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Jennifer's blue eyes narrowed slightly as she saw the girl that Needy was currently friends with, walk into the book store.

She was plain looking, a bit like Needy herself but then Jennifer had been pleasantly surprised to see that Needy had vamped herself up a bit and now Jennifer was even more hungry for her than she used to be.

After taking only a moment's thought as to what this would accomplish and not a second more, Jennifer walked across the street and went into the book store.

She walked up and down the isles until she smelt something familiar.

She frowned slight in confusion. Why would Needy's scent be on this girl? Jennifer had followed Anna from her house to this book store and she hadn't come into contact with Needy at all.

Jennifer's mind started going into overdrive. Had Needy stayed the night at plain Jane's house?

This angered Jennifer even more and she rounded the corner to find the girl flipping through a book.

Jennifer forced a bright smile as she swung around the corner, standing in the girl's personal space, her shadow looming over the book like a dark cloud that was about to shit all over your day.

"Is this a try before you buy?" Jennifer asked with a grin.

Anna looked up, eyes wide and she nearly dropped the book. Jennifer caught it before it could fall from her hands and gave it back to her.

"I uh...I didn't know if I wanted- do you work here?" She asked, looking the other girl up and down.

Jennifer laughed.

"Uh no. Do you honestly think someone like me would be working in somewhere so boring?"

"I uh...I don't know you." Anna replied meekly.

Jennifer's tone dropped, turning dangerous.

"You're about to."

Anna swallowed and held the book tightly to her chest.

Jennifer leaned in even closer, the smell of Needy driving her on in her plan to scare the living shit out of this girl.

"Come with me."

"W-where are we going?"

"Needy wants to meet up."

"Who's Needy?"

Oh fuck, Jennifer had forgotten that Needy had changed her name.

She wrinkled her nose and looked at Anna like she was stupid.

"I didn't say Needy. I said Carla."

"No, you said Needy."

"Wow, so your hearing is as bad as your eye sight, that's a shame."

Anna frowned, clearly hurt and partly confused.

"How is my eye sight bad?"

"Because someone with good eye sight wouldn't have chosen to wear that crap you put on today." She said, pointing at Anna's cardigan and knee length skirt, giving the girl a disgusted look.

Anna blinked a few times and Jennifer had seen that look too many times on Needy to know that it meant she could start crying at any minute.

"Ok so are you coming with me or not? Carla's waiting."

Anna pushed part what she was feeling and stared at Jennifer's back as realization hit her. She don't know how she hadn't seen it before; probably because she thought she had been caught trying to read a book without buying it first. She'd always been a girl to follow the rules and this was something she did to get a kick out of.

"You're Jennifer..."

The girl in question turned around and gave her a look that Anna couldn't decipher.

"So she's told you about me."

Anna shrugged.

"Kinda."

"What did she say?"

"Why don't you ask her?" Anna snapped back irritably.

Jennifer grinned.

"Touched a nerve... ok. Now, you coming or not?"

Jennifer turned her back once again and Anna followed.

It would be safe to go with this girl she'd only just met, right? And Carla would be there. She'd be fine.

Just fine...

Anna nearly tripped over a log as she followed Jennifer through the forest, constantly looking back in the direction that they'd come.

"I don't see Carla." Anna said, her voice shaking.

"She's here." Jennifer answered, moving through the forest like she knew it inside out.

Anna found that the more they walked, the darker the forest seemed to get. It was like the trees were swallowing them the deeper they went.

"Are-are you sure she's here?"

"Oh definitely! She's right around this corner." Jennifer said as she turned the corner.

Anna rushed to keep up with her and when she turned the corner, she found herself alone.

She spun around, looking and finding herself in a circle of trees with the only way out being the one way that they'd come in.

"Jennifer?" Anna called as she kept turning.

On the third turn, she found Jennifer standing right in front of her and a little too close for comfort.

"Hey."

"Jesus! Where'd you go?"

Jennifer just shrugged.

Anna sighed as she realised she'd been lied to.

"Carla isn't coming is she?"

