Sorry that this is so late guys I've been busy with work anyway,I hope you enjoyed the first chapter of this story I promise this chapter will be longer and better than the first one. Please review I really need them in order to continue this story and the more feedback I get from readers the more chapters I will post. Anyways I thought I would start with Aidan's POV since a friend of mine told me that she wanted to see what he is like. So it will go from both characters POV from time to time so you will be able to see what he is like. Hope you enjoy this chapter and pleaseeeeeeeeee review! I will try and slow it down don't worry.
Chapter Two: Friend or Foe?
Aidan's POV
I saw her watching me leave her house as I got into my black Mercedes and drove away from her house. Gee I wish I didn't have to marry her I may have liked her but I didn't love her. If father hadn't have made this stupid deal with the Jenkins Allie and I wouldn't be in this situation I would be going to University and she would be getting on with her life as well. As I was driving carefully and making my way back home the day before yesterday came back to my mind.
Flashback
It was Friday and after another day of college, and after doing subjects like Biology, French, I.C.T, Literacy and Numeracy I walked outside the college into the parking lot to find my black Mercedes, it had been a tiring day to be honest girls had tried asking me out and I wasn't sad to admit that I had rejected every single one of them, they weren't my type anyway to be honest.
I walked further into the parking lot only to find my car was parked beside a red Honda that belonged to one of the girls called Mira Robinson who was always in my Biology class according to most of the guys she was the most popular girl in the college, her face was perfect, her hair was perfect even most of the guys thought she was perfect due to her, looks and her personality. To be honest I wasn't into her even if we were both rich I wasn't into her. I shook my head in order to shake off those thoughts and unlocked my car before getting into the driver's seat and closed the door behind me starting up the engine.
I lived in a place known as Emberwood Village it was twenty-five miles away from my college, and it was just beside the Emberwood Forest legend has it that there was somebody that was murdered in the forest and whoever went into the forest would perish if they ever saw the ghost of the dead boy or girl that met their eye. Most people didn't believe that crap and they never asked me thank goodness if I believed the legend because I didn't know what to believe.
I was glad that college had finished for the day, I had now driven away from my college and as always I had driven twenty-five miles it was a long drive I guess but I enjoyed it as it gave me time to think since I would soon be in the company of my only parent, my father. I yawned, I felt quite weary in a way but I continued to drive carefully until I had reached my destination. I stopped the engine and had parked outside our large gate that gave you a view of the house that was up the driveway.
We never really had any visitors to be honest, a house that was black as bleak itself you can imagine why we didn't have any visitors anymore not since the death of my beloved mother. Father was a violent person to be honest here I guess it was in his nature to be violent towards others. Sometimes I wonder what his childhood was like, what had caused him to act like this towards others? Had he been brought up to be like this? Did his parents not treat him like a good child? Or was one of his relatives not kind to him? Questions circulated in my mind. He was not just my father; he was the master of the house. I opened the large gate before opening my car again and started the engine again before driving up the driveway and parked the car outside the front of the house. As always there standing outside the front of the house stood my butler Joe or our butler I should say since he looked after father and me. He had been here ever since I was born. He was in his mid-forty's, he was quite a pleasant fellow, always looked his best. He hurried down the white-stone steps and opened the car door for me "Pleasant journey sir?" He asked in his broad Irish accent.
"Yes thank you Joe. How is the master?" I answered.
"The master is quite well. He is upstairs in his study." He answered.
"Good very well." I inquired.
"Sir would you like anything to eat or to drink? I could bring it up to you if you are planning to go upstairs into your bedroom." He offered.
"No thank you Joe but thank you for offering, I think I shall take a nap." I exclaimed.
"Very: good sir." He replied.
I rambled into the house making my way up the large staircase and entering my bedroom which was the third room on the right on the top floor. I closed the door behind me and sat myself down on the bed; I gazed at my black IPod touch that sat on my bedside table on the right and lifted it and plugged the earphones in before turning it on. I had all kinds of music on it but I mainly listened to Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Snow Patrol and bands like that. I loved the song Face down I thought it was awesome because it had a meaning to it plus it was rock music so it was awesome. I decided to play the song Guardian Angel on my IPod touch by Red Jumpsuit Apparatus and closed my eyes while listening to the song on my IPod. I was enjoying the quietness in my room finally I thought a day at home where nobody would disturb me but after a while there were two loud bangs on my door. I thought it would be my father but it wasn't it was Joe.
"Please sir may I come in?" He asked.
"Yes." I answered trying not to sound grumpy at the fact that I had been disturbed. I turned off my IPod and took the earphones out of my ears before wrapping the earphones around the IPod and placed it back down on the bedside table on the right-hand side.
I watched him open the door and walk in.
"Forgive me sir but your father requests your presence immediately he is in the library." He stated before bowing down in front of me.
"Very well I will come down now." I responded. I sat up from the bed and followed Joe out of the bedroom, closing the door behind me and walked down the creaky staircase until I was in one of the living rooms. My father sat in one of the rocking chairs next to the large fireplace; I ambled towards the fireplace watching the yellow flames move rapidly until I heard my father's voice.
"How was college son?" He broke the silence.
"It was fine quite tiring actually." I admitted.
"Why tiring?" He asked.
"I have to study for exams father, exams are coming up soon." I heard him chuckle at my answer.
"Well we can talk about exams later, I requested that you came down here because I have something important to discuss with you and it's a matter of great urgency." He explained.
"Yes." I waited for him to get to the subject.
"Do you remember a few weeks back when you and I were at the bank and there was a fellow outside? He was looking quite anxious." He asked me.
