"Come this way." A guy I never meet tugged me away from everyone, from everything. I should have been scared, right? I knew I should have been scared. But, I just couldn't muster enough feelings to be scared, I just didn't care what this stranger did to me, torture, rape, whatever he could possibly think of could never be worse than what my own mind could do to me.

So, I followed him, to a dark alleyway between our main class and the library. Not many people walked here, probably because it was a wind vortex. I was only there maybe 10 seconds before I felt chilled to the bone, but at least I was alone, or mostly alone. 

He finally stopped walking and looked at me, I felt my cheeks blush with embarrassment, as my breath came out in huffs. Probably because of all the extra work my short legs had to do to keep up with this 6 foot something man before me. 

Nothing spectacular stood out about him, he was tall, yes, but brown hair blue eyes, and maybe muscular (?) it was hard to tell from the baggy clothes that he wore. 

"So, why did you pull me out here?" I gestured around to nothing. I'm not normally this outspoken especially with strangers, but for this random person who tugged me away, I'm a little more willing to be outspoken, or so I thought.

He didn't say anything and just looked at me. I remember shifting from foot to foot feeling uncomfortable with his stare. Moving my arms over my chest as a weight fell on them. I would have done anything to make him stop looking at me with those curious eyes.  

"You really don't know, do you?" With that, he started to laugh, a hard laugh. It made me so self-conscious that I started to walk away. I didn't need someone teasing me the first day of school or any day for that matter. I will just go back to my dorm and sleep this day away. It sounded perfect, sleep.

Though my retreat was cut short, by the same man that made me retreat. "Wait, I didn't mean to laugh at you. My name is Ray. I just wanted to save you from the mod of females that were giving you death glares."

1. I had no clue what he was talking about. There was no reason for any woman at all to give me death glares. I have never done anything to deserve them.

2. As more time passed on I became painfully aware that me and Ray were alone. In an alley, and now he is blocking my means of escaping. The panic that I didn't feel before started to rise in my throat. I cleared it in hopes of calming myself. "Thank you, sir knight. Now if you don't mind I would like to go back to my dorm."  said as I tried to walk past him. 

Ray grabbed me by my arm again, "Look I didn't mean to frighten you, I just only wanted to help." There was a long pause as I said nothing but stared at his hand holding my arm. 

His hand was so big compared to my arm. He must have realized that he what I was looking at because he cursed and let it go. "I'm sorry for fucking this up. Let me make it up to you. Let me take you to the Bell for tacos. Order whatever you like." 

I wanted to say no, in fact I could feel no on my tongue. But, as I looked into his eyes, and saw . . . . I'm not sure to this day what exactly I saw. Remorse maybe, but that doesn't really fit, maybe a glint of hope, excitement, a plan. I heard my self say sure before I could stop myself. 

I felt regret as soon as I said Yes, but it was too late. As we walked out of the alley I looked over and saw Jacob. Not really looking at us, but there. For some reason that maybe me feel self-conscious about being so close to Ray. I moved a little bit farther away even, but that didn't help the self-consciousness I felt leaving with Ray. It felt like I was doing something wrong or bad.

Then Ray looked at me with a deep smile and I realized maybe doing something that felt bad could be good.