*Ivan's POV for parts of it*

In this world there are magical beings that are always attracted to humans. It's in their nature. And it's in human beings nature, their fate, that they are always repelled by these creatures.

But it is a specific breed of humans who can attract one of the magical beings, these monsters, and it is a special, harmless, docile kind of monster that is attracted to them. The rest of the monsters instead spend their lives hunting down these special humans, and most of the time they torture them to death for fun.

Despite how many special humans lives it would save, all monsters are under an oath once they become of age and venture into this world at ten years of age, to either find their mate, their special human, or kill them, to never tell any human, special or not, about their true existence.

Therein lies the dilemma for these heartsick beings that are attracted to their special human, no matter what they do, they can never tell their human exactly what they are or give them a reason for their unnatural possessiveness of them. They can only tell one truth to their human, that they would always lay down their life for them because they love them with all of their heart. And yet that never stops fate from making their human hate them more than anyone else. Some monsters choose to never date their human and in that way stay by them, happy even after they marry somebody else because they know that their clock starts ticking down the moment they let their human know they love them. Three months, that is it.

Three months is all they have, and Ivan and Mathew had already hit their three month mark in their relationship weeks ago.

On the day of their three month anniversary, Ivan had taken Mathew out for a movie, his favourite, in the theatre. Ivan's eyes had glanced to his watch to his watch every few seconds, watching the minutes tick down until Mathew suddenly fainted at the exact time that Ivan had confessed to him three months ago. Ivan had concealed what happened by putting up a small glamour, and the other theatre goers were none the wiser. But he could tell that as soon as Mathew had woken up moments later that his memories had been replaced like all special humans memories are. And from the way that Mathew acted around him after that, and the words he'd said to him at the theatre before he ran out, it was clear that his new memories were of an abusive relationship. And they had, unfortunately, given Mathew a strong enough will to "stand up" to Ivan that day and break up with him.

Ivan cursed his luck even now, weeks later, whenever he remembered it. Mathew was such a shy and gentle person that Ivan had almost hoped in that last half hour before Mathew stormed off that he could still keep Mathew by acting intimidating to fit Mathew's new memories of him and perhaps scare Mathew into staying.

But fate had other ideas, and it gave Mathew the courage to "get away" and left Ivan feeling worse for even considering scaring Mathew into being with him. He should have known from the other monsters stories that it wouldn't work.

For a time, he had also considered telling Mathew about the human-monster relationship curse, but that was taboo and punishable by death. And not by the other Attraction Monsters either, if a special human knew about the monster-human relationship, their bodies could be taken over by a Hunter easily and the Hunter would then kill their fellow monster using its own special human to do the job. Ivan hated even the thought of it. Most times the human was caught by others shortly after the murder and then their life was ruined even more. Ivan didn't want to ruin Mathew's life at all.

So Ivan just let Mathew get away from him, and he also stayed away from Mathew. This situation was what made Mathew happy now. And in some perverse way, that made Ivan happy too just seeing him smiling whenever he left the room. Ivan had vowed to himself he would stay away and had made no contact with Mathew since the curse kicked in, until he smelled the scent of a Hunter.

Then his alarms flared up and he ignored his caution to himself, and he started sending Mathew letters warning him away from the Hunter. He was fine with Mathew hating him more now that he'd established contact again, his consolation to himself was that perhaps if he did this then the buried memories of what really happened before in Mathew's subconscious might even listen to him , make Mathew listen to him, and stop Mathew from getting killed.

Then the Hunter enrolled in their school and Ivan's warning bells turned into sirens. The Hunter was definitely targeting Mathew. And special humans are always attracted to Hunters after the curse takes place and now the Hunter Gilbert was in such close proximity to Mathew. He was even starting to see Mathew throwing Gilbert glances in the class they had together and in the hallways.

Ivan almost gave up hope of ever saving Mathew every single time he saw Mathew throw out his warning letters; but he couldn't give up yet, Mathew was still alive. So Ivan kept sending him secret letters until the day he saw Gilbert also slip a letter inside of Mathew's locker. He waited until he saw Mathew open up his locker door, until he saw Mathew's eyes widen, and until he saw Mathew taking off down the hall back towards the school doors before he started having a full-blown out panic attack. The Hunter was going to strike now. How was he supposed to handle this? He couldn't very well stalk Mathew with everything going on between them, but he also couldn't let Mathew die. Out of those two choices, Ivan knew the one that he would always choose. He would protect Mathew until his dying breath. Ivan skipped school that day and hid himself inside of a glamour outside of Mathew's house. When Mathew left, he followed.

*Mathew's POV*

A new person came to school and even more new letters started showing up in Mathew's locker.

Ivan, the jerk.

Mathew could tell when Ivan wrote him those letters; Ivan had such childish writing it was so easy to identify.

