Ray, Hassan and Jalen were still hanging out on the couch. Amanda and her boyfriend, Leon went upstairs to her room. I was cleaning up a little and n...ticed everytime I looked over at them, they were eyeing me. I sat down next to Ray feeling rather tipsy. It was just the four of us hanging out in the living room. I was sipping my drink when Hassan said Mrs Nelson you look hot as hell tonight. I blushed and said thank you. I told them that they all looked great as always. Just as I said that. “Have you come back to kill me?” Béla rasped to the dark form eclipsing the blinding lights before her.“Béla?” Jake cried in complete astonishment. “Oh my God!”He grabbed her by her shoulders and stared at her thin face, her scrawny body with dried blood running down her leg from a half-healed wound in her belly, the lifeless surrender in her dead eyes. He panicked for a moment, uncertain of what he should do. It was her eyes that held him in that helpless state of mind. He’d only seen that. "Benreplied “Is he your lover too."Man Ben was now dreading what his dad wasasking, "what do you mean dad." "Well T.J's parents and your mum and I sawyou kissing on the beach today and want to know what's going on."He said.So Ben had tears rolling down his face as he heard his dad tell him aboutwhat they saw and wondered if T.J was going through the same process as hewas. "Well we are best friends and we like each other and YES we arelovers but in a friend's way."Ben cried. "I know what you. ..and Chani hears noises in the brush....twigssnapping, branches swaying, the rush of the wind through the trees.Her head snaps around as the cry of a hunting bird rips through thewoods. She bites her lips again and twists the bracelet, squeezing iteven tighter as she walks.For the first time since she ran away, she is afraid....."but she is Free!...isn't she?"Rustling noises suddenly emit from the trees to her right.... Chanirushes to the base of a large tree and hides, cowering... afraid.