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wreathed in a smug smile.  “Both of you,” I added.
    “What?” Trace asked, holding his hands up in surrender.  He looked genuinely puzzled.  “I didn’t do anything.”
    “But you’re not helping matters either.”
    Although I hoped my glare would be somewhat withering, it seemed to have no effect on Trace.  He was still grinning from ear to ear.
    “So neither of you saw anything strange?”
    Brady and Trace looked at me, to each other and then back to me.  They both shook their heads.
    For a moment, I questioned what I’d seen, reminded myself that things like that didn’t happen in real life, that creatures like that didn’t exist in real life.  But still, deep down, I knew what I saw.  And my heart, alive with the new and profound knowledge of things beyond my normal life, knew it, too.
    Without thought to consequences or the wisdom of such an action, I jumped in head first trying to explain what I’d seen.
    “Brady, you’re a vampire and Trace,” I said, turning to him.  “You’re a werewolf.  The three of us were born during an eclipse and something about tonight and this eclipse was very significant.”
    Both Brady and Trace were staring at me as if I’d completely taken leave of my senses.  And then they both started to laugh.
    “Is that all you got?  Some crazy babble that’s supposed to be cute and funny?”
    “Brady, I’m serious!”
    “No,” he said, shaking his head skeptically, “you’re not.”
    “Then how do you explain what happened tonight?  Don’t you think it’s strange that all of a sudden you hate your best friend?  How do you explain that?”
    “I didn’t realize that my best friend,” he sneered, “was stupid enough to put the moves on my little sister.”
    “Stop calling me your little sister!” I snapped.
    “Fine then, my ‘sister’.”
    “Brady, something is happening to us and you can’t let it destroy your relationship with Trace. It’s important that you two stick together. It might mean our survival.”
    “Survival?  What are you talking about, woman?”
    “It’s hard to explain, but somehow all sorts of information keeps getting sort of…imparted to me,” I said, finding no better way to explain what I felt was happening to me.    “I don’t have all the answers yet, but I know they’re coming.  But what little I do know right now is that you two are changing, but you have to fight together, not fight each other.”
    “Fight?  Why would we be fighting?  Who would we be fighting?”
    I searched my mind for reasons, for explanations, for understanding, but I found none.  There was nothing more than a blank where the answers should’ve been.
    “I don’t know.”
    Brady snorted derisively and rolled his eyes.
    “You’re terrible at pranks.  Always have been.”
    “This is not a prank, Brady! How is this funny?  Any of it?  And how does me playing a joke explain what happened between you and Trace tonight?”
    “It doesn’t.  Him pawing all over you does, though.”
    I could see Brady’s temper start to rise again by the flash of anger in his blue eyes.
    “And that doesn’t strike you as odd?  That all of a sudden, he’d take an interest in me?  Why?  Why now?  Why after all this time?”
    “I don’t know, but it’s gonna stop,” he spat through his firmly gritted teeth.
    Having been listening quietly up to that point, Trace finally spoke up.  “Look, man, I already told you there’s nothing you can do to stop me.  I will be with your sister if she’ll have me.  I hope we can still be friends, but if not, it’ll be your choice.  I’ve already made mine.”  Trace broke his eye contact with Brady and glanced at me.  His eyes burned into mine as he declared softly, “It’s her.  It will always be her.”
    My heart jumped in my chest and I felt my face flush with pleasure.  His feelings for me were so surreal, so much to get used to that my brain thought I must be dreaming.  But another part