Chapter 31: Chapter 31
Nyree watched me look at all of the papers in front of me and groan.
"Am I not going to attend Beach University?" I asked her.
"I honestly can't answer that, you have to ask Indigo that."
"I don't even remember her." I said.
I stare down at Indigo's picture and my hand flew to my head as it throbbed in agony. "Ugh!"
"Dani!" Nyree got up and ran to my side. "Dani! Are you okay? Is it your head? Do you need painkillers?"
I shook my head and felt like a knife was being dragged inside of my head. It was killing me. I screamed in pain and listen to Nyree's fast foot steps run out the bedroom door.
Then that same flashback happens again.
"B-because the monsters will get me..."
"Monsters?"
"Y-yes...mommy told me the monsters will get me if I don't go to sleep."
The unknown person sighs. "There is no monsters, Dani. She's just playing around, okay?"
The sound of a loud thud occurs somewhere inside of the house, which was quickly followed by the faint noise of whimpers and groans.
"W-what is that?" I ask with a shaking voice. "I-Is it-"
"Dani, maybe you should go to sleep."
"B-but is mommy okay?"
"Dani..." the person pinches the bridge of their nose while looking as if they were questioning life. "Please...just go to sleep, okay?"
I slowly nod as I slip under the covers. "Sorry..."
"Dani, don't-don't apologize. All you need to do is go to sleep for tomorrow."
"Yes..." I duck my head under the cover and heard the sound of their footsteps heading to the door.
"Goodnight Dani, sleep well."
The door closes and I tremble while I silently sobbed.
"They're fighting again...i know it." i mumbled before I drifted off to sleep.
I replay that same flashback over and over again in my mind. I squinted and the person's face started to reveal itself more clearly. It was Indigo, she looked more younger than in the picture, but she had her hair cut short back then.
She always comforted me back then, and hummed a similar tune to my mother. But hers was a bit different. It had a lighter tune and softer words that went with it.
Like a lullaby for a baby.
"There is no monsters, Dani. She's just playing around, okay?"
Our life before mother died was honestly tragic. You refusing to leave your room, but never wanted to fall asleep because of the 'monsters'. I remember it so clearly.
I dropped my hands from my head and looked up at the ceiling. My screaming stopped, my pain didn't stop, but her words were engraved into my mind.
"She always used to tell me the monsters weren't real." I mumbled. "For a adopted person, she really acted like she was around for a long time with me. I wonder what her thoughts were with me. Did she like me? Hate me? Care for me? What was on her mind?"
"Dani, I got the painkillers!" Nyree said and rushed into my room with a cup of water and a bottle of painkillers.
I looked down at her hands that were offering the two things and looked back up at her. "Did I complain about monsters with grandma?"
Nyree didn't respond, she put the cup of water in my hand and opened the painkillers.
"Did I?" I asked again.
Nyree held the painkiller in her hand. "She told me that you used to have a lot of nightmares about them, but-" she stopped talking mid-sentence and handed me the painkiller. "Don't worry about it, Dani. Just take the medicine and rest. I'll go look for your prescriptions and medical things."
Nyree left my room without another word.
I put the painkiller in my mouth and swallowed it with the water. I put the cup on the nightstand next to me and rested my head on my palm. "I can never read her mind."
~~~
I told Lauren my situation before I walked into detention, she offered to ask her parents to talk to Indigo about her taking over permanently, but the will clearly stated my mom wants me to take over by the time I graduate high school.
I turned down her offer and kissed her before entering detention to do my work.
By lunch time, I had to go thirty minutes later than everyone else, and I felt my phone vibrate in my back pocket.
I ignored the vibrations to continue doing my work, but it continued to vibrate so I peeked over my divider wall that separated me with someone else, and the staff member that was watching us was looking at their computer. I swiftly took out my phone, silenced it, and replied to their messages about where I was. Lauren was texting about studying after school so I told her to meet me at the car lot when school ends.
Luckily, Nyree gave me a second chance with the car, but told me to call before and after I leave school. If I don't, she'll personally drive me to school herself for the next full week.
I don't want to burden her with that, so I made sure to not get in trouble again to prevent that happening.
I tucked my phone away and went back to my work.
After thirty minutes went by, I was allowed to go to lunch and jogged there to eat. I was starving if I was being honest.
As I was getting my food, I felt a tap on my shoulder, I turned my head to see Lauren standing there with a big smile on her face. I was relieved seeing her after all morning without seeing her face, she was the serotonin to my day.
I kissed her cheeks then her lips and smiled. "I missed you all day."
"You just texted me, Dani." She replied.
I got the rest of my food and walked to a table with her. I chose a circle table by itself and sat down with her. "I know, but other than me needing to see you. Why are you here? Didn't you have lunch earlier?"
