Shadow

Ava

The music was banging right into my core when we stood on the side of the dance floor, mere steps away from the loud speakers that were hanging in the ceiling. We were having a girls night out - were because stupid Jeremy and the rest of the satanic boyfriends found us and joined us only after a few minutes we stepped into the club. I couldn’t say anything because a) I could see how happy it made the girls and especially my best friend Cecily because she felt much more comfortable dancing with Jeremy than with us. She knows that no one will approach or let alone look at her with that monster by her side and b) who the fuck would even listen? Since they were all occupied I was free to dance the night away, flirting, mingling and similar just to keep my head away from a certain he-who-should-not-be-named. It frustrated me that he still lived rent free in my head and seeing the girls with their boyfriends just triggered him to basically own each of my brain cells. I hated this. I hated him. Hate.

So I was very thankful when this random guy I danced with for a few songs pulled me aside to get some privacy. You could tell he was not your regular fuckboy as he didn’t try to touch me inappropriately or corner me too much. Even now he had pulled me not by my hips or waist but by carefully holding my hand and leading me to the side. He realized that we were standing pretty unfavorable so he motioned outside and I nodded when he carefully took a hold of my hand again. I looked back to my girl squad and nodded to myself when I saw them all being protected by their boyfriends. The girls were dancing basically in the circle and each of their boyfriends were standing around them, building a freaking wall. They looked like dangerous bodyguards ready to kill anyone who dared to come close. So they were save. As usual. I was the unsafe one as I was yet again putting myself in a stranger-danger situation. Apparently I just don’t learn from my mistakes. 

You just want a certain someone to get you out of these dangerous situations…

I cursed at the stupid, absolutely lying voice in my head. That was most definitely not true.

Outside, the guy, I think his name was Nathan, pulled me to a dark corner, under a tree next to the club. We were still close enough to hear the bass from the club and I could still see some people mingling outside so I allowed myself to feel secure. 

„Pretty loud, huh?“

Well, duh?!

„Yeah“ I fake laughed. „So, what is it?“

„I, uh, I was wondering…“ It was too dark to tell but Oh Em Gee was this boy blushing? What was going on?

„Listen, Ava, I’ve been following you for a while now- not in a creepy way or anything. We just cross paths a lot on the campus.. which you.. probably didn’t notice but uh“

Jesus, cut to the chase…

„…anyways I was thinking maybe, you and I, I mean we could-“

I watched Nathan’s eyes widening when he suddenly stopped his blabbering. I waved my hands in front of his face to regain his attention but there was no use. Only then I noticed the shadow above us and turned to see a certain someone I definitely NOT wanted to see. „God damnit, do you ever stop talking?“ His deep voice made my soul curl into an excited and submissive little shit. Traitor. I rolled my eyes, crossing my arms as I jutted my hip out in a stand full of attitude. „What do you want, Eli?“ His gloomy eyes that were fixating Nathan stayed on him with a threatening glare for a second longer before his hard gaze locked with mine. Something in me wanted to believe that a little light sparked in them when our eyes met. „How often did I tell you to behave?“

„And how often did I tell you that you don’t control me“

„Probably as many times as you are wrong“

He smoothly got between me and Nathan and grabbed his collar, pressing the poor guy against the tree. „ELI!“ He ignored me. „So, you’ve been watching what’s mine, huh?“

„I am not yours, you frea-“ The last word stuck in my throat when he cut me off with a warning glare. „Lo-look, I‘m s-sorry man. I-I didn’t know sh-she was taken“ Nathan stuttered. Eli killed the poor boy with his look for an endless minute before a sudden smile graced his face and he let go of the boy. „Well, then we are clear“ He said with a fake joyful tone. Fake because I knew him. He was like a snake, mischievous and dangerous in his game. No one knew what his next move would be. He fixed Nathan’s shirt, dusting off his shoulder when gradually his dusting off turned into half slapping the poor guys shoulders and chest. In a last moment suddenly he pulled him close by his jacket again, Eli being a head taller than him. I could hear him whisper and it made the hairs on my neck stand by just witnessing this side of him. He was atrocious…

„If I ever see you close to her again or witness you watching her, I will make you eat your own dick, you hear me?“ An almost girly whine left Nathan’s lips before nodding several times and rushing into the darkness as soon as Eli let him go.

„You are UNBELIEVAB-“ This time it wasn’t his eyes that cut me off but his lips that claimed mine in a savage kiss. I tried to push him off but I might as well push against a wall by the way he was not moving even a tiny inch. He took a hold of my wrists, completely ignoring my attack on his tongue when he so shamelessly invaded my mouth and just swallowed the blood down while pushing me against the tree.

I gasped when my back hit the trunk harshly which made him chuckle cruelly. He pulled back.

„Why are you laughing“

„Because of the poor guys face. He almost pissed himself“

His chuckle turned to a full blown laughter.

„You are sick“ I panted, ignoring the fact that my body was heating up by the closeness of his rock hard body.

He stopped laughing in an instant. This guy was crazy.

„Me? Sick? You are the one putting these lowlifes at life risk by allowing them to get close to you“ He dipped down and licked shamelessly over my bottom lip which made me shiver in response. „Fight, bite and scream all you want, nightingale, it won’t change the fact that you are mine and mine only“