Clash of Power by arabian (short books to read TXT) 📖

finally caught my gaze a smug smile crept across my lips. I smiled and laughed at him. Then I turned back to dancing with Brittany.

The next day after the first bell had rang for first period and we were heading into band Erin leaned towards me to whisper something in my ear but I successfully evaded him and went to grab my flute out of the back room.
“Who’s that guy you’ve been hanging out with?” asked my friend Brittany Allen.
“I haven’t been hanging out with him.” I said slightly annoyed, “He’s been hanging out with me and I don’t have the heart to be a bitch to him and tell him that I want him to leave me alone.”
“Really,” she said with a significant look.
“What?” I asked puzzled.
“You treat him just like every other friend you have but he keeps dropping subtle hints that he likes you more than just a friend.” she said shrewdly.
“That’s not true and any way Lauren called dibs.” I said but she just snorted and we went back out to the band room. I peeked at Erin out of the corner of my eye and saw that he was frustrated. I smiled to myself and continued to my seat. Over the last couple of weeks the faeries had been getting worse. More and more of the faeries had been showing up at the school and they always looked at me with an all too intent expression that made my skin crawl and made me want to run screaming from the school building.
Later that day I was texting Lauren and she said:

Lauren: Erin isn’t slightly interested in me.

Me: Ya he is don’t give up

Lauren: I’ve been watching and he is only interested in you.

Me: Wado ya mean?

Lauren: Whenever he asks me a question it’s always about you.

Me: Nu Uh

Lauren: Yu huh. He asks me about your favorite flowers and movies etc.

Me: Ur lying.

Lauren: R u secretly dating?

Me: No. Any ways whenever he starts talking to me I talk about you and how great u r.

Lauren: Really?

Me: Ya

Lauren: Oh

Me: don’t give up

Lauren: I am giving up I know when I don’t have a chance. He is totally obsessed with you.

Me: Ur lying MAJORLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lauren: Srry hon I’m not and now I’m going to help him get u.

Me: No Lauren. Don’t u dare.

Lauren: O ya I will

Me: WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lauren: It won’t be so bad if you just go out wit him cuz it’s war.

Me: :( :( :( :( :( GTH!!!

Lauren: Wat does dat mean?

Me: Go to hell. bye

Lauren: Bye :)

“My Goodness!!!!! What is her problem???!!! I don’t want to go out with him at all. My life is becoming hell on Earth and it’s getting there by being flushed down the toilet.” I cried into my pillow. Why does my life have to be so gosh darn complicated. I mean come on I never did anything to anyone that would make me deserve this?
The next day at school I walked to the usual social spot with a deep feeling of foreboding. I saw that Erin was looking at me with a triumphant grin on his too handsome face. Since I was going to have a horrible day any way I actually looked at Erin today. He has dark brown eyes that look like molten chocolate and a perfect Cupid’s bow shape to his lips. He has a strong jaw and a shock of black hair that is wavy and lush. He’s tall and has broad shoulders and when I finished examining his toned body I returned to his lips that are abnormally full for a guy.
“Good morning.” He said to me still smiling that smile.
I didn’t reply I just looked at Lauren suspiciously because she was trying to hide a smug smile by reapplying some chap stick. I stepped up beside Erin and about jumped out of my skin when he draped his arm around my shoulders. In one quick graceful movement I slid out from under his arm and faced him.
“What are you doing?” I squeaked. I was so surprised that I couldn’t get my voice to act normal. He looked puzzled and hurt by my reaction. Lauren was glaring at me.
“I told you I’d get you to go out with him by any means possible so don’t get angry at him. I told him that you wanted to go out with him.” She said harshly.
I growled impressively. Lauren actually stepped back and had a look of dismay on her face but she quickly composed herself and smiled. “There’s no way you’re going to get rid of him now.”
I looked at Erin and saw that he was smiling and looking at me with a calculating expression on his face. I flinched away from his gaze and when I looked up again I saw that his expression had become gentle and concerned. Don’t believe those eyes, I thought, he’s just another half faery half human hybrid.

