Love Grows In The Dark by Eli Lowe (ebook offline txt) 📗

truth no matter if I like it or not.” Markus stopped saying further but his eyes didn't. As if a lot of things were still lying behind those enticing blue eyes, which were dying to find their own words.

“Why now? What changed your mind all of a sudden?” Though I didn't want to hear the answer which I kept anticipating back in my mind over and over again, I dared to ask.

I wanted to listen to whatever he had to say.

“Because I think I...” Markus could not even finish his words as the most irritating person came from behind to irritate me even more.

“Hey man!! What are you wasting your time with? Ah, look, who is here.” Adrian started his nonsense as soon as he approached Markus from behind while checking me out from head to toe with his nasty gaze, making me quite disgusted.

But Markus didn't move to face his friend, neither did his eyes shifted from mine as he kept standing there with his clenched jaws as if he was not happy at all for being interrupted or maybe for something else.

Anyway, it wasn't something that I needed to care.

All I just wanted was to escape the captivating smell of my mate for now. And even though Adrian was the last person to help me out but he did anyway, unconsciously. He gave me the opportunity to run away without waiting for a single moment.

“Later.” With just one word I turned back to walk out of the corridor, as I didn't want to deal with them any second more.

But on my way out, a loud thud didn't fail to fall on my ears, followed by the screams of Adrian, in no time. I wondered what happened after I left, but it wasn't the right time to be all curious about those, as I already needed to rush to the library for my part-time work as the second warning bell just went off.

Even though I was engaged with a lot of works at the library, I could not stop thinking about whatever I just ran out from, to save myself.

I could not stop relating all those words which I got to listen from my mate last night and today from Markus. And I was sure that something was not right as their words don't even match at all. As if I just can't fix the two pieces of the puzzle perfectly, no matter how hard I try. What if I am trying with two different pieces of the puzzle which were never meant to fit in?

If I think properly now, except for the smell, nothing was similar between the two, while I couldn't overlook the fact either that those two could be the same person as well.

Cause I don't know how my mate looks like.

But for now, I had no choice to find out the truth, cause it could also expose me, depriving me of each and every chances to keep myself safe and hidden from the cruel world.

I realised that my single assumption was enough to mess up my mind successfully even when there was no certainty of it becoming true. But it did affect me awfully, as the books which were supposed to go up on the shelf according to the order of their initial letters, were now placed at some inappropriate spaces, in-between some books of other kinds, which was very unlikely, for me at least.

I was never this inattentive before, but the sudden arrival of mate in my dark and pathetic life shook my world. And the incident with Markus added more fuel to the already raging storm inside me.

The rest of the hours in school today turned out to be a horrible nightmare to me, as I could not concentrate at any of the classes afterwards.

The fight with oneself was the hardest fight indeed. And I was losing, miserably. It seems that strength doesn't help you to win each and every battle. But a strong will does.

My entire day filled with a lot of sighs.

And at last, when the school ended for today and it was my most awaited moment to flee from the very thing which kept me weakening all day, I was trapped by yet another incident which left me totally clueless once again, messing up each and every piece of the puzzle that I was able to put together by now.

At that moment I realised how fate plays us for its own little.

We all are nothing but puppets.

You must be wondering what happened that I am saying all these, right?

Well, you will know soon.

After the last bell for today went off, declaring that the school had finally ended for today, I rushed out without wasting much time as I didn't want to face Markus or any of his goons to worsen my day even more. I also didn't want to come in front of the now mysterious Markus as well. Actually, I wanted to avoid the smell, to be precise.

But I forgot that nothing was meant to happen according to my will.

Because I was forced to get entangled with the exact same thing which I wanted to avoid.

The smell.

The most intriguing smell came to me out of nowhere, causing my legs to cease from walking yet another step ahead. But...but, something was different this time. Though I realised it was mate's but the smell was even more intense than today morning. The pull was even stronger, almost unavoidable. And it was working on me intensely, just like last night.

My eyes looked around ever so desperately to find the familiar face which I was expecting, but nothing came to my sight, until I saw that Markus and his gang was passing through from the other end, without being aware that I was watching them from a distance.

The four of them soon