This one's short and has a lot of POVs in it. Sorry if it seems boring but again, it leads up to the good stuff...

"Think it's a trap?" I asked softly, leaning across the table so that no one around us could hear our conversation. "Should we listen and meet up with her?"

"I don't know," Amara replied. "If she does know, then for sure they'll have them and the world as we know it will be doomed. But then again, if she does know, why call us and tell us?"

I shrugged. "How didi she even find out our names and numbers?"

She shrugged this time as Trista and Travis joined us. Trista next to Amara and Travis next to me.

"Hey!" Trista said cheerfully. "What did we miss?"

I shrugged. "Not much."

She stared back and forth between us. "You two have been acting majorly strange since last night. What happened in that movie theatre?"

I shook my head in reassurance and lie. "We're still just a little shaken up by it all that's all."

Travis rubbed my back in comfort. "Heard what happened. Sure you guys are okay?"

Amara and I nodded.

"Whatever," Trista cut in, sounding like one of those annoying cheerleaders. "So you guys wanna go to the mall today? The new Aero store opens and there's a huge sale!"

I looked at Amara. She runs this ship.

"No, we'll pass," she replied, getting up from her seat. I did the same. We grabbed our stuff. "Michelle and I have a project due tomorrow and we haven't even started."

"What project?" Trista asked. "We're practically in all the same classes."

"We'll see you guys later," Amara ignored and called out at the same time as we walked away from them.

"Amara-"

"We're not telling her," she sternly said. "No more people can know. There's already too much that do."

I sighed heavily as we continued to walk and like with Harrison, with no set destination.

"Hey, Alex, Harrison," I said. 'Good. They're alone.'

They turned around and smiled. "Hey, Trista."

"Wanna come to Chalet towers tonight with me, Amara, and Michelle?" I asked.

They jerk their heads back.

"Isn't that a hotel?" Harrsion asked.

"Is it even finished being built yet?" came from Alex.

I laughed. "Some kids from McNeil are throwing a rave there tonight and our old friend Braden Kerwin invited us."

"Well, why invite us?" Alex asked. "We barely know y'all."

I shrugged. "It's a party. You guys wanna come or what?"

They glanced at each other for a brief sec and then looked back at me. "Sure."

I felt my phone vibrate against my leg. I looked at the teacher: she was busying inserting grades into the computer. I took out my phone and read that I got a text from...Amara?

Meet me at Settler's Park at 6. Come alone...don't even tell anyone about this text

I jerked my head back. Why?

No reply.

I waited the whole class period for an answer but it never came.

After school, Hotaru's (Justin's girlfriend) mansion...

"So why did you guys become all buddy-buddy all of the sudden?" Ashley spat.

"Because we sit at the same table?" Harrison guessed while Alex nodded like a bobblehead.

"You don't," Ashley pointed out, looking at Alex.

He rolled his eyes. "They were sitting behind us in the movies and we just started talking."

"Why even talk to them?"

"Because she and I were sort of friends in 6th grade," Harrison replied.

Paul and Justin jerked their heads back.

"And you never mentioned this why?" Justin asked, looking at me. I looked away from him, trying not to make things obvious.

He shrugged. "Didn't think it was important."

"Hey Hotaru, can you me where the bathroom is?" Ashley asked.

"Sure," she replied as they left the room.

Justin and Paul looked at me. "Why do we get the feeling that you already knew they were friends?"

"Pre-Cal," I said, looking at Harrison. "What else are you keeping?"

Alex and Harrison quickly, glanced at each other. "Nothing."

I studied them, knowing instantly that they were lying. I had to find out what else they were hiding because they know I still like her. And I know it sounds stalker-ish but I wanna know everything about her. That's why I have Paul and Justin spy on her for me.

"Look, we gotta go," Alex cut in, running down the stairs with Harrison.

"Where?" Paul asked as we followed them. Neither of them answered.

"We'll see you guys tomorrow," Harrison said quickly, shutting the door behind him.

Settler's Park, 6pm...

I pulled into an empty parking space, turned the engine off, and got out of the car. I started walking through the park, hoping to stumble across Amara soon and I did. She stood back faced towards me and her hands seemed to be stuffed into her hoodie pocket and her hood was on.

Michelle was a few feet away, leaning against a tree with her arms folded and staring at me as I walked. I slowly approached them as Michelle joined Amara.

"Why did you guy ask me to meet you guys here?" I asked.

Amara turned around and slowly walked up to me while Michelle stared at me with neutral eyes.

"We can't have you holding us back on our mission anymore," she said in a reserved tone.

"Holding you back?" she repeated. "I just wanna help you! The scouts and I wanna help you but we can't do that unless you tell us why you're looking for those pure hearts and why they're after them too."

"If you needed to know, then you would know and we'd be working together but we're not," Michelle replied.

"Aren't we on the same side?" I asked.

"No," Amara simply replied, stopping right in front of me. "Now, there's only thing that'll stop you."

I scrunched my eyebrows. "And what's that?"

She reached for my necklace and yanked it off. It had my tranformation brooch at the charm.

"Hey!" I yelled, trying to get it back from her but she pressed her hand against the area between the neck and my chest and pushed me back. I fell hard onto the ground. I groaned. "Give it back."

"I'm sorry but this is the only way," she said.

"We'll give it back after our mission is completed," Michelle added as they took out their lip rods and transformed into Sailor Uranus and Neptune.

"But you guys don't have to do it alone!" I said as they walked past me and towards a helicopter. "We can work-"

"Shut up," Amara said. "We could handle things on our own before we met and we can handle them on our own now."

They boarded the helicopter and turned it on. The fans picked up speed as I got up slowly from the heavy wind it summoned. "Amara! Michelle! Wait!"

I ran after it but it was too late.

It left the ground, turned around, and took off.

I sighed heavily as I slowed down. I eased my breathing, thinking of what to do next.

"You have to stop them."

I quickly spun around and saw Trista. "What are you doing here?"

"Never mind that," she answered. "You have to stop them."

"Why? What can I do?"

"They're headed for their doom."

"Wh-What?" I asked in sort of a "breathey" voice. "How do you know?"

"I just do," she said. "Please, go help them."

I shook my head in such confusion but something triggered in my mind, telling me to do what she was saying. "Where are they headed?

Amara and I flew over the bright city in silence. We both stared straight ahead of us with fierce concentration. She gently landed the helicopter on the last floor of the hotel since the roof wasn't put onto it yet. The worker's strike delayed the project. It was supposed to be up and running 6 months ago.

Amara turned the helicopter off and we leaned against it, waiting for instructions and it came. Amara's phone rang from receiving a text. She reached into the backseat and grabbed it.

Go down 15 floors

We ran down the flight of stairs, entering the 15th floor where we could see Eudial. She had her back turned to us.

"Glad you could make it," she started, slowly turning around. She grinned evily. "Amara and Michelle."

We glared at her.

"Let's get on with it!" Amara said. "Where are the pure heart crystals?"