Chapter Three

Eros

I opened my eyes and saw blood on my hands. The blood was all over my body. I looked everywhere and saw glass shards, smoke and people looking at me with shock evident on their faces, some even had worry. I looked at myself through one of the shattered glass and screamed out of shock. It was not me. Blood and wounds all over my face. My beauty….it's gone.

I looked at the people and shouted for help. I'm crying. I did not know what to do. Why did I end up like this? What happened? What went wrong? I was pleading with the people to help me but they just stared at me. Until I saw a familiar face. It was blurry at first but when I looked closer…...it was...

"HER!" I shouted.

"Dude what the f*ck?!" Someone yelled.

I sat up and looked at the people surrounding me. It was my friends. What the hell was that dream?

"F*ck*r, you surprised us!" Ashton said.

"I'm sorry, I just had a weird dream." I responded while placing my hands to my head.

"Yeah, you did. You were shaking as you slept, man." Caden tells me.

"What were you dreaming about?" Phantom asked with interest evident in his voice.

"I don't know. It was peculiar. Everything did not feel right and then I saw someone familiar and then I woke up." I answered.

"Who was she?" Landon questioned me. He was looking deep into my eyes which I found weird.

"She?" I asked him.

"Well, you shouted "HER" so I just assumed it was a girl." He replied.

"I don't really know who she was." I said but he was not satisfied with the reply. He just kept looking straight at me. It was weird. It made the atmosphere eerie. Good thing, Hamish got the vibes and spoke.

"I was waking you up because you were shaking but then you just shouted out of the blue. It was pretty funny."

I rolled my eyes at him.

"Maybe you're just hungry. You did not eat lunch." Ashton suggested.

"Lunch? What time is it?" I checked my phone and saw that it was already 3pm. School was over already. "Sh*t! I slept for too long! Why did you just wake me up now?!" I yelled.

"You dumbf*ck! I called you during lunchtime but you just hanged up and we didn't even knew where in the f*ck*ng world you were, assh*le! You didn't inform us. We searched for you only to find you shaking like a f*ck*ng b*tch." Phantom yelled at me.

I sighed. "Sorry, I was just sleep deprived and my day was not great."

"Yeah, we know. Your psycho classmates bullied that ugly girl." Caden tells me.

I heard someone tut. I wonder who that was. "That's not nice." I scolded him.

"Whatever, man. Let's just go home." He replies.

I fixed my stuff, fixed myself and we went our separate ways. They invited me to come play games with them but I declined.

Before heading home, I put on a cap and a mask and went to a fast food chain and ordered some food. I am starving. I ordered chicken fillet with rice, a flurry, burger, fries and diet coke. There were a lot of people there and it took me a while to find a seat. After minutes of searching, I finally found one on the back corner.

I sat down and placed the tray on the table. I arranged all the food and called a staff to hand the tray. I started eating as my stomach was so angry at me. While eating, a girl suddenly showed up and asked if the seat across from me was taken. I politely said it wasn’t.

“Do you mind if I sit here? I really tried to find an extra seat but couldn’t. Everything was taken.” She says.

“No, I don’t mind. Please sit down.” I genuinely answered.

She was a gorgeous girl. She had light brown hair and pink kissable lips. I was attracted to her. She sat down gracefully and thanked me.

We ate in silence, I actually ate with the mask on my face. I lifted it just enough to expose my lips. It’s hard having a mom as a famous actress. After a few deafening minutes of silence, she spoke, “My name is Eunice, what’s yours?”

“Eros.” I answered and drank the last bit of my coke. I stood up and bid my goodbye. “Your name is as pretty as you, milady.” I complimented her and left. I hope I can see her soon, if fate approves.

When I reached my house, I went to my room and put my bag on my bed. I change my clothes. I wore grey sweatpants and a sweatshirt. I went to the kitchen and drank my pre-workout. Then, I headed to the gym in our house.

I did some warming up and lifted some weights. After that, I took a break and then did pull ups, push ups and cardio. I needed to exercise to distract myself from all of the things that happened today.

I practiced punching to get rid of my anger towards Miss Sanford for making me look like I was the reason for all problems between girls. Why does she not blame her faculty members? Teachers failed to teach us proper manners. I think. Why does it have to be me?

I stopped and sat on the floor. I wiped my sweat and grabbed my phone. I opened my I*******m and scrolled. I decided to take a picture of myself. I did a mirror selfie and posted it on my account. I wrote 'The best way to relieve stress is to exercise. Let's stay fit, everyone!' as the caption.

I continued scrolling again while my phone kept vibrating and popping notifications of people commenting on my post and liking them. I even saw a notification of my friends commenting a middle finger emoji. I decided to reply with a heart emoji in their comments. Jerks.

I scrolled through my I*******m page again and stumbled upon a strange post. It was from a spiritual page. Dreams are a message, it can even be a memory from the past or a preview of the future. It is a sign of what happened or will happen in your life. Well, that's messed up.

I didn't know why that post had a huge impact on me but I suddenly felt stressed out again and I cannot get it out of my head. I drank my water hoping it would calm me down even a little bit but it did not help. So I just stood up, went to the kitchen, refilled my water bottle and went outside my house.

My feet took me to the park and I decided to jog around. I instantly regretted forgetting to bring a bag as I looked stupid running around with a water bottle. Instead of going home, I just jog some more until I tire myself out.

When I felt so f*ck*ng tired and felt like my legs were gonna give up, i decided to go home. I walked and damn it was even exhausting to walk. I forced my body to walk and drank water.

My body was really not in a good condition so I decided to go to a store nearby and buy some energy drink and food. I sat there while drinking and eating. When I finished, I sat some more to give myself a rest.

A few moments later, I stood up and stretched my arms and legs. F*ck. My body is aching. I walked to my house. When I was three blocks away from our house, I saw a black cat wandering around. It meowed at me so I picked it up enduring the pain. It had a collar so I assumed it had an owner. I asked where it's owner was and it meowed again. I patted its head and it licked my hand. I realized it was a girl when I massaged her belly.

Suddenly, the gate of the house beside me opened. I looked at it and saw Psyche. We were both shocked to see each other. I went back to my senses and asked her "Is this your cat?"

She nodded and said “Yes.” so I gave it to her. As our hands touched, it stung. I think she felt it too as she looked at me with huge eyes.

“What’s her name?” I asked.

“Zaphria.” She replied.

“Awe, that’s a cute name.” I told her.

“Thanks, I named her.” She says.

“Really? You are great at naming.” I said that made her laugh. “I think I have to go. My body aches so much. I was exercising but I went overboard.” I bid my goodbyes and went home. Still feeling the ache in my hand of our touch.

When I got home, I went straight into my room and took a bath. After that, I fell asleep.