Disclaimer: Same as the first chapter

Author's Note: Well, here's the chapter that is full of Awakening references. Don't worry, you can skip over those few lines, it won't mess you up too much...

Myka laid eyes on Cole in Colorado City Public Library, right around the corner from her house. She knew it was pointless to go to the library when she had the books she wanted to read at home but she liked the library. There was a relaxing aroma in the library that lured her in every time she passed it. The quiet for most was haunting but to Myka it was inviting, a comfort that she could never get at home. There was never tension hanging above her in the library like there was at home. She had no responsibility in the library. The books were all there for her to enjoy without anyone bothering her. She like being at the library. She felt...at home.

She sat, her knees pulled up to her chest, on an oversized maroon pasley chair, tucked away in the far corner of the library next to the autobiography section that no one ever goes into unless they have some project to do. She was reading "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin. She was pulled into Edna's life, her love of the sea captured every fiber of Myka's mind. She had read the book over and over again, memorizing each part, even Edna's eventual downfall. The description of the seductive sea danced around her mind when she looked up from the book and saw him.

"The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation. The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace."

She looked back down at her book, not wanting him to catch her staring. Something drew her to look back, like the unseen force that drew Edna back to the sea at the end of the novel. She should have known right there she would be doomed. To compare oneself, especially when in reference to love, to anything from The Awakening is to doom yourself forever, trapping yourself in an unwanted life that you struggle to escape.

She felt his eyes on her and she couldn't help herself. She glanced up slowly, her eyes drawn to his in a second. He smiled that crooked smile of his. She couldn't control herself from smiling, a soft thin smile in response. She looked back down at her book, pushing her curly brown hair behind her ear. She tried to focus back on the book but failed as she heard footsteps coming towards her. She glanced up and regretted it the second she did.

There, right in front of her was Cole, the prince Charming, the Robert from The Awakening.Or could he be Alcee?

He charmed her with his voice, like a snake charmer, playing smoothly on his instrument. It was strong yet soft. Seductive and mysterious all at once. It enticed her. That alluring voice you hear in your sweetest dreams. His voice danced around her, intoxicating her.

He talked to her for the rest of the day, even walked her home. He left behind his friends, the ones who just before he walked over to Myka, was just as hooked on his words as she was.

That one single event lead to it all. She should have shut down like she does to others. She shouldn't have flirted back. If the fact that she was reading Kate Chopin's book waasn't foreshadowing her downward spiral thanks to her relationship, then everything she learned in her Lit class was nothing but worthless words, meaning nothing. She should have let her brain guide her as she always did. If she had this story would end right her, something Myka wished with all her heart after all of this was said and done. The one thing she let her heart decide was also it's last. Never again will she let herself be swept up in love to the point that she can't get out. She shouldn't have let him kiss her goodnight, keeping her up all night thinking about him.

But above all, she should have never put that book down.


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Oh, and I have a funny feeling the chapters aren't gonna get any longer, sorry. I like breaking them up very specifically so long chapters don't really work...

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