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According to Mr. Bae, she should be around here somewhere, providing she didn't take off. We're not so sure though because of her personality. I wouldn't want to stay put if I were her either, considering we were in an alleyway, I think. I'm not fully sure though, the place is completely trashed and my senses tell me something dead is around here, an animal presumably. I hoped so at least, because if she's dead that is not a good sign. We started to do a quick search. Derek was trying to trace her sent and I am looking for the dead thing. Gross I know, but it helps me train my powers better than most things, like the graveyard issue with Margaret. Not the best training experience ever, and that didn't end well.

Derek thinks he may have found the right trail now, but he's not sure. I had finally found the dead thing I sensed, and it turned out to be a corpse of a person. So, we wouldn't be spending the night here, due to what had happened the last time. We didn't need that to happen again, and personally I didn't want to re-live that. especially if I was going to have another person with us. I wanted to make a good impression.

"Hey, dad? I think I may have found her, but I'm not fully sure. This girl isn't moving, but I don't think she's dead. She has a pulse, but her breathing is rather shallow. Can you and Lauren come over here?" Derek said catching our attention quickly.

"On our way." Aunt Lauren and Kit replied at the same time.

"Okay, please hurry. I smell blood, and quite a bit of it." Derek said more urgently. Just as I was getting close, I heard Derek curse.

"What?" I asked. His uneasiness making me nervous.

"I think it's her blood." He answered. After he said that I knew we could be in some trouble. Just then, Kit and Aunt Lauren came around the corner, with the same possibility in mind, and when they seen our faces they rushed over.

As they rolled her on her back, I saw a deep gash in her side. It was where the blood that Derek smelt was coming from. As they moved her I also noticed that she was slowly waking up. Her eyes were unreadable and a crystal clear sky blue. I also noticed that her hair was black and about mid back length, and she was about five foot four, taller than me.

"Kit, who are these people?" the girl whispered in a weak voice.

" Don't worry, they're with me. We are all on the same page. We need to move you. Are you okay with that?" He said in a reassuring voice.

"Yes." She said in that weak voice. It seemed as though he had somehow reassured her, as she began to relax little by little.

We decided to go to a nearby motel so Aunt Lauren could stitch up and bandage the wound. The motel we were staying at had two doors in each room. One was in front, but there was another around back, which we used to get the girl into the room, so it was the better choice, and more secluded. We could get her in easily without people raising a fuss. Since the motel was a bit run down, not as many people stayed there anyways which was a good sign. Most people chose to stay at the bigger, nicer hotels.

After the girl's wound was cleaned, stitched, and bandaged she fell into a deep sleep. Part of the sleep was her exhaustion, and the other was some medication she had tried to refuse. Aunt Lauren said we needed to let her sleep, so we let her. I figured we would ask her what happened when she woke up. She looked peaceful now rather than scared and hurt.

I figured while we waited for her to wake up I would go see what Simon, Tori, and Derek were up to. Tori was at the small pool inside the motel, and as usual Simon and Derek were together out back. When they saw me they both said "Hi." in unison.

After kicking a ball around for a while, we decided to go inside. It was about nine o'clock, and the girl was still sound asleep. Tori had jumped in the shower, and apparently she had been in there for quite a while. Aunt Lauren was clearly waiting for the shower to open. I couldn't help but to agree. None of us had been given the chance to shower since we had taken off from the debris we left behind.

Finally, Tori came out of the bathroom, and letting the steam fly out the open door. Aunt Lauren and I giggled as she rose to take a shower herself.

"What?" Tori snapped as she settled down on the soft king size bed. It had already been decided that Tori, Aunt Lauren, and I were to share, and well the girl, too.

After my aunt was done with her shower, we all settled into our beds. Derek and Simon were to share the pullout couch, and Kit was to sleep on a cot supplied by the hotel. We all headed to bed at ten.

...

