If you haven't read the prolouge, go back and read it. it is important to the story even though it has long paragraphs and is very short. Thank you for reading my fanfic, and enjoy!


It was about a week later. Tancred Torsson and Lysander Sage were sitting in the Cafeteria eating lunch. Lysander was telling his best friend about his date with Lauren that weekend and when he was almost done telling the story, he realized Tancred wasn't paying attention to him.

Lysander followed his gaze and saw that it was on a beautiful blond girl in a green cape. She was sitting by some of her other art friends, laughing and having a good time.

"Tancred, just go over there and tell her you like her already." Lysander advised.

Tancred turned sharply and looked at his friend with wide eyes and a slightly flushed face, "What?"

"Go over there and tell her what you were going to tell her last week. Just because you lost your chance once doesn't mean you need to ruin every other chance you get. Look, her friends are leaving. Now's the perfect time to call her over here and tell her." Lysander explained.

Tancred shook his head.

Lysander rolled his eyes, then called, "Emma!"

Tancred glared at his best friend.

"At least tell her thank you for trying to save you after Dagbert drowned you. If it wasn't for Em, the Bloor's would have totally gotten rid of your body and the Flames wouldn't have been able to save you." Lysander whispered as Emma approached them.

"Fine," Tancred muttered, then raised his voice as Emma stood beside him. "Em, I forgot to say thank you for getting my dad for me when Dagbert was drowning me."

Tancred was so wrapped up in trying to not let Emma see he was still slightly pink that he didn't notice her face become as red as a tomato. "Oh, you're welcome. It's no big deal."

"But Emma, it is. I have so much I have to live for and if I had died, I would never be able to live for them." Tancred was no longer blushing. He was too caught up in the bird girl to blush. He wanted to tell her right then and there how he felt for her, but he couldn't find the words or the nerves. He remembered when he'd first seen her as Emma Tolly at the party after he, Lysander, and Gabriel had rescued Charlie from the ruins. All Tancred could think about then was how beautiful she was when she smiled and how wonderful she acted. He also felt kind of bad for dating Tracy Morsell, but she had asked him out and he didn't know what a brat she was then, so he had said yes. Thinking about all of this lowered his courage even more.

"Oh, I see. I have to go to class now, so I guess I'll see you later, boys," She told them and hurried along to her classroom.

"Bye, Emma!" Lysander called after her, then he turned to Tancred and laughed, " 'I have so much I have to live for and if I had died, I would never be able to live for them'?"

"Shut-up," Tancred grumbled and stood up and trudged out to the gardens so he could calm down before his next class. He hated it when Lysander made fun of him.


When Emma arrived in her classroom, Olivia Vertigo, her best friend, was waiting for her. Olivia had died her hair neon orange and had put sparkles in it. It almost blinded Emma and she had to cover her eyes just to look at her friend, "Nice hair, Olivia,"

"Thanks!" Olivia beamed, showing off her movie star smile, then said, "So, you were talking to Tancred at lunch?"

"Yes," Emma didn't see what the big deal was. It was as if Olivia knew something that Emma didn't know.

"What did he say?" Olivia wondered eagerly.

"He just thanked me for getting his dad for him when Dagbert drowned him." Emma sighed. She had hoped he had to say something else, but he didn't.

"Emma, you know a lot of pain would go away if you just told him how you feel. The boy doesn't have a cold heart. Tancred isn't mean like that. I mean, he dated Tracy Morsell, so he'd probably date anybody that comes his way," Olivia told her friend, then she saw Emma's face fall, probably because she was now thinking she wasn't special, so Olivia added, "Not that you're not special, Em. It's just that…that…" Olivia couldn't find the words to tell Emma that Tancred did like her. Her and Lysander had talked to each other and now they wanted to get the two together, but Olivia knew it would take a lot of thinking and scheming to do so.

"I know I'm special. I'm a bird girl and that's the only interesting thing about me. Tracy Morsell is so much different than me. She's perfect for him," Emma lied to herself as she told this to Olivia.

Olivia was about to tell her friend how wrong she was when the teacher told everyone to sit in their seats so she could begin class.

Olivia watched Emma through the whole class. Emma may have been staring towards the front of the class, but Olivia knew that her friend wasn't paying attention to anything the teacher said. It was then that Olivia decided she needed to talk with Lysander again, and maybe some of their other friends so they could figure out how to get the two together, before the Moonlit Ball that Bloor's was hosting in a couple months, because that was the night of new beginnings, and the two needed one together.


i know Bloor's doesn't have balls and stuff, but it is my fanfic, so i could put anything I want in this. including a flying monkey. not really! I'm joking, i would never do that to my story unless a flying monkey was REVIEW!!!

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