I might be switching back and forth between first person and third person, so be prepared. Right now I'm switching into Cassie first person. Sorry about the short chapters, but I need to do rapid flipping between different POVs.

CASSIE

She was so dead.

I stood, shaking with rage so powerful that I didn't even know I could feel it. I stared at the doorway, shocked and hurt but mostly angry. How dare she take Jake! They had known each other for about five minutes, and they were going out! Just like that! My eyesight was actually blurred with red.

"Cassie..." Rachel said hesitantly.

I turned around, trying not to show the anger I felt. "Yes, Rachel?"

"Calm down, girl." Rachel said. But she didn't understand! I couldn't calm down until I had my hands wrapped around Mary's neck and I was squeezing, squeezing, squeezing-

"Cassie!" Rachel yelled. She grabbed me by the shoulders and looked me in the face. Tobias and Marco stood quietly to the side. "I know what's going through your head. Those thoughts aren't yours, Cassie. You don't think like that! Be you, Cassie. Not...Not-"

"You." I said quietly, feeling all of the hatred evaporate off of me like a thick, greasy cloud of smoke. I shuddered. How could I have been thinking those things? Those horrible thoughts!

"Me." Rachel said, letting me go very suddenly. "Not me."

Rachel turned and walked out the barn. Tobias wordlessly flew out after her.

"Well, It's just you and me." Marco said, lifting himself off of his hay bale. "So are you going to tell me what's going on?"

"What?" I asked, bewildered.

"Rachel's right. You don't think those type of thoughts. Anybody could see that you were ready to murder Mary." Marco explained. "But the real you weren't. What happened?"

I hesitated. "When Mary looked at me, Her eyes looked...strange. Like-"

"Like you were going to drown in them." Marco finished. "And, now that I think of it, at school I thought that Mary was beautiful. Now, I realize that she wasn't that good looking. She's changing our emotions, somehow. I know it. What's is she, A new alien? Some trick of Drodes?"

People say I'm good at figuring out people's emotions. Sometimes I don't think I'm that great at it. But at that moment I knew exactly what Mary was. I was positive. "Pure evil." I said simply. "Pure evil."