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Whisper of Love

Chapter 1

Zylith

Being able to attend university was a miracle in itself. I worked my ass off for the opportunity and the scholarship that accompanied it. The scholarship however only covered my tuition, living expenses, clothing and food were all on me.

Meaning my hard work had to continue. I was running like crazy trying to get to my class after my shift ran longer than expected. I am still wearing my way too short, shorts and tightly fitted black t, when I rounded a corner and slammed into someone hard.

Rubbing my ass before gathering my things, I look up and see I had run into the ice queen on campus. Hadley Forrester, the 2nd year beauty that every guy wanted but was too terrified to even approach.

She had curves in all the right places, impressive boobs, hair that reached her waist and perfect skin. Shit, this is just not my day. She never went to parties and she had no friends. The mysterious air around her was a strong contributing factor to the constant gossip and tall tales surrounding her.

Her being the ice queen, I can pretty much already guess how this is going to turn out. She will greet me with a snarl and tell me to open my damn eyes.

To my complete surprise, she holds out her hand to me, pulls me up and gives me my textbook. She approaches me and lightly brushes my cheek, tucking a stray strand of my hair behind my ear. "Are you okay?" Her voice is soft and calm.

This isn't really the attitude I thought an ice queen would have. She takes a step closer, her nose nearly touching mine and I think my heart skipped a beat. She looks up to my forehead, narrowing her eyes in examination. Damn girl don't test me like this!

"I think you will be okay, just a small bump," it's then that I notice the ache of my head and I realize I must have hit it against hers. She moves back and gives a small wave and bids me farewell.

I am lost for words, she's so nice. She's so caring and hell is she beautiful, I see why those boys are so hot and bothered by her. Shit, she nearly had me switching.

I whip around taking quick strides towards her and grab her wrist, "Hey, want to hang out?" She looks between my hand on her wrist and my face in bewilderment.

I let go of her wrist, holding up my hands in surrender, "Your nice, and I have no friends, I am lonely and maybe you are lonely too. It would be nice to hang out." I give my biggest smile and patiently wait for her decline.

"I work for a restaurant and they always give us the leftover pie, I have enough at home for eight people."

Her face brightens up in an instant, " You would share it with me?" She blushes ear to ear and fiddles with her fingers.

"If it means we get to be friends?" I say tongue-tied, is she flirting with me or just really shy.

She seems to think on it before giving me a quick flash of a shy smile, "I would love pie. And, I would love a friend." She looks at her feet the entire time saying this. She is no ice queen, she is just introverted and cautious.

We exchanged numbers and met up the following day. She didn't talk much that day, or the day after. Slowly I started tearing down the walls she had built around her. After nearly three months of eating pie and later cake, she started to soften up. Food being an obvious weakness for her.

She would answer questions I had and even helped me with assignments. One night she just spoke. All on her own, no question asked, she just wanted to tell me something.

After getting to know her for a while I discovered that she loves nature, she loves animals and she loved literature.

Being around her was incredibly calming, I noticed early on that she was extremely wary of men. She avoided them at all cost.

After nearly a year of friendship, I finally feel as though I know Hadley. We had become best friends in the months past. Hadley started taking on a bit of my personality over the months, a fact I prided myself on.

I taught her how to curse, I taught her not to be scared of everyone and to start speaking up. She never warmed up to the boys however, poor things.

I couldn't get hold of Hadley all weekend and started to worry, I went over to her place but no answer. After finding Hadley's car in the parking lot after days of being missing I freaked. The worst scenarios playing in my mind.

I knew about the ass-wipe she dated during high school, she didn't tell me about everything that happened but the summary was enough for me to hate the dickhead just as much as she did.

I know she didn't want any police involved and thought about what I would do to find her.

Author Note: Book 2 will be released October after finishing Book 1. I plan to give book 3 my full attention after finishing book 2. However I will Publish chapters as I finish them, the book is mostly a stand alone.