A soft beep woke me up. What time was it? My eyes opened slowly to the warm sun over them. The bright and sudden light blinded me for a second. I lifted myself to stare at the watch. My head spanned. 11:46. God! I had to be home by now! Mom will be so worried—no, I'm not worrying about anyone. No One at all. Then in a second everything came back to me. God no. Please no! I spun over myself to see him there smiling. All of his features perfect as always. He repulsed me. I glared. How dared him.

Lifting dust, I stood back on my feet, checking on the little bottle on my hip. It was okay. Good. I kept walking.

"Wait!" he called from my back. I raised my step. His feet pushing on the ground alerted me. I ran, and I knew he was running behind me. Then, by my side. I tried running faster. Even with my lungs about to explode, I kept running like a herded animal running for its life. My head was thoughtless for about twenty seconds until his arms reached for me. As a defensive movement, I lifted my leg to his stomach in a sudden stop so that he collapsed against it to the ground. With pure fury, I crouched over him, my fist high pointing at my once love's nose.

"Dare." He called. Fatal mistake.

Some time, back then, I would have slapped him slightly and then we'd laugh it off. Some time, in that time, I wouldn't have dared to hurt him. It was strange the way love worked, that it wouldn't let me punch his freckled little nose until it broke. I wasn't afraid of blood, but somehow, love made it so that looking at his face covered by it became unthinkable. Love was strong enough to make me sacrifice my reputation, my friends, my teachers approval, and two long years of my life just to avenge his stupid headache. But after the blow, all that love became hate and anger. Some time, I would have let it go. But not this time.

I thought about it for a second before letting my hand fall over him. His nose didn't seem that attractive really. I redirected my fist, punching directly into his collar bone.

He gasped and shook me of. I rolled on the ground back to my crouching position.

"What the hell was that for?" His hand went directly to the spot I hit.

"Ha!" I spat to his shoe. He backed away. My instincts told me to run. But, when had they ever helped me? I stood my ground still. Forcing my mouth close. My tongue tasted only movement was the soft blow of the wind on each others hair. His cuteness bothered did he had to look at me as if nothing ever happened. His dark green eyes set on me as if we where friends still. The soft, but marked musculature in his arms tensed. So did I.

I stood straight up slowly, not leaving my offensive stance. With a ironic smile, I waited for him to pounce over. He didn't. All his features bended, knowing there was something wrong. He was sad I was angry him. He was sad I was angry? I chuckled. He was so immature. Had this years tough him nothing? His face felt like a puppy dog's. I hated puppy dogs.

"Why are you mad?" he pleaded.

"Do you even care?" I stamped my foot. "Why would you even care? We're not even..."

"Friends?" It was an offer.

"Don't you dare call me that!" I screamed, tears forming again. I kicked directly to his face, and missed, before running again.

"Selene!" He called from the distance. I needed to get to Sooga. Soon.

My eyes stung like bees with every step. The wind became ice in my face, playing through my hair, pulling it in the opposite direction. But I couldn't stop. Not even when I had to open my mouth for air, causing intense pain to my rib. Not even after a wrong step that twisted my ankle completely. I had to run. I just had to! All the pain put together wasn't worse that looking at him directly in the eyes and pretend that nothing ever happened in between us. To let him pretend that we where still friends, that we would laugh it all away like the old days. So I kept running until the red buildings began to shape on the horizon. I inhaled more and more air, all I had to do now was to reach them.

My mussels ached as in fire at the sudden stop I made. I glanced back to the forest. He was gone. I smiled. The the exhaustion reached me. My knees gave up, dropping me to the ground. With a sight I smiled. Who ever said you couldn't run away from your fears?

I herd steps rush towards me.

"Selene!" It called. I couldn't recognize the voice. I turned my head, but my sight blurred. "Selene!" I still didn't know who called again.

Arms rapped around me trying to lift me. I resisted. I was too tired to do anything. The arms insisted. Then they tried shaking me. The voice said something else but I didn't understand. I knew he or she was desperate but I couldn't help. Warm hands took my by the cheeks. A face standing before me. It took me long to recognize Yi-ze's face. All of her features turned and twisted with a combination of doubt and fear. Her hair for the very first time was a complete mess. She began to say something that i couldn't still understand. She slapped me.

Everything began to get clearer. She was crying. "Please!" she begged "You have to get up!"

All I could tell was that she was begging and terribly afraid of something.

"I can't" I mumbled over my heavy breath. She begged again. Yi-ze tried desperately to lift me, as I kept trying to tell her to stop. That I couldn't. But she kept trying, which meant something was seriously wrong out there.

More voices echoed in the background. Then I began to shake. No. She did. The noise got closer and closer. I turned slightly. It seemed the entire village was out there. My friend screamed and her words became too quick to understand. They where looking for something. Fear rushed my veins. I Knew what they were looking for. And they found it.

"It's the witch! Get her! Get her!"

A shorty, ^-^ well, we're really close to the end now! wait for next chappie! Review!

-love, me