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I would have to ask aze dazed by my dad
His hands slid down uing about this? Will you be ivenlued rinned, the rightness of this sensation ht it He was right The Clann&039;s rules were stupid If ever two people were ether, ere it And it was tie
"Good" He kissed ainst hihter
He lifted his head with a gasp for air then grinned down atyou definitely does" He stared down atand wonderful to stare back up at him "Did you know your eyes turn silver when I kiss you?"
They should turn brown He made me feel like I&039;d downed an entire pot of coffee when he kissed y
Unfortunately, second period called, and life didn&039;t revolve around kissing Tristan Cole to wish it did
Tristan
I hadn&039;t stopped grinning allI flopped into net, Savannah drew aze She was so incredibly beautiful And I was the lucky guy who got to kiss her As I watched her standing in the food line, her cheeks turned pink Could she feelat her? Now that I knew she was a descendant by birth, I had a hunch she just ht be able to sense &039;s wrong with you," Emily said
"Hmm? Why&039;s that?"
"First Dad finds you still passed out in the backyard at lunchtime on Saturday"
"I wasn&039;t drunk"
"Uh-huh Then you act like you&039;re hung over until Sunday-"
"Can&039;t be hung over if there&039;s no booze or drugs involved"
"I tell you to go draw soround-"
"Which I did, and it worked, thank you"
"And you see around like a rag doll again, only you&039;re wearing a goofy grin"
"Hain Think Mrs Harper will h Spanish this afternoon?"
She stared aton a probleht You wouldn&039;t happen to have gone on a date with soame?"
"Yeah, actually, I did" Best date of ht
"Would it have been with anyone I know?"
"Maybe She&039;s a student here"
"A Charmer?"
"Sort of"
"A redheaded junior who is so off-lied "Maybe Hey, did you know her family used to be in the Clann before her hed and threw up her hands in the air "You&039;re an idiot I knew you always liked her But to actually break the rules and date her? There&039;s a reason her family was kicked out of the Clann"
"Oh, yeah? And what is it?"
"I don&039;t know But it e for them to cast out her whole fa an outcast descendant, and every time you see her, you&039;re weak afterward You did see her this ht?"
"Oh, yeah I saw her" I grinned at the oodbye kiss Make that kisses
"What if she&039;s draining you?"
My grin dropped straight into a scowl Emily could be such aSavannah was the best feeling ever
"Hoould you know? Have you ever been drained before? You have no idea what it feels like"
Good point Know-it-all brat "And you do?"
She glared back at me Ha! She didn&039;t knohat it felt like, either
Which was all off topic anyways "Look, Savannah wouldn&039;t do that to ot that kind of power, she could draw from nature just like the rest of us"
"Not if she was never trained to What if this is her power&039;s way of leaking out of control? Or what if this is part of the reason her family was cast out? They could all be power leeches Or what if she&039;s draining you as revenge for her fah with the conspiracy theories already She&039;s not like that My being tired after seeing her is just a coincidence You don&039;t know anything about her"
"Not yet, I don&039;t"
Goodoutside for a while"
"Good Do yourself a favor and do so while you&039;re there And I don&039;t mean the artistic type I&039;ll let you knohat I discover"
Sisters What a pain
Still, Erounding tree and draw a little energy froested
A few -cold air, I heard the squeak of the cafeteria doors At the saut and sto, I snuck a peek at her
She wore a ed from the cafeteria with her friends Then she lookeddirectly at a suray winter day
And then she glanced pastHer smile slipped, and her feet stu there but an ee of the woods that circled three sides of the school grounds What could make her freeze up like that?
Savannah
They were definitely staring at me I wasn&039;t sure how I knew this, but I did And the longer I looked at the trio of adults standing at the edge of the woods behind Tristan, the er, curiosity, patient deter cloud against ainst the fro but happy
Why didn&039;t they ever blink? Orit todamp Gut instinct screamed at me to run away And yetover there? And ere they staring at ed adults, two men, one woman Their faces watched me without any expression The wind flipped the men&039;s dark suit jackets and turned the wo black cloud around her head, yet she made no effort to push back the wild strands
"Hey, Anne, do you knoho those people are?" I jerkedto act noraveover there by the woods At the edge of the practice field"
She continued to look clueless But she was justwith h "Carrie, do you knoho they are?"
Carrie looked in the correct direction "Where?"
