That night, Natalie returned home feeling like she was on top of the world. Her little time at the archives hadn’t yielded much result, but she was still excited anyway, because at least she had found something, something important that led her to believe that she wasn’t making things up after all.Great aunt Martha had reported that her house was haunted!Honestly speaking, this was something that should have bothered the silver-haired girl a lot more, because what were the odds that two people from different age groups were seeing the same things?But how could it when she had other important things on her mind?Other important things, like how she had kissed Parker in the library?Natalie still couldn’t believe that had happened!Her mind flitted back to earlier that day, how it had happened… how it had totally been unplanned… how, when they had kissed, the world had stopped spinning…Even if it had been just for a very brief moment.The two of them had been standing between the ta
End of class couldn’t come soon enough for Natalie Sanders.At least this time, she had managed to shut off her brain enough to actually pay attention in class, but as soon as the bell had rung, she quickly grabbed all of her stuff and charged for the car park like a woman possessed.When she got to the car park, which they had both agreed to meet up at, Parker was nowhere to be seen.I guess she was early. Natalie slumped against a nearby lamppost, tapping her foot impatiently as she watched people move past her.Bloomingdale Valley Uni did not have that many people like the other colleges in the city did, being a close knit community and all, so the silver haired girl felt rather exposed and vulnerable with everyone watching her like that, but she tried her best not to dwell on those feelings.She was sure everyone knew who she was by now.The new girl who lived in the Suicide House.She still couldn’t believe that was what they were calling it.You know, now that she thought about
“Natalie! Wait up!”The girl with the silver hair heard her name being called out as she walked through the beautiful campus compound, the words making her stop in her tracks to look back.Parker.Oh, thank God!Natalie had barely slept a wink last night thinking about him, about what he could possibly know about her house, and so she was rather glad that he had found her first.Lord knows that she had been absolutely prepared to skip first period just so she could comb the entire campus for him, and she knew without a doubt that she would have missed her second class if she had not found him by then, which was crazy, considering she had never missed any class deliberately before.It looked like Bloomingdale Valley was turning our girl into a hardcore delinquent!“Natalie, hi.” The heavily tattooed guy greeted her when he finally caught up with her, barely out of breath even with the long distance he had literally dashed across to catch up with her.He looked really nice today in his
The drive back home after lectures was a long one for Natalie, which surprised the girl, because the campus wasn’t that far from her neighborhood,But perhaps that had more to do with her than anything else. You see, all through the day, Natalie’s mind had been filled with many thoughts…Thoughts about her terrifying house, about her parents, and then, to make matters worse, about Parker and Tristan.Her mind had been so unsettled that, for the first time in her life, Natalie had been asked twice by one of her professors if she was with them in the class, something that had never happened before.You know, right before Tristan had intruded on them, Parker was going to tell her something about her house, or about the fact that she was new in town… Natalie couldn’t exactly tell which.Still, she had seen that look of shock, possibly fear in his eyes, and frankly speaking, it had worried her so much that as soon as lectures had ended for the day, she had gone all over campus looking for
Tristan Hemingway did not like this new development one bit.Now, more than ever, he needed to stay very far away from the girl, but how could he? How could he when she was suddenly fraternizing with his greatest nemesis?Could the timing be any wrong?Why had the fates decided to torture him by bringing Parker freaking Antonio into Natalie’s life, knowing very well that he was going to have to avoid her so he didn’t trigger her memory gain?There was a chance that the…Wait, what had he been thinking about again?There was a chance that the...Tristan couldn’t recall, for his thoughts trailed off as he watched Natalie storm out of the cafeteria, her silver hair glinting in the warm sunlight.He ran a hand through his own hair, his frustration at himself, at the girl and at their whole situation mounting.How had things spiraled out of control so quickly?They had been making so much progress, and then he had gone to ruin it.All he had tried to do was keep her at a distance so who he
If Natalie thought the tension at home was bad, she soon realised that she had been quite hasty with her judgment, for the tension here, right now, with these two gentlemen was so powerful that even words could not start to describe it.But you know me, I’m going to try.A loaded, pregnant silence filled the atmosphere as Parker slowly rose to his feet… as he and Tristan continued to size each other up, their chests rising with anger as they drank in all the air in the little space until Natalie felt like she was suffocating under a thick blanket.The two men were locked in a silent standoff, their mutual animosity evident in their glares.Natalie’s gaze flitted from one man to the other, her mind racing wildly as she continued to stand there, for a moment unsure of what to do.She cleared her throat when she finally had her thought process put together.“Uhm… do you… do you two know each other?” She finally asked, ignoring the slight tremor in her voice.Parker was the one to break th