Eternal Sunset

By Septemberlily

Chapter 2

"Myelin, are you feeling ill?"

I blinked looking over at my best friend and roommate, Hailey Miller, we known each other since we were in the second grade. She was laying on her stomach reading to me the 'how to catch a lover' article from Cosmo Girl magazine. All today felt all uneasy and that made it impossible for me to concentrate in Environmental class and worse unable to pay attention to Hailey's new guy crush. But why should I feel uneasy? It was like my body knew something that I didn't….

"Oh, sorry Hailey I had a lon-"

My cell rang out Mr. Richards's ringtone. I picked it up on the second ring, "Hello Mr. Richard how are you doing?"

"Myelin, where the hell are you! Didn't I ask you to come in yesterday to read to the evening kids?"

I thought about yesterday remembering that I went into work and dusted the shelves and how he asked me to close up after that everything was a blur. "Sorry Mr. Richard, I can still make it there in time if you still want me to read to them?"

"Yes, please do that and be careful walking here. Try getting here before the sun sets. See you in a few."

I shut my cell looking down at my watch, the sun set at 6:30 leaving me with half an hour to get there. I turned towards Hailey who sighed, "Oh, Hailey I'm sorry. I totally forgot about Mr. Richard asking me to read to the kids tonight. Can we do the girls night when I get back?"

She gave me a smile, "Yeah sure but you got to promise to do the 'the best love for you' quiz when you get back"

I was about to object when I saw her forest green eyes staring back at me in pled. I love Hailey but it sometimes got me worried how much she wanted to find her true love. She believed in all the 'love at first sight' crap that I knew wasn't true. And she had beauty but not the confidence to take a risk to actually talking to a guy first. And since Hailey never made the first move the guys didn't because they were put off by her shyness. Plus most of the guys get insecure about their looks worrying that there not good enough for her beauty.

"Fine, I promise. See you later baby Hal" I said before walking out the door to our condo. The street lamps flashed on signaling that I had 10 minutes to get to the library. I plug in my headphones flipping to Sublime. I looked both ways before crossing the street but the moment I left the curb a speeding Mercedes came around the corner. Like a deer caught in the headlights I froze unable to comprehend the situation. I lifted up my arms ready to feel the crash but when I opened my eyes meeting the gaze of mismatched eyes, one of them intense blue and the other hazel.

He carried me bridal style to the side walk laying me down on the ground. "Are you hurt?"

When I managed to take my gaze off those amazing eyes to only see that he was a complete beauty I couldn't see nothing wrong with him. Nothing I didn't feel completely drawn too. He had wavy dark brown hair that was tied back perfectly not a strand out of place.

"Um, yeah-I mean no. Sorry what I'm trying to say is that I'm alright."

He smiled at down at me holding out my hand, I felt dizzy from all the butterflies that he awaken in the pit of my stomach. And it was all merely just from a smile. I took his hand getting shocked back to reality by how icy his hand was. "Thank you for saving my life"

"Anytime" he said and I notice that he was holding me against him by my shoulders. I looked up into his eyes getting lost into them until I saw that someone looking at us from a few feet away. I pulled away from him giving the guy feet away a dirty look.

"As much as I love to hold you in my arms I got business to attend to such as yourself" he starts walking away to the guy who I thought as a creep. I turned around walking down the street that the library was on I realized I never caught his name.

"Wait, what your name?"

But it was too late…

******BREAK******

We hid behind the corner watching as Myelin looked for me. She gave up seconds later drifting off to the library. I turned to Seth about to ask if that car had anything to do with the former attacks when the same Mercedes parked near the fountain letting out three men with guns and a barn bag. I looked at where Myelin was too tuned out from her music. Even if I yelled for her it would only alert the bad guys.

I set off to Myelin with Seth behind me ready to fight but by the time we got to Myelin they had her cornered. Anger flared in me as I saw Myelin on the ground and bleeding from hitting her head on the concrete from the fall. I went for the one on top of her as Seth went for the other two.

I grabbed the man by the throat that was closing in on her. I held him up in the air throwing him into the bushes. I looked over to Seth seeing that he was finishing off the last one. I kneeled down picking up Myelin bridal style. She looked up at me with her turquoise eyes and a thankful smile.

"This is the second time you saved me today and I don't even know your name"

I laughed, she was out of it from her head wound and I knew that soon enough she would fall into deep sleep. "Where do you live?" I said knowing very well where she lived. I never told Seth or the others but at the day's end before I fell asleep I would stroll around her place to watch her sleep.

"Cherry Park condos number 11"

That was all she managed to say before she drifted off to sleep.