"How could I forget, who was he anyway?" I folded my arms across my chest.
"That was Mr. Jenkins he has a daughter called Allie. Did she go to your school by any chance?" He inquired.
"Yes father she did." I answered him truthfully.
"Well it seems that the foolish fellow has got himself into a bit of a dilemma so I decided to make him a deal." He paused for a few minutes.
"Go on." I said.
"I told him that you were looking for a wife and if he agreed to it which he did I would give him the money he needed if he would give away Allie to you." He smirked.
"The Jenkins wouldn't do such a thing father." I said in disbelief
"They would if it meant that they wouldn't be homeless. The old fool didn't want to agree to it I know it, but hey he told me that someone had hacked into his bank account, and he now owes the bank £72,000 which he can't afford and the bank he worked in has shut down. None of the banks are going to help him and so he agreed to my deal I will give him the money he needs to pay the bank and you should be happy you're getting married son." He explained.
"Will you really father? Will you really give the money over to the Jenkins? Something tells me you won't; something tells me there is a catch here. There is always a catch in your plans; you agreed to it because you want me out of the house didn't you?" I wasn't happy about this plan at all.
"You will marry the little tramp you here! You should be thanking me not being angry with me. Besides I've always wanted to see you get married." He made me sick.
"I'm not ready father! I haven't seen Allie in ages and how am I suppose to marry this girl when we have nothing in common? I can't simply marry her without her parents' permission or without a marriage or an engagement ring." I exclaimed.
"Then I will advise you get the little brat something." His voice darkened.
"But I have no feelings for her." I admitted. I may have liked the girl I used to bully her but I didn't love her.
"Then again I will advise you to develop some." He really was starting to agitate me.
"Father I'm not ready for marriage, I'm twenty one years old, I should be allowed to have plenty of time to think about marriage but not now." I complained.
"Damn it Aidan! You're marrying their little tramp and that's final." He shouted.
"When do I have to marry her? Do I even get to see her or talk to her parents?" I almost shouted.
"You're getting married next Saturday and yes you can go and see the Jenkins tomorrow or on Sunday to show your gratitude to them." He was unbelievable.
"Are you out of your mind? Has it not ever passed your brilliant mind that I don't want to get married? I want to finish college and go to University. How am I supposed to get married to this girl who practically hates me? And answer me this question who is going to get this wedding organised and ready for next Saturday? It won't be me father I can tell you that." I explained.
"Stop acting like such a girl Aidan, I will get this wedding organised for next Saturday and well if she hates you then good for her." He ended the conversation there pointing the cane at me. He got off his rocking chair and walked out of the living room heading to his study I imagined. I just stood there in complete silence this could not be happening to me, this had to be a dream it couldn't be real.
End: of Flashback.
I continued to drive through the night until I had arrived back at the house I could almost imagine father waiting for me inside to tell him the news. I could imagine the sound of his cane touching the floor as he would walk downstairs or through the hallways, I stayed in the car for a while I really didn't enjoy the fact that it was me who was getting married and not somebody else.
Why could it not be somebody else? Or some other man that could marry Allie: and be in my situation? I really did feel like crap but did a great job I guess of not showing it not in front of the Jenkins and certainly not in front of Allie. My father would kill himself soon enough I told myself from the way he is going you could say he was drinking himself to death since he was an alcoholic. He really did drink too much, I think he has been drinking ever since my mother's death but then again he was violent when I was very young and when she was alive even I remember the violence that he showed towards her. May she rest in peace I thought now that I think about it I don't think it was the heart attack that really killed her it was the beast that she loved dearly that did.
I missed her so much, I guess you could call me a cry baby for missing her but my mother was the only person in my life that had been full of purity, she was always smiling even when she would suffer all the time with my father she always showed me her warm smile, sadly I no longer see that big warm smile of hers. I opened the car door and closed it before locking the Mercedes and walked inside the house only to hear the sound of loud footsteps moving down the staircase with a cane and I knew at once it was my father.
"So Aidan what did you do today?" His voice darkened. He knew fine rightly where I had been today I was at the Jenkins today.
I closed the door behind me as he had asked his question leaving nothing but an awkward silence this was going to be a long night.
Xx
After telling him what I had got up to today at the Jenkins house all I heard was his horrible cackling for no more than half an hour until finally his laughter died down.
"So Allie wants to go the cinema with her friends instead of just moving to more important matters? Hmm she's more than a brat she's a bitch." I heard him say.
"Father she had already made her own arrangements before she even knew about the wedding." I told him.
"That doesn't change anything! She has to learn to listen to you." He raised his voice.
"Yes I know." I tried to stay calm.
"So what are you going to do once you're married?" Oh great he is now asking me what I am going to do once I am married how about throwing him out a window and becoming the new master of the house? I thought before answering him bluntly.
"Get drunk." That was my answer to his pitiful question.
"You will have plenty of time for that but first you must take the bitch's virginity that's what I did when I got married to your bitch of a mother." He made me feel sick inside.
"Father I can tell by the way she walks that she is a virgin and I don't want to rush things getting married is bad enough you know she is only eighteen years of age and I am only twenty one." I told him.
"There's no need of reminding me how old you are! I have known your age ever since the day your mother brought you into the big bad world." He raised his voice again.
"There's no need of reminding me how big and how bad the world is father I've known that ever since I was a youngster and you made sure of that alright by beating my mother up in front of me, swearing in front of me and even beating me at times when I was only a child!" I shouted this time at him.
