Ivan Stone:

I wake up sweating from the horrible dream I had. I was used to it because I had it almost every night but I still get scared in the morning. I shove a pillow on my face a scream. I hate having that dream because it seems too real and it scares me. I look at my clock and I curse in my head. I'm late for the first day of school!
I groan and hurriedly get ready and run out of the house but run back when I forgot my backpack. I run back inside and hurriedly grab my backpack. I dash outside and run down the sidewalk and dodge others as they walk by. I then saw a very familiar outline ahead and kept running.
I run up to Felicia and stop when I'm at by side and smile at her. I now walk with her to school.
"You're late what were you doing, giving another concert in the shower?" she teased and I nudge her in her shoulder and laughs with her.
I glance at her for a second then quickly dodge someone. I look at her and she glances over at me. I turned away embarrassed and didn't show my face so that she couldn't see me blushing. I know that she noticed that I did that a lot but I doubted that she knew why. She is very smart but sometimes she can be dismissive to the most obvious things.
I doubt that she will ever see that I like her. I mean I'm only a friend to her and her brother's bestest friend. I doubt that she thinks it could be more...that we could be more. I guess we were both naive sometimes. I just felt like maybe we could be more than friends now that we were closer from me staying with her more, but then again the only reason that we hung out more was because Finnian's new part time summer job.
I wonder if my feelings for her were easily read. I haven't told anyone about how I felt since I never had anyone so close that I could trust them. I trust Fin it's just that he is overprotective of his younger sister so I doubt that I could tell him. Again I trust Fin but I haven't told him about everything because there are some things that he won't understand.
He wouldn't understand the hurt of abandonment that I feel or he wouldn't get the nightmares I had of losing everything and being alone for the rest of my life. No one could possibly feel exactly how I feel.
Felicia sighed as she saw the time on her phone.
"Come on, we are late. The bell could ring any minute and we're not even there" she pleaded, pulling on my sweater sleeve and I laughed.
"Oh but ow my foot. I think we might have to stop for a few minutes" I say jokingly and she crosses her arms, but I just smile at her.
"You won't be smiling when you get a detention for being tardy." she said and I just smiled even more.
We run the rest of the way to the school but split up as we go to our lockers. I hurriedly grabbed my stuff and met Felicia by her locker.
"Hurry up and get to class or else you'll be late as well. What do you have first though?" she says as she closes her locker door.
I hand her my schedule and she looks at it for a while. She handed it back to me.
"I was thinking that I could walk you to class first since your first class is english which is right by history." I said stuffing the paper into my gray sweater pocket.
She smiles as we walk through the almost empty halls. I looked over at her again and she must have known I did because she looks back at me. I get embarrassed again and pretend to look at a sign on a door to the side of her.
"What are you looking at?" she said and I got flustered.
I looked around the hall jokingly to distract her from her question and it works. We reach her first period room and we both heard different voices talking and laughing inside. She waves at me and I look at her nervously and I get flustered so I turned around and walked into my classroom. After I take two steps inside I hear the bell ring and I sigh in relief.
I walk to the back of the class and sit in the darker corner by Fin. He must have gotten here early for something, probably for sport tryouts, cause he looked exhausted.
"Hey when did you get here?" he said.