Those eerily familiar eyes.

That face.

Him.

He locked his eyes with mine, they were actually a very dark shade of brown, almost black. I noticed his hair for the first time, they were dark brown and reached just below his ears, they were messy as if he ran his hands through them a lot. I didn't want to look away and it looked like neither did he. He looked unfazed and almost bored, as if he wasn't surrounded by a bunch of students who were trying to talk to him. He answered them without breaking our little stare.

Who in god's name was he?

My thoughts were interrupted when Sarah not so subtly elbowed my side clearly waiting for a response. I jumped and reluctantly looked away and focused on her.

"Uh yeah.. I guess" I replied without giving it much of a thought. I looked back towards him and saw that he was no longer looking my way and was engrossed in a conversation with Kia, the most friendly person in school.

Could he really be the same guy? The boy from my dream? I couldn't be very sure, it was really dark in the dream. Maybe I was thinking too much about this. There is no way in hell that a boy from my dream could suddenly come out of it and into the 'real' world.

I tried to clear my head as I followed my friend to the back of the class where we usually sat.

***

The class went by in a blur. Me and Sarah walked to our next classes, she had Geography while I had English Lit., she usually walked with me to my class as it was on the way to hers.

"So, you think the new guy is hot too? Anybody couldn't miss you gawking at him -not so subtly may I add- even if they tried to." She winked.

"No! What?! I wasn't 'gawking at him' okay! He just looked familiar, that's it." I stopped mid step and rolled my eyes at her.

"Whatever you say." she winked again. Ugh. Okay he didn't look too bad, I also did admit that to myself in the dream. No Wait. Don't think crazy Ivory, he wasn't in your dream. Period.

"Oh and did you just say 'too'?" I asked with a small smirk.

"Yeah well he is, did you not notice all the other girls ogling at him?" She scoffed. "And I have a very hot boyfriend myself, thank you very much." She added with a smile. I smiled back.

She and her boyfriend Nicolas or Nick as we called him, were like the cutest couple in our school. It had been only a year since they've been going out but they both were whipped. I could see it. They could see it. Everybody within a one mile radius of them could see it.

And speaking of the devil,

"Hey guys." Nicolas walked over to us. They both had the same class next and walked together from my class, which I realised we had now reached.

"Hey babe" Sarah said and hugged him. "Hey Nicky!" I replied at the same time with a grin.

"Let it go Ivy. You know how much I hate that name." He groaned.

Last Halloween he thought it'd be funny to dress up as a girl for god knows what reason, and so he totally had that name coming. He actually got drunk at the party and begged us to call him 'Nicky' for the night. Didn't seem to hate the name that time. Funny guy he is.

"Too bad, too sad" I clicked my tongue at him. He just rolled his eyes in reply but I swear I could see him smile a little as Sarah laughed.

"I gotta go now! See you guys at lunch!" I waved them off and walked into my class.

English Literature was one of my favourite subject. Our teacher, Mrs. Winters was really well versed with literature, I was in awe of her when she had introduced herself last year. She had a specific way of teaching that I thought was fun, she would choose a book for us to read and tell us to read it in parts at home on weekends and then we thoroughly discussed what we read, in the class on Monday, and then in the following days she gave us notes to comprehend the text better and took pop quizzes based on the part that we read at home. We also read in class but not that much, we discussed more than we read.

The class soon began after Mrs. Winters walked into the class and sat on the desk. That's what she usually did. We were reading Wuthering Heights now and today we were supposed to discuss what we read in this weekend. We had to read chapters 4,5,6,7 and 8.

We were in the middle of the discussion about Mrs. Dean's character when everyone looked at the door from where a deep voice interrupted us.

"May I come in ma'am?" I was surprised to see the new guy standing awkwardly at the door. I should really ask someone for his name.

"And who are you?" Mrs. Winters got off the desk and walked towards him.

"Eliot Grace, new student. I got lost on my way to class. Sorry won't happen again." He said scratching the back of his neck.

"It's okay. Welcome to Gingerville. Please take any empty seat and we'll get back to the discussion. I'll appoint someone to fill you in about what all have we completed at the end of the class." Mrs. Winters replied. She wasn't much of a fan of those 'student introductions' that the most teachers made any new student do. Eliot looked relieved about it too.

He walked over to the nearest empty chair, which was a couple of chairs away from me, and sat down. I looked over at him only to find him already looking at me. I smiled at him, trying to be friendly and he just smirked in reply. Okay then.

