"It's ok." I tell them. "At first, after he- he told me I was pretty stunned. I mean, it explained why Ben and Jason didn't er- don't get along very well. But, it's awkward..."

"Look who caught on finally!" Shelton says sarcastically.

I glare at him through the tiny camera on my laptop, hoping he can see my glare. He puts his hands up like he surrenders. I just roll my eyes at this gesture. There are a few moments of silence when I finally break the silence.

"Guys. I'm worried about Ben. I know what he did was terrible and that he-" I try to say, but I choke on the words 'tried to impress me' and continue: "He has to go to this stupid ass new school and now what? Leaving his pack behind. What would we feel like?! I mean, it's got to be hard." It's like, what happened to me! It's stupid. That someone should have to do this in order for some snotty-assed school to keep their "perfect image" I put air quotes around the last part.

"Tor? Since when have you started caring about Ben so much? I mean-"

"I dont! I mean, we're a pack so there's some closeness, but i would never-" Saying this out loud, I know now, it's a lie. Plain and simple. I mean, I dont like like Ben.

Do I?

I have no clue, what to say, what to think.

Almost as if, I feel nothing. My hand quickly reaches for the mouse and logs me out, of iFollow. I just sit there, feeling nothing. Saying nothing. Doing nothing. I sit there for several minutes, until I hear a scratching at my door. Coop. I get up and walk over to my door and open it for Coop. He bounds in and leaps up on my bed. I walk over to my bed and fall backwards onto the comforter. I just lay there with my hands spread out and my legs dangling off the side of the bed...


I feel groggy as i sit up from my bed. I glance at my clock and have to do a double-take because I thought i read it wrong. My clock says 5: 30pm. Crap, I was supposed to meet the guys by the dock at 5. Crap Crap Crap. I grab my shoes and run downstairs to see that Kit is talking to them..

"Hey, sorry about that. Fell asleep. See ya at 7, Kit." And before he can object I slam the front door shut and start heading to the dock.

Once we're there, I explain the plan and we head to the bunker, grab supplies, and head to Loggerhead. We sneak past the security guard (can't remember his name) and get into a lab. Once there we're in the lab, Hi locks the door and Shelton starts setting up. I grab the document from the drawer, we put it in last time we were here. An old map of the Charleston Bay area. I snap on some gloves and unroll the parchment. It isn't as dusty as when we first found it. It was buried in at least a few inches of sand. The map has a few tears and scratches along it. I glance on it and find our bunker. I find the date that it was made and can barely make out the date, but it reads: 1827. The map is not as important as when we found the map to Anne Bonney's treasure. We aren't sure whether to follow it or not. The last time we had a treasure hunt a guy got murdered. It was no joke. I don't want it to end like it did last time so I roll up the map and toss it back in the drawer. I start taking off the gloves and stuff them in my pocket.

"It's not worth it..." I answer to their questioning looks.

"But-" Shelton argues.

"I know, but last time we followed clues and a map-" I can't say it. Ben betrayed us and a guy died, both were horrible. Ben got to stay and we've forgiven him, but it's still tough sometimes... It's been a while and I know that we've forgiven him, but it's still difficult to talk about it. It's still horrible to think about it also...