Author's note: Hey everyone, I might not be updating as often as I was, because my laptop's battery needs replacing which I just can't afford for a while. Hopefully I'll be back to updating at least once a week, but bear with me, folks! This couldn't have come at a worse time, haha. Hope you enjoy the story. :)

Fayette left Benny that morning to go to her first class of the day, in a significantly better mood than she would have been in than if she hadn't seen him. Something about the clumsy boy with the cheesy lines and the wide smile just made her giddy. She'd liked boys before, sure. She got the occasional butterfly in her stomach, the sweaty palms, and the racing heart. As dumb as it may have sounded, it all intensified around Benny.

She walked to class, not even realizing a broad smile splayed across her face, when an all too familiar voice broke the little bubble of her happy thoughts. "Someone's in a good mood."

Turning her head so quickly she almost gave herself whiplash, Fayette looked upon the one face she did not want to see. Leaning against the wall, there the slender boy with the russet colored hair stood, a sneer across his otherwise handsome face.

"Rowan." Though her voice only come out in a whisper, it was full of hatred and anger, but not fear. She would never fear this boy. "You can't be here."

"Oh, sweetie. Your little daisy charms can't protect you forever. We're growing stronger every day, and your time is nearly up." Rowan, though feet away from her, circled around her.

Fayette gave him a dirty look. "And yet you still can't come within three feet of me. I'm terrified, really. I'm trying to live a normal life here, so if you could scurry off to the forest, have your tea party with the squirrels, and leave me be, that'd be fantastic."

Rowan snickered, watching as students passed him by without a second glance, as if he didn't even exist. "I could take you away from here right now, and no one would even know or care. You don't belong with these people, Fay."

"Don't call me that. And I know one person who would care."

"Aw, your little boyfriend, Benny Bear?" Rowan rested his hand upon his cheek, mocking Fayette. "Right, but even he doesn't know your little secret. In a week, he'd forget you even existed. You know, just associating yourself with him puts him in so much danger. He's being watched."

Fayette started to walk away, down the now-empty hallway.

"You either come with me, or he gets hurt."

At that, she stopped in her tracks. Rowan smiled, feeling as though he won. Fayette walked back towards him, three feet away, reaching into the pocket of her dress. Something crushed and red was in her hand, which she blew in Rowan's direction.

He immediately felt the effects and shouted, "Crushed poppy petals? Oh, you clever little girl...but you're not safe for long, Fay." Before disappearing, his green eyes flashed red.

Once he had gone, Fayette knew it wouldn't be safe to be around this school. She didn't want any harm to come to Benny. So she had to do the one thing she tried doing the first day she'd known him... Disappear.

Later

Fayette watched Benny leave the class, following after him. He stepped out of the room, in a hurry to nowhere in particular.

"Where are you going?" she asked, positive he couldn't hear her in this state.

Benny stopped what he was doing and turned. "Fayette?"

She froze. How did he hear her? Scrunching her eyes up, she decided to make herself visible.

Taking Benny by total surprise, Fayette had to rush to cover his mouth before he screamed.

"Calm down. Walk with me, and I promise to explain. But you can not panic, and you definitely can't scream in the middle of school. Got it?" she said, still holding her hand over his mouth.

His wide eyes softened as he nodded. Removing her hand, Fayette led him out of the doors of the school, unprepared to reveal herself to this boy she'd only known for a while, but aware that was her only viable option.

"Have you seen Benny anywhere?" Ethan asked Sarah after school by her locker. "I texted him, but he hasn't responded yet."

"Last time I saw him was during lunch when..." Sarah remembered her discussion with Benny, and covered her eyes with her hand. "Oh, no. It completely slipped my mind. You know those scars that you saw on Fayette's back in your vision?"

Ethan leaned his body against the wall, nodding.

"Well, Benny saw them on her today. He wants us to try doing some more research tonight. So my guess is he left early to do some of his own, or he's off doing Benny things."

"Should we go now?"

"Yeah, let me just grab my homework so I can do it at your house," Sarah said, closing her locker door and hoisting her bag onto her shoulder.