"Shut up! Your mother should've known better than to teach you to behave like her all she ever did was show off that stupid smile of hers. I should've known that you would end up behaving like her; you are your mother inside and out, and all over. It sometimes makes me wonder whether or not I should've beaten you up more than her." He screeched I couldn't believe what I had just heard but then I chose to not speak back to him.
"Mother loved you." I said delicately.
"Yes and she was a fool to do so." He spat the words out bitterly.
"Well I may turn in for the night." I said.
"Wait just a minute now. You do realise that once you're married to this girl, there's no turning back and it can never be undone." He snorted.
"Yes father I'm well aware of that." I told him.
I walked towards one of the glass windows in the living room gazing up at the full moon along with the stars in the dark sky, as I fixed my gaze up upon one of the stars that shined the brightest in the heavenly sky I recalled when I was little my mother always brought me up at night just before I would go to bed and tell me to make a wish under the brightest star. I never asked myself why she always asked me to make a wish but if there was a time that I would want to make a wish it would be now. With father now only in my life I knew that there was no need to make a wish when he was in my sight.
I didn't bother to watch my own father depart from the living room and make his way up the stairs, one of these days I thought those stairs will crack or someone will fall and hurt themselves badly but then again it was father who couldn't be bothered trying to hire someone to stop the creaks in the old staircase. I continued to gaze up at the sky and run a hand through my hair wondering, just wondering would my mother be gazing back at me from where she is. Would she be one of those stars looking down at me right now from the heavens? I let a heavy sigh escape from my lips knowing that somehow behind that full moon a sign of trouble tonight would not be far behind.
Allie POV
Everything had happen so fast, for a moment it felt as if the whole world had stopped spinning and now I was engaged to the one person who had bullied me in school. This was 2013 I really think the laws should change; I think people should be allowed to marry or choose to marry who they want. I think arranged marriage's should be put out of the picture they were for the old days now and now even in the year I live in arranged marriages are still allowed for very rich families.
My family weren't rich, just normal I would describe them as. But gee if father wasn't in this mess I wouldn't be in this situation right now. I would still be able to have fun with my friends. As I sat in my bedroom on the bed I turned on my mobile to see if I had any missed calls or messages and surprisingly I had four messages on my phone. One was from my friend Daniel we were pretty close, we went to the same school and tomorrow I would be going to college and I had heard from him last week that he was going to the same college known as Repolin High. Strange name I must say for a college, as I opened the message it read this.
Hey Allie is you free next Sunday? Want to come up next week to my house to the party? I sighed I really didn't want to reject his offer but then again being engaged I had to refuse his offer so I simply replied back saying no thank you but I thanked him for offering.
All of the other messages were from Sarah she always texted me. The hours passed and when my mother told me that dinner was ready I simply told her that I wasn't hungry. Of course my mother strictly protested against the fact that I didn't want any dinner but at the end of the short persuasion I won and she gave up on trying to get me to come down for dinner.
I rambled over towards my bedroom window and pulled it up after a while just to let the cold air in, I stood directly in front of my window gazing up at the stars while the light-breeze hit my face before I thought for a while about going somewhere tonight just so I could clear my thoughts. I needed some air anyway. But just before I made my move my phone rang Oh great who could be ringing me now? I really don't feel like talking to anybody right now. I thought before stamping towards my bed and grabbing my phone that I had left on my bed and before it would go off I answered it.
"Hello?" I almost made that sound more like a question than a greeting.
"Heya Allie." I heard Jessica's voice on the other line. Jessica was a girl who used to hang out with me and Sarah until year 10 when she stopped hanging out with us none of us understood why though. Sarah suggested that maybe something had come up in her life and she just wanted to be left alone. She always pushed Sarah away however when Sarah tried asking her what was wrong. But if she wanted to be left alone then maybe that was a good enough excuse.
"Oh hey Jessie, how are you?" I questioned.
"I'm okay thanks, how are you? I was wondering would you like to come to the cinemas next Saturday." She asked.
It took me a while to respond as I really didn't want another friend of mine asking me to come over again.
"No thank you Jessica I'm afraid I'm busy on Saturday." I exclaimed.
"Doing what exactly? Every time you say you're busy you always come up with some feeble excuse like saying that you're having some family problems or that you're sick when really you're either talking to some of your friends on msn or sleeping in." She remarked.
"I'm going to the cinema on Saturday with Sarah; you can come if you wish." I told her.
"No thank you, I wouldn't go near the pathetic cow even for a hundred pounds." I heard a grunt from the other line.
"She's not a cow what on earth has she done on you anyway?" I sounded frighten by my own voice almost as I spoke.
"Well, for a start she has backstabbed me and you have done nothing about it at all, in fact you are just as bad as she is. So this will be the last time I will call you unless you stop being friends with her and make sure she gets the message. Plus you will be friends with me." I was taken aback by her words I must say no-one not even my own mother had spoken to me before like this. She had spoken out of turn and I couldn't get rid of her words that had shocked me.
"I will not, how I can be friends with someone who speaks of a person that has done nothing wrong to you or to me. You speak of Sarah as a backstabber and you tell me that I am just as bad as she is. Why would I want to be friends with you? Sarah and I have done nothing wrong." I proclaimed.
She hung up on me after I had told her that. This night just got worse and worse, first I am told that father owes the bank lots of money, then I find out I am engaged to the one person who always agitated me and now I get an awful phone call from Jessica what's next? I wondered.
