Her Secret

Chapter one

Chapter one:

I toss and turn in bed, before turning over and seeing no other than the demon who haunts my dreams hovering over my body. I scream and get out of bed ready to find something in the room to throw at him.

I spot a baseball bat right across from me and lunge to get it but he grabs my arm, making me hit my head and the world go black.

"Belle wake the hell up you're scaring me!" I was awoken from my terrible nightmare by my best friend, and dorm mate looking at me with worry in his eyes.
"I'm okay Ethan I just had that same nightmare." I calm him down and he looks at me once again with concern written on his face. "Are you sure? Do you want me to stay with you tonight?" I glance at the clock and see that it's 3:42am and I look back at him with a small smile, "Yeah that'd be nice"

He pulls away the covers and lays down with me and I move closer to his side, resting my head on his chest. In what felt like a few seconds I felt my eyes close and my mind drifting away into unconsciousness.
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In the morning Ethan decided it would be a good idea to wake me up with the wonderful smell of breakfast, I get up and go into the kitchen and to my surprise there's Ethan eating breakfast, "Hey Ethan what'd you make?" He looks at me weirdly. "Was I supposed to make you something as well?" I look at him in disbelief and slowly walk over to him and out of the blue starts laughing and points to the stove where there are hash browns, pancakes and toast.

I look over at him after he's calm and he continues eating his food while occasionally checking his phone. "Hey Ethan want to come out and get a coffee in a bit?" I ask him because he looks very bored just sitting there on his phone. He looks up at me and smiles "yeah sure, when are we going?" I think for a minute, "About 15 minutes I guess."

He gets up off of the couch and stretches out his arms and in about 10 minutes we leave since it's about a five minute drive off campus. I turn my head slightly to see Ethan opening his eyes and once he realizes where we are he smiles hugely. "We haven't been here in forever, what's with the sudden reunion?" We both get out of the car as I answer him "I just felt like it would be a good change once in a while."

He looks at me a little doubtfully, "have you started again?" He stops us from walking by grabbing my arm and looking me in the eyes. I roll my eyes at his question and reply, "No. I told you I wouldn't and I keep my promises, you have to believe me."

He looks at me and for a second I see a flash of worry on his face but it goes away quickly and is replaced with him grabbing my hand and leading me inside the small town cafe in the middle of LA. Right as we step in line I realize something.

"Crap I forgot my wallet in the car I'll be right back okay?" I quickly told him to order and I start speed walking my way back to the car when on my way I run into the side of a man, who quickly turns around, startled. "Im so sorry I was hurrying to my car and I didn't see you I'm sorry!" I keep rambling on, I didn't realize I spilled his coffee all over his chest which made his shirt slightly stick to his chest.

"Hey it's okay, but the least you can do is tell me your name," The stranger says and let me tell you man was he ever a hot stranger. Maybe not what people call a Greek god but he definitely could pass as a male model.

"I'm Belle."

I reach my hand out for him to shake it and he neatly wipes off his hand on a part of his jacket that isn't ruined and shakes my hand, giving me a friendly smile as he replies. "Potter."

I reach my hand back and he looks at me and then back at the cafe about a few minutes or so away. "I have to get going but maybe I'll se you again Belle."

He waves to me as he walks away and I walk to the car and grab my wallet and start my way back to the cafe where Ethan's still waiting for me. I walk back in the small crowded cafe with a smile spread across my face. "What's got you all chirpy?" Ethan asked me with a confused look written on his face.

"I just ran into someone new,"

His confused look turned into a small smile as he put his arm around my waist. This was a normal action as we've known each other our whole life.

As we stood in line my eyes kept drifting over to outside the door where I saw Potter reach into his black leather jacket and pull out his small key ring, his finger slipped off the key and his keys almost fell to the ground but he caught them before they could touch the ground. I laugh to myself and Ethan looked at me like he just saw someone go insane. I point to the door where Potter is struggling to find the right key and once he finds it he presses the unlock button and his car makes a chirp sound and he got  inside his car and backs out and leaves. "That's the guy you met? Pretty cute if you ask me."

I laugh and punch his shoulder and a few minutes later we order our coffee and go sit down in the comfortable chairs that they offer us to sit in. I was about to take a sip from my coffee when my phone ringing startled me and almost makes me drop my coffee. I pick up my phone and press the answer button, "Hello?"
My face goes pale as I hear the next 4 words that come from the other line.
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1065 words
January 16th 2017