He patted her hair as he silently made a promise to himself.
He was going to protect her from today. * * * Samantha watched Dream and Ashton with a smile on her face and tears stinging her eyes. She had been watching them since Dream started crying. When she saw him hug her when she broke into tears, the way he held her made her feel at peace a little bit. He has finally decided to accept her offer. She wiped her face and made to walk to where they were sitting but she changed her mind. She wanted to leave them to have some time together. She turned to leave but she collided with what seemed like a wall, but it wasn't. It was a a muscled chest covered with a white T shirt. Who was that?Hello readers! I'm back! I apologise for going MIA. I had to deal with some personal issues. The good thing is that I'm back. I hope you enjoyed reading this chapter!
Dream's cheeks burnt red as she glanced at the jacket she was wearing feeling really embarrassed. Why must she always disgrace herself? "I—" he stalked her frame making her to stop talking and take a step backwards. "You should keep it. It suits you well." He smirked, arranging the jacket properly. Dream's hand gripped her books tightly as she stared at him bewildered. Many thoughts were running through her mind. Why the hell was he doing this? What was he trying to do? Did he know that he was causing troubles for her? "Its really Ashton's jacket!" One of the students exclaimed, bringing out her phone. "Are you kidding me!? Do you know if he is just joking around?" Another student countered. "Oh please just shut it! Can't you see he wore it yesterday?" "Jeez! Zara needs to see this!"
"Dream do you like him?" he resounded, his pitch going higher. Why was he sounding like he was angry? Dream couldn't understand what the problem was. Why was he suddenly getting angry and asking such questions? "I really don't understand what you're talking about!" It was her turn to raise her voice. "What part of "do you like him" do you not understand!? stop acting dumb Dream!" He half yelled, genuflecting with his hands. Dream scoffed and looked away before standing up. "I really didn't expect you'll do something like this Romeo." she muttered and walked away. She walked slowly, expecting Romeo to call her back but he never did, making her anger intensify. "What the hell!" she groaned kicking the trashcan close to her. Everyone was just too annoying. Ashton angrily walked back to
She slammed the door of her locker shut and arranged the books in her arms properly before lowering her head, as she always does. "Yes that's her, she is so shameless," She heard one of the female students tell another. "What did she do this time? Seems like I'm always lost when drama is happening in this school," The male student replied and she adjusted her glasses on the bridge of her nose, they were always talking bad about her. "Thats true, did you know that she still had the guts to flirt with Zara, of the NASTIES' crush!" "Eish! That's so shameless!", exclaimed the male student. She cringed and walked briskly from were they stood. She lived like a "known ghost" in the school, people talked about her but avoids her like some plague. Just as she was about to take the flight of stairs that led to the library, the bell rang signifying the start of c
"Hey let me help you," She heard someone volunteered. Dream raised her head, looking at the mirror. The image of the junior student who had brought in the cart of strawberry was reflected on it. "Uhh—Who are you?," She asked. She was scared, many thoughts were running through her mind. "My name is Erica," The girl introduced herself and walked towards Dream. As Erica drew nearer to Dream, she took a step back till her back hit the strong brick wall. Erica couldn't help but chuckle on how scared she was, they must have really been tormenting the poor girl. "Don't be scared senior, no one sent me I just want to help," explained Erica. Dream sighed and gave her the small handkerchief and Erica started wiping her skirt. "Senior Dre—," "It's Dream, just Dream," corrected Dream.
Dream smiled, she was in a garden giggling happily as the butterflies danced around her. She couldn't remember the last time she was this happy and smiling this broad. She picked a flower and pushed it into her hair, she inhaled it's fragrance and smiled again. "Dream! Dream baby!" She heard her mother called out. The sharp pain she felt in her neck as she stirred, made her realise that her happiness was a dream. She sighed and raised her head, realising that she had slept of on the steering wheel, no wonder her neck hurts so bad. "Dream! Are you sleeping!?" Her mother asked, knocking on the window. Dream sucked in a deep breath before glancing at the time in her car. She wanted to know if she really needed to get down from the car, it was 5:30am. "Time to prepare for school," She muttered and opened the car.
"Why are you running?" she heard a girly but masculine voice asked and she turned to see who it was. He was sitting on the bench, her favorite spot precisely, his head was up high glued to to the beautiful and colourful butterflies dancing around the flowers. His fairly lengthy blonde hair was styled perfectly covering his forehead, his hands were deeper into the pockets of his trousers, the bench was not long enough to contain his tall but lean body. "Who are you?" She questioned taken aback by his presence. 'No one, rather too many people don't know this place but how come did this stranger find here?' she thought, observing him. "Hmm who am I? I really don't know," He said, nonchalantly not even darting his eyes away from the butterflies he was watching. "How did you find this place?" She asked again, not minding
"Err— Did you hear what happened to Romeo?" "No what happened?" Dream asked, wondering what had happened. She is not usually aware of whatever was happening in school, now it's the person close to her. "He approached the NASTIES and warned them about staying away from you," Erica stated, looking at her. "What! Why would he do that!?" She exclaimed, he might think that he was trying to make her life easier but it he was actually making her life more complicated. "From what I heard, after school yesterday he had met them at their favourite spot and he warned them to stay away from you else he was going to do something that you everyone would not like," she explained, cleaning the last speck of dirt on Dream's skirt. "What everyone would not like? What does he mean by that?" Dream exclaimed, many thoughts were running through he
She turned with tears in her eyes and asked, "who are you really?" He didn't know what to tell her, he hesitated to answer and she felt he was going to lie to her again, she started walking away feeling bad. "Dream please hear me out," He pleaded, lowering his head. "What do I have to hear out when you don't have anything to say?" questioned Dream with a look of displeasure. "I promise to tell you everything if only you can spare me a little time after school so we can attended classes," Dream sighed, contemplating if she should agree or not. "Fine," She rasped and he gave her a warm smile. She ignored him and started walking to class, with many thoughts on her mind. She was so engrossed in her thoughts that she didn't notice Mrs Meyers coming from the opposite direction with books in her arm and s