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Seth: Hannah, what have you done?
Me: What do you mean what have I done?
Seth: Five thousand, nine hundred and fifty-seven words. Really Hannah?
Me: My fingers were possessed I couldn't stop typing!
Chapter 2
Psychology for Dummies
(Seth's POV)
I woke up smiling not knowing why. Then I remembered last night, I have a date today.
I pulled my shoe out of the wall and then stumbled out to the kitchen.
Jake was making about a dozen eggs in a huge frying pan.
I greeted him with a "Hey Jake"
I must have had a huge smile on my face or something because Jake asked me "What's with you Seth you look like you imprinted."
What should I tell him? That I might have imprinted on a maybe-vamp.
"You didn't imprint did you?" He asked grabbing my shoulders when he saw me panic.
It was then that Edward, Bella and Nessie came into the kitchen.
"What happened?" Nessie asked looking at Jake "We heard raised voices"
"Seth might have imprinted" Jake explained, "He's not telling me though"
How would I tell him yeah I met a girl that may or may not be a vampire and ten times more powerful then a newborn.
I then remembered Ed's powers "Can you explain?" I asked him mentally
"I can try," He told me eyebrows squished together.
"Try what?" asked Bella "Edward Can we please have a verbal conversation?"
"Seth met a girl who might be a vampire," He stated calmly.
"What? How could someone might be a vampire?" Jake asked angrily
"Well I don't know Jake," I said to his face "Maybe they sparkle in sunlight but have copper eyes. Maybe they are breathtakingly beautiful but they're scent is mouthwatering and doesn't make your skin crawl."
"Mouthwatering huh?" Jake asked one of his eyebrows rose "You sure you didn't imprint?"
"She could be a half-vampire like Nessie." Bella said weaving her hand through her daughters bronze hair.
"I don't think Nessie can jump the Mat-su River I one leap," I told them.
Carlisle walked in with the rest of the Cullens having heard the conversation "If there is a half-breed out there we need to get to her before the Voturi does." He said worry creasing his eyebrows.
"Well I'm kind of going to see her later on today near Hatcher's Pass I'll try to convince her to come back here with me." I offered.
"Invite her back to your place after the first date. Nice" Emmett laughed.
"You know what I mean," I said annoyed.
It was then that Alice spoke "Ok we will deal with this later school starts in an hour and we need to get ready. Jake, Seth, your clothing is laid out on your beds. Eat then go get dressed." She told us before she dragged Bella into her room.
We wolfed down the eggs and headed towards our rooms.
I looked at Jake and groaned, "I hope they aren't matching outfits"
"I'd rather go naked," he said trudging off to get dressed.
Ever since we came to Alaska Alice has been dragging us into malls and forcing us to try on multiple outfits trying to find our "look" for school. Supposedly, it's tight shirts.
I groaned when I saw the outfit on my bed. There was a pair of dark blue jeans and a forest green T-shirt that was two sizes to small. What was she thinking? That I would burst out of my shirt during health class. I heard Edward chuckle in the living room.
It took great effort but I finally was able to get the shirt on without ripping it. It felt weird wearing a shirt and it was even weirder that I didn't feel weird that it felt weird wearing a shirt.
Jake and I came out at the same time, he wearing a dark purple shirt the same size as mine.
"I swear I'm going to kill that little pixy" he stated angrily "Come on purple?"
"At least we aren't matching," I said trying to be optimistic.
He snorted and stomped of to the living room, looking like he was trying to burst his shirt.
Jake, Nessie, and I were all riding the bus to school; Nessie's Jaguar wasn't here yet. So grabbed my backpack and headed for the bus stop.
If you looked at Nessie now you wouldn't believe she was having her third birthday next month. After the problem with the Volturi, nearly three years ago, Nessie started growing at an even faster rate.
Carlisle ran some tests and found that when she bit Jake she digested some of his blood and it was doubling her already fast growth rate. Right now she looked six times her age and would stop growth next month according to Carlisle's theory.
Nessie, who has been "home schooled" since birth, would start as a sophomore at the new school.
Mat-su Career and Technical High School was a school like no other. It focused on career pathways and taught the students everything they needed to know about them. The students could take elective classes about a career while taking regular high school classes like English and Math.
Edward would be taking some Medical classes obviously.