All of a sudden I felt a stinging pain in my left arm. Just like my dream! I looked down at my arm and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't freaking out. There, on the same place as in my dream was a very light pink scar. I traced it lightly with my finger to see if it hurt anymore. It started disappearing as my finger trailed over it. Woah. What the hell?!

I looked back at Eliot and he wasn't looking at me anymore. His jaw looked tense, and his whole body looked stiff, his hands were in fists on the table and if I knew him at all I could say that he looked really angry suddenly.

This was so confusing. Why did Eliot look so familiar? Could he really be the dream guy! How even? What the fuck is happening?

I sighed and decided to not think about the dream anymore, even though I was freaking out in my head because of it, or someone.

I didn't really pay much attention in the class or in the classes that followed, which not so surprisingly had Eliot in them too. My mind kept wandering elsewhere.

It was lunchtime and I was walking to the cafeteria with Vanessa and Amy at my side, we had History together before lunch. They both did a pretty well job in distracting me, these two could talk about anything and everything under the sun and I have to admit it was really entertaining and hilarious to watch them talk all animatedly about how Amy saw a guy who looked a lot like Chris Evans and convinced him to give her an autograph. She has a date with him this Friday. I shook my head in amusement as we walked over to the counter to get our food.

I filled my tray with chicken salad and few fries and went over to our table and spotted Sarah and Nick already sitting there, just looking at each other and smiling. Creepily cute couple.

"Hey guys what's up?" I asked sitting down in my chair. Vanessa and Amy soon joined us.

"The sky" Nick- Oh sorry- Nicky replied with a stupid grin. Sarah let out a small chuckle at that. Seriously? How'd she even end up with this guy again?

"Grow up you two" I rolled my eyes at them. They just looked at each other and shrugged. Sigh. Love. Makes you stupid.

"Hi guys!" We looked up from our food to see our other friends Jack and Matt join us, but they had a third person towing behind them. Eliot.

"Can he sit with us?" Jack asked taking a chair himself. Everyone except me nodded in reply, I just sat there looking at him. Was he stalking me or something? He was everywhere I swear!

I could see Sarah looking at me from the corner of my eye so I took my eyes off him and nodded slowly. I looked at her and gave her a questioning look, she just smirked and shook her head. Weirdo.

All that time Eliot didn't say anything and just quietly sat in the chair next to mine. He took a brown paper bag from his sack, his lunch, and began to eat quietly. I think everyone at the table were looking at him and that's why he looked up from his lunch and asked "What?"

"Well hello to you too." Amy said rolling her eyes.

"Oh hello, I'm Eliot." He mumbled.

"We know" Vanessa said and let out a small chuckle.

"Um okay" he replied unsure about what to say next.

"So, do you like this school so far?" I didn't even realise as the question was out of my mouth, I tried to look away but failed.

"Yes, I mean it's okay. Not that I have anything to compare this school with, I was home schooled before." He replied looking at me.

"Oh okay" I quickly replied and went back to eating my salad.

"So man do you play any sports?" Nick asked him.

"Well I swim." He replied with a shrug. Now that I properly looked at him, he did seem to have a swimmer's body. I blushed and looked away.

"Cool! Ivory here is on the swim team too!" Vanessa piped in, oh did I forget to mention that? And then much to my displeasure she added "you should try out for the team too!" Now it wasn't like I hated Eliot or something, I just had this weird feeling when I was around him.

"Uh sure" he replied without much interest. Whew, that meant he wouldn't try out for the team. Yay!

The lunch was over before we knew it, all the time everyone was asking Eliot some or the other questions and he would answer them awkwardly.

The classes after lunch went well and at the end of the day I learned that Eliot and I had all of our classes together.

I and Sarah walked towards my car in the parking lot, Nick was her ride to school and I was her ride back home as he had football practice after school. It was okay as her house was just two blocks before mine.

As we were driving home, I noticed a black Mercedes trailing behind us and as I turned into Sarah's lane to drop her off it disappeared into the traffic.

"Bye see ya tomorrow!" Sarah said as she got out of the car.

"Sure thing" I replied and stuck my tongue out at her.

"And you tell us to grow up" she scoffed with a smile and walked into her house.

I reached home in no time and got out of my car. I was walking towards my door and out of the corner of my eye I saw the same black Mercedes pulling into the house next to ours. I turned fully towards that house as I wondered when had Mr. and Mrs. Smith, the cute old couplw who lived there, bought this new car.

To say I was shocked to see Eliot get out of the car was an understatement. My jaw dropped further when he digged out keys from his pocket and opened the door and walked in as if he owned that place.

I just stood there for a while and then shook my head and headed inside and then straight to my room.

This shouldn't bother me so much.

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