teacher for assistance, but he just shrugged his shoulders.

I could hear
his
footsteps quickly following me. I abruptly stopped in the middle of the hallway.

"What do you want?" I hissed.

"Look, Moon, I wanted to explain to you what happened-"

"You don't need to explain to me what happened. I s
aw
what happened that day." I interrupted.

"If you would just let me explain-"

"You were flirting with her, and then later that night you decided to have sex with her!" I shrieked.

"I didn't-"

"And while you were having fun, I was puking my guts out in the stairwell!"

"I didn't know you were-"

"To actually think that you like me, I was wrong." I could the feel tears starting spill over, I quickly wiped them away with my sleeve.

"Would you please just listen to me, I-"

"Just leave me alone. I hate you. I
hate
you. If it wasn't for you, I would still be the little loser that Hillary made fun of every day, I wouldn't be sent rise of hades glares from almost all the girls in the school, and I wouldn't know that M and M candy rapper guy!" I shouted.

The tips of his mouth perked up, but dissapeared as soon as it came.

I just looked at him disbelievingly, and started to walk away.

Drew quickly caught my wrist and threw me in an embrace.

All I had to say was that it felt so good to kiss him it was disgusting. To get him off me, I used one of my immortal powers and heated my body up real hot.

He yelped and quickly retreated, clutching his one blistery hand.

I could now smell the scent of burning flesh. Ew.

I quickly scampered away towards the parking lot and pulled my phone out of my bag. Brendan was in the contacts. I didn't know how his number was on my phone but could care less.

A minute later he arrived in the parking lot, beckoning for me to come into his arms.

I did. I cried softly into his shoulder as he patted my back.

"You want me to take you home?" Brendan murmured.

I shook my head as I thought about him dropping me off home, alone.

"Want me to take you to my house? I'll make you some soup."

I nodded.

Chapter 7

1Three months passed. To avoid Drew who was, unfortunately, in all my classes. I went to the main office one day to get totally different classes that I made sure I wouldn't pass by him in the hallways to get to another class. One day I did pass by him though, he looked terrible! His hair was a mess, his skin so pale he looked like a ghost, he was getting thinner, and he had real sharp angles on his face. As for his eyes, they were no longer brown. They were black pools in his head. I quickly dodged him and went to my next class.

But what was weird is that Brendan was in all my classes. He had the exact same schedule as me. Someone pinch me. Well, as for me and Brendan, we were closer than ever before. When we had a project to do, or when the class had to go in groups, Brendan and I always partnered up. The rest of the girls didn't even try to partner up with him anymore because if they asked Brendan first, he would say he wanted to partner up with me. A couple of the girls in my classes were even my friends. Mine and Brendan's desk were right next each other too.

By the end of that day, my friends Britney, Ellyn, and Alice asked me to see a movie with them.

"What movie?" I had asked.

Ellyn looked slightly embarrassed, and Alice ended up answering for her.

"The Muppets." she told me, rolling her eyes at Ellyn.

It took me a minute to decide.

"What time?"

So the four of us eventually were a group of BFFs. We went out to concerts like Paramore, that M and M candy guy, The Band Perry, and Taylor Swift. (I had no idea who Taylor Swift was, but she is an awesome country singer.-And so is the other lead singer girl of The Band Perry) We saw movies, and even went to each other's houses -except mine.

One day when we were at Britney's house, while we were watching Transformers 3 on dvd, she questioned me about always wearing sweatshirts.

"It's kind of personal." I responded, not wanting admit I had weird markings all over my arms.

"Oh come on! We're your friends, you can tell us anything." Alice told me.

"Well-"

"Guys, leave her alone." Ellyn hissed, her emerald green eyes behind her glasses turning dark.

"Uh, Ellyn?" I asked.

Her eyes immediately turned soft returning to their regular green color.

"Yeah?" she asked.

I chickened out.

"Your hair is getting in the popcorn." It was half a lie.

Ellyn looked down.

"Oh...sorry," she plucked a blond curl out of the popcorn, "I'll make another batch."

That was the end of that conversation.

As for me and Brendan, I think I was kind of living with him. I don't know. It wasn't like boyfriend/girlfriend moving in together. Basically after a ride to Brendan's house after school, he showed me to my new room, and it had all of my stuff in it. He made my bed for me, and even put all my clothes away in my walk-in-closet. And I had a shelf above my bed filled with M and M cds, my Paramore cds from home, The Band Perry, Taylor Swift, and my Twilight soundtracks. I also had a stereo by my flat screen tv.

"Where are my books?" I asked.

"All of your books are in the Library." Brendan told me.

"You stripped the whole bookcase in my room, and took all the books out of my Library?"

"I actually had to buy three extra large bookcases to fit all of them." he said sheepishly.

