Break Free

Darkness.
Surrounded by complete darkness. My hands are searching frantically in front of me but my hands keep gripping empty air. I feel my breathing slowing until my hand grips my chest tighly and I collapse to the floor. Each breath I take in pains me until I can take no more, and that is when I lose consciousness.

I bolt upright in my bed gasping loudly with beads of sweat on my head. The intake of oxygen is like medicine to me until eventually my breathing returns to normal. The dreams keep getting worse. I see myself running. There is no destination I am heading to, I always end up to a man with piercing blue eyes. His hand is held towards me but I can never reach him, no matter how hard I try, this is when I fall and the darkness engulfs me.

Only a dream I think to myself. They have no meaning but they been happening more frequently. I have recently moved. It's been exciting. Moving house is always a pain but it's just me and my mum living in a huge house together. I never knew my father when I was born, but my mum, Debby tells me he was nothing but good to her through there time together. After I was born my dad died in a car crash. I wish everyday I could have met him, but sadly I never will. Moving on, my name is Nova Nightingale, I've never considered myself pretty but I don't think i'm completely ugly either. I have shoulder length dark brown hair, with a slight wave in it. My eyes are green framed with dark eyelashes, and today I will be facing people at a new school.

"Nova! Get down here and get ready for school!" Mum shouts up to me.
"Coming! Just give me a minute to get ready!" Shouting down to her in an equally loud voice.

I change out my pajamas into a red tank top and some dark blue jeans with my converse shoes on. Hair combed and teeth brushed I skip downstairs looking forward to my first day of school but a little part of me is nervous. Oh well! Gotta face it sooner or later.

"Hey mum, I'm going to head for school now, thanks for getting me up" With a quick hug I grabbed my bag and was out the door. School was a short walk and I never needed a car to get around so I've never got around to actually buying one. With a couples turns and corners I eventually reached my destination. Woah! This school is huge. The school has three stories and a parking lot with lovely scenery. I was to busy admiring my surroundings when I bumped into something hard and fell flat on my butt. Ow, how embarrassing.

Looking up I see an insanely hot guy. He was tall, dark and handsome. Every girls type of guy I think to myself. His hair was black and hung low in his eyes, but that didn't stop his blue eyes hiding behind his hair. His face was stunning and he was well built. The shirt he wore defined his muscles in ways I couldn't explain. The eyes I looked deep into seemed strangely familiar and looked like they hid secret's.

"Ahem" He cleared his throat making me blink, looking away from him. It was like he was holding me in a trance, I couldn't look away from him until his hand reached towards me offering me help up. Gratefully I accepted and he helped lift me to my feet. His hand was strong and sent shivers running up my spine. I can't believe he can make me feel like this in such a short time. But too soon he released my hand leaving it empty.

"I'm sorry, I didn't see you there" WOW, his voice sounded amazing, enough to make any girl feel good.
"I..I...I'm sorry, my fault completely" Good move Nova, you just met the guy and now your stuttering like an idiot.
That's when he smiled, and oh boy what a smile it was! I think I've just melted. He held his hand out to me once again, "I'm Zaiden Collins" I take his hand and shake, the shivers are still going up my spine "Nova Nightingale."

"So, have you just started here? I haven't seen you around." Zaiden asks looking curious.
"Yeh, me and my mum have just moved here, it's my first day at school so that probably explains why you haven't seen me, we just got here yesterday" I explain to him, he probably doesn't care but at least I'm not stuttering now.

"Ah" he says, "then I look forward to seeing you around." With that we say our goodbyes and go our separate ways. Zaiden seemed like a nice guy and hopefully he doesn't forget about me because so far he's the only person I've met. Thinking back I remember his 'hidden' eyes. They were an electric blue color, just like the person in my dreams. Well that's weird, but I don't think to much of it so I head off to my first class. I look at my timetable, first lesson, English literature.
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Arriving at class my teacher Ms. Parker asks me if I have been assigned a 'buddy' which basically is someone to introduce me to the school and show me around. "No miss, I haven't" I say to her. "Well that's ok, we will find someone for you right now. Any volunteers?" Looking round the class there doesn't seem to be anyone willing to show the new kid around. Just great! Just then a girl raises her hand and offers that she will. I smile warmly at her, thankful that at least someone wanted to show me around. She's short and has a heart shaped face with blond hair pulled up into a ponytail. "I will miss." The blond haired girl says.

"Thank you Miranda. That's very kind of you, this is Nova Nightingale so please help her around on her first day of school." Ms. Parker turns her attention to me. "Nova, please take a seat next to Miranda, Ask her any questions you have and I'm sure she will help you." Sitting down next to her I thank her for the help.

"It's no problem Nova. I just figured no one should be left stranded on their own on their first day at a new school. I was new once too." Miranda says to me, She seems like a genuinely nice person.

"Well I just want you to know that I really appreciate it. So how long have you been going here?" Asking her, she said she was new once too, so maybe Miranda might have only been coming here for a shorter while unlike most kids. "It's only been about a year, I was home schooled before so it was a whole new experience for me and it took me a while to adjust, but I've made some amazing friends who are super kind to me, I'll show them too you if you like at lunch?" It was great the Miranda was offering to show me her friends, and of course I said yes to her.

We talked about ourselves, getting to know each other better until the lesson ended. But my mind seemed to keep on fixing on Zaiden. Pulling me out my trance I realized Miranda was speaking to me "What do you have next Nova?" Glancing down at my timetable I see that it's art. Awesome! I love art I think smiling to myself. Once Miranda showed me to my classroom she says to meet outside so she can introduce me to her friends which I was really looking forward too. With a wave and a goodbye, it was time to see what my next lesson had in store for me.
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First impressions? Well the art room was pretty darn big. Paints, pencils, brushes were everywhere, it looked like this school was well supplied. Second thing to notice was the teacher who was discussing something with another classmate. Third thing to notice, that this classmate was none other than Zaiden Collins who still looked as good as before. Needing to get their attention I tapped lightly on the door. Their focus turned on me, smiling I introduced myself as Nova Nightingale, the new kid.
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What do you guys think?? Thanks for reading my first story :)

Hannah Evans.