Jennifer grinned and shook her head slowly.

"Nope."

"What...what do you want?"

"Hmm...let me think, a lotta things but mainly? I want you gone." Jennifer snarled after pretending to think about her answer.

"Why? What did I do?"

"You came in between me and my best friend."

"You wasn't around when Carla met me. She-she seems afraid of you." Anna stammered.

"Afraid of me? No way! We're biffs." Jennifer said, reaching under her top to pull out her necklace which still had some dried blood on it.

Anna wrinkled her nose at it.

"It looks old."

"It is old, way old. Me and Nee-Carla-have been friends like forever."

Anna looked from the necklace up to Jennifer's face and back again.

"Carla can have more than one friend y'know."

Jennifer tilted her head and frowned a little as though she didn't understand.

"True but then she can't have another best friend. Is that what you think you are to her?"

"I-I don't know. I like her, she likes me. We get on really well-"

"Have you done anything together?" Jennifer butted in.

"You mean like shopping, movies, stuff like that?"

Jennifer shrugged.

"Not what I was going for but yeah sure, ok."

"Um yeah, we-we've been out a few times."

Jennifer pursed her full lips and she started to circle Anna slowly, like a predator, well unbeknownst to Anna, she was and of the deadliest kind.

"Does she still wear her necklace?"

Anna felt frozen to the spot.

"I-I don't know."

"Find out. Then you'll know if she really has given up on our friendship."

"Look, from what she told me about you, it sounds like you manipulated her a lot of the time."

Jennifer laughed loudly then and Anna flinched.

"I manipulated her?! Seriously! She went and fucked Chipper and expected me to just sit on the sidelines and be ok with it?! If anything, she manipulated me! Do you know she kissed me when she was still dating him?"

Anna shook her head slowly.

Technically, that hadn't been true, Needy had called time on her and Chip's relationship to save him but Jennifer liked to twist the truth to benefit herself, she always had done.

"Did she tell you about me when she met you?"

"N-no. I only found about you about two days ago."

"Huh, so how close are you really then? If she didn't tell you about me from the get-go?"

Anna shrugged.

"I don't know...maybe she didn't want to think about being friends with you."

Suddenly, Jennifer was in front of her.

"That was a very stupid thing to say."

"It-it's the truth though, isn't it?" Anna challenged, feeling a little braver despite her quivering voice.

Jennifer was just another high school bitch as far as Anna could see.

"I bet you think I'm just another uptight bitch, don't you?" Jennifer said, as if she could read her mind.

"Look, Carla doesn't want you here so do yourself a favour and leave us alone."

"Oh it's 'us' now, is it?" Jennifer snapped, coming closer to Anna.

"Carla is my friend and I want to protect her, especially from the likes of you."

"Well that's what I want too, silly." Jennifer said in that sickly sweet tone of voice that made people cave at her demands.

Anna looked at her, not sure of what to say, so Jennifer said it for her.

"I want Carla to be happy and I know she's happy with me. You couldn't possibly make her happy."

"I'm a good friend to her, probably better than you." Anna said but she avoided the dark haired girl's gaze.

Jennifer's eyes narrowed slightly as she moved forward, her lips close to Anna's ear.

"Did she tell you that we had sex in her bed back in Devil's Kettle?"

Anna blinked and Jennifer pulled back to see the other girl's reaction; she was not disappointed.

"She said that you and her were just friends...she denied that you were-"

"Well she would, wouldn't she? The truth is...Anna is it?-"

Anna nodded.

"-Is that we were intimate...all the time. That's why we're so close. I know things about her that even her dickhead of an ex boyfriend probably doesn't even know and I know things you never will and she knows things about me that no one else will ever know too. So you see, nothing comes between us, nothing."

Anna swallowed.

Jennifer licked her lips and backed Anna up so that her back hit a tree.

"Now I don't normally do girls but for you? I think I can make an exception."

Anna frowned and she shook harder than ever.

"W-what are you gonna do to me?"

"I'm. Gonna. Eat. You." Jennifer told her, each word spoken in a whisper like it was some kind of secret.

