Love is just a game that everyone should no how to play. People talk of love and how great it is but sometimes it tears people in half and sometimes destroys them all together…

We finished dinner and piled into the van again. It was full of meaningless chatter everyone avoiding the question at hand. What do we do now?

We drove, for what seemed like endless hours. Derek was my pillow when I occasionally drifted into unconsciousness. We stopped, I'm not sure where I was half asleep so Derek carried me again and put me in a bed. A motel maybe?

Someone touched my arm gently. I bolted up and looked around. Derek stood. Immediately I knew what was happening I through off the blankets found my jacket and tennis shoes. "Where are the closest woods?" I asked after I had slipped my shoes on.

"A quarter mile."

"Can you last?"

He nodded absently scratching his arm. "Is it bad?" I wondered aloud as we slipped out the back door. I slung my book bag over my arm, it was just a precaution.

"No, not as bad as before." He winced as a spasm shot through his back. I started walking faster, he kept stride with me easily.

"I can't believe Taylor betrayed us." I said as we entered the woods.

"I should have known." Derek said shaking his head before wincing again. We came to a small clearing with a big rock in the center. He moved behind a bush striping to his boxers and getting down on all fours. I sat on the rock.

"This isn't nearly as-" Derek started before grinding his teeth together as his back shot up.

"You're doing fine." I murmured to him in a calming voice. A wave of naseaua hit him; vomit sprayed the ground in five seconds flat.

He turned into a wolf after another spasm. "Well that was fast." I said stroking his luxuriously soft black fur. He snorted and nodded his head with a smile on his uh muzzle.

Derek ran around the little clearing happily. He was like a baby puppy, full of energy. I laughed at him as he made circles around me. When he stopped he was panting.

"Chloe! Derek!" Simon's voice rang out and his figure loomed at the edge of the clearing. Tori followed behind him.

He stopped and Tori ran into him. "What the-" She stopped. "Holy- is that Derek?" She seemed to be able to talk but Simon stood there silent for a moment.

I smiled and nodded. "Yep." Why is he acting retarded? He's seen Derek in wolf form before. He just has to get used to the fact that's all.

Derek walked over to where they were standing and looked at Simon. Finally he smiled and patted his head.

"So why are you here?" I asked coming up next to Derek.

"I saw you leave and right after you left we were attacked by the Edison Group. Everyone had to go their spate ways. I grabbed Tori and ran." Simon said holding both Derek's and his backpacks.

'I looked for yours but…" Tori looked at me and saw it was on my arm. "Oh."

"Thanks but I thought something was going to happen but I told myself I was just being paranoid." Tori cracked a smile.

"You would."

"Hey people." Simon said waving his hand. "The Edison Group is less than a mile away we need to leave like now."

I hoisted my backpack up on my shoulders and nodded. "Yeah, let's go." We jogged, our backpacks hit our backs and our footsteps hit the earth in synchronization; other than that there were no other noises.

Here we go again. On the run with no real home… again.

Author's Note

Okay it's late and I'm tired so I'm going to make this short. Once again thank you to my regular readers! I just wanted to inform you all that this is really interfering with the book I am currently writing so the chapters may not come as fast. I'd quit the book but I'm having so much fun writing this that I couldn't do that and I'm right in the middle of the best parts! So I won't do that. Sorry this chapters so short I felt like I needed to put one in and this was just a fill in, it's not good. So much for this being short. ;) I have been deciding on whether or not to bring Ramon and Liam back because you don't know what really happened after Chloe fell unconscious. But let me know if I should and if you have ideas of where. Sorry this is so long but I guess I'll end it now.

Hope