Disclaimer : Once again, the great and wonderful Meg Cabot owns everything! Well, almost. The plot line is my friend and my idea and the characters of Anne, Adriaan, Alea and Denise are ours as well.

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Jesse's POV:

I stared in disbelief at this little idiot. Hadn't I taught him a lesson about this a little while ago?"

"What, don't have the nerve to hit back, de Silva?" Paul grinned smugly.

It was that grin that did it. I thrust a fist hard into his face. He fell to the ground, sputtering incoherently through the thick blood that was now covering his face.

"Shit de Silva! How many more times do you plan on breaking my nose?!" He asked the question almost to himself, but I heard it.

"As long as you continue to start fights with me Slater." I sneered, turning to walk away. Bad idea.

"Oh really de Silva, who am I supposed to fight after you're gone? Cause the way I see it, your new found life is gonna be over pretty soon."

I turned around as I heard him get up from the ground and caught a glimmer of something very shiny in his hand. I had no time to react as I felt the sharp blade of the knife puncture my side. I felt Paul push the knife in hard and quickly pull it out.

"Slater, what have you done?!" I growled, putting my hand to my side, where the pain was becoming so immense that I was seeing double of Slater.

"Now…." He put his hand to his head cockily, "Didn't I just tell you that your life was going to be over pretty soon?" He smiled cockily and wiped the knife blade on the pants that I had on. Just then we heard a small popping noise and both of us looked over at the same time. Seeing no one, Slater waved good-bye to me and began walking away.

I groaned and then my eyes went wide at the realization that hit me. If I didn't stop the bleeding soon….I was going to die…again.

Maria's POV:

After Susannah and I's little….spat….I carelessly began materializing and dematerializing in different places in Caramel just to say that I had looked for Hector. Suddenly, I noticed an unusually large feeling of spectral energy coming from a few streets away from me. Curious, I dematerialized and rematerialized to that street. I gasped at what I saw. Paul and Hector…fighting…again. Surprise, surprise. Then I noticed that Paul had a knife placed in his hand and was about to go after Hector with it. My eyes went considerably wide and I quickly dematerialized and rematerialized in Susannah's room.

"Susannah!" I gasped out.

Susannah got up from where she'd been sitting on the bed and crossed over to me and grabbed me by my dress collar and held me there. "What's wrong Maria. TELL ME." She yelled at me.

I looked at her stunned for a second and then shoved her away from me. "Your Hector….is going to die if you do not hurry and get to him quickly." I said simply. In fact, I thought she'd already known that little detail. Well…not from the way she took it. She didn't know at all.

Okay...chapter 20 is now officially up. I hope you guys like this chapter.... Thank you SO much to all of my wonderful reviewers that has kept up with this story for so long...even through my seemingly endless weeks of writer's block. You guys are awesome and I hope that you enjoy this chapter! :) Now you know what to do and review! :)