Chapter 18

I couldn’t move, just stood there staring and waiting for Annabel to make the first move. It was like the entire school suddenly disappeared and it was just the two of us with the corpse glaring in our faces.

“Annabel…” I called out as she took a step forward, pausing before moving again with unsteady steps. She staggered as she got closer, and I knew what she was going to do.

She fell on her knees when she reached the body, hesitating before she peeled off the cloth and slowly uncovered the corpse. Her loud shriek confirmed what we already knew, it was Mary her best friend. She was the one I saw making out with Mrs. Adams and it was safe to say she had a hand in her death.

Annabel wailed, falling on her ass as she stared at the corpse in horror, I stepped forward and covered it with the clothe but not before I saw the two pointed marks on her neck. With how pale she was I imagined someone sucked her blood until there was none left in her.

The collective gasp reminded me we were not the only ones here so I grabbed Annabel by the shoulder and pulled her up, putting her arm around my shoulder so I could hold some of her weight as I walked her back inside.

We went straight to my dorm knowing there wasn’t going to be classes for that day. She didn’t speak when I put her down on the bed, just stared into space, into nothingness.

Unsure of what to do I pulled out a bottle of water and gave her to drink, she took it from me but made no move to open or drink from it. I did not want to imagine the kind of pain she would be in right now knowing that those monsters had something to do with her best friend.

Now I felt disgusted with myself knowing that I watched them do that to her at a point and even fantasized about it. Maybe I could have saved her somehow or told Damon about what I saw when I bumped into him, he would’ve been able to stop them.

“She was so full of life” she said suddenly, speaking for the first time since she saw the corpse “She’s the only one I have in this entire world, and they’ve taken her away. We were going to travel the world together and get a house together, I’m the reason she came here in the first place” tears rolled down her face as she spoke, giving me a glimpse of the pain she carried inside.

“I shouldn’t have brought her here with me!” she screamed, standing up abruptly, I could see the pain in her eyes turn into anger.

She threw the bottled water on the floor, jumping on it in a mad daze before its contents spilled all over the floor. She sat down after that, putting her now trembling hands on her laps. I wasn’t sure what to do so I just stood to the side and watched her.

“They’re going to pay for what they did to her” her voice was low, but I caught what she said, her teeth gritting like she could already imagine doing them “I’ll take them all down, one after the other.”

“Anna…you said it yourself that they’re dangerous people, what if they hurt you too?” I tried to reason with her “We just need to find out what actually happened, there must’ve been a reason…”

“What reason? Tell me Elizabeth! What reason would they have to take out an innocent child that her only crime was coming to this cursed academy with me?” she raged, making me take a step back afraid of what she was capable of in a fit of rage.

“You’re not in the right space of mind…”

“I don’t know what to do” she said breaking down in tears again, the back and forth between anger and despair was one I knew all too well. I sat down close to her, careful not to set her off again as I wrapped my hand around her shoulder.

“I’ll help you get to the bottom of what they did to her, we’ll find out what is really going on and put an end to it” I assure her, she takes me by surprise when she leans into me and puts her head on my shoulder.

I felt her tears dampen my shirt, but I remained still, only holding her hand to provide comfort as we let silence dwell between us. It was a good five minutes before she finally stopped and the only thing I could hear was her sniffing.

Her eyes started to droop after that so I did the only thing I could think of, I laid her down on my bed and watched her eyes slowly close as she fell asleep. She was going to feel a lot better when she woke up.

Feeling exhausted myself, I joined her on the bed, pulling my blanket over us as she moved closer to me. I don’t know for how long we slept but the sound of someone entering my room woke me up.

I rubbed my eyes as I sat up, Damon’s blonde hair coming into view. With everything I’d totally forgotten him or that I was mad at him in the first place.

“What are you doing here?” I asked him as I got off the bed, I didn’t want him here when Annabel woke up she was already upset and her fear of him wouldn’t help the current situation.

He looked confused for a while before he straightened up “I don’t understand, I didn’t see you in class so I’m here to check on you” he said, like it was something I was supposed to know from the top of my head.

I crossed my arms over my chest “I’m doing fine thank you, I don’t want you waking Annabel up, lord knows she needs as much sleep as she gets”

His face softened “I heard what happened, how is she holding up?”

I shook my head and looked at her briefly “Not very good, I’m afraid of what she’ll do when she wakes up. I can’t imagine the pain she’ll be going through”

“That’s not your burden to bear, let her do what she wants and don’t get involved” he warned, his tone surprising me.

“I’ll help her whichever I can…”

“What the fuck happened to your eye?” he suddenly yelled, my hand went straight to my eye only then remembering that I had been punched, I barely even felt the pain.

“It does not matter, why are you here really?”

He arched a brow at me “I’m here to see my girlfriend, that is what. And I’m going to find out why she’s giving me so much attitude instead of jumping in glee at the mere sight of me” there was a glint in his eyes, but I wasn’t having any of it.

His eyes drifted to Annabel’s fragile form on the bed “First I’ll have to get her back to her room, then we’ll sit down and talk.”

I was about to protest but he was already carrying Annabel and heading for the door, “You can’t just come here and carry her away, she’ll need someone by her side when she wakes up!”

He chuckled “You underestimate her strength don’t you? Now wait here till I return” he left after that, leaving me standing in the middle of my room speechless.

I sat on the bed unsure of what else to do, it was just a minute when Damon walked in with a gust of wind behind him making me shiver from the cold. That was extremely fast considering the distance from my room to the other rooms.

“Now where were we baby?” he asked, flopping on to the bed beside me, he wrapped his arm around my torso and dragged me down to him “I missed you”

I tried to pull out of his hold, but he wouldn’t even budge making me sigh “What do you want Damon? You made it clear the last time you were here that you wouldn’t have me”

“That was not what I meant Liz” he pulled me closer, crushing my petite form to his very hard one “I just didn’t want our first time to be just some meaningless sex, I want it to be special for you” he kissed my cheek.

I mean, it felt like he had rejected me that night, no one ever wanted me so that was what made the most sense.

“Elizabeth…I wouldn’t wait all these years to not want you now that you’re in my arms” he kissed my cheek again, “The problem is I want you too much that it hurts not being with you” he turned me, so we were looking at each other.

“I’m sorry that I made you upset, I didn’t mean to” he had this soft, vulnerable look in his eyes that made me give in, I wasn’t sure I could ever stay angry at him, especially when he looks at me like I’m the only light in his fark world.

“Its fine” I mutter, looking away from him.

“Come here” he said making me turn back, he captured my lips with his and turned us both, so my back was to the bed, and he was on top of me.

“Now tell me you missed me” he said in between kisses, only thing I could mutter was a groan, I needed him to touch me, not talk.

He pulled away “Did you miss me?” he asked, with a devilish look, knowing how much I craved him and how depriving me of his body this instant was annoying.

“I missed you okay, now let’s get back to what we were doing” I dragged him back to me, his chuckle making its way to my ears.

He kissed me back with so much urgency this time, his tongue entwining in mine before running down the side of my neck and to my breasts. He licked the under curve, spreading warmth through my entire body.

His teeth caught my nipple through the lace bra I was wearing, and he rolled it in between, gently biting them before replacing them with his hand that kept up the good work. He kissed down to my belly, my breath hitching as he went further down. His teeth tugged at the band of my panties; I pushed my hips up as he drew it down.

A tremor ran through my legs as his breath hit the sensitive area making my inner thighs clench. I watched him move lower before licking my pussy with a stroke of his tongue and that was when he set all the wetness free.