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
The case sat on my laps, heavy but I could hardly feel it's weight as I scanned the passing crowd for him. They say whenever a particular someone is on your mind, everyone you saw seemed to resemble the person. Plus not to mention the fact that I was already pretty worked up.He said he would be here.I had texted him my location. He knew I was at the east wing food court, I chose the most strategic location just so he'd encounter absolutely no problem in locating me.I had been sitting here for Azazel knew how long, nursing only a diet coke mainly because my stomach couldn't handle eating anything, I felt like I'd throw up if I tried to eat. I had given up constantly looking at my phone, wondering if he'd call to cancel, you have to try to take things easy, panicking won't solve anything. Only that thought was easier to say than to actually carry out.I had pulled on my hoodie over my to
Day 20.Sundays. My rest days. The one day everything felt like it made some sort of sense, no school, no work and hopefully, no Azazel too.Just me and my worries mulling together, lingering over the edge of depression.I was slumped on the bed, face forward and buried into my mass of soft pillows, inhaling the papaya scent that my hair always seemed to leave everywhere it touched. Molly said it never even left all the scrunchies she had lent me that the scent was kind of like my trademark hair smell.I was still in my nightdress, currently not bothered about dressing or doing anything. I had been awake since what I guessed was over an hour now and hadn't moved from the position since.My body was relaxing, currently healing itself of all the stress of the past few days, it needed it badly. After this was all over, I was never going to involve myself in any s
I was over an hour late.The amount of time it had taken for me to decide on an outfit was ridiculous, I kept flicking through piles of clothes before finally deciding on a typical Molly look, denim jumpsuit and sandals. I had let my hair down, carefully brushing it of all tangles and then carefully applied little makeup just as a finishing touch.I looked perfect, until I cycled over a block.Wearing makeup had turned out to be stupid of me since I was going to cycle over a block and when I eventually got off my ancient, blue bicycle, I was matted in sweat. I lifted a hand to my face, feeling the makeup and sweat drip together and pulled out a tissue from my sling bag to wipe the whole thing off. It wasn't like I wasn't naturally pretty anyways. Still out of breath and sweating heavily, I secured my bike at the bike rails and made my way to the entrance of the shop.Sweet Tooth was own