AMELIA. Dylan. The one who’s currently cutting off my air supply while looming from behind me is none other than Dylan. I’d intended to kick and claw, to yell at him so he’d let go, but not only is he confiscating most of my oxygen by grabbing my throat, he’s also yanked both of my wrists behind my back and imprisoned them. My phone has clattered to the ground and the flashlight outlines dark shadows. Mine and his. We’re gigantic on the wall across from us, like some beasts coming out at night to let their instincts loose. If it were anyone else, they would’ve panicked at being immobilized in the dark by someone who might as well be a stranger. And while that feeling bleeds into my bloodstream, it’s not the only one. It’s not even the prominent one. The temptation I’ve been escaping my entire life burns inside me, resurrecting and rising from the ashes like a phoenix. “Dy…lan…” I manage through the small air opening he’s allowing me. And I know he is allowing it, because
AMELIA. “Let me go, you fucking asshole.” I don’t recognize my deep voice and the throatiness of it. I sound like I’m really in danger. And maybe I am. The only problem is that I want it. Deep in the darkness of my chest, I fucking need it. Slap! I gasp as the sting registers on my face. He just…slapped me and…I’m wet. Holy fuck. I’m really insane. “Run your mouth again and I’ll fuck you raw in the ass.” He grabs my chin with his calloused fingers and shakes me, and I swear I’m dripping into my shorts. I stop fighting for a second and he uses the time to release my wrists, grab my hair, and ram me against the stairs. I yelp and my hands shoot for him in a mad act of defense, but it’s too late. He’s already ripping at my shorts. I kick my legs in the air, fighting with everything I have. I fight like I’ve never fought before until I actually believe that I want out of this, that this isn’t something I already agreed to by not saying that damn word. Even in my madness, my strengt
AMELIA. The past few weeks has been filled with different things. I've been trying my best to keep up with the way things has been going between Dylan and I, it was lovely, the chase, the thrill. Everything gave me a new found high, but at the same time, it was stressful. Stressful in the sense that, I was scared. Scared that something bad would happen that would make Dylan betray me again, I just wanted things to continue the way they were going. In a very sweet and simple way. But I knew this universe was more fucked up than that, the universe needed to feed off our sadness. It wasn't possible for a situation to continue being the same. We just finished taking Econ class and Ava was seeing the teacher, I told her to meet me at the cafeteria when she was done. But I wanted to make one stop at the restroom first. Dylan wasn't in class today and that made me uncomfortable. On my way to the restroom I pulled out my phone, and texted him quickly. Amelia: Hey, are you okay? I aske
AMELIA. Alura. The witch. She possessed Valerie's body. The realisation hit me hard and I knew that whatever would happen in this place would be worse ten fold. She has started fulfilling her promises. I knew that something was wrong when I didn't get choked overnight today. I shuddered, my heart beating wildly in my chest. I was scared. Like I was terrified to my bones this time around. Alura was using Valerie's body to hurt me. Fuck. Then I felt another slap across my cheeks. “You think you can talk back at me?” She asked and gave me another slap. She kept slapping me and my head kept going sideways, I heard the laughter of the two girls holding me. Valerie stepped back and the girls holding me hit my head on the counter of the restroom, I groaned in pain. This shit hurt. I knew I was bleeding already, there wasn't anything that could stop that. The both of them dropped me to the ground, I really didn't have the strength to stand up on my feet again, then I started feeli
DYLAN. The room smelled like antiseptic and something else. Something colder, regret maybe. I sat in the creaky hospital chair that barely held my weight. But it didn't matter. None of that mattered. The only thing I could focus on was the girl lying motionless in the hospital bed in front of me–Amelia. My Amelia. She was so still. Too still. Her usually expressive face was pale, bruised, swollen. I couldn't even tell where some of the injuries ended and where her skin began. The machine beside her beeped in a steady rhythm, a cruel reminder that her heart was still fighting even if she looked like she'd already given up. And I wasn't there, I wasn't fucking there. I clenched my fists and looked away, the guilt so heavy it made my chest ache. My throat burned from holding back tears, but one slipped down anyway. Tracing a hot, salty line down my cheek. “I'm so sorry, Lia.” I said, barely above a whisper. My voice craked, like something was breaking inside me and maybe it was. “
AMELIA. The pain was unbearable, but it wasn't the physical kind that hurt the most. No, it was the silence that hung around me–thick, suffocating. I could feel the weight of it in my bones. My eyes were heavy, but I couldn't open them. I wanted to. I tried so hard to make my fingers move, my legs twitch, anything. But my body wouldn't cooperate. It was as if something was holding me in this endless limbo between sleep and waking. Then, through the haze of my mind, I heard his voice. Dylan. His voice broke through the fog, clear and full of emotion. I could tell it wasn't the same Dylan if seen before–this version was raw, vulnerable, and completely undone. He was….hurting. I felt it in the way he spoke, the desperation in his words. The way he confessed everything I'd been waiting to hear for so long. I didn't even know that I was waiting for him to say all these things to me. “I love you, I love you so fucking much that it hurts. And now I might never get the chance to say it
