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Chapter 6

Declan POV

Something was messed up with this picture. Here I was, in this godforsaken lunchroom looking for a little, tiny dhampir and she was avoiding me. When all she was doing was trying to find me. I saw that her friend was sitting by herself looking bored as hell and I had a feeling that Sasha wasn't coming today. But the girl was my best bet.

I walked to the table she was sitting at and it looked like she was texting. She put her phone away as soon as she saw me coming.

"Can I help you?", she asked sassily. Gee, what crawled up her ass?

"I'm looking for Sasha. She promised me she'd tutor me in Pre-calc," I lied.

"Well, as you can see she's not here so run along now," she said cooly.

"Did I do something because right now I'm not in the mood for attitude," I said. My low tone didn't do shit to frighten her though.

"Listen asshole. I don't trust you and I especially don't trust you with my best friend. Sasha doesn't need someone like you in her life," she said. She didn't sound really convinced. The realization that came to me made me smirk.

"You're jealous, aren't you? Something's bothering her but she doesn't want to come to you and you're taking out that anger on me," I said. Her expression proved me right. I started speaking before she could retort.

"Look I've got no intention of stealing your best friend but I just need to find her. It's important." She sighed and muttered something to herself that I couldn't make out.

"I actually don't know exactly where she is but I do know that when she gets like this she's practically inconsolable. Sad Sasha is a shell of herself," she says sadly. I wonder what turns Sasha into her sad self. I leave the lunchroom a little more confused but more determined to find the chick. I walk through the campus until my hearing picked up on something. Without my enhanced dhampir hearing I would have missed it but I definitely heard the female grunt. It came from the gym.

The sounds get louder as I get closer and then what I see totally shocks me. There she was, in a dark blue sports bra and sweatpants practicing with a silver stake. Some of the moves she was doing were kind of sloppy but good enough that I did not want to fight her anytime soon. She faced me and stilled. She wasn't expecting company. She gave me a wide smile that was clearly forced, but it was cute she was trying. I leaned against the doorframe and crossed my arm and subtly checked her out. Her body was pretty curvy but not as toned as most dhampirs who trained as much as we do. But she could clearly hold her own.

"Well, hello there. My new bestie stalking me now?", she asks me. I see she's feeling a little better now that she's trying to be cute. My eyes focus on the silver stake in her hand. The hilt was encrusted with sapphires. She looked to where my eyes were and sighed. She walked to her t-shirt and put it over the sports bra and put the stake into a scabbard and put it in a jacket and sat down. I walked towards her and sat down next her. We didn't speak for a few minutes. The silence was nice.

"You're not even gonna ask where I got the stake?", she asks curiously.

"I'm guessing there's a story behind it", I tell her.

"It would appear that way", she says coyly. Now I'm curious.

"I'll tell you my dark secrets if you'll tell me yours." Those were the words she said to me over a week ago.

"And here I thought you didn't like me," she said. She didn't seem sad about that.

"Nah, you're too cute not to like," I say while nudging her with my shoulder.

"Now this is legit progress," she said. "I finally got an actual conversation out of you," she continued. I guess she was right. A friendship between us was inevitable.


Sasha POV

Declan and I spent the rest of the lunch period talking and getting to know each other. Turns out we had a lot in common. We were both crazy obsessed with rock bands. No, serious it's like we were the same person when it came to that stuff. We were also both crazy obsessed with the show The Flash (a.n. actual show on CW it's awesome) and superhero movies (he was secretly a comic book geek). We also both enjoyed cooking (he was an Ozera after all) even though he couldn't get into that class in time. But we also both had secrets that we didn't want to share just yet. We were still in the getting to know each other phase of our friendship. But I knew that if there was anyone who would understand my past, it would be Declan. I'm not one of those annoying heroines that have secrets that they are so loath to share that they push their love interests away (and I am soooo not denying that Declan was my love interest). I knew that the best way to make someone truly understand me is if they knew why I turned out the way I am.

Declan and I both had to get things off our chest. Not good things. I had a feeling he and I were both going to become close as possible before the demons come out of the closet. I just hope I'm strong enough to handle it.

Will he fall for Sasha Drozdov if Sonya Dashkov is still in me somewhere? There was only one way to find out.

Well this was the next chapter. I really hope you enjoyed it. Sashlan is a go. That was a ship name by the way. Read and review.