Sorry it took so long. But please read and enjoy and tell me honestly what you think.

I do not own Virals, but thanks for reading anyway.

Tory's POV

"What?" I asked.

"I know it sounds kind of crazy but I went to see him this weekend and the people acted really weird, they told me I couldn't see him because he was asleep in his room but then I checked his room and he wasn't there but I did find this." He pulled a piece of paper from his pocket and handed it to me. I unfolded it and gasped, without meaning to I nearly dropped the paper. It was a drawing in colored pencil, of me standing on a beach at night. It was really good almost professional looking, and it might have seemed flattering if I didn't have bright gold eyes.

"I think you might be in danger." Jason said "this wasn't the only one, most of them were just you, but some were all four of you. You and your friends and all of them had these eyes." I was too surprised to say anything I looked at Jason who looked worried, almost panicked and I knew, I suddenly felt like a total jerk. He was worried about me, when he should probably hate me.

"I'm sure he just didn't want you to see him in the hospital, I don't think they would try that hard to cover it up if he escaped." He looked down, he was disappointed that I didn't believe him. But I hoped that he would just drop it, and to my surprise he did.

"Yeah, you're probably right. Still, promise you'll be careful, if he did get out, he could be dangerous."

"I will, Thanks Jason." He nodded and started to walk away. "And Jason," he turned. "I'm sorry about going off on you."

"It's ok, I get it." he started to walk away again but I grabbed his arm.

"No, you don't, my life is kind of crazy, and I can't really explain, but I was stressed out and I took it out on you. It was mean and stupid and I'm sorry." He gave me a little smile.

"It's all right, I'll see you around." He said and left.

I found Hi at the front entrance of the school. "Where's Shelton?" I asked.

"Went home with Ben." He said as we started toward the docks.

"Oh, how was Ben today? I haven't really had a chance to talk to him?" I lied and yeah I felt kind of bad about it but I was curious.

"Oh yeah, you haven't had a chance." Hi mocked. "I may act like a total goof ball but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out you were avoiding him. Still, I think staying after, just so you wouldn't see him, was a little much."

"I didn't… I stayed after to talk to someone." I said.

"Right, who did you talk to? All the teachers are in a meeting." He stopped in front of me. "What happened between you two?" I rolled my eyes and walked around him.

"Ah come on fill a brother in." Hi pleaded. I ignored him.

Ben's POV

I hated the ride home from school, no ocean breeze, no semi salty spray, and worst of all no Tory. I hadn't been able to see her or talk to her all day. All I had was my mom's "classic rock" on the radio and Shelton sitting silently in the back. Somewhere in the back of my mind I knew my mom only did this out of a not completely misguided fear for my safety. However at the moment it was nothing but torture. I shouldn't be here I should be on the island with the Virals. Not in my mom's car wading thru traffic like a swamp… no not like a swamp like a frickin tar pit. The road was so slow compared to the water. I longed to be driving Sewee across the bay.

"So how was school?" Mom asked.

"Fine." I said bluntly putting no effort whatsoever in the lie. Mom must have gotten the point because the rest of the ride was filled only with the best of the 90's.

When the torturous ride finally came to an end Shelton and I made our way silently to my room. Only after the door closed did he speak.

"So nice place" he said with a tone that reflected heavily my since of misplacement, with a hint of sarcasm alluding to the complete bareness of my chambers. At home my room generaly looked like a localized tornado had hit it, I had stuff on the walls, posters (mostly of bands and stuff from movies). Here, however I had a closed closet door and a bed with light blue sheets.

"Yeah great, what did you want to talk about?" I asked trying to get to the point.

"I just wanted to make sure you were ok, you haven't seemed quite right lately and not just with your mom, before that."

"I'm fine." I said but he really didn't seem to believe me.

"Look, I've known you long enough to know I'm not going to get you to say anything you don't want to, but seriously dude, you can trust me and whenever you wanna tell me what's going on with you…"

"I'm fine Shel." I insisted.

"Ok, you wanna play some games or what?" I smiled for the first time in what seemed like forever.

SORRY! It is taking sooo long I keep getting blocked. Thank you all for the encouragement I did great on my Exam so YAY! And now I have more time. You know the deal with the next chapters I'll be quick as I can promise! Thank you so much for reading give me your suggestions.

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