Xander POV
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I looked up at her cracked window wondering what she was doing that would take so long and hoping I had gotten the right cracked window. Her tall gangly form soon came to the window reassuring me that I had gotten the right window.
"What are you doing Spence?" she hissed. "Trying to break my window?"she glanced down and added, "again?"
"No and I'm not Spence," I snickered back.
She frowned a second before comprehending and motioning me to go around to the back of the house putting her finger up to tell me to be quiet. Like I had much choice, I was always quiet, wolf blood, remember?
I snuck around the perimeter of the broken down gray house, hopped over the fence and waited for her to come to the door.
Finally she opened it slowly and despite her caution it creaked protesting it's many years of use. Her hair tied up in a pony tail, a black sweatshirt thrown on over a pair of boxers and vans stuck hastily on her feet.
"Hi," she said quietly, wow, he's almost as cute as Spence. She thought. Oh, that's another thing. I can read minds , yeah a new talent, brand new, scientist bestowed on me earlier today right after y first meeting with Ransom. I hated the reason for it but I loved the ability so far it had done nothing but help.
"Almost, or cuter?" I asked, I know, I probably shouldn't have done that, let her know I mean, but what the hey I was overly excited and that might have been what started our friendship and brought us closer.
She paled, making me wonder for the first, and not the last time whether I shouldn't have let her know. She recovered quicker than I thought she would and smirked. "Oh I don't know, I might have to know what kind a person you are before I make that judgment."
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Ransom POV
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Yeah I know probably not the smartest thing to let him in when I didn't even know him but I couldn't help it, I was stil recovering from the knowledge that he could read minds. Great. I was going to have to be really careful now. I led him up to my room hoping that no one else in our house would come out and wonder why I was leading him anywhere. Just as we got up the stairs managing to only creak once, Roxy opened her door. The idiot! Of course. i didn't havemuch time to react either. Fine, I had plenty of time to react but you know the whole deer in the headlights thing? Yeah, that was me. Roxy just stared at me, looking back to him every once and a while.
"Wow, I never would have thought you two! I always thought Spencer was too much of a how should I put it…shy, stupid, coward, to even try and make a move on a girl.
I lunged for her, no one, and I mean no one could verbally abuse Spence like that other than me. I got one good punch at her eye (it would be black in the morning I could tell) before Xander pulled me off.
"Go back to your room Roxanne." She was going to kill me for this or maybe even try and get revenge. Damn. I was going to have to rely on her stupidity to win this battle.
She narrowed her eyes at him calling her Roxanne instead of Roxy and she turned around, ran in her room, and slammed her door behind her.
"You know she's going to…" he hinted
"Get revenge? Yes, the question is, how?"
"By stealing, me or rather Spence from you." he answered.
Oh (unmentionable swear word) For anyone else I would laugh, but with Roxy. All she had to do was talk to somebody and she would have them hooked. She was like one of those sirens from Greek mythology.
"Yeah actually you're pretty close, she's a human with siren genes. Genetically altered like the rest of us."
I could feel the tears welling in my eyes. Normally I didn't cry but the thought of losing my best friend to a …umm… evil, female dog, like her.
He wrapped his arm around me, "Hey, everything'll be ok I promise, we'll figure something out."
Then we went into my room and talked for probably the longest time I've ever talked to anyone except Spence in my whole life.