This is the sequel to Enemies, so read that first, and is still in Nina's POV. Enjoy! (And Happy Veterans Day! To all of the people that risked their lives for our freedom.)

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Talya hung back after the last class, very unlike her, and I kind of knew what she wanted.

"Go without me," I said distractidly to Fabian. "And if I'm not out in five minutes, walk home anyways."

He nodded, and then left the room. I waited until everyone was gone, including Mrs. Andrews, and then Talya walked over to me.

"I know you were there last night, Nina," Talya hissed, her blue eyes settled into a fierce, angry glare on my face. "You and your little friends. What do you call yourselves? The Psychotic Club, right?" Her smirk gave me enough confidence and courage to give her a quick retort.

"At least I'm not betraying all of the people I know and trying to destroy the world," I snapped.

I expected Talya too be mad, but instead she gave me a pitiful smile. "Ah, Nina, Nina, Nina, don't you understand what's going on? What is at risk? No real risk, though- how can a couple of teenagers beat a bunch of highly-trained adults?"

"We did it before," My voice didn't show the doubt I felt- just the determination.

"Easy mistake. But we have everything we need. Just give up already- you can't win."

And with that she turned on her heels, grabbed her pink designer purse, and strutted off. My audience with the princess was over.

I made it with thirty-two seconds to spare, enough to walk home with Fabian.

Alone.

"Sorry I'm late," I said breathlessly when I met up with him. "Talya." I explained when he gave me the look.

"What did Benedict Arnold want this time?"

"Basically, she just wanted to tell me we should give up, and trying to tear down the Sibuna Club. No biggie." I shrugged.

He gave me a sigh and crooked smile. "Guess you can't expect more from a disigner-clad, egolistic girl, can you?" Fabian said, and I laughed in agreement. He was right, after all. He almost always is. When he returned the smile, we settled into a comfortable silence.

The only sound you could hear was the sound of our feet crunching the snow under our shoe soles and the wind flowing through the empty, bare branches on the trees.

Finally, the house came into sight, getting bigger and bigger until it was looming infront of us.

I always thought the house was kind of pretty, mostly because I used too live in an old house like this, except it was smaller. But today it looked kind of dark and scary.

"Hello, Nina," Trudy said once we saw her. "Hello, Fabian."

"Hey," I said, shrugging off my bookbag and resting it on the chair closest to me.

"Hi," Fabian's smile could melt the icicles outside.

"We're going to go upstairs with the others. We'll see you at dinner," And with that, we hurried up the stairs, me going into Amber and mine's room, him too his.

The door was open and Amber was sitting on her bed, flipping through a magazine lazily. When I walked in, she looked up at me and her face lit up- she was obviously bored and needed something (or someone) to help entertain her. Her magazine just wasn't cutting it anymore.

"Guess what, Nines?" She whispered excitidly. "I heard Fabian say he was going to ask you out! And this time, it's going to work, I know it!" She squeled, and then rushed up to her bureau."We're going to make you irresistable."

"Nina and her friends know what's going on. I'm sure. They were talking about it." Talya was saying at the Order's meeting that night.

She had on the golden robe, same as everyone else, except her mask and hood were off, revealing her still make-up covered face, and the sleaves were short enough to show off her hot pink manicure. She even had on shiny gold heels to match her robe and a few bracelets.

"You see, my fellow members, that the children have unraveled our little mystery. We simply have to watch them closely. With our spy on our side, there is no way we can lose." Victor announced in his deep voice.

Talya's eyes shot toward the cabinet that we were hiding in, looking through the small crack, and gave me an evil, ruthless smile- like a snakes'.

My blood ran cold. She obviously knew where we were. She could reveal our cover in one word.

But she wouldn't- she liked torturing us too much. But the sheer fact that Talya even knew this scared me. She would use it as blackmail, I was sure of it.

"We should get out of here," I somehow heard Amber's weak whisper.

"Agreed," My voice was tiny and scared. We turned and crawled out of the cupboard, out of the cellar, and back into the "normal world."

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