Nessie would be taking some Culinary Arts classes, fancy way of saying cooking classes.
Jake would be taking Mechanics Classes.
Alice would be taking Architectural Design classes and Jasper; surprisingly Bella too would be taking Law classes.
I, like Edward, would be taking Medical classes. Maybe I could find out why vampires sparkle in the sun or how werewolves imprinted, the latter being the most important.
Emmett, Rose and Leah were going to the local collage for different degrees.
It was then that the big yellow bus stopped at the edge of the drive. The ride was long to the school with everyone staring at the three of us in the back of the bus.
When we got to the school, we met the rest of the Cullens in the office to get our schedules and locker combinations. We all compared schedules; I had all my elective classes with Edward. Edward though had all the rest of his classes with Bella no surprise there.
I headed for my locker, fumbled with the lock till it opened and saw the girl next to me with long red brown hair drop one of her many books. I bent over the same time she did and placed my hand on the book titled "Psychology for dummies".
She unknowingly placed her hand on mine and I was surprised to find her that her hand was warm nothing was warm to me.
It was then that I looked up and my mouth dropped, I was looking at the girl I'd seen in the woods yesterday, the one I'd imprinted on. She was staring right back at me like she recognized me, but there was no way she could have, I was in wolf form. Could she?
She snapped out of the trance first, stood up and said a quiet "Thanks"
"No problem" I answered getting up and giving her the book.
She looked at me for a moment contemplating something then offered me her hand saying "I'm Luna McCarthy, sophomore"
I took her hand careful not to grab too hard, and found it was burning hot. So much for the vampire theory.
"I'm Seth Clearwater, sophomore too" I said trying to sound normal as could be.
"So um … What Pathway are you in?" she asked putting her books in her locker.
"Medical" I answered. Although it came out like a question.
Her eyes beamed "Me too! What's your schedule? She asked eagerly "If you don't mind my asking," she added shyly.
I showed it to her and she pulled out hers.
Mat-su Career and Technical High School
Student Schedule
Name: McCarty, Luna M. DOB: 10/01/94 Grade: 10 Year: 2010
S1 S2
P1 Health Occupations P1 Medical Terminology
P2 Physiology / Sociology P2 Intro to pharmacy
P3 English P3 Pharmacology
P4 Medical Math P4 English
P5 Calculus P5 Calculus
P6 Physical Science P6 Physical Science
P7 World History P7 World history
"Hey we have English and Medical Math together," I said excited.
I looked at the rest of her schedule and found she was taking Calculus wow this girl was smart, insanely so.
"So are you going to become a psyche nurse or something?" she suddenly asked, while I walked her to first period.
"A what?" I asked confused.
"You now those really buff man nurses that hold down psychopaths when they administer their medicine. Like the guy who busted Hannibal Lector's shoulder in Silence of the lambs." She said explaining.
Wow, she knew her psycho movies.
"Oh you think I should?" I asked looking at her.
"Well you certainly got the body for it." She answered looking me up and down generously.
"It depends though if you're smart enough not to let them get to your head. Although you made it in to this school so you must have some brains," she said smiling.
"You must have some too Ms. Calculus" I pointed to her schedule.
She blushed. Gosh, I loved her blush.
"I just got my mandatory math classes done in middle school so I don't have to pay for them in collage" She said in thought "but then again I'm not paying for collage anyway."
The first bell rang and she headed of to her first class.
"Well I'll see you at lunch," She said looking back at me.
"Yeah" I agreed lamely.
First period flew by fast and I found myself sitting next to Jake in Biology.
"So what's her name?" he asked in a voice so low only I could hear.
"Who are you talking about?" I answered in the same tone.
"You know exactly who I'm talking about" He said annoyed "The girl you met in the hall in a way straight out of a movie, and obviously been thinking about every second since."
He knew me well. There was no good playing dumb.
"Luna McCarthy, sophomore, Medical pathway, insanely smart and way out of my league. Recreationally a maybe vampire" I said looking him in the eyes.
"What! You mean-"He started.
"Yes she's the one I saw in the woods yesterday, the one I imprinted on." I sighed in defeat.
He grinned at me in triumph "I knew it!" he yelled earning us a few stares. "You need to talk to her"
"Yeah I just walk up and say, "Hello, Are you a vampire? I just imprinted on you, that means that we're soul mates and probably getting married in the future oh and I'm a werewolf" I said annoyed.
