Cassandra was drawing on her tablet PC laptop when something tapped her shoulder. She jumped and looked up.

"Duke?" she asked. She took her headphones out of her ears. "What are you doing here?" she asked.

"I had to go to the bathroom and I noticed that you were awake…why are you awake?"

"Apparently I couldn't erase all memory of that movie and I haven't been able to fall asleep."

"Do you mind if I sit with you?" he asked. She shook her head and moved over so he could sit next to her. She lifted the comforter up and put it over him. "So what are you doing?" he asked.

"Oh, um I was just drawing," she said.

"Can I see?" she flipped the tablet into laptop mode and handed it to him.

"Wow, how many have you done?"

"Tonight I did three, but if you keep going you'll find other ones."

"You are really good, who else have you shown these to?"

"To tell you the truth, I've only shown them to my two best friends from New York, Haley and Jason."

"And your parents?"

"They don't care." he felt really bad for her. Here was this incredibly talented sweet girl whose parents didn't care about.

"Does that bother you?"

"I'm used to it." he looked at her and her eyes were starting to close.

"You look tired, why don't you just fall asleep?"

"Because every time I do I feel like that thing from the movie is standing right next to me."

"Alright." He got out of the bed and put the laptop on her desk. "If you don't mind, I'll sleep here with you and I'll make sure no monster comes near you."

"Will we get in trouble?" she asked. He laughed.

"No, trust me."

"Alright." He laid down next to her and put his arm under her head, pulling her closer to his warm body. She laid her head on his chest and put her hand on his stomach.

'Calm, down Cassandra. Don't freak out because the most beautiful guy that has ever stepped foot on this planet is laying a bed with you, without a shirt and with his arms around you. Just stay cool,' Cassandra thought. She slowly fell asleep with her head going up and down from Duke's breathing.

'Alright Duke. The prettiest girl you have ever laid eyes on is lying down next to you, well kind of on top of you since this is such a small bed. Andrew's right, I do like her, now all I have to do is hope she likes me too,' Duke thought. He closed his eyes and was soon asleep.

Andrew woke up at nine and looked at Duke's bed, surprised to find it empty. He got up and went to the bathroom. There was a knock on the dorm door as he was walking back to his room.

"Hey Amber, isn't it a bit early for you to be here?" he asked as Amber walked in.

"The cheerleaders need to start baking. That's what we're bringing to the carnival tonight, duh. Where's Anna?"

"In her room I guess." She pushed passed Andrew and opened the door to the room.

"Oh my gosh," she said. Andrew poked his head into the room and smiled when he saw what Amber had gasped at. Duke was sleeping next to Cassandra with one protective arm around her. "Why is he sleeping with her?"

"I don't know. He fell asleep in the room. He must have come over here sometime in the middle of the night. I have to get him up for soccer practice." Andrew slowly walked over to the bed and tapped Duke on the shoulder. He slowly opened his eyes.

"What?" he asked.

"Dude, we have soccer practice."

"Oh." He looked at Cassandra and then put his finger over his lips so Andrew wouldn't talk. He slowly slipped his arm from under her and got up. He looked at Amber in the doorway.

"Why were you sleeping with her?" she asked.

"She couldn't fall asleep because of the movie so I stayed with her."

"She probably just wanted you to sleep with her."

"I suggested the idea," he said before walking out of the room. Amber rolled her eyes.

'There is no way I'm going to let this new girl take Duke away from me,' she thought. She woke Anna up and the entire dorm room was soon empty.

"So what exactly happened last night?" Andrew asked Duke as they ran around the track.

"Well I went to the bathroom and I saw her awake when I was walking back to the room so I walked into her room and sat down next to her, we talked for a few minutes and I noticed her eyes were closing and asked her why she didn't just fall asleep and she said whenever she closed her eyes she felt like he thing from the movie was standing next to her so I offered to sleep with her and that's pretty much it."

"So nothing happened?"

"No, nothing happened."

"With what?" Toby asked. Duke shook his head.

"You tell him, but don't go around telling everyone," he said. He sped up and ran on his own. When he got back to the room after practice he heard music coming from Cassandra's room. He opened the door and she was lying on her stomach on her bed, drawing once again. She looked up at Duke and smiled.

"Hey," she said.

"Hey," he said walking over to her. He put his hands on either side of her and leaned over to see what she was drawing. "Is that…"

"Yes, it's the thing from the movie. I decided to get over my fear and draw him."

"Is it working?"

