Chapter Two - I Could Show You Incredible Things

"We both know you're dying to find out why I'm here, so skip to the point." Teague cuts me off, leaning against a wall with his arms crossed.

"You want the dagger." I respond, a small seed of pride blossoming up in me because I already knew why.

"Wrong." He chuckles at my surprise, and my small blossom of pride is crushed.

"But...what...then why?" I stare at him, confused.

"I guess you'll just have to find out." He smirks, since that totally defeats the point of me asking and him hinting for me to ask. Unless he just wanted to say no, of course, which I wouldn't put past him. "So why don't you just show me to first period?"

"Not everyone has the same first per-" I stop short whenever I see the schedule he's holding in his hands. It looks exactly like mine, minus the fact that it says Teague's name at the top. "You have got to be kidding me."

"Nope. So why don't we just get going?"

I sigh, and lead the way to my - er, our - class.

Teague's POV

I lean against the flagpole, waiting for Mina to get out of the school building. Hopefully, she'll learn soon enough that something important to her has been swiped by someone. That someone being me. Sadly, it's not the dagger, because I'm not positive on where that is. So, I took to the next best thing. The Grimorie.

She rushes out of the school, and it's almost like I can feel her anger. It's strangely attractive, but I pay no attention to that. She's spotted me - with the Grimorie in my hand - and stomps over.

"Give it back!" She demands.

"Nope." I smirk.

"You don't need it, and I do. So give it to me!" She glares at me.

"Correction. I do need it, as incentive for you."

That makes her hesitate. "Why?"

"Let's get to the point, shall we? You come with me, you get the Grimorie back and I'll answer a few questions. If you don't, I keep the Grimorie. This deal is expiring now." I can see the déjà vu feeling on her face.

I begin to walk off, and she hesitates again before following. Good. I expected her to do that. And it's much better than her waiting for her pathetic excuse for a boyfriend. What does she see in that boy anyways?

I lead the way over to the parking lot and to my ride, and Mina stops short. I put a hand on a motorcycle - Jared's motorcycle - and smirk.

"Why...why do you have that?" She watches it like it might explode. She needs to calm down a bit. I'm not going to kill her. At least, not at this moment.

"It's technically mine, is it not? Get on."

"Get on...with you?"

"Is that a hard concept to grasp?"

"But I have a boyfriend! He won't approve!"

"You had that same boyfriend before and got on the motorcycle with Jared." A hit to the gut for her. She flinches at the mere mention of his name. "The clock is ticking till I leave."

"F...Fine." She gets on, and after a moment of hesitation, wraps her arms around my waste. I smirk, and start the engine.

As I drive down the street, I catch a glimpse of Brody in the entrance to the school, staring at us. Mina lets out a startled squeak, which is muffled by the wind. I'll enjoy finding out what happens when he brings that up with her.

It takes a lot longer than expected for us to get to my intended destination. But we make it as it begins to show signs of getting darker out outside. I dismount by a lake, and Mina follows.

"And why are we here?" She glares at the water like it's poison.

"I thought you'd like being in a familiar place. Sit." I point to a log, but she doesn't budge. I just shake my head in response. "As you wish."

"Why are you here?" She asks, turning her narrowed gaze to me as I sit on another fallen log.

"Specify where here is."

"Here. On the human plane. In my town. At my school!"

"Nice prepositions."

"Teague!" She snarls.

"Just to enjoy myself."

"You probably have a sick sense of enjoyment. Now you need to specify."

I lean forward. "I'm here to play a game, Mina."

She backs up. "What sort of game?"

"A fun one."

"Why don't you just spit it out then?" She takes another step back.

"I think you know exactly what type of game I'm playing, Mina." The horror filling her eyes is satisfying.

"I don't want any part in it." She shakes her head.

"But you're a very direct part." I smirk.

"Why?" There's fear edging into her voice.

"Because I need something to do."

"And the curse isn't providing that?"

"We're taking a...break from the curse, you could say."

She glances back at the motorcycle, as if judging the distance back to it. It seems that she thinks better than to try that though, probably because she couldn't drive it, and because I would beat her there. So, we just stand in silence for a few minutes.

That's when she does something I honestly never expected her to be stupid enough to try. She turns tail and runs. And as she's running, she doesn't watch the street, and runs straight into the path of an oncoming car. The collision happens before I can do anything.

Welp, that just happened. Poor Mina. She was only trying to run from the best psychopath ever.

~Dagger