"I didn't tell Ness we'd imprinted till a couple months ago," He informed me as the bell rang. "So I think you should take it slow and wait till you guys are more then just high school crushes then drop the Imprint/Werewolf bomb."
"Ok Doctor Phil" I said sarcastically as we headed for lunch.
As soon as we entered the lunchroom, my eyes searched for her and I soon found her at a small table at the back of the room, surrounded by several people I didn't know. I smiled at the fact that she was looking for me too. She smiled widely when she found me and waved over.
"I suppose your not eating with us, are you?" Jake stated.
"Nope" I said smiling again "Could you explain to everybody?"
"Sure, Sure" He said as he be-lined for Nessie.
I walked over to Luna's table and sat down across from her.
"Hey Luna"
"So um … Let me introduce you to everybody," she said.
"This is Sam, medical pathway, she wants to be a Vet with her boyfriend Austin undecided about his career," she said pinching a blonde girl with glasses who was staring at me.
"The shorty over there is Tori not Victoria, Culinary pathway; she wants to be a chef"
"The bronze haired dude next to Tori is her boyfriend Jason, Business pathway, wants to be a lawyer"
"This redhead right here, which is staring intently at her crush Nick, is Ashleigh the future architect. Don't worry if she bites, that means she likes you." Ashleigh smiled widely showing her teeth.
"Everyone this is Seth the maybe future Psyche Nurse" She said smiling again.
Ashleigh perked up at the word psyche "Hey if you get a place at A.P.I. can you swipe me a straightjacket or a face mask if Luna doesn't come through?" She asked very serious.
"What's A.P.I.?" I asked confused.
Sam answered now "It's the local Nut House stands for Alaska Psychiatric Institute. Luna was thinking about working there, she wants to be a shrink, the little weirdo," Sam said as she tickled Luna's sides making her screech and wiggle around.
"Yeah Luna has already put away a nut so I, don't see her having trouble getting a job there" Tori told me while Sam and Luna tickled each other.
"What do you mean?" I asked interested.
"Last year a girl from school, Breanna Erwin, told everyone that Luna was a vampire and that she had bit her and drank her blood. She was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and was sent to API." Tori explained. Sam and Luna stopped.
"You forgot the part when Breanna took a scalpel, slit her wrist then shoved it in my mouth during class trying to prove that I was a vampire." Luna added coldly and I swear her eyes flashed red.
My blood ran cold.
"So lets move on to a lighter subject" Ashleigh said nervously "Hey Luna you, me, my trampoline, midnight, you in?"
"Only if you remember the knock off Cheese-Its." She smiled showing her dimples. "Sam, Tori you in?" Luna said suddenly excited.
Trampoline?...Midnight?...Knock off Cheese-Its?
The girls started planning their little get together and I was confuzzled.
Jason saw my confused face and explained, "The girls have this little ritual they have to do every Monday."
"They sit on Ashleigh's trampoline at midnight and eat knock off cheese-its while playing Truth or Dare" Austin added smiling "We've gone to a few they're really creepy and the girls scream like every two seconds."
"Jason, Austin, Seth, you in?" Tori asked eagerly.
"Tori and I can pick up Austin," Sam offered.
"I can walk it's only like four seconds to Ashleigh's" Jason added.
"Hey Seth were do you live?" Luna asked, "I'm not trying to be a stocker I just want to know if we need to pick you up"
"Its ok I can walk" I assured her.
"If you walk more then ½ a mile I won't let you on my trampoline" Ashleigh said sticking her tongue out at me "Were do you live?"
"I live on Palmer-Fishhook about half a mile from the highway in a big house" I said trying to explain.
"No way so you're the one who moved in to that monster of a house? You guys must have deep pockets because that thing is huge!" Ashleigh said wide eyed.
"That's great I'm the second green house on Ryder I can pick you up and we can walk to Ashes." Luna said totally psyched.
"So are your parent's drug-dealers or something?" Austin asked jokingly.
No, I just live with a 300 something-year-old vampire/ $34.5 billionaire and his family.
"No my older sister and I are staying with some rich friends of the family plus I'm emancipated." I explained.
"Hey Luna is too" Sam added.
