CPOV

Oh. My. Gosh! What was Simon doing here? I spent all these days trying to forget him and the others, too!

Simon was staring at me, but he didn't seem to recognize me. "I mean, hi! Who are you and what are you doing here in the woods?", he said nervously. By now my mouth was hanging open.

I quickly shut it. I'm going to have to change my voice, too. I cleared my throat to make my voice sound deeper.

"Um, my name is…..Sarah.", I said. Sarah? Really? Is that the best I can come up with? I mentally kicked myself.

"Well, hi Sarah! My name's Simon! What excactly are you doing outside of my house?", he asked me, falling for my lie.

"House? What house?" , I said. Oh snap! He's gotta be kidding me. Those lights were coming from the safe house?

He had an oops-I-said-too-much look on his face."Uh, yeah, well…my house is right there, as you can see.", he said seeing no way around what he said. "Are you lost, or something? Do you need some place to stay?", he asked, genuinely concerned.

Then I realized that I left all of my stuff, including my money, at that clearing. And I have no idea how to find my way back there, and I don't think I should, considering Ramon and Liam might be there waiting up for me.

So, on second thought, "Yeah. If that's alright with you. I'm most definitely lost.", I said, losing as much dignity as I had.

"Ok, sure! Stay here for a second. I'll be right back.", he said quickly. Then, he ran back into the safe house.

What would he be doing in there? Oh, yeah. They have to be extra cautious when it comes to strangers. So, I'm assuming he's checking with the others to see if I can come in.

I waited there for a few seconds, and looked around. The safe house looks the same as always. I mean, it's only been a month. Simon, looks the same, too. But, for some reason, his eyes always look sad. I wonder what that's all about.

But wait a minute. If I didn't want to be here, wouldn't this be a great opportunity to run off? No, I'll stay this time. I want to see if anything has changed while I was gone. I highly doubt it, but on the inside, I was super curious! I wanted to see if he cared at all that I left.

Simon came back in a flash, and said, "Yeah, the others say you can come in!" He walked over to me took my arm and led me towards the house. "Wait. First I want to know, are you…a super?", he whispered to me. What does he mean by that? Oh, yeah. He means supernatural.

"Oh, you mean supernatural? Um ….yeah! Yes, of course I am!" I said catching even myself by surprise.

"Really? That's great! I am, too! And so are the others! Wow, Sarah, you'll fit right in!", he said excitedly while leading the way inside the house.

Everything I passed was the same, just as I thought. But I tried really hard to suppress my surprise when I entered the living room. Everyone else was sitting on the couches and the chairs.

"Hey everyone! Look who I found in the backyard! And she says she's a supernatural, too!", he said with a big smile.

I scanned everyone's faces. They all looked curious and slightly amused, but they also had that sadness in their eyes that Simon had. I couldn't even bear to look at Derek for more than a second. But, wait…is that a fourth face I see?

Right next to Derek was a girl. She was a new supernatural, I suppose. She looked a little older than me. She had long, dark hair and bright green eyes that looked even more abnormal than Derek's. And she was gorgeous. I don't even think she was wearing makeup, but she looked like she came from the cover of a magazine. She looked like she's never even seen a zit. And the worst part was, the way she was sitting next to Derek on the couch.

She was sitting really close to him and was clinging to one of his arms for dear life. She never took her eyes off me, and her smile quickly faded into a frown. What's up with her? I didn't do anything! And what does she think she's doing sitting next to Derek like that?

After a few awkward moments, Andrew cleared his throat.

"Let's start with introductions, shall we? Hello, my name is Andrew. I'm the adult in charge, here.", he said then he gestured for Tori.

"Hey, I'm Victoria. But call me Tori. Seriously." , she said. Then, she looked at Derek.

"Hi, I'm Derek.", he said gruffly. And that was it, for him. He didn't even look at me, yet. He just stared at the floor.

Suddenly, the girl next to him plastered on a smile. " Hello, I'm Rachel!", she said with a perfect British accent. I mean, seriously? She's pretty and British? How am I supposed to compete with that?

After that everybody, including Derek, stared at me. Derek had the weirdest look on his face, too. What was that about?

I cleared my throat to make my voice deeper again. " Hi everyone. I'm Sarah.", I said with a little bit of confidence. Speaking in front of crowds were never really my thing.

"What's your power, Sarah?" , Andrew said.

"Oh, I'm a necromancer.", I said, without even thinking. Oh snap. Couldn't I at least have made up a power for me to have? They'll see through me for sure, now.

But nobody did. They were all actually surprised at first, then an even deeper sadness entered their eyes, except Rachel's. Ok, what did I do now?

Then, all of a sudden everybody stood up at the same time. "Well, it's nice to meet you, sarah! But, we really should be getting into bed, now.", he said.

Everybody left, probably to go to their rooms. I started to follow them, but then I was stopped by Andrew.

" I'm sorry to say this, but we have no more room left for you upstairs. You're going to have to sleep on the couch tonight.", he said with an apologetic look on his face.

"Oh! That's all right, I guess.", I said. Now, I was slightly sad. Rachel took my bed! It's like they're using her to replace me! Even Derek's using her to replace me! How cruel!

Andrew took a quilt and a pillow, from a basket in the corner, and handed them to me.

"Well, good night!", he said nervously as I sat on the couch. He turned off the light as he left.

I lied there in the darkness for a few minutes. There's no way I'm going to fall asleep. I had a really long night. This is going to be an….interesting few days.

But as I thought things through, I guess I fell asleep, because the next thing I knew, I was being shaken awake the next morning.