From the Dark

Four : big bad

ADORABELLA CRESCENT

As I looked into his eyes, all I could remember was how he had his I-don't-care-even-if-you-are-murdered-in-front-of-my-eyes look when his friend was above me.

His green eyes started scanning me from top to bottom and to my eyes again.

I made sure to give him a cold look before looking away.

"Babe"

Mellisa, my blonde haired beautiful best friend ran past me in the direction of him, to her boyfriend who I've not met yet.

She told me her boyfriend is an Italian and was one of the hottest-richest-popular guy in the school. Looks like Mellisa got it well.

Mellisa is in her junior year. Our mothers are best friends so we've been together since our toddler stage. This is her first relationship and I wish her boyfriend isn't related to the Italians in this school.

I have a first hand experience with their leader and it wasn't a good one.

I was relieved when Mellisa ran past him, Dante Re Morreti.

Only to clung to another boy who looked exactly like Dante.

Well, there goes my wish.

I didn't tell Mellisa yet about Dante being the boy who I was infatuated with before leaving and certainly not about what happened with the same boy last night. Not that I didn't want to but I didn't get the time to. Yesterday was my first day back so I had a lot of filling up to do and she was only in my first class and lunch and today's morning during the full car ride she was talking about her boyfriend Dalmazio.

Who's last name now I guess is Morreti. So he is Dalmazio Morreti.

Jesus Christ.

I glanced at Dante who was also looking at Mellisa and Dalmazio, with a red haired girl in his arms. His eyes were narrowed at Dalmazio who I guessed was his brother. Then he furrowed his eyebrows when Mellisa started dragging Dalmazio towards me.

"Adore" she yell-called me for the whole parking lot to hear. That girl had a voice which made me wonder if she actually swallowed a loud speaker.

"Hey" I replied with a little smile when she stood in front of me with her hand entwined with her boyfriend's.

"So Adore, this is my boyfriend" she paused looking at him with the biggest grin and looked back at me and completed "Dalmazio."

"And babe, this is Adore, my best best best friend." Dalmazio let out a manly chuckle hearing the way she introduced me.

"Hey, my girl's best best best friend... Adore?" He ended with a question for my name.

I laughed a little.

"My name is Adorabella Crescent. But I go with Adore."

"Crescent? Oh...well..." he dragged a little while turning back to look at his brother who now sitting at the stairs near the entrance.

"Yes. Is something wrong?" I asked him when he turned back.

I guess he knows what happened last night, but I didn't want to discuss that with Mellisa or without Mellisa. And I hoped he would'nt bring that up too. To me he would always be Mellisa's knight in shining armour until she says otherwise. I didn't want to look at him as Re's brother.

"No. Not at all, Adore." He grinned.

"Dalmazio" the boy Lucio, who collided with me yesterday ran towards us.

"Yes, dude what now?" Dalmazio answered turning towards him.

"Come on. Re wants you" he said when he reached us. And then looked at me uncomfortably.

"Stronzo, ovviamente" Dalmazio muttered under his breath and placed a kiss Mellisa's lips and then in her forehead.

He then looked at me a little smile and nod then slapped Lucio's back "Come on, man... The Almighty is waiting" he said aloud and walked off.

"Later, ladies" he turned back yelling and then winked at Mellisa when he reached his brother.

Mellisa turned red while I chuckled.

"You've got yourself a good boyfriend" I laughed when I saw her blushing more.

"Stop." She waved me off.

"Oh yes I almost forgot. We still have to find that mysterious boy who you stalked around" she said with all seriousness.

Oh, no.

She's going to flip when I tell all about that so called mysterious boy.

"I didn't stalk him. I just waited for him." I defended.

"Whatever you say" she hummed before grabbing my hand and pulling me towards the entrance to our first class, the only class except lunch which we share together.

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As I was sitting in the window still of a secluded spot more like my secret place inside the library, yesterday's events were running through my head.

How he looked at me at the corridor before the other boy, who Dante called as Ian came interrupting was the same way he was looking at me at the cafe last year.

The boy I was infatuated with for more than a year is The big bad Dante Re Morreti, son of The very big bad Riccardo Morreti.

The boy who's father killed my father.

But I thought Dante was not as bad as everyone portrayed him to be.

I thought he's just a boy who is being misunderstood.

Like I said I thought.

But after yesterday, him standing like a statue leaning on the doorway of my room when I was almost getting raped....

Looks like I'm the one who portrayed him wrong.

I'm the one who misunderstood him.

After all he is The big bad Dante Re Morretti.

After Dante and Ian left yesterday I fainted because I saw blood. My blood from where Ian placed his blade.

I'm not that sensitive to blood, but last night was a nightmare.

I had my vasovagal syncope, anxiety and panic attack all hit at once. Then all I met with was darkness.

When I woke up in the middle of the night, I heard my mom arguing with my brother Aiden. Looks like Dante wanted to convey some message to my brother which he grandly completed by terrorising two women in the middle of the night.

Hats off.

Pathetic.

I never wanted revenge, like Aiden wanted for my father's murder because I know in my father's line of work, deaths were like a long sleep.

But when my mother broke down yesterday after my brother left last night all I could do yearn was to avenge for my father's death, avenge for my broken family.

I want to shut everything out.

I wanted to feel nothing.

I wanted to numb my pain, my mother's pain, my brother's pain.

But I know there is no going back to all those days where everything was perfect.

This is my life now. A shattered one.

I was cut-cross from my thoughts when I heard a set of books falling down. I looked up to find a boy, I've never seen before standing with a smirk on his face looking at me.

When I turned away from him, again I heard the sound of books being dropped onto the floor. I looked back again at him with a frown on my face.

He started walking towards me with a disgusting creepy look on his face.

I grabbed my things swiftly to leave, but hands roughly gripped my waist.

He turned me around and smiled evilly at me.

"Hi, I'm Joe. Wanna f**k?"

I kicked and thrashed around, freed myself from him and started running.

Why in the God's sake is this happening?

I ran out of the library into the corridor hearing footsteps behind me.

Only if I could cross this corridor, I could getaway to the main hallway. But before I could turn around the corner I was yanked away roughly by my hair into some dark room.

He locked the door and started roughly running his hands all over my body. I started screaming for help.

"What the f**k are you doing f*****g bastard?" A deep voice growled in the darkness. The lights were switched on and there he was.

Dante.

The big bad Dante Re Morretti.

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