Chapter eleven

Selena's POV

I watched Alex stop and stiffen, knowing something was wrong. Pushing past her, I emerged into the room to find a woman with fair skin, green eyes and short jet-black hair on top of Juliet. Both girls looked up at me when I entered and the black-haired woman sneered at me. "Hello Alex." She said haughtily. "How've you been?"

"I'm not Alex." I told her slowly.

"Of course you are." The woman said in annoyance.

"No, I'm Selena." I said. "Alex's twin sister."

"Oh sure you are." The woman growled, getting off the bed and standing before me. I was still taller than her, but she thought she looked tough. "And the girl I was in bed with isn't your mate, she's Justin's."

"No, she's Alex's." I explained. I turned to the door and motioned for Alex to come in. She walked up beside me and glared daggers at the black haired woman.

"Hello Danielle," my sister said curtly. "I see you've met my twin, Selena."

"Puh-leeze!" Danielle shouted, throwing her hands up in the air. "You just used a duplication spell to make two of yourself."

I saw Alex's eyes flash red before returning to brown. "No, she was born Gabriella Russo, twenty years ago, but my parents thought that she wouldn't develop into a wizard, so they gave her to my mom's cousins. Selena is a witch-werewolf hybrid since she was turned the same day I was."

I was looking between the two in confusion. "So, you two know each other."

Alex nodded shortly. "Danielle's blood is what changed me after Juliet nearly killed me. I drank too much and got turned. After that, Juliet owed Danielle and Danielle wanted Juliet. Then, while I was out at the blood bank one day, Danielle snuck into my house and began seducing Juliet. Our history goes back to when I was a junior in high school."

I nodded in understanding and turned to Danielle, looking her up and down. She didn't look tough, but since she was a vampire, I knew the strength that she possessed.

"So what the hell are you doing here?" I asked her.

"I'm dating Juliet." The raven-haired woman replied loftily, shooting a smug smile at Alex. I watched as Alex looked to the bed and caught Juliet's naked form lounging there. Alex nodded to her and turned back to Danielle.

"I hope you two have a better time than Juliet did with me." I looked at her in shock, but saw the underlying sorrow.

"We will." Danielle told her, examining her fingernails. I guided Alex out of the room and we set back out for the campus. After a time, I noticed Alex shaking and looked over to find the her sobbing. I sat her down on a bench and she cried into my shoulder.

"I could have taken it from anybody else, but Juliet chose her!" Alex cried some more before finally calming down to hiccups. I rubbed her back soothingly and Alex nodded to me in thanks.

"I'm going to go for a walk." She muttered.

"Want me to come with you?" I called.

"No thanks. I'll be better of alone right now. "

I nodded. "Remember what I told you, Alex. If you need me, I'm here."

She nodded with a small smile and headed away. I sighed, knowing this would take awhile. I walked into the cafeteria to get some breakfast and sat down with Kate, Gwen, Maddie and the Twins.

"Where's Juliet?" Kate asked dully.

"Fucking her new girlfriend." I replied venomously.

"Ouch." Maddie cringed.

"Where's Alex?" Gwen asked in a softer tone.

"Out walking. We just had an encounter with Juliet and her new girlfriend and I think Alex is going to result to sleep deprivation again."

The others gave me sympathetic looks and I shrugged, signaling that I didn't know what to do.

"They were the last couple in the school." Annabelle said softly.

"Everyone else was sure they wouldn't break up." Annabeth added.

"But we could see the change in Juliet." Annabelle continued.

"She looked at Alex with more loathing than love." Annabeth intoned.

"And we knew that they wouldn't last." They said together.

I glanced at them and saw the sorrow in their eyes. "You knew?" I asked and they nodded. I sighed. "Well, there's not much we can do for them now except comfort Alex. Juliet's got that black-haired bloodsucker to help her."

Kate, Gwen and Maddie looked at me sternly and I looked up at them sheepishly. "Sorry."

I changed my features into those of depression and sighed. "This is so screwed up. Who the hell is fucking with us?"

"Well, it's definitely not me." My ears instantly knew that voice even after a brief encounter and an instinctive growl built in my throat as I turned to see Danielle and Juliet strolling toward us, arm-in-arm.

"I don't see why anyone would want to fuck you." I retorted scathingly. "Excuse me," I said to my friends. "I think I'll join Alex. I've lost my appetite." Standing, I leveled a cold glare at Danielle and an equally chilling stare at Juliet before heading out the door in search of my sister.