I turned my mobile off and placed it on the bed again before heading back towards my bedroom window and climbing out of it and jumped on to one of the nearest trees that were very close to my bedroom window. I climbed down the tree until I reached our gateway; I managed to be very careful of my surroundings and jumped over one of the walls beside the gate until I was outside of the gate, I looked across from our street and noticed that the forest that was just across from my home.
Since it was now dark I knew this would be a stupid thing to do as nobody in their right mind would go into the forest at night, when I was a little youngster my mother told me stories of the forest of how dangerous the forest could be. How easily you could trip, fall or even get lost in the darkness and once you had entered the forest at night there was no way out of the forest. Her stories always had prevented me from going into the forest but tonight was different. Something twitched inside of me, something was telling me to go deep into the forest. Whether or not I should listen to the little voice inside of me or not I crossed the road and headed straight into the forest.
I walked slowly into the forest, it was only then when I noticed that the forest did look completely different from what it looked like in the day time. I didn't know whether or not if it was just the complete darkness that made it look completely different or if it was something else. It was quiet, probably too quiet to be honest as well as dark. I continued to walk further into the forest making sure not to make a single sound; I watched where I was going and what I was stepping on. Everything looked different, dark, gloomy and strange.
The trees didn't make a sound either, but then again this wasn't Narnia where you stepped into or found a magical land where magical creatures lived or anything. This was just an ordinary forest. I soon heard something move passed the trees it was certainly not the wind, I ambled faster through the dark wood until my feet were tired and could no longer carry me. I sat down beside one of the trees and buried my face into my lap hoping I had just been hearing things.
Some minutes had passed; I still sat beside one of the trees in the forest, my face was still buried in my lap finally I had been left in silence again until I heard footsteps coming in my direction. I looked up slowly listening to the sound of footsteps that were becoming more louder until I heard someone speak.
"Well, well what do we have here? A fresh human I smell in the dark hours of the night." The words frightened me; nobody out of their right mind would say something like that. This must've been my imagination playing tricks on me again; I couldn't see anyone near me as the footsteps had stopped for a moment.
"Where are you?" I asked foolishly.
"I'm here." The footsteps became louder and louder: until I saw two silvery eyes that soon met mine and there standing face to face with me was a man, he was quite tall, he had long blonde hair that touched his back, he wore a white t-shirt, a pair of light blue trousers and a pair of white shoes. His face was so pale: probably paler than my own. I felt a cold shiver going down my spine; his tone was quite cold and silky in a way.
"Who are you?" I asked trying to make sure that my voice didn't quiver.
"I'm a vampire, I can still smell your scent it's very nice." He lifted up my chin slightly smiling away at me as if I was a piece of meat.
"Vampires aren't real, they're myth you must be on drugs." I suggested.
"You know nothing of this world do you? Vampires are real; didn't: your mama: not teach you anything?" He mocked me.
"Yes she did, she told me that vampires aren't real!" I snapped.
He chuckled evilly until he finally opened his big mouth again.
"I find you humans foolish and yet I find you interesting, foolish but very interesting. Your mother obviously wanted you to believe that vampires were just a myth but sadly we are real. We even come out in the sunlight when we want to of course." He annoyed me.
"I find you annoying, now go away." I admitted.
"Aha well I'll go away all right but not until I have had my snack." Snack what did he mean by that? He couldn't possibly mean me could he? Really I didn't want this to be the end of me I am only eighteen years old I am getting married next week and now this vampire is referring me as a snack.
"What do you mean?" I whispered.
"I mean I'm not leaving here until I have killed you, so first I'm going to rip your heart out, but then on second thoughts draining you of your blood would be better. I bet your blood is as tasty as your scent is." He grabbed me and pushed me against the tree, as he smiled I didn't realise until I looked more closely that there was something that was taking over his teeth that looked like fangs. This couldn't be right, this had to be a dream as he was coming closer to me he was about to bite me on the neck until someone or something growled from behind.
I closed my eyes tightly in fright when the vampire was no longer near me or even touching me, there was a lot of growls for a while at least until I was once again left in silence. I opened my eyes slowly until someone again was calling my name "Allie there is no need to be afraid." I looked up and there as if I had imagined it was a pure white wolf standing in front of me. It had beautiful blue eyes, and what I had found quite strange was the fact that it was able to speak to me, I was able to understand it and it wore a black necklace around its neck for why it would wear such a thing I did not know.
"You're able to understand me." I said.
"Yes of course I can understand you." It spoke back to me. It was clearly a male.
"What was that thing?" I asked wondering what had happened to the man or vampire or whatever it was that had frightened me so much.
"You already know." He nudged me.
"So it was really a vampire." I almost gasped in surprise at my own words.
The wolf nodded. I couldn't believe that all of those stories that my mum had told me about vampires a long time ago making me believe that vampires were nothing but a myth or medieval creatures as some would say were nothing but lies. They existed and were still living on Earth.
"Are you going to harm me?" I almost sounded like a frightened little kid.
"No that is not my intention what brings you to the forest? A girl of your age shouldn't be out here alone its dangerous." He shouted that last word out at me.
"I guess I wanted to clear my head around some things." I admitted.
"You shouldn't be out here; the next time you come here you might not be so lucky." He stated.
"What's your name?" I inquired.
"You do not need to know that." He chuckled.
"I guess I should be going now, my parents will be worried." I guessed.
"I'll lead you out of the forest but never come back here." He instructed me.
"Don't tell me what to do." I decided to be stubborn.
"This is no time for arguing you have to go home now." He nearly snapped at me.
"I'm not arguing I'm just telling you not to tell me what to do." I started to get irritated.
He growled loudly. "I'm telling you to go home and I mean it. I want to know that you're safe." He said within a low huff.
