( Internal POV : Pandore )

Night has already fallen, we spent our time playing in the hidden pool with Edd and Damian, it was a wonderful day. Now we are lying in the grass looking at the stars under warm towels, Damian has resumed his human form in the meantime. It's so beautiful, there are stars everywhere.

- It's magnificent... I sigh with the impression that my eyes are shining, my imagination awakens at the same time, I have the impression of seeing the silhouette of a fox running after a luminous deer in the sky star.

- Living by night, I see this every night. It's kind of my television. Damian tells me rubbing against me, I chuckle feeling his skin against mine.

- Here... There is a fighter plane passing by. Shows us Edd, we see a very black and very noisy vehicle pass just above the island, suddenly I see Damian having sudden shivers when he sees this plane.

- Something wrong Damian ? I ask him worried.

- You think they're hunters ? Edd asks afterwards, I would have thought it was just the army doing an air patrol...

- Don't worry you two, they don't know I exist... I've always managed to escape them until now.

Are hunters chasing him ? Could it be... our fault ? Or has it always been like this ? Could it be because of the humans on the island that he ate...? So many questions that I ask myself, then I'm not that surprised, the disappearances have spread like wildfire, it's still a small island with very few inhabitants. When there are disappearances, it's obvious that the other tourists end up knowing about it... I suddenly feel very heavy, my head is spinning, and I have the impression of seeing all the victims that Damian devoured struggling inside his stomach as they be digested in him. My heartbeat quickens in my chest. Why am I shaking ?

- Pandore ! Call Damian, snapping my fingers in front of me, I come to my senses.

- Eh ?? What's the matter ? I ask, Damian half-smiles gently pinching my cheek.

- You haven't stopped staring at my belly for a while now, and no matter how much we called you, you couldn't hear, your brain suddenly went offline? He chuckles softly, I blush embarrassed.

- I'm sorry, I was in the moon, it happens to me from time to time... I stammer.

I see Damian give Edd a knowing look, Edd shrugs his shoulders with a teasing smile, Damian gently puts his hand behind my head, and quickly he comes to stick me to his belly, I blush even more.

- Ahhhh but what are you doing ? I scream panicked, Damian bursts out laughing and allows himself to tickle my ribs, I jump like a small fish trying to protect myself.

- Edd, come help me catch the little goldfish. Throw Damian, Edd comes to hold my legs so I don't run away and Damian keeps tickling me until I beg him to stop.

- Next time, stay attentive when someone talks to you, because it's rude not to listen to others. He said chewing on my ears. Suddenly, Edd's phone starts ringing.

- Damn, it's the teacher. Said Edd to me, it's true that we left the group without permission, we're probably going to get punished.

- You have to go home already ?... It sucks. I sigh as Edd answers the phone.

- I'll take you back to your bungalows. Anyway, I have to go hunting, but I had a great evening with you. Damian whispers to me as he kisses my neck, another shiver goes through me when he touches me.

- I'm going, I leave you between lovers. Said Edd walking away with a wink, is he serious ? He will pay me !

Damian takes me by the hand and we make our way to my bungalow, I haven't managed to say a word to him. What I saw terrified me... If I had said no to him that night, I would probably have been his next victim. Why am I afraid now?

No, but I love him... I really love him. I'm in love with him, I know it...

- Pandore, tell me what's going on. Damian suddenly asks me, he crosses his arms in front of me.

- Nothing is happening Damian, I'm fine. It's just tiredness... I try to tell him, Damian pulls me against him, gently stroking my hair.

- Don't lie to me Pandore, I know that since you saw that fighter plane in the sky, you're completely disturbed... Am I scaring you ? His question petrifies me with terror, I don't want to hurt him or die. No words come out of my mouth, Damian sketches a weak smile that only shows his disappointment.

- Your silence says a lot Pandore, I can understand don't worry. It is rare to come across a monster in your life that devours humans. " He strokes my hair again then puts my hands on his stomach, I can feel some gurgles deep inside, showing that his stomach is currently empty. " He also sticks his forehead to mine » You don't have to be afraid I'll never devour you even if I'm about to starve. I love you too much for that. But... I know that at the end of the summer, you will leave far from me. Take care of yourself okay ? He hugs me and comes to kiss me.

Then he leaves.

Eh... ? No, Damian don't go... I'm sorry, I can't say anything, I just go back to my cabin and burst into tears in my bed. What happened to me ? Suddenly, I feel a strong nausea come over me, I run to the bathroom to vomit, and it lasts a very long time, I'm stuck in my toilet until at least 5am. My stomach hurts so much, I can't stop crying, how could I hurt her so much ?

"Knock... Knock..." I hear against the door of my bungalow.

- Damian!! I scream as I get up to go open the door of my bungalow, and unfortunately, it was not Damian but my teacher.

