Hey guys. First off thanks for reading my story! Much appreciated, and I got the whole Melissa/Dess thing off a friend whom also read the AMAZING books. I wanted to get Rex together with a really innocent girl to level him out but who did that leave Melissa with? I thought her and Dess would make a great story too, so here it is! Just to clear things up, this is a year after the last book and in Melissa's POV (chapters change POV). ALSO this is rated a STRONG T...at least I think.

Seeing Midnight – Chapter One

"Work you piece of shit!" Melissa shouted at the radio as it zoned in and out of the station she had been listening to.

Melissa gazed out of the front windshield and across the desert at Bixby, Oklahoma. She felt an unexpected warmth that arrived with the familiarity of the place and smiled despite herself.

She took a deep breath and opened her mind easily, not feeling the rush of minds she had been unable to escape almost a year ago. Instead, she controlled everything. The minds she heard, how loud they were and most importantly, she could so distinctively taste the minds of the other midnighters, even the new ones she had never met before.

Melissa licked her lips as the two most familiar tastes popped out. Rex's was the strongest, his mind always more distinct than the others, as if on a whole different station. Her loverboy.

Then came Dess's taste. Different, she noticed immediately. She tasted…un-Dess like somehow.

"Huh," Melissa murmured. Weird.

Then came the other two tastes, both alike in a way but so different at the same time. Rex had said they were siblings. One year apart, both surprisingly born on midnight exactly. The older female, Aries, was a seer like Rex and the boy who was also graduating with them was a teleporter. Melissa thought his name was Jacob but she wasn't positive.

She drove through Bixby easily; the streets long memorized from growing up there and arrived at the high school quickly. She spotted many students sitting on the bleachers, a stage set up in the middle of the field and rows of chairs where parents and family were seated in front of it. Melissa couldn't miss Dess and Rex's graduation.

She strode up the field and took a seat at the back, placing her sunglasses over her eyes. Scanning the kids she spotted Rex first. His bulky body standing out from the other kids, whom all seemed to lean away from him. His hair had grown out, as had Melissa's which now hung down to her shoulders, and looked shaggy and messy, making him look way less darkling then the bald look had. He had grown, the muscles on his body prominent even under the dorky robe he was wearing.

Melissa then spotted Dess near the top of the bleachers and was very surprised. She had grown out her hair and it hung to her lower back, still dyed a deep black. The hair made her look much more girly. She was tall and rather slim. Not skinny but definitely not over weight. She was just really pretty.

Then the principal began to call out names and hand out the diplomas. Rex was near the beginning and as he stood up, he scanned the crowd. His eyes stopped first on a blonde girl in the second row and he smiled, then his eyes snapped up too Melissa's and they both grinned madly. He gracefully walked up the steps, took his letter, shook the old guys hand and then took a seat on the opposite bleachers, never taking his eyes off her. They finally looked away as Dess's name was called and she was presented with both the math and science award along with being announced the youngest student to ever graduate Bixby High.

Melissa stifled a giggle as Dess's curses aimed directly at the principle shot through her head. She was pissed at him for declaring how much of a geek she was in front of everyone. Then as she took a seat on the other bleachers Dess followed Rex's gaze to where Melissa was seated and froze. Many emotions flooded through her, the strongest ones of relief, surprise, contentment, confusion and then fear. But Melissa didn't have time to sort through them for the principal announced the end of the ceremony and the crowd exploded with applause causing Melissa to have too shut out the thoughts before it became a bit to overwhelming.

All she wanted now was to find her loverboy. It shouldn't be too hard for he was probably the biggest and scariest person there.

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