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Chapter Eight

Pagan

"I stay out of sight and only whisper to you

Words I can’t say Words you don’t need to hear Words I can’t keep fro nore what I’ve been shown

You’ve claimed me and I don’t care who knows You’ve claimed me and I don’t care if it shows

I’thened in your arms

You’ve claimedmore than you could ever understand

I stand helpless, needing to give in to your every co to see you smile has consu I offer could ever be worthy of your love

It’s a miracle that you saw me and never ran

I will spendto be the man you think I am

Now, I can’t stand-alone Now, I anore what I’ve been shown

You’ve claimed me and I don’t care who knows

You’ve claimed me and I don’t care if it shows

I’thened in your arms You’ve claimed me and I need to feel you close"

"You hold fire within your gaze

Itof your thoughts but I need to bask within the war You’re forever perfect in every way

Now, I can’t stand-alone Now, I am under your influence

You’ve taken over nore what I’ve been shown You’ve claimed me and I don’t care who knows You’ve claimed thened in your arms

You’ve claily sweet ain in the darkness I couldn’t open my eyes but I wasn’t scared I kneas safe The words soothed ht blue eyes that glowed against the night were the last things I re dead I swear Get your lazy ass up We have class in tenroaned, rolled over, and blocked the onslaught of her feather pillow "I’m awake You can stop now"

"It’s about ti else I’ve been awake for over an hour Your stupid alarh that annoying beeping is beyond h the alar ht o’clock I wasn’t going to make it to my Literature class on time Crap Great first impression

"Yeah, you did That’s like happened, never What did you do, take a sleeping pill?"

I stood up and stretched "No I just slept really good," I paused and thought about the strange darkness and the ," I said then stopped Miranda would think I’d lost ht now Here, throw this on and go brush your stinky teeth We gotta go Good thing you look hot without makeup"

Miranda shoved a pair of shorts and a shirt into uess I wouldn’t tell her about h, I wanted to tell someone

Dank wasn’t in literature class I was disappointed he hadn’t shown up and carriedable to listen and focus would insure I passed this course Day one and we already had an assignirls and three guys per group We had to read three different works of literature about self-destructive men Then we had to write a female point-of-view paper and a ned stories were self-destructive We also had to identify e could relate them to today and describe how this self-destruction affected politics

I shoved roup assignroup had an email address beside their name so that we could contact each other once we’d read the first book, Ethan Frome I was a step ahead I’d already read it The line indling because several people left without looking I walked up and scanned the list for an Moore

Jessi Gilheart

Jackson Driver

Maddy McGowin

Dank Walker

I stopped reading the nalanced behind me Hoas Dank’s nairl behind me cleared her throat in an irritated roup and their email addresses with my iPhone and moved out of the way

Had Dank skipped class?