Dear Laney

CHAPTER 4

The day went by rather fast for a Thursday. I guess it was because nothing eventful happened. I made sure of it by steering clear of Mr Hale all week after the ‘incident’. For someone who isn't a lecturer he sure does hang around this place a lot. Soon enough it was time for Sarah and I to leave and head home.

The ride home was filled with an comfortable silence, so I wasn’t bothered. Besides, I was too engrossed in my thoughts of Nash Hale. As much as I avoided him, my brain wouldn’t allow him to leave my thoughts. He was dreamy, and I hated that I felt affected by him. “What do you think about Mr Hale?” I asked Sarah, she looks at me through the corner of her eye and asks “What do you mean?” okay, now that is complete bullshit and she knows it, “Oh you know exactly what I mean.” I say and she pursed her lips closed, “So you’re not going to comment on how insanely hot he is?” I ask and she shakes her head “I can’t think of him that way.” I raise an eyebrow at her “Well, for all you know he could be ‘The One’ you kept talking about the other morning.” I wiggle my eyebrows at hew, she instantly scoffs and says “Believe me when I say he is not.” I giggle at her reply.

“Well we’re here, now get out of my car so we can part ways woman!” Sarah yells dramatically as I giggle and slap her arm playfully “Oh my sweet, you know we could never part ways, I’m stuck on you like stink on s**t!” I say as her face turns red from laughter “Ya nasty!” she yells “Deal with it.” I reply wittily as I make my way down the road to my house.

Just as I enter the house, my mom’s voice enters my ears “Hey sweetheart, how was your day?” my mom asks “It was okay mom.” I reply with sigh “Oh? Honey what’s wrong?” my mom asks as I enter the kitchen to find my dad stealing food. “Its school, what’s right?” dad just chuckles at my reply, “I’m going to my room, I’m really tired.” I tell my mom as I kiss her on the cheek then run upstairs into my room and dive towards my bed. Unfortunately for me I had completely missed the bed and landed on the floor. I quickly get up and hop onto my bed, but as soon as my head hit the pillow sleep had taken over.

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I hear the sound of footsteps. “Follow.” Someone whispers in a light voice. “Follow.” There it is again… “Follow me.” The voice whispers, its oddly familiar, deep, husky. This time I obey the voice. I get up from my bed and make my way to my bedroom door.

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I hear the footsteps on the other side of the door once again. I opened the door only to be met by the tiled hallway of my campus.

“Ellane.” The deep husky voice echoes through the hallway “FOLLOW!” it commands and I jump in fright. Deciding to go against my instincts, I followed the mysterious voice. “Where are you?” I asked as I made my way to the end of the hallway. I hear him chuckle, his laugh is so deep yet smooth, it screams danger yet leaves me in awe. “Eager aren’t we?” his voice echoes. As I round the corner, I see the tall silhouette of a well-built man. “Wait,” I say, but he continues walking. At this, I begin to chase after him and just before I reach him, he turns left into a classroom. I slowly followed through the threshold of the classroom door and come face to face with Mr Hale, only. We were no longer in a classroom, we’re in the forest, more specifically the one I’ve always dreamed about.

“Took you long enough, Laney.” He says with a smirk. “What are you doing here Mr Hale?” he raises an eyebrow then holds his hand out for me to take, I look down at his hand questioningly and slowly place my small hand in his. Suddenly I am pulled into his warm embrace. I gasp at how close we are “What do you want?” he then slowly leans down to my ear and whispers “The question is, what do you want Laney?” he then bites the skin below my ear and lays soft kisses on my neck down to my collarbone. He then begins to nibble on my skin. “Mr Hale.” I manage to say between short breaths, he lifts his head and looks me in the eyes “Its Nash to you Laney.” He says as he leans down to kiss me, our lips inches apart, “Do it Laney, I know you want to.” And with that I close the distance between us and kiss him.

The kiss was long, turning from passionate and gentle to needy and wild. He kissed me like his life depended on it, like I was his oxygen. Held me like he would lose me at any moment and when we broke apart, he touched me like I was the most delicate thing on the face of the earth. My eyes still shut as he gently runs his thumb over my bottom lip, he takes a long deep breath before leaning his forehead against mine and just like that he was gone and was now replaced by a giant midnight black wolf. I stood in the forest with a pack of giant wolves surrounding me as one by one showed their necks in submission, the midnight black wolf who seemed to bigger than the rest of them slowly steps forward and touches my nose with his. He then steps back and stands tall, waiting, patiently.

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I wake up gasping for air as I sit up from my bed. The hell was that? I leaned back against my pillows, rubbing my sweaty palms against my t-shirt. “I need a shower after that shit.” I said to myself as I made my way to my bathroom.