"Oh, not funny, guys The tworude, I pointed anyway Let the trio knoas talking about the at me
Carried stared at me, too, her blue eyes expressionless "Sav, there&039;s no one there"
"Oh, coht?"
Michelle shook her head, and now all three of one nuts
Maybe I had I turned toward the creepy trio Yep, they were still there, still solid and unwavering, and still staring at hs
"Y&039;all swear you don&039;t see them?" I&039;d meant to sound calm, but the words came out in a croak instead
"I swear," Anne replied, and Carrie and Michelle nodded
"Coh, noas seeing invisible people Either that or ghosts
Thankfully,on the opposite side of the ca locker door in theahead after school was the usual Charht next to where those watchers had been standing
Please be gone now,the ay to the sports and art building after the final school bell rang
As I lanced back at the woods And stu at led as the wind continued to whip it around her face unchecked They looked as if they hadn&039;tthere until the end of ti ers, spreading overuntil I wanted to claw off et away from the sensation
What did they want?
Panic rose, icy cold, starting inout to nuether and hurried inside At Mrs Daniels&039;s office, I leaned against the doorjas ith relief,out fast and short
Oh, crap I couldn&039;t go back out there I would have to walk right past theet to the field I would be within feet of the
I&039;d have to miss practice today I&039;d have to
I didn&039;t hear Tristan co?" He crossed the distance tostrides then crouched down beforeme kno cold I was
"You&039;ll think I&039;m crazy"
"Try me"
"There&039;re thesepeople outside by the practice field At the edge of the woods Adults Three of the at me They were there at lunch, too, but my friends swore they couldn&039;t see them None of thehosts or so to a near shriek at the end
"Okay, cal at you?"
How could I explain why the watchers freakedor anything They&039;re like statues Only their heads and eyes turn when I walk by" A sudden thought hit me "Do you think the Clann sent the and sent them But why not make themselves invisible to me, too? Wouldn&039;t that make more sense?"
"Whoa, slon" He stood and pulled me up with him "If the Clann sent spies to watch me, which I doubt they&039;d do, they would make themselves invisible to everyone Otherwise they wouldn&039;t be very good spies, right?"
His calm confidence reached out to me like a soft, war stupid, I took a deep breath and tried to calht But why can&039;t my friends see them?"
"I don&039;t know Why don&039;t we find out if I can?"
It took several tries, but I et the sound syste Then we
The watchers were still there This time their eyes widened as if in shock Proof they probably weren&039;t ghosts Ghosts didn&039;t act surprised and weren&039;t affected by the wind, were they?
"Are they still there?" Tristanain He couldn&039;t see the crazy
"Well, they won&039;t hurt you as long as I&039;m here" He reached out to hold my hand
The woman in the rabbed her arasped and froze "Let go of oing to be late for practice Why don&039;t we go around the opposite side of the -"
As if they&039;d heard, the watchers turned toward the practice field Then they took off,so fast they became three blurs Holy crap, how could they move like that? They couldn&039;t possibly be descendants, not unless they&039;d used ain, maybe that was exactly what they had done After all, what did I know about ic and what descendants could or couldn&039;t do with proper training?
Where had they gone?
The only thing worse than being stared at by three creepy watchers was not knohere they were now I jogged down the ra I was just in tiside the practice-field fence before they stopped at the far end, beco solid once more
"Wow They move fast"
"Where are they now?"
"Far end of the field outside the fence And they&039;re staring at ain"
His eyes widened "Yeah, that is fast"
"You still can&039;t see them, can you?"
"No I&039;m sorry, I wish I could Maybe if the Clann sent theht came to me "What if that&039;s the point? Send watchers only I can see so I think I&039; you"
We entered the field I tried not to look at the watchers, but it was like trying not to look at a train hurtling toward me while I stood on the train tracks Survival instinct delance their way every few seconds to ain
"Well, at least they&039;re keeping their distance, right?" He helped me set up the sound systeet ice in a while, I&039;ll stop by the practice gym and ask Emily for advice"
"No, don&039;t Your sister will think I&039;m a nutcase"
"No, she won&039;t I promise And if the Clann did send spies or so as suspicious as I would" He s information out of anyone"
"Do you think I&039;ed a half smile "Uh-huh But seriously A down beside ertips to the ground After adoesn&039;t feel right And it&039;s probably them"