Never Leave by Hollie Jones (best fiction books to read TXT) 📖

As I felt the wind raise goose bumps across my bare arms, legs and neck, I knew that this was wrong, so wrong. Something about this wasn't right. He wouldn't do this to me. He couldn't do this to me. Could he?

Megan

My mum was calling me from downstairs. Why couldn't she just leave me alone? Why did she have to wake me up so early in the morning? Was she crazy? I thought so.

“Megan, get up now or we’re going to be late!”

Oh poop. No, she wasn't crazy. She was up late as well. I sat bolt upright in bed, and as I did so, I felt a wave of vertigo rush through me. I lay back down, and then slowly sat up. What time was it anyway? What time could possibly make her sound so, well, urgent?
I leaned over to look by the side of my bed, and my phone beeped in irritation that I hadn't put it on charge yet. Damn it. As the screen lit up, I saw the time. Quarter to eight. Anyone who knew me, knew that it was almost impossible for me to get ready in under twenty minutes. I didn't know the meaning of the word 'rush', according to my mum. I had to give her that one.
I jumped out of bed and hurriedly got dressed. Then I shot down the stairs like a bullet, nearly landing in the dirty washing basket. Oops. I hated being late, because all I would hear when I got downstairs would be, “Hurry up you're going to be late”, like I didn't already know that! As I got downstairs I ran into the kitchen and got my breakfast. Great, another busy morning. What I always wanted.

***

When we eventually got out of the house, I realised that I was missing something. Crap. My train ticket. I told my mum that I needed to go to the toilet before we went to catch the train, and after a disapproving look, she let me go. I ran up the stairs, and instead of turning left to go to the bathroom, I went straight ahead into my bedroom. It was obvious to anyone that I was half asleep when I got ready this morning, because my ticket was lay on the end of my bed. Right there in my view. I was such an idiot.
When we got to the train station, I saw my two friends, Lucy and Tia, sat on a bench waiting for me. As much as I loved my 'bestie mates', they didn't half get on my nerves in the morning. Always so loud and bouncy, never quiet and still like I was. It was strange actually, our friendship, like we were just sort mashed together at the beginning of year seven and just stayed that way. It helped that we shared a dorm in our school.
It seemed like they were buzzing about something, I didn't doubt that I would find out what it was within three minutes of walking up to them. I was right.
After all of the squealing and hugging and jumping up and down had died away, they started chattering about whatever had the, so worked up.
“Oh my god Megan, you won't believe who's coming to our school!” Lucy buzzed.
“Yeah! It's so cool that you actually know him Luce!” Tia practically shouted.
“Tia, keep it down big gob, and we’re in Sixth Form now, not school Luce.” I noticed that I was being particularly short with everybody today. Lucy and Tia flinched, and I realised that they had noticed too.
“Jeez Megan, what's up with you today?”
“Yeah, there was no need to bite our heads off.”
“Sorry, I guess I'm just...”
“...in one of those moods again, we know.”
“Sorry.”
“Don't worry 'bout it.”
I sat next to them whilst we waited for our mums to finish gossiping as well.
“So, what's the big news?”
“Ohmygosh, there's this totally fit boy moving near you, and he's coming to OUR school!” Lucy looked at me and arched one of her perfectly plucked eyebrows, as if she was daring me to say anything.
“When she says fit, she means, FIT.”
“And you know them Luce?”
“Yeah, they're like, my Dad's brothers kids or something. Which is a shame because that means that I won't get to, ahem, get close with him, shall we say.”
“Do you mean your cousin Luce?”
“Yeah!” We laughed together and then Tia piped up.
“Yeah so that means that it's only us two chasing after him Megan...”
Tia trailed off as she looked at me and realised that it actually meant that it would just be her “chasing after him”.

For once we arrived at school on time, and Tia and Luce bounced of the bus that we had caught from the train station.
“Hurry up Megan, we’ve got ten minutes before registration and I want to meet him!” Big Gob, oops, sorry, I mean Tia, shouted at me.
“Yeah...I’m coming.” Saying that I wasn’t looking forward to this was an understatement. I walked through the sliding doors that led to the very big (and very posh), reception area. As usual, Tia and Lucy were being stopped by one of the members of staff, and I wondered what they’d had done this time.
“I told you last time I saw you Miss Flynn, either pull yours downs or buy a new skirt! And Miss Brooks, lose those ridiculous things hanging from your ear lobes that you call ‘earrings’.” Mr Banks did the quote thing with his fingers, and I decided that it was time to intervene and save my friends from sharpening all of sir’s pencils at lunch.
“Ah, Miss Brady, right on time, and looking smart as usual. Girls, this is an example of a perfect stu-”
“Oh, sorry about this sir, we all slept round mine last night so that it would be easier to get to the train station this morning. We were in a bit of a rush this morning because my...my cat was at the vets last night. She nearly got run over by a speeding car…” I tried to look sad, and if that didn’t convince him, my spotless record did.
“Well...alright then, Miss Brady, if that’s what happened then I'm sure we can make an exception. Just pull them down a bit please girls.”
“Yes Sir.” Mr Banks scurried away and my friends looked at me.
“What?” They were looking at me like I was some sort of freaky species of animal they’d just discovered.
“Wow.” Lucy stretched the word out, and Tia nodded in agreement.
“I know Luce. It’s weird isn’t it.”
“Mmmhmm. Do think our Megan’s still in there somewhere, or do you think the aliens ate all of her.”
“Not sure Tee. It’s possible, but then again...aliens might like nerds.” They were grinning now, and I smiled back.
“You can thank me later, but now we actually do need to go and unpack before we get eaten by THE alien, the ever so lovely Mrs Pannell.”
“Aww do we have to Meg? We really want to go and find this new guy.” Luce whined at me.
“Well, unless you want to carry them bags around, you can do that later. This is more important.”
“Well, actually, don't you think that helping a member of your family is more important than unpacking?”
“Not when the only reason you want to help him is because he’s so fit.” Their gazes drifted from my face to behind my shoulder, and from the expressions on their face, I knew that whoever they were staring at was, in their opinion, ‘well fit’.
I was right. Standing before me was the most beautiful person I had ever seen. He was quite tall, about 5”9, with short, inky black hair, and he had muscles that some professional boxers would be jealous of. His white t-shirt was straining around his chest shoulders, and his arms were huge. He had a black leather jacket slung over his shoulder, and his jeans were slung low around his hips. Black boots were on his feet, the kind that look sturdy but fashionable.
He was dangerous. I knew from the first glance that he was, even though he’d never said a word to me.
“Oh my…. That is one fine creature!” Lucy said in awe.
“Yummy.” Tia agreed. They were talking in murmurs loud enough for me to hear, but I didn't really register what they were saying. I was too busy staring at the god like creature that had just walked into my suddenly shabby-looking school. He walked up to us, and I was suddenly very aware of my surroundings. What a place to meet such a gorgeous guy. It wasn't just his body that was beautiful, his face was amazing as well. He had amazing green eyes, set underneath perfect eyebrows. The rest of his face was perfect and straight. His skin was, unlike most boys I knew, clear, and I knew that people would give anything to have skin like his. Whilst my internal babbling had been going on, he was in front of me asking a me question, that I didn’t hear. Oops.
“Sorry, what did you say?” I asked him.
“I just asked if you tell me where the