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CHAPTER TEN

THE POSSESSION

Jason's POV

After the date, I dropped off Olivia at her place. We arrived at exactly twelve twenty-eight.

We stopped in front of her house, and Olivia got out of the car.

"You want me to walk you to the door?" I asked.

"Yeah," said Olivia, smiling. "Sure. That'd be nice."

"Cool." I got out of the car and walked up to her, and slid an arm around her waist. She gave it a brief glance, and we walked to the door. When we reached the door, though, instead of opening it and going inside, she stood there expectantly for about a minute. Then I realized how stupid I was being. Of course. A goodnight kiss. That's what she was waiting for. I leaned in and gave her a pretty long kiss. This time I made it a French. Olivia appeared happy at this, since she gladly seemed to be using her tongue, too.

After the kiss was over, I said, "All right, then. Bye." "Bye," said Olivia. "You free tomorrow?" "Yeah, sure," I said. "Wanna meet up somewhere?" "Correction," said Olivia. "Do you wanna take me somewhere? Remember, you're my only ride?" "Yeah," I laughed. "Okay. So…how does the mall sound? Twelve-thirty." "Bueno," said Olivia. "Pick me up at twelve-thirty." "'Kay," I said. "See you tomorrow."

Next day

I zoomed into the de Silvas' driveway. Olivia was waiting at the doorstep. I stopped the car and called to her, "Come on in!"

She hopped into her seat over the door. She was looking really pretty, wearing slim-fitting jeans and a white collar-shirt. She had left her hair loose, and it seemed to be damp.

She gave me a kiss on the cheek and said, "Morning," I could smell the sweet, fruity scent of her shampoo when she did this. "¡Me alegro de volver a verte!"

"Hi," I replied, accelerating the car. "Great to see you, too!" I had become quite an expert at Spanish being around Olivia, even though I had selected French instead of Spanish at school.

"I wanted to tell you two things today," she said. "About last night."

"Yeah?"

"One, I didn't mean to embarrass you with that, er, compliment," She blushed a bit. I nodded, unable to contain a smile.

"What!" she said. "Why are you laughing?"

"Nothing," I said, trying to control my smile. "Just…go on."

"Yeah," she said. "Okay. And the second thing was…yesterday was the best night of my life. Honest." Saying this, she placed a hand on my arm and gave it a little squeeze. I looked at her and smiled.

"Me too," I said. "Honest." She smiled at me broadly.

Olivia's POV

We soon reached the mall. We just walked around for a while (hand-in-hand!!!!!!). We spotted an instant-photograph booth, so we decided to get some pictures. We got a strip of four for 50 cents. Here's our poses in them:

One: Me grinning like a crazy china-doll; Jason crossing his eyes and sticking his tongue out

Two: Both of us smiling sanely

Three: Us kissing (my favorite – duh)

Four: Both of us grinning

After that, Jason pointed to this little jewelry shop called "Liriah's Junky J'wels".

"A junk jewelry shop?" I asked, confused.

"Just come along!" Jason replied, pulling me towards the shop.

We stepped into the shop. There was a jovial-looking girl at the counter. She looked about fifteen, and had black-framed glasses and curly red hair. At the counter, there were several pieces of bling jewelry and a lot of rings of different variety, and a whole bunch of charm bracelets on display. The shop seemed pretty cute.

"Hi!" she chirped as soon as we came in. "What would you like to look at?"

"Uh," Jason squinted at her nametag. "Katie. I'd like to see some necklaces and rings, please."

"For your friend?" she asked, smiling and turning to look at some boxes on the shelves behind her.

"Yeah. For my girlfriend." Jason said. A tingle of pleasure raced down my spine. My girlfriend. That sounded so good coming from Jason's lips. "A gift?" I asked, delighted. "For me?" "Yeah!" said Jason, smiling.

"Oh, I see," replied Katie. "If she's your girlfriend…um…would you like to get a custom-made piece of jewelry? It'll be ready in an hour. 11 dollars only!"

"Custom-made?" asked Jason. "What do you mean?"

"It's like this. You can give us a picture or a message, and we can make any piece of jewelry for you with it inscribed in it."

"Wow!" I said. "That sounds really cool! Let's get that, Jason!"

"'Kay," said Jason. "We'll do that then. What kind of jewelry would you like?"

"Um…" I said, thinking. "I think a bracelet sounds nice."

"Right," said Katie. "I'll show you the bracelets that can be printed, and you can have your pick."

"Okay."

Katie rummaged around under the counter, and finally produced a pamphlet. She handed it to me. "You can pick any one of these. I'll have to take the measurement of your wrist after you do." "All right!" I looked at all the designs in the pamphlet, and finally decided on a plain, silver design with a silver disk attached to it.

"How does this one look?" I asked Jason, pointing to the one I meant. "Nice," said Jason. "Just right." "Okay," I said. "So since this is your gift to me, you decide what message I should get on it. Katie, the picture will be on the disk, right?" "Yup," replied Katie.

Jason's POV

"'Kay," I said, smiling. "You want me to pick the inscription… I think we should put one of these pictures on it." I dug into my pocket and produced the four pictures we had taken in the instant-photograph booth. "And in my opinion," I pointed to the third picture – the one in which we were kissing. "it should be this one." Olivia blushed as I handed over the photo to Katie.

Katie took the picture from my hand and looked at it. "Ooh!" she said. "Romantic!" I smiled. "Yeah." "All right, then," said Katie to Olivia. "Give me your hand, ma'am, I'll measure your wrist." Olivia held out her wrist, and Katie took a measuring tape out of one of the drawers in the counter and wrapped it loosely around Olivia's wrist. "Would you like a complimentary choker with it?" asked Katie. "Why?" asked Olivia, looking surprised. "Oh," said Katie, her eyes twinkling. "Just like that. Think of it as a gift!" "Um," said Olivia. "Okay."

Olivia's POV

Why do Katie's eyes remind of Andrea's? That's really peculiar…

Jason's POV

After Katie measured Olivia's wrist, she wrapped the tape around her neck to measure it for her choker.

Unaware, Olivia innocently let Katie wrap it around her neck.

Suddenly, Olivia started going blue and flailing her arms and trying to get the tape off her neck. I rushed to her and pushed Katie away. "What are you doing?!" I screamed. As I caught a barely-conscious falling Olivia in my arms, Katie, too, fell on the floor.

A moment later, a spirit rose out of her with smoke swirling around it.

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