Chloe's POV

What is taking so long? I want to hear how Ariah's date went. I was in the living room reading I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER BY Lois Duncan when I heard the door open. Finally they come back . . . wait why are Kari, Beth, Nate, and Brent here?

"What are you guys doing here? Oh my god my god you guys are bleeding, come on in and sit down. AUNT LUAREN!"

"Well we heard there was a girl that looked like you that was last seen here so we asked our parents if we could come here to look for you and they said yes but they wanted to come and we didn't know what your condition would be like but we still said no and they didn't want us to be living in the streets so their giving us monthly deposits into our credit cards. Plus they let us come alone on one condition that we go to school. So are you guys being homeschooled and do you have room for four more?"Brent said "Oh and Stefan sucked my blood and let out too much venom and apparently now I'm a vampire. And we met up with some guys named Liam and Ramon but Stefan took Liam down." Damn that just flew out of his mouth as if it were nothing. I mean they went up against Liam and Ramon.

"Chlo, your aunt said she saw their cuts and will be right down." My heart started to beat faster when I heard Derek's voice.

"Who are they?" Derek said looking towards my friends

"That's Nate, Kari, Beth, and Brent. They're old friends of mine from A.R. Gurney and they just ran into Liam and Ramon."

"Seriously? Shit!"

"Wait guys where're Stefan and Ariah?" I asked

"Well. . ." Brent said

"Where's my sister?" Derek growled

Just then as if on cue Stefan walked through the door with Ariah in his arms bridal style. Derek and I both gasped at the sight of Ariah not because Stefan was carrying her but because she had a wooden stake in her chest and was covered in blood and cuts. Plus she had a thick line of blood running out of the corner of her mouth.

"Aunt Lauren hurry up Ariah's here and she was j-just s-staked." I yelled

"I'm here let me check Ariah first."

I turned towards Derek to see that he was on his knees I got on mine and tried to comfort him.

"Derek she'll be fine. Remember all she needed to become a full vampire is to die." My voice cracked at the end.

"But just seeing her like this. I start to think I might lose my sister after I just got her back."

"You can't talk like that Derek she'll be fine. Right Aunt Lauren?"

"Right I just uhh need to ugh get this stake out." Aunt Lauren said trying to get the stake out.

"Don't they need to talk to me. Stop! " Ariah screeched at Aunt Lauren so loud that I flinched.

"Aunt Lauren stop! Ariah's here and she's saying that someone needs to talk to her and they won't be able to if you take the stake out."

"You can't see dead people Chloe it's just a hallucination." Nate said to me as if I were a crazy person.

"Shut your fucking mouth, Nick." Derek said.

"It's Nate you stupid ass."

"Don't call my brother a stupid ass." Simon said, sparks glimmering at his fingers.

"Aww. Does the little pup need his brother to save him?"

"That's it." Derek said trying to punch Nate but was held back by Simon.

"I really hate this guy." Ariah said making a really thick book that someone left on the couch and threw it at Nate.

"What the fuck was that?" Nate said as it almost hit him.

"Ariah doesn't like you messing with her brother,"I said "And I don't either." With that Nate shut up.

I turned to Ariah who was now on the ground crying from something the people in black robes had told her.

"We are very sorry for the painful loss that you have had most recently." A woman said

"Anyways we know you were supposed to be Claimed by the time you turned sixteen but you weren't in the know about you being a Caster, honestly we didn't know you were a Caster either, until the night of your Sixteenth Moon." Said the short man in the middle.

"What about my brother?"

"Well see you two have chosen but, without knowing you both chose Light. And you both are Naturals. You do know the saying about Naturals, right?"

"Chloe!" Nate screamed and tried to wrap his arms around my waist. Does that mean he still has feelings for me? God I feel messed up I have feelings for Derek and I think a few feelings for Nate. I think Nate thought I went unconscious because I fell against the couch and was staring at the wall but that was because I was looking at the ghosts. I heard Derek growl when Nate tried to wrap his arms around my waist.

"Nate Stop! I'm trying to focus!" I said as I inched closer to Derek.

"You don't have a thing for that wolf do you, Chloe?" Nate asked.

"We'll talk later! Now shut up!"

"Exactly how powerful are we?" Ariah asked

"We don't know how powerful you are. You both have a great length of power." Said a taller man.

"Okay thanks for your help."

"You're welcome." The three ghosts said at the same time.

"Bye I'm going back into my body."

"Chloe wait you can help. When he pulls out the stake it might scrape my heart and I'll scream and lose ow," she said holding her chest "control of my powers."Ariah said

"So what do you need me to do?" I asked

"Put your hands at my temples as a necromancer you can control someone's powers when they are technically dead."

"Okay." I ran over and put my hands at Ariah's temples. "Now!"Before Derek pulled the stake out Ariah said one word, or name I should say, that I think left us all curious.

"Will." Ariah whispered

Derek pulled the stake out, Ariah screamed, you could see the pain in Derek's eyes and only a few things managed to fly across the room. Ariah's wound healed in a few minutes. Then her eyelids fluttered open and her irises were an amazing violet color.

"Thank you." She smiled and hugged Derek and Aunt Lauren and I then going to hug Stefan.

"Who's Will?" Stefan asked

"Not right now Stefan, please," she begged "I'm going to go wash up."

About an hour later Kit had us all meet in the library saying he had some good news for us.

"Tomorrow we are going to the mall and all of you are getting new things with the four thousand dollars we are giving you." After that we all went to bed because it was like midnight. As I was asleep I was having a nightmare.

"Chloe, Chloe wake up it's me Derek." He said shaking me awake. I woke up in a cold sweat with Derek in his boxers standing over me.

"Are you okay?" he asked me looking worried

"Honestly, no I'm not."

"Do you want to talk about it?"

"No."

"Okay." He started to get up and turn towards the door. But I grabbed his arm.

"Please don't, don't leave. Stay here. With me. Please, Derek." I pleaded

"Sure" Was all he said with a grin on his face as he sat down on the chair next to my bed.

"No lay down right here." I said as I patted the spot next to me on my bed.

"Would you be comfortable with that?"

"Absolutely. And if you're cold you can go under the covers."

"Yeah it's feeling pretty chilly." He said smiling wider while he was walking over to the bed.

"Goodnight, Derek."

"'Night Chlo." He said groggily.

Cody POV

I was going downstairs to get some water when I passed by the gym and saw Ariah boxing, while crying, at two in the morning.

"I know you miss him, A. But don't cry."

"Did I really say his name?"

"Yah you did."

"I miss him so much!" I hugged her as she cried even harder

Who is this mystery man Will? What does Ariah have to do with him? What will happen at the mall tomorrow? Will Chloe and Derek's relationship grow? Find out in next Chapter!~~