Without further quarrelling he led me out of the forest and I slowly made my way back into my house knowing that these events would not just vanish from my memory, they would stay at least for a few days.
The time I reached my bedroom again I prayed that my parents had noticed that I had been away from the house. I quickly closed the window after climbing back quietly into my room again and sat back down on my bed yawning until finally I got dressed and fell asleep on the pillows.
I heard my bedroom door open, and it made me wake up only to see my mother's face.
"Darling I know you have had a long day today but your father and I would like you to know you mean a great deal to us." I didn't know what to say to this since today had been long but it had also been hard for me to accept the fact that I had to marry the boy that had bullied me in school.
"It has also been hard; seriously I shouldn't have to marry this man. I don't even love him." I had to complain.
"We all have to make small sacrifices Allie." My mother stated.
"I know that. But: what about me? Don't I have rights? I work just as hard as everybody else around here. I should have the right to choose when I want to marry and whom I wish to get married to." I almost huffed.
"Honey you may not like Aidan now but perhaps you will like him when you're older." My mother stroked my cheeks lovingly.
"You're wrong I will never like him, he's pathetic, he's impudent and all he cares about is his stupid ego." I exclaimed.
This really wasn't going to be a good future for me. I knew once I was married to Aidan my whole life would change, I knew fine rightly that once I was married to him it could never be undone.
"When I married your father, I was just like you, I thought I wouldn't be able to love him but in time I grew to love him and to respect him. Your father is a good man, so give Aidan a chance maybe you don't like him now but maybe you will like him in time." I listened to my mother's words.
I wasn't married yet, I had until next Saturday to see Sarah for the last time and until I had to marry Aidan.
My mother eventually left the room, I felt so tired really I just hoped that college tomorrow would be better than today.
I turned off the lamp at my bedside table and decided to sleep over today's events and ended up having a strange dream.
Start of Dream:
I was walking around in the forest until I reached a small cottage it seemed as if no-one was at home since when I knocked on it three times nobody had answered it. I walked into the cottage to find nobody around in it. But before I could even sit down in the kitchen I heard someone or something growl from behind me. I turned around only to see the white wolf transform into his human form. I didn't know wolves had the ability to do that sort of thing. He looked gorgeous in his human form. He had short silvery hair that sat on his shoulders, blue eyes, and a white worn out shirt and a pair of white trousers but no socks to cover his feet or anything. He must've been 5 foot 10; he glared at me continually while growling towards me as if he was mad to see me here.
"Why have you come here?" He demanded.
"I just wanted to have a look around." I responded.
"I warned you never to come back to the forest." His eyes widened with fury.
"I didn't mean any harm." I assured him.
"Do you realise what you could have done!" He roared.
"Please stop!" I tried begging him as he started to throw furniture about while growling at me.
"Get out! Get out"!" He shouted until I had decided to run out of the cottage frightened of him. But for some strange reason I was no longer in the forest, the dream had taken me to a different place what looked like a bedroom in a large mansion. I was now standing beside a window gazing out at the view before hearing someone speak my name. "Allie." The voice was soft, I turned around to see who it was but I couldn't see anyone, the voice echoed throughout the room, the voice sounded familiar but I couldn't figure out who it belonged to. It continued to call my name asking me to stay but there was nobody in the room. Shooting could be heard from outside and I soon fainted on the ground only to be picked up by someone but I didn't know who it was.
End of Dream
I woke up I checked to see what the time was and it was actually 5.00 am, I had been having this dream for a few nights now and strangely enough I met the wolf from my dreams earlier on today in the forest but I don't know what the rest of my dream means when I was younger my mother told me if you keep on having the same dream it means something. Well I don't know what this dream of mine means. I do not know why I end up in a cottage, I do not know why my protective friend ends up raging out on me and I do not know why I end up in an unknown place hearing someone's voice. It is a strange dream I think.
I can't go back to sleep not after this I tell myself as I just rest my head down upon the pillows again hearing the wind howl outside as if it is angry at something. I sighed before watching the hours pass by. An hour has passed by and now for some strange reason I don't want to think this but I do, I somehow started to think of my fiancée, wondering if he was okay. I started to drift off into a deep slumber letting the sleep take over my eyes.
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"Aidan can you get me a bottle of wine?" I heard my father shout from upstairs, I was still standing where I had been standing for a few hours now near one of the windows in the living room gazing up at the stars continually. I couldn't get to sleep; I didn't even feel like sleeping even if I was shattered I didn't want to sleep for some reason. I heard someone walk into the living room and looked from behind to see who it was, it was Joe.
"Master it is 5.00 am shouldn't you try and get some sleep? You have college tomorrow; you'll be shattered tomorrow if you don't sleep sir." I heard him say.
"I'm not your master yet Joe." I reminded him.
"Yes sir, but your mother always wanted me to call you master even if you weren't master of the house. I miss her too she was a very good mother and a very good friend." He said quietly.
"Thank you Joe but if my father heard you say that you would be the one to face the consequences. My mother is no longer living here even if you and I miss her we have to face the fact, she's never coming back and nothing ever can bring her back." It hurt me to say those words that we both knew were true.
"Sir even if she is not living here anymore, there is still one place where she can live, she lives in your heart and she is very much alive in there." He whispered.
"Thank you Joe, you're a good butler and a good friend as well." I envied him sometimes because I wished I had his kindness.
