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Chapter 10: Her terms

She crossed off another day on her calendar. Two more days left. She tied her blonde hair up in a stylish ponytail and tugged at her navy blue t-shirt. She was sure it was some kind of punishment sending her to school when they were about to fight her brother in no less then two days. The scientists tracking her brother's return had reported that at the end of the week he would be back and it was at that precise moment they were to catch him off guard allowing them to trap and disable him at any cost.

They made it sound like they were supposed to be capturing some wild animal. Her brother wasn't an animal. They made him that way and none of this was his fault. They were the ones to twist him right down to the soul. But no matter how much they tampered with him Carter would always be Carter to her.

That's why she was going to be there first, she was the one who was going to fix her brother with the cure they would give them and then she was going to take her brother and they were going to drop off the radar for good. That was the plan that had run through her mind a million times since she heard the news.

The bell rang and students rushed past her to get to their classes on time. Sam strolled listlessly through the halls picking at her fingernail paint. In a few minutes the halls were bare. Peace and quiet, it's what she needed right now.

She walked through the halls her fingers brushing the locker doors. She sighed a deep and frustrated sigh throwing her hand back and zapping the invisible force following her.

"Ouch, Son of a-"

"You know what happens when you follow someone when your invisible right?"

"Yeah, I should have known. I have experience." Dylan grumbled becoming visible.

"Why are you following me Dylan?" She asked turning around to face him.

"Why aren't you in class?"

"Why aren't you?"

"Touché!"

"Why are you still following me? She asked holding her hand up.

"Hey Hey Hey! I'm visible remember?" He said holding up his hands.

"Your point?" She asked zapping him anyway.

"Ouch! Dam!" She smiled.

"Listen, hey wait up?" He said grabbing her hand. She turned around looking him straight in the eye.

"I just wanted to make sure you were okay you know."

"Dylan, that's real sweet of you but you need to stop asking me that. I'll deal in my own way." She said her expression softening.

"Dylan!" Both Dylan and Sam looked up with wide eyes at Summer. Her arms were crossed and she had a pained expression on her face. Sam yanked her hand away from Dylan's.

"Dylan what's going on here?" She asked her voice breaking.

"Nothing is going on here Summer, shouldn't you be in class?" Sam said crossing her arms.

"I took out a hall pass, and it doesn't feel like this is nothing." She said turning to Dylan. Sam gave Dylan a stern look.

"You have feelings for her?" Summer all but shrieked.

"Maybe, I don't know, but I still love you, babe you can feel that right?" Dylan said pleading with her.

"Right? Summer please." Dylan said grabbing her hand and resting it on his heart. She refused to let the tears forming in her eyes drop. She looked at Sam who was staring at them. She felt the slightest bit of jealousy coming towards her before it disappeared as fast as it appeared.

"Nothing is going on here Summer, he was just making sure I was okay with this whole thing with my brother. Which by the way is none of your business, either of you." She said sourly. Summer didn't know how to take this was this Sam being nice? She honestly couldn't tell with her sour after comment. Sam turned to go.

"Sam wait."

"Dylan you can't have us both, and I'm going to make this real easy for you." She said walking away from both Dylan and Summer. She refused to be in the middle of this.

"Out of class eh? What a badass, that's hot." She turned to see Denny leaning against a locker his curly blond hair slightly messed. Denny would take her mind off all this. She smiled.

"They there gorgeous, looks like someone's not so good themselves. Aren't you supposed to be in class Den?"

"And leave you all by yourself?" He smiled making his way over to her. She grabbed the collar of his shirt and pulled him down to meet her lips. From out of the corner of her eye she could see Dylan's face drop, he had come after her after all.

It shouldn't have bothered her as much as it had. Dylan had a girlfriend and she was single and had a good-looking guy to have fun with. She liked it better when she only had her brother to worry about. What a disaster.

She had refused to attend her next class as well, opting for sitting out on the bleachers by herself since Denny had a test in his next class he had to attend. She had only caught sight of Summer once in the hallway staring at her. She worried for a moment that Dylan had told her about their kiss.

In the end she refused to let herself care. She brushed the loose strands of hair that seem to fly into her face from the wind. She perked up from her position, the hair on her arms standing up. It wasn't windy outside.

"Dylan?" She asked. Feeling uncomfortable with not being able to sense anyone around her. She rubbed her arms making her way back into the school. The bell had just rung and she made her way to her locker. Finally the day was almost over at least she could go back to training.

"Jack is waiting for us in the front parking lot." Summer said walking past her. Sam opened her locker coming face to face with the dull yellow sticky note attached to the top shelf of her locker. She felt the oxygen rush out of her making it hard to breathe. Her hands gripped the locker keeping her from collapsing.

The note read,

"Be seeing you."

Carter was back early and he had been tailing her without her knowing.

It was no longer her terms she was playing on.