AMELIA. The door slammed open with such force that it rattled the walls. And in the blink of an eye, my mother was standing in the doorway, her face pale and panic-stricken, her eyes wild with worry. She looked like she hadn't slept in days-like the weight of the world had settled on her shoulders and she was on the verge of breaking under it. “Amelia!” Her voice cracked as she rushed to my side, almost tripping over her own feet in the frantic urgency to get to me. “Oh my God, what happened to you? Who did this to you, sweetheart?”She dropped to her knees beside the bed, her trembling hands reaching out to touch my face as if she were trying to reassure herself that I was real. That I was alive. Her touch was soft, but her fingers felt like ice against my skin. Her face was streaked with tests, her makeup smudged, and the raw emotion in her eyes made me feel like I was about to crumble. “I…I don't understand. Baby, you look ..you look like you've been through hell. What happened
AMELIA. The hospital room was quiet–too quiet. The kind of silence that wrapped around your chest and make it hard to breathe. The air was cold and sterile, but I barely noticed. I lay still in the white bed, the soft hum of the IV drip the only sound in the room. My fingers trembled slightly as they curled around the edge of the blanket, my knuckles pale from the pressure. My heart thudded in my chest, not fast, not slow, but heavy, like it was dragging me down with every beat. Dylan had gone home. My mum had insisted. Something about needing to change clothes and get some rest, even though I knew that wasn't the real reason. My mother was trying to give me space–space that I hadn't asked for. Space I wasn't sure I wanted. I needed people around me, but no one could possibly understand what I was going through. Not even Dylan. Not anymore. I stared blankly at the ceiling, my mind replaying every horrible second of the past few days in a loop. Dylan blowing my mind with great sex
NATE. My heart was racing wildly, badly. I feel like my heart could combust any second at how fast it was racing. The things that made me scared were a lot of things, I was scared of the woman that I just saw right now, the woman who broke me and and left me high and dry. The woman that almost killed me, she was right there, looking all innocent and sweet. Nora. Oh, how I've tried to keep her name out of my mouth for these last few years but I just couldn't do it, she's the reason why I can't think of having anybody to myself as a lover, I can't even think of being in a relationship with anybody because she would always be there. She has always been there, in my head, in my mind, and most of all, in my heart. As brutal as I can be, I don't lie to myself, I'm very very truthful with myself, I still love her. Even after all the painful years, even after all the hurt that she made me pass through, those years of almost going crazy. How does she remember my name though? I was so c
DYLAN. “How do you even know that I and my girlfriend fought?” I asked him and he rolled his eyes. “Do I look like a baby to you? I basically just know when people are dealing with real life problems and just small issues like your love life.” My uncle said and shrugged. “You're so starved of love, you know that right?” I asked him and he just shrugged again.“I don't need love in my life, I've seen your father miserable a lot of times because he was in love, I've also seen him miserable a lot of times because your mother fucked him in the head. Now, you're repeating history. “ He chuckled lightly.“I so pray for a woman that would fuck you in the head, it's then you'll know that love is not something you anticipate. It's something that just happens. Love is a respecter of nobody.” I told him and he looked bored. I knew what I was saying. I didn't know how much I wanted Amelia, I just thought it was a crush that would go away with time. That was my thought, but then, she just barg
DYLAN. I was wrecked. I came to the family bar that we owned, it didn't look good, I know. The golden son, drinking in daylight, it fucked with me and it's not something I would normally do, but it's Amelia. She fucks with me in the most impossible ways. She just has that ability, to make me the most miserable and also the most happiest man on this earth. But nobody except the workers would know what was going on, I told them not to let anyone come in, I needed to keep the embarrassment on a tight leash as much as I could. If my parents found out about what I was doing right now, they would kill me. I sighed as I downed another vodka. “More.” I said and the bar mistress didn't think too much about it, she did as I asked and that's how I've been spending my afternoon, getting drunk and high on the thought that Amelia still hated me for what I did that time. For her to say that thing, it hurt and scared me. Maybe Rowan was the opposite of me, someone that had courage to do what I