"Joe where is my wine!" My father shouted. I watched Joe leave the living room and head for the kitchen; I followed him into the kitchen and noticed that his hands were shaking when he was lifting out one of the clean glasses from one of the cupboards. He was about to drop the glass I thought since he was shaking so badly but he managed to put it down on the worktop just in time. I motioned towards the fridge and got out a spare bottle of red wine before closing the fridge and poured some of the wine into the clean glass that Joe had lifted out.
"Let me take it up to my father Joe." I suggested. I might've been cold-hearted sometimes but I did care about Joe, he was not only a pleasant butler he was a friend of my family. Father would kill him if he dropped the glass of wine.
"Sir I have to take it up to your father he called my name after all." He stated.
"He called both of our names, but he called my name first before yours. I'll take it up to him you go and turn in for the night please I can handle my father." I assured him.
"Very well sir, good night." He patted my shoulder and left the kitchen, I heard him go upstairs since the staircase always creaks when you go up or down on it. I heard my father continually shouting and without a doubt he would come downstairs soon if I didn't come up to him first.
Without keeping my father waiting any longer I left the kitchen and made my way upstairs, he was either in his study or in his bedroom. I knocked on the study door before hearing my own father telling me to come in.
I opened the door slowly before entering the study; it smelt of his cigarettes sometimes I wished I could've told him to quit smoking but of course he wouldn't listen to me or to anyone so telling him to cut down on smoking wouldn't work. I placed the glass of wine down on to his desk where he often worked.
"What took you so long? Do I have to do everything around here?" He spoke bitterly.
"Sorry father I was sleeping downstairs and when I heard you I woke up." I lied.
"Well you can go back to sleep now I don't want to see you in my sight for the rest of the night." He told me harshly.
"As: you wish father." I said moving towards the door.
"Don't give me lip!" He shouted quickly moving from behind me and was about to strike me luckily I moved before he could strike me down and grabbed on to his cane and moved it towards him. For a moment he was struggling to move it back towards me but I continued to move it towards him before pushing him down on to the ground.
"Don't ever try and strike me again." I warned him making my departure from the study and made my way back towards my own bedroom.
Everything in my life at the minute was a complete mess, yes I had enjoyed seeing Allie earlier on but it didn't solve anything not even this engagement could solve anything. Life was always hard, it wasn't anything like what you would see in the movies and as harsh as that may sound it was true and people who didn't believe it were fools in my opinion.
Gosh I was going to be shattered by tomorrow, tomorrow would be college. I sat down on my bed just relaxing until I ended up falling asleep.
The morning came in quickly, the sun had risen, and I wallowed in bed before waking up to the sunrise. I looked around the room before hearing my door knock.
"Who is it?" I asked.
"Pardon the intrusion sir but breakfast is ready." Joe said.
"Very good Joe I'll be down in a minute." I told him.
"Yes sir." He responded.
I got changed into nothing very exciting just a pair of old blue jeans, a black top, a blue hoody and a pair of old white sketchers.
I walked downstairs and entered one of the living rooms where my father sat at a large table; the table had been covered already by a green cloth, all sorts of fruits were already on the silver trays on the table.
"Morning: son." My father greeted me.
"Good morning father." I greeted him back.
I sat down at the other end of the table on the left, eating away at some of the fruits while noticing how fast my father was eating his food, I grunted quietly while eating my breakfast until I had finished eating and just decided to have a drink of orange juice while waiting patiently for my father to finish his breakfast.
It was already 6.30 am; I had to be in college by 9.00 am even though I had plenty of time I wanted to get away quickly from father for today. I made my leave for college; I walked out of the house and got into my black Mercedes and made my way to college.
Once I had reached college I ended up parking beside the same red Honda that I had parked beside last Friday. The timetables were always different on Mondays, sometimes I would have Biology first and then sometimes I would have French first. I stopped the engine once I had parked my Mercedes beside the Honda and scurried out of the car before locking it behind me and making my way into college it was near 9.00 already gosh time did go in fast when you weren't looking at it.
I ambled into the hallway until some of the girls as usual came up to speak to me. However, I really didn't feel like talking to any of them since most of them just wanted to ask me out.
I continued to make my way to class until I noticed the timetable on one of the walls, it seemed that my class had been mixed with another; it was with the Business Admin class. The first class I had was drama really the drama class was always boring and the drama teacher always talked about famous actors and actresses we never really learnt anything in drama.
My thoughts were corrupted when someone shouted "Allie!" I turned around to see Allie was now coming in my direction not too far away from the canteen. My smile was soon wiped off my face when I noticed she was walking with her friends, a boy called Daniel he was a weirdo in the making because all he ever spoke about was spacemen and planets, and of course Sarah a wee diva who might've been beautiful but it was true she was a backstabber. When I continued to look straight ahead of me Allie finally had met my gaze, how on earth am I going to marry her? I never knew that she went to this college I only knew that I had seen Sarah around the college for a while at least.
"Say Allie is you okay? You look exhausted." Daniel remarked. I sighed before looking at him, yes I was tired but I didn't want to admit this not to my friends, I had managed to miss the first bus from my house this morning, gosh I wish I had a car of my own to drive. The next bus didn't come until 8.20 am and thankfully I had got to college just before 9.00 am. I had been greeted by Daniel and by Sarah near the parking lot. All of the people who parked their cars there must've had special permission to park their cars outside of the college but Sarah told me that only the rich kids could park their cars there and they didn't need permission not even from the teachers. I have to admit I was shocked to be honest when she had told me this. Apparently if you weren't rich but had a car you had to pay to park your car outside the college at the parking lot unlike the rich kids they didn't have to pay at all. It wasn't fair I thought before continuing to walk beside my two friends.
