Time had passed too soon for her liking and it was the day for her result. Her father was more than happy to see straight A’s in her report card and as a treat, he asked her to finalize the car she wanted. The farewell that had been given to her by her friends was amazing, to say the least. James and her friends ended up in tears. They were friends from the age of diapers and had planned to have matching prom dresses which they could see not happening.

For the whole year, her father went back and forth with their stuff. The house slowly lost all of its contents, from furniture to clothes to bath products. Jason had transported his car in Nylon since they had to board a plane and the car was something they both loved equally.

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Currently, they were at the airport of Nylon waiting for the taxi to pick them up. They both had a suitcase along with them since the rest of the stuff was already in the new house. The taxi finally arrived, settling in it, the driver drove off.

A two-story beautiful house was in front of her. It was surrounded by plants and a lawn one could wish for. The inside was well furnished, the wooden flooring, the cream painted walls were giving a rich though homely feeling. The neighbours were nice. They brought deserts which Adeline didn’t even think before taking and making others laugh.

Her room had everything but the walk-in closet. Sighing she went downstairs to find her dad sitting leisurely on the sofa.

She frowned. There was a mess in her room. “You set your clothes already?”

Looking up to her he gave a mocking smile, “yes, I was coming here all year.”

“Could you do mine too?” She whined giving her best puppy eyes look. Sadly for him, it was the one weakness he couldn’t overcome.

“Fine, though honey why don’t you go around the neighbourhood? Buy something to eat too. We still need groceries.” He reminded.

“Okay. I will.” Nodding his head he went back to his phone. Adeline went back to her room and grabbed her brown leather sling bag and walked out of the house.

She took a right and wandered off. Walking around she noticed mostly all was in couples, they were walking in pairs.

Weird, the thought came to her mind.

The people were staring at her. Their expressions weren’t exactly lust or want but were of disappointment, a little amusement and suspicion. The males here were to die for. Everyone was tall and muscular and had lovely spicy cheekbones to die for. The poker face made it difficult to take eyes off them. A couple, a little elder to her was walking in her direction, tired of walking in aimless directions she decides to ask for them.

With a polite smile, she went up to them. “Umm excuse me?”

The couple stopped to look at her. The man raised his eyebrow and was ready to question her, but the women immediately hugged his arm that she was holding and looked up to him. It seemed as if she was asking for permission. Turning in her direction the women spoke up.

“Yes.” She replied or more like squeaked.

Nevertheless, she continued, “Do you know any eating shops that are nearby?” ‘You guys are so weird!’ She shook her head mentally.

Smiling the girl replied. They technically had everything McDonald’s, uncle jacks, pizzeria and local food shops and whatnot. Thinking about it Adeline was happy for the fact that at least she could eat a lot of junk.

Reaching ‘A pizza place’ she ordered a large pizza, half pepperoni and half Hawaiian. She was told to wait for a few minutes and she decided that she could order something else as well. Walking into the bakery next door she ordered their favourite blueberry cheesecake and went back to the pizza shop.

Waiting in a booth, she felt her phone vibrate. It was her father calling.

“Hey old man,” She greeted him. She could hear gasps of people looking at her with astonishment making her shrink back a little. Weird, weird, weird, the word continued to sing in her mind.

“Hey kiddo, I was thinking since it’s pretty late, you send me your location and I’ll pick you up. What say?” A smile came to her face as she felt his care.

“Okay. I’ll be sending it. Bye.”

Hanging up she sent him her location and waited. All of a sudden she felt eyes on her, giving her goosebumps. The corner booth had a side of the glass as a wall. Looking outside she found a man’s intense gaze on her. 

Adeline never felt that attracted to anyone before. It was as if his gaze itself had held hers a prisoner. His eyes and facial features hardened at someone behind her. Looking back she found the guy who had kept her pizza in front of her, merely nodded at her and left.

Looking back at the man, she saw that he had vanished into thin air. It felt as if he wasn’t even there. He couldn’t be seen at a distance because Adeline had walked out of the restaurant and waited for her father. A minute later he arrived and they drove off.

She could swear she saw him standing and watching her with intense eyes, eyes that held a dark message.