Blood and Moon: Araya

I woke up feeling like shit. I was always 50/50 with naps. Lights danced across the dark sky out my window. Nice view. I stared for a couple of minutes and then got up and walked out on the balcony. The crisp, cold air sent a shiver through my body. I hadn’t checked the weather. I rubbed my hands up and down my arms as a strong breeze blew by. My curls whisked back away from my face. I had recently done a “big chop” cutting a lot of my hair mainly to get the damaged blond out. I needed a change and was now rocking my natural, healthy hair - dark brunette. It complemented my green and brown hazel eyes, so I had been told, anyway. I walked back inside to the fridge realizing how thirsty I was. Inside were some complementary bottles of water left by my new landlord along with a bottle of wine and vodka. A note read “Welcome to your new home. Here’s something to get you started, whichever you prefer.” I chuckled. That was a nice gesture. Normally I’m a wine-sipping type of gal, but vod

A deep sigh escaped me and I realized I had been holding my breath. My body was tense. I made my way back towards Trinity. She was smirking at me. “What?” I laughed as I scratched the side of my head looking away. I’m sure she had caught my interaction with Adrian. “Nothing,” she said. “I see you met Adrian.”“Oh, do you know him?” I asked. “Of course.” She paused and stated, “He’s well-known. His family’s been here for years. They own a lot of property and businesses around here.”“Oh,” I said trying to sound uninterested but my eyes told another story. “He’s definitely single,” she offered. I smiled and then caught myself. “Well, that’s none of my business. I am not getting into that. Nope.” My face got serious for emphasis. Trinity looked at me and smirked. “Okay. If you say so. I don’t blame you.”I sat at the bar for a while and before leaving me and Trinity exchanged numbers. We definitely connected. She was around my age, 23, but was going to school during the day and bar

I opened my eyes to darkness. It was evening. I had slept longer than I intended. My stomach growled hard reminding me I had barely eaten in the last 24 hours. This wasn’t the way I had anticipated losing weight. I went to the fridge, but there was only water. I hadn’t gone shopping. I hadn’t done anything productive, for that matter. The only thing I had managed to do was bump into one tall, dark, gorgeous man and get attacked by a creepy, weird one - two things that were definitely not on my to-do list. I grabbed my phone to search for food options in the area and settled on Italian. Kiera was all over the place when I finally called her. You’d think I was the little sister the way she tried to boss me around. “I know. I know.” I said after minutes of her berating my apparent stupidity. “I thought I’d be okay on the first day at least.” “Well, that’s why you don’t think. Do I need to bring my ass down there already?” We both started laughing. She was such a smart ass. I talked

We pulled up in front of the restaurant. Da’More’s the sign on the door read. Adrian jumped out of the car and met me at the passenger side to open my door and to help me out. I made a mental note of how much of a gentleman he was. That was a refreshing change.I realized I had left my bag in the floorboard halfway to the door so I had to turn back to grab it while he went ahead waiting at the door holding it open for me. I heard some loud voices in the background, but I was too busy digging in my purse making sure everything was accounted for to see what exactly was going on. I looked up as I noticed the voices had gotten closer to me just in time to see a body crashing into me sending me flying backwards over the curb. Some drunk was being kicked out of a bar next door and came colliding into me. Panic struck me as I realized wasn’t going to be able to catch myself in time. My heels went out underneath me and I braced myself for the fall into the road, but instead I fell back into A

Morning came early. I had actually gotten a decent sleep that night. I stared at the ceiling blushing as I recapped my night with Adrian and excitement grew knowing I would see him again today. Sure enough, when I checked my phone, I had a good morning text from him. I smiled. It was like he knew when I was thinking about him. He was super sweet and it had been a while since someone put so much effort into me.I needed to catch up with Trinity. She was the only one I felt like I could talk to about Adrian right now. I didn’t want anyone else to know that I had already folded on my “no more men quest” not even three days into my big move. How shameful. I sent her a text to update her on the current situation. She was apparently a fan of his so of course she approved and was happy to hear about our evening and that we already had something else lined up. She told me what I had already suspected, that he was a good guy. I didn’t even know what that was. Everyone from my past were dicks