"Ms. Brown told me to wait in study hall with the rest of the class, while she attended a small meeting with the rest of the teachers on our hall."
"I wish I could sit in there with you, but detention is important first sadly."
Lauren puts a hand on my thigh and leans her head on my shoulder. "Yeah, but if we get to study after school then we'll spend more time together."
I took a bite out of my food and nod in agreement. I swallow it and place a kiss on her forehead. "You smell different. Fresh mint?"
"I was chewing the gum all morning, I needed something to relieve my stress."
"How did no one tell you to spit it out?"
"They did but I chewed it silently."
"Why are you like this?" I giggle. "But by the way I am kiss deprived."
"Why do you say things like that so casually? Just be shy again."
"Do you want my affection or not girl?"
Lauren took her head off my shoulder and kissed my cheek. "Yes. We can do it after school."
"Who said i'm waiting till after school?" I finish up my food in a few more bites. I sipped my drink and stood up from the table. "We have like twenty minutes or so left for lunch. We're going to the stalls."
Lauren stood up as well. "No sex."
I threw my trash away and smiled. "Don't worry, that's not my intention, your moans are too loud to risk it anyway."
"S-Shut up Dani."
I grab her hand and pull her to me to kiss her lips again. "I think my name for now isn't Dani, is it?"
"Dani, no....I don't want to say it. It's embarrassing." Lauren pouted.
I smirked and whispered into her ear. "Come on Lauren, I want to hear you say it."
"B-Baby..."
"Aw, see, that wasn't so hard, was it?"
"Shut up."
I giggle again and walked with her to the girl restrooms.
~~~
I locked the restroom stall shut and didn't waste time to lock lips with hers. I was desperately vulgar to taste her saccharine flavor off her tongue.
Her soft lips moved with mines and let her hands travel under my uniform to feel my bare back. Her finger tips teased where my bar strap was, and slipped under it to feel more of my back.
I let my hands to rest on her hips and pulled her closer to me. It was almost implausible that she could make my entire core heat up with temptation to just give her a taste of that morphine effect. I want her to sing out a high pitched keen from how my dorsum lap over to taste her cloying ardor.
Her lamentation was hypnotizing my mind in almost giving in but I didn't.
I tilted my head to the side some and bit down gently on her bottom lip. I pull her bottom lip out and smirked before letting go of it.
I licked her lips and pushed my tongue in between to ask for access. She pried her lips open and I stuck my tongue inside to meet with hers.
That rich, minty flavor mixed with her natural saccharine taste was memorizing. She let out a low, soft moan and I let one escape my throat too, she was driving me insane just from a simple kiss.
But hell her kiss was giving me avidity.
I grabbed her arms from around me and pinned them up against the stall wall above her head. Our tongues was melting with each other's piquancy, the fondness and passion in the slow and gentle kiss was releasing the oxytocin chemical inside of my brain, and that euphoric effect was traveling all over my nerves and honestly made my knees weak.
We kissed as if our lips and tongues was saying 'I love you' and brought the love we yearned for into our souls.
She brought one leg up and wrapped it around my waist to pull me in more.
I knew she wanted to run to fifth base and let go of this thread that we was holding on to. She wanted more just like me, but how could I risk it knowing her keens and laments was too audible for someone to hear.
I couldn't risk it, she has to hold on.
We pulled apart and looked into each other's eyes. Her eyes was dilated showing the arousal she was experiencing from this osculation.
She giggles softly and took her leg down from around my hip.
"What's so funny?" I asked.
"For a sad person, you surely are eager for this."
I giggle also. "Um, yeah I am, you are just sending all of my sadness away at this moment. Is that wrong to feel happy with you?"
"No, i'm just looking out for your well-being."
I kissed her jawline then her neck earning a low gasp from her. "I'm fine for now, just give me serotonin please. I fucking need it."
"Then give me your lips again." She breathes out.
I tease her a little before traveling back to her lips. I couldn't imagine not having her in my life.
She gives me magic to never fall into that dark pit I was in again, and her words of caring and affection goes straight to my beating heart. I love her and if grandma was still alive.
She'd say that my miracle in this life was her. Her love, her energy, her presence, her voice-just her is my light and my answer to being contented and alive.
~~~
The ear-deafening bell brought us out of our trance, and we booked it out of there. I gave her a quick peck before running back to detention before the staff member returned to see me missing.
Once the door opened, I sat at my assigned seat and let down my hair to fix it back into a bun. I fixed my uniform knowing it was a bit improper, and resumed back to finish my assignments-which was only a few sheets left.
I watched my pencil scribble down my words onto the paper, and tried to ignore that image of Lauren from inside of my head to concentrate.
I managed to finish my work for the day early, and was allowed a trip to the library to grab a book to read.
