Mag-log in“I was wrong.”Maltilda ran her hands through her hair, pacing a little before stopping in front of me again. She looked confused, I could tell she didn’t even know where to start.“You…” she exhaled. “You have feelings for Rex?”I nodded . There was no point denying it now. Not after everything I had just said. the way my heart had been acting all day, it was crystal clear to me Maltilda looked away for a second, pressing her lips together ,she was trying to process it.“I don’t even know what to say,” she admitted .I sighed and moved closer to her.“Are you angry?” I asked, it would be normal if she was , I had just done the opposite of what I was supposed to do .Stay away from Rex not fall in love …She snapped her head back to me immediately. “Angry? No…no, Lily, I’m not angry.”“I’m just…shocked.”I let out a weak breath.“I knew something was off,” she continued. “I could feel it…every time you mentioned him, every time you tried to act like he didn’t matter. There was tensi
Rex stood under the hot shower, letting the water run down his face and body , The steam filled the bathroom, clouding the mirror, but it did nothing to clear his head.He exhaled slowly, pressing his palm against the tiled wall.“Get a grip…” he muttered to himself.But he couldn’t, His mind kept going back to Lily.All the moments from earlier from the way she had looked at him earlier to the way she pulled away from him like he was the problem.She had even said she didn’t want to be his friend, He shut his eyes tightly ….Why was she acting like that?One minute they were fine, the next she was shutting him out completely. And the worst part was that he didn’t even know what he did wrong.He turned off the shower abruptly and stepped out, grabbing a towel and drying his hair roughly.“This is not working…” he said under his breath.He needed something else, Something that would actually calm him down, And there was only one place that could do that His painting room.Rex threw
I couldn’t sleep.No matter how many times I shut my eyes or turned on the bed, it just wouldn’t come. My mind refused to rest, replaying everything over and over again like it was stuck on a loop I couldn’t escape from.Rex’s voice, His eyes, The way he looked at me in the car.The way he said my name.I groaned softly and sat up, dragging my hands down my face.“This is so frustrating…” I muttered.I couldn’t stay here.I couldn’t stay in this room, in this space, knowing that he was somewhere around, breathing the same air, existing too close to me.I swung my legs off the bed and stood up immediately.“Fine… I’m leaving,” I whispered to myself.If sleep wouldn’t come to me, then I would run from the thing keeping it away.Him.I walked straight to my wardrobe and started packing without thinking too much about it. A few clothes, my essentials, my books… I didn’t even care if I was forgetting something important.I just needed to go.I zipped my bag and carried it, heading downst
The moment the realization hit me, it didn’t sit quietly in my chest the way I thought it would.It didn’t come slow, It crashed my mind .I stood up so fast from the bed that it almost made me dizzy, my head spinning as I stared at nothing in particular. My heart was beating too loudly, too fast, like it was trying to break out of my chest.“No… no, no, no…” I muttered under my breath, dragging my hands through my hair.I started pacing.Back and forth.Back and forth.I couldn’t even stay still.“How… how is that even possible?” I whispered, my voice shaky.I tried to think.Tried to go back… to trace it.When did it start?Was it when he first defended me?No… that couldn’t be it.Was it when he started being nice to me?Or when he looked at me like I wasn’t invisible?Or when he held my hand?Or when he…I stopped pacing abruptly.I couldn’t place it.And that scared me even more.Because if I couldn’t even tell when it started, then that meant it had been building… slowly… withou
“Did I do anything wrong?”Rex asked as he parked the car. I couldn’t look at him and say what—that I was feeling so much guilt it felt like I was suffocating? I couldn’t tell him that. I couldn’t say anything to him.I hated that I had to lie to him. My heart ached so much because of it, but I couldn’t say the truth either. It could cost me a lot. Amber warned me about getting close to Rex, and now I could see why. It was no good.I used to be so comfortable with lying to him. It didn’t bother me, but now I was bothered, and I knew that wasn’t good for my plan.“I just don’t want to do this anymore… I will take full responsibility and even drop the course if I have to. I just want to go back,” I replied, facing the other side. I couldn’t look him in the eye.“You can’t just cancel a trip we have been planning for days… I do not understand why you would do that. Is it because I found out you used to stay at Centervile? I also apologized for yelling… Why are you being difficult, Lily?
Andrew Jade, that was his name …I could never forget Andrew, he made my life a living hell and he was unapologetic about it , I could handle seeing any other person but Andrew…his mouth was never shut, he spoke carelessly and that was exactly what I needed to avoid . . I stared at him, frozen, my fingers tightening around the edge of the table as his grin widened like he had just found something entertaining. “Wow…look who decided to show her face again,” he said, dragging the words , In my head I was wondering if it was work ethics for him to even be talking instead of taking others . Rex leaned back slightly, his eyes moving between us, confusion written all over his face. “You both know each other?” he asked again. I opened my mouth, but no words came out. Of course they didn’t, I always forget how to speak when I am scared . Because how was I supposed to explain this? Andrew didn’t wait for my answer. “Oh, we know each other alright,” he said, letting out a shor
I had just watched these two brothers bet on me, and the humiliation of it still burned inside my chest as I stormed away. My feet moved quickly down the hallway, almost blindly, my thoughts racing faster than my steps. I couldn’t believe what had just happened out there by the lake. How did Sebast
When we got to the art theater, some students were already huddled together in a circle. Their voices were low and anxious, and the moment I pushed through the crowd, my heart dropped.Lustre was lying on the ground.Anastasia knelt beside her, clutching her arm while Sebastian was on the other sid
Maltilda walked out of the room and into the garden, where Amber was attending to her flowers. The morning sun hit the petals softly as Amber bent over them, humming faintly to herself. Maltilda walked past her without stopping.Amber chuckled behind her.“Trouble in paradise?”Maltilda paused and
LILYMy first day at Raven Academy didn’t go so well, if you ask me. I caught the attention of the bullies and the Class A wolves. Even worse, I was holding the jacket of the school’s most feared boy, the hockey captain and future Alpha, Rex. How bad could a first day get?“You have to pick an afte







