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Ember X Jessica Sorensen 27210K 2023-09-02

Cas her up She intentionally trips and braces herself with his shoulders "Oh oodness" She squeezes his bicep "You must work out like all the time"

He lifts her hand fro," I tell Raven before she can further embarrass herself

She seductively s past higles her finger at me and turns the corner

"Sorry about that," I say to Ca from the floor where Raven dropped it When I turn back around, I alh, watching ry eyes, like he could eat me up "You dropped this" He handsand back up "I’m real sorry about Raven She can kind of be a little… overly friendly soht have sorin

"Doesn’t everyone?" I pick up a book to divert my attention away from the lust in his eyes

He takes the book fro mine, but not quite, and then he discards the book onto the shelf "Okay, I’o out on a date"

"Go out on a date?" I elevate my eyebrows "Really? You and me?"

"Why do you sound so surprised?" he asks, aerless arm warmers, and my black and red striped tank top, then at his black button-down shirt and his name brand jeans "I think it’s kind of obvious"

"We’re not as different as you think," he assuresthat you and I could go to a poetry slah "Sorry to burst your bubble, but there aren’t poetry sla you’ll probably find is banjo night down at Mahs and it momentarily erases the misery in his eyes "You don’t think I know that" He inches forward and the tips of his shoes clip the tips of ht poetry sla room before an accidental touch happens "What about Mackenzie?"

Hein onall overor soether" My elbow bumps the shelf and books topple over

"We’re just friends" He crosses his arainst the bookshelf

"Yeah, but you guys won’t be, if you go out with me," I say and he fakes a befuddled look "Oh, don’t pretend like you haven’t heard what people say about me: cult member, Satan worshiper, murderer"

"And haven’t you heard that I like to spend tiraves" He dips his head in toward me and his warm breath e to his tone that causes my heart to miss a beat

The back ofis off about the whole situation, but there’s a pull toward hinet and I’m welded of metal

"Okay," I say, startled by my answer "It’s a date, then"

He backs toward the door "I’ll pick you up torin of perfection and then pushes out the door

"I hate this," Raven complains later that day in the library I made her stay with els and then she could give me a ride home I haven’t told her yet about my date with Cameron, because I know she’ll freak out and er," I say, searching through the index of a book "You can survive a few er"

"Can’t you just search the internet?"

"I already did"

"Fine I’et back, you better be done" Raven grabs her purse and aI’ for so I shut it and walk up to the counter Ms Kinsley, the reen eyes, looks up from her computer

"Can I help you?" Her standoffish tone probably means she knoho I am

"Do you have any books," I say, "that perhaps focus on the y?"

She types soht be soy section, but I don’t knohat they focus on"

"Thanks," I say and walk for the bookshelves At the back, is the y section and I pull out the heaviest book I can find, and ca titled Griels"

The curse of the Angels is a result of a battle that took place a long tiood and evil, but during the era, people believed the only theedly started froels of Death were the carriers of the innocent souls, and Grim Reapers the carriers of the evil souls However, when the Reapers beca the souls of the innocent, a battle broke out between the two As a forels of Death, and Abaddon, the ruler of the Grim Reapers, cursed the warriors to Earth and bound theroup’s blood

Griel of Death--have walked the earth for centuries undetected by huel ood and evil

The next section switches to Legend of Faeries I thru no idea what to do hat I read I start to put the book back on the shelf et droplets trickle down the back ofbehindand blood splatters against ing by a rope fro is the body of Farrah Taverson, her