Unwritten Desires-Chapter 34

Eleanor

I stared blankly at the biology textbook in front of me, the words swimming on the page like they were mocking me.

Okay. I knew this. Or at least, I was supposed to.

My eyes trailed down the paragraph explaining shit about how cells convert glucose into energy through glycolysis, the Krebs cycle, and all that type of dumb stuff. The words blurred together and my brain refused to process them no matter how many times I reread the damn thing.

Biology wasn’t exactly one of my strengths. I didn’t even know how I got past it back then. The subject was always so damn broad, like how the hell was I supposed to put all these things in my freaking head?

And unluckily for me this was Thea’s major!

I tapped my pen against the table, frowning at the bullet points boldly printed on the page of the textbook.

"Ugh. This isn’t working." I sighed, slumping back in my chair. My fingers itched to grab my phone just for a tiny distraction, but I already knew how that would go—I’d check one thing, then another, and suddenly, an hour would be gone, and I’d still know absolutely nothing about ATP synthesis.

Not that I was learning much now.

My gaze drifted to the note sitting inside my bag, half-hidden beneath my other textbooks. I then tried my best not to think about a certain brunette and my supposed boyfriend.

Apparently, I hadn’t seen him anywhere this morning so I guess he was dealing with his own problems.

Or maybe he was just at school and I didn’t know.

I groaned softly and let my forehead drop against the open textbook. "Maybe if I stayed like this long enough, I could just absorb the information through my skin." I mumbled.

I ended up staring at my book for a few more minutes before I finally left the library. But it wasn’t long before I bumped into a certain someone.

Someone I wasn’t exactly prepared to see.

"Thea..." he muttered the name like it was a forbidden word, something he wasn’t allowed to say out loud. His voice was low, almost hesitant, but there was an edge to it.

...Because if I see or hear that you tried to contact or meet up with her in or outside our school? Well let’s just hope it doesn’t happen.

I wasn’t supposed to feel threatened by Liam’s words, I mean he’s just a human like the rest of us for crying out loud but for some stupid damn reason, I didn’t want to test him and I definitely didn’t want to put Jake in danger.

From the glint in his eyes I could tell that I wasn’t the only one recalling the weight of someone’s threatening words.

"Hi..." my eyes flickered around for a huge frown and blue eyes. Nothing.

I shifted my gaze back to Jake’s warm eyes and I honestly felt bad for him. He looked devastated. Broken. Crushed.

I wish I could help him but I really couldn’t. Not all love stories had a happy ending. And unfortunately his story was one of them.

He was about parting his lips to speak when I immediately cut him off with the first excuse that popped in my head.

"Umm...I’m running late for my class. Talk to you later?" I smiled before side stepping him and scurrying down the corridor.

We both knew that ’later’ was never going to come but surprisingly Jake chose not to say anything about it.

I was so busy trying to get away from Jake that I didn’t watch where I was going which resulted in me bumping into someone else.

The only difference was this time it was someone I was actually avoiding.

I guess I had pretty bad luck today.

"Dori...there you are. Where the hell have you been? I’ve been searching for you everywhere. You missed Biology." Sofia rambled.

I quickly put on a smile. Mhmm. I had missed my biology class on purpose. And that was why I was busy in the library trying to get the damn thing in my head.

But the only reason I had missed it was because I was sure Sofia was going to be there and after the little theories I came up with yesterday I didn’t exactly want to be in the same room with her.

Sofia was a chill person and I liked her. Well...until yesterday.

At this rate, anyone could be a suspect, even Jake. If word got out things were going to be really bad for me, people were going to think I was some kind of witch or something and no matter how much I explained myself, most of them wouldn’t believe me. They might send me to prison just so they could feel safe...or even kill me.

Okay...I might be going a little bit overboard. A little voice rang in my head as I shook off my thoughts and it was only then that I realized that Sofia was still talking.

"...lucky he chose to cancel it. If not, you might have to write a make-up test."

I blinked a bit confused as I only heard part of her sentence. Make-up test? Did Mr. Ryan want to conduct a test?

"I was asleep...I fell asleep in the library while I was reading." I managed to say.

Well at least that wasn’t so far from the truth.

