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Sorry I haven't been able to post for a long time, I had serious writers block - it gave me nightmares. It's taken me a while to get back into story mode. Plus English and Art coursework AHHHH!!! I may not be posting as regular as I would like because it's that time of the year when I have to revise for mocks I'M SO SCARED!

…ANYWHO! THANKYOU GUYS SO MUCH! You guys really helped me through it and you inspired me and gave me great advice.

I want to give a giant thank you to: HealingSpringWaters, candygirlkeekee, DCI Keller, Raptured Heart and airaseem p.s - who all produced cracking ideas. So I'm dedicating this chapter to all of you. *GIANT ROUND OF APLLAUSE!*


Disclaimer:

Quinn: Sienna, you know I'm a vampire right?

Me: *cracks up laughing* HA! If you're a vampire then I don't own the Night World.

Quinn: *Shows fangs and all things vampire*

Me: *Horrified and on the verge of tears*

Quinn: *looks nervous at cry girl* It's okay…I don't want to kill you or anything…

Me: No it's not that…I just... I CAN'T BELIEVE I DON'T OWN THE NIGHT WORLD!


Chapter 10: Divided

"It's going to be okay Shell, I mean…" Keller looked at the ceiling speechless not finding the words to make me feel better.

"It's gonna be fine. Its better it ended like this…." I trailed off as I fought my throat crack.

"Why does it have to end like this? I don't understand." She said stubbornly.

"How would you like it if Galen told you that he was going to marry Megan and not you?" I looked at her face with a raised eyebrow. She looked like she was going to cry.

"Okay…I can understand how you feel." She said quietly.

"No. You don't."I said irritated.

"So tell me Shell. I want to help you."

"You can't no-one can. I can fix this myself."

"Can you?"

"Err yeah. Can we stop talking about this now?" I asked rubbing my head.

"Wow Shell...you look rough." Morgead said to me with a scrutinizing gaze. I was sitting up in my bed with tissue boxes in my hands and Keller was rubbing my back trying to make me feel better.

"Gee…thanks." I said lying back, on the bed sniffing about to cry.

"Look what you did!" Keller snapped at him as she moved the hair from my face.

"What's wrong with her?" Morgead asked Keller who was sitting next to me. "Why are her eyes doing that?"

"She's not an alien Morgead, she's crying!" Morgead's confused expression turned angry.

"Who made her cry?" He said angry.

"Quinn…" I said, my voice muffled in the pillow.

"Quinn. John Quinn…?" He said making sure.

"Yeah." I confirmed.

"What did he do to you?" He said his breathing getting heavier.

"He's gonna get married to someone else…"Then I couldn't hold back the tears, as the memories of what had previously happened re-entered my mind.

"He WHAT!" Morgead roared, and I then heard something smash. When I looked up to see what happened I saw a broken lamp I looked at my brother and he had his hand in a fist and seemed to be trying to control his temper. "MORGEAD!" Keller snapped angrily.

He was breathing erratically and he was starting into a point of the ground, to control it. When he looked at my face, he looked pained, and fuel the anger inside him. He turned to leave the room.

"What are you doing?" I asked groggily.

"I'm going kill him!" He shouted annoyed by the door.

"No don't." I said a little panicky.

"Why not? No one does this to my sister and stays alive!" He said protectively.

"Please…don't. I'll deal with it." I promised. I made my eyes do all the urging, my body was so tired.

Morgead stirred a little. Then he walked up to me and grabbed me into a hug. "If I see you cry again, he's dead." He warned before kissing my forehead.

"Noted." I said softly.

"Is that the time?"Keller said springing from the bed and towards the bathroom.

"What?" Morgead and I said at the same time. Then we looked up at the clock and shouted.

--

I was not looking forward to sitting next to Quinn; I think Keller could tell by my facial expression what I wanted.

"We'll swap seats okay?" Keller said to her comfortably.

"Thanks." I said softly. My heart was still pumping; I had a giant headache from crying so much yesterday. Never again did I want to feel this feeling.

As we walked in I saw Quinn looking intently at a book. His hair was messy today covering his face. Then he looked up and caught my eye. He looked how I felt.

I felt…something, I didn't know what it was but I wanted to forget what happened yesterday. But then I saw a blonde headed girl sitting next to him. Megan, her false nails and irritating voice – I'd never wanted to beat someone up so badly in my life, but she just gets on my nerves. It's like die already. I looked down ant the ground feeling awkward and sped up past Quinn and took a deep breathe as I past him. His eyes looked pained as he turned around to see where I would sit. Keller sat down next to him, with an angry face.

