**If I would've known going there would have led me to him, I would have done it long ago. I don't regret anything that happened in the last two months of my life, as long as he knew it was all for him. -Keller Johnson. 50 years after BD

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The school was a humongous, brick building that must have been designed as a box. Nothing about it screamed interesting, nothing stood out. Ugh, this would not be a good day.

"It looks…" my sister looked at me with her optimistic smile, but even she couldn't find a good way to describe it. We both started laughing.

"Don't lie Shee, it's horrible."

"Yeah, it is," she sighed "well let's go. I think we are already late, I don't see anybody do you." I shook my head.

"No, I don't see anybody." She groaned and through her head back onto the headrest.

"Lets…just…go." I opened the door, and followed her lead into what I assumed to be the front of the school. The inside was just as plain, white walls, and checkered tile.

"Over there" I pointed to the small room filled with people.

"Yep, good job Kelly." She ruffled my hair. I pouted my and stuck out my bottom lip. We walked over to the classroom, nobody seemed to notice us approach, so all eyes were on us as soon as the door opened. It was silent, it was times like this I was glad I was in the same grade as my fearless sixteen-year-old sister. I seemed to shy away, I couldn't stand to be the center of attention, but she adored it. She always stuck up for me, because she still saw me as her baby sister, but she was only three years older.

"Uh, I'm Sheelah, and this is my sister Keller." A few students welcomed us, with awkward, hi's , and heys, but no teacher stepped forward. Shee walked to set by a group of shallow looking girls, who openly welcomed her, giving up the last desk in the room, that they all had there bags on. I looked around silently counting all of the people in the small room; there were thirty two. Each group was absorbed in some type of conversation, nobody noticing me at all. I walked to set against the counter, and pulled out my cell phone, to try and send a message to some of my old friends before my phone died. That didn't last long. I looked around at the kids in the room again. They were very… usual, common, boring, nobody even made an attempt to stick out.

The four little groups, went from the very image of geeks, that were being terrorized by the hunky Jocks, to the egocentric group that my sister was now entertaining, to the frightening blacked out group of Gothic kids, all sitting in the far corner of the room. A few people were spread out, just sitting alone, talking, and holding hands. I put my head in my hands, this would be a long night.

I heard a voice behind me, that caught my attention, nobody had been there a minute ago. I turned to see a boy sitting right behind me, he was talking on his cell phone, but when he saw me looking he mumbled an apology, and hung up the phone. I was in shock, this boy was gorgeous, the had sickly pale skin, and shaggy black hair that fell into his… red eyes? Yes, his big beautiful crimson colored eyes, were definitely red. How strange, must be contacts. He wore black baggy pants, as well as a black button up shirt. I silently noted that the color contrast was what had to have made his eyes so bright red, like blood. he must have been into the goth stuff...

"Hi?" he made it into a question. I had to force myself to talk.

"Hello," his eyes grew wide, and he sat back so that I couldn't see his face. I stood up and looked at him, skeptically, was he real, could people that beautiful really exist?

"Can you see me?" what a dumb question.

"Um… yeah, I see you, am I not supposed to?" I was so confused.

"No, no your not." I was about to ask him what he meant by that, when I heard Shee's voice. I turned to see her laughing, she looked back at me, and waved me toward her.

"excuse, me for a moment." His jaw dropped, he was about to say something, as I walked to Shee.

"Kelly! This is Amber, Kylie, Shelby, Brittany, and Ashelea, I couldn't help but notice that she only named a few of her new friends, probably the only ones she found safe enough for me, she didn't like me being alone.

"Hi," they all smiled back, in the exact same way, the whole group looked a lot alike, all but Sheelah. She never tried to fit in with anybody; they tried to mold themselves around her. She was a natural leader.

"I'm gonna go, okay." She didn't look happy about that.

"Okay…" I turned to go back to the strange boy. He was still sitting dumbfounded.

"you can still see me." It was more of an accusation. I nodded, a more than a little confused. He slid off of the counter, and grabbed my hand. His was freezing, way too cold, but it shocked me, like a live wire was connecting me to him, and then just heat, I couldn't find myself to want to stop it. He looked back at me and smiled, I lost my breath in his demonic eyes.

"Come, with me?" I don't know why he asked it as a question, when he was dragging my out the door. Once we were in the hall I turned toward him.

"What are you Doing?" I hissed he pulled his cell phone out of his pocket and dialed a number.

"Your coming home with me." I looked up at him, he must have been insane.

"I am Not!" he mumbled something to low for me to understand into the phone, he nodded, and snapped it shut.

"Yes, you are, please, I don't know why, but I need you to. Please. I have a sister, she is coming to the school now, we will go back into the class, you two talk, make friends and then, just come home with us. Please."

"Why should I do that?"

"Because I need you to" I sighed in defeat, i was a sucker for guilt trips.

"I don't know why I'm doing this…it's dangerous, stupid reckless..." I mumbled to myself as I walked back into the classroom. A few people looked up at us, I could only imagine what people were thinking. I blushed and returned to my seat, just below the strange boy. I sat for a good twenty minutes doing nothing physically, but having a mental war. I couldn't figure out why I had decided to go home with a stranger, regardless of if he had a sister. Didn't I know better than that? What would we do when we got to his house? I knew the answer to most of them already, it was because, somehow, I could trust this strange boy, he couldn't do anything to hurt me, just as I couldn't hurt him. He wouldn't hurt me, didn't he feel the fire that his touch brought. No, I would follow him, I didn't know why, but I would do anything for this boy, anything he could ever ask for, I would die to give it to him.

"She's here." I felt an icy breath on my ear, so sudden, and unexpected. I jumped, hitting my head to his, a twinge of pain shot through my skull. I winced, and my hands shot toward my head in instinct. I felt a knot.

"ouchie," I felt his icy hands on my arms, and I forgot all about the bump. The fire was back. What an odd combination…

"I am so sorry, let me help you get up, and let's go into the hallway." I stood up, he did help me, but not much. His touch made me light headed.

I opened the door, and then I heard something that make me rethink about everything I was doing.

"Kelly?"