"Are you ready, my love?" Ness asked from inside the bathroom.

"I sure am." Tanya grinned while looking in the mirror. I never imagined myself looking this gorgeous…

Tanya went inside the bathroom, where Ness was splashing in the bathtub in his Mr. Saturn underwear and a bunch of yellow rubber ducks swimming around him.

"Why don't you jump on in and splash with me, baby?" Ness pleaded.

"I'll be there in a little bit." Tanya took a hair dryer and started going it through her mane of brown hair. "Ness, you like me…don't you?" she asked sweetly.

Ness leaned close to the edge of the bathtub. "Of course; I do."

"No matter what?" She asked sternly.

"No matter what." Ness replied.

Tanya closed her eyes and smiled.

"Even if I wasn't your type." She whispered ominously.

"But of course you're my type!" Ness grinned, staring her up and down. "You so hot, baby."

"We'll just see about that." Tanya scowled as she took out her cellphone.

She turned to Ness and handed him the phone. "Recognize them?"

Ness stared at the wallpaper on Tanya's turquoise phone.

The photo showed two boys both in turquoise uniforms standing in front of a school in the middle of the winter.

The first boy, a brunette, had his arm tightly around his blonde friend's shoulder. He had a wide side-smile, large brown eyes and a cute black top hat.

The second boy, the blonde with thick eyeglasses, looked stiff and nervous in his friend's grasp.

"That's Jeff." Ness pointed to the blonde with thick glasses. "And that's his little fag friend Tony. Do you know them or something?"

"As a matter of fact, yes I do." Tanya breathed softly. "Jeff and I have always…been very close. He's more than a friend to me, he's my life."

Ness looked at the picture again. "Too bad, you are with me now. Besides, Jeff is gay, see? You have the picture on your phone to prove it."

Tanya grinned the giant smile once more. "Oh, is he?"

"Wait…" Ness realized. "Jeff told me there were no girls in Winter White Wood Boarding School…" Ness stared at Tanya wide eyed. "Uh…were you his teacher?"

Tanya slapped her palm to her face and chuckled.

"You are a hot teacher then. Was that big fag Tony in your class too?" Ness laughed.

"You're so funny, Ness! And no, I wasn't their teacher." Tanya stared at Ness, approaching his face. "I am that big fag Tony."

"Uh…" Ness stared at the picture, then at Tanya.

Then at the picture again, then at Tanya, their eyes, their skin, their smile was identical.

"Ew…then I don't want to be with you." Ness hopped out of the bathtub.

"You said you'd be with me no matter what." Tanya responded.

"I changed my mind." Ness said.

"You stay right there." Tanya pushed Ness back into the bathtub and threw the hair dryer in with him.

The room filled with electrical circuit as Ness shook violently struggling to live.

Tanya quickly ran out of Ness' house with a huge triumphant grin, in her search for the genius whom she which admired.

Her search would soon be over, for she had found him, roaming the streets of Twoson.

"Hey, you!" Tanya called as she approached him.

"You're just the one I wanted to see." Jeff replied to her.

"Really?" Tanya pushed back her hair and batted her eyelashes at the genius. "Well, then I'm at your service…"

"Tony stop the act, I know all about it. You built those microchips, didn't you?"

Tanya snatched the glasses from Jeff's face.

She took out a handkerchief from her pocket and she started cleaning them as Jeff struggled to retrieve his glasses.

A wide smile spread over her face. "You know me well, Andonuts."

" Of course I do." Jeff almost had his glasses in hand, but she snatched them away before he grasped them. "I know you better than anyone. Just like I know that you built those things."

"Yes, I did." Tanya took a deep breath. "I built them, infested them with brain cells that are...completely out of this world."

"That makes people turn evil!"

"Not precisely, smarty-pants. O-45P2R23K is a combination of regular brain cells and ethanol. When the microchip settles on the human scalp, the brain cells infested with ethanol kill normal brain cells until only ethanol brain cells are left."

"So that means…"

"Yes, Andounts. Once those cells are in. It's impossible to get them out. Only the death of the human being possessed would be the solution to kill the malicious brain cells."

"I knew it..."

Tanya cleared her throat. "Ethanol is a general depressant and acts as an inhibitor on certain receptor of the brain, making it very difficult to control the body. I've also discovered that it has somewhat of a "drunk" status on a person."

"Which means people don't act the way they usually act…" Jeff realized, thinking about Ness and his friends.

"Exactly without the dizziness or drowsiness of course."

"Aren't you proud of me?" She asked sweetly, as she rested her head his shoulder.

He quickly pulled away. "But why Tony? Why would you do this? Your bloody invention caused the death of many innocent people. Why?"

"Because you abandoned me." Tanya snarled. "You left me…for them."

Jeff looked around, his sight blurry without his glasses. "What do you mean?"

"You were the only one who didn't judge me, Jeff. I thought you were an angel sent to me by God to protect me from all those people who made fun of me for being gay." Tanya dusted out her skirt. "You were so nice to me in the beginning…we would share our food, go on snowball fights, help eachother in our homework…" she paused and stared deep into his eyes. "We keep each other warm at night... I even thought you were the man of my life."

"I never lead you on!" The genius cried. "We are only friends, Tony!"

"Then you just leave." Tanya continued ignoring him completely. "'A girl is summoning me' you claimed 'I have to go'. You were so greedy that day, only thinking about yourself. It was them, Ness, Poo, and the others who made my life a wreck." Tanya grasped her long brown hair. "They got what they deserved, for taking away what I treasured most…You."

Jeff started to back away from Tanya.

She followed closely, until she led him inside Everdread's shed.

She shut the door and slammed the boy genius hard against wall.

Her face stood just inches from his. " No man can resist me…" she breathed as she caressed him. "Since Ness and Poo couldn't contain themselves, then neither will you."

Jeff tried to pull away with ease. "Don't touch me."

Tanya approached him again, he pushed right past her.

"What is wrong with you?" Tanya snarled.

"I said don't touch me." He repeated looking serious.

Tanya could not believe it.

"You want me and you know it!" She screamed.

He chuckled " I really don't."

Tanya stared at the genius, then grinned as she started to unbutton her blouse.

"Keep your shirt on, I'm still not amused."

Tanya groaned loudly as she started opening the shed door.

"I have made it an objective," Tanya continued. "To make everyone who's done me wrong, suffer. Yes, Jeff including you."

Jeff took out the moonbeam from his bag.

"Death is the only solution to kill such cells, right?" He asked her softly.

Tanya's eyes went wide. "Jeff, I beg you. If you love me, don't pull on the…"

Bang!

Looks like Ness learned never to break up with a girl while in the bathroom, the hardway.

Questions you might die to ask me are...

"Hey Jetta, a little birdie told me someone was going to die on the next chapter. Is that true?"

or

"Hey Jetta, is it true that we're almost done with ForeverBound?"

Find out the answers to these questions and other questions in Chapter 26 One Last Night

Thank you so much for reading along, and take care, reader. :)