Closer to Living
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"What is bliss- ...love ...fear ...sorrow?" -Just a few things I yearn to feel but can't." "Who am I , really?" *** Artemis Sanders, living a life through a foggy lens she would never be able to wipe clean. Living life in black and white while in the world's background , wishing one day her world explodes in colour. Orson Villin finds peace , solace- a safe haven in Artemis. He wishes to escape the vivid blee infested life he's only ever known that brought him nothing but raw suffering. She was his escape. He was the only fractured beam of colour from the vibrant world she wished to be a part of but never could -but he gave her the next best thing. Polar opposite desires should have signalled an inevitable demise. A demise they couldn't escape. Will their burning desire for each other be enough to incinerate their terrible fate? A fate that will unbeknownst to them have many becoming part of the earth. Doomed from the start.
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Closer to Living Chapter 22
The sizzling of the frying pan on heat was the only sound that could be heard in the deathly quiet kitchen, the silence could've fooled anyone into thinking I was the only person in the house .I wasnt .Ms Jade was somewhere in the house .I gripped the tongs to turnover the browning piece of chicken while my other hand shakily rose to wipe away the tear that had fallen involuntarily. A result of the ritual Sunday events.My eye was almost swollen closed and tears kept rolling down my cheek no matter how many times I had dabbed it with a warm towel. The direct hit made it feel like my eyeball had scooched further in the socket. My mother left the house shortly after the session ,after feeding me a very vague response of where she was headed when Id asked . She didnt work Sundays and barely left the study when she was home and her sudden departure had to raise a questioning brow on my end. I didnt dwell much on it though , I appreciated the space , the stress free air I could inhale i
Closer to Living Chapter 21
OrsonMy eyes glued to the ceiling yet, I couldn't actually see it . Instead I replayed the events of less than an hour ago . An occasional blink, to sooth the sting in my eyes from the lack of moisture.I'm always in a situation where I ask myself 'why?' I'm always asking myself this question more times than I would like and I don't have the answers too. Deep down I knew the answers to a few of those questions , just that bringing them to the surface would actually make them real - true , but even so - it's no justification for any of it." You've been staring at my ceiling for the past half hour."I shut my eyes briefly before looking at Lyles from the couch I was lying on , he sat on the arm of the other couch holding onto a first aid box. We were in the basement of his house , his parents where out of DC for a couple of days and his four year old little brother , Noah had been put to sleep a few hours earlier by the nanny so the house was eerily quiet when I walked in. I sighed a
Closer to Living Chapter 20
Sirr lay his head on my shoulder , his soft snores meeting my ear , gradually becoming my lullaby . My eyelids falling shut only to spring back up when another student decides to cue a loud laugh. The hot air coming in through the open windows responsible for the heads laying on desk in quiet slumber . Kira , Zedd and Tyree were playing cards with a few other guys a few feet from where Sirr and I were , my guess , it's where most of the noise was coming from.Lessons ended twenty minutes ago and an announcement through the various ceiling speakers around the school said all Seniors to gather in our homeroom for an important announcement , which leads us here, where almost half the class is in dreamland and the rest just fooling around . Having every Senior in the room made the place feel like a tiny shoe box . There was a whole lot of us.Two of our homeroom teachers walk in the room holding a few sheets of paper , Mr Gabe the one responsible for my bunch or group since the Large gro
Closer to Living Chapter 19
It seemed my mind did not to like the idea of sleep after my encounter with Orson , I tossed and turned the whole night while my brain forced me to remember the details , his palm rubbing on my thigh and his tongue gliding sweetly along the column of my neck . His lips devouring my own like second nature and the way they moulded with mine so perfectly , like a glove would fit a hand , like a missing yin piece finally reconnecting with it's yang . His intense gaze haunted me in my dreams whenever I did manage to drift off in slumber .To be truthful , I didn't quite like how it affected me , to the degree of possibly waking up with dark under eyes . I've had crushes before although they never really kept me up at night like this one in particular . I did steal a few kisses from a few guys but none of those experiences fogged my mind up like Orson's , which led me to wonder how strong this crush actually was. In the beginning I suppressed even the idea of him, I refused him any time of
Closer to Living Chapter 18
I stared out the large paned windows of the cafeteria , at the heavy looking dark clouds looming over the school and cursed under my breath. My eyes landing on the parking lot which was a good distance from the building the cafeteria was situated , my empty parking spot mocked me for thinking today would be a great day to ditch the car.Zedd's voice draws me back to the conversation at our lunch table."What did Steele want?" He asks tossing a grape in the air and trying to catch it in his mouth but it lands in Sirr's small container of thick beet sauce . Sirr picks it up and eats it then waits for my answer."To give me a week of detention ." I huff forking a meatball into my mouth, Ty chuckles eating away at his bag of chips."Wanna tell us why you got it ,Steele ain't the type to just be dishing out Detention slips." Ty cocks a brow at me ."True , true." Sirr agrees and Kira frowns as if trying to figure out what I could've done."You guys remember the assignment you guys handed i
Closer to Living Chapter 17
"You better be ready to shoot some hoops." Tyree calls to me tossing the ball into my hands as I shut the door of my car and lock it ."I'm not terrible.""I'm gonna smoke you." He chuckles and pushes himself off the car he'd been leaning on when I arrived .I woke up with a text from Tyree asking if I was up for a few rounds of hoops late afternoon and knowing Sunday wasn't my favourite day of the week I had sent him a quick 'yeah sure.'Two weeks had passed in a blur - well two weeks would be up on Monday. In that time Orson didn't go out of his way to converse with me and neither did I , I sorta just watched him from a good distance and during that time he had become a really hot topic among the girls at school and all he did was just stand there while each girl took turns to see if one of them would be lucky enough to get a smile cast their way. He let them throw themselves at him while he looked at them bored ,uninterested but never made a move to shove them off.A note or two fe
Closer to Living Chapter 16
I drag myself up the stairs leading to the second floor of the library with my sanctuary in mind ,no one really ever bothered coming to browse through books on this floor . The reason for this being the dominance of pretty much dead languages like Latin and Sanskrit, old French and Italian literature texts by many famous playwrights like Moliere , Jean Racine and Carlo Goldoni and various mythology books covering various countries but more of these where concerning the most famous, Greek and Norse.I inhaled the smell of old paper and dust once I reached the top, the smell never failed to relieve any stress I had settling in my shoulders. I adjust the strap of my bag on my shoulder and walk to a particular space that hid me from the few eyes that did roam around this floor, I turn into the last aisle and halt abruptly when I see Orson flipping through the pages of a thick book. It looked so old I wondered how the pages where still that intact and hadn't turned to saw dust with every f
Closer to Living Chapter 15
I stared at the white tiled floor like it would conjure up a few answers, my eyes fall to the piece of paper I clutched in my hand . My chest felt heavy thinking about what lead me to write the contents of this paper , I aimed to help when I thought about it and now the idea seemed to be stupid and him balling it in his fist as his cold eyes penetrated through mine flashed through my mind and suddenly it didn't seem so helpful.I tucked it into the pocket of my school shirt and leaned back into my chair , staring at the cold chicken nuggets and burger that sat uneaten on my tray , the cafeteria was still empty with me being the only person in there . Mr Waters had said those who finished could leave early.The lunch bell rings and I knew the silence would be broken once the other students burst through the double doors . True to my thoughts the doors burst open spilling in the freshmen, they were still to adapt to the high school atmosphere because half , if not all of them still beha
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