The next morning I woke up in the middle to late afternoon. It had been at least 2:00 in the morning when I had gone to bed. I usually go to sleep at 11:00 PM. I rubbed my head and slowly sat up. The emerald had fallen onto the floor, and was half covered by my bedspread which I had kicked onto the floor in the middle of the night. I picked it up and put it on my dresser. "How did I get a chaos emerald? And….why would whoever sent it, send it to me?" I thought about that all morning. While I was in the shower, while I was eating breakfast, and on the bus on my way to school. We had a late start that day, which is why I had slept in. I dismissed the thought because it didn't do me any good to ponder over it. I walked in and there was a bright Yellow Police taped across the girl's bathroom. "I guess the crime has come. Maybe Angie would know something about this." I walked over to her locker and she was calmly sitting in front of it listening to her Ipod. I yanked one ear bud out of her ear and sat next to her. "Morning star shine. Hell says hello." She gave me a look that would scare the devil himself. "Well tell the Devil I said to beat it"

"What's wrong with you?" I asked sharply. People never gave me attitude especially not Angie.

"I'm just in a bad mood this morning"

"Well that isn't an excuse to get snappy at me. So explain right now."

"The girl that dies this time, her name was Kilena. Two bite marks in her neck. Like some vampire sicko. I knew her and I was in shock when I heard about it."

I had heard about Kilena before. She was a real looker but never wanted to talk to anyone. For a very dim dark town, we sure had a lot of good looking people. Except me. Samuel said otherwise, but I never believed him. I and Angie were the only ones at school that day. No one wanted to come after the crime had been committed and was scared that they would be attacked as well. Even Samuel didn't show up. I was scared. He wouldn't have done that. Would he? No. I refused to believe it. We got to our first class and the teachers just sent us home. No reason to only teach two students today. And there were police everywhere looking around the schools for clues. I hated police officers. I know they were the good guys, but I couldn't stand them. Mom had dated a police officer once and he was the biggest jerk known to the history of the earth. Just because he was a police man he thought that he could do whatever the hell he wanted. I didn't want to go home, and I didn't know where Samuel lived, so I went to Angie's house. We ate junk food and watched tv. That's it. Her mom was never home anyway and her dad had died when she was 3, so she was home alone a lot of the time. I likes Angie's house. A lot smaller than mine but it really felt like a home instead of a hotel. It had been raining all day and we had fallen asleep once or twice. And we almost fell back into sleep a third time, but a loud urgent knock came form her door. Angie didn't move a muscle. She was asleep. I swear if you set her right next to the train tracks she still wouldn't wake up. So I got up and answered the door. Samuel grabbed my hand and pulled me out into the rain and closed the door. I was getting wet. I didn't like getting wet unless it was a shower.

"What the hell is this for? Me and Angie were sleeping! And why weren't you at school today?"

"Forget that right now we have bigger problems. Did you get a blue chaos emerald? In the mail or did someone give it to you?"

I stared at him. How in the hell did he know I had a chaos emerald? No one at my school knew who Sonic the Hedgehog was except me. It was all anime for them. Don't get me wrong I loved anime too but Sonic was ALWAYS at the top of my list. "How did you know I had a chaos emerald Samuel?"

"It doesn't matter. Answer my question"

"Yes I did"

"From who?"

"I don't know. Now explain to me what's going on!"

"No need to shout."

"Fine. Explain."

"No."

"Why?"

"Because it would hurt you"

"No it wouldn't"

"Ally. I know you. It would hurt you. Now tell me where the damn Emerald is."

"It's in my room. What do you need it for?"

He didn't answer me. Just kissed my cheek, and left. I didn't understand it. Why would Samuel act so urgent? He seemed so scared, with a look in his eyes I've never seen. It worried me. I went back inside and saw Angie was curled up on her couch. I put a blanket over her and a pillow under her head. Sometimes my friends would call me mom because I took care of everyone. Even Zeke and Lake called me mom sometimes. I turned off the lights and kissed her once on the forehead. Take that anyway you want I don't care. I do that to all my friends. I picked up my bag and left for home. I turned on my IPod and walked. I kept thinking to myself the whole way there. Why was he in such a hurry? How did he know what a chaos emerald was, or how I even had one? I do know one thing. I would never catch him due to the fact he can skateboard so fast. And why wouldn't he tell me what was going on? I was worried now. I never got worried.