They promised to show me around the college since it was my first day here, Sarah told me that we had drama first class today since she carried a timetable with her but she reminded me that at times the timetable would change. I was in the same class as her, our class was known as BA short for Business Administration. We walked towards the canteen until I noticed the one person that I didn't want to see, my one and only fiancée. He was standing beside one of the walls that had a timetable on it.
"I'm okay thanks Daniel." I answered quickly. The bell rang and apparently it meant it was time for classes to start.
"Well I better get to class here, see you later Allie." He said before heading to his own class.
"Allie that guy looks familiar over there. Do you know him?" My best friend asked me.
Gosh I wanted so badly to tell her yes I do know him, I know him well enough to know that he used to bully me in school and now I am engaged to him. But of course I couldn't tell her anything like that.
"No I don't know him at all." I lied. We continued to walk to class, I didn't bother to make any eye contact when we walked passed him until we were finally in the drama class. According to Sarah our class was mixed with Retail.
"Hey Allie are you still going to the cinema with me?" Sarah whispered before we took our seats in drama. It almost looked like a P.E room where you could do gymnastics but then again it had a large stage on the right hand-side of the room. There were at least ten girls and at least fifteen boys in the room. Then as if I just couldn't get rid of him, my fiancée came into the class.
"Yes I am still coming." I answered.
"Goodie." Sarah exclaimed.
"Mr Herman?" She tried getting the teacher's attention. Mr Herman was the college's drama teacher, he was in his mid-twenties by the looks of things, and apparently he was very good when it came to drama. According to Sarah he used to teach Hospitality & Catering but since the old drama teacher left Mr Herman was asked to take over drama. He was sitting on one of the seats a fair distance away from the door. He was quite bright for his age, he had short fair blonde hair, dark brown eyes, fair skin and quite tall Sarah reckoned he was at least 6 foot. He was reading some sort of paper until he finally looked up towards us.
"What is it? Sarah." He asked.
"We have a new student in the class." She looked towards me.
He placed his paper down on the chair before sitting up and walked towards me.
"Ah yes, I was told that somebody new was starting college today." He said pleasantly.
"Yeah her name is Allie." Sarah told him.
"Sarah will you please go and sit down?" He asked.
Sarah did as she was told leaving me with the drama teacher he had asked me my name and as shy as I had been I had managed to tell him my name. He had told me to take a seat and I had decided to sit beside Sarah.
Honestly I wished there were more girls than boys, there were just too many boys.
I noticed that Aidan was now sitting beside Jessica, seriously what made him sit beside
her when he didn't even like her? Not that I'm jealous or anything but still why did he
have to sit beside her? I crossed my arms across my chest while trying to talk to Sarah.
When I tried telling her about the phone call I had received from Jessica last night she had changed the subject completely, she decided to talk about a guy that usually goes to our class and is dead drop gorgeous to her known as Jace. I tried telling her about the phone call but for some strange reason she wouldn't listen.
From time to time I looked back on my fiancée he was now making Jessica laugh about something some husband he will make. If: he is going to act like this fine by me.
Just as I was starting to think this day would be better than yesterday Mr Herman had decided to call us both chit-chatty girls and had decided to move me from Sarah to Aidan. I wanted to scream at him, I moved towards where Jessica was sitting and thankfully she had moved from her own seat to where I had been sitting beside Sarah. I sat down beside my fiancée before I noticed that cheeky grin he had decided to give me.
"Hello Allie." He whispered. I didn't respond back to him instead I stayed silent to be honest I didn't feel like talking to him when I didn't speak to him he immediately pinched me on the neck. Seriously what do I have to do in order to give him the message? I don't want to talk to him? I thought trying to keep calm when Mr Herman started the class.
"Trust me you won't enjoy drama." I heard him say.
"Maybe you don't enjoy drama but that doesn't mean my opinion will be the same as yours." I said harshly.
"Ooh somebody woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning is it because you didn't have me to cuddle into?" He joked.
"Whatever." I really couldn't be bothered with talking to him.
"Is there something amusing that you guys would like to share with the rest of the class?" Mr Herman pointed at us.
"Oh I was just saying how much I enjoy drama." Aidan covered.
"Yeah: you and me both bro." Mr Herman had fallen for his lie.
"You can thank me later baby." He placed his arm around my neck. I huffed quietly during class I really didn't feel comfortable with this.
We didn't learn anything special just the basics of acting I guess my fiancée found this boring but I found it quite interesting. It lasted until break time, when we got out of class I was looking forward to be talking to Sarah again but of course the man I had been told to sit beside wasn't going to let that happen. I wasn't too far away from the canteen when my so called fiancée had decided to grab me from behind and grin down at me. "Hey! Let me go!" I told him while he was grinning.
"Have break with me and I will." He really did know how to piss me off.
"Why would I want to have to eat anything with you?" I tried again to get out from his grasp.
"Stop struggling we both know you're just too weak." He made that sound more like a statement rather than a joke.
"Shut up!" I shouted before his grip tightened around my waist more. He let go of me after a few minutes of wasting my break time. After a while I made my way into the canteen and got some break.
Very few of the tables were free, when I tried searching for a table that was free I noticed Sarah sitting at a table for four, and surprisingly she was speaking to Jessica across from where she was sitting. This is just too weird why is my best friend talking to a girl who said that she was a backstabber? Why do they look like as if everything is okay between them? What on earth is going on? I thought while considering about leaving the canteen with my bowl of hot tomato soup on my tray before someone had pulled me from the hand.
"What's the matter?" My fiancée asked.
