She's my mystery

...I'm Fine...

"MILLE.. WHERE ARE YOU..!" I yelled again after not getting a response the first time..

"IN MY ROOM..!" she then yelled back and I ran up the stairs and marched through the door to her room, "What's up..? How was the date..?" she asked as she sat up on the bed instead of lying down..

"Oh.. It was fine.. UNTIL YOU CALLED..!" I whined..

"Why..?" she whined back..

"Because you demanded Ethan to keep his hands to himself over the phone..! He wasn't doing anything or going to, and now he proberly never will..!" I said and paced back and forth infront of the bed..

"I was just.." she then began..

"NO... You don't have to protect me Mille, I can handle myself..! And what happened with Alex was THREE YEARS AGO.. I have moved past it and Alex is in prison and, what's most important, ETHAN ISNT ALEX.." I Yelled and slummed down on the floor out of breath from the yelling..

As I had calmed down a little, I looked up at Mille, who was quietly crying, "I love you Mille.. You are my best friend, but you have to let me live my life without knowing everything down to every last second.. I will always fill you in after, but you calling or texting me like you did have to stop.." I said and got up from the floor, and sat down next to her on the bed and hugged her..

"I'm sorry.." she sobbed on my shoulder.. "Is he mad at me too..?" she asked as she dried some tears away, only to let more fall..

"No one is mad anymore.." I told her, "But I would appreciate it if you would apologize to him for miss judging him like you did.." I said firmly..

"Of course.." she said with a sigh, I'll tell him when we see him at campus tomorrow.." she said and calmed down and stopped crying..

"Thank you.. Now let's get ready for bed and fall asleep to a movie.." I said and changed into my pyjamas..

We then brushed our teeth and got into bed with a movie and I filled her in on the date and what we had talked about..

At some point into the second movie, we both fell asleep and I woke up to the alarm that was set to 6:30 am so we had time for breakfast before we had to leave.. After swiping the alarm away, I noticed a text from Ethan..

Ethan - Morning , I hope you slept well and you have a nice morning and are going to have a nice day..

He too cute...! Me - Morning, I did.. I hope you slept good as well.. My days is pretty great already, waking up to a text from you..!

A few minutes passed and then my phone buzzed with a response..

Ethan - I have, thank you. I'm glad I could start your day off on a good note.. ;) Well I'm off to campus,, maybe we'll see each other..? Have a nice day..

Me - Yeah maybe.. :) And you too..!

Mille stirred in bed as I put my phone down, so I jumped up on the bed and began to bounce around her..

"Urrh stop that Layla..!" she said, annoyed as she waved her arms around trying to hit my legs so I would stop..

"Come on sleepy head..! Get dressed so we can have breakfast and get going..!" I exclaimed and jumped off the bed and got dressed as she slowly crawled out of bed, while mumbling how annoying I was this morning..

While Mille got dressed, I packed our bags with the books we needed for the day, which were Math, History and Sciences.. It was a lot on a Monday, but with our days of suspension we had done a lot of the work for those classes, so we wouldnt stress over it like we normally would..

I gave Mille her bag when she was ready and we then made some breakfast.. I made a quick oatmeal porridge with blueberries and strawberries.. Mille just toasted a piece of bread and slapped some jam on it and ate that..

As we drove to campus we listened to our favorite songs, screaming the lyrics as we stopped at Jackie's house to drive her to campus with us..

When we arrived, Jackie hurried to her class and Mille and I got to ours.. History was up first and our teacher was suprised by the amount of homework we had done and that we had jumped further into the compendium that we hadn't talked about in class yet, over the last few days, we hadn't been on campus, so we helped, or teacher by helping some of our classmates that was still on the current topic..

It was the same in Math class..

"Oh I cant wait to get some food, I'm starving..!" Mille complained as we walked into the cafeteria..

"Haha, maybe next time eat more than one piece of toast with jam for breakfast..!" I teased her as we got in line grabbing a tray each..

As we got our food and paid, I had the feeling like someone was watching me the whole time and a few times I looked up to see if I could see anyone, but I didn't.. Weird..

When we sat down, a few of our other friends joined us as they got out of their classes..

I still had the feeling of someone watching me and it was beginning to annoy me..

"Hey are you okay.." Jackie asked as she noticed me looking around the cafeteria for the third time..

"Not really.. I feel like someone's watching me.." I whispered to not alert the others at our table..

"Maybe it's Ethan checking you out.." she said and looked around too..

"Cant be.. He texted 5 minutes ago that he and his friend is in the gym shooting hoops, and I had the feeling as soon as we came in here.." I told her...

Jackie looked over at Mille, who was cluelessly talking to Wanda.. Jackie and I got up with our trays and threw out our trash from our lunch, and Mille was quickly up too with her tray when she noticed we had gotten up..

"Hey what's up..?" she asked as she put her tray down on top of the stack..

"I need to get out of here.. Someone has been watching me since we came.." I told her and made my way towards the door and heard Jackie's voice behind me, telling Mille that it wasn't Ethan since he was in the gym with his friends..