AMELIA. I kept on looking at her like I was starstruck. I couldn't figure out why. All I knew was that I was scared. Deep down, I knew that Dylan wouldn't leave me but anything could happen and he could decide that he didn't want me again, I wondered if I should tell Ava.“I'm fine.” I told her and she shot daggers at me. “Don't make me ask again, Amelia. Spill it.”“I really am okay.” I said and she sighed. “Do I look like a fool to you? Ever since we got back from the second break, you've been acting so weird and spacing out, and Dylan is nowhere to be found. It doesn't take rocket science to know that you and Dylan fought, he's probably the one that fucked up, and you're trying to protect him, so spill,” She said and I shook my head. “No, no, no, no. He didn't do anything, it was all me. I fucked up and I hurt him.” I told her and she frowned. “What do you mean?” Ava asked me and I sighed. “While you were out for the second break, I went under the elm tree behind the gym and
AMELIA. I've been awfully quiet. After the encounter I had with Dylan earlier, I've been in a terrible mood. The moment Dylan walked out, I started looking for him everywhere, but he was no where to be found. I really hurt him and I knew that, I didn't mean for it to happen that way. Today was the presentation we had in Mrs Williams class and I couldn't focus, first of all, one of my group members were missing and I was supposed to give the presentation, but I wasn't even in the right state of mind for that. I was so distracted.I kept hitting my pen slightly against my book, thinking of the different ways that I could apologise to Dylan. I knew for sure that he was too obsessed with me to leave me alone just like that, but at the same time I didn't like that he was vexed. So I had to do something very fast. I felt a nudge at my side and I looked at Ava and she tilted her head to the front, a sign telling me to look at something. Then I looked at the front of the class, Mrs Willi
AMELIA. Dylan walked away. We’d been fine all day–better than fine, actually. He'd walked me to history class, brought me a hot chocolate during lunch, even brushed his fingers against mine in that accidental not-accidental way. He always did when he was trying to tell me he cared but didn't know how to say it. I was confident that I knew Dylan to a point now, I knew that he wasn't all that good when it came to communicating openly, but he made his intentions clear through his actions which I appreciated a lot. And then, he saw Rowan. Or maybe it was the way Rowan saw me. I didn't expect him to show up under the elm tree again, he made it his mission to always find me under this tree. It was like he knew that this was my safe space and he was taking advantage of it, but I find all of it innocent. He was just trying to be nice, or maybe he was trying to get closer to me, regardless of all these things that I think, mainly because Ava planted them in my mind, I still think he's a
AMELIA. It all started with a knock. Nope, scratch that.It all started with him saving me from Valerie and her minions. And ever since then, Rowan has been a constant part of my life, at least he has tried to be. I was sitting alone beneath the old elm tree behind the gymnasium, my knees tucked to my chest, the pages of my sketchbook fluttering in the breeze. I hadn't drawn a thing. The pencil dangled between my fingers like a forgotten weapon. I couldn't get my thoughts straight–ever sinve I made that deal with Alura, my life had been a pendulum swinging wildly between excitement and despair. I didn't hear Rowan approach, but I felt him. He had this particular atmosphere to him that I couldn't decipher. It was nothing like that of Dylan. Dylan would always be special. “Mind if I sit?” He asked, his voice smooth like running water, a little too calm, a little too perfect. I looked up and blinked at him momentarily, caught off guard by the way the sunlight hit his eyes. Haze
AMELIA. “Yes,” I hissed, tipping my head to give him even more surface area to bite. My legs convulsed around him as he continued to beat into me. His cock played my wet pussy like a drum, pounding over and over in a delicious rhythm that had me vibrating and emitting sounds I’d never heard before. Just as a third, seemingly impossible, orgasm was about to claim me Dylan nipped my earlobe and said, “Love the feel of your tight, hot pussy all around me. Gonna fucking live between these thighs, gonna make you give it up to me all the time. Claim you in your bed before school then make you teach in the group without any panties, watch my cum leak out of you while you talk about Eve’s fall from Eden.” My breath hitched as I wavered on the edge of my climax. “Yeah, you like that, Lia? Thinking of my cum trickling down your thighs, knowing how hard it would make me to look up under one of your skirts as I did the homework you assigned in the group?” So Mrs Williams paired us into grou
AMELIA. His hands shifted down my neck, his thumbs at my chin to tip it up gently. “What the fuck happened there, babe? I’m getting’ the hottest damn blowjob I’ve ever got in my life and then my girl freaks. I need to know what I did so I don’t do it again, yeah?” “You didn’t do anything,” I murmured, because I couldn’t stand him thinking it was him who had done something wrong. I was the one who had turned to a class-A slut. “Amelia,” he growled. “You don’t answer me, you won’t like what you get.” My gaze snapped up to him, his threat sparking something inside me. “I didn’t want anything from you. You’re the one who made me do this so don’t be angry with me for acting like, like that.”“What the fuck are you talking about?” “Don’t blame me for acting like a whore!” His face solidified then collapsed as if I’d taken a hammer to it. Swiftly, before I could even squeak, he was lifting me off the floor and into his arms. Automatically, I wrapped my limbs around him to hold on as