Tia's POV

I listened as the bell rang and waited until everyone had left. I looked at Avalon and closed the door with my magic, sealing it with a sound-proof spell.

"Why would you tell me this?" I demanded.

"You deserved to know."

"Did you know this was going to happen!?" I was angry, "If you had told me sooner none of this would be happening!"

I was standing and screaming, my hands knotted into my hair, "It wouldn't have changed a thing. We both know how you would've reacted and we both knew they would find Melody first."

"Nothing you say will calm me down and you know that too, don't you!?"

Professor Avalon sighed and he approached me before hugging me, allowing me to cry out all of my worries, "I don't want to go."

"I know you don't."

"Why would he do this to me?"

He went quiet, the only sound was of my crying, "I don't know, Tiana, I don't know."

Melody's POV

I ran all the way back to my room, not bothering to go to my Etiquette class, the irony. I layed back on my bed and sighed shakily.

"I just wanna forget."

"I can help you with that," a voice said. I looked and saw a man, no more than 20, in my bedroom window.

My eyes widened as those familiar red eyes from my old nightmares looked right back at me, now sitting in one of my chairs.

"W-What are you doing here?" I tried to keep calm, but to no avail. Him coming closer wasn't exactly helping either.

He cupped my cheek in his hand lovingly, "I've been wanting to meet with you for quiet some time, Musel, but you know that already, don't you?"

I nodded and he smiled, revealing dull fangs. He noticed me looking, "Don't worry, next time you see me, they'll be sharper."

"What do you want from me?"

He leaned in closer and nibbled on my ear, causing me to gasp and moan slightly, "Many things, Musel," he mumbled.

He looked at me with his flaring red eyes, "I want you to succumb to me, my love."

"There's two different definitions of succumb, and I don't like one of them (1)." He smirked at me and kissed me full on the lips passionately.

At first I resisted, but he was persistent in having me break-down, but I fought for dominance and he was startled at first, but fought back nonetheless. I realized I was playing into his trap of lust. It was working though.

He began to feel my stomach under my shirt and pull it up ever so slightly at a time, as to not startle me. His tongue somehow found its way into my mouth and he began to taste me. I let him. Probably a mistake I would regret later, but right now, I had nothing to really lose at that point.

I wanted to forget, and he was going to help me.

Thorne's POV

The text really threw me off my focus. I can't help but feel betrayed, and I wasn't just going to leave my dad in the clouds either.

I made a telepathic connection with him, "Why?"

"Rosen? What are you talking about?"

"You didn't want me?"

"Who said that?"

"A magiphilosophy book."

He didn't answer for a while, "It was the teacher, wasn't it?"

"This isn't funny dad."

"I wasn't being funny."

"I got the truth, but not from you."

He stayed quiet, "Why!?"

"What would your mother have done, Rosen!? What!?"

"She wouldn't have left me, like you wanted to do."

"No, Rosen, she would have left."

"So you put up with me because of my mother? How sick are you?"

"That's enough Rosen."

"No, it's not." I ended the conversation and sighed, "I wish you weren't my dad."

Ruby's POV

Ogron, my father. Yuck.

I can't even think about it.

I can't even think about him. I was walking through the forest by myself to clear my head.

I sighed, "I bet it's only a matter of time before they find us."

"Oh, but we already have, Diamy." The voice had an accent like Uncle Duman.

I gasped, "Who's there!?"

"You know who I am."

"No, I don't, who's there!?"

"I'm hurt darling, really, I am. Don't even recognize the voice of your lover?"

"I don't a have a 'lover'" I air-quoted with my fingers. Something grabbed my hand softly and its other hand went to my side.

I didn't say anything, "Are you sure you don't remember me? Well, I remember you," his breath brushed across my neck softly as he brought my hand to his lips and kissed it.

"Andrew?" My only response was a kiss on the neck and a muffled chuckle.

"I knew you'd remember me," he released my hand and used his to turn my chin towards him. I now looked him in his half covered, black, onyx eyes as he looked back into my clear blue ones.

He caressed my cheek, "You know, it'll only be a few more months," he moved his silver hair behind his ear, revealing a line of golden piercings going up and down in a row.

I only nodded, "And then I can take you away to become my bride."

"But-"

"But what?"

I fumbled with my words, "I already have a boyfriend."

He smirked and kissed me lovingly, "I love you," he whispered against my lips as I closed my eyes. He wrapped me in his arms, turning me to completely see him.

He broke the kiss and leaned his forehead against mine, "Has he ever said that?"

Realization struck me. After almost two years of dating, Drew's never said he loved me. Now here Andrew is, not being able to see me since I was 10, standing here and saying he loves me.

"No."

He smiled softly and was about to kiss me once again when I put my hands on his chest, stopping him, "Do you mean it? or are you just saying that?"

"I mean it entirely. Cast a spell on me if you wanna check."

I searched his eyes for any type of hesitation, but I could see it, deeply hidden in his eyes, was untended love...for me.

Seeing me go quiet, he once again leaned down and forced me into a heated kiss. I felt my knees going weak, "Stay with me," he mumbled, "forever."

I didn't respond when I suddenly heard a familiar voice, "Ruby?"

I broke the kiss and spun around to see someone I didn't want to at that moment-

Drew.

1. The two definitions of succumb are:

- Fail to resist (pressure, temptation, or some other negative force)
- Die from the effect of a disease or injury