"Well we'll find out tonight won't we?" he smiled. "Sorry that you had to sleep with me, I bet that was uncomfortable."

"No, it was fine, really and if has to happen again tonight then I'll do it again."

"Thank you."

"Alright well see you later."

"Bye." He walked out of the room and an IM popped up on Cassandra's screen.

PrettyHaley- Hey what's up? How's school? Terrible I bet

Cassandra17- Hey, I'm good and school is great!

PrettyHaley- WHAT? HOW?

Cassandra17- I've made a lot of friends and there is one in particular that I like…a lot

PrettyHaley- you have a crush already? Who?

Cassandra17-his name is Duke, he's a senior and the captain of the soccer team. He lives in the same dorm as me just in the other room. He's probably the nicest guy I have ever met and he isn't too bad to look at either, in other words I can look at him all day

PrettyHaley- um do you have a picture?

Cassandra17- no not yet anyways, yesterday we went to dinner and then a movie with a big group but we sat next to each other at the restaurant and talked the entire night and then at the movies (scariest one I have ever seen!) he had his arms around me the entire time

PrettyHaley- oh my gosh!

Cassandra17- and then at night I couldn't fall asleep and he walked into my room and after talking for a bit he asked if he could sleep with me, so I could fall asleep

PrettyHaley- how sweet! Did you let him?

Cassandra17- yea, I was so tired!

PrettyHaley- Woo! Go you

Cassandra17- nothing happened, we just fell asleep

PrettyHaley- still

Cassandra17- Oh! My art is going to be in an exhibition on Halloween at an art gallery

PrettyHaley- :0! AWESOME!

Cassandra17- I know! It's four pictures in total and one is a portrait I did of Duke

PrettyHaley- how cute…

Cassandra17-yea, anyways I'm getting hungry so I'll ttyl, tell Jason I say hi!

PrettyHaley- I will and if you get a picture send it!

Cassandra17- I will…bye

She closed the laptop and grabbed her bag then left. She walked into Cesario's and saw Olivia sitting at a table reading a book. She walked over to her.

"Hey Olivia," she said.

"Hey Cassandra, are you here with anybody?"

"No."

"Then sit."

"I'm not interrupting you?"

"No and I was just about to order, waiter!" the waiter appeared and they ordered their meals. "So what's up?"

"Nothing much, just hanging around."

"Same here, so do you like Duke?"

"What?"

"You know he likes you right?"

"I think he's just being nice."

"Oh come on, he doesn't offer to sleep with every girl he meets, so did you?"

"What?" Cassandra asked.

"About him sleeping with you yesterday."

"Yea he slept with me but it was only so I could fall asleep, nothing happened. How did you know about that?"

"Oh, my friend Alan told me, he's the goalie for the soccer team and Grace was talking about it in the table behind me but she left already, are you ok?"

"How did they know? The whole school wasn't supposed to find out about this."

"Oh, I'm sorry, but I haven't told anybody, I promise."

"Now everyone's going to think I'm some sort of slut, what if somebody from the faculty finds out?"

"They are ignorant when it comes to gossip, they hear so many things they choose to not listen to it."

"I can't believe Duke told people, I have to go." She got up and left. As she walked down the halls of Illyria she felt the people talking about her. The stares, whispers, occasional snickers.

Duke heard the dorm door open and then slam shut, followed by another door slamming shut. Andrew was out with Toby and Anna was baking so that meant it was Cassandra. He got up and knocked on her door.

"Cassandra?" he asked.

"Go away Duke," she said.

"What?" he asked himself. "Cassandra what's wrong?" he opened the door and she was pacing the floors.

"Did you not hear me say go away?"

"What's wrong?"

"What's wrong? What's wrong?" she looked really pissed. "What's wrong is that the entire school is talking about how Duke Orsino got some from the new girl. Was that the locker room discussion of the day?" she asked.

"What are you talking about?" she sat down on her bed.

"I went to Cesario's today and saw Olivia. She asks me if it's true that I slept with you last night, I told her yes but not the way she thought and then I asked her how she knew and she said your goalie told her and that Grace was talking about before I got there. Duke why would you do this?"

"Cassandra I didn't tell anybody…well Andrew and Amber knew but…" she shook her head and got up.

"I can't believe I was actually starting to like you," she said. She started walking to the door.

"Cassandra, you need to listen to me…" she slammed the door. Once Duke heard the dorm door slam he kicked the door.

"Dammit!" he yelled.

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