Cold Water

- 5 -

Nora stood still by her bed. The hundreds of pictures of Vin lay messily on top of it. Her fists were clenched tightly together, fear and anger soaring through her veins. Who was this person messing with her? And more importantly why were they messing with her? Nora snapped her eyes towards her window and slowly made her way to it. She squinted her eyes and tried to find something. What was the something she was looking for? Even she didn't know.

She ran a hand through her hair, frustration evident on her face. Walking back towards the bed she ran through a list of people who would do something like this but nothing came up. She barely talked to anyone else except for Eliza and the brothers. And she doubted any of them would do something so mean to her. Nora was sure that they didn't even know about her unhealthy obsession with Vin.

Nora really had no idea what to do about the unknown person. Instead of thinking of a plan, she started collecting the pictures together. At least I got my pictures.

Halfway through her phone rang and Nora quickly answered the call, continuing collecting the pictures before anyone else saw them.

"In five minutes come out," Eliza excitedly shouted into the phone, "Alexander has a day off tomorrow so we can watch a movie tonight! He's coming to pick us up by your house and I'm already here so be quick!" And then she hung up.

Nora closed her eyes and took a few deep breaths in and out, trying to calm herself. She really was in no mood to see Alexander or Marcus. Eliza could've at least given her more time to mentally prepare herself. Sliding her phone into her back pocket, Nora went to put the photos away into her small shoebox. Grabbing her jacket from the closet and quickly checking up on her makeup she was ready to go.

A gust of cold wind blew across her face when she opened her front door. Eliza waved at her friend and walked up to her.

"So how does Alexander even know me?" Nora started while pulling her jacked closer to her, debating if she should pull up the zipper and ruin her outfit or keep her jacket open and look good.

Eliza glanced at Nora while jumping from one leg to another, trying to make herself warm, "Remember Marcus' birthday party a few months ago? He was there too. Marcus said that Alexander had seen you and thought you were pretty, especially your smile."

Nora nodded in response, "How far away are they anyway? Nights get pretty cold and I don't want to get sick."

"They should be here soon..."

"Marcus hasn't texted you yet?" Eliza shook her head and checked her phone one more time while Nora patted her pockets, trying to find her card, "Did you bring money with you?"

Eliza sighed disappointedly after no messages from Marcus and shook her head, "No, but I'm sure they guys will buy us something- Hey! Look, there they are!"

Nora looked in the direction Eliza was pointing at and sure enough she saw a car driving towards them. The driver flashed his lights at them and a few moments later stopped. Eliza and Nora looked at each other before entering the car and to Nora's luck Eliza sat behind the passenger seat.

"Shit," She cursed under her breath before walking around the car towards the seat behind the driver. Opening the door she took a deep breath in and sat inside.

"Hey," She greeted the two men and her eyes immediately found Alexander's. He was looking at Nora through the rearview mirror, a smirk on his lips. Nora immediately averted her eyes away from him.

Alexander pushed up his glasses and started driving again in a random direction, "Soo... Nora what did you do today?"

Nora coughed awkwardly, her gaze on the passing trees, "Went to school, went home, came here."