Amy

While Hayden was off doing whatever it was he was doing-he just ran off, saying that someone needed his help-I was sipping on a beer. I'd had plenty back home, so I didn't get wasted as fast as a lot of other people my age. I'd grabbed the beer hoping that I could suck it down before Hayden got back. I didn't know where he'd gone, but I needed a little something to get me through all of this.

Here's just a little list of why I wanted part of my brain to not work: first-I was still a little weirded out at being in another dimension, second-there were bad dudes all around me and it was starting to freak me out, and third-the guy that I liked was going into battle against an evil fairy. At least that's what I thought might happen. Ben might not have even been there, which would be a good thing for me. I was dreading the time we went back to our dimension. I would have to go back with Sonny and Chad all over each other like cheetahs on antelopes.

For a minute that almost made me laugh, but then I came back to reality. I'd chugged my first beer, and I knew I was going to regret it later because it always gave me indigestion. Hayden hadn't come back, so I grabbed another. It wasn't hard here. Guys kept trying to hand me beers and instead of taking them and giving the guy and invitation to sit with me, I just said no and followed them back to where they got the beers in the first place.

I downed the second beer and was feeling nice a floaty. That's what my friends and I back home called it when we were first getting drunk. Floaty. I guess we called it that because our arms felt like they were floating and we felt like we could fly. But…floaty wasn't good enough at the moment. I needed to be just a little tipsy.

I grabbed another one and was halfway through it when someone grabbed my arm. It didn't hurt, but I could tell whoever it was meant to stop me from drinking. It didn't really surprise me when I looked away from the opening of the bottle and into Hayden's eyes.

"What are you doing?" he asked me.

"Okay, you don't understand the crap that I've been through all this time. You're used to all of this and I'm not. I don't like having these visions that make my head hurts and my eyes roll in the back of my head until it feels like they won't ever roll to the normal position. I don't like that I agreed to this thinking that it was all just a joke and then it turned out to be real.

"I also don't like the fact that I happened to really like Chad when I met him. I'd proved all of my friends wrong. They all said that they thought he was just a giant Hollywood jerk, and I told them that I didn't think that. When I met him and learned that he actually was sweet and nice, I kind of fell for him. Then I realize that the only reason he's acting like that is because he's with another girl who he loves so much that he's willing to die." I ended with a huff.

Hayden looked at me with sincere eyes. He hadn't said a word the whole time and he didn't look judgmental, or even tell me that I was a drama queen like Jewel would have. Instead, he said, "I know. But right now we need you. Just for a little while longer, and then I will take you back to your world myself. I feel like your bodyguard."

It was then that I realized how I felt about Hayden. I didn't love him, if that's what you're thinking. No, he was more like a brother to me. Someone that I didn't want harm to ever touch. I wanted to keep him safe in my embrace until I knew that we were both going to come out of this thing. More than ever, I wanted him to come back with me to my world and maybe find a way to be my friend and part of my family.

It was weird, how strong and effortless these relationships were. For a moment, I forgot Chad entirely and just wanted to be with Hayden. I could also see in his eyes that he felt the same way. He liked me, but in the way a brother likes his sister. We may have even loved each other, but I think that was because of the way he comforted me when I had my visions, and made sure that I was okay no matter what situation we were in.

"I'm sorry. I know that we have to be on alert. I think maybe we need to go find-"

I was interrupted by the now familiar feeling of a psychic moment coming. It wasn't as strong as it usually was because I was a little drunk. I could still talk, but it was a little hard because I was distracted by what I was seeing.

Sonny was on the ground. She was bleeding badly from her neck and Ben was holding some guy up in the air who looked like the burnt side of a cigarette. I knew that I was looking through Chad's eyes, even though I couldn't tell you exactly how I knew that. I was trying to speak to Hayden while watching this but it wasn't working very well.

"Hay…den." I said.

"Yes? What are you seeing?" he asked.

I managed to get one word out. "Chad." He automatically knew what was going on and he picked me up and we made our way to the spot where Hayden had last seen him. I could feel the wind and his arms around me, even though I couldn't see anything else. The wind stopped but I couldn't hear anything so I knew we weren't there.

"Hayden?" I asked. There was no reply. "Hello?" I knew I was in someone's arms, and I hadn't felt myself leave Hayden's arms, but his silence was scaring me. He put me down as I was seeing Ben pick Chad up.

"Shhh…" Hayden said. "I'm going over here for a second. Just stay here. I'll be right back."

I obeyed and just stayed there. What Hayden didn't know was that it didn't matter if I went or not, I saw everything that was going on over there.

***

Sonny

I could hear things going on around me. I knew that I was somewhere dangerous, and that I was about to die. What was surprising was that I wasn't scared at all. Chad was here, and he was doing his best to fight off Ben. Of course, I would love it if he were able to take me to hospital right now, but there was no way he was going to be able to do that with Ben in the way.