The weeks went by and winter turned into spring. Erin was still as persistent as ever and Lauren had long since given up on dissuading me from my current state of mind. Today is Saturday and my friends and I are going to a dance.
I picked a little purple strapless dress that was tight to my curves and ended at mid-thigh. There was an aquamarine belt with a fist –sized crystal buckle. My hair was half up and half down with elegant curls framing my face and cascading over my shoulders. And I wore shoes that Lauren would kill for. They were six inch aquamarine high heels that matched my belt with silver rhinestones on the straps around my ankles showing off how slender they are.
My mom dropped me off at the dance after taking a bunch of embarrassing pictures of course. I walked up the front steps in the chilly evening air but I wasn’t cold because I had put on a long black trench coat. I checked in then dropped off my coat in an empty seat. I went in search of my friends in the crowd of gyrating bodies.
I found my group of friends dancing right next to the speakers in the loudest part of the dance. “Hi,” I yelled so that I could be heard over the music. They all nodded in greeting and continued dancing. Well all except for Erin who looked at me and froze. His jaw dropped and flopped like a fish out of water.
I walked forward shut his mouth and started dancing. I faced the middle of the group and Erin came up behind me and put his arms around my waist. I allowed that little thing because we were at a dance and I didn’t have a date. As we danced for the next few hours I watched the faeries dance.
They turned and jumped and spun in ways that were so obviously unnatural that it gave me goose-bumps to watch them but at the same time they were eerily beautiful and graceful. Before I even realized it the dance was over and it was time to go home.
My mom was working late trying to catch up on her filing so I was going to catch a ride with Erin home. I put my trench coat back on and followed Erin out to his black Porsche. He opened the passenger door for me then went over to the driver’s side and started the engine.
“Oh, shoot!” Erin cried, “I forgot my wallet in the men’s bathroom. Could you wait for a minute while I run in and get it.” He asked. All I could do was nod mutely because in his car the smell of him was so intoxicating I swear I was wasted from just being in there for less than a minute. He slid gracefully out of the car and shut the door behind him. When he disappeared into the building I suddenly felt panicked but I couldn’t place why.
A faery moved outside and in between strides threw on the glamour of a hot high school guy. Underneath his glamour he was probably the most beautiful man I had ever seen. He was so beautiful that I can’t even describe the way he looked. He opened the door and slid into the passenger seat. “Hello,” he said pleasantly.
I cowered into the passenger door then when I fiddled for the handle so that I could open the door and get out. He locked the doors, slammed the car into gear and was speeding away from the school. I was just able to spot Erin standing on the street corner looking after us with an expression of complete horror on his face. I knew he could see the faeries too so I knew this was not good.
The faery talked to me the whole time he was driving but I wasn’t listening. I had tried to open the door and jump out but he had sealed it somehow because even though I unlocked the door I still couldn’t get it open.
He stopped abruptly at the end of a gravel road in the middle of the woods. I looked at him and saw that he was watching me. Now that I should be freaked out of my mind I was surprised to find that I was mad. And I wasn’t just mad I was pissed so without any fear I asked, “What the hell do you want?” my voice was pure ice.
He smiled at my tone of voice and I scowled in response. Then without warning the car door sprang open and he shoved me out with so much force that I flew through the air and hit an oak tree. I hit the ground with a dull thud and I was breathing hard. I stood up and felt the back of my head. My hand came back wet with warm blood.
I looked up at the faery who I was sure is going to murder me yet I couldn’t fear him. Even though he had thrown me thirty yards out of a car door I couldn’t seem to find the feeling of fear in my body. He walked gracefully around the car and dropped his glamour. I thought, What the hell, I might as well show that I can see him because I’m going to die anyway. I stared right into his eyes as he rounded the front of the car.
“Well,” he said, “this is interesting. Very, interesting indeed.”
I didn’t say a word I just watched his approach with steady eyes. Then in a blur of movement he lunged for me. I tucked and rolled just in time but I still was no match for a faery because he just turned and grabbed me. He didn’t do what I expected though. Instead of snapping my neck or something like that he kissed me. I jerked and writhed in his grasp.
I jerked even more violently and he chuckled. “I’ll enjoy this,” he whispered against my neck. Then he threw me hard onto the ground. I heard something crack ominously. I tried to get up but my right leg wouldn’t work. Then I felt the pain. I didn’t let him have the satisfaction of hearing me cry or writhe or whatever in pain. He took out a wickedly sharp dagger that glinted in the moonlight.
I heard a feral growl behind me and whipped my head around. Erin was standing there by his car with his lips pulled back from his teeth in an