Snow White and Seven Devils (rewrite) ✅

Special Chapter: The boy with the scowl

Merry Christmas guys! Also here's the promised Derrick POV chapter. Warning: Its SUPER short!

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I met my best friend when I was in sixth grade. I came to school after fighting with mom, and forgot to wear gloves. It was so cold that say and I knew it was punishment for arguing with mom. I was sat in class trying to keep my hand in the pocket, wanting them to be warm. The teacher saw and demanded me to keep them out and write my essay instead of slumping. I scowled at her back but complied nevertheless.

''You always do that. That face I mean. I noticed it several other times, its actually looks very funny. Can you do that again?'' My future best friend said all this in one breath.

When I looked over at him and found him grinning wildly at me. He was a black lanky guy with a bald head and white teeth. He always came to school wearing extremely formal clothes. Crisp shirts tucked neatly in his pants, an expensive watch on his wrist and a scent of perfume coming from him.

He didn't look like a kid. Later I learned that his dad owned the school.

''What am I? A freak show that would scowl for you and you'll clap at me?'' I snapped at him. Marley used to say I was bad with strangers. I was really, really bad with strangers. And most of the times I never meant to be. Things just came out of my mouth that way.

He didn't  bother me for a while. I started writing the essay while keeping my other hand in my pocket. It was extremely uncomfortable.

''Here'' I looked at him with surprise as he took off one glove and handed it to me, ''you can wear it in other hand.'' He gave me another huge grin. I stared at him for a while longer, then without uttering more nonsense I just wore it on.

''Thanks'' I grumbled with a scowl.

He started laughing, ''See, that face is so funny!'' He didn't stop laughing until the teacher came and scolded him.

''What should I call you? Boy with a scowl.'' He was extremely formal in his speech as well, despite the laughter. Now I was finding him funny.

''Derrick Carson.''

He offered his gloved hand from under the table. I removed the scowl and shook his hand with the gloved one of mine,

''My name is Anderson.''

The memory flashed in front of my eyes as I watched the closed door of the hospital room where Anderson -, no Allyson was.

I had been standing there for the past hour, behind me I could hear her mom crying on phone, talking to her dad. Her mom hadn't stop crying and Cattermole's mother was trying to comfort her.

There was blood in my hand. Her blood. There had been so much blood.

I stared at it in daze when I heard footsteps from behind me.

''What happened?!'' It was Trevor. He demanded to no one in particular.

Daniel Cattermole answered him, ''It's Ally,'' his voice was grim, ''she got hurt.''

When someone else put it like that, it hit me straight in the gut. I couldn't remove the scene from my mind, her body lying there in pool of blood. Her scream. Her voice. Her sob. Her pleading. Her goodbye.

''I never realized I was source of so much pain for you.''

How could she say that? How could she even think like that?
Instead I had been the one who had hurt me. If I had stopped her from leaving she wouldn't have been hit.

If I had just held on to her...

She had to wake up. It wasn't a request. She had to be okay.

I had wanted to tell her since long ago. Just like she had spilled her heart out to me, I had wanted to tell her as well. 

Just three words.

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Some bit of news from my end:

The next chapter (the real chapter) is done as well. Just need some editing and will post it next week sometime.

Since this story is about to end, I've already started working on new ones. One is a fantasy/paranormal/romance called CHASERS (keep an eye out for that!). I'm going to post first chapter of Chasers on new year.

The second book I'm working on is called LOANLY, MISS FREEZE, it's set in university instead of school and its super fun, with LOADS of characters (again...) and swoon worthy romance. I'll post that after a while.

I have a goodreads that I use excessively, you guys can add me as a friend there! My new username is Words Stay. I'm only active on tumblr's bookish community: words-will-stay.tumblr.com.

Lastly, I also have a manga/anime blog on tumblr where I mostly feed my fangirl fantasies. It's called mr-bushido.

Yeah, that's about it!

Enjoy your Christmas guys :D