I was thinking about how Chad and I might have been if we went back to our dimension and back to how it used to be. Would we be together after everything that we'd been through? Maybe we would just go back to the way we were before, and pretend that we didn't like each other when we actually did. After this, though, I wanted to be with him.

There was definitely something going on around me. I couldn't move, but I could feel hands on me every now and then. I tried to figure out what was going on by sound, but it didn't work. There was too much going on. There was also someone coming into the woods from behind me. I could hear the footsteps.

Unfortunately, I didn't get to know about anything else that happened because I lost consciousness.

***

Chad

I guess I really didn't realize just how fast and strong Ben was. Then again, I'd only seen him in 2 different kitchens. Faster than I could see, he'd taken Sonny from my arms and put her on the ground, next to a tree. In another second, I was flying towards a tree. The impact was painful, but it didn't keep me from getting back up.

Sonny needed me, and she needed to go to a hospital. Even though it only took me seconds to get back up, it felt like hours. When I was up, I saw Ben for a clear instant before stars were clouding up my vision and everything was white. Ben took that opportunity to punch me in the jaw. I took my opportunity, then, to come back and hit him in the nose. This time was a lot harder than the time I punched the creep trying to kill Sonny.

I thought I broke one of my fingers. Ben looked at me with a look of shock.

"Look who's getting brave." he said. I just stared at him with a look of pure hatred. "You're really-"

I cut him off by hitting him in the gut. He really didn't see that coming because he doubled over and his face turned red. I could see Sonny behind him. She was still bleeding pretty bad, and right then she looked dead. But then I saw one of her fingers curl into a half-fist position and gained new hope. The hope dissolved as Ben tackled me to the ground.

"I hope you don't mind that I'm not using my powers. I thought we could do this the right way." he said.

"Oh, yeah? And what is that supposed to mean?" I replied.

"That I'm going to come down to your level, beat you, and the steal your girl."

During this little conversation, I'd been trying to get Ben off of my legs, but he was holding them down at a weird angle and it hurt sometimes.

Hayden decided to make his entrance, then. He ran faster than a human could to Ben, thumped him on the ear, and then ran back to a tree. Ben got mad and followed him, allowing me to get to Sonny. I had to limp because Ben had squeezed my legs so hard that one of them began to swell. When I tried to put Sonny in a sitting position I noticed that I probably had broken one of my fingers, or maybe more.

Sonny's eyes didn't open. Her breathing was so shallow that I couldn't tell that she was breathing at all. I knew she was because her pulse was fine…for now. Maybe the pulse wasn't a good thing. Every time her heart beat she lost more blood. My hope kept getting smaller and smaller. Her poor body just didn't get that it was damaged.

Her heart was stuck between beating and making her lose blood, or not bleeding and shutting her down. I tore off some of my shirt, which hurt tremendously. I put it on her neck to try and keep some of the blood from gushing out. I thought that I could keep enough blood in her until we could get her some help, but then Ben hit me and I fell to the ground.

"You can't come here and take her back, Cooper. We had a deal; she's mine." Ben said.

"We had a deal that you would take my most prized possession. Not Sonny. I don't own her." I yelled back. I reached back and grabbed a pretty fair-sized branch. Ben didn't see, and when he came at me to hit me again, I slashed his cheek open with the branch. He let out a shriek.

I looked around as he felt the side of his face to find that Hayden was lying half-on and half-off a log. He didn't look like he would be any more help. I turned and got on my hands and knees to get up, but Ben hit me on my back with something. A minute later, I felt the warmness going over my side. I turned to look at him, seeing the knife before anything else.

"I thought this was going to be a fair fight." I said.

"Oh, it was, until you brought preppy into it. Now I think I'm just gonna kill you." he replied.

I tried to turn to get away, but the pain was immense. So, I started to crab crawl. I don't care what you say, you may think that it wouldn't matter if you were hurt, that you would do anything to get away, but trust me, it's not like it is in the movies. That's about the time I started to lose.

Ben slowly cut across my stomach. It wasn't enough to rip me open, but it was enough to prick me in a few spots. But that's how he wanted it. He wanted me to be in a lot of pain before I died. And in that moment, when I should've been thinking about getting away from the knife that was coming my way, all I could think about was Sonny.

"Hayden?" I heard Amy's voice from outside of the woods. She must've been with him before, and couldn't see a thing now. I know I could barely see anything. Ben stopped the knife and smiled that wicked smile of his at me.

"Why don't I go meet your friend?" he asked. He turned, but then stopped in mid-step. I knew that Amy had already made it to the woods, because I heard her trip over a branch. All I could see of her was her blonde hair. Ben still didn't move as she got up, and I took that time to kick him. He fell with a thud.

