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He was slightly swaying on the bench, unaware of my presence. His hood fell slightly back, and then just came off his head.

I gasped.

Beautiful bronze-red hair.

And then I realized the song he was playing. My lullaby.

Jane POV

Aro called me into his office the other day.

I didn't want to go, worried that I would act unlike I usually did and he would suspect something, but it would have been more unusual to not go.

Aro was kind to me. He would never hurt me. He had saved me, and he was like the father that I had lost, I reminded myself.

As I walked to the door, I thought about how just a few days ago I had woke up again inside, thanks to Lucky and Alice.

"Come in, Jane!" Aro exuberantly said. I acted cold and uncaring. "Yes, Aro."

I stood up in front of him, careful to avoid contact.

"I have a mission for you. It's very simple. All you have to do is kill just one person and one vampire this time. He has told a girl. It will be simple, so I'm going to send you with only Alice. You can leave tomorrow and come back early."

"Fine, Aro. I'll be here tomorrow," I said as I turned around to walk away.

"Oh, yes, and Jane?" Aro asked, pretending to be lighthearted.

"Yes, Aro?" I replied.

"I was talking to Roger yesterday," he said. Ha! That idiot Roger? What was he going to say? That I tortured him and then a monster came after him?

"Well, Jane, he was saying something about you scaring him," he said. Well, that wasn't abnormal. I toyed with vampires all the time.

"Well, what, Aro?" I said.

"Roger said that you were seen with Lucky," Aro continued. I froze.

"Well, what about it?" I asked.

"Jane, dearest, I don't think you should be with Lucky. Roger saw her the other day outside the feeding room, and she had stolen a woman away and let her go. I have kept notice of her these days. She keeps saving humans from the feeding room. Jane, she's a vegetarian."

What, Lucky was a vegetarian? But she never told me! She wouldn't keep something from me, would she?

"But Lucky can't be a vegetarian. Her eyes are red," I replied to Aro, unbelieving.

"Well, Jane, I have had some agents keep track of her. Today, when she said that she was going shopping, my agent said that she actually went to the forest and drank a deer!" Aro replied.

I still couldn't believe him. I was desperate to defend my friend. "But that doesn't explain her eyes!"

"I have a theory for that, too." He leaned in, posture tense, like he was going to tell me a secret.

"She has to be a shape-shifter. Lucky might not be Lucky at all." He whispered.

Aro was right. He was never wrong. His theory did explain everything.

They weren't my friends. Real friends tell each other who they really are.

How could I have fallen into the trap of friends again? I bet anything that Lucky told Alice, too.

They never liked me. Who was I kidding? They were friends with themselves.

They would have betrayed me, like Megan and Becky so many years ago. But at least this time I know beforehand to save me again from the pain.

"So, Jane, Don't associate with them anymore until we find out the truth about Lucky. Don't tell them that you know yet, okay? When the time is right, we'll come out together," Aro told me.

"Yes, Aro, of course," I replied, hurt.

"Okay, Jane, see you tomorrow. "

"Yes, Aro, see you tomorrow."

I walked out the door. My brain said that I hated Lucky. But somewhere, deep down, a microscopic part of my heart was saying that I wasn't sure.

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