You're sitting outside on a park bench, eyes closed and head facing towards the sky. You can feel the snowflakes falling on your face in an ever so dainty like manner. It's late at night so no one should be out, but you can feel a presence. You can feel your heartbeat picking up as you continue to keep your eyes closed.
Is it her?
No, you mustn't look
But you can feel their eyes on you
You must look; you have to look
As you open your eyes, you look down from the sky and see her
She's simply staring at you, and you feel your cheeks blaze under her intense gaze. It's no help that her eyes stand out and you can compare her to Ariel from the Little Mermaid. Hence why you call her that, in replacement for her real name which you still haven't learned. She walks up to you and smiles, embracing you for a hug. As you two are hugging, she whispers something clearly not audible.
As you ask her to repeat it again, she lets go and her behavior has clearly changed to an unfriendly expression. Her ice cold glare has thrown you off and you fear she might try and harm you.
"You, ruined our friendship." She replies voice low and deathly
She repeats it again but a little louder
You're starting to panic because this feels like déjà vu. You're palms are starting to sweat and you can feel the heat radiating inside you.
"Beca Mitchell, YOU. RUINED. EVERYTHING."
You stand up and she immediately walks towards you, jabbing a finger towards your chest
"WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT? EVERYTHING IS RUINED BECAUSE OF YOU!"
She's screaming and you're close to reaching a panic attack so you push her aside and run off. You can hear her screaming and running after you.
"HOW DARE YOU BECA MITCHELL, I'LL KILL YOU! DO YOU UNDERSTAND? YOU'RE FUCKING DEAD!"
You wake up at 6:32AM gasping for air. Your clothes are drenched in sweat despite you just sleeping in a tank top and underwear. Even though it was a dream, the thought of her threatening to kill you, really shook you. The familiarity of this situation was too real, and it scared you that she even appeared in your dream trying to kill you. She seemed so nice, why would she want to do anything of the sort?
You looked around the room and saw that your roommate was still sleeping. So you decided to go to the bathrooms to shower.
When you reached the shower you were soaping up when you heard someone's voice. You didn't even have to peak out of the shower to know whose voice it belonged to.
Yeahp, mermaid girl
You should call her Ariel, shouldn't you?
Nah, it doesn't really fit so well
Just your luck she happened to pick the stall next to you, damn and the curtains are semi-transparent
Her voice filled the empty showers and you slowly turned the shower on leaving it to just a trickle. You were trying to get out of there as quick as possible without her hearing you. You were trying to avoid talking with her because you felt so off about the dream. What happened if she really did snap and try to kill you? It's just to just pull away before anything bad happens.
It was a struggle trying to rinse off but you did it..to the most minimal amount. As you were grabbing your towel, your brush fell and she immediately stopped singing.
"Uh,...Is anyone there?"
As soon as she asked, you booked it and ran towards the exit. Thankfully you left just as soon as she opened her curtain to check.
It was around 7:00AM when you finally finished getting ready and decided to check out the library before heading to the nearby coffee shop.
You actually had no idea what you were looking for. Yeah, books not really your thing. But you decided to check a book out on certain types of body language.
Hopefully that book should be of some use to you
As you were making your way to the coffee shop you bumped into a fairly tall person. You tried not to roll your eyes as you took note of the dark blue eyes and sandy colored hair.
Ah yes, what a pleasure it is to bump into your cousin, Kristophe.
He gave you a playful smirk before speaking "Aw, cousy, you should really watch where you're going. Wouldn't want to get into any fights would we? Come 'on let's get some coffee."
How would you describe Kristophe?
Hm, The average trickster
In high school, there wasn't one year where he didn't get busted for pulling a prank. Eventually he had to become homeschooled because the school officials had nowhere else to transfer him to.
He asked about your schooling and work. Just the simple stuff, then out of nowhere he mentioned her. Well, he didn't mention her name but gave a description "That girl with the really crazy blue eyes and fire hair." Actually he asked how she was doing and if you still liked her. You narrowed your eyes and furrowed your eyebrows.
"Kristophe, how-What are you talking about?"
"You like her do you not?" He replied while stirring his coffee
There was a long pause
"...I do..."
"Well then what's the problem?"
"She's into someone else"
He never got to answer because someone walked in and called your name. Yeah, you don't even have to guess to figure it out. Damn, she's everywhere isn't she?
"Oh my gosh, Beca! How are you?" She replied smiling brightly at you
"Yeah, I'm great..." You said quietly, not looking up from your coffee
"Hey, would it be okay if we sat with you guys?" She asked, looking at you rather than Kristophe who was focused on them
You waved your hand and she sat down with her "friend?" across from you and Kristophe
You all talked about work and school, just the simple stuff.
Then Kristophe asked what her relations was, with the guy who was sitting next to her
Kristophe, ugh, you idiot. Why, why, why.
Before she could speak the young man jumped in "Ah, yeah, I'm her boyfriend!"
When you heard that your heart went out of whack. See? It was too good to be true, all the good girls always turn out to be straight...or taken.
What you hadn't noticed was that her gaze went to him and it was like she was shooting fire with her eyes. Her grip tightened and she reached under the table and did something that cause the young man to yelp.
Kristophe wasn't at all phased by this and smiled warmly at the two.
"Awe, that's so sweet! You guys look dashing together!"
He paused and snuck a glance over at you, a sly smile coming to his face
"Yeah, it was really hard, but I somehow managed to get Beca to say yes to being my girlfriend."
STOP. SCCCCERRR. TIRE SCREECH. FREEZZZZZEEEE.
You knew your eyes were turning green and you fists were starting to clench. Your teeth were grinding together and when you finally looked up at her, she was simply staring at you. Her eyes were wide and her mouth slightly open.
"Kristophe, we uh, we have to go now. I have a, uh thing, yeah." You say pushing him out of the booth and dragging him out of the coffee shop
You dragged him till you were finally about a couple of blocks away
"Kristophe, I'm... *Breathe Beca, Breathe* WHY. DID YOU NOT UNDERSTAND THAT I'M EMOTIONALLY UNAVALIABLE?" You screeched
"WHAT is wRONg WITH yoU?" You yell
He replies ever so calmly looking towards the sky
"Hm, Beca, you will thank me for this."
"Whatev Kristophe, go away. You're annoying"
He smiles and pats your head "Seriously, I've planned it out in my head."
You look at him, annoyance still all over your face "Planned what?"
"Ah, you'll see..." He replies, with his cheeky grin
ugh, stupid Kristophe, always messing with my head