Day 13.
Sundays were my rest days, basically my favorite day of the week.
Binge watching TV.
Stuffing my face with junk that would give Amanda an instant heart attack.
Wearing sweats all day.
Those were my ideal Sundays, only this Sunday wasn't turning out too well and the first sign that today was going to go all wrong came in the form of my sleep deprived mom walking into the kitchen to announce that she wanted to spend the day with me. I was naturally surprised, I couldn't even remember the last time I had hung out with my mom.
It was always work, I was used to it though, at least I still had her. I hadn't talked to my father in years now, I wasn't even sure of his whereabouts now, yeah, it was that bad.
I had nodded and quietly continued nibbling on my waffles while she continued to stare at me critically. After coming to pick me up f
Day 14It was official, I hated this job.I stared at the ancient, black coffeemaker once again, trying to remember what Darra said to do whenever it stopped working. I couldn't even remember a thing of what the strawberry blonde had told me before hurriedly dashing off, no doubt happy to be relieved of her shift.I had resumed my job at the tea shop just today, after cheer leading practice and Phil had explained I would be working shifts with Darra at the counter, it seemed pretty easy until she had left over an hour ago and the crowd had started to increase rapidly.Between collecting orders, preparing the drinks and serving the pastries I had been totally overwhelmed and the misbehaving of the coffee machine felt like the last straw on the camel's back."What is taking the coffee so long?" I heard Blake ask, staring at me from the other side of the counter. He had been on his
Day 15The oddest thing happened when I opened my locker on Tuesday morning to remove my Biology textbooks as I had that class at the moment and was currently running late.Lock picking and hijacking was quite common in this school so it didn't really surprise me when I found out my lock had been picked and padlock now lying idly inside the locker. I took quick inventory of my things and found out nothing had been touched. My things were exactly as I had left them, even the opened pack of gummy bears were still as I had left them.Why then did they attack my locker and what had they been looking for?I pulled out my textbook, slammed the locker, taking extra care to lock the padlock carefully and inwardly made a decision to go get a better padlock at the store. The second bell went off just as I skidded into Mr Reynolds class.He had been pointing at the fake skeleton we ha
Day 16.I screwed up with Blake big time.It was official, the sight of Darren pushed all my rational thoughts away and filled my head with air. I was beginning to understand why girls that hung around hot guys were called airheads.I had agreed to meet up with Blake in the library and was in fact, on my way there when I ran into Darren at the entrance. His coffee brown skin seemed to glow under the blue polo shirt and my eyes seemed to be magnetized by his wide chest as he smirked down at me."Hey, Chica." His voice was sex, pure, raw sex and I felt my skin dance in anticipation of nothing and everything at the same time. I tried to focus on the posters behind him, the planning committee had obviously been getting ready for Halloween."Darren." I fiddled with the handles of my tote bag now. "We keep running into each other, if I didn't know any better, I'd say it's not coi
Day 17.I woke up in a pool of sweat on Thursday morning and placing a hand to my forehead, to feel for a temperature I realized why I woke up unsettled. Not that I was having a very settled rest to start wit. The number fourteen on my hand, I had just two weeks left. I had already wasted two weeks, achieved absolutely nothing.I wondered if Azazel would agree to stretch the time a little more for me and the mere thought of approaching the sallow, pale faced demon with such an offer made me outrightly laugh out loud.I stretched out on the bed, feeling the old mattress creak as I moved and turned. I then sat up so suddenly with amazing agility quite unlike someone that just woke up from an unsettled rest a few minutes ago.I wiped my brows, counting numbers under my breath. Counting was like my coping mechanism, it helped to me focus whenever my mind was disturbed.Thirty-three
"So you won't be available again tonight?" Molly questioned, repeating the same thing for the third time since we had been on this call.I sighed, holding in an eye roll. "I told you," I implied slowly. "I'm working late plus I have a bunch of assignments I have to get started on.""Ruby...""Molly, I'm sorry," I replied without actually feeling any bit of remorse. I hoped my tone did carry a hint of it though because I sure as heck wasn't sorry. The girls were having some sort of birthday bash tonight and I was supposed to be there, in alternate universe, I had gone to the party and actually regretted it mainly because I had made a fool of myself in front of Darren. I wasn't all too eager to go again now, plus, I had better, life-threatening things to do.Which included getting Blake's soul which brought me to where I was right now, sitting on his well cut lawn, trying to pluck up the guts to
Day 18.I seemed to be the only one in the the entire school that didn't appreciate the coming Halloween or the party that seemed to be the only topic everyone was discussing.How could I? I was dying! Azazel was going to kill me on that night, it seemed less and less ludicrous the more the days drew closer and the ink changed on my skin.So when Dolly Pearson, a snowy white blonde from the planning committee shoved the flier at my face on my way to lunch asking me to sign up to help them, I politely told her to get the flying fuck away. I was stressed out and agitated, I had only thirteen days left, I wasn't any closer to getting Blake to say those words, someone knew my secret and seemed to think some kind of mythical Bible was the solution to my problems and there was also the nagging fact that the Devil seemed to have abandoned me completely.I wasn't sure if that was a good or bad
I died and went to heaven. Azazel must have forgiven me because if here, holding Darren and slow dancing along with the soft, romantic music wasn't heaven, I had no idea what else heaven could be."You're the most beautiful girl I've ever seen," he whispered softly in my ear as the distant, soft music seemed to pause, leaving only the fast thumps of our heartbeats, the only music left in the expansive ballroom. "In all my entire lives." He grinned, showing the fake, white and gleaming fangs which was part of his whole Dracula costume.He tightened his grip on my waist, my breath quickening as he pulled me even closer. The corsets I had on with the pink ball-gown was already disturbing my breathing but at this point, I was sure I wasn't inhaling any oxygen anymore as I stared into his chocolate eyes which looked like pools of melted affection for the subject of his words."You really mean that?" I asked quietly, my hands
Day 19."All Jenna wants is dick. You should have seen how she was all over Chad that night," Kizzy hissed, pouting in front of the tall mirror as she toyed with the belt holes leather pants she was trying on. "It was just disgusting to see her hoe around like that."Amanda looked up from her phone which was currently glued to her ears, it had been that way since we entered this store. From the quiet laughter and gentle flushes on her cheeks, we didn't need a soothsayer to inform us who she was on the phone with.It was Molly that replied from my side. "I thought Chad was gay." She frowned, looking at Kizzy, my eyes were on Amanda that was still blushing over the phone, softly speaking.To Darren. To the guy I was so desperately in love with.Amanda must have heard Molly's comment because she put a slim hand over the phone before talking. "Nah, Chad swings both ways and yes