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

the corridor,
“I thought it was easy, I finished it with in fifteen minutes”
“Fifteen minutes!!” exclaimed Gabriel “I had only just finished the last question when the bell went, how did you finish it so quickly?” I was just about to answer when some one tapped me on the shoulder; I turned round and was face to face with Tobias Daemn, the only student that was more beautiful than Gabriel, he is tall and ‘dark’, dark hair and dark eyebrows and very dark eyes, but oddly alluring, I was one of the many girls in the school that secretly liked him.
“Oh hey Toby what’s up?” I asked blushing deeply
Toby looked at me; well he gazed into my eyes then answered me by saying “I was just wondering, if you know where Melody went, I know she was in the same science class as you and she was meant to be meeting me by the door, but she isn’t there.” Melody is his twin sister and is the total opposite of Tobias, like her brother she is very beautiful, but she has kind of a light around her unlike her brother, but Toby is easily the best looking out of both of them. Melody has long blonde hair, skinny but curvy and a bit small for her age, like me.
I thought for a moment “sorry Toby, I don’t remember seeing her leave.”
“Ok, urm yeah, thanks” he said then slouched off down the corridor.
I blinked in amazement “did that just happen?” I asked out loud but generally aimed at Gabriel
“Yeah” he said “I think so” he looked just as amazed as I felt,
“Since when was Tobias Daemn nice to people?” I thought to myself
“I don’t have a clue” said Gabriel in what seemed an answer to my question, when I didn’t talk back he looked at me and said “what?”
I looked at him a bit longer then said “What don’t you know?”
He blushed slightly and said quickly “oh I was just thinking out loud.” I was still staring at him when we arrived at the canteen for lunch and joined the rest of our friends, who were sitting at the table,
“Where have you two been” glared Ruby suspiciously. Ruby Unwin is the only person out of the group that I really disliked because she always had to know every one’s business and she didn’t care how she got it, she hated the fact that me and Gabriel are best friends because she has a crush on him.
“Leave it out Ruby!” sighed Bree. Bree and Ruby didn’t really get along mainly because Bree was my best girlfriend and Ruby wasn’t too happy about it, well anything to do with me Ruby didn’t like every one just says that she is jealous, but I don’t think so some how, what could she be jealous about? Bree Phillips is a lovely person; she is charismatic and confident and always gets along with every one. Bree turned to look at me then said “so what kept you?”
“Oh, Tobias wanted to talk to me” I saw every ones eyes widen
“Tobias Daemn spoke to you?” said Demitri,
“What did he want?” asked Willow. Demitri and Willow Peters are identical twins and both very friendly,
“Just wanted to know if I knew where Melody was” I saw Gabriel’s head whip around so fast I wouldn’t be surprised if he got whip lash, I turned to see what he was looking at. He seemed to be staring at Toby and Melody sitting in the far corner looking as though they were fighting, “I wonder what they’re fighting about” I thought out loud turning back round
“It’s probably not important what ever it is” sighed Gabriel also turning back around.
“So how was every ones summer?” asked Willow grinning
“Well” said Bree “considering the only time every one except Ruby was apart was yesterday night. So I would say this summer was amazing.” The last week of school last year we all decided to spend the summer camping in Willow and Demitri’s back garden which was more of a rather large meadow than a back garden.
“Ok, then” said Willow turning to look at Ruby “how was your summer?”
She glared at him then said with her nose in the air “it was brilliant.” Ruby was jealous because she couldn’t camp with us and because I was there…with Gabriel.
I sighed and looked around the table suddenly realising what was different “hey where is Kiah?” I asked. Kiah Grice has a fabulous personality, always bouncy and lively, the party animal of the group some might say.
“Oh, she text me this morning saying she wont be in today” answered Willow
“How come?” asked Gabriel
“Don’t know, I didn’t have any credit to text her back” willow replied looking gloomy,
“She didn’t miss much anyway” I stated looking up to see Ruby still glaring at every one. “Hey Bree” I said suddenly grinning at her “I know a secret.”
“Oooh what?” she asked curiously “oh right” she said as she saw me look at the others quickly then back at her “text me then.”
“What’s the secret?” asked Gabriel, Willow and Demitri at the same time
“Well, it wouldn’t be a secret if you all knew would it” said Bree
“And anyway” I said “Gabriel you already know” I said looking at Ruby then looking at Gabriel and smiling widely.
“Well” glared Ruby standing up “I will see you all on Monday” then she glowered at me and walked away muttering to herself. Every one just ignored her as she walked away and carried on with the conversation. None of us really liked Ruby; she only really hung round with us because of Gabriel and every one knew it even though she often denied it.
“Finally” sighed Bree putting her phone away, “I thought she would never leave”
“I know” also putting mine away, every one looked at Gabriel as he started laughing
“What’s funny?” asked Willow
“Don’t you see?” gasped Gabriel still laughing “there was no secret, Dem tell me honestly what you thought Lana’s secret was when she said that I knew”,
Demitri blushed then said “well I thought you and Lana had snogged or something because of the way she looked at you when she said it.”
“Exactly” laughed Gabriel as he watched the dawning comprehension appear on Demitri’s face
“Oh” he laughed “Lana, you are so sneaky”,
“I didn’t really want to do it” I sighed, and I honestly did feel guilty but Ruby’s constant glare was starting to annoy me. “Well” I sighed looking at the time “time to go home” my heart sunk as I remembered that no one would be there, well that’s not true, I had Dylan…
Bree noticed my change of heart and said “Lana what’s wrong?”
I looked up to see everyone looking at me “oh, my dad has been called to Japan” I mumbled
“To Japan! How long for?” asked Willow
“A month, at the least.”
“What about Dylan?” asked Bree
“What about him?”
“Has your dad taken him to Japan?”
I snorted then said “Dad has never taken Dill away with him”
“I would have thought because of his age your dad would have taken him, do you know why he hasn’t?”
“No Bree, I don’t know” I lied, I did know why dad never took Dylan along but I didn’t really want to bring up that particular topic of conversation
“Oh well, I have some stuff for him” smiled Bree, she loved to spoil Dylan, having grown up with out a mother herself she had a soft spot for him. “Anyway we can all have a nice big bash together cant we, you know keep you company.” Said Bree enthusiastically
“Sure” I said “but not this week there is so much stuff I have to do.”
“That’s ok” grinned Bree “that will give us a chance to plan stuff, who’s in?”
“I’m definitely in” said Gabriel grinning at me
“Me too” said Willow
“And me!” confirmed Demitri
“That’s great, ok guys I have to go, I’ll see you sexy bunch later.” Luckily because today was our first day back we only had to come in for our first lesson which for me was Science.
“Later?” I asked,
Bree rolled her eyes at me as she stood up “yes, me, Gabriel, Kiah and the twins are coming over to yours to watch a film, it was arranged yesterday.”
“Yep” said Demitri “me and Will are bringing the pop corn and Bree is bringing the film” he paused then turned to Bree and said “and nothing too girly please”
“Or gory” I added “ok did we say five?”
“Yeah five” confirmed Bree, she waved again then walked off toward the exit.
“Come on you three, I’ll give you a lift home” said Gabriel standing up and gathering up his things.
“Gabriel, you may as well stay at mine if every one else is coming back at five.”
“Okay” he agreed “sounds good


