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chosen as children, when the dreams started I had stopped going out of the house. Spending every day moping about waiting for the dying. But Olivia remembered the importance of the seat we had spent so much time laughing and enjoying life in. As I slid into the booth across from her she didn't look up. She didn't need to.
    “You better start talking... Quick.” she said finally looking  up from the milkshake she had stirred until it was just liquid. “And it better be good too.”
    “Sorry... Sorry.” I fidgeted nervously under her unwavering gaze. How much could I tell her without being crazy? How much would she even believe? Especially when I'm not sure how much I believe.
    “Okay lets start slow... why did you ask me to come here?”
    “Thought we could hang out,” I mumbled almost incoherently.
    “Then why did you not show up?”
    “Uh...” Cause I thought my teacher turned into a lizard?
    “Well in class I was there... and then I started seeing things...” Her eyebrows only went up the slightest bit to indicate that she even heard me. “It freaked me out pretty bad so I skipped school,” this time the shock was evident on her face. I never skipped school.
    “You skipped school?”
    “Yea... I know. Listen Livs your necklace is doing something really weird... what the hell did you do to this thing?”
    “The necklace? You think this is about the necklace?”
    “All of this crap started after you gave me the necklace. So yeah I do think it has something to do with it.”
    “Mercy... all I did was spell a little energy into it... to help you sleep. Danburite is a stone to help with sleep and good dreams it isn't able to make... things... just show up out of nowhere.”
    “Well I don't know how to explain it but weird things have happened since I put it on...”
    “Then take it off?”
    Always the voice of reason. But its not like I can explain it... if I take it off the dying will start again... If I take it off I cant see him. And somehow that to me seems like no option at all. He has become my sanity in all of this... he has become my safe place. Even if I've only known him for a few days. He is my protector.
    “I can't Livs... I just can't.”
    “Can't what?”
    All my muscles tightened as my head snapped up to meet his liquid blue gaze. I hoped and prayed that he hadn't heard to much. That would be the last thing I needed. Was for Ethan to think that I was crazy too. I could almost imagine what my life would turn into if he found out and spread it around the school I'd be even more of an outcast that I was already.
    “I hope your feeling okay. You left class pretty fast this morning.”
    The calmness and comfort that his melodic voice had given me just days before was no longer there. Now it was like I could see past the handsome facade and silver tongue. This man, or boy... whatever he was, he worried me.
    “I needed to get some sleep,” I replied trying to hedge around the question. If I was unwilling to tell Olivia about the details of what happened in my dreams there was no way I was about to tell Ethan.
    “Well I am glad your feeling better. I hope the two of you don't mind if I join you?” He asked as he took a seat without waiting for a response. “ I know you hate me after all Olivia.”
    “I didn't say I hated you... I simply said I don't like you.”
    “Isn't it the same thing?”
    “Hardly.”
    “Okay guys take it easy,” it was like every time they got near each other they couldn't help themselves. I don't know Ethan at all but I know Olivia. For all her dainty appearance, she was not afraid to get into a fight... with anyone, for a reason she felt strongly enough about. And I really didn't want to explain a brawl in the middle of a family diner. “Both of you should just-”
    “What was it you said before?” Ethan cut in. “You didn't trust my Aura? What exactly is my Aura telling you about me that you dislike me so much?”
    I locked my gaze onto Olivia and tried to