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PROLOGUE
My shoes beat along the paved pavement, following behind at a healthy pace. She doesn’t hear me, see me, or even sense me watching.
So much had changed over the past couple of weeks; deep within me I felt something crack, until finally?deliciously?I felt that something snap.
A darkness now filled my empty soul, flooding life back into me. For so long I had felt empty, like something was wrong with me. Now, I know I was right. I hadn’t been who I was meant to be, who I was born to be.
Now, I’ve been reborn.
And it’s all because of her.
My fists clench as I think about her. She’s mine. She’ll always be mine. She just hasn’t gotten to know me, the real me. But she will.
And he’ll be gone.
When I saw them kissing?when they didn’t think anyone was looking?I was enraged. The thought of her with him, with anyone, made my blood boil. The anger inside me built and built, until it was almost like I was choking on it.
Shaking my head, my thoughts go to a happier time, a time when everything was perfect.
The first time I saw her, she was walking across the quad to class. Her bronze hair shone against the summer sun, and her eyes sparkled in the light. She smiled as she walked past, unaware of what she had stirred inside me as she carried on walking with her friend.
She’s the light to my dark.
And soon, she’ll know just how much we belong together.
Today, I’m going to show her just how much I love her. How much she means to me. It will be like a present, of sorts.
Christie, the girl I’m following, stops outside her residential hall. She throws up in a bush and I grin, carrying on into the building to start my surprise.
You see, Christie did something, something not many know. But I do. And I’m going to make her pay.
Finding her room isn’t hard. The girl sleeps around like no one’s business—her room number is on the back of most toilets.
She’s just that easy.
I jiggle the handle of her door, not at all surprised to find it open.
Fools, the lot of them, and incredibly weak-minded.
All except her.
I flick the lamp on when I enter, searching the room for the best place to wait until she arrives. In the corner is a chair, pressed between the wall and a dresser. Grinning, I walk over and sit down, crossing my legs as I wait.
It isn’t long before the door flies open and she comes staggering in. I made sure she came home alone tonight. After all, not many lads want to sleep with someone who is going to be sloppy.
I planned this down to the last second, and I’ll be damned if some cheap hook-up is going to ruin it for me.
“Whoops.”
She falls onto her bed, kicking off her shoes, making everything so much easier for me. It’s like she wants to die tonight.
Taking a deep breath, I stand slowly, making sure I don’t make a noise as I move over to her. She’s grumbling about never drinking again, and I want to tell her it will no longer be a problem for her.
Because after tonight, she’ll be merely a memory.
She’ll just be some girl who died on campus.
My fingers wrap around the heavy torch in my trousers, and I raise it above my head. She must hear me because she turns, and her eyes widen at the sight of me, before I hit her. She falls down easily and I grin, catching her.
