Kari's or Demi's POV.

Actually class wasn't as bad as I thought I would be. It started at 8 pm sharp and ended around 2 am, I guess when you get marked your body automatically changes to night time. I could barely focus though, and Phoenix noticed, I tried hiding it, but I was worried. my two best friends ever since grade 7 missing? I mean is this how a normal person would react? I was freaking out. Phoenix tried to calm me down but it only worried me more. He finally gave up walked up to the teacher in the middle of drama and took me to the high priestess well, Vita. She could see that I was worried, and I bet I showed it too. I was loosening my mind worrying. She only look me in the eye and spoke softly I could barely hear her, "Demi, what is wrong? Are you not feeling well?" I explained everything that happened with Ethan and Vivian, all the tree to them running off. The I started to get teary eyed when I told her about them missing, and but the end of the story I was balling my eyes out while Phoenix would hold me close, my face buried in his chest. Damn Vita was right, we really had bonded, just his comforting touch calmed me down. he whispered in my ear, "Calm down, it's ok." But no matter how he pulled me into his chest, I couldn't calm down. He only looked in my eyes and said to Vita, "She is falling apart! She can't go on like this! Me and her are going looking, like NOW!" the head priestess didn't object only nod in agreement. He hugged me hard then pulled away so I could look at him in the eye, "Come on."

"Why are you doing this? What did I ever do for you?" I asked my voice barely holding its questioning tone.

"Because your pain is my pain, me and you are connected in a way you can't understand." he said with a tone of annoyance.

"What do you mean? It's not like we're imprinted or something, he only looked me in the eye with regret written all over his face. I only looked at him confused then it hit me. "What happened after I passed out?" I asked, rage filling me up to the brim.

"Listen," he said softly, "You needed to go to the House of Night immediately, but you asked me to take you home. So I had to use a different method and imprinting was the best and least painful method."

"You drank from me?!" I shouted in anger.

"No," he corrected me, "You drank from me, it was the only way to keep you with the human for longer than five fucking minutes," he said rage now filling him.

"You... You... You feed me your blood to save me? But I hardly know you?" was all I managed to spit out.

" Yes, but I marked you and therefore I was responsible for you till you came here, but I also felt a weird connection, love at first sight if you will." he said almost embarrassed, "I know you don' t poses these feeling for me so can we just leave the subject at that?" I nodded dumbly. "Good, so shall we go start looking its another 4 or 5 hours before sunrise, so that shall be plenty of time."

"Sunrise?" I asked stupidly.

"Look at my forehead genius, I am a red vampyre so I can't go in the sun." I only looked at him confused then it hit me like a tone of bricks, I just nodded in reply. "Shall we be going?" I nodded vigorously. "Good, and Vita, shall you be accompanying us?"

"No," the high priestess said shyly, "You two shall be on your own, be back before sunrise, or Phoenix you with catch on fire faster than what ever blasted thing I try and cook."

"Yes priestess," we replied in unison, man this was going to take some getting use to, being imprinted, oh boy. And with that she gave us a back with a swiss army knife, rope and some other stuff saying, " just I case you two have to stay in a cave during the day." nice to see she has confidence in us. And like that we were off to the forest or route 10...

It was cooler than I remembered , the grass was moist and the mud squished beneath my shoes, ew! Phoenix kept his distance, not to close, and not to far if something happened. On the way there no words were spoken, between both of us. I mean like, I was just imprinted against my will! How was I suppose to react? The worst part about this was I could hear his every thought, about him pleading and begging for me to forgive him, which I did when I heard the reason why he did it. But still I was in shock. I finally broke the silence when we were almost there "Could you just shut up with the appositives already? I mean honestly you haven't shut up since we left!"

"I haven't said a word." he spat out defensively.

"Well can you just stop thinking it? You have just be goin-"

"Wait a minute, you can hear my thoughts?!" I nodded suspiciously, "In you book imprints might normal have that affect but in the real world, hears each others thoughts means there is a very powerful connection between the two whom are imprinted."

"What?!" was all I could spit out.

"In the real world imprints are just strong connections, normally you can feel the other person's emotions and the two share a strong bond, like husband wife, mother child, father child, best friend and sibling connections all at once, but never read each others thoughts..." he trailed off and I urged him on with a simple "Yes, and your point being?"

"My point being how in the hell can you hear my thoughts women?!" he said with a mixture of anger and confusion.

"I just did," was my answer. He looked me in the and thought of the color purple? What? "What's with the purple?" I asked innocently.

"That's the thing, I didn't say purple, I thought it, so you could read my mind." I only stared at him in awe, "Now I want to try, think of something and don't say it out loud. I instantly thought of Vivian and Ethan, their faces, Vivian's bright red hair and soft brown eyes and the way her hair constantly curled as she tried to keep it straight, and Ethan with his brown hair with beach blond tips with I managed to convince him to get and his big blue eyes and the light shade of pink his lips always were, how soft his skin was, almost like a- "STOP IT!" Phoenix shouted, "I got a good enough description, I don't need a fucking novel!" he said in anger.

"So it does work both ways!" I shouted excited.

"I got a good enough description from your memory especially of that Ethan kid, just wondering what is his last name?" he asked suspiciously.

"Loch," I replied as if nothing, "Ethan Romeo Loch." I giggled at his middle name, I found it cute and would call him that everyday when we were little, well littler to poke fun, he honestly hated his last name claiming it was dorky and nerdy. But I think in secret he loved it, his dad picked the name, his dad was a big Shakespeare fan, and Ethan loved his middle name, It was one of the only things he left from his father.

Phoenix stopped dead in his tracked and thought something about Ethan but changed the thought so fast I couldn't even get past Ethan Loch, the blasted-. "What was that?" I asked nervously.

"Nothin-" he stopped mid sentence we were right where I saw Vivian and Ethan enter. I was in pure shock, a couple trees in I saw a rope hanging from a tree. But not normally hanging, it was dangling in a loop, like the type of loop you would wrap around your neck to hang yourself with. I was scared shitless and the was uncertainty written all over Phoenix's face. We cautiously approached the tree with with udder most caution and worry. I saw a small piece of paper tapped on the rope, I was in Ethan's hand writing. I didn't want to read it and spent 5 minutes antagonizing over it until I finally managed to work up the never and will power to look.

I lied,

No one sees what's wrong with me,

No remembers to forget...

For months I kept it locked inside,

But there are things I just cant't hide,

Seeping in,

Polluting my mind,

Until a day where I find,

I've lost myself,

To become someone or something else,

Hurry before she dies...

The bottom part of the paper was torn off, but I knew who had wrote it. It was his writing for certain but he wasn't poetic, like ever! I swear the most poetic thing had writing was the crappy roses are read, violates are blue, you look nice, and I would nice next to you. And also WHAT THE HELL?! What did he mean by 'No one sees what's wrong with me.' what the hell?!

I just want to give a shout out to A Spell Uncast for writing that amazing poem. You guys should go check out her stuff, it's freaking amazing. You are amazing Spell and also everyone else who actually reads the crap that I write so thank you to everyone and I love you all!