The cold started to sting Serena's bare arms as she walked away from Planet Bang. She could sense Stanton following her as a shadow.

"STANTON GO AWAY!" she screamed at the shadow that lingered near the bushes.

The shadow didn't move and Serena decided to run and some how lose Stanton. Impossible. She thought to herself, but it is worth a try. She ran down the road and reached a traffic light where cars zoomed past and L.A.'s gangs were hanging about. Serena knew it wasn't safe to be out at this hour, but it was better than staying at Planet Bang. He was dancing with her! Serena screamed in her head. Stanton was dancing with Cassandra quite intimately on Planet Bang's dance floor. When Cassandra saw Serena she pulled Stanton closer to her. Serena wiped that thought away from her head, and as soon as that thought was gone so was this tickling sensation in her head.

"STOP IT!" Serena screamed at all the shadows around her.

The homeless and the gangs started giving her weird looks. Probably think I'm drunk or something don't you! Serena screamed into all the people's head that were close to her. She started walking again, past all those stares that people were giving her. Then she heard a voice calling her a witch. Serena whipped her head around and glared at the nearest gang.

"And what if I am?" She asked staring accusingly at the gang.

The group of boys just turned and walked away from her. Serena continued to walk until she finally reached her home. She walked inside to find that Collin was home, but her dad wasn't. Probably staying late at the office. She thought to herself. Serena walked into the kitchen to find some food and found Wally going through the trash again.

"Wally no!" Serena scolded her pet raccoon.

She kept an eye on the door, not the door itself but the shadows around it. Once she decided that Stanton hadn't followed her to her house she sat down and started eating the potato chips that were on the counter. Serena fed some to Wally and decided to take a shower and go to bed.

Serena opened the door to her room to find Stanton sitting on her bed. He smiled at her and made his way towards her.

"Don't come near me." Serena warned.

Stanton stayed where he was and had a hurt look on his face.

"You don't get it Serena. Let me tell you what happened."

"WHAT IS THERE TO GET! YOU WERE DANCING WITH HER END OF DISCUSSION."

Serena stomped out her bedroom went down the stairs and into the living room. She sat down and wished that Stanton would just leave. But of course Serena was wrong he followed her down the stairs and sat down right next to her.

"Stanton please leave." She begged.

"Will you just listen to me!"

Stanton was getting annoyed and she didn't need to be a mind reader to tell that. The two of them sat there for awhile not saying anything to each other. Serena couldn't stand the silence anymore and decided to get up and go to sleep. She walked up the stairs half dreading and half hoping that Stanton would follow her, but she heard the front door close and knew that he wasn't.

Sleep was almost impossible for Serena, and she knew why, she just didn't want to think about it. She walked down to her living room just to sit and think for awhile. Serena made her way down into the living room in darkness, and almost tripping down the last couple of steps.

"Shit." Serena whispered quietly making sure she didn't wake Collin.

To her surprise she found the living room light on. She made her way warily down to make sure if it was an intruder or not. Serena soon heard hushed giggles and whispering and she knew that it was her friends.

"What are you guys doing? It's 2 in the morning!"

All eyes turned to Serena, and the whispering and giggling came to a complete stop.

"We came because…because we heard what happened between you and Stanton."

Vanessa managed to say. Serena stood there glaring at her friends.

"Well?" Serena asked accusingly.

"We just thought maybe you might want to just you know…talk to him." Catty answered.

"I can't believe you guys! Out of all the people in the world I thought you guys were the ones that would agree with me!"

There was an awkward silence. Serena couldn't believe what she was hearing. Her own friends took Stanton's side instead of hers.

"What did he say to you guys?" Serena demanded.

"He just said that there was a reason why he was dancing with Cassandra." Jimena replied.

"Oh…a 'reason' like that makes it any better."

"Serena we just thought that maybe the reason why Stanton is doing this is maybe and most probably it has something to do with the atrox." Vanessa said weakly.

Serena stood there comprehending what has gone in and out here ear for the past ten minutes.

"I think you guys should go. We can talk tomorrow, and besides don't you need to be home Vanessa?"

Vanessa whirled around and looked at the clock behind her.

"Oh my god my mom's going to kill me!"

"Calm down Vanessa it's just this one time. Just tell your mom we had car trouble." Catty responded coolly.

"Yeah we probably should go, but Serena we're going to talk about this tomorrow." Jimena warned.

The three made their way out to Jimena's car with Vanessa running to it and telling Jimena and Catty to hurry up. The two other girls could only laugh at how funny Vanessa's face was.

Serena made her way back up her stairs again for the third time tonight. She felt exhausted and finally fell asleep.

Serena woke up, she checked her clock, but it was turned to her wall. Fear crept into Serena's mind. There was a Follower in her house. Calm down maybe it's just Stanton…it most probably is Stanton. She walked out of her room cautiously checking the shadows all around. She tiptoed down her stairs and looked into the living room. No one was there and none of the shadows moved. She walked through her living room to see that her kitchen light was on. Did I forget to turn it off the kitchen light? But Serena clearly remembered she turned it off and even when her friends were in her living room she didn't see the kitchen light on.

She made her slowly towards the kitchen suddenly she thought what if it's just a burglar? She grabbed the closest lamp and walked towards the kitchen slowly again. Serena stopped by the doorway to her kitchen. Whoever was in her kitchen was walking out. Serena readied the lamp in her hand; she turned the corner and smacked the person over the head with the lamp.