"Yeah my parents died in a fire 2 years ago. Now I live in my older brother's house while he works up in Barrow." Luna explained as if it was nothing. "So where are you from?"
"I was born and raised in Washington on the Reservation near Forks."
Luna's Eyes went wide "You don't know an Embry Call do you? "
"Yes… How" I stuttered, how did she now Embry?
"He's my cousin. I was born in Forks and raised just outside the Rez my Mom was part Quileute. After my parents died we were sent up here to live with my oldest brother." She explained. "How do you know him?"
"He was one of my friends from school," I told her.
"Wow small world." Jason stated. I'd all but forgotten our audience.
"All the people from Washington are infesting our humble Alaska," Ashleigh said with mock panic on her face.
"Washingtonians Unite!" Luna said jetting her fist out. I bumped my fist to hers and smiled.
The Bell rang and we headed for English…together.
Sadly, we already had assigned seats and Luna had to sit on the other side of the room. I sat by Austin; I at least knew his name. Austin was acting as if he wanted to tell me something so I whispered, "Spit it out Austin "
"You need to know something about Luna." He said very seriously. "I know you like her so don't say you don't, Okay?"
"Okay" I said warily.
"I'm not saying this because I like her I'm telling you this because you look like a decent guy and I don't want to see you end up like the others."
"Others?" I asked very creeped out.
"The other guys that liked her. Some how her brothers always find out and have a little "talk" with them, and then all of a sudden that guy doesn't like her anymore."
"So she has overprotective brothers?" I questioned worried.
"Ha, that's an understatement" He told me. "All 5 of them have anger management problems and have been to North-Star. Doesn't help that they are the most ripped guys on the face of the earth."
"I doubt that." I said thinking of Sam and Jake.
"Really, well you can see for your self, ones in our next class" He said smiling.
I jumped when the bell rang, making Austin laugh.
I tensely walked to my next class hoping she wouldn't see me.
"Hey Seth wait up" she called after me and I had no choice but to turn around.
"Did Austin tell you the rumors?" She asked me smiling.
"Yeah. They true?"
"Is the Pope catholic? Just kidding No I spread those. My brothers are pretty nice guys and I want you to meet one." She said dragging me to class, whoa, this girl is strong.
Before I was able to protest, she had me halfway through the door of the classroom.
"Luna, are you sure he won't eat me or something?" I asked when I saw him. The only similarity between him and his sister was that they both had dimples.
While she had ivory skin, copper eyes and red brown hair, he had tan skin, green eyes and black hair. For some weird reason he reminded me of Emmett maybe it was the fact that he was about 6' 5", insanely ripped (Austin wasn't joking) and had dimples.
When she saw him, she flashed me a devilish grin and put a finger up to her lips. I stared in shock as she snuck up behind him and started tickling him. He gave a surprised yelp then caught on and started tickling her back.
What's with all the tickling? Is it and Alaska thing or just something that happens at this school? I'll have to ask her later.
As I was watching the two of them play around like 5 year olds, I was suddenly very jealous of Luna. Here she had a loving older sibling that didn't lash out at anyone who got too close. Her older brother didn't get hurt once then clam up and wouldn't let anyone in, even her. She could smile around her brother with out worrying that it would upset him.
"You guys done or are you playing to the death?" I asked amused.
"Seth this is Ashton my youngest older brother, Ashton this is Seth. He's from La Push, and knows Embry," She said giving her brother a wink and a grin.
Ashton looked me up and down sizing me up then burst into a dimpled smile. "Welcome to Alaska your Jake's cousin right?"
"Yeah how did you know?" I asked surprised.
"I still keep in touch with Embry, he tells me things" He smiled.
"So… my sister Leah is taking courses at the collage." I said trying to make conservation.
"Hey my other brother Logan takes classes there too," Luna, said smiling.
"Everyone, take your seats. Girls on this side, boys on that side" The teacher announced.
Ashton and I sat in the very back of the room.
I held back a laugh when I noticed there was no one in the seats around us. Were we that intimidating?
Thankfully, the teacher wasn't feeling like giving us a lector on how privileged we are to be at this school and how we must rise up and be the best we can be, like so many others had done.
Instead, he told us to tell everyone our name and something interesting about ourselves. Most people said something like "I have glasses" or "I'm a boy!"