I took the pass from the staff member, and walked to the library knowing if I took a detour-they'd know since they called about me coming ahead of time.
I mentally pouted from not being able to sneak off to see Lauren again, it wasn't like nobody would care if I slipped into study hall to talk to her, but my light punishment wasn't to act against the principal's wishes. I had to obey to get them lifted.
Damn self-control is hard-maybe it's my hormones or something.
I made it to the library and handed them my pass to go find myself a book.
I eyed the students that were by themselves reading or on their phones, and walked to the packed selves to pick my entertainment for the next two hours.
I dragged my index finger along the binds of the books to search for one. I was at the non-fiction section, but nothing was catching my interest so I moved to the science fiction section. Nothing. I almost read everything over there anyway.
The fiction section was filled with stories that I probably wrote reports on already, and purposely ignored since I am a picky reader in general.
I walked over to the horror section of the library, and my eyes landed on a thick novel that had a paranormal creature on the cover. I picked it up and chose it to read to pass the time.
I walked to the librarians and handed them my selected book of choice.
"Open your eyes." The librarian read the title out loud and hummed. "Interesting choice."
"Have you read it yet?" I asked.
"Horror or Thriller isn't my choice of genre for reading, but I heard it's fun to read."
"It is." I said as I took out my student identification card for her to scan.
She scanned the card and handed me the book back. "Bring it back before the school year, kay'?"
"You know me, Ms. Grassland. I will bring it back on time." I said grabbing my pass and heading out the door to go back to detention.
I handed the staff member the pass back, and sat at my seat to begin reading my book. Open your eyes.
~~~
"You guys are dismissed." The staff member said.
I slipped out the door and speed walked to the car lot to meet Lauren.
"Dani!" I heard a voice call out to me.
I turn to see Melanin. "Oh hey, Melanin."
"How did you get in trouble, Dani? I thought you were the goody-two shoes of the school." she joked and playfully hit me on the arm.
"I walked off campus during school hours." I said.
"Why?"
"I ran to go see my grandma to double check to see if she was really dead. She is."
"I'm so sorry for your loss, Dani. What are you going to do now?"
"Live with her nurse until I graduate probably."
"Who?"
"Her name's Nyree." I said.
"I should come over to meet her sometime."
"You should but I have to go. See you, Melanin." I waved goodbye and walked away.
"Bye Dani!" she waved back and ran off to her bus.
I took out my phone and dialed Nyree while I walked towards Lauren.
She smiled and walked next to me as I put the phone to my ear.
It rang a few times before it connected. "Hello?" I heard Nyree answer.
"Hey Nyree, i'm out of school."
"Okay great, I left some food in the fridge, I have to work a bit late."
"Okay, and is it okay for Lauren to come over to study?"
"Uh sure, just don't do any funny business under my roof."
"I won't, Nyree." I took the keys out of my bag.
"I'm seriously, if I see anything or notice anything. You are two days without any company or a phone."
"So strict." I whined and stabbed my key into the lock.
"It is to get you under control, Dani. I have to go but call if you need me."
"I will, buh-bye."
"Bye."
The line cut and I opened my door to get in. I unlocked the passenger side door and reached over to open it for her. I put my phone into my bag and tossed it onto the back seat.
Lauren climbed into the car and shut the door behind her. "Nice car."
"You rode it before."
"I know but it looks good still."
"If you like it so much, buy one yourself." I cranked the car up alive.
"Nah, I rather ride in this one with you instead. It has history behind it."
"Hm, I guess you love anything if it deals with me, huh?"
"Duh, I love you and everything about you."
"Cute but i'm not giving you anything cringy back." I pulled out the parking space and drove out of the parking lot.
"Just something simple."
"How simple?"
"You know...to make me blush or turn shy."
"Okay." I drove onto the road. "Your eyes reflect the world in them, I rather look in them for hours to see paradise."
Lauren grabbed two handful of her long curly hair and hide behind them. "Oh my god, how can you say that with a straight face?"
"You asked for something cringy and I gave it to you."
"I did but I didn't expect a damned poetic sentence."
"You're welcome, beautiful." I said sarcastically.
"Ugh, thank you Dani."
"Uh-huh. No problem, Lauren."
"Stupid Dani." Lauren looked out her window.
"I love you more, sexy."
"Stop it." Lauren looked like she was dying of embarrassment.
I chuckled. "Nah, say it back or else i'm just going ham on this gas."
"You wouldn't."
I slowly put more weight onto the gas, and smiled when Lauren squealed at the increase of speed.
"Okay, okay, I love you even more, so slow down."
I took off some of the weight off the gas and said; "Thank you, Lauren."
"Crazy." she mumbled.
"I'm your crazy."
"Oh my god."
"Haha."
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