Chapter Three

“What’s the time?” I asked after we dropped the twins off
“Its ten past eleven”
“I think I’ll cook something for lunch, what do you want?”
“Thanks Lana but no thanks I’m not hungry.”
“Okay” I sighed “I’ll just have a sandwich or something quick.” It didn’t take long for us to get back to mine; the twins only live ten minutes down the road. “Thanks” I said as Gabriel opened the car door for me. Then he followed me to the front door and went in as I held it open for him
“Cheers” he grinned.
“No problem” I said closing the door behind me, “make your self at home” I said smiling at him “I just have to pay Linda” I made my way into the play room where I found Linda playing with Dylan. I watched in the doorway for a while and only entered when Dylan spotted me and held his arms out towards me, “Hey baby” I cooed at him as I picked him up “has he had his nap yet?” I asked Linda.
“No he hasn’t I was just about to put him down for one when you came in, but I have fed him, I fed him early because your dad said he didn’t touch his breakfast, I would keep on eye on that if I were you, he might be coming down with something” she paused then said “Sorry Lana I didn’t realise you were home” Linda was absolutely lovely, she is brilliant with Dylan but she is such a nervous person, when she thinks she has done something wrong or when she gets nervous she starts talking a lot.
“Oh that’s ok, dad said you need paying today, is that right?”
“Yeah, but you can knock of thirty pounds for today because I was only needed for two hours” she is also very generous and hates asking for her pay at the end of the month.
“Don’t be silly, you do a wonderful job” I said as I put Dylan in his crib so he could have a nap, took the baby monitor and lead the way into the kitchen and reached on top of the fridge “here you go” I said handing over a cheque for one thousand, five hundred pounds “that’s for the whole month right?”
“Yeah, thank you so much Lana” said Linda as she took the cheque and put it into her bag “Sorry I have to dash and pick