~Chapter 27~

   Die...

   Someone is going to die...

   DIE!

   The screaming voice was panicked, scared, desperate. It struck me so hard I fell off the bed, landing on the ground with a loud thud!

   "Ow..." I heard a shifting in the bed and looked up to see the beautiful light-haired girl in the white lacy nightgown looking down at me, confused from sleep.

   "What are you doing down there?" She murmured.

   I rubbed my head and grumbled, "I fell off the bed."

   She plopped her head down on the pillow and rubbed the place I was laying. "Well come back, I'm cold." I let out a small laugh and got back in the bed under the covers. She then scooted into my arms and I placed a soft kiss on her lips. "I love you Nolan," she whispered. I kissed her again.

   "I love you too Ai." Ai soon fell fast asleep, but I was left laying awake, unable to shut my eyes again. I knew that dream was important. I need to tell Ai what it said. But then I looked down at her. She was so calm, so relaxed, so at peace. She hadn't been like this in so long. She deserves one complete night of peaceful sleep. I'll tell her in the morning.

~Chapter 26~

   I had paced back and forth in the backyard trees at our school for the past couple hours now, desperately trying to figure out what exactly led up to that scene and, oh yeah, HOW I CAN STOP IT!!! So far, I hadn't thought of ANYTHING.
   I have to contact Ai. I have to find a way to tell Ai!! But she's in Heaven! I'm not dead like the rest of them, I can't fly! What can I do? I can see the stupid future and have NO WAY to stop it! All I get are these useless mind powers!! Moving things with my mind, hearing people's thoughts, really? What good is it going to do me to get into someone's head!?
   ...
   Someone's head.
   I can get into people's heads. Can I only then hear their thoughts? Maybe I can do more...
   I finally stopped pacing, sat down in meditating position, and focused.
   Ai...
   With my mind I called out to her, almost as though it were a telephone. Maybe, just maybe, I can reach her through a mental link and tell her about my vision.
   This was extremely strange. My consciousness left my body and traveled around, feeling the minds of many people, many many people. But I didn't want people. I wanted a ghost. An angel. A dead soul.
   Finally I locked onto a mind that felt different. As if it was only half there, faded by time. Maybe this is Ai. Maybe it's not. But it feels good, pure. It must be in Heaven. So I tried to send a thought instead of receive one.
   Adriana is going to die.

~Chapter 25~

   A cliff. A man-made one. I've seen this cliff before. It's here in town. It's made of beautiful blue tile and has water running over it. It's a man-made waterfall. Down at the bottom of the waterfall is a knee-deep pool of water, surrounded by a ledge which people like to sit on like a bench.

   This fountain is at the center of the town park. It also happens to be where Adri and Caleb had their first official date.

   There they are, standing at the top of the waterfall, in the water, instead of on the sides like they're supposed to be, just as Adri described it to me the day after.

   So, if this is their first date...why am I seeing it? This is the past, not the future.

   ...Or is it?

   Sure enough, this doesn't look like a date. They aren't holding hands. In fact, they're yelling.

   What on Earth is going on?

   Wait.

   What is THAT!?

   Caleb has a sword!! Who gave him a sword!? And why's he pointing it at Adri!? Caleb don't!!

   Adri, of course, ducked and ran out of the way when Caleb lunged at her. She then screamed at him with tears in her eyes, no doubt trying to reason with him.

   He hesitated.

   And up came the man who ruined everything. Kris, right? That's his name? In Caleb's hesitation, he ran up and shoved Adriana off the cliff, sending her falling and screaming.

   "CALEB!!"

   I sprung straight up in my sleeping bag, screaming bloody murder.

   "Liliana! What's wrong!?" Adriana had been jolted awake by my scream. I looked to my left to see Adri sitting up, hair matted from sleep, eyes tired and worried. I took a moment to catch my breath.

   "Nothing," I said. "Just a bad dream." Adri sighed and plopped back onto her pillow.

   "Jesus, you scared me."

   "Sorry," I murmured.

   "Well, we're supposed to get up in about 10 minutes anyway. No harm done. Let's get ready for school."

   "Um...Yeah, okay." Adriana got up and went to the bathroom to brush her teeth. I stayed seated in my sleeping bag, still shaken.

   That was no dream...

~Chapter 24~

   "This is bad, we need to act soon." I looked at Kris. There was that look in his eyes that told me he was thinking of something bad. "He's too smart, he's going to figure out I've been lying soon. He's already suspicious, I can tell. So I need to change things before he changes back."

   "What exactly are you going to do?" I sat down at the table with him. When he looked up at me, for a second it appeared as if he were looking at me the same way he'd been looking at Caleb. Why?

   "I don't really know. I'm thinking we kill Adriana, but then we'd need to act fast and kill her as an angel too. That way she's stuck oblivious to all of this once again for 14 years. And in that time, we can defeat them."

