Chapters will get longer after this, and stuff will start happening—promise =]
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Julian had accepted some time ago that he was quite in love with his best friend, Jenny Thornton. What's more, he could tell that Jenny loved him back—she just didn't know it yet. Typically Julian was very good at taking what he wanted, but he knew that Jenny was special, so he decided to wait for her to figure things out on her own. It was frustrating, then, when Jenny began dating Tommy Locke.
Actually, it was infuriating. Julian kept all his anger, all his cruelty, locked up inside. It was always there, like a sleeping beast, and sometimes it scared him. Tom Locke's very existence made that confined monster claw the walls of its cage. Julian had never wanted to kill a person until the day in fourth grade when Jenny introduced him to her new "friend"—the words said with a giggle.
Julian wanted to do horrible, violent things to this boy, and he knew that if he was left in Tom's presence for any stretch of time, he would. So Julian had to avoid him. It annoyed Julian that he had to back away from a fight with the person he most wanted to fight with, but it was necessary. If Julian ever messed up and let this developing dark side of himself out, he'd lose Jenny, and that was unthinkable. There was no way around it: for now, Julian would just have to be patient.
But it was getting harder and harder to take the high road. Unbeknownst to any one, even Jenny (especially Jenny,) Julian's hidden powers were increasing, strengthening, and that previously dormant monster inside him didn't want to sleep much anymore.
Julian was changing.