Emily Jackson
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Julie's eyes widened, and she quickly ran to where Roman stood next to a lifeless looking Caleb, who laid cold on the ground. When she told him that she didn't want Caleb going around the campus, shouting about her dreaming things in broad daylight, this was nowhere near the idea in her head. "Is he dead?!" she asked pale-faced, noticing blood on Caleb's face. "Calm down, Winters. I just knocked him out," Roman assured her. He cracked his knuckles. The boy had wandered around Julie during the play,…-
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When Julie woke up early in the morning, she felt her head lighter than yesterday. She tried to stretch her body, but her movements were restricted. When her eyes opened, she turned to her side to notice Roman's face that was right in front of her. Her eyes widened before she looked down to notice one of his legs had locked her lower body, and his hand was around her waist. Waking him up would be rude when she was the one who asked him to stay here. She slowly tried to push his hand away from her.…
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Once the words escaped from Julie's lips, her face turned red, staring back at Roman, who stood outside her window. Her mind and her will was weak when it came to him, craving for his company, and at his question, she had blurted out what she couldn't tell him earlier. Roman's eyes looked nothing less to a midnight sky with no stars in them, but there was a gleam in his eyes, a flicker of darkness that lingered behind them. And the way he looked at her right now, it should have scared her, but it…
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The window curtains had been drawn so as not to let sunlight pass inside the room. Julie laid in her bed with a blanket covering her and her eyes closed. A sudden cough broke through her lips, shaking and rattling her body and her breathing laboured. When she had woken up this morning, her head felt heavy and her eyes watery. She had been coughing since then, and she was running a fever. Melanie, who had come by her dorm earlier, had brought her breakfast. Julie had dismissed her friend to attend the…
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Julie quietly ate the meal that was specifically bought for her. While taking a bite from the sandwich, she noticed how everyone at the table was quiet. Roman hadn't spoken a word, but he did continue to sit next to her. Her friends, who had returned to the table, had been surprised seeing Roman sitting at the table. Leaning towards Roman, Julie asked him, "Your friends aren't going to wait for you?" Roman, who was sipping the coke, turned his gaze to look at her. He had one of his hands pulled back…
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Julie sat in front of the window of her room, staring at the trees and the darkness that faced her room. Several minutes had passed since Roman had left, and she sat there with a dazed look in her eyes. Her sleep was out of the window, and it didn't look like it was going to return anytime soon. She brought her hand up near her face, touching her lips with her fingers. The memory of Roman's lips on hers was still fresh as if she was still being kissed, and her heart shuddered at the memory of it. The…
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Music Recommendation: Too Good - Troye Sivan . On seeing the door shut, Julie's heartbeat quickened. Since she had arrived in the room, she had kept her mind occupied by cleaning everything in her room so that her thoughts would not return to the dare Roman had performed on her near the bonfire. But here he was, like a ghost that wasn't going to stop haunting her. Along with the nervousness that she felt on seeing him, it also sent a delicious feeling from her heart to the tip of her toes. Like…
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The sky above the grounds of Veteris was clear, the moon ready to turn full the next night and the breeze carrying a whisper that was hard to understand. The only people who walked the grounds were the night patrollers, making sure mischievous students weren't breaking any rules and getting into trouble. Though the campus had electricity, there were candle lamp posts where the lanterns had been lit, making it appear as if they were back in time—a subtle remembrance of when this place was still a town…
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Ms. Piper checked Eleanor and Olivia's costumes before turning to look at Julie. "Julianne. Come here so that I can take a better look at your costume." When Julie made her way to the front, coming to stand at the centre. The woman nodded her head in approval, "It looks just as I imagined it to be." With Eleanor, who had stepped away from the spotlight, which had now fallen on Julie, the students in there finally took note of the girl in the white and dark blue dress. "We'll need to get rid of…
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I listened to 2 songs while writing the chapter, so here is the music recommendation: Shameless - Camila Cabello, Heather - Conan Gray . For a few seconds, Julie tried to sink in the simple words that Roman had uttered. The annoyance that had entered earlier had left his eyes the moment the other girl had left the place, leaving them at the backside of the book racks. "N-no, that's not what I meant," said Julie looking at her bag that had fallen. She walked to where it was. "What I meant is…
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