Luna smiled and said, "My name is Luna and my socks never match"
I nearly fell out of my chair when it was Ashton's turn because everyone laughed when he stood up and announced, "My name is Ashton and I'm a werewolf." He sat down then winked at me.
Then I remembered it was my turn. "Um I'm Seth and me too." Luna whipped her head to look at me, burst out in to a smile and mouthed, "I knew it!"
I spent the rest of the day sneaking a couple glances at Luna smiling when I caught her sneaking a few. Wow, I've been smiling a lot.
During the last period, all I could think about was what Ashton had said. "I'm a werewolf" Did he mean it? He certainly could be one. What would that mean?
What had Luna meant when she mouthed, "I knew it!" Did she know it was I that chased her yesterday? I was pondering this when I remembered I had this class with Edward.
"Your secrets safe with me" He said in a voice to low for humans to hear.
"Thanks I'll tell them when I know more," I told him mentally.
When last period was out, I headed for my locker. Unsurprisingly, Luna was there.
"Hey Seth" She smiled flashing her dimples "Here is my number. Ask who you need to if you can come to Ashes tonight and if it's a yes call me and I'll come pick you up, if it's a no still call me and I'll kidnap you." She said giving me a piece of paper.
We walked down to the parking lot together.
"When would you be coming over?" I asked
"Around 10 maybe" She said thinking.
"See you at 10 then" I told her smiling.
"See you Seth," She added before skipping over to her brothers 1974 Fiat Spider. (Picture should be on my Myspace soon)
I looked down at the paper in my hand and smiled.
1-800-CALL-LUNA
Just kidding 982-3320
I got on the bus and sat across from Jake and Ness.
"Guess what Seth" Jake said smiling mischievously.
"What?" I asked cautious.
"You have to tell Leah about Luna," he said handing me his phone.
"Try and break it to her slowly," Nessie said, peaking over Jake to look at me "I like Luna; she's in my calculus class"
"Did you say anything to her?" I asked intrigued.
"Yeah but we mostly just talked about you" She giggled.
"What-"I started but Jake cut me off.
"Either tell her on the phone or tell her face to face." He told me throwing the phone.
"Okay, okay I'll tell her." I said as I punched in Leah's number.
Leah answered on the fist ring, sounding excited. "Hello?"
"Hey Leah um something happened at school."
"Same here" She sounded like was going to tell me she won the lottery.
"You first" I said wanting to postpone the shouting until came up with a plan.
"I don't know how to explain it but… Seth I imprinted"
I didn't know I was sitting halfway of the seat until I was on the floor.
"You what?" I asked breathlessly
"I was in class, I asked the guy next to me for a pencil and I imprinted." She said happiness flowing with each word.
"Wow Leah that's… Great." I said not knowing what to say.
"So what did you want to tell me?" She asked now
"Roughly the same thing." I said nonchalantly.
"You mean?" She asked excited.
"Yes Leah I imprinted too" I said finally telling her.
I heard her squeal of joy then a rush of things like "Oh this is great, the first day in Alaska and we've both imprinted", "I want to meat her ASAP." And "Oh you should meet Logan he's unbelievable."
"Um Leah I got to go now we'll finish this later" I told her.
"Ok Seth, love you." She said totally surprising me.
"Yeah you too." I said hanging up.
"Did I hear what I thought I heard?" Jake asked with his mouth open.
"Well if you heard that Leah imprinted, then yes you heard right." I said a little smug.
He probably thought she would scream and yell at me. I thought she would scream and yell at me.
Leah, my sister, imprinted. How should I feel about that? I felt happy for her no doubt about that, but should I go up and threaten the guy or thank him for living?
I guess I'd have to deal with that later because the bus arrived at our stop.
I could see Jake was thinking of ways to trash the shirt he was wearing, he was pulling at it testing its strength. Alice couldn't see us so she wouldn't be able to stop him.
I don't know what the big deal was, the tight shirt worked out well for me at school.
When I got in to the house, I heard Edward laughing in the living room and remembered his ability.
"Don't tell Alice." Jake whispered under his breath to Edward as he entered the house.
Alice then walked in "Don't tell me what?"
"Umm… Seth imprinted" Jake said hiding behind me.
"Thanks Jake very helpful" I muttered under my breath.
Alice was ecstatic "It was the shirt wasn't it? I knew it I knew this would happen." She giggled before giving me a bone-crushing hug.
