Hey! Sorry, I hadn't realized the chapters were short. Next one will be longer.

I cracked one eye open. The sunlight penetrating my eyelids made it hard to keep them closed. The grass under me felt rough, not the soft nature bed it had been during the previous nights.

Everything came crashing back at me then. I stifled a sob telling myself it was stupid to fight the truth. I considered myself a girl that could put up with a lot of crap, but this one was... it just crossed my line. Three days left.

I could think and analyze until my hair was gray and the the answer would still be as obvious as it was now. I had to die.

Squirming, I rolled to my side and my head crashed with something hard. I raised my gaze and my mouth hung open.

My eyes stumbled into Kierran's closed ones, he was so near I could inhale his scent. I wondered how the hell had I come so close during the night. There had been at least ten feet between us last time I checked. It was hard to believe I had just rolled to him.

He was on his side too, he slept like that often. During these days I had picked up on things like that. The way he ruffled his hair when he was deep in thought; he usually whistled softly when he was bored, and a little vein in his neck pulsed when he was mad, which was ahh quite often and the target, me.

I couldn't help but sigh. He looked so peaceful sleeping, with his flawless face relaxed, like a dark angel; As if I was to blame for his hard features when he was awake.

My insides tingled when he unexpectantly put an arm around my waist and pulled me to him murmuring in his sleep. My head was cradled under his chin, making all rational thought flee my mind.

How could I feel like this towards some guy who I barely knew? He was unearthely handsome but... there was more to it than just his hotness. Much more. It wasn't lust, there was some of it, of course, but it was a lot of things more. Our first dance, and how he had held me; his wariness for everyone who wasn't his family, and his love for his parents. Every little thing. And that was worrying me.

I was about to poke his chest to try to wake him up when a sudden deep, excruciating pain in my chest made me whimper.

Kierran's eyes flew open and widened for a millisecond when he saw where his arm rested. He sat up inmediately, his cheeks flaming. It would've been amusing if I my heart hadn't felt as if it was abput to explode.

"Summer? Are you alright?" He knitted his eyebrows together and peered at me from his ocean blue eyes.

NO! I'm not alright! Do something! I wanted to yell, but my mouth only produced a scream this time.

My hands went to my neck, there was something there, I knew it. The source of the pain.

Kierran's voice cut through my ears "What's happening to her?!" His eyes were frantic, darting between me and someone else.

I managed to keep my mouth shut because it got worst when I tried to speak.

"You damned cat, tell me what's going on!" Dad, now awake, watched helplessly as I writhed on the ground.

Grim walked towards me "It's the poison, she only has three days now, so now it's more advanced. Look below her neck"

Kierran's hand touched my neck and slid down a little, making my the sleeve of my shirt aside. What the hell was he doing? I can't believe I'm thinking about that kind of things now...

Dad closed his eyes "shit"

I felt the pain slowly retreat leaving my heart bumping like I had just ran a marathon. "I'm fine. It's over"

Kierran clenched his jaw. "I think it's far from over" He pressed lightly with his finger a spot on my skin making me shiver.

I lowered my gaze to his finger and sucked in a breath when I saw my skin. It looked like a tiny cobweb, but it was my flesh, burnt, and like a disease, it was spreading.

The cat nodded solemnly "We have to act quickly if we are to save the human."He turned towards me "What you just felt will come and go, it's the last phase of the poison. The soreness in your limbs you've been experiencing will only increase until you won't be able to move and then you'll die."

Kierran removed his hand from me and glared at Grim, then at me. "That you've been experiencing? Why didn't you tell us this?"

"I..." Where was the peaceful Kierran I had seen earlier? This guy was seriously pissing me off. I was really starting to think we could get along but what was his problem now? "Because it doesn't matter."

Huh maybe that was the wrong thing to say because Kierran stood up and stalked off. "We should get moving then" He said over his shoulder.

Dad and Grim watched him with a strange expression.

"C'mon Summer, of course it matters. We would've stopped to rest or..."

I shook my head. "No, if we had stopped, this would've taken longer. Kierran is right in one thing. We should go get that Phoenix tear right now"