The school day passed slowly, as usual. Just ten more minutes and I could meet up with Zane and Aqua since this is the last class of the day. Our teacher, Mrs. Smith, instructed us to put the textbooks away but to keep quiet until we can leave.

I looked down at my phone to see if Zane or Aqua had texted me. They haven't. I texted Zane to see if anything new has happened. I was about to text Aqua when the classroom door opened and a guy walked into the class.

He was dressed in all black and looked like he was in his twenties, maybe older but it was clear that he didn't go to school here. I watched as he walked up to Mrs. Smith and started talking to her.

I looked back down and a few minutes passed then the teacher called me up to her desk. I grabbed my backpack and walked up to where her and the guy we're standing. I looked at Mrs. Smith and asked, "Is there a problem Mrs. Smith?"

"No Ivy, there isn't. This is Jay Miller. He says he wants to talk to you," Mrs. Smith respond

I glanced at the guy and asked, "Why?"

Mrs. Smith said, "I don't know, since class is almost over that's between you and him."

I turned to face him and he said, "Come with me Miss. Starr." He turned and walked out of the class and I followed him. My phone went off and I looked at it. It was Zane, he said that nothing new has come up and he asked me if something new has come up so far with me regarding what is happening. I was about to respond when Jay said, "Don't answer that. Do not text."

I asked, "Why Jay?"

He said, "Do not call me Jay. It's Mr. Miller to you and because I can't have anyone else knowing your with me yet until I leave." I went to ask why but before I could he said, "Don't ask questions. Shut up and listen to me. We can make this really simple or we can make it hard."

He started walking and I wasn't going to follow him but he yelled at me to and given I don't know who he is or what he could do to me I followed him. We eventually came up to a car, that was about four blocks away from the school and my dorm, and he said, "Get in."

I said, "No. I don't know who you are or what you want. I'm not getting in that car with you."

"Smart girl. To bad your parents had to send you away...well your real parents. They could have trained you to fight better," He replied.

I looked at him slightly confused, "What do you know about my parents?"

I watched as his eyes flased red and he said, "More then you know." I stood there and watched as his eyes got really red and then slowly went back to normal."

I stood there spaced out for a couple minutes not sure what to do. Did his eyes actually turn red for a few seconds? Did I just imagine them turning red because of all the other werid stuff that has halhappe so far? I snapped out of it when Jay said, "If I were you I'd be careful with what you say or do around me. One wrong move and it won't end well for you.

My phone has already gone off about fifty different times while I've been with this guy. I figured if I pulled it out or answered it he could or would hurt me. I stared up at him and his eyes turned red again and said, "Now I suggest you get into the car."

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Before I could respond a girl from acrossed the street yelled, "Hey Ivy, who are you with?"

Jay wispered, "Who's that?"

I said, "umm..a girl in one of my classes."

He thought for a second and then said, "Tell her I'm your cousin, now. If you don't things won't end well for either of you."

I yelled at the girl so she could hear me, "Hes just my cousin." She stood there staring at us like she didn't believe me. She then started walking towards us and Jay meet her half way.

The girl said, "Your her cousin."

Jay said, "Yeah, we we're just going to go get something to eat."

"Oh ok, have fun," The girl replied. With that she walked off and as Jay watched to make sure she actually left I took off running. Jay turned around and yelled, "Ivy, I'll find you agiag, it may be to risky to show up at your school again but ill find you." I didn't bother turning around to look at him I just kept running.

I wasn't running in the same direction that the school was in but I didn't care. I just wanted to get out of there, I'll go back to the school and my dorm later. It got later and later but I didn't care I just kept running away. Away from the guy, away from the school, away from everything and everyone. Once it started to get dark I pulled out my phone and looked at the time. It read 8:30, school ended at three.

I've been running most of the time and I don't understand why. Maybe I figured I couldn't go back to the school when I first took off because he might change his mind and follow me. If he followed me he could have hurt Zane and Aqua. Is that why? I'm not sure why but I figured it was probably time to go back to the school.

I realized that I never looked at the texts that I kept getting because I didn't care. All I could thing about was getting out of there at the time. I looked at all the texts that I had. I probably had like thirty or more. All of them were from Zane and Aqua asking me where I was and if I was ok. I didn't bother replying to them I just called a cab to come get me.

It took about an hour for the cab to take me back to my dorm and when I got there Zane and Aqua were both standing in my room when I walked in. I walked up to me and we hugged each other. Aqua asked, "Where were you?"

I told Aqua and Zane what happened and they just stood there for a few minutes. Zane eventually said, "His eyes turned red."

I said, "Yeah, do you know why?"

Zane said, "Not yet, but I do know you two aren't sleeping in this room."

Aqua said, "This is our dorm room we have nowhere else to sleep."

Zane said, "You guys are going to sleep in my room from now on."

I said, "Zane you know we can't do that. There's a rule against that."

"I don't care about the rule. I'll talk to the headmaster tommorow and get her to agree with you guys staying with me. As for tomight your staying with me," Zane replied.

Me and Aqua ended up agreeing with him after we relirelireal he wasn't going to give up. Once we got to his dorm room we sat down on the floor. We don't have school the rest of the week due to a couple classrooms being redone so we sat there talking for awhile. Zane said he'd look online and at the library to see if he could find anything on people's eyes changing red and things like that. Aqua fell asleep at around midnight but me and Zane stayed up

When the clock read that it was two in the morning Zane said, "We should go to sleps."

I said, "I don't want to."

He said, "We have to. Look, nothings going to happen and if it does there's three of us. That's the main point to having us all in the same room so nothing bad will really happen to us if something does happen all three of us can handle it abd deal with it together."

"Ok, fine." I replied. With that Zane turned off the rest of the lights and laid down next to me and Aqua. I said, "He's going to come back isn't he."

Zane turned towards me and said, "With the way he said he would and how his eyes turned red, yeah probably but it'll be fine. We'll figureout what's happening. You do seem like the main target though."

I said, "Ya, I noticed."

"It'll be fine with that to though. In the letter it said I'd help you and I will. Aqua will to. WellW all help each other. We might just have to keep a closer eye on you though because as of now it seems like your the main target," Zane replied.

I said, "Ok."

Zane said, "Now let's get some sleep."

Aqua sat up and said, "Night guys."

I said, "I thought byou were asleep."

"I was I woke up about five minutes ago I just didn't say anything because I didn't want to. Now I'm going back to sleep," Aqua replied. With that me and Zane told her night and she fell asleep again.

Me and Zane looked at each other and he said, "Night Ivy."

I said, "Night Zane."