Most of us awoke at around eight, however the girl and Derek were still sleeping. While they were sleeping I noticed that her hair wasn't just black, it had purple streaks in it, just like mine had, only mine were red in strawberry blonde hair. they were hard to see due to the filth that coated her.

I couldn't help but to wish I knew her name. "Kit, what is her name?" I whispered to him silently.

"Her name is Alana. If you want to know more about her you will have to ask her. She told me that I was only allowed to tell you all her name, but she wants to meet you first before telling you more than that." Kit replied just as silently.

"Thank you." I told him. "Do you know how long it will be before she wakes up?" Just as I asked I heard a soft moan. I jumped a little at the sound. So, I turned around, to see where the noise had come from. It was just Alana starting to wake up.

Even with stitches in her side, she slowly sat up. I was amazed that she could. If it were me in her position I would've most likely fell back over on the bed. She didn't fall back onto the bed, but rather stood up. Kit stood up as though he were going to help her. She just waved him off and slowly made her way to the bathroom. All i could think was that she made the struggle look almost graceful.

At that moment I felt a little jealous. 'Derek may start to fall for her and leave me.' I really hope that doesn't happen, because our kisses were so passionate, so deep, and so longing to be together. All that could come to an abrupt end. No, Derek likes me for me, not looks. At least I hope so anyway. As I was alone in my own little world of thinking, Tori, Aunt Lauren, Simon, and Kit left the room to go buy breakfast.

"I'm not going to take him from you, you know" said a soft, sweet, thoughtful voice. I blinked and then realized it wasn't what I had been expecting. She was looking at me as she left the bathroom. She was drying her hair when she said it.

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"Oh, I figured you were thinking of at least one of the boys. You had a jealous look on your face." She replied in that same voice. Now that her hair was clean, I could see the bright purple in her hair. 'Brighter than I thought it was..' I thought to myself.

"Oh, really?" I said, with a small edge in my voice.

"Yea, really, so may I ask which boy it is?" she asked a little smile came on her face as she said it.

"Derek." I answered. I don't know why I did though, I wasn't planning on answering her question.

"Oh I see. That's pretty cool, and I have no interest for romance at the moment so don't worry, and either way you had him fist and he's all yours." She said shocking me. Then she snickered.

"What?" I asked slightly irritated and letting it show.

"Oh I'm sorry. I was just thinking, I shocked you didn't I?" she said answering my question with one of her own also.

"A little." I replied. "

"You know, to me you look like you are kind of jumpy." She said a few minutes later.

"At times I am." I don't know why I said it, something just made me want to say it so I did.

She smiled and said, "That's okay. I can be that way, too."

Just after she said that Derek woke up. "Morning." That was all he said. And then headed to the bathroom, most likely to take a shower.

"Is he always like that?" she said in a low whisper, so low in fact I had to move closer and ask her to repeat it a few times. It was almost as if she knew he could hear her if she spoke low.

"Yes." I replied a little louder than her. She just looked at me and nodded an okay. Then she rose and walked over to a window faceing the back, and turned around as if to ask me a question, then stopped.

"What" I asked.

"Nothing." She said.

She turned back to the window, and I decided it would be best to let her be for a while. She seemed to be lost in her own thoughts. I started to zone and think about what could be coming. I was scared and didn't really want to admit it to anyone other than my self.

Before I knew it, I was being wrenched from my day dreams. I looked up to see Alana turn to look over my head toward the bathroom with a sigh. She then said "Hello, who are you?"

I turned, and found Derek standing directly behind me. "Good morning, Derek." I said.

Derek mumbled a "Good morning" to me and looked at Alana and said a little annoyed from the sound of his voice "My name is Derek. Yours?" He demanded.

"My name is Alana." She said kindly, more nicely than he deserved based on his voice toward her.

After a few minutes of awkward silence, everyone came back with breakfast. McDonalds, yum. After breakfast, Derek and I were going to 'go for a walk' or rather go find a place to be alone together for a while.

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