As The Sun Sets by Erinny Rose (novels for beginners .TXT) 📕

me and it took all of my being to concentrate on controlling myself. I could feel his tongue slowly parting my lips, I didn’t know what to do with my tongue, it felt as though is was so obviously in the way, but just before I had decided to just leave it where it was, he broke contact with me but left his hand on my cheek now staring in to my eyes, “Your eyes” he whispered “they sparkle” I smiled slightly as I remembered the first time I heard my dad said that to my mum.
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I remember that it was a bitterly cold night and I was sitting up in my room wrapped in my duvet reading Of Mice and Men for my English essay, it wasn’t a bad book but not one I would choose to read for leisure. I didn’t look up from it until I heard giggling through my bedroom floor, I got up to investigate. I quietly crept down the stairs and followed the sound of music that led me through to the kitchen. I didn’t go in I stood outside behind the door peeking through the gap, I could see my parents dancing together, it was my mother who was laughing looking entirely happy as her husband spun her. I had forgotten how much my parents used to love each other; you could see it in their eyes. As the music stopped my parents stopped dancing as well, but didn’t break eye contact, I remember that I had to strain to hear my dad whisper into my mums ear “I love you” he murmured she answered with her breath taking smile which was when he said “Your eyes, my love, they sparkle like the stars in the night sky.”
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“Are you crying?” James asked with his head cocked to one side
I reached up to my face and sure enough I felt some tears run free, I sniffed and them smiled “Yeah, but they’re happy tears…I think”
James grinned at me “Thanks for the lift, I’ll come and see you later?”
“Any time, and sure, you are always welcome to come round when ever you want, in fact” I said as I rummaged around in my bag “I have a spare key, we…I don’t need Linda any more so she gave her key back”
“Thanks but, I don’t need a key honey, I will come over at about one” he said to me as he got out of the car, and then shut the door when I nodded.
“Hey Lana!!!” came a voice behind me as soon as I had climbed out of my car. I turned to see who it was.
“Hey Will, you ok, how was the trip?” I asked as I turned to shut the door and locked it.
“The trip? It was a bit boring actually” he answered dully
“What did you expect…it’s a museum, Will?”
He frowned at me then said “don’t be so prejudice, Lana, not all museums are boring.”
“If you say so. Come on, it’s starting to rain again”
He grumbled something unintelligible but followed me “What are your lessons today?”
“Maths first then PE, you?”
“Double history” he looked glum
“I thought you liked history?”
“I do, im just feeling too brilliant today”
I turned to look at him properly and he did look dreadful, his face was ghostly white with a faint green tint in his cheeks and he had dark circles under his eyes. “Wow Willow, you look dreadful” I gasped
“Thanks” he murmured
“Where’s Dem?”
“Inside already, I needed to talk to you”
“Ok? Go ahead”
He looked at me awkwardly and then started to talk “Do you think…” then he stopped suddenly.
I watched as he slapped his hand to his mouth and hurried inside with me close behind him. I waited outside the boy’s toilet; I could hear him throwing up loudly and was slightly amused that he managed to clear the room within seconds. I looked at the clock that was hanging on the wall in between the boy’s toilets and the girl’s toilets and saw that we only had two minutes until the morning bell rang signalling for us to get to our lessons. “Will” I whispered as I nudged the door open to peer inside, I could see a shoe poking out from one of the cubicles “err are you ok?” I heard no answer so I went inside shouting “Sorry, Cover up your bits and bobs please, you are in the presence of a lady.” Luckily it was empty, well apart from me and Will. I popped my head around the cubicle door to see Willow lying on the floor with his cheek against the bottom of the toilet, assumedly because it was cold. “Do you know how unhygienic it probably is down there Willow?” I asked
He mumbled quietly something that sounded like “I don’t care” then he groaned and quick as a flash he was back over the bowl vomiting loudly.
I waited until he was finished then said “Ok come on Boyo we are going to the nurses office” and before he could protest I forced myself under his arm and steered him out of the toilet, admittedly rather hurriedly because it looked as though he was going to puke again and I was first in range as his head was resting on my shoulder. I didn’t talk until I heard Willow groan “I know your poorly Will, but if you dare throw up on me you won’t be forgetting it for a long long time Mr.”
