Without A Glance, N.L.Gallagher [best non fiction books to read txt] 📗

with the fact that she hated me and that her depression will not be shared with me. I tried to catch her eyes again but that girl has a very strong will. I want to talk to her some more but she’d never talked to me, so I’m going to have to talk to her first.
An hour later, the bell rang and I ran to catch up with the girl (I still don’t know her name) and smiled.
“So what’s your name?” I asked her.
She looked at me surprised. “My name is Teddy Evans. Why do you want to know?”
“Well, I guess you’re not going to ask me my name so I’ll just tell you.” I look at her and smile. “My name is Connor Lewis.” I hold my hand out to her and we both stop walking. She stares at my hand as though it was covered in something nasty. But then I nudged my hand towards her, edging her on. She finally took my hand, smiling slightly. I look her in her icy blue eyes as she stares back at me. Then she clears her throat and takes her hand away. I looked at her out of the corner of my eye to see her looking a bit uneasy. She looked my way once and saw my eyes inclined towards her, she blushed and tried to walk faster. I ran up to her and touched her shoulder as I made my way next to her. She flinched and ripped her shoulder away from my hand. She glared and said. “Don’t touch me. Ever.”
I backed away quickly, my hands in the air. “Fine. Okay, I’m sorry.”
She turned and ran away from me. Leaving me speechless and more confused than before. I sighed lovingly. Teddy Evans.
. . .
He was so weird. I didn’t even know him all that well but he’s the only one beside D to make me smile even a little bit. He just has this energy around him that makes me want to just be his friend. As though he’s as desperate as me to find someone who understands his pain. I looked back at him to see him walking away from me slowly, still looking at me. I turn away just as he waves at me and run faster away. I go to my next class which is Geometry. I go to my regular chair in the back of the class, knowing that there was going to be no one sitting next to me. You know that saying that people say when you act like they’re going to bite you, like ‘don’t worry, I’m not gonna bite.’ Well I actually will, so no one sits by me, unless they are extra stupid in the head.
As I plop myself down in the hard chair, the doors of the classroom are flung open. In comes, three men, with what looks like a pistol. A girl screams and is instantly quiet when one of the men looks at her spitefully. I look at the men never taking my eyes off of them. Something in me stirs suddenly and I feel as though I could do something about it all. But I also felt as though this was all me, the men barging in here with guns, demanding-
“Who is Teddy Evans?” Says the man with the biggest mustache I’ve ever seen. I stand up tall, not letting fear take over my body as I go up to them and look both of them straight in the eyes.
“That’d be me. What do you want?” I said in a drone voice.
“First off, you will address me as Agent Carter and we are here for reasons we will state later. Now ma’am will you please come with us.” He said in what I guess is his authority voice.
“No, I will not go with you or your little minions back here, anywhere. You can forget it.” I go back to my seat but before I can sit down I feel two hands grab my shoulders. I bring my right hand up and clamp his hands between my armpit and actual arm and swing back my elbow. Hard. I hear and feel my elbow make contact with his nose. I turn around to see the other two come at me. I swung a reversal kick. Lifting my left but switching to my right at the last second. I take that one down with his hands clutching himself. I turn to the last one standing and see him just standing there. I make a move towards him and he flinches as though he forgot that he had a gun hanging right off his shoulder. I run towards him to only be yanked right back into someone chest. I screamed and all of my classmates just sit there and flinch.
Finally, my teacher says something but is so rudely knocked out. I flinched as I heard him hit the ground.
“LET ME GO! HELP! ME! HELP ME SOMEONE PLEASE! AAAAHHHHH!” I was kicked but that didn’t stop me from screaming until I was saved. But then, before I knew what was happening I was socked right in the face. Everything throbbed on my face, but I continued to scream. Then I got knocked out and all I saw was black.
. . .
I woke up to a faint light. I knew that I was in the back of a van, as far as my memory would take me. In my memory I remember not being alone and that those men had disposed another member of the I Just Got Kidnapped Club in here. They had been out cold and had a bag on their heads. I opened my eyes and felt them grow wider and wider. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. There in front of my very own eyes was a girl. And she was glowing.
