The Mysterious Demon

-Nickolas’ POV-

Yesterday was a mess. I didn’t mean for it to get so out of hand and it was a miracle that we didn’t get caught for it. The gang and I were able to escape before the police came in but unfortunately, that meant I had to leave the Mysterious Demon behind even though we were so close to trapping her this time.

There was something that was bothering me though and that was how I was going to face Dominic after. She relied on her job there to make a living and now it’s closed. I wanted to pay for some of the damage somehow to make up for it and get her help in doing so but so far I hadn’t seen her.

Class started a while ago and she was yet to come in but what did make me hopeful was when Jason walked through. That meant he had fulfilled his job. I had asked that he look for Dominic and ask her to come to sit with us at lunch, if he’s here he must have done it. “Is she coming?” I asked when he sat next to me. He looked forward with a monotone voice. “She said she’ll think about it.” I nodded and he sighed after which perked my interest.

“What’s up, man?” I ask and he looked at me with a regretful facial expression. “You know when you broke her bike and you said she was getting it repaired?” I nodded slowly, wondering what that had to do with anything. There was no way it could be repaired in just a day. “She met up with some guy who said it wasn’t repairable and they replaced with some other bike. I’m assuming they threw her’s away but I didn’t stay around long enough to find out.” I looked down and let out an exaggerated breath. “Shit.”

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At lunch, the guys and I walked into the canteen and started getting our lunch. When we were walking with our food Blake suddenly nudged me which made me turn to him. He nodded towards a direction telling me to look there and when I did I saw Dominic walking in with bleeding knuckled and a hooded face. I watched her as she sat down at the far table and started to clean up the blood. “Let’s go,” I say and we walk to her table.

“Hey,” Blake greets while sitting on her left while I sat on her right. The rest of the guys sat opposite us. She nodded acknowledging our presence but didn’t say anything. I looked at Blake and he looked back at me before shrugging. He hadn’t found out about the bike yet.

“What happened to your knuckles?” He asks her making her stop and look up at him. “I punched the wall a couple of times,” she replied and I furrowed my eyebrows. “Why would you do that?” I ask in disbelief and then it was her turn to face me with a hard expression, “wouldn’t you like to know, Sector,” she said before going on to wrapping her knuckles with some bandages.

“Stop, are you stupid? Wrapping bandages around your knuckles will keep the wound fresh,” I say and instinctively take her hand and start unwrapping the bandages. “Fuck off man,” she warns and pulls her hand out of my grasp before wrapping them again. “If I don’t they’ll get infected with bacteria.” She continues and we start arguing about it until I hear chuckles around me.

Both Dominic and I stop and look towards the others, “what?” we both ask, glaring at each other after that before looking around for answers. “You guys are-” Jake started but Zack cut him off, “you guys are so similar! You have the same eyes, the same attitude, the same everything! You both even look similar!” He exclaimed and I roll my eyes in response. “See! You both rolled your eyes at the same time! It’s so cute!”

I look at Dominic but this time she’s still looking at Zack, “you’re all fucktards. We’re nothing alike.” She states and I agree.

Suddenly a familiar notification sound comes from Dominic’s phone. She reads a text message, replies, and then stands, “I’ve got to go,” she says in a monotone voice and starts packing up. “Now? To where? The gym is closed-” “Because of you, I know” she states which silences me for a second. So she knew. “I’m going to pay for the damage I swear!” I say and she looked down at me for a moment before throwing a bag at me. “Then use that, it’ll help out,” she says before leaving promptly.

I put the bag on top of the table and the rest of the guys surrounded it as I opened the zipper to reveal a lot of cash. “Did she-” “she paid for the damage.” I finish and after counting for a bit we came to a total of $20, 000. The money she was going to use to pay for the repairs. She’s just making me feel even more guilty damn it. “We can’t just accept this can we?” Blake asks and the other guys waited for what I was going to say, “I… don’t know”

I started running out. I had to catch up to her and at least thank her. I jumped into my car and started driving until I saw her. I smiled and parked my car on the side of the road waiting for after she crossed the road opposite me to call out to her. I watched as a car stopped to let her through and she started walking but halfway across the car suddenly started driving and ran over her!

“Dominic!”

I shouted but my call was covered by her scream. All my senses shut down and were replaced by panic and pain. I ran up to where she was. The car that had hit her was already long gone, leaving her alone on the floor.Upstodatee from Novel(D)ra/m/a.O(r)g

She stopped screaming when I made it to her but she was still groaning in pain. “Dominic, are you okay?” I ask trying to think about how I could help her. “Does it look like I’m fucking okay to you?” She growled in reply and I shook my head, “You’re right I’m sorry.” “Nick!” I looked up to see Blake and the rest of my gang running up to us and started helping me lift her up until Dominic screamed again.

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