In a bid to lose her innocence to some random guy just before she leaves for college, Leah goes to a bar full of men with her friend. However, fate draws her to one man and she goes home with him. After a night of wild passion, she doesn't remember much but his face is not one she can forget. Her first class on campus, she realises the man who took her first kiss and virginity is none other than Jared, her Econs professor.What can she do? What should she do? Pretend it never happened or confront him on the fact that he'd left her all alone in his house and had to find her way back home?Jared thinks he's made the biggest mistake of his life but what happens when Leah is named a second representative of her class, will he continue to make that mistake? Secrets will be exposed, friends will become haters.Will their past leave them alone or will it come hunting for both of them in human form? How long can they pretend? How long can they hide it from the school?
View MoreThere was no one waiting outside his door. Perfect.I checked around for any nurses or doctors walking around. When I found none, I entered his room.I almost gagged upon entering. The smell of burnt flesh.The doctors had said it was a miracle that he was alive, considering the fact that he was doused jn gasoline. Only his entire left arm was completely burnt and a small part of his face. Miracle? I'd say the universe was offering me an option to end his life in another way.I approached him. He breathing was a little rapid and I could almost see the dips his face, probably from being a pain.At least he could feel. Jared had way too many tubes running through him and he couldn't even express discomfort if he wanted to.I looked at the drip connected to the back of his palm. Doing what was barking at me in my head wouldn't wake Jared but it'd give me a whole lot of satisfaction. I moved closer to the drip, finding the part that connected the bag to tube. It scared me that I could
"Damien, have you heard anything yet?" I hurriedly put some things of Jared’s inside a bag and tied my shoelaces. I was doing everything at once, just trying to hurry back to the hospital."Not yet." His place looked really empty. He'd been staying with us, in Aly's apartment, ever since the incident and only went back to his place to pick up his stuff.I sighed as I took one last look at his house and closed the door."Let's go."The drive back to the hospital was very much silent except when my phone chimed. I picked it up from his house and wondered who was texting at such an odd hour.I unlocked my phone and saw whom the text was from. There were countless others and the new one was just a follow up.I scrolled page after page. I knew a text wouldn't do. So, I called instead. It barely rang for three seconds before the call was answered."Oh my God." The breath of relief on the other end of the phone didn't go unnoticed. "Leah?""Jack...""What the hell man?" Was he crying?"Ja
I sat outside the hospital as thunder rolled. October was ending and rain should've been far far away.It only helped darken the already dead atmosphere. I'd always hated the hospital. Only bad memories existed there.I had two years of my life wasted in that space and I didn't even know it. Then I was forced into hospital rest for a couple if weeks before finally leaving.They said it was a miracle I survived but I thought it was a mistake. What happened to me off set so many wrong things in my life.I walked with the need to cover up because of my scars, the hanging feeling that I was solely responsible for what happened to me and a darkness that shrouded my life.A lot of people say they hate themselves but it's never really true. When you hate yourself, you can't bear the thought of you existing. I realised this when I could never bring myself to end it all.Or maybe I just hated myself enough to continue living in that hate.Whatever it was, I used to keep it hidden. It always w
LEAH'S POV "Jared, what about Jared?" I was kicking and screaming, wanting to go back for him, but the hold these guys had on me was too tight that I was basically dangling in the air."You first ma'am, as instructed by Mr Deric." I almost headbutted Damien, right then and there."Matt is crazy. He'll... we can't leave him there." I kept looking back and they kept looking smaller and smaller."We'll go back for him once you're safe and secu..." All of us flew back from the noise of a blast.My heart sank into my stomach as I saw the building erupt in flames. The cuts from the scrapes after falling didn't sting.There was a ringing in my ear and my body grew disoriented. Maybe it was the force of the blast, maybe it was the siren of the police cars that had just arrived, but that wasn't what had my attention.It was the sea of orange that danced in the distance that had my full attention. As if my brain finally realised what was happening, I screamed at the top of my lungs. "No no n