"Are you okay Shell?" James whispered in my ear.

"Yeah." My voice didn't sound that convincing, but I was successful at not letting it crack, or sound groggy.

During registration I couldn't help seeing Quinn look backward at me. He was making me feel worse. My heart fluttered every time my eye caught his. He frequently looked at me and my heart was pumping so hard I had to keep my eyes on the table and started scribbling nonsense, though I could still feel his eyes burning into my body.

I heard the class become silent from all the talking instantly. The door opened and then shut again. I snapped my head up and saw a tanned body with brown spiky hair and piercing blue eyes. I didn't think much of it so I went back to doodling.

The teacher told the boy to introduce him self. When the boy spoke, my heart did a flip, and my eyes almost popped out of my head.

"Hi. I'm Hayden Jones. I'm from Australia obviously, and erm…yeah." He said. He scanned the class; he stopped when he saw me. I couldn't help but smile at him. Hayden was placed at the front of the class near to Quinn, they did some boyish high five and they looked happy.

The bell went and I grabbed my things and rushed out of the class room, to go to maths. I felt a hand grab my shoulder. I froze and slowly looked at whose masculine hand was touching me.

"Hi Rashel" The Australian voice said. I was so relieved that it wasn't Quinn.

When I looked at his eyes I had to blink as they were so shiny and...Perfect. "Hey Hayden." I said my voice a bit shaky.

"What's you're next class?" He quizzed.

"Maths…" I said slowly as I looked dazzled at his eyes which seemed to sparkle.

"So…Is you're teacher Mrs Dawes?"

"Yeah."

"Oh awesome!" He exclaimed happily.

"O….k." I said confused with his enthusiasm.

He grabbed my hand and dragged me in the opposite direction to the maths room. He was so fast I was literally running to keep up with him. "Where are we going?" my voice sounded jumpy.

"To maths." He said coolly as if the speed didn't affect him.

"So…we are going this way because?" I said panting slightly. He froze, but I was still moving forward and ran past him, his hand pulled me back at full force to stand in front of him. I lost my balance but he grabbed me and put me back upright.

"This isn't the way to Maths?" He said confused.

"Nope." I said my voice a little breathless.

"Huh." He scratched his head. "So we get there how?" He reached into his bag and brought out a map.

I grabbed the map and shoved it in my pocket as he protested. "What are you doing?" He shouted.

"Hey!" I said laughing. "I know where maths is idiot." I giggled.

"Oh…yeah. I forgot you go to this school."

"Yeah right." I said shaking my head walking in the right direction. "Were late now."

"My bad. Hey maybe they'll sit us next to each other." He said smiling.

"I hope they do. Don't want to getting lost finding you're seat now do we?"

"Ouch. That hurt." He laughed.

When we arrived we by chance seated next to each other.

Note to self never sit next to Hayden again.

"You'll get me into trouble." I snapped half laughing.

"Oh who cares? I'll do the work. Girl chill."I nudged me.

When we were given the page and exercise number of the work, Hayden was like a rocket on the questions. I was on question 2 while he was on question 11.

"Can you slow down?" I laughed.

"Can you hurry up? Are you always this slow?" He said grabbing my maths book in shame. "Why are you my friend?" He handed it me back my maths book with a smile on his face.

"Oh, so you're my friend now huh?"

"Yes, because I said so." Then he went straight back to going at his fast paced nonsense.

Poppy got up from her seat and went to speak to the teacher. On her way back she did a double take at Hayden, he noticed, and gave her a killer smile, she shrieked as she blushed girlishly, dropping her books to the ground. The class burst out laughing looking from Hayden to Poppy. Hayden didn't understand the joke – if there was one – and turned to me.

"Who is she?" He asked.

"That's Poppy, one of my friends." I said continuing work.

"Hmm. If she has a boyfriend then why is she looking at me like that?"

"Because…" I froze and looked at Hayden strangely. "Wait. How did you know she had a boyfriend?" I asked mouth open.

"Erm, I'm not sure, I just got the vibe you know."

My heart started racing and scratched my head. I didn't want to ask the question and I sure as hell didn't want to hear the answer. "So um….can you tell with me?"

He froze and then restarted working.

"Hayden." I said

"Wow… I really don't understand question 21…do you?" He said confused changing the subject.

"Hayden?" I raised my eyebrows.

"46 or 47?" He continued. I snatched the pen from his hand. He didn't look at me. I could see his chest heaving as he stared at his book.

"I won't be angry…promise." I said softly.

He still didn't look at me. "Sorry." He said slowly.

"What are you sensing?" I said mystically.

