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“Promise me you’ll be safe Lex. I seriously need my best friend. Sometimes I feel like you’re all I have left,” she cried, her voice muffled by my shoulder.
    “Of course. Take care of yourself M el. It’d be too hard without you.”
    “Yea it would,” she smiled, pulling away with a few sniffles. “I really am your guiding light on so many things,” she chuckled.
    “Ok, yea you kinda are.” We laughed together.
    “Alright. Enough of this sappy pasty puff,” Craig interjected, pulling Mel into his arms from behind. “Lexi, doll, I’ll see you on the flip side of the rip tide.”
    Kellan and I both snickered as Mel rolled her eyes. “See you later guys,” I waved. I gave Kellan one last kiss before climbing into Kai’s car.
    “About time,” he complained.
    “Yea, yea.” I buckled my seat belt ignoring his mood.
    Kai and I relayed the earlier events to Gabi, Rafi, Kalel and Art. Art agreed to scan everyone he came into contact with. Gabi and Rafi said they’d alert the troops and send a few to my house to house sit.
    Kalel stepped towards me; he picked up the charm on my necklace, an upside down cross, and studied it. “Don’t forget about this.”
    “I won’t, thanks.”
    “Don’t worry too much. You’ll be safe with us.”
    “Well, uh…” I didn’t know how to break it to him.
    “She’s going after him,” Kai bit out. H e fisted his palms and gr ou nd his teeth in disgust and anger.
    “After who?” Gabi was immediately on alert. Her brows raised yet furrowed, she turned towards me expectantly.
    “Him,” Kai stated.
    “As in him, him?”
    “Yea.”
    I watched Gabi’s eyes widen as she ping-ponged between me and Kai. She ran her hand through her hair and tugged at it before she began to pace. She stared at the floor as she wrang her hands anxiously.
    “Gabi? You ok?” I asked, looking at her and the others for some sort of response. Clearly they, or at least she, ha d some knowledge or interaction with this vamp.
    “You can’t go Lex. Seriously. You… you,” she huffed. “You just can’t!”
    “Calm down Gabi. I’ll be fine, really. Kellan’s going with me. We’ll be fine.”
    “You don’t know that. You don’t know him,” she argued.
    “I’m sorry Gabi. As much as I would like to say I ’ ll heed your advice, I won’t. He’s after me Gab s . Everyone’s given me warnings and tried to offer me a reason to stay, but if he’s coming after me anyways, why does it matter if I go to him or if he comes here?”
    “I really hope you know what you’re getting yourself into Lex. He’s definitely not us. Don’t think for one second that if he catches you that he’ll show you any mercy.”
    “Thanks for sharing.” I offered her a weak smile.
    “Of course. You take care of yourself ok. Don’t let him get you,” she said, pulling me into a hug.
    “I’ll try.”
    Right as I pulled away Kellan walked in. “I’m just going to drop this stuff in the room and then we can go.”
    “Sure.”
    “Where are you two running off to?” Gabi asked.
    “To meet up with our Eislom ,” I said, accenting William’s title.
    “Ooh. The name sounds old and boring so I won’t bother being nosy.”
    I laughed. “You got the old part right. Not sure about the boring yet.”
    “Let’s go,” Kellan called as he s print ed down the stairs.
    “Bye guys,” I said, waving. They all said a quick bye in return as Kellan grabbed my hand and led me to his car.
    We drove to the school in silence, merely our hands laced. We parked near the back door to the classroom. He walked up and opened the door, peering in cautiously despite everyone’s reassurances.
    “I was beginning to wonder –“ William began.
    Kellan cut him off. “We had official business to discuss and bombs to dodge.”
    “Oh. I see,” he said, coming around from behind his desk. “Did you complete your reading assignment?”
    I studied his attire: khakis, a blue oxford and brown loafers. While he appeared