"You're going to look for Jesse aren't you?" Ethan asks as I'm getting ready to leave. His parents are upstairs getting ready for bed but they made him stay on the couch out of fear that he would trip again.

"Yeah, I'm supposed to meet up with Rory and Erica, we need to take him down." I should have expected his response but somehow I didn't.

"I'm coming with you." he gets up off of the couch and walks over to grab his jacket.

"No you're not!" I argue "This could be dangerous!"

"Exactly why I can't let you do this alone!" he argues.

"I won't be alone, I'll have Erica and Rory. Don't worry about me so much." I try to reassure him.

"Do you really trust Rory with your safety?" he has a point, but I'm not willing to give in yet for his own safety.

"Please Ethan, don't do this to me!" I beg.

"Don't do what, want to fight along beside you? When I was a human you let me fight with you!" he argues.

How to put this without sounding like some lovesick teenage girl who's terrified for her crush's life? Okay, forget about masking it, it's the truth I like Ethan, not as a friend, but as Erica called him earlier, a boyfriend and I can't stand to see him get hurt by Jesse worse than he already has been. "I can't loose you. When I said earlier that I was terrified when I thought Jesse had killed you, I was telling the truth."

Before he can respond his mom peeks her head around the corner upstairs. "What's going on?"

"I was just leaving..." I begin as Ethan "limps" back towards the couch with a look that reminds me of a kicked puppy.

"Okay," she heads into a room upstairs and closes the door, but as soon as she's gone he's immediately insistent again.

"I'm coming with you...there's nothing you can do to convince me otherwise."

As much as I want to tell him no or come up with some excuse, the words die on my lips with the look he gives me and instead I say, "Fine, but no funny business this is serious." I try a glare but I'm not sure how well it works.

This was supposed to be longer but I figured you guys would still want a new chapter while I tried to get over how awkward it is to have been writing for crime drama fandoms since I started on here(I was probably about 13) and suddenly launch myself into a Disney fandom. Hopefully the next chapter will be much longer.