A/N: I know that Julian was never killed. He just disappeared for a while. I'll try not to use the word killed but if I do, remember, I meant that he just disappeared.

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Chapter 2 - Julian

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      How'd I forget the proposal? "Karina, are you sure you want to get married so soon?" I asked.

      She looked at me, her left eyebrow raised, "I knew it! You found some other girl and now you're going to leave me for her!" What the--? How'd Karina know? Did one of the Shadow Men tell her? Karina would try and kill Jenny. What if I couldn't stop her? Oh God, Jenny. I just stared at Karina in shock.

      Then she laughed. My eyes widened. "Julian! I know you would never leave me for anyone else. I was just joking. All these rumors I've been hearing about you loving someone else," she laughed even more at the thought, "We were made for each other. I just know it." Whew, that was close…

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Jenny

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      I yawned. How long could Mr. Koontz babble about a dead frog? Gee, and to think that the popular girls talked a lot. The bell rang. I grabbed my books and headed out the door to my locker. It was my senior year of high school. I've thought so much about college. After long hours of thinking, I'm leaning towards going to Indiana University School of Medicine. I want to become a doctor so

I could help people. The thing is, if I leave, everyone I knew would be still here. Of course I'd make new friends, but I don't want to leave Tom behind too. I love Tom, but ever since Julian came… he's been distant. There couldn't be a relationship like that, even if we love each other, right? If I stay here, I wouldn't be able to become a doctor and I'd go to a local college. The more I think, the more I'm already walking down the road to IU. Tonight I'm going to drive to Bloomington, Indiana tonight to check out the campus. I'll spend one day there, then I'll head back. The warning bell rang, and I headed to Math.

*7:30am – Bloomington, Indiana*

      I yawned as I pulled out of the parking lot of one of those new Comfort Inns with free breakfast. Of course, the breakfast is mini package cereal with a small carton of milk to go with it, unless you decided to eat fruit. So anyway, there's nothing really good at the free breakfasts, so I decided to head to the nearest café. I read about a good café place called "La Blanc Soleil" or in plain English "The White Sun". Where in the world do these people get these names? Don't ask. Anyway, I pulled into a small parking lot across of the café.

      I smiled, when I saw that you could sit and drink lattes outside under one of those benches with a red umbrella in the middle giving you some shade from the rising sun. That reminds me of when the gang and I went to --- I mentally slapped myself --- "I'm here to check out a college, not to be reminded of the friends you're going to leave," I spoke out loud to myself. Trying to keep that sentence in mind, I headed into the café. I ordered a mocha latte and went outside and I took a seat at a table next to the building.

It wasn't exactly busy at this time of the morning, so I decided to relax and listen in the other conversations, and then I heard a voice spoke, "Hey, Kegan, guess what. Did you hear about Julian and Karina? They are back together again! They are supposed to be married this weekend! How romantic. Of course it would have been sooner, but, remember that story about that one old wizard that captured a few of us? Well, that was the same old guy that captured Julian…" Julian is with some other girl? My Julian? No… I listened into their conversation again. "They are supposed to be married next Saturday." Next Saturday? Oh, god.

"Michael, would you shut up? It's bad enough that Karina dumped me 15 years ago. I'm heading home," said Kegan angrily, turning my head slightly to watch him walk away. Then Michael shook his head, snorted, and then he also walked away too. I glanced around to see if anyone else was watching. Then I proceeded to follow Kegan, throwing the empty mocha latte cup into the plastic green trashcan before leaving.

He wasn't hard to follow. He kept mumbling and grumbling all the way. First he went to his car, which happened to be a shiny dark blue Acura, he drove into the open road and sped down the road, as I watched from a distant in my car.

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      After awhile, Kegan pulled into an empty gas station next to highway. I couldn't even read the name of the gas station, because the lettering was worn off and the part that was still there was covered in dirt. I parked my car a nice long distant away from Kegan's. He opened his car door and stepped out. Then he walked over to the empty gas station and opened the broken glass door, which was boarded up by a few pieces of rotten wood. So, I casually walked over and peaked into the gas station between two wooded boards. I spotted Kegan over by the old freezer doors. He opened one, and stepped inside. This was my cue, so I went inside.

      Carefully, but quickly, I stepped through all the old dusty junk on the floor and made my way to the freezers. I went to the one Kegan went through and opened it. I gulped. There was a town. A regular town, well, maybe not a regular town but it sure looked like it. As I stepped inside, a hand grabbed my arm roughly. Then I was pushed and was now pinned to the wall. Then I looked at the person that was holding me up. Kegan. "Why are you following me?" Kegan asked, while his words were tinted in anger.  I guess I'm not going to be back in Bloomington anytime soon…

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End Chapter 2

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A/N: The only reason Jenny is heading to Indiana University is because I want to go there, unless I could head to Harvard or some other big school. I also might decide to go to Notre Dame. I've got a few years time to decide… Also, when I was in Bloomington, I never saw a café there so I just made it up. Anything store you hear in my stories are usually made up, unless I use some place that's really known worldwide. If there is a connection, that's just by coincidence.