"Rose and Lissa and Mia and Saffron! They're all alive! They hid, using spirit! They are going to the kid's school, well actually the kids are going to their school since they kind of run the place!" I let out in one breath. Everyone was wide awake.
"What!" Adrian yelled. "Oh my god! Clarissa told me about spirit in some girls' aura! Of course the illusion charm! Lissa could do that easy!"
"Get over here. We are going to see them." I said. Then hung up.
CPOV:
Adrian was the first one to get here, then Jesse, then Jeremy. It took them only two minutes to get to my house.
"Guys? Can you breathe?" I asked. They guys were all doubled over trying to catch their breath.
I gave them a minute. After five minutes we were all grouped around my laptop, which was still on the page with the video on it.
"Okay, what the hell did you two mean when you said the girls were alive?" Jesse said after he had gained his breath.
"Well. It all started when Artemis asked about Rose." I said.
"Why did she ask about Rose?" Jesse asked.
"Because Ash asked me something."
"What was that?" He asked.
"If she could date your son." I said.
"Oh." He said calmly. "Oh! What?!" He yelled now.
"Shhh!! They are still asleep!" I whispered/shouted.
"What! Ash and Dan are dating?" He whispered/shouted.
"I have no idea." I said truthfully.
"Anyway, what's going on with the girls?!" Jeremy asked impatiently.
"Well, Artemis asked if there was anyway Rose was still alive. I told her no, and to go to bed. Then I started thinking. There was no possible way a single strigoi could have killed all four of them. So I went downstairs to talk to Arte. She was on her laptop, looking at this website." I said, gesturing to a webpage, "She showed me these four girls." I opened up the girls' profile pages, "Then I came down here and searched for Olivia Talte, that is this one." I pointed to Livia, "An article came up. There was a quote saying they had moved into a high end apartment without any adults. Livia was carrying four or five full packed boxes on her own. They were twelve. What twelve-year-old could do that? Anyway, I then looked back at these pages, and I found this video." I played the video. Adrian gasped.
"So?"
"That is Lissa and Rose's handshake, minus the flips and stuff." Adrian answered for me.
I walked into the other room and grabbed Apollo's laptop from where it sat on the couch. I opened up the same page. "Adrian, see if you can get tickets to the semi-finals, they start there since they won the tournament last year."
He nodded and asked, "What are you doing?"
"Trying to get more information on them."
Adrian and I worked silently while Jesse went back home to talk to his son, Jeremy had gone upstairs to kill a spider for Ashlyn. I didn't get the whole spider fear she had, she has killed strigoi before on her own without a stake, but she couldn't kill a spider; it amazed me.
I was looking at the profiles each girl had written for herself. I was currently reading the girl-we-thought-was-Saffron's profile:
Hi! My name is Meagan Rose Sponer. I go by Meg and if you call me Meagan Rose, well you better run. I play backup center for one of my best friends, Livia Talte. I am also the assistant captain, once again to Livia. I help manage my school's soccer team and am a straight 'A' student. My family died when our house was broken into, I was the only one to live. I had an older brother named Chris, who I call Chrissie.
I picked up a pen and wrote, Meagan Sponer~Meg~Saffron. I had found my sister. I clicked on the profile that read Alexandria Judson.
Hola! My name is Alexandria Maria Judson, but I prefer Alex. I am a manager and I co-run the team with my friend Erika Jameson. I also play when needed; I usually sub for one of our centers, Meg Sponer and Livia Talte, both of whom are my best friends. I also play on my schools soccer team. I have been an orphan since birth; I would rather not talk about it. (Oh. Mia couldn't think of anything). My boyfriends name is Jesse, but I haven't seen him for a while, but from what I hear from his niece, they may be coming for a visit soon.
How could Mia have known we were coming? Which niece? I looked at the update time. It was today's date and she had just updated it a few minutes ago. I looked over at Jesse who had come back and was now staring at the screen, confused. He looked over at me, I shrugged, I never did understand Mia.
I simply wrote Alexandria Judson~Alex~Mia under Meagan Sponer~Meg~Saffron. I clicked on the next profile.
Hi! My name is Erika Lee Jameson, I am a seventh grader at Canton Middle School. I am a manager for the basketball team and I am the captain of the volleyball team. I sometimes fill in for players, if they are hurt and we don't have a backup. I usually go in for a point-guard. My parents and brother died in a car-crash, Livia and me were the only survivors, though officials said she shouldn't have, I am so grateful Livia survived because without her I would be all alone and without a family.
That was so Lissa. Erika Lee Jameson~Lissa. I now turned to the last page.
¡Qué Pasa! (I am willing to bet everything that that is Rose) For those of you who don't know, that mean What's up? I think. Anyway, my name is Olivia Rose Talte, call me that and you might be missing an arm or leg. Call me Livia. I am the starting center for the Canton Eagles, as well as their captain. I was also the captain of the soccer team and I was the co-captain of our softball team. I never met my father and I went to boarding school since I was four.
Yep that is Rose. I couldn't belive it, after all those years, I am finally going to see My Rose again. I wrote down Olivia Rose Talte~Livia~Rose. I went to click on the link that led to her photo gallery when an instant message popped up in the corned of the screen it read:
Christian, I know it is you and I know you know. Please don't tell Ashlyn or Apollo, Artemis already knows. I have a good, valid reason for running away. Please don't come to the game, it is for your own safety. I love you forever and always, Love Rose.
I sent a message back:
Why?
There was a pause. Then instead of a couple words, I got more of a book.
RPOV:
It was pretty late or pretty early, depending on how you look at it. I was on my profile page checking out how many hits I had gotten.
"I reached 20,000!" I called to Lissa who was in the kitchen.
"Congrats." She called back.
Suddenly the number changed from 20,000 to 20,001. I opened up the author page which let me change the text, it also told me the location of the user. The user was none other than Christian Ozera. Shit!
A message popped up in the corner of my screen, it read, "Livia, Dad is looking up your profiles and Uncle Adrian is trying to get tickets. Just a little warning." Double Shit.
I quickly logged into my AIM. He was online. I sent him a message.
"Christian, I know it is you and I know you know. Please don't tell Ashlyn or Apollo, Artemis already knows. I have a good, valid reason for running away. Please don't come to the game, it is for your own safety. I love you forever and always, Love Rose."
I really did love him, which is why he couldn't come, I knew Gina knew who I was and I knew she would come after me, I didn't want Christian in harm's way.
Why? Of course there needed to be a reason.
"Lissa?" She walked over, quickly reading the conversation.
"He knows, tell him." She said.
I wrote a quick summery of the whole Dimitri/Gina thing and how we faked being awoken then used a charm his mother had given us to conceal ourselves. I then continued to say what a great job he did with Apollo and Artemis, since I never really talked to Ashlyn.
It took him a bit to read, but when he sent back a message; it was a request for a video chat. Lissa nodded and sat next to me on the couch. I clicked the accept button. Moments later four faces appeared on the screen.
"Saffs, Mia! Get in here!" I called. The two girls came into the room and leaned over the back of the couch. When they saw who was on the screen, they froze.
"Hello Ladies." Christian said, his smirk appearing on his face.