JARED’S POVThe streets were lit up by Jack-O lanterns. The worst kind of night to commit a crime. No one would see you, no one would care. I wasn't sure why exactly we celebrated Halloween. To me, it was just like 'purge'Some roads were jammed and it didn't even matter that I was yelling at everyone and everything."Damien, what do you have for me?" I stepped on the gas, going faster than the state speed limit."If we cut through this block, we should get there in 10 minutes." The foreboding feeling that had born brewing inside me since we entered Matt's house only seemed to expand as we got closer to Leah's old house.We'd looked into it and saw that the Hamiltons, Becka's parents had bought the house after Leah went to college but left it as is.It was empty after creditors had taken most of the things in the house but they left the house itself untouched.I wasn't sure why they bought the house and just left it alone.Pity? Empathy? Regret? None of that really mattered in the m
"What? You don't like it?" Matt's smile downturned into a frown.I was in shock. I couldn't move. I couldn't even blink."It was hard you know. Finding your previous home. Especially since it should belong to someone else.""I think the first time I came here, it was just after the gala.""I'm guessing it was your first fight with... Becka, is it?"How did Becka even factor into this?"When I love someone, I love them with everything I have. It's strange to be labelled as obsessive and compulsive just because you follow them everywhere.""You mean stalk them." I wasn't sure how I found my voice but I did and I was beyond thinking about finding a way to escape.I wouldn't mind dying here if it meant taking him along. My eyes still watered and tears fell but I couldn't find it in me to care."I don't stalk. I follow and protect.""So, you followed and protected me all the way to the gala?""Yes." He smiled that smile that once charmed the socks off me but now, he looked nothing short
LEAH'S POV I groaned as I opened my eyes. The last thing I remembered was running out of class."You're finally awake." I groaned again, letting my brain catch up to my eyes. What the hell was this place? It didn't look familiar and..."What the fuck?" I pulled on my hands but instead, there was a tightening around my wrists and a rattling sound.I was panicking. I was supposed to be at school. At worst, I was supposed to be at home, with Aly and Jared."Where am I?""Home." I almost screamed at the fact that I wasn't alone. "Who's there?" I squinted hard at the darkness, only seeing the silhouette of a man."What, you don't remember me? I'm hurt Leah. Really hurt." Then light flooded the room and I shielded my eyes with my bound hands and feet, apparently.I looked up to see a smiling, familiar face.I froze in shock, not believing what I was seeing, whom I was seeing."Matt?""Tada!""I don't understand. How..." My mouth felt very dry. What the hell was going on? "What don't you
JARED’S POVI couldn't stop her if I wanted to. Not with her in that state.The doctor had called me outside a week ago to tell me that Leah had amnesia and that we should keep her away from any mental triggers as her breakdown could be worse than the one that had happened before.No one, absolutely no one should go through that can of traumatic experience. What was worse was the fact that she couldn't remember. Her body couldn't handle it, that was why we - I insisted that she stay home and rest.If over the couple of weeks she didn't remember, then maybe she wouldn't either and the news would've died down by then. But yet again, I had failed to protect her.When Aly came home, she went to Leah's room as usual to check on her. When she didn't find her, she came back downstairs. I'd been staying at their place for the past one week. I didn't want to but Aly said it would be good for Leah to keep seeing me. The way she'd stormed out of the house said otherwise and I couldn't really
"I have to go back to classes." I'd had enough. The boredom was killing me. The silence was killing me. The looks were killing me."Leah, you can't." I crossed my arms in defiance. My voice was back and I was using it to the best of its capacity. I'd been screaming the house down for days since no one would let me go out or tell me what the hell happened and why I was out of it for five days."Why?" Jared and I had been fighting non-stop for days too. He wouldn't let me leave the house and he wouldn't let me touch my phone. Why couldn't anyone understand that I was going crazy just trying to figure everything out without their help?"It's just not time yet." Jared frowned and I could see the fight behind his eyes. "Okay. Then give me my phone." I held out my hand but Jared's frown deepened."I can't do that.""Why the fuck not?" He scowled at my use of language against him."It's not just time yet.""What the fuck does that even mean?" I threw up my arms in exasperation."Everyone
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