"You broke up with him. He still loves you and you still love him, but you feel that what you did was for the best in the circumstances."

Silence.

"Can I have my pen back?" He asked hands out. I placed it in them and he went back to doing his work.

It took me a while to get over what he'd said. Hearing what happened from someone else, made it feel so real. I broke up with him. I could feel and urge to cry, the tears built up in my eyes, I felt my throat feeling think and heavy.

"If you cry, I'll leave." I heard him mutter. "I don't know how to handle emotional people." He said. I couldn't help but to let out a little laugh, and dry my eyes.

***

At lunch I introduced the group to Hayden. I made them not sit next to their partners, as I filled them all in Hayden's amazing ability.

Poppy started to plat my hair because she was bored as Maggie was telling me about her new job working in an office.

"So what do you do?" I asked. "File stuff?"

"No. I post things to people."

"Huh? You put the stamp on, and put it through the letter box?" James said confused. "Is that it?"

"No! They give me an address, and I deliver the package." She said smiling. "I deliver things dumbass."

"Nice gig." I said.

"Yeah. This woman looked at me, and said, you look like a deliverer. I didn't know whether to think it was a complement or not…"

"We should nickname you the 'deliverer' right?" Delos said to her wrapping his arms around her neck pulling her towards his body.

"Yeah!" Poppy said excited as she finished the French braid.

"The name will never stick." James said cynically.

"Why not?"

"Cause it's not that catchy is it? It's not like; Pop, or Mag, or Del or Shell? It'll be weird calling out on the street; 'hey DELIVERER wait up!' it doesn't make sense."He shook his head, as he put the plates on his tray.

"Why do you murder our joy?" Delos said punching James on the arm.

"Oh so first I'm not a share person, then I'm a 'dumbass' and now I'm a murderer? Can't please some people…"James said irritated.

"I still love you Jamie!" Poppy said encouragingly.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah." James said back bored as he carried his tray to the cleaning area.

"Touchy…" She said shoving a biscuit in her mouth.

"Okay Hayden. Let's play a game." I said changing the subject

"I love games!" He said excitedly.

"The game is: Guess who loves who?" I said slowly.

"I thought it was meant to be fun?" He looked annoyed.

"It is!" Poppy said excitedly.

"Ugh. Okay Keller's all gaga for Galen. Err….Poppy is with James, Delos and Maggie, and… yeah."

The table was quiet for a long 2 seconds after he'd finished.

"How the hell do you do that?" James said mouth open as he sat down.

"Dunno. It's a gift." Hayden said shrugging before tucking in to his meal.

I felt happier hanging around Hayden. He had this atmosphere around him, where I forgot about everything bad between me and Quinn.

"OH MY GOD!" Maggie let out as her mind thought of a conversation.

"What?" Delos said jumping.

"Did you see the vampire diaries yesterday?" She asked excitedly.

"No." We all said together.

"Oh…" Maggie said hurt. Delos kissed her cheek so she smiled.

"You watch too much TV, Deliverer…" Delos said.

Then we were silent thinking of Maggie's new name.

"I told you the name makes no sense!" James said as we all burst out laughing.

"Rashel." I heard a masculine voice say. I turned smiling around and saw Quinn, my smile disappeared. His hair was neater than before, but his eyes were still red.

"Yeah?" I said shakily.

"Can I speak to you for a moment?"

"Erm..." I looked over at the group and they were looking elsewhere. Damn you. I thought. "Okay."

I stood up, Hayden winked at me, and Poppy held up two thumbs. Quinn continued to walk out of the lunch hall and to the corridor. Then he stopped.

My heart fluttered a little, my lungs couldn't find the oxygen. There was a gap between myself and Quinn. He made an effort to close it; I stepped back from him, my body shaky.

"Can I talk to you for a second?" He said hurt by my action.

"Sure…" I said uncertain.

"Rashel, I can't live like this!" He shouted at me. I stayed silent silently in shock, at his outburst. He quietened his voice. "How can you be so upbeat about anything? Aren't you upset?"

"Of course I'm upset! I've never cried so much in my life. I love you, Quinn you idiot. But you betrayed me. You picked someone to marry – Megan of all people – and not me. So don't turn you're anger and idiocy at me!" I snapped back at him.

"So you…still love me." Quinn's face broke into a grin.

"Looks like it." I said irritated. He moved in closer to me with a smile on his face. I stepped back my hands protectively in front of me. "What are you doing?"

"Rashel I love you too, I always have and always will."

"Okay quick question." I said. "Are you still marrying Megan?" Quinn looked to the ground and coughed. "That's what I thought."

