Rebekah walked home after school. "Rebekah!" a voice shouted behind her. She flinched and turned and saw Craig running over to her.
*****Rebekah's dream world*****
Marcella pushed away from the loving kiss she was sharing with Raul. "I need to go," she said.
"They'll understand Marcella," he said, touching her hand. "I want to spend every last second with you."
Marcella looked affectionately into his hazel eyes. "I can't. I have to go."
He finally nodded. "Remember your promise," he said.
Marcella picked up her cloak and threw it on and tied it around her shoulders. "I will," she said. "I will always love you. I'll love no one else but you."
He flashed her a smile as she turned and left.
*****back to reality*****
"Rebekah, are you ok?" Craig asked.
"Don't call me Rebekah," she snapped.
"Um, what do you want me to call you?"
"Rebekah is just the name my adopted parents gave me," she said. "My real name is Marcella Anne-Louise Jalessa Rain Williams."
"Right," he said. "Well, you left your book in the classroom…Marcella." He handed her Romeo and Juliet and she took it from him.
"Thanks," she said. "Craig, is it?" She wanted so bad to call him "Raul", but she knew she couldn't. He wasn't Raul. He was a whole other person.
"Yeah," he said. "Um, could I walk you home?"
"Um," she replied. She thought for a little while. She wasn't breaking her promise to Raul. "Sure."
He smiled and walked her home. Neither one saying anything. Craig looked at her. She hadn't heard the stories of him and his thing with Ashley and Manny and if she did she didn't let on.
There was just something about her that he saw that no one else did. There was another part of her that she wanted to get to know. But he was afraid that he might lose her, too.