"Well...that place can be awfully quiet sometimes." She shrugged before her gaze dropped to my clothes. "By the way, why are you wearing a sweatshirt to school today?" She arched her brow. "It’s literally 38 degrees out there." She eyed me skeptically and my eyes instinctively flickered to my clothes.

She was right though. It was unusually hot today, I mean we had barely made it into April so there was no reason why it should’ve been this hot today.

But somehow, it was.

And there was nothing we could do about it.

Well there was one thing though, wearing light clothes.

But apparently someone pierced my skin with his sharp claws so I couldn’t wear light clothes even if I wanted to. Unless I wanted to answer a lot of questions from the most random people which would probably piss me off.

"I don’t feel it." I smiled with a half shrug and just before Sofia could say anything to me, her phone chimed with a notification.

"Okay, if you say so." She said with her eyes still glued to her phone. She then slid past me before turning and asking, "Aren’t you coming?"

"Huh?" My brows creased.

"For our class? Human anatomy?" She questioned waving her books in the air.

Right. We had other classes. No matter how many times I tried I just couldn’t get used to this damn time table.

"Uh I’ll be right there. I just need to drop off a few books at my locker." I jerked my thumb towards the other side of the hallway.

"Oh sure. I’ll wait for you in class." She said before running off.

Hmm. That’s odd, she normally offers to wait.

My mind wandered back to the note but there’s no way this would have been related to it so I just shrug it off and head to my locker.

Just when I was about to pull out a notebook from my locker, I heard a voice behind me. "Have you come up with something to tell your friend?"

The unexpected presence and question sends jolts and chills down my spine, startling me and I instantly get pissed as I realize who it is. "Are you fucking mad?" I whip around with nothing but a huge scowl on my face. "Don’t you know it’s wrong to creep up on someone like that??"

Liam however looked somewhat amused when I snapped at him and of course I had to keep my voice low so others wouldn’t hear.

"Listen to me. Don’t you ever, in your fucking life, try that again. Do you understand?" I stared at him wide eyed as I pointed my finger at him.

His smile disappeared. "It seems you have forgotten who you’re speaking to." He grumbled.

"Oh I remember perfectly well and if this man doesn’t respect himself, I’m going to have no other option than to smack him hard in the face." My smile didn’t reach my eyes.

Liam cocked his head and I could tell he was a bit taken aback by my reaction. Well, he deserved it because one, he was a huge jerk and two, he was the reason I was wearing this sweatshirt and Sofia was right, it was fucking 38 degrees outside or even more and even though no one could notice I was drenched in sweat right now.

The reason I didn’t feel the heat earlier was because there were air conditioners in the library but now I was forced to feel the heat and the worst part was some of my sweat had slipped into my wounds and they were burning right now, so how could I not be frustrated?

Just as if Liam read my mind, his gaze dropped to my body taking in my fit. But as expected he didn’t say anything about it because he already knew what was up.

He then reached for my face and I tried to move out of his reach but he was too fast. "I’m just going to let that slide, sweetheart."

The nickname was heavy with disdain as he twirled my hair around his finger with a smile, before yanking it with brute force. "In case you’re not aware the clock is ticking and the earlier you tell that girl your excuse, the better for you." He sneered as he caressed my face.

I wrinkled my nose as I felt the dying urge to push him away but for the sake of our so-called ’fake relationship’ I suppressed it.

"Oh and meet me at the west entrance of the parking lot the second you arrive at school tomorrow morning. Most people don’t really use that so it’s not as crowded as the others." He explained putting his hand down.

"And um..." he hesitated for a moment, his gaze flickering to my hair. "Make sure you do something about your hair or you wear a hoodie. It’s awfully bright and it makes my eyes hurt."

My eyelids fluttered. Makes his eyes hurt?

I knew Thea’s hair was incredibly blonde just like her mum’s but making a statement like that was just diabolical and before I could even call him out on it, he was already leaving.

I reached for my hair, running my hands through it before bringing it to my face.

"Ugh. Why am I even listening to him?" I huffed, jamming my locker shut before heading to class. I had thought of the possible places that Liam could be taking me to, but since this was kind of the part of the book where I had stopped reading...I clearly had no idea.

There was a possibility that Liam could be lying so he could get rid of me but apparently I had no other option than to go with him as he was going to force me anyway and I certainly didn’t like the idea of getting kidnapped.

I sighed. "Well, I guess there’s only one way to find out."

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