"Why does that need to be a barrier? I can't live without you!" He said with urgency in his eyes.

"Why does …Oh my god." I shook my head. "Listen Quinn. I don't do adultery, okay. It's not fair on anyone."

"Rashel…" He said, I could see the tears form in his eyes.

"Quinn…you need to stay away from me." I said before rushing back to the lunch room. "You've made your bed..lie in it."

I'd run out of tears. I can't deal any of this nonsense. I just need normality. With Keller, Hayden and the others, that's what I get. I'm not going to let the get to me.

"What happened?" Hayden asked me before I sat down.

"We had a talk." I said concisely.

"About?"James questioned.

"i just told him to stay away from me."

"Hmmm." Keller said scratching his head.

"What?" I said.

"Megan." She jutted her head to motion the direction Megan was going to come from. We all held our breath.

"Rashel." Her irritating voice said.

"Megan." I said matching her tone.

"Stay away from Quinn. You make him upset."

"Ok." I said not listening.

"He doesn't love you anymore you know." She said smiling.

"Oh really?"

"Yes really." She said getting down to my level. "I love him. Don't ruin it."

"I won't." I said. "As you said…he doesn't love me…what's the problem Meg? Are you threatened by me?"

"Why would I be threatened?" she snapped her face look worries and a bit irritated.

"It's obvious when you think about it." I said turning back to eat my food.

The girl didn't know where to put herself. She fumbled about. She picked up her empty tray, and walked behind me. Then I felt something like hard metal collide with the back of my head a full force. My head rang; I heard shouting and Hayden's' booming voice shocked. I felt anger building in my body. James was giving Megan the finger, Delos and Hayden were holding Keller back from attacking Megan. My head was spinning, I was a bit dizzy. I shook it off. I stood up and towered over Megan.

"That hurt Megan." I said softly.

"I'm sorry." She said not caring.

"Uh-huh. I'll make you sorry." I slapped her across the face, kicked her shin so she dropped to the ground and dragged her along the ground by her hair.

I could hear and feel her protest and struggle. I stopped when I got to the door; I dropped her head to open the door. I heard a thud that must have hurt. I saw Quinn still in the same place I'd left him. When I turned back to Megan he hand flew out at me, I moved out of the way but her nails grazed my cheek. She pushed me backwards so hard I dropped to the ground but I pulled her down with me. I rolled her over so that I was on top of her to get a good angel to punch the living daylight out of her.

I began punching as hard as I could – over and over again punch after punch. Blood spurted from her nose. Megan let out her anger and smacked me hard across the face; she head butted me and pushed me off of her as she staggered to get up. I was lying in a position where she was able to kick me in my stomach. I screamed in pain, and angrier than I had ever been in my life I jumped up angrily and rammed my hand into her chest, there was a moment when we were struggling, pulling hair and kicking each other. Then the punches stopped as my hands were stopped abruptly mid punch by firm hands. I was pulled back by my waist, the hands held me tightly, as I kicked and punched for the person to let go. I saw Megan pulled back by someone, experiencing the same thing the person holding me was.

"RASHEL CALM DOWN!" The voice was Australian. My heart rate instantly calmed down. I stopped struggling. "Breathe." Hayden's voice said soothingly. I saw over the other side Quinn was holding Megan. She was crying and holding her head. Quinn was rubbing her shoulder, crying to calm the bitch down.

Hayden set me down on the ground. He spun me around so that I faced him. He kept his hand on my waist, obviously thinking that I would attack Megan again. "Are you okay?" He said looking over at my face.

"Yeah." I said still sounding angry. My eyes started to water and he wrapped me into a hug as I cried into his chest.

"It's alright." He said softly.

"No it's not." I said sniffing. I turned to look at Megan. Blood and scratches covered her face. I felt something drip down my face, I touched the liquid, and looked at it. It was blood. My blood. Great. Hayden's hand covered it with speed then he pushed me forward past Quinn and Megan and up the stairs.

"Where are we going?" I asked him his hand blocking my view.

"To see the nurse." He said confidently.

"The nurse's room is downstairs." I said slowly.

"Damn." I heard him breathe.

I could help but crack up laughing. He grabbed my legs and threw my body over his shoulder and he walked down stairs to the nurse.

When the nurse put a plaster on my head, Hayden started laughing.

"It's not funny." I said smiling.

"Hmm, well I must remember not to get on you're nerves any time soon." He said arms around my neck.

"I'd never hurt you. I don't hurt my friends."

"Oh so we're friends now?" He said pressing his warm face to my cheek.

"Yeah. The best." I laughed.

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