Silently Falling Book 1: Silently Falling
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A Silove
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Alexis was your typical everyday good girl with excellent grades, a single best friend, an annoying elder brother and a family that loved her to no end. When senior year rolled up, Alexis wasn't looking to expand her small social circle of friends or put herself out there but things are meant to change, after all, change is the only constant thing in life. Paired to do a group assignment with the school's three new mysterious gorgeous looking guys at the start of the term. Alexis is tested in more ways than one. Cheesy pick up lines, rude guys, charming smiles, motorcycle rides, coffee dates and long hours together is all it takes to make her question everything she ever knew. But what happens when she falls for one of them? The one with the dark hair and piercing green eyes? What will she do when he finds out about the secret she's been harbouring all her life? She begins to regret her decision and wish she'd met him long before but life has its own way of playing with one's feelings. Will her secret break their newly found relationship or will it make it grow stronger?
Chapter 1
ALEXIS
“Wake up, wake up. C’mon, wake up,” an annoying voice kept saying. Soon, the person was poking me in a very painful manner.
“Wake up before you’re late for your first day back at school,” the voice said once more.
I groaned and pulled the covers over my head. “Leave me alone,” I whined.
The poking ceased, and soon I was drifting off to dreamland as though I hadn’t just been disturbed a few minutes ago.
I was abruptly pulled from sleep as cold water seeped through my duvet, leaving me soaked and shaking uncontrollably.
“What the hell!” I exclaimed as I hurriedly ripped off the duvet and tossed it to the floor.
Who pours icy water on someone this early in the morning?
The person was laughing uncontrollably, and I turned to find none other than James, my annoying older brother.
He was bent over, clutching his knees as he doubled over with laughter. “I told you to get up, didn’t I?” he said in between laughing fits.
I glared at him so hard that if looks could kill, then I was pretty sure we would all be attending his funeral in a couple of seconds.
“Get out! I want to change,” I said through chattering teeth.
But he continued laughing even as he walked out of my room. “You have twenty-five minutes to get ready and head to school before you’re late, Alexis,” he shouted over his shoulder as he closed my bedroom door.
I hated him.
I quickly got up from my comfortable bed and made my way to the bathroom for a quick shower. The shower mostly consisted of me chattering my teeth as the water was unbelievably cold. After that, I wrapped a towel around my body and proceeded to brush my teeth and quickly tried to run a brush through my messy, curly brown hair to no avail.
I rushed to my room and got dressed in a plain white V-neck with blue-wash jeans. I put on some shoes and my glasses before grabbing my phone from the charger and stuffing my books into my school bag. I did a quick evaluation, making sure I had everything before dashing downstairs.
James was seated by the island in the kitchen, scarfing down a plate full of pancakes with a glass of orange juice. “There’s some left if you want,” he said through a mouthful of pancakes.
This boy eats like an animal, I thought to myself. “No, I’ll pass.”
“Suit yourself,” he said as he placed another forkful of pancakes into his mouth. “You only have ten minutes to get to school.”
I walked to the fridge and grabbed myself an apple and a water bottle before making my way out of the kitchen.
“Oh, and Alexis,” James shouted as I was about to close the front door, “Mum said to have fun and try and make friends this year, okay?”
I rolled my eyes at him because that was what Mum always told me each year. “Bye, James,” I shouted back and closed the door.
The school was about a ten-minute walk, and since I had less than that, I had to run for my dear life like a madman being chased by a pack of wild dogs. I kept on praying to God to at least help me get there on time. By the time I reached the school parking lot, I was already panting and breathing heavily.
I need to get into shape, I thought to myself.
I checked the time, and I had made it with four minutes to spare. Thank God!
The hallway was crowded with students as they chatted away with their friends about their winter holidays and whatnot. I made my way to my locker where my best friend, Asher, was already waiting for me.
“Whoa! For the first time, little Ms. Punctual is late for school,” Asher teased as I reached him.
His once long dirty-blond hair was cut short and neatly swept behind, and he wore a white T-shirt with some dark jeans underneath his football team jersey.
“Yeah, yeah, rub it in, Ash,” I said as I rolled my eyes and punched in my locker combination.
Asher ruffled my hair and smiled at me with that charming smile of his, but there was something else in his turquoise-blue eyes. “I mean, I’m usually the late one between the two of us, and here I was fifteen minutes earlier,” he said.
“I don’t even know why I’m friends with you.”
“That’s because, Al, you love me and cannot, by any means, live without me in your little miserable life,” he said with a cheeky grin and pulled me to his side as we began walking to class. “You need to start living a little and stop being so introverted. This is your senior year, and you only get one of those for the rest of your life.”
We stopped by my physics class, and only then did I realize that I had switched my physics textbook with my history one. “No, no, no.”
“What’s wrong?”
“I need to go and get my physics textbook.”
Asher looked at me for a long while before he burst into laughter. “Gosh, this is gold,” he said. “First you come late and then you forget your textbook.”
He was doubled over with laughter as tears brimmed in his turquoise-blue eyes. Just then, the bell rang. “See ya at lunch, Al.”
I turned around and hurried back to my locker. The hallway was deserted as everyone was in class while I, on the other hand, was too busy searching for my textbook. I couldn’t believe this was happening to me on my first day of senior year.
Finally finding it buried among my tons of books, I turned around ready to head back to class when I saw three really hot-looking guys strolling through the front door of the school. I stood there and just stared at them, speechless. They all wore black leather jackets with dark jeans and had this sort of mysterious aura and bad-boy look.
Before they could see me swoon over them from where I stood, I turned and made my way to class. Which, no doubt, I was extremely late for.
Just great!
***
Civic education class was one of my favorite classes besides physics and math. Ms. Thompson, our civic ed teacher, was talking about some assignment we had to do for the term that was worth thirty percent of our final grade.
“All right, class, I’ll now assign you your partners, and please make sure you both do the work as I will be evaluating you individually as well,” she said and then started calling out the names from her list. “Casey, Michelle, Steve, and Nate,” she called out.
She kept calling everyone’s name, and when she finally got to mine, she realized that I was the only one left. “Oh my, Alexis, it looks like you’re on your own,” Ms. Thompson said apologetically.
“It’s okay, Ms. I can do—” I was cut off as the door opened and in walked the three guys I saw earlier in the hallway.
All eyes turned to them. I could see all the girls drooling over them and some of the guys staring in awe.
“Ah, you must be the new students,” Ms. Thompson said. “Please have a seat as I have something important to tell you,” she said.
Ms. Thompson looked at me. “Well, Alexis, you’re in luck because you’ll be working with these three young men, and I do hope you can show them around school as well.”
I gaped at her. I can’t work with them. What if they make me do all the work and then just take credit for it? I thought.
I was interrupted by Ms. Thompson’s voice.
“You are all required to write a report on the processes of a trial, and you must have valid proof and reasoning,” she said. “All right, you may go to your respective groups now and start working for the rest of the class.” She went back to her table and took a seat.
I stood up and all eyes fell on me as I made my way to the back of the class where the three guys sat. Please let this go well.
I pulled up a chair and sat down facing the guy with light-brown hair and hazel eyes who extended his hand to me. I reluctantly shook his hand.
“Hey! I’m Jake,” he said and smiled, showing off a set of dimples. “This is Kai,” Jake said, pointing to the guy with brunette hair and oceanic blue eyes, “and Nick,” he finished, pointing to the dark-haired boy with forest-green eyes.
I returned the smile. “And I’m Alexis, nice to meet you all.”
Well, this is going to be a very long assignment.