"Please piss off." I told him before walking out of the canteen.
I sat down outside of the canteen and started to eat my soup. This was just too strange my best friend now talks to a person who called her a backstabber when I received the nasty phone call from Jessica last night.
Break time finished in no time and now we had History and our class was still mixed, in fact we were mixed all day with Retail. It didn't take long for everyone from my class and from Retail to come out from the canteen. When Sarah came out from the canteen her gaze was on me, she gave me a faint smile and tried talking to me but when she asked me what was wrong I responded by telling her nothing. And to make my day worse Aidan had decided to walk beside me and hold my hand. I tried to remove his hand from mine but he was far too strong and he had tightened his grip.
"What's wrong?" He repeated his question. I wasn't going to get out of this one at all.
"I'm just pissed off today that is all." I made my answer short while trying to pay no attention to the people who were passing by me.
Everything had been so strange recently; we stayed in silence after I had told him that. For a moment or two I had taken the opportunity to look at Aidan, he was gorgeous, beautiful posture I had to admit that, beautiful eyes and lovely features. It wasn't very long until I heard him chuckle.
"Are you checking me out? Allie Jenkins." He removed his hand from mine and placed it over my shoulders.
"No I'm not doing that why would I check you out? I don't even like you." I exclaimed.
"You're a very bad liar." He teased me before he stopped in the hallway trying to decide whether or not to walk up the stairs or take the lift since most people took the lift since they were so lazy.
"Let's take the lift." I suggested.
"I don't think so we're taking the stairs little lady whether you like it or not." He winked.
This is something I guess I would never be able to get used to. My husband-to-be just
winked at me. "I want to take the lift." I exclaimed.
"But I do not gorgeous." He teased me once again before dragging me all the way up the
staircase and through the various hallways until we were on the third floor and had
found the second door on the left which was the history class.
The class was taught by Mr Anderson according to the timetable, we ambled through
the class until we took our seats and sat at the back. Normally I wouldn't sit at the back
I guess you could say it was because of the older ones.
We learnt about Catholics' and different religions I wasn't a fan of religions but I still
respected them. The class lasted until lunch time which was at 12.30 we had to do an
essay on religion and I have to say as much as I enjoy history I really did not want to do
an essay.
Again the same as break time I couldn't get rid of Aidan, he decided to stay with me for
lunch time and had decided to buy me some lunch from the canteen.
We had found one of the empty tables, a table for two in the canteen.
"So how is everyone at home?" I heard him ask.
"My father doesn't like being in debt." I answered him.
"That's not what I asked." He grinned.
"Why are you grinning? I don't like men who grin at me." I admitted.
"I find you funny especially when you're angry." He continued to grin.
"My mum and dad are fine thanks. How is your mum and dad?" I responded.
His brows rose slightly when I had asked that question. "My dad is fine thanks." He said.
"And: your mum?" I questioned.
"We should probably be getting to class we have Biology for our last class." He said.
He had changed the subject completely I wondered why though.
Before we decided to exit the canteen I noticed Jessica moving towards us.
"Aidan! Aidan." She screamed as if she was a strangled cat.
"What do you want?" He growled.
"I just wanted to say Hello what are you doing here with this old weirdo?" How dare she.
From that moment I wanted to slap her right there in the face, but then again I knew it
wouldn't: be a good idea since it would just get us into trouble.
"What am I doing here with this weirdo? Hmm:" Oh goodness not him too.
"Well you see if you hadn't been coming over here I would've told you earlier."
I didn't understand him at all, what was he up to now? It couldn't be good anything that
Involves him with another person can't be good.
"Really: why are you hanging around her for? She isn't interesting at all." She stated.
"Jessica: do you want to hear a joke?" He grinned again towards me before smirking to
her.
"Sure I love your jokes." She said joyfully.
"Knock knock." He started the joke.
"Who's there?" She asked.
"How about you go and piss off." He said and sat up from his chair before moving it back
In. He ambled behind me before moving my chair out for me. I sat up and even though I
wouldn't admit this to him not directly anyway I was quite impressed with his joke.
I wanted to laugh out loud but knew it was better just to walk out with my fiancée and
not cause trouble. The bell rang shortly after we had left and we made our way up to the
second floor and found the third door on the right.
At least he was useful for one thing I thought. The class was okay I guess but not one of
my favourite subjects I guessed, pretty boring I must say. History was better in my
opinion. The class finished at 4.00 home time finally. I made my way down to the
ground floor until I saw Daniel a few feet away from the staircase.
Again I wasn't able to get away from my fiancée instead of walking beside me he had
decided to walk behind me and grab me from behind as if I was nothing but a
china doll. "What are you doing?" I almost screamed if he hadn't have covered my
mouth with his hand. "Shush I'm: basically wanting to spend time with you." He
smirked.
After a few minutes he loosened his grip around my waist and had decided to let go of
me and followed me until I had noticed Daniel's expression.
"What are you doing? You're not supposed to be hanging around with him." He
exclaimed. "Oh and you are loser." I heard Aidan say. Gosh he had ways of pissing me off.
"I'm her friend!" Daniel shouted. "If you were her friend you would allow her to hang
out with who she wants without any questions but then again you are a weird."
"Hey will you both just shut up! Seriously is this what you enjoy doing? Because if it is I
would rather spend time on my own rather than hang around with anybody in college."
I lost it. I rambled out of college before I had decided to catch one of the buses that
would take me home. But on the way home all I could think about was my fiancée.
I will never be able to become friends with him or be able to love him either.
All I will be able to do will be this put up with his obnoxious behaviour.