"Are you saying you can see werewolves now?" Ed asked laughing at the situation.
It was then that Bella walked in "Alice, honey what are you doing to Seth?"
Alice let go of me and danced over to Bella. "Seth imprinted!"
"What? How?" Bella looked at me "Oh Seth I'm so happy for you" she gave me a hug too.
"Wow last time someone imprinted you broke my collarbone. Now you give me a hug?" I laughed.
Alice pulled Bella off me and dragged me over to the couch. "Tell me everything." She demanded.
"I can help with that," said a sweet soprano voice. "He won't get it right." Nessie explained before she sat down on the couch next to Alice.
"So I was walking down the hall looking for my locker when I saw Seth. I was about to go up and ask him for help when the girl next to him dropped one of the books, whether on accident or purpose I'm not sure but the ladder is more plausible."
"Anyway, so like the kind gentleman we all know Seth is. He bent over to pick up her book and…" She paused.
"And what?" Alice asked eagerly. "What happened?"
"The girl bent over at the same time and their fingers touched. It was then that Seth looked up and their eyes met. I swear it was straight out of a movie." She finished.
I could hear Jasper laughing from upstairs. He flitted down the stairs. "That is totally chick-flick material."
"Our whole life is like a demented, gothic, chick-flick." Jake added flopping down on a chair.
I pulled out Luna's number from my pocket and remembered "Hey …um I was invited over to a friend's house for a little back to school thing at midnight." I told anybody.
"Midnight?" Bella asked, "What type of friends are these, vampires?"
"I truly don't know," I said getting up from the couch.
"Now what does that mean?" Alice asked
"Jake if I go I'd be able to find out what she is," I told him ignoring Alice's questions about what I said.
"What who is?" Bella asked, "Jake tell me"
"The girl Seth imprinted on, Luna is also the girl he saw in the woods last night and she might be some type of hybrid." Edward explained to Bella.
"Seth, gather as much information as you can tonight with out being obvious." Jake told me standing up. "We need to know more before we do anything."
"I agree" Carlisle announced as he entered the room. "I need to talk to everybody in the dinning room."
"Can it wait till Leah and the others get back I think she should be here if it's that important." Jake asked Carlisle "They should be here any minute."
"Or right now" Nessie said before we heard Roes pull up in her BMW.
The others knew something was up when we saw both Leah and Rose grinning ear to ear.
As soon as Leah spotted me, she ran over, jumped the couch and swung me around in a hug. It was funny to see because I was almost two feet taller then her.
"Is it national hug Seth day?" Jake snorted, "What is that like, your third one?"
"This is like the best day ever!" Leah announced.
"What happened?" Bella sounded worried.
"Seth didn't tell you?" She shot a questioning look at me.
"Hey I haven't had a chance. Jake told them about me and they have been talking so much I wasn't able to tell them about you." I defended.
"No way. We just got here. This is… wow." Edward said staring at Leah and me.
"What is it?" Bella demanded getting angry.
It was Rose that answered just as ecstatic as Leah was. "Leah Imprinted too!"
"Wait Seth imprinted?" Emmett questioned sitting on the other couch.
"Yeah and Emmett you should have been there it was straight out of a chick-flick." Jake said smiling at me. "Hey Nessie can you show him?"
"Sure" Nessie said before putting her hand against his face. His eyes glazed over and I saw Edward close his eyes seeing too.
When she finished Emmett and Edward were laughing so hard it shook the whole room "Wow that was totally movie material"
"Sorry to intrude on the merry making, but now that the others are here can we all confide in the dinning room?" Carlisle asked ushering us to the huge table.
We all took a seat and gave Carlisle are undivided attention.
He took his place at the head of the table. "Now that we are all here I would like to tell you something I found out about the girl Seth met the woods yesterday."
"I called Eléazar and asked if he knew anything about her when he told me something very …interesting."
"Carlisle can you please just spit it out" Rose asked impatient.
"He said that we didn't need to worry about Luna catching the Volturi's attention. That she knew the rules and could take care of herself. When I asked him how he knew her and why he was so sure they wouldn't find her, he answered-"
"Carlisle I think I know my own granddaughter."
Tell me what you think please. Next chapter should be up next week. I less then three you all!
-Hannahbal the Cannibal