It took me around 20 minutes to get home. When I walked in Dad was sleeping in his room from a long day at work. SO I just went upstairs. I dropped my bag in shock. My room was turned upside down. My bed was against my wall; my dresser was turned over with everything spilling out, but nothing broken. Just messed up. But indeed, the chaos emerald was gone. I put my bed back and put my dresser back up. I pushed all the insides into a pile in front of it. I was way too lazy to put it all away. I'll admit that putting the dresser and my bed back again was hard, but I didn't like it when my room was messed up too badly. I looked to my window, and it was broken. Samuel didn't do this. Someone else did, and I didn't know who Samuel must have gotten here before me, maybe he went after the guy that did it, but I didn't care at the moment. I was tired. I was just falling asleep at Angie's and I was still tired. I took my hoodie off along with my hat, threw a pillow on my bed and lay down on my bed and threw a comforter over me. I instantly fell asleep.

After a few days, Neither Samuel or his crew came to school. It made me worry more. More and more kids came to school, but Lake was at home with the flu. So it was just me Zeke and Angie. Or, at least, that's what we thought. In homeroom, three new kids came in. One was a tall boy, not much muscle but a pretty good build. He had bright green hair like Samuel, but his was a bit longer and he had bangs falling into his face. He had a bright green shirt on and an orange jacket, along with some very dark green pants and red and white sneakers. The other was a shorter girl. Strawberry blonde hair, light green shirt, blue jeans and sneakers. She looked familiar but I couldn't place her. The boy with the green hair seemed cocky. Like a punk. I had to get to know him. I thought about Samuel and his family as I sat back in my desk. Angie and Zeke were talking amongst themselves, probably about the new kids, and I didn't wanna hear. As soon as the bell rang, I was outta there. I walked straight to my locker, and was cut off by the new kid.

"The name's Matt. I heard you're Ally."

I raised an eyebrow. Something about him didn't sit right with me. "Yes that's me. What's it to you?"

He took my arm before I could open my locker and dragged me down the hall down to the girl. She looked at me and her eyes widened. "Ally Saul?" She said. I was confused. How the hell did the new kids know me?

"It's me. Hello? Megan?"

I had absolutely nothing to say. Not because I didn't wanna talk to her, I just didn't know what to say. So I hugged her instead. I instantly let go though. I showed her around the school, with Matt at our tail. Megan had just met him as well, but he acted like he was our best friend. Megan didn't mind. She kinda liked him. And when Angie met him, forget about it. She was asking him question after question after question. It didn't faze him in the least. He just answered truthfully. Angie could tell. After school we all walked out together, where I saw Samuel and his family in a black convertible out in front. "Where the hell have you guys been?!" I yelled to them. They completely ignored me. I did NOT like that. Matt didn't seem to like it either.

"Where is it?" Samuel said sternly.

"Up your ass with a piece of glass" Matt remarked.

"Don't mess with me hand it over."

"No way. I need it to go save my sister."

"You don't deserve it."

"Whatever."

Matt walked away and Kevin ran after him. I didn't like where this was going. If they got into a fight Kevin would kick his sorry ass. He was stronger and taller than Matt was by a good foot at least.

"Where do you think you're going?"

"To see your mom"

That set Kevin off and he hit Matt dead on in the head. Matt's head moved, no, more like jerked fast and hard to the side, but his body didn't move. I was surprised his neck wasn't broken. Instead, he turned to Kevin and gave him a punch right back, and to my shock, it sent Kevin flying. Matt ran off while Samuel and his family tended to Kevin. I ran over and pulled Samuel aside. "What's going on?! I want to know right now! I went home and my room was a mess and now this!"

"Ally I can't explain-"

"Yes you can! Just tell me!"

"I can't!"

His family called him into the car and he left without another word. But the look in his eye when he left, I could have sworn I saw some hate…hatred towards Matt…

"Ally!" Megan Ran up behind me and put her hand on my shoulder."Let's get to your house. I have to tell you something." And we left. I didn't know what was going on with Samuel and everyone. But for the first time in a long time, for just a small bit, I was scared…