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to meet you, Ashlee.” Trey shook her hand and then gestured to me. “This is my girlfriend, Aurora.” I shook her hand. “And this is O’Shea.”
    Ashlee shook O’Shea’s hand and then glanced around the pier. “Should we get started?” she asked, looking at Trey expectantly.
    “Absolutely,” Trey said. He turned to kiss me on the cheek and then put his sunglasses back on. “Be right back.” And with that, he and Ashlee started walking back down the pier. “I was thinking we should set up our instruments right here,” he began, pointing for her.
    “You’re not going with them?” I asked O’Shea, who stood watching with me, his black hair shifting in the breeze.
    “Nah,” he said with a grin, turning back around to stare at the ocean where the sun was sinking into the waves. I turned with him, enjoying the view of the waves and the horizon. “Trey has a mind for this sort of thing. He’s the creative one. Sometimes, I swear he’s writing up a treatment for a video while he’s writing the song. He’s crazy like that.” I smiled, catching the pride in O’Shea’s tone as he spoke about his best friend. “It’s not just music videos,” he continued. “He designs the stages we use on tour and everything. I imagine he’ll be figuring that out next. He’ll probably want to enlist your drawing skills for it.”
    “O’Shea,” I said. “I want to thank you.”
    He turned to look at me, his dark brown eyes curious. “For what?”
    “For being so understanding about all the time Trey and I are spending together,” I said. “You’re his best friend. I know it can’t be easy having some girl come in and occupy his time.”
    O’Shea smiled, brushing his fist against my shoulder playfully. “I should be the one thanking you,” he said. O’Shea was a nice guy, but this wasn’t the response I’d expected from him. I narrowed my eyes in question. “The truth is,” he continued. “Trey has been more himself since you came along than he has in a long time. I don’t know what it is you’re doing-” He looked me up and down once. “I mean, I can guess, but-” It was my turn to smack him on the arm. He snickered, gazing out over the water again. “Well, whatever it is you’re doing, keep it up. You’re good for him.”

    When Trey and Ashlee had finished discussing the details for filming the music video, the moon was coming out. We all got in Trey’s Mazda and headed for O’Shea’s place. We hadn’t been on the road for more than five minutes when I felt the presence of other vampires nearby. A quick glance in the car’s side mirror revealed a big black SUV driving not far behind us. I didn’t want to alarm Trey if I was just being paranoid. There are lots of black SUV’s in the world, after all, and I couldn’t be certain the vampires I could sense were inside it. After the vehicle followed us through two turns, I started to worry. A quick glimpse into O’Shea’s mind told me he was preoccupied in the backseat with texting. He was texting Kacie of all people. How had I not realized they were staying in touch? I took a deep breath to clear my mind and touched Trey’s arm gently. He glanced at me as we pulled to a stop at a red light. I gestured behind us with a slight jerk of my head, and Trey furrowed his brow, checking the rearview mirror. He swore under his breath, and I heard his heartbeat quicken slightly.
    It’s them, isn’t it? he thought, knowing I’d hear him. It’s the vamps who killed Wes ... and now they’re back to finish the job. I met his gaze and responded silently in his mind, telling him not to panic. We’d figure out what to do. We can’t take O’Shea home now. We’ll just lead them right to his house. He had a legitimate point. The light turned green, and Trey pulled through it, continuing down the road, the black SUV on our tail.
    “What’s going on?” O’Shea asked. He must have noticed Trey’s incessant glancing in the rearview mirror.