Kiss me if you Dare - Anna S. (best books to read for success .TXT) 📗

I wasn’t alone. I looked back and a black figure stood there. I can feel that this isn’t a human, its evil.

            “Welcome back.” He says. I heard it as a whisper in my ear.

A white smile appeared in the gray dark afternoon and soon after the figure rushed towards me. I pulled my right hand forward as an invisible line shield me as the creature turned into dust in midair while only his face appeared in the black dust. He yelled in anger and looked at me straight in the eye. His long black hair started disappearing, in less than two minutes he vanished completely within the mist. I fell back onto the grass breathing harshly feeling my heart beat underneath my chest. I looked at the place where the stranger had disappeared. A hand touched my shoulder as I gasped jerking my body sideways. When I looked over, I see Seth standing behind me.

            “What you doing out here?!” He yells through the rain.

            “I come here to focus, but it started raining!” I yelled back.

            “I live down the hill with my father. You can stay there until the rain passes.” He suggested and waved his hand forward. He pulls his hand down as I take it and let him help me off the ground.

            “Okay.” I tell him as I follow him through the woods.

            He led the way to a tiny wooden house formally sitting there as the rain fell over it. To the side was a small separate garage and a black Chevy truck sat in front. He opened the small wooden door leading into a nice looking living room that was shared with a part of a kitchen. By the side was a hallway with three doors. A bear’s fur stood on the floor as a carpet under two small sofas and an arm chair. A TV with wires stood on top of the fireplace as the light of the fire was a luminous to the small dark living room. The kitchen was simple, a small round table with four chairs surrounding it. Seth pulled a blanked over my shoulders as I shivered.

            “I thought you lived in town.” I assumed.

            “I’m the only student that lives away from the town. My dad likes to live by the woods. He always did since he was a child.” He explained. 

            “Where is he now?”

            “He went out for some beer with his friends.” He says taking a seat beside me in one of the kitchen chairs.

            “Oh. This is nice.” I smiled looking around.

            “Yea. I kinda like it here sometimes.” He looked at me. “Do you want some dry clothe? You seem pretty chilly.”

            “Oh, that’s okay. I gotta go pretty soon anyways. Thank you.”

            “Sure. Um what happened to you, you seemed pretty scared when I found you on the ground.” He looks over.  

            “Oh nothing. I thought I saw a bear. I’m pretty afraid of them.” I lied. The truth is I was pretty darn scared of what I had seen. The shadowed that followed me still hunts my memories.

            “Oh. Hope the bear is long gone now.” He jokes. “C’mon I’ll make you something to eat.” He gets up and heads for the small counters of his kitchen.

             “Just water will be fine.” I tell him.

            “You sure? I make a mean PB&J.” He turns with a loaf of bread in his hands.

            “Yea. I ate before I came to the meadow.” I chuckle.

            “Alright” He pulls the water down to the table in front of me. “Here.”

            “Thanks.” I smile up at him.

            A few moments later the door flew open. A mid-aged man stood by the door, hat on his head, a three o’clock shadow on his face and slightly in his mid 40s. He looked unpleasantly at me and then at Seth.

            “Who the hell is this?” He spoke strongly as if he was drunk.

            “Dad this is Elsa, a friend from school.” Seth spoke as if it was obvious that he was being rude.

            “Hi, sir.” I smiled but still feeling a ted uncomfortable.

            “You aint suppose to bring any girl home while I aint here. You just don’t listen boy.” He looks over at me. 

            “Dad!” Seth yells harshly. “You’re drunk.”

            “I aint drunk.” He says sitting on the arm chair by the fire.

            “Apologize to Elsa, dad. You’re being rude to our guest.”

             “That’s okay. I was leaving anyways.” I say quietly moving myself towards the door.

            “Not really.” He says walking behind me.

            “Thank you for the water and for the blanket.” I tell him handing him the blanket.

            “Don’t go. It’s still raining.” Seth says looking over at me.

            “I’m already wet, aren’t I?” I smirked. “I’ll be fine. Thank you anyways. Bye Mr. Parker.” I waved on the open door.

            “Goodbye.” He says under his breath.

            I smiled and hugged Seth lightly and walked away towards my car down the hill from the other side. It took me ten minutes into the rain before I can finally reach my sitting car.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

{Chapter 7}

 

                        Today I did the garden, front and back. I washed the grass on the backyard and now I’m washing the front yard. Seth is helping me water it. He was humming a rhythm of a song I knew but couldn’t make out. His hips moved as he hummed, he looked over me and then down again. I was watering the flowers on the back, when cold water hit me. I opened my mouth and looked at Seth as he continued to dance. I splashed him back as he turned, eyes wide open.

            “Did you just splash water on me?” He asks surprised.

            “Looks who’s talking. You splashed me first.” I waved the water again as it hit him one more time. I pulled my hand over my mouth and laughed.

