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didn’t even remember being like this with Chad. I felt a little foggy thinking of Caleb. I had an urge to leave, right then. Head out the door and straight to Kyle’s where I knew Caleb would be. A lump grew in my throat the more I thought about it. My hands twitched at my sides and I took a deep, steadying breath.
    Kyle looked back at me and frowned.
    “Don’t think about him, I told you.”
    “What’s happening to me?”
    “It’s just new. It’ll fade.” He grimaced. “Some.”
    “You both keep saying that. What does that mean?”
    “Just stop, ok? Don’t think about him and you’ll be fine,” he said irritated.
    He turned to place our order and handed me a drink while he squirted butter on our huge bucket of already pretty yellow popcorn.
    We started towards our theater and I heard someone call Kyle’s name from behind us. I groaned as I turned, thinking it was guys from school but it wasn’t. I’d never seen these guys before. There were six of them and they were all black haired and tall. Kyle groaned beside me so I didn’t feel much better.
    “Jacobson,” the guy said lilting and sardonically. “What brings you out? Oh, I see,” he said like he hadn’t seen me already. I raised an eyebrow at him as his eyes perused me openly. “My, my, I do see. Hello.”
    “Alright, Marcus, enough,” Kyle barked and I balked at his tone.
    “ What? I only said hello. So, Kyle, you breaking your clans rules now? I always knew you were a rebel at heart. What movie are you seeing?”
    “Not interested in adding to our group, but thanks.”
    Kyle tried to turn us but Marcus grabbed my arm. I had another jolt and for just a second I worried than I was imprinting with someone else. But I realized, that was the last thing I was doing. My veins screamed in protest and my skin burned hot on my arm. My body was warning him. My blood, whatever, however it worked. This guy’s intentions were not to keep me safe and the imprint reacted.
    He released my arm with a curse like I shocked him. He and his group eyed me with wide, scared eyes and something else, anger.
    “She’s your significant! Impossible!”
    “Not mine. She belongs to Caleb. Now back off.”
    “She’s human. She’s what...fifteen?”
    “Seventeen,” I butted in annoyed.
    “Impossible,” he repeated but this time he growled it and I stepped back, Kyle pulling me behind him.
    “Don’t freak out. You’ll call Caleb and all hell will break loose. Breathe,” he told me quietly and waited for me to take a deep breath, then turned back to Marcus. “Back off. You know now that Caleb’s imprinted, it’ll only be a matter of time until he get’s his ascension. You’re not stupid enough to mess with his girl, are you?”
    “Marcus, let’s go,” one of the guys said behind him. “Enough already.”
    “For now, human,” Marcus spat and eyed me evilly before they moved on.
    One guy hissed at me. Hissed. I shook my head.
    “What was that?”
    “Bad news. Crap, why tonight? They are a rival clan. They haven’t been imprinting for a while either. This will definitely stir up the pot now that they know about you.”
    “Why is everyone so hard pressed to date? I don’t get it. So you don’t find your soul mate. There are tons of single people of there. It’s not like you can’t live that way.”
    “No. You don’t get it. Wait.” He looked around and pushed our theater door open, taking us to the very back to sit down. “See, if we don’t imprint with anyone, we don’t ascend. If we don’t ascend we don’t get our abilities. It’s not just about being single. This is our whole life, our heritage, being an Ace, protecting our family, having the power to do that. But without finding our mate, we can’t do that and it’s crippling our clans, making us vulnerable.”
    The full weight of what he’d been trying to tell me hit me like a ton of bricks. That’s what Caleb meant when he said I was special. This was a big deal. No one had