‘You trying to get me drunk, Tom?’ she laughed. ‘No. But by the way Brian is looking at you, I’m sure he wouldn’t mind,’ Tom chuckled. Bri...n laughed at that, but noticed he was still holding Leah’s hand. ‘Uh. Would you like to sit down?’ Leah felt embarrassed. ‘Yes. That would be nice,’ she stammered. As they sat on the couch, Brian said, ‘So, Sarah says you work at a diner. That sounds…um…interesting.’ ‘No it’s not really,’ Leah said as she tried to think of something to say. Then, ‘What do. I could see my plans falling apart, and my losing this chance forever. In my drunken panic I did something I never had before. I pushed away at Jasmine, gathering my ability as I did, rejecting and severing a tie between myself and it, a binding I had never consciously noticed before because it had always been there whenever I used my power. As I did this, I glanced past Jasmine to Alexis. She had noticed Jasmine pressing up against me, and was frowning in annoyance. As soon as I focused on. My head thumped, my eyes felt heavy and my stomach was doing some intricate, gold-medal worthy gymnastic act in my abdomen. I groaned and cursed aloud, causing Sarah to stir. She rolled onto her side, still beautiful, smiled at me and then her own hangover kicked in, causing her to scrunch her eyes and grit her teeth, letting out a pained grunt. I laughed, which just made my head throb even more. She turned onto her stomach and draped an arm across me, kissing the side of my arm before pulling. But as I moved I glimpsed those that were like me, they had a different feeling than the humans around us. The first few I saw I stayed away from hoping that I wasn't intruding on their hunting grounds, but as time went on I found myself wanting to know more about them and our kind. I had just thrown a murderer in the river after feeding upon him and felt him behind me. Turning I poised myself for a fight but heard him laughing. "I have no fight with you miss," he said with a chuckle, "just.