I woke up to the sound of someone softly calling my name. I opened my eyes to see Liz, my friend from the Lyle House that I has thought I'd never see again. She was a ghost of course, but I was so happy to see her. " Liz! What are you doing here?" , " well I had been keeping tabs on you, just incase you needed me, and I think you could use an invisible friend to do some inspecting on Marilyn" she said with a wink. " Oh my god, you're a life saver! That would save us a lot of work", I smiled brightly at her. " Okay! I'll keep an eye on her and report what I see back. Anything to help a friend" she said with a perky smile, and with that she left. It was 6:20, earlier than my usual wake up time, but I was wide awake so there was no way I'd fall asleep for ten more minutes.

After pulling my hair back into a french braid and throwing on some lip gloss I headed downstairs, excited to tell everyone what Liz was up to. Derek was at the table plowing through a bowl of cereal, " Liz was here! She's going to check on Marilyn for us." I exclaimed. " Great! We'll know what's going on real soon then" he smiled putting his dirty bowl in the sink.

I filled Simon and Tori in as we walked to catch our bus. Marilyn was saving us seats so we sat in the back with her. I was insanely curious about her, I was hoping to catch up with Liz at lunch and see what she found.

First and second period went by really slowly. I forgot what it was like to watch the clock counting the minutes until class is finally over. I was really eager to talk to Liz, and that's all I could think about as the clock sluggishly ticked. Art wasn't as bad as english because I had Simon and Derek to distract me. When the bell finally rang I explained to Derek was I was doing and rushed to the exit next to the art room.

I made my way to the forest behind the school, and pulled out the cellphone Kit had given me for emergencies. I learned that pretending to talk on the phone made talking to ghosts look normal if anyone was to walk by, not that I expected to run into anyone around here. "Liz..?" I asked hesitantly, hoping she was near by. She tapped me on the shoulder and I spun around, " did you check out...you know who..." I said, not wanting to be overheard by someone that knew Marilyn. " Yeah. I went to her house and she seems normal, but she definitely had the glow of a necromancer, but not a dangerous one. I think she knows what's going on, but she's adopted so her parents have no clue. I checked for any evidence that the edison group is chasing her and I couldn't find anything bad near the house, but I got the list of remaining subjects and her name is on it." She finished her lengthly explanation. " Well she's in for a shock. I hate them for doing this to innocent kids." I sighed in frustrated. " Me too " Liz looked very sympathetic, "well go on and have lunch with everyone, I'll keep an eye on everything and report back to you soon!" She smiled and ran away.

I wanted to catch everyone up so badly but I couldn't mention it while Marilyn was around, we would find a much better time to break the news to her. I had third period gym with Derek so I would catch him up then.

We were doing badminton in gym, and I teamed up with Derek. There was only 3 nets in the schools tiny gym so we were sitting out and waiting for our turn to play. We sat at the far corner out of everyones earshot. " So I talked to Liz. Marilyn is a necromancer... and she's part of the experiment" he looked a little angry, " only us would run into a supernatural anywhere we go, no matter how hard we try to have a normal life. I feel pretty bad for her too" he frowned. It was our turn, we could continue this conversation later.

We got home and explained everything to Kit. He said we should tell Marilyn since she's comfortable with us, and then we'll just have to deal with it from there. He said we should go over there tonight though, the sooner the better. Especially because she was involved in the experiment, the Edison Group has probably been trying to find her for years, I almost felt bad that we came here, if we get caught she is likely to as well. Me and Tori decided to go without Simon and Derek, Marilyn probably didn't trust Derek, considering how much he struggles with being friendly, and we were almost positive that she had feelings for Simon so she wouldn't want to see her freak out.

" God I feel so bad for her, it always happens to the best people " Tori sighed in frustration. " Yeah I feel terrible, but at least she's getting some warning so she doesn't just get sucked into the Edison Group and their web of lies". She agreed as we arrived in front of Marilyn's house. It was mint green with white trim, very old fashioned compared to the modern houses I was used to seeing where I was from, but that was what all of Hartlington was like. Me and Tori stayed hidden in the trees that were infront of Marilyn's house. We hadn't decided how we were going to go about telling her. In the end we decided I should, because I was a necromancer too so I can really relate to what she's going through.

We slowly walked up to the house, knocking on the white door hesitantly. A petite blonde very similar to Marilyn answered the door. She looked like an older version of her, and she was wearing an apron covered in flour. "Excuse my appearance! But how can I help you?" Her voice seemed very genuine and cheerful. " Hi, I'm Chloe and this is my sister Tori, we're friends of Marilyn's" I explained trying to look friendly and innocent. " Oh Marilyn had talked about you girls! You're Kit's daughters, come on in Marilyn is just upstairs".

We let Marilyn's mother lead us up to her room. She smiled when she saw us, "hey guys what are you doing here?". We waited for her mom to close the door before we explained that we needed to talk to her about something important. " Look I know that sounds weird because we just met you and all, but trust me were only doing this because we have to" she looked at Tori expectantly. " Okay? So what is it" she looked beyond confused, " well" I began the long speech that I had quickly come up with, " you know all the weird visions you've been having? Well I'm not sure if you already know this... but they're not visions. This may sound a little bit crazy, but you're seeing ghosts. They want to talk to you because you're one of the few people that can actually communicate with them. I'm a necromancer, just like you, which means we can see and talk to ghosts. There's also witches, like Tori and Simon, and werewolves like Derek. I know this is a lot to take in, but you must know it's true. The so called visions are too weird to be something made up in your head, I of all people understand". The confusion and fear on Marilyn's face grew as I talked. " I know this only makes it worse, but you're also part of a supernatural experiment, called Project Genisis. So you're genetically modified in an attempt to make a better super natural. This means they're looking for you, because the experiment failed" I concluded my long explanation.

"Woah. What does that mean? Also why are you guys here?" She looked shocked. " Well were also part of that experiment, and we're on the run from the cabal, which is a super natural group that Is very powerful. We defeated the Edison group for the time being, but they'll be back. We thought a quiet town like this would be perfect for hiding, we didn't expect to run into another subject here of all places". She let that sink in, " so does that mean I'll have to run too, just like you guys? I guess my biological mother had big reason for putting me up for adoption" she sighed, overwhelmed and confused.

Tori and I talked to Marilyn for an hour longer, answering questions and explaining what we'd have to do. She took it really well, joking around that It's good we get along since were going to be spending a lot of time together in the future. She was going to come over after school tomorrow to talk to Kit and get to know the family more, she needed to be comfortable in case we ever had to go on the run with her. This was going to be an interesting next few months.

Hey guys I hope you liked the way I told Marilyn and such. I tried to make it interesting, but next chapter should be better because she actually gets to meet the family, and not the fake versions of themselves that they pretended to be. There will be romance next chapter too. I'm going to pursue romance with Simon and Marilyn as well. Thanks for the reviews keep them coming.