I was prepared to grab the knife quickly, but when I-somehow-got him turned over, I couldn't find it. It took me a minute to realize why. When I kicked him down, he had fallen on his knife. I didn't know if that would kill him or not, but I didn't want to stick around to find out. I wanted to get Sonny-and probably Hayden-some help, and take Amy to go find Jewel.

I grabbed the knife out of his stomach and he made a gurgling noise. There was no way that I could stab him, it would feel way too wrong, even if he was the bad guy. I guess it looked like I was going to stab him because Amy flung herself at him and said, "Wait!"

"Why should I wait?" I asked.

"Because I'm seeing something. He's not all bad. He just wants someone with him. I feel a connection with him." she said.

"Whoa, Amy, you're talking like a crazy person." I replied. I heard a crunching sound and turned to see Hayden popping his neck. He got up and walked over to us.

"This is why I came with you guys." he said when he reached me.

"What are you talking about?" I asked.

"Amy. Jewel apparently likes to keep a lot of secrets from you. Amy looks a lot like Ben's ex in the face. She may have been chosen by the fates and not you to come here. Maybe her purpose is to stay here with Ben. That is, if Ben survives." Hayden explained.

Amy whipped her head up in the direction of Hayden and I. I could see her now, but I didn't know why. It took me a minute to see someone coming up to the woods with a light. Amy had tears in her eyes. "He can't die."

Okay, this was so crazy! I didn't know what I was going to do. My life had become so messed up and I didn't know how to handle this. It felt like forever before Jewel finally got to us with the light. She was smiling. Smiling!

"You've done it." she said.

"Wait. What have I done?" I asked. Hayden stifled a laugh, apparently hearing the perverted side of that.

"You've done what the fates wanted you to do. Ah, how I love my job." she said.

Ben stood up, slowly. He spat blood and then took Amy in his arms. She was still crying. I didn't know for sure, but I thought I saw a tear rolling down his cheek. "Shush. It's okay." he said, and smiled.

"We were all working together. We all needed things out of this. I needed to guide you to gain admittance into…well, you should know." Jewel smiled. "Ben has been waiting for Amy for a long time. She is his partner. They were born in separate years and he had to wait for her. They may have a little trouble with the age thing for a while, but they will be fine.

"Hayden was here to watch out for Amy. Of course, we hadn't planned out everything. Sonny, here, needs attention. Poor thing. Ben didn't know what was going to happen to her. She'll be fine when you get home, though. I wish I could explain more, but you won't remember much when you get back, so it really doesn't matter. We'll see you later." Jewel finished, and when I blinked, I was back in my back yard.

***

Sonny

I woke up and was surprised I didn't hurt. Hell, I was surprised that I was even alive. I looked around and screamed. It wasn't a fearful scream; it was an excited and happy scream. I jumped up off of the couch and ran up the stairs. I found the room that I knew Chad would be in and slammed it open. There he was. Laying in bed, sleeping like an angel. He didn't even wake up when the door hit the wall.

I know this is going to sound really bad, but I climbed into bed with him. How could I not after everything we had been through? I'd been taken away and he got me back. Did that prove that he loved me? Why did he do that? Then I wondered why I'd gotten in bed with him. Yeah, I was excited and I was happy that he saved me, but that really didn't give me a right to crawl in bed with him, did it?

No, of course not. I would just have to wait for him to wake up for me to thank him for-

"Sonny?" Chad whispered. His eyes were fluttering open and he was trying to look at me. His hand cupped my face.

"Oh, hey Chad. I didn't mean to…well…how did you sleep?" I asked.

"Perfectly. That is, knowing that you were safe. I thought that jerk Ben was going to keep you from me." he replied. He blinked again. "Sonny! I remember!" he yelled, sitting up.

"What are you talking about? Of course you remember. Why wouldn't you?" I asked.

"Jewel said she was going to wipe our memories. This is amazing!" he screamed. It made me smile, seeing him so happy. He stopped smiling for a second and his eyes locked on me. For some reason, I felt like he was going to jump on me… I was right.

Chad pushed my down on the bed and kissed me. He kissed me!

It was hot and wild and filled with love. A hunger that had been building inside of us had surfaced and didn't want to go away. I wanted to fulfill this hunger. I wanted to be full…and in order to do that…

Chad pulled away. I was about to protest when he put his fingers on my lips.

"I want this to be special, Sonny. I want you to know…I love you." he said.

"You have no idea how long I've been waiting to hear that." I replied.

I don't know how long we sat there and kissed, but I do know that we spent the entire day together. The future was looking bright… Who knew? Maybe one day I would be Mrs. Sonny Coo-

Oh, well. I guess you're just going to have to find my next journal to find out…you peeping Tom!!!

The End of Book One