Anna's eyes widened as Jennifer opened her mouth impossibly wide and sharp teeth sprouted from her gums.

"What the hell are you?!" Anna screamed as Jennifer closed in on her.

Suddenly, Jennifer was pushed to the ground.

Needy looked up at Anna, her eyes wild.

"Go! Now!"

Anna didn't need telling twice and she turned, running back the way Jennifer had lead her.

When Needy looked down, she saw Jennifer grinning underneath her, no longer showing fangs, just back to her stunning self.

"Hey girlfriend." Jennifer drawled.

"Tell me you wasn't just about to eat Anna." Needy said, holding Jennifer's wrists above her head.

Jennifer grinned.

"Maybe a little."

"A little?! Jen you can't do that!"

Jennifer wriggled underneath her and watched as Needy closed her eyes at the feeling of Jennifer moving against her.

"Wanna another round, baby?" Jennifer purred.

"Oh my God." Needy growled and rolled off of her ex best friend.

She got to her feet and brushed herself off.

Jennifer stood and brushed the hair out of her face.

"She annoyed me." Jennifer said by way of explanation, a hand on her hip.

"That's not a good reason to eat someone! In fact, there isn't one!"

Jennifer knew how to get round Needy and she walked forward, taking hold of Needy's hand and lacing their fingers.

"She wants to take you away from me, Needy."

"She's my friend, Jen."

"I'm your friend. Your best friend."

"Not anymore. I told you." Needy said, her voice firm.

Jennifer grinned.

"I guess that kiss did change things between us. Maybe I can be your girlfriend then. I'll be good. I'll do everything a girlfriend is supposed to do; I'll make you lunches, I'll cook dinner, ask you how your day went, get you off in public places-"

"Jen! Stop ok?! Just stop!" Needy cried, pulling her hand from Jennifer's.

"What? Needy, Anna is so boring! We used to have so much fun and now you're hanging around with a bookworm who I am pretty sure is a dyke, judging by her choice in books."

Needy stopped.

"Wait...you followed her?"

"Uh...well-"

Needy looked at a spot on the ground as her mind went back to the previous day.

"Anna said that she was going to the bookstore today and she asked if I wanted to come...I said no because I had studying to do...oh my God you followed her!" Needy said, realization hitting her hard.

"Ok Needy, I only followed her because I don't like her and wanted to scare her, that's all." Jennifer said, trying to use her best diplomatic voice.

"You were going to eat her!" Needy exclaimed.

"My God what is with you?! I just want my best friend back, ok?! Is that such a crime?!" Jennifer raged, throwing her arms up in the air.

"It is when you start eating my friends! Or just eating people in general!"

"I wouldn't have to if you just accepted me!"

"I did accept you, Jen! I wanted to help you! I wanted to find a way to reverse the curse but you wasn't interested! You would rather carry on being a monster!"

"Because even if you did find a way, how do you know that it would work?! It could have killed me!"

"At least then I would've been free of you!"

Both girls stopped and Needy felt sick at what she'd just said.

Jennifer stood there, like she's been punched in the stomach.

"Jen I-"

Jennifer held up a hand.

"Save it."

"I didn't mean-"

"Yes you did...and hey, you know what? You and Anna suit each other. If you wanna go completely lesbo, I don't think she'd complain." Jennifer said bitterly.

She started to walk away when Needy tried to stop her.

"I don't want Anna."

Jennifer looked back at her sadly.

"Well you don't want me...I know that now."

"No I..." Needy stopped herself.

She couldn't say anything because it was totally wrong how she felt and it should never come to the surface.

"You what?" Jennifer asked tiredly.

"Nothing." Needy said, shaking her head.

Jennifer nodded, turned, then walked back out of the forest.

Needy watched her walk into the trees until she couldn't see her anymore.

Had she really lost Jennifer for good this time?

A/N-Hey guys, let me know what you think of this, not sure if I should continue.

See if I can come up with a way for them to reslove this. We'll see.

Thank you for reading. x