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Chapter 6
No one moved for what seemed like eternity. No, wait not an eternity; Jo knew what eternity felt like.
No one moved for a couple minutes and then Stanton suddenly took a step away from Jo and spoke.
"Serena, you do not want to do what you are thinking about doing to this girl. This girl is a friend of Jimena, Catty, and Vanessa's, and you'd hurt them if you hurt her. Think about your friends." He pleaded, not moving from his spot behind Jo.
"So since I can't do what I'm thinking about to Jo, can I do what I'm thinking about doing to you?" Serena screamed at Stanton, malice and hate dripping from every word.
Finally Stanton moved. He glided to Serena and took her in his arms. She became tense, glaring at Jo.
"Love, we were only having a discussion." He breathed in her ear. Serena never relaxed her muscles and continued to eye Jo like a vulture.
"How can I believe you?" she gritted through her teeth, while Jo held her breathe. She really didn't want to make an enemy of nice, err was nice, Serena.
"You know how you can find out." This last statement from Stanton puzzled Jo immensely.
After a minute Serena finally relaxed and Jo started breathing again, wondering what had just occurred between her brother and friend.
Serena turned, breaking her gaze with Jo, to stare at Stanton. Stanton smiled, relief showing on his face, making Jo wonder what exactly Serena had been thinking about doing to Jo.
"Please love, let me take you home." Stanton whispered gently to Serena, but Jo's years of being a hunter in the wilderness had sharpened her hearing and she heard every word said between the two.
"No," Serena suddenly said making Stanton stop rubbing soothing circles on her hand.
"What, why not?" Stanton asked, puzzled.
"I want Jo to walk with me. We need to talk." Both she and Stanton turned and looked at Jo. Serena's look was one of demanding and Stanton's look was still puzzled.
"Fine," Jo snapped at them suddenly irritated, though she didn't know why.
Jo watched as Stanton kissed Serena gently and wondered. They must really be in love, but why doesn't Stanton just change her into a follower. Why would he leave her like this when anything could happen to her.? Jo was very confused and hoped that this talk would clear things up.
Serena and Jo started walking to Serena's house after she made Stanton promise not to follow them, which told Jo that Serena knew that Stanton was a follower.
They walked in silence for a few minutes until the curiosity in Jo was about to eat a hole in her tongue for not asking the millions of question going through her mind right now. Before she could ask her first question Serena spoke.
"I'm sorry I acted that way," she said, then looking thoughtful, frowned.
"No I'm not sorry. What the hell were you doing with my boyfriend alone in an ally two inches apart?!" She yelled at Jo, angry again.
They had stopped in the middle of a deserted street. Being extremely mean and annoyed Jo snapped. Her hormones sure were acting up tonight.
"Why? Are you jealous that Stanton prefers me to you? Everyone knows I'm prettier then you. He doesn't deserve you. You're nothing special."
She couldn't stop herself and regretted saying it as soon as it left her mouth. She normally didn't get into so many fights in one night. Must not be her day.
Serena looked like she was about to smack her, but she didn't. She suddenly looked defeated, like a small, lost child.
"You're probley right. I am nothing special. I don't know why I even bother. I can never be with him anyway. I give up. You can have him."
Jo gaped at her.
"I don't want him." Jo blurted out. "I just said that because I was mad. Why don't you just have him change you then you can be together forever."
Now it was Serena's turn to have her mouth open.
"I can't have him change me. What would it do to my family and friends? My friends especially would kill me. Anyway I don't want to be evil."
"Why are you even going out with him if he's evil?" Jo questioned her.
"I love him, isn't that reason enough. Anyway I believe that inside he is a good person, even though he is now Prince of Night."
"Say that again? Stanton is Prince of Night.?! Since when?"
"Since, since," she had suddenly looked thoughtful when Jo had said she didn't know he was Prince of Darkness. "Since the Daughters tried to kill him, he almost died but the dark Goddess brought him back, but without his immortality and then he went back willingly to the Atrox to stop Lambert from over throwing the Atrox, and the Atrox made him Prince of Night to reward him." Serena said in one breathe as if she recited it every day.
"Why would the Daughters do something so hopeless and stupid?" Jo thought to herself
"Excuse me?" Serena's rude comment broke through Jo's thoughts. "What do you mean the Daughters are stupid?" she demanded
Jo was perplexed, "Why would they try that anyway? What is Stanton to them? They shouldn't have tried to kill him."
"The daughters are the reason why the world is not corrupt in evil. Without the Daughters everything would be evil. We have a lot to thank for them." They argued back and forth.
"You do not know what the Daughters have done to ruin my life." This statement stopped Serena's protests.
"What do you mean? What have they done? So does that mean you support the Atrox?"
"I never said I supported the Atrox. I hate it more then the Daughters. The Daughters ruined my life, the Atrox destroyed my life."
"I guess you are caught up in the middle of a big war. What exactly did the Atrox and the Daughters do to you?"
"I don't think I should tell you. And no matter what you say will make me change my mind." She added as Serena started to protest. "Let's just forget about the entire evening. I am not interested in your boyfriend, nor will I ever be."
"Fine," Serena consented
Jo walked Serena to her house in silence and when they reached it she nodded to her and walked away, sensing an evil presence nearby in the shadows. She knew it was Stanton and she didn't want to talk to him after learning that he had gone back to the Atrox freely, when he was given the chance to live a normal life. The night had almost turned into a disaster and Jo was relieved that she and Serena had made up. Tomorrow was Saturday and she planned to explore the more dangerous part of LA.
