Requiem: A Dark Academia Enemies-to-Lovers Standalone Novel by Callie Hart

Author:Callie Hart [Hart, Callie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-07-25T18:30:00+00:00

16

SORRELL

I curl into a ball, listening to the rain hammer against the window. On the other side of the glass, the world is a streaky grey, gunmetal mess. The green of the lawn and the copse of trees in the distance is drab, the details of the landscape reduced to muddy smudges.

I unravel in my cocoon of blankets, quietly coming apart.

I don’t even rehash the events of this afternoon in my head. What would be the point? I wouldn’t even know where to begin. Where would I start, if I wanted to make sense of any of this? If I could just find a starting point, the beginning of the thread, and work my way forward from there, I might have a fighting chance of muddling through, but everything is so tangled together that doing so is simply impossible.

So I lie in my blankets, nursing a pounding headache, that cursed piece of music haunting my thoughts, doing my best not to think at all.

Just after seven, there’s a knock at my door. It’s Lani. She wears a pitying look that stokes my anger into a burning inferno. It could destroy the world, this rage I have inside me. I know I shouldn’t direct it at Lani, but the very last thing I need right now is her fucking sympathy. “If you’ve come here to try and make me feel better, or talk it out, or braid my hair or some shit, you can forget it,” I say, blocking the entrance to my room with my body.

She nods, as if she understands perfectly what I’m going through and how I’m feeling right now. “I know. I haven’t, I promise. Actually…Theo sent me.”

“Wonderful. Let me guess. He’s breaking his promise and not coming to have a conversation with me, right?”

“No. He wanted to make sure you still wanted to see him first. I take it that you do?”

“Damn right I do.”

“Good. Then he asked me to let you know that he’ll be waiting for you in his room. You can go and see him whenever you like. He said he’d wait up for you, so if it gets late—”

“Which is his room?”

Lani looks confused for a moment. And then, “Oh, right. You haven’t been there before?”

“No.”

She laughs a weird little laugh that makes my headache intensify to annoying levels. “It’s up one floor. On the east side of the building. He’s in two-fifty-eight.”

“Thanks.” I grab the comfortable sweatshirt that’s hanging on the back of my door, and I step out into the hallway.

“You’re going right now?” Lani squeaks.

“Might as well get this over with.”

“Okay. Well, I’m going to be finishing up a couple of assignments for a while. If you get done and you want to talk…” She trails off, a soft, kind light in her eyes, and the heat burning at the back of my neck ebbs a little. I’m treating her like shit right now. I hate this ugly, angry side of me. It’s turning me into a dick, causing

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