A/N: Okay, this chapter is extremely short because… Well, just read it. I'm updating right away. XD

It was as if someone had just shoved their hand into my chest and twisted my heart painfully. My eyes were blinded by tears as I ran past the vampires, who stopped to stare at me. Some tried grabbing me, thinking I was a runaway human escaping from another vampire. It didn't turn out nicely. Anger overtook me and I wrenched my arm from the vampires grasp and kneed him in the nether regions. It worked, like it had on Tayte a while ago.

I managed to run to the arcade arena. Tayte seemed to be just walking back under the cover at the same time. He saw me first, before Autumn or Chandler. I collapsed into his arms as he strode to me. My body wracked with sobs.

"Hey, hey. What happened?! Where did you go?! Did somebody hurt you?!" Question fled from his scared mouth.

"L-Lucas…" I started crying harder. I couldn't say what had happened.

"My, my. What did you do, Tayte?" Isidor's voice asked behind me. I tensed and my eyes widened. I was going to look horrible in front of an elder, with my eyes swollen and red. I buried my face into Tayte's cool smelling jacket and tried to breath.

"I didn't do anything." Tayte paused a second, and touched the back of my neck. I could feel him, as if he were entering my mind through a soul. It was a strange feeling. He removed his hand extremely slowly when he found what he sought. He took a deep, angry breath. His body shuddered in attempt to control the anger. "Lucas was found with Evelyn, kissing her."

I heard Autumn gasp, and Isidor didn't reply. I bit my lip to keep myself from breaking into a sob again. It was terrible; how I felt. My head felt like it was splitting in half, my eyes burned, my throat was scorched and dry, and my chest convulsed painfully as I tried to breath. But it was nothing compared to my aching feelings; my heart.

"Well, I hadn't expected something so low of Lucas." Isidor mentioned, with a certain quirk in his voice. I realized he was trying to make me feel worse. Or testing my limits. One of the two.

I turned on him, letting go of Tayte. I realized vampires around us were staring all over again. I was half-tempted to tell them to mind their own damn business. But instead, I glared at Isidor.

"What do you know about Evelyn?! What were you going to tell me? Why does she really despise me?" I begged. Tayte tried to pull me back, as if keeping me from the answers, but I yanked away from him to stand with touching distance of an arms length of Isidor. He stared down at me from his probable six foot and a half height.

"Are you sure you can handle the truth?"

"I want nothing more then the truth, please." I pleaded, fisting my hands at my sides to keep myself from punching his face in.

Isidor set his lips into a thin line as if thinking. His forehead furrowed in his thoughts. "Evelyn used to be a Bernetta." He told me. I didn't have a reaction this time.

Instead, I stared at him, my hands un-fisting slowly. Was he… Was he fucking with me? "He's telling the truth. I didn't want you to know… None of us did." Tayte said behind me.

Isidor and I ignored him. "G-go on." I stumbled over the words as they nearly spluttered from my mouth.

"She was the woman Lucas loved, all those years ago. However, when she was changed into a vampire, her personality changed and she became possessive and jealous over Lucas. It led to what she is now."

My mind started turning its gears all at once, it made my headache worse. I winced, looking down at the ground. Bartholomew did kill her. One of the elders had to have brought her back because she saved a vampires life. And because I came into hand as a threat to Evelyn, she had to have asked Bartholomew for help to kill me. It was my best guess. And Lucas… He never did love me. He brought me to the mansion to help him forget about her. Because I was a Bernetta.

Because I was a witch and Evelyn was my… Family.

I barely managed to turn to look at Tayte and Autumn, before everything went black around me. I couldn't breath… and everything hurt. My mind shut down as Tayte caught me when I passed out.