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Jared and Emily
Jared's Point of View
I stared at Joe as he walked out of the apartment. Fresh bite marks were along his arm and neck. Joseph's visits were becoming more frequent since Jamie and Emily broke up… again.
I forced myself to remember that Joe actually wanted Emily to this to him. So, as long as Joe was able to make Emily feel, in her definition of "OK." She would give him what he wanted.
I looked away from Emily as she emerged from her room, grinning, "Whatcha watching, Jare?" She sat down next to me on our couch in front of the TV.
"Umm…" I struggled to remember the name of the movie, "Oh, its called Tormented."
"Interesting." Was all she had replied with already focusing on the movie.
We avoided the 'Joe' topic. We avoided the 'Jamie' topic. All Emily and I focused on who was going to get killed next in the movie.
I just wish it was as simple as that.
Jamie skipped his "classes" at the high school. All of us, Taylor, Emily, Joe, Johnny, Jamie and I, tried to maintain a seemingly normal life. In which case, we all had to attend school.
Jamie despised his classes. His main goal was just to pass them, even if he was just barely going to pass. He didn't want to take them again.
My best friend now did drugs. Pills, taking dozens at a time… he was a werewolf. His body was able to handle it.
All I would need to do was pick up the empty carcass of Jamie's body when he was finished. His soul was with Emily, but they were both broken by each other.
So, every time Jamie woke up to me driving him home in my car. He would turn up the radio.
And we avoided that topic, too.
We kept our secrets within the three of us. No one knew that Jamie and Emily had a problem.
When their secrets were exposed, however, and everyone else knew; that would be Jamie and Emily's problem.
Not mine. I wasn't their keeper (except for maybe Emily, hence being her Sire). They hid behind their smiles to disguise what they were shamed of.
Nobody could save them.
It was just too late.