Alice pulls back her hood, her face was contorted and frazzled. "I don't know, maybe," she says. "They really aren't sure."

"Aren't sure?" Elijah repeats only to my ears.

"Oh god," I tell him, "I had no idea."

"Neither did I," he replies dumfounded.

"It's like that girl from a year ago," she says fluffing her hair.

Her words turned my head in her direction without missing a beat.

Alice's steps are wary as she paces around the fire. "It's just-" she stops herself. "Someone give me a drink before I breakdown." Percy gives her one as she continues, "They think there's a lot of similarities in between them."

"They do?" Fia questions sitting up.

"Yeah," Alice obviously points out to her, "there's no way you're this stupid."

"Hey! I'm not stupid," she retorts, "I'm just drunk."

Alice shakes her head in disbelief, "They both died on your property. How could you even forget something like that?!"

"What was that girl's name again?" Percy asks.

"I had a class with her in tenth grade, I think it was Holly," Finn speaks up.

Fia rolls her eyes, "it was Harper you dipshits."

"Me?" I say getting lost in the moment. "I died at her house?"

Elijah was just as far gone as me, "Who would want to kill me?"

Without even realizing it, I had gotten up and slowly started walking backwards into the mist of the night. The trees seemed to dance around me as I kept going. I had no idea where I was, but the light from the moon was completely gone.

It could have been minutes or hours, but I was all alone and the only thing worth taking my emotions out on were the few squirrels and birds that called these trunks of bark home. I can't tell how much I screamed, but I feel like it was a lot. I want to turn red so badly that I'm prepared to make a deal with a daemon just to have my blood back for a moment.

"There's no way," I talk to myself. "We aren't even friends, why would I have been at her house? Why don't I remember?!" I start crying.

I crouch down on the forest floor and curl up with my knees close to my head. I'm not sure what to feel. Anger? Sadness? Confusion? Heartbreak... How could someone even forget how they died? Am I not who I thought I was?

"Harper!" I hear my name being called shakily.

I peer up to see who it is and in the distance, the cold shadow of the one person who I've talked to in the last year is coming towards me.

"Elijah," I call back wiping the dew off of my face.

He spots me and looks relieved to see that I hadn't vanished into thin air.

"I got scared," he tells me, coming down to the ground with me.

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have left. It was a shitty thing to do," I say.

"Don't apologize," he says, "I get it."

We don't say anything more, but we lean into each other and I place my head onto his shoulder, while he pulls me in tight. The midnight sky felt like it could last forever and that we were perpetually stuck in the darkness. At least with Elijah beside me, we're stuck in it together.

With the early signs of the rising sun, we finally walk all the way back to civilization finding the trail that leads to the backside of Saint Rose High.

"You were right," I hear Elijah say. "We should have never gone to that bonfire."

"It's okay," I reply, "we had no idea what they were actually there to talk about."

His head droops down before he talks. "And Alice... I didn't even know she had been talking to them."

"Everybody has secrets," I tell him.

"It's only when you're dead that they think that they can get away with everything."

"I guess that's one way to put it," I agree.

"What other way would you put it?" he asks.

"I don't know," I ponder, "maybe it's how we blackmail them when they get here."

He chuckles slightly at my comment and I do too.

The horrid red bricks of the school almost stood us right in the face and although I knew it was a bad idea to even take a step inside, I felt pulled in its direction. I tried to stop myself, but I couldn't leave my desires be.

"What are we doing here?" he questions.

"Nothing," I reply quickly, "we should go."

"Okay," he says wary of my movements.

Elijah walks ahead of me back out the doors, but I run into a wall. For a second, I thought that I must be making all of this up, yet I try again and again to leave, but this glass-like barrier keeps me hostage.

"Elijah?!" I scream his name in anguish. "I don't know what's happening!"

He halts himself as he sees the fear in my eyes and comes rushing back only to fall back when he crashes into the barricade.

"What is this?" I hear his muffled voice say.

I stand in dismay as he tries to find a way through, it's no use and I know whatever we try won't change a thing.

"Stop," I tell him, a few tears on my cheek, "there's nothing we can do."

"Don't say that," he replies, "I'm going to get you out of there."

I shake my head no to try and bring an end to his efforts.

"No!" he shouts. "I'm not giving up. You said you would stay by my side, but guess what, that works two ways."

"E-"

He cuts me off, "I will stay here as long as it takes and whoever is pulling this sick trick on us will have me to face."

"What did I do to deserve a friend like you?" I ask lightheartedly.

"Nothing, I just had to die," he jokes, taking a break from using all of his energy.

I take a moment to place my hand on this window to the outside world and Elijah brings his to meet mine.

I give him a small smirk, "Thanks."