It wasn’t till I was out of the nurse’s office that I could breathe properly, I passionately hate the smell of sick, and that retching sound people make when they throw up, not nice at all. I sighed then flipped open my phone which I had just taken from my pocket and sent a quick text to Bree, Demitri and Kiah, it said: “Hey guys, just to let you know, Willow has just gone home ill, I will explain all when we are free so no need to reply, lots of love x x” I sighed again then made my way to PE as there would be no point in going to maths as the bell was going to ring any time now.
I didn’t look up until I heard some one speak to me “Hi” came a female voice i didn’t recognise the voice so I turned to see who it was, standing next to me was a girl I had never seen before, she had lovely black hair, I mean usually black hair is just black hair but this was kind of midnight blue as well, it changed when the lighting changed, she had large brown eyes and a rosy face she was a thin girl, same height as me and that’s a good thing, I like people my height, I can relate to them. “Hi” she said again, now looking nervous “My name is Lameya Shepherd, but urm every one calls me Lacey”
“Lameya” I said and saw the relief on her face when I smiled at her “That’s an unusual name, I like it, and it’s pretty”
“Thanks” she said grinning back “I don’t know any one with my name, my mum kind of invented it”
“It is a very good invention, my name is Alana, but every one calls me Lana” I paused then added “so are you new?”
“Yeah just started today, it’s ok because PE is my last lesson then im free. Do you have PE?”
“Yeah” I grumbled, yet another person I could possibly injure. “So are you new in the town then?”
“Yeah just got back here from America about three weeks ago, this is my first week here. We lived in Phoenix for about three years before my mum got ill and then she died last winter, so we decided to move back. It’s been over a year now and dad wants to be in a place that still has her happy memories, we even got our old house back.”
Weird I thought to myself, I can relate to her in so many ways “that’s weird, mum also died last winter, well not this one just gone, the one before. So where is your house?”
“It is weird” she agreed “We live in the house right next to the school, how about you?”
“Just around the corner from the community centre, biggest house on the street, you couldn’t miss it” I laughed, she couldn’t get too confused as there was only one community centre in our town “Hey Phoenix” I said as I looked at a clock on the wall “Want to come to mine, after school? I’m free until one”
“Phoenix?” she laughed at me “That’s new, sure would love to but I think I should go home and help unpack, my dad is on his own with my sisters, they’re terrible when they get together and anyway” she said with a smirk “I have to think up a good nickname for you.” She thought for a moment looking at me every now and then. Then she looked up grinning “Bliss” she laughed
“Bliss? Why Bliss?”
“Easy” she grinned “Because every time I see you, you have a smile on your face.”
“I like it” I laughed. I think I have found myself a new friend, I thought to myself as I walked away.

Chapter Fourteen
“You’re early” I grinned to James as he walked in
He glanced at the clock “Oh” he said as he grinned back “I thought it was ten to one when I left, obviously not, well definitely not seeing as its twelve” he laughed “I couldn’t wait to see you”
I beamed at him when he said it, “I think I’m in love with you” I said laughing to make it seem like a joke, but stopped suddenly when I saw his face, “James…what is it”
“You shouldn’t say that unless you mean it” he said looking away from me
“James I…” I leaned forward to touch his shoulder but he stepped back “hey” I said frowning “why did that annoy you so much?”
He looked at me sadly then quietly said “I think I love you Alana South”
I watched him shoot me a sideways glance then turned bright red when he noticed I was staring at him. “James” I said as I went to touch his shoulder again but unlike last time he didn’t step away.
“Shhh” he said as he took my face gently in his hands, I stared into his perfect eyes which seemed to sparkle as he stared back at me. He leaned in slowly and softly kissed my lips. It wasn’t like our first kiss, this one felt…less rushed, it was more romantic in a way, I could still feel the electricity pulsing through me at his touch, but I had become accustomed to it and could handle it, I could feel a fire inside me, it was urgent, it wanted more and that was when I pounced on him, wrapping my arms around him and pulling him closer to me. James didn’t seem to object, he wanted it too. He moved from my lips to my neck and started whispering soothingly and romantically into my ear, please don’t stop I thought, this is the best I have felt since I was left on my own, this is my life and I will live it how I like. I moved my head so his lips touched mine again as he lowered himself down next to me on the floor and wrapped me in his warm, safe embrace.
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He stayed with me all night. I felt so safe, lying in his arms, sleeping next to him, feeling his breath on me as he slept. I wasn’t tired and even if I was I