Shadows of the Night (C6) Interesting
As we stood up, I felt a surge of danger rush through me. And I couldn't tell you why. Was it because of the dream? Willow looked at me funny, probably wondering why I had a strange expression.
"Are you alright?" she asked me, she sounded worried.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Just really tired, I didn't get much sleep last night."
"Oh." Then it sounded like she mumbled 'try never being able to sleep.'
"Did you just say something?" I asked Willow as we took our seats, me handing her back the books she had dropped. She shook her head no. the bell rang as the teacher walked in, telling us to quiet down.
The first part of the day went by fast, and at lunch I found Willow sitting alone again, and with no lunch. I walked over to the table she was sitting at in the back of the room, and sat down. "Hey, why are you sitting alone?" she kind of smirked.
"No friends." I looked at her and pretended to be hurt by that. She giggled. "Well, except for you of course. But you're popular and I'm pretty sure your friends wouldn't like me."
"Sure they would! You're awesome! Why wouldn't they?"
"Because I have a tendency to… scare people." She looked up at me with an intimidating grin. We both laughed.
As the rest of the week went on, I noticed that she was desperately trying to hide something. How I knew that; when we had our little talks during lunch and after school, Willow almost let's something's slip then tries to cover it up. And again, she talks sometimes as if she's from a different era of time. Why did I always get that feeling?
We got really close. Now it was to the point when I snuck out at night, we met at a secret spot by the beach that no one knew about. We were lying side by side, staring up at the stars surrounding the moon. It's almost as if she was gaining life being under the sky like this. Willow broke the silence.
"Nathan?"
"Nate. And yes, Willow?"
"Have you ever felt like you could never belong. Like you were so different than others that it's almost as if you're an alien?" I paused for a moment, thinking about she had just said.
"All the time. Yeah I may have friends, but I'm by myself ninety-nine percent of the time, you know that. I always thought I was different." I looked over at her beautiful features. Wondering what it would be like to hold her in my arms, to protect her.
"I know all that, but that's not what I had meant at all Nate." She sighed. Closing her eyes. When she opened them again, she was like a different creature. At least that's the vibe I was getting.
"then what do you mean?" I asked slowly.
She didn't reply for sometime so we just lay there, me waiting for an answer. Eventually she said;
"I don't belong anywhere."