- Hello Pandore... Ouh, it doesn't look like a good morning for you, you're very pale. Do you know why I'm here? He asks me, my heart aches, I wanted Damian so badly.

-  About yesterday ? I ask him knowing the answer very well.

- That's right, I know it's summer vacation and everyone wants to enjoy it in their own way, especially since I know you don't get along very well with your classmates. But, the fact of leaving yesterday without telling anyone and especially with a stranger who seems to be this "Damian", it's very dangerous. I'm going to have to punish you and Edd, follow me.

I let out a big sigh as I follow my teacher to a small study room in the center of our bungalows, Edd is already there, he's almost falling asleep.

- For a period of three hours, you will write me a presentation on the seabed of this island, use all the books present here, and if your presentation is satisfactory, you will have the right to join us to go to the sea. Come on, get to work. He tells us before leaving the study hall, the moment Edd looks at me, I burst into tears in front of him.

He comes to hug me.

- What is happening Pandore ? Why are you crying ? He asks me worried.

- It's Damian...I...I couldn't tell him what I felt for him, I didn't want to hurt him, I love him so much but at the moment I was taken aback. panic and he got offended, he thought I was afraid of him. I love him so much, I don't want to lose him. I explain to him in endless tears. I feel Edd stroking my hair.

- It's going to be okay Pandore, Damian knows that you love him, and he loves you too. We'll quickly finish this presentation and then we'll go looking for him, okay?

- We don't care about this presentation ! We don't care about this teacher and this class, Damian is more important, he could be spotted, or worse, the hunters must already be there, tracking him like an animal, we have to leave now ! I shout to him, I run towards the door and discover that it is locked. This scum has locked us in this room.

- Hell no ! He locked us up. Edd comes over to give me a hug.

- Calm down Pandore, we just have to wait 3 hours. At this hour, Damian must not be awake, he can't stand the sun, we do this presentation and we go get him okay ?

( Internal POV : Edd )

Pandore finally calms down and we start this really bad presentation, except that we manage to finish it in not even 30 minutes, we waited an hour for the teacher to come back, I even tried to call him, no answer. And since we're in a hurry, Pandore takes a letter opener she found in this little study room, and she manages to pick the lock on the door. We quickly leave this room, leaving our presentation on the table and we immediately go in search of Damian.

First place you think of. The cave in the forest, he goes there all the time to take a nap. We go there, but suddenly, I drag Pandore behind a bush, our class is not far... As luck would have it, our class had to go to the cave again today, but that also wants say Damian isn't here. He must have gone to hide somewhere else.

- Let's go to the hot spring. I say to Pandore, but I see that she is very badly, she is very pale and sweats a lot.

- Pandore, are you feeling well ? I ask her, just by touching her, I feel that she is burning with fever, her eyes are even livid, as if she were trying to stay conscious, I allow myself to take her in my arms to bring her back to his bungalow, over there, I call the professor to tell him that Pandore is very sick.

He tells me to stay with her while he calls a doctor to bring him to his bungalow.

I waited more than two hours before the doctor arrived, he came to examine Pandora asking her if she was in pain somewhere, Pandore complained of nausea, headaches and pain in her stomach. The doctor examines her, touching her belly, she moans in pain.

- Hum... There is certainly an emotional shock, but there is undoubtedly something else. Did you eat something that didn't taste very good to you ? Are you on birth control ? Or have you recently had sex ? Pandore answers " no " to all the questions and that she should have her period in two days, the doctor is perplexed.

- The best thing would be for you to rest, eat as much vitamin C as possible but above all eat light meals, drink lots of water, but just in case, if you don't have your period at the end of the week, do a pregnancy test okay ? Said the doctor to Pandore, she nods then he leaves, just giving her medicine not too strong.

Then he leaves.

I have a very bad feeling... Yesterday we just drank together and very cold drinks, the same for the food, we ate grilled fish that Damian carefully prepared, there was nothing in it, it was delicious. Besides, with the temperatures, she couldn't have caught a cold...

Could she really be pregnant ? No, impossible, she and Damian never had a relationship, she would have told me otherwise... I have to find Damian as soon as possible.

- I'm going to find Damian... I'll call you if I find him, okay Pandore ? I tell her, she doesn't even have the strength to get out of bed anymore, so I let her rest to go look for Damian.

I head towards the hot springs, there are tourists but in the cave under the waterfall, I see hunters watching. Shit, I was sure, he's looking for Damian. I have to find Damian before they do.

( No point of view )

The days go by and still no news from Damian... Edd, tirelessly every day, sets out to find him all over the island and scuba dives, while Pandore stays alone in her still sick bungalow. The fever slowly subsided, giving him the opportunity to go do some shopping. Here she is locked up in her bathroom which, oddly enough, with the window open, she is sitting on her toilet with a pregnancy test in her hand... This one is positive.