Nina
“What happened to you?” Enzo said as soon as I closed the door, rushing over to me and taking my shoulders in his hands and looking me over. I shrugged him off and limped across the room, where I kicked off my muddy shoes and sat down at my desk to rest my injured leg.
“You hired a talking skeleton to be my bodyguard?” I whispered, keeping my voice low so Lori couldn’t hear me.
Enzo folded his arms across his chest. ” Clearly you need protection, judging from your current state,” he replied.
I laughed. “I look like this because I was running from your bodyguard. You could’ve at least warned me.”
“Yeah, well maybe if you hadn’t run away from me last night and the night before, I would’ve had the chance,” Enzo growled.
I rolled my eyes and went to stand, but a sharp pain shot through my leg and I fell back down on my chair with a groan. Enzo rushed over to me and kneeled in front of me. I pulled away as he went to put his hands on my leg and he looked up at me with an annoyed expression.
“Let me look at it,” he ordered.
I hesitantly stuck my leg out, wincing as he put his hands on it.
“It’s alright,” he whispered. “It’ll just take a moment.”
enough, as he pressed his hands on my leg, the pain started to fade. The throbbing in my head faded as well, and soon enough I felt like I hadn’t fallen down a ravine at all; aside from the mud all
out there,” I said quietly,
me with worry in his soft
was running from your skeleton bodyguard and fell down
they doing here? You’re extremely lucky that
I asked. “You gave
shrug, Enzo stood and paced over to
drawing these creatures to the campus,” Enzo said. ”
myself. Tell your skeleton bodyguard to leave me
eyes now burning the bright red color that I had become so familiar with. “Why can’t you just accept that I care about you?” he
monster, too, apparently! So how do I know if I can really trust you?!” I shouted, then immediately regretted it when I saw a pained expression flash across Enzo’s face. He frowned, the red fading from his eyes, and reached into his jacket pocket. He pulled out two things:
said, tossing them down on your bed.
he stormed out and left
after him, but he was already gone. Lori was still sitting at the kitchen counter, her mouth full of cereal, and she looked at
she
sighed. “It’s nothing,” I replied. “Just talking
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