"Sorry..."

"It's okay."

I grinned, "You're the best."

"I know." he replied.

I hugged him, and nearly sprinted down to his Library, forgetting to ask him where it was. I ended up falling down the stairs from going down them to fast.

On Saturday, a blanket of white coated the yard and the forest. I took in a gasp of breath, excited.

I saw Anthony walk out of his room, going towards the steps, yawning and stretching out like a cat. Since I was living at Brendan's house, he let Anthony live here too so he wouldn't get jealous.

"ANTHONY!" I practically shrieked.

He jumped and fell down the stairs.

"Ow..." he whimpered.

I skipped down the stairs, helping Anthony up.

"Anthony, it snowed last night!" I told him.

He instantly perked up, "Really?"

"Yep, c'mon I'll show you."

I showed him the yard out front, opening the front door, until I felt a blast of icy wind escape through it, I quickly slammed the door shut. I didn't find out my teeth were chattering until Anthony asked, "Want me to get you blanket and make some cocoa?"

"Please."

So Christmas was coming, which was really exciting. Brendan put up the tree in the Library the next day as it towered thirty feet, high above the bookshelves. I didn't know how he fit the thing through the front door, but decided to just shut up and help decorate the tree. He had simple decorations, just a bunch of little snow flakes to hang on it, and candy canes that he bought at the store. As I was looking through the box of decorations, I saw the time thingy that told you how many days, hours and seconds were left until it was officially Christmas.

"You have this?" I asked.

"Yeah. It's cool right?" Brendan responded.

"Um, it's awesome!"

I also helped wrap all the lights around the tree, wondering how the heck we were gonna wrap them all the way to the top. Well, we did when Brendan announced that I was gonna put the star all the way on the top of the tree.

"WHAT?" I yelled.

Well, after stacking two ten foot ladders on top of each other-which you're really not supposed to do unless you want to die- he was holding me as high as his arms could stretch so I could put the star on the tree. Me, well I was trying to concentrate on putting the star on top of the tree, not my heart that was practically jumping out of my chest. Finally, I got it on perfectly. Brendan climbed down the two ladders with me in his arms.

Three days before Christmas, I asked Brendan what he wanted for the upcoming holiday.

His brows furrowed, deep in thought, "I...don't know. Surprise me."

"What if you don't like it?" I questioned.

"It's the thought that counts." he smiled.

I ended up going to a store called Butlers later that day in my purple 1963 Volkswagen Beetle. I parked my small car and went inside the store. I looked around. What do guys like? I found men's perfume in one aisle. Or, you could call it cologne. I smelled it. It smelled good. I think. It smelled refreshing, and alluring to women but... I sighed. I grabbed the box of cologne, realizing it was around one hundred dollars.

That much for cologne?

Whatever. As long as he liked it. And then when I was walking towards the register, something caught my eye. Wayferer sunglasses. Black ones. Hmm...Brendan did say one day that his other pair broke. But sunglasses? As a Christmas present? Ugh... I grabbed the sunglasses that were fifty dollars and went on the extremely long line. I had to wait at least thirty minutes to wait in line before it was my turn.

"Would you like it wrapped?" the young lady asked.

"Yeah, sure." I answered.

She wrapped the presents and told me I owed 154.09. I handed her the bills and she gave me the change and the newly wrapped presents that had little designs of Christmas trees on them. She wished me a merry Christmas.

"You too!" I called over my shoulder.

I shut the door of my car and gently put the presents in the backseat, turning the heater on and driving to my next destination. JCPenney.

The parking lot was crowded! Great. Wait 'till I see the lines. I got out of my car, locked the door and slipped the keys in my small purse. I walked inside the store and quickly looked around for the Mens' department. I looked around for a couple of v-neck t-shirts, walking by a hot pink one...

I quietly swore to myself. I can't believe I almost forgot to get Anthony something! Well this is the perfect time to buy him a new pink shirt, since I threw up all over his other one. I grabbed one that looked like his size, and grabbed a white one for Brendan. I walked by a little poster stand. They had Edward from Twilight... I looked for the right code number thingy and grabbed the last one. Why do so many people like Edward? Jacob's way cuter. And hotter. Well, it was a fact since he is a werewolf.

I went back to earth. Where am I? I looked for a sign to indicate where I was. The Womens' department. Ok, I ended up looking around for myself. So what? I gasped. I just think I kind of found the perfect present for Anthony. If only they had it in his size! It was a black t-shirt with-yeah, you've guessed it!- Edward on it. Ok. I was getting kind of annoyed with all this Twilight crap. I grabbed the t-shirt that would look like it would fit Anthony best. And then I sneakily grabbed a Team Jacob shirt that was in my size.