"Lets see if he is then.." Mille stated and turned to walk down the hall to the gym and pushed the door to the gym wide open..

And sure enough, there was Ethan.. He and all his friends looked at the three of us in the door and I quickly grabbed Jackie and Mille, pulling them back out as the door closed again..

"See he's in there. It couldnt have been him.." I said and turned around to walk back to my locker to get my books for Science..

I then heard the gym door open again, followed by Ethan's voice..

"Hey what's up..?" he asked and I slowly turned back to face him and I started to drool in my head..

He was dripping in sweat in a tanktop that showed his muscular arms and some of his chest, and I felt myself forgetting why I was there in the first place, until Jackie cleared her throat to snap me out of it..

"Oh hi.. Well umm.." I started..

"Somebody has been watching Layla over lunch and I just wanted to make sure you were where you had told her you were.. Sorry.. And I'm sorry about how I attacked you over the phone yesterday.." Mille said and apologized for her behavior..

"Thanks for the apology Mille.. Hold up..! Somebody has been watching you..!?" he almost yelled when he understood what Mille had just said..

"I'm not sure.. But it creeped me out to be honest.." I said.. "Sorry but we have to get to class.. Can we talk later..?" I asked him, so I wouldn't just storm off after Mille telling him some creep was looking at me from somewhere around campus..

"Sure.. Please be careful.." he said, and went back into the gym and the girls and I got to our last class of the day..

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Ethan's P.O.V.

After Layla, Mille and Jackie had burst into the gym, I had to go ask what was up, but I wasn't expecting to hear that someone was watching Layla, but the girls didn't see anyone looking directly at her, which was even more creepy..

I couldnt concentrate after I went back to the guys, so I hopped into the shower instead and went to my last lecture of the day..

Throughout the lecture I really wanted to just text Layla to make sure she was okay, but I didnt want to seem desperate to help, even if it was exactly how I felt..

Who ever the creep was, I was going to find him and tell him to stop or else I would pop his eyes out for him so he could look at himself instead..!

When the bell rang, I quickly packed up my stuff and got to the parking lot and found Mille's car parked in the next row from where I was parked..

I waited by my car for them to come out to the car and as I waited, I caught a glimpse of a guy that seemed interested in Mille's car for some reason, and it looked like he wrote down the licence plate of her car before running off as more people flooded the parking lot and shortly after the girls came into view..

When Layla saw me, I waved them over so I could tell them what I had just seen..

"Hi.." she said, giving me a beautiful smile as she stopped in front of me, with Mille and Jackie right behind her..

"Hi.. I saw some guy checkout Mille's care just a few minutes ago and it looked like he wrote down the licence plate.." I told them and Mille quickly ran over to her car to make sure nothing was missing or done to it..

Layla looked shocked..

"Could you point him out if you saw him again..?" Jackie asked..

"Yeah, he didn't really try to hide his face so I would think I got a good look.." I said, "Are you okay Layla..?" I asked and she just slowly nodded yes to my question..

"Is it any of these guys..?" Jackie asked as she showed me 5 different pictures of some guys..

"Yeah number 4, but he has a beard now, not just stubbles.." I told her, but she quickly ignored me and called someone as Layla stood frozen infront of me.. When Mille walked back and passed Jackie on the phone, I could hear Jackie say to Mille, "It was him.."

"Layla.. Jackie is on the phone to the police and they just told her that he got out on good behavior.." Mille said as she hugged Layla, who still didn't move a muscle..

Mille looked at me and I now understood that it was her ex that had been watching her and that I had just seen next to Mille's car.. I felt rage beginning to boil up inside me and I wanted to charge after him, to beat the living crap out of him..

"Sweety..? I'm going to call your parents, okay.?" Mille said as she took out her phone to call Layla's parents and left Layla standing next to me..

Layla felt onto her knees and I quickly got down next to her, and pulled her close, "Hey.. I got you.." I said and brushed her hair away from her face, and as I did I could feel her cheeks were wet from tears..

"He can't touch you, okay.. Not as long as I'm around..!" I said and tilted her head up to look at me, so she could see that I was serious..

I hated seeing her this affected by this prick.. She shouldn't be wasting tears on him..

"Can you drive me home, please..?" she asked, her voice shaking..

"Are you sure..? You don't want to go with Mille and Jackie..?" I asked her..

"They can come.. But I cant be in Mille's care right now.." she said and held onto my shirt..

"Of course.." I said and then whistled after Mille and Jackie who were still on their phones, so I just motioned for them to get in my car..

They saw how Layla clung to me, and then just got in as they tried to wrap up their phone calls.. Layla managed to put in her address into the gps on my phone and I then drove us there.. The car got quiet as Jackie and Mille were done talking on the phone with the police and Layla's parents..

"Sorry about all that Ethan, and thanks for driving us.." Mille then said..

"Its fine.. I'm just glad I could help.." I said with a sigh, looking over to the side at Layla, who seemed totally shot off from everything..

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