Eve smiled as her friend, Jane laughed with her boyfriend, Kyle. She had stopped asking herself if they'd notice her absence, she knew they wouldn't.

She smiled slightly as she pulled away from them and walked to her classroom to sit her desk. She sat and waited for the bell, pretending to be busy with writing something down.

The day passed slowly, just one moment at a time, until the bell finally rang.

She stood and said her goodbyes to the people around her, not really caring who it was she was saying them to.

She went home where she sat with her father, checking he had taken his medication and waited for her mother to come home from work.

"Hey honey, how was your day?" Her mother asked just as she did every day.

Eve smiled as she always did in return, "Just fine I suppose, I smiled, I laughed. Jane has another boy toy, no homework, and as usual, I didn't really talk to anyone."

Her mother nodded without paying any real attention to her answer, "That's great dear."

She glanced over at Eve's father, "Did anything happen with him?"

Eve turned her gaze to her father who was, as usual, staring blankly at nothing. His eyes were vacant and unseeing as he sat nearly drooling.

Eve's eyes filled with tears, "No, no progress with Dad."

Her mother clearly hadn't been listening as her answer was free of any care, "That's great dear."

Eve smiled and gave her mom a hug, "I'm just going to go to bed…"

Her mother smiled, "Uh huh, that's great dear." As she searched through the cabinets.

Eve walked back over to her dad and ruffled his hair, "Come on Daddy, and Ill tuck you in."

He finally turned his vacant eyes to her as she spoke and touched him and, with help and difficulty, stood and walked to his bedroom.

She smiled as she tucked her Dad into his bed, making sure the covers were covering him before crawling into bed with him and hugging him.

"So Dad, Jane has another boyfriend, another guy I liked but never told her about. You know- Kyle, the senior who helped me with my books? Yeah him. They were going at it all morning and then some. Someone said I looked sad today, I said I wasn't and they left me alone."

She smiled as she hugged her Dad, "I miss you Daddy." He tugged on her sleeve and she smiled sadly, "You want me to read to you?"

He tugged again and she reached over to the bedside table and pulled out a book.

"I hope you don't mind Percy Jackson Daddy, I started it last night, not sure if you remember. It makes me happy, I like to think that I can be like that too. Unfortunately, I don't think you're a god and mom… well, you know mom."

She lay in bed for a while reading to her father who never took his eyes off her as she read until he fell asleep.

She read a few more chapters or at least tried to as tears clouded her vision, "I miss you Daddy, why did it have to be you?"

Her father, Walter Jones, had nearly died in a car crash almost twelve years before. Sometimes, Eve wished he had.

"It used to be you tucking me in huh?" She kissed his forehead as she again made sure the covers were covering him, "Goodnight Daddy."

The next morning was a Saturday and Eve woke to a practically empty house, her mother was at work and her father wasn't even capable of remembering his own name much less how to live.

She sighed as she checked her phone to find, almost disappointedly, a text message from Jane asking if they could meet that day.

As always, she replied yes.

Later after calling in a caretaker for her father, she was sitting with Kyle and Jane in the little town diner everyone had jokingly dubbed the Pit.

There were only two stages in the Pit, completely empty or completely packed unless you were Eve who had found a strange third stage, being alone even in a crowd in a packed diner. Someone almost sat on her in the booth she had saved for her friend for an hour and a half until she finally showed.

She didn't even know the point of why that were meeting, all Jane was doing was flirting with Kyle. Except she did know why, she just didn't want to admit it.

Kyle glanced apologetically at Eve after realizing why they were there, she was there as a wingman, a third wheel, someone who was tasked with making it seem like a not-date.

There was no point.

He tried to make conversation with Eve but Jane kept accidently shutting off all modes of communicating to the boy from a different world. Everything he liked might as well have been foreign to her.

She found herself gazing out the window where she pretended she was of on adventures fighting evil forces and traveling across the fantastical world she had created in her head.

When she came back to the real world, Kyle and Jane were closely inspecting the others mouths with theirs.

She sighed and stood, "I'm going to go, you guys have fun."

Jane pulled away with a guilty look, "Are you sure V? It's getting kind of dark out, how about we go with you?"

Eve smiled at Jane's pet name, "No its fine, you know me, I'll be fine."

Of course, Jane insisted.

They said goodbye to Kyle was walked away whistling merrily and made their way to Eve's house.

As they stepped onto the porch they exchanged gossip that they hadn't gotten to talk about before because Jane had been distracted with Kyle.

"Will you look at that? The angel and the vampire, what do you know!" they looked up, startles to see Lance Gregory and Neil Barret along with their goons walking down the sidewalk, looking at them and laughing.

Eve sighed, "See you tomorrow Jane, have fun with Kyle."

She turned to leave but Jane caught her wrist in hers, "Actually…. It an angel and a demon, but what the heck right."

She released Eve but Eve knew better than to leave. Jane walked up to the boys, "But do you guys want to hear a little secret about this little angel?"

She got extra close to Neil and rubbed her hand again his chest seductively, making him gulp, "Oh yeah!"

She grinned, "She's not me."

With that her eyes turned red and all the boys froze. Her large draconic wings materialized and a darkness seemed to gather around her.

She touched one of her talons to Neil's head, "Forget the angel."

With that he fell limply and she attended to each of the boys in turn and then reverted back to her sweet human face. The moment she had her human form back the boys began to wake and wander off, dazed.

Eve sighed, "I'm not an angel Jane."

Jane smiled slightly, "Yeah…."

Eve didn't press the matter, she had heard every excuse. There was a reason she was invisible to the rest of the world. Anyone who got too close…. Forgot.

She sighed, "See ya later Jane."

She walked inside and found that the caretaker had left ages ago. She checked on her father and gave him his medicine.

"Hi Daddy. At least you still listen to me right? You're the only one who still listens…"

She decided to ignore the tears running down her face as she tended to her father.