No, literally glowing. She was about 16 and was very beautiful. I felt as though I knew her but my mind was on extra slow. Then it hit me.
“Teddy?” I half asked half said. But I received no answer, because of course she was knocked out. I felt a sudden hate for those men who laid a hand on her. I wanted to just kill them but her glow brought me out of my thoughts. She was like an angel; the only thing that was missing was her halo. She had the beauty and the personality, but one thing was for sure she wasn’t completely human. I stared at her feeling myself go all fuzzy and warm and gushy inside.
She stirred and her light faded to a dull glow. I looked away but stayed where I was, I stared at her in utter amazement. You’d think that I’d be more surprised that she glowed and was probably an angel, but it’s really not all that hard to believe. I looked up at her and saw her looking at herself then up at me, her expression completely horrified. I smiled timidly and she only stared at herself then back up at me. I looked down at myself to see what she was staring at and was completely surprised. I was GLOWING. I pushed myself away from her horrified that maybe she rubbed off on me. She looked hurt and I felt bad. I scooted closer to her and put an arm around her shoulders, she leaned her head against my chest and I felt triumph running through my veins. She breathed heavily, her fear showing clearly on her face.
“Why are we here?” she asked quietly.
I shook my head. “I don’t know. They just came into my classroom and took me out.”
She looked up at me. “Really. That is what happened to me.”
I felt a jolt go through me as I try to imagine Teddy fighting. It wasn’t hard. She looked as though she was good at it. The van stopped and suddenly she was all the way across on the other side of the car, tumbling head over heels. She whimpered when the doors opened taking away the effect of our glows. I glared at them and when they reached for her I ran to shield her away from them. She slinked away to the back of the van and the only thing going through my mind was Protect Teddy, Protect Teddy. I practically growled at them when they reached over again. They looked at each other and jumped when some guy came and said.
“What are you sissies doing?” He asked harshly.
He came up next to them looking at us. He looked at me and his eyes widen and then looked at Teddy who was just sitting in the corner, rocking herself. She stared at me when I looked back at her. But then I looked forward again to see them talking quietly. The man that walked up looked at me and held a hand out.
“I’m Kendall. Nice to meet you.”
I stared down at his hand with a disgusted look on my face. He laughed and when he looked at Teddy, I could feel his gaze take a new level up. He looked at her with a lust filled gaze.
I growled and approached him.
“Aye, man. Chill out for a second. Kay. Keep your wolf in.” he said as he walked backwards with his arms in the air.
I must have looked confused because he said. “Well, golly. You didn’t know you were a wolf? Look down at yourself man.”
I looked down at myself and screamed a very non-manly scream. What I saw was very disturbing. I saw an arm full of hair and a handful of claws. I looked back at Teddy, thinking that she wouldn’t care what I looked like, that she would look beyond these claws and hair and see me for who I truly am. But she surprised me by looking horrified. I held my hands out to her hoping she would know that I’m not now, not ever going to hurt her. She scooted away from me hurriedly and squeaked in fright. I backed away, not wanting to cause her anymore distress. I looked back at the man, baring my teeth viscously and growled a sound so distant from me that I nearly jumped out of my skin. I pushed away the sounds of Teddy crying behind me and the sight of the retreating me as I finally stepped out of the trunk of the van.
I looked at Teddy and motioned with my head, indicating that she should go. She hesitated but then the reality of the situation came rushing towards her. She jumped out of the car and ran, dodging the men’s arms and mine. She reached the edge of the forest and looked back once meeting my eyes over the men that I held back and fought. She was no sooner gone than I was on the ground, under the restraint of about 30 hands. I could have easily have broken through and fought them once more but I tried to keep as much attention from Teddy as I could. I struggled but faintly, not wanting them to call backup. Suddenly there was a potato sack over my head and I saw blackness.
. . .
I ran blind in the forest, jumping at every sound that was eventually proved to be just some animal. I heard another sound and somewhere deep inside of me knew that this was different. I saw a hollow log on the ground a few feet from me and I went in it. I scrambled inside trying to at least find a semi comfortable position. I ended