This will be the last chapter of this ficcie.

Kai: thank the lord.

Don't get to happy yet. I'm going to write a sequel.

Kai: crap.

Heh heh heh.

EXCHANGE STUDENTS.

CHAPTER 11

GALUX PHOENIX.

Sarah walked down the school hallways. Her eyes scanning the faces of the people she passed, only to find the person she was looking for wasn't there. She stopped in front of a locker. She took a deep breath and opened it, as she had expected it was bare of everything except a small white envelope. She picked it up as if it was made of a fine china. As she peeled back to envelope's seal she noticed a letter carefully written in fine black ink. As she read the letter a small tear formed in her left eye.

To my dear friends, I'm sorry to have deceived you all for so long. I hope you can forgive me, but if you can't I understand your motives. I won't be at school anymore and me and Chris are going to move somewhere else. We feel it better to let you live your lives in peace instead of lies. Don't try to find us as we will disappear for a while. Maybe we will meet again in time to come. All the care in the world,
Catherine.

Sarah let the note fall out of her hand as tears streamed down her flawlessly pale cheeks.

"Are you ok?" a monotonic voice asked her. Sarah looked at him out of the corner of her eye.

"She's gone, Kai. Gone." Sarah said her voice barely audible.

"Who's gone?" he asked her one eyebrow raised.

"Caitlin, Catherine, which ever!" She said tears still rolling down her cheeks. Kai picked up the letter that had fallen on the floor and read it quickly. His body tensed up and his crimson eyes became hard and cold. He stood there for a moment thinking.

"Well, honestly Sarah, if I was in her position right now I'd do the same thing." Kai said softly, his body relaxing slightly, before adding, "I don't blame her for it. I've done a similar thing myself."

Sarah looked up at him her cheeks glistening slightly from the tears. "I know why she left, I understand that, but what I don't understand why she left without saying goodbye in person!" a wave of anger swept over Sarah and she stormed off in the direction of the girl's toilets.

"Well, I think she took it well." Kai muttered sarcastically under his breath.

*~*~*~

Catherine sighed as the last of her things were put on the moving van she had hired.

"I can't believe it came to this." Her brother said sadly from where he was standing beside her.

"I know. But, it was inevitable; no one could stop it from happening." She replied shaking her head. She turned around and looked at him, "Well, this time we know we can start afresh without any worries."

"I guess. Are you going to keep in touch with your friends?"

"No, I'll let them live in peace. Are you?"

"Yeah, they'll understand me moving away." Chris shrugged. He turned to look at her properly. It was then he noticed something about her he hadn't seen since they'd moved here; the rim of grey around iris and the small fangs that rested on her lower lip. He always thought she was a different person when others were around her, her family were the only ones that saw her for who she really was.

"You were never going to tell them the whole truth, were you?"

"They wouldn't understand the complexity of it all." She replied softly.

"Everything is packed and loaded on. Where to now?" one of the mover asked looking between them.

Catherine smiled at him, "Thanks Bill, here's the address. Just take this stuff there, we'll take the car." The guy nodded as she handed his a slip of paper and got into the truck's cabin. Chris and Caitlin got into the black Mercedes and followed the truck to their new life.

~*~*~*

Kai lay on his back, on his own under a tree in the school grounds, he sighed. "Why do you continue to lie to us Cath?" he asked no one as he stared into the sky. No ne answered his question as he lay there, leaves drifted across the sunlight. You will never forget her, sir. A voice in his mind said calmly.

'I know that all to well Dranzer. But sometimes I wish I could forget her.' Kai answered without speaking.

Well you can't. so stop complaining about it. Dranzer snapped. Kai smiled at his bit-beasts comment.

'If you say so little birdy.' Kai said smiling slightly.

Well, it's about ti- HEY!

'You took your time on it.' Kai smirked.

I resent that! Yeah, well Kai, the only thing I can say to you is this: She's gone. Kai's eyes widened as that thought sunk in. Dranzer was right. She was gone. . . . .

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There that means. . . I HAVE FINISHED THIS STORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I will have the sequel up in about a day or two. I'm not making any promises, but there will be a sequel written sometime in the unforeseeable future.

Galux Phoenix.

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