            “Really? I guess its war then.” He laughs and splashes me again. I ran with my water tube on my hand. He ran behind me splashing me with more water. I turned around giving him the same amount. I yelled as the cold water hit me. We fought with each other. I ran after him and he ran after me. The grass became moist and wet as I accidently slipped and fell. Seth tried to catch me as he fell on top of me. His face was an inch away from mine again. He laughed as I laughed. He moved to the side and then I looked at him touching my stomach.

            “Okay. Okay. I surrender.” He says pulling his hand up from the ground. I looked at him and danced on the floor.
            “I won!” I boasted laughing. I looked at him laughing slowly now. He looked at me smiling as his head motioned towards mine. I moved towards him as our lips connected. I kissed him pulling him closer; his hand reached my back pulling me closer to him. My hand tracing his hair as we kissed. Then I didn’t feel the floor beneath us and a small shock as my tongue touched his. I widen my eyes as I stopped kissing him and I realized we were on mid air. I pulled myself away as we both collapse to the ground.

            “What was that?” He expressed as he touched the side of his lips.
            “I don’t know.” I lied. When we kissed my powers brought us to mid air. I know that there was something more and I don’t know why it happened. My heart beats beneath my chest racing to escape. I got up from the ground brushing the dirt off my body and pull my hand out helping Seth up.

            “You guys. Food’s ready.” Catherin comes out the door as she looked at our muddy bodies. “What did you guys do here? I see you guys get a lot into your work, right?” She emphasizes.

            “Yeah.” We spoke at once looking at each other smiling.

            “Come in through the back.” Catherin says looking over at us.

            We looked at each other and walked to the backyard to clean ourselves from the mud. I washed his mud off him as he washed mud off me.

 

 

 

 

{Chapter 8}

 

            After my kiss with Seth, he hasn’t really shown up to school. It’s been three days already. I knew something was wrong when we kissed, but I can’t figure out what it is. He left early from my house and didn’t have dinner with me and Catherin, he said he wasn’t feeling right, but then corrected himself to saying he was not feeling good.

            “Hey.” Lucy smiles.

            “Hey.” I half smiled closing my locker.

            “What’s wrong? We haven’t hung out since like last of last weekend.”

            “I know. I was busy.”

            “Is there something wrong, Elsa? That you don’t want to tell me?” Lucy looks over at me.

            “What?” I looked at her. “Oh, um… no. I’m fine.”

            “Are you sure?”

            “Yea. I’m sure.” I tell her.

            “Alright, I guess.” She says looking down. “Guess what?” She’s back to her normal self again. Her eyes sparkled with excitement as she looked at me.

            “Jeff McDonald asked me on a date. And Guess where he’s taking me?” A moment of silence as I smiled at her. “The Lesfrance.”

            “That’s nice.”
            “I know right! He’s like the hottest quarter back ever.”

            “Yea, I can tell.” I replied getting inside my Chemistry class. “See you later.” I waved to her.

            When I entered the room Seth sat patiently looking down at his hands. I walked towards him and then sat down beside him pulling out my book from my bag.

            “Hey. Have you been sick lately?” I asked smiling softly.

            He clears his throat then looks up at me. His eyebrows were curved almost together. “That’s none of your concern.” He answers looking away. My smile broke down as I felt a feeling of anger fill in my chest.

            The bell rang when I was about to say something. I shut my mouth close and looked forward towards Mr. Clark who started the class.

            The entire class period Seth didn’t say anything. His hands jerked sometimes as he pulled them towards his eye brows and sighs. He avoided eye contact the entire period. At moments when I thought he was looking back at me, he was actually looking past me towards the board. There is something really wrong with him and I just didn’t know what it was. At the end of class he picked up his book and quickly left the class as I followed him.

            “What is wrong with you?!” I yelled from behind him. He turned to look at me. I breathe out. “I mean, you changed. It’s only been three days.” Moving myself towards him I seemed like I was desperate to know what was wrong with him. I felt myself tearing up with every step I took.

            “You. Don’t. Understand.” He growled pulling his hand into a fit.

            “I don’t understand what? What is there to understand? You left, with no excuse.”

            “I told you I wasn’t feeling good.”

             “No. You said you weren’t feeling right.” I tell him.

            He looks over at me trying to lean forward but stopping himself before he took another step.

            “Please. Elsa. Stay away.” He tells me before turning around and disappearing from in the mist of the crowd. After he was gone, I stood there trying to understand what just happened.

            After school ended, I drove straight home.

            “How was school today?” Catherin asks from the table as I entered through the door.

            “Fine.” I answered slamming the door behind me walking upstairs straight to my room. I shut the door behind me and walked towards my books taking out every book out before I found what I was looking for. A knock on my door slammed right after.

            “Elsa, what’s wrong?”

            “Nothing. Now leave!” I barked surprising Catherin with my tone.

            “What