I'm sorry for the late update. I wanted to write this chapter over the weekend but I ended up going to Yosemite! It was really beautiful. I recommend it to anyone that loves I'll let you read now.
"What? What is it?" I asked hopelessly.
She started walking away again. I got impatient and stepped in her way. I tried to grab her shoulders, could not find them exactly.
She looked up at me angrily. I ignored it.
"Tell me what's going on" I demanded.
She didn't say anything but I refused to look away. I tried staring her down,but she kept the same expression on her face.
"Gwen, tell me."
After a couple seconds I felt the school setting fall from all sides. When I looked around again we were in the same place she took us before. Nowhere.
"Why did you bring us here?" I said tired of asking questions and getting not one answer.
"Do you have any idea how close of a call that was?" she growled
"What are you talking about?"
"The person that approached you is very dangerous and we're lucky my charade worked."
I paused.
"You're crazy that guy was just starting a regular conversation."
"I know who he is, and he's extremely unstable. If he touched you then he would know everything, and then where would we be?"
My mind flashed back to the punk approaching me with a unexplainable eagerness in his eyes. I shuddered.
"What about Paula I can't just leave her there with all those fallen all over the place."
"It's better if you stay away from your sister right now."
"Why?!"
"Do you want them to know she has some connection with all of this?"
I thought about it. She was right, Paula is safer with me not around I just hope she hasn't become what everyone else has. A familiar voice interrupted my thoughts.
"There you are. You shouldn't have gone to the school. Why did you...?"
I looked up to see DJ talking to Gwen. He left his sentence unfinished when he saw me, and looked at the two girls he had brought with him.
Both of them were wearing identical white outfits. One of them was slim and tall with brown hair, the other was shorter and a little heavy.
"Who's this?" The girl with freckles said with disapproval and pointed at me.
"Calm down Courtney he's a....friend" DJ said. He put his hand on her shoulder, and she stood still. It took me awhile to realize what he was doing.
He was letting her see everything. She frowned through most of it, and when removed his hand she muttered "Huh". She put her hand on the other girl's shoulder. She smiled as she saw what now three of them knew.
"This is interesting" she said in a booming voice.
"Trent this is Courtney and Lashawna" Gwen introduced. I was about to introduce myself but Gwen stopped me.
"You will need to be more discreet with your wardrobe with the fallen on alert. Here take this for now." Gwen said taking off her leather jacket and handing it to Courtney. The tank top Gwen had underneath barely covered her back, and I saw a dark tattoo screaming against her pale skin . I looked closer I noticed that it formed a pair of wings.
The four of them talked amongst themselves, and for a long time I stayed quiet. Every once in a while I would look up to make sure I wasn't going insane and imagining everything. The next time I looked up and Gwen caught my eye. I stared at her for awhile seeing the grace I had before I was......aware. She noticed me staring and turned away quickly. My confidence dropped and I looked away too. I noticed that one of the girls, Lashawna was studying me, and as soon as I returned her gaze she was at my side.
"You like her don't you?" she whispered gesturing towards Gwen.
"What does it matter. She's not even my species."
"She didn't tell you?"
"What? What didn't she tell me?" I said hoping that it wasn't bad new again.
"That we can become human."
I dropped my expression "What? How?"
She smiled "See it does matter."
I turned away, but she was in front of me as soon I did.
"We have free will just like you. We can choose to give this up if we want. Be human."
"Why would any of you do that though?"
"We don't but we can."
"Why would Gwen even consider changing especially for me."
She smiled again, and I'm guessing because of the conclusion I jumped to.
"I don't know. We don't really have strong emotions for anything other than keeping the peace, but I saw the way you are and that doesn't happen everyday."
"How do you change?" I said wanting to get of the subject.
"We fall. If we choose your life and really feel the drop, we'll become human."
"That doesn't make any sense. You guys don't feel anything. How could you feel the drop?"
"If our will is strong enough we will."
I looked at Gwen again. "It still doesn't matter."
"That's what you say now."
And with that she left, to talk to the rest of them. After awhile Gwen offered to take me home.
"Do you mind leaving me a little further than the front door?" I don't want to face my family right now."
She nodded and we were somewhere on the road. I could see my house in the distance.
"What are you planning to do tomorrow?" I asked
"We don't know yet."
"But you will do something right?"
"Don't worry about it. This is my burden not yours, but stay away from school for awhile."
I nodded. She stared off into the distance and looked more beautiful than ever. I felt myself leaning in towards her.
She looked at me alarmed and was instantly ten feet away from me.
"I should go. It's not good for you to be near me."
"Wait..." I tried but she was gone. Stupid! Stupid! Stupid! Why did I let Lashawna get to me? It's ridiculous to feel something for her, especially when she can't return the feeling. Literally. I sighed and started walking away. I should not have done that. Now I won't know what they plan to do. I guess I'm going to have to find out on my own.
I know I didn't leave you with much but I'm kind of in a fix with myself over this story. I'm trying to decide what to write, but don't worry I won't leave it unfinished not matter how long it takes me to update. Anyways hope you enjoyed it and thanks for all the nice reviews.