Mathew decided to ignore those letters, after all he was the one who'd broken up with Ivan, and not one of them had a single apology for Ivan's behaviour from before that had prompted the breakup. All they did was warn him against Gilbert, the new transfer kid from Germany.

Feeling vindictive, Mathew started to write about how handsome Gilbert was in his diary during a spare period he had right after another one of those stupid letters had shown up in his locker. Then Mathew actually thought about it, and agreed with his thoughtless revenge. Gilbert actually was handsome with his face clear of any pimples and his unique features of an extreme version of an albino. Then again, Mathew's features were somewhat unique too with his purple eyes and runaway curl in front of his eyes that refused to ever go away, but Mathew had never heard of an albino with pure white hair and red eyes before, he'd just heard of albinos with pinkish eyes and pale skin. Now Gilbert, he was something. That was for sure now that Mathew thought about it. Mathew's next few paragraphs had a bit more emotion behind them when he waxed on about all of Gilbert's wonders and Ivan's shortcomings.

Then his diary failed to magically appear in his bag at the end of the day when he dumped it out onto his bed and rifled through the contents again and again.

'No biggie. I'll probably just find it tomorrow when I look through my locker.'

Nothing. His locker was spotless besides another letter that had shown up. This was the only letter so far that hadn't been written on brown paper inside of a white envelope. This one was in a deep blue envelope on white paper. Mathew ignored that oddity when he scanned through the letter.

The contents were different from Ivan's previous warnings about Gilbert.

"I love you, Mathew.

-Ivan"

'It's too late for that. Oh well, at least now I can give an excuse to my Dad and Papa on why I came back home.'

It was only eight o'clock. None of the teachers would notice he was here, he could just go back home and ask to be called in sick. Ivan was getting creepy again.

Francis, his papa, had totally understood the situation and had negotiated with Arthur, his dad, when Arthur threatened to send him right back to school. He didn't want to deal with Ivan at all right now. And it was such a perfect day out. When his parents left, Mathew slipped out of the house to take a walk too.

Everything was fine for a good half hour before he saw Gilbert, and Gilbert also saw him and hurried over.

Mathew really didn't want to have to deal with him either, but he couldn't just send him away after Gilbert had blurted out, "Hey, I'm cutting school. I just happened to see you, do you mind if we hang out?" as his greeting.

Sure, he had "just happened to see me". Mathew blinked. When did he become so suspicious of people? When had he started to believe what Ivan was telling him?

Mathew agreed to hang out partly so he could prove to himself that he wasn't becoming paranoid of Gilbert. That wasn't helped by him catching Gilbert's eyes looking at him every few seconds whenever he wasn't looking.

'I shouldn't be feeling suspicious of him. Gilbert's probably a really great person and I'm just freaking out because of my nerves lately. Nothing is going to happen to me because of him, I know it. Ivan was just trying to control me again. But, why would he specifically mention Gilbert and only Gilbert as who I should avoid in every single letter?' I hardened my gaze. I'm supposed to be forgetting what Ivan was saying to me, not dwelling on it. 'He didn't mention him in the last one.' I argue back to myself just to end this fight. My thoughts don't stop. They continue and I try to ignore them. I have about as much luck with that as I do with avoiding Ivan himself. The inner voice arguing against trusting Gilbert is starting to sound suspiciously like Ivan. I hate that.

'Why can't he just leave me alone?'

Gilbert looked at him again, and I dismissed it as a trick of the mind with being overly anxious about Ivan.

When they entered a neighbourhood on their walk and Mathew had another suspicion that Gilbert was leading him to a specific place, he ignored the Ivan-esque voice. And when Gilbert said that they were a somewhat close to his house, Mathew accepted his invitation to go in and get away from the sun for a bit.

'You're being pig-headed, Mathew.'

He ignored the Ivan voice again.

With the story, which do you guys like better? Do you like just one of the two character's POVs in a chapter, and which one? Or do you like both of their POV's being there?

And, happy Easter Break, guys. I feel so sorry for the Maritimers, they got all that snow over the past while. The pictures from that are pretty cool though, people made tunnels over there underneath the snow trying to find their vehicles.

And, I just want to know, but is anyone else a bit frustrated with the threats against the malls that was put out a couple months ago?

My school and others are being denied by our principals a trip to West Ed mall because of them. And there was that cheerleading competition that was supposed to be held there that groups couldn't go to either. What is your guys' take on the whole situation? Our trip was planned since last year and we're trying to think of things to convince our principal that we should still be allowed to go. And our principal gave us a talk on how silly we are for wanting to go to the West Edmonton Mall when now that there is a threat to it, we should just go elsewhere else. Has anyone else had experiences like this? What is your take on the situation?