   "But if we kill Adriana...I don't know if Caleb is against her so much that he would be okay with that. I mean...he still loves her, he'd probably kill you for killing her. And you're not an angel, Kris. You wouldn't come back."

   Kris knew I was right, I could see it in his eyes. He contemplated for a minute. "Maybe we can get him to kill her."

   "What?"

   "Think about it Daisy! It could work! We twist his mind a little and make him mad and maybe we can get him to fight her! He's rash like that, he'd fall for it, but she's too loving, she wouldn't fight him, so she'd be killed!"

   That's terrible! Turning him against his love is one thing, but then getting him to kill her!? Kris, what happened to your heart!?

   "But what could you possibly say to get him to be that mad?"

   Again Kris thought. Then the spark in his eyes came to life that told me he knew what he was going to do. And  that I wasn't going to like it. He smiled at me. "Not what I say. What she says."

~Chapter 23~

   "Hey Lil?"
   "Sup?" Liliana asked through a bite of ice cream. We'd been watching movies and eating junk food all day and now we were on the Cherry Garcia ice cream.
   "What exactly can you do?"
   "What?" she asked with a confused expression.
   "You're protector powers. What are they?"
   "Oh..." She put down the ice cream and pressed pause on Indiana Jones. "You realize the whole point in me coming over here was to get your mind off all that stuff right!?"
   I winced at her sudden anger. "I'm sorry, it's just something that occurred to me...sorry..." I picked up the remote and pressed play again. We sat there in silence for a few seconds until Liliana pressed pause again.
   "I can read minds, see the future, and move things without touching them."
   "For how long?"
   "Few years."
   "Oh wow..."
   "Yep," she said as she pressed play again. We watched for nearly a minute when i pressed pause again.
   "Wait! So when you got that A on that pop quiz that EVERYBODY ELSE failed in chemistry-"
   "Hey, that's not fair! The answers happened to be in my vision that morning!"
   "Lil!!"
   "Sorryyyyyy!"
   Finally, for the first time in a week, I laughed a true, full-hearted laugh, and it felt good!
   Maybe this is possible...
   Maybe.

~Chapter 22~

   It didn't work...
   Still, every single night, Adri's soul called to me through her dreams. She kept replaying that scene, over and over again, and every single time she cried for hours on end.
   "It's all part of the trick. She's learned the secrets to dreams, they're fairly simple to manipulate actually. She's trying to convince you that this really hurts, but you, my friend, are smarter than that." Kris's lecture of how I shouldn't give in to the dreams was starting to get old. If I wanted, I could mimic him word for word, as it's exactly the same every time. Don't give in and It's all a trick.
   A trick...
   Is that all it ever was? A trick?
   Part of me didn't believe that.
   But I couldn't tell if that was the part of me that was still slightly hopeful, or the logical part of me.
   Or both...
   "Yeah, yeah, that's enough out of you," Daisy said as she stuffed Kris's mouth with garlic bread. He glared at her. "He's heard the same speech for the past week, I think he gets it already." Kris looked at me. I gave him the 'yeah kinda' shrug.
   "By the way, this is amazing Daisy, thank you," I said as I took a bite of spaghetti. This past week I'd discovered Daisy was a great cook, always making delicious food, every single meal. Pretty surprising for a teenager.
   Although, she's probably been a teenager for a long time...I suppose she's had a lot of practice.
   "Oh, well, um, no problem..." Her cheeks became bright red. She's also quite modest.
   "Well, I'm going to sleep, hopefully." I got up and walked to the room they'd given me. Laying down felt good on my tired back, but I didn't catch much sleep. Every time I drifted off, all I heard was Adri's screams. I eventually gave up and got up to go get a drink of water. Voices in the kitchen stopped me from opening the door.
   "I don't understand why you're doing this though..." Daisy said.
   "He'd never go along with it if I didn't, he loves her," Kris replied. They're talking about me.
   "And she loves him..." Daisy whispered.
   "What he doesn't know won't kill him."
   I staggered away from the door.
   Adri loves me. Is that true?
   The entirety of my body screamed YES!
   But if so then...Why is he lying to me?
   What else has he lied about?
   Have I even heard a single truth since he brought me here?
   Who is Kris?

~Chapter 21~

   Why can't my visions come sooner than they do!? Always in the early morning! No no no can't see tomorrow the night before, oh no! That would make things too easy!!! Ugh!! Woke up this morning to see Adri crying and Caleb flying and black as night feathers and harsh words and god! It hit me so hard I started crying just for Adri's pain!
   Now I stood at the corner of her street where in my vision I saw Caleb speak to her, then turn and leave. I walked down the street where I saw her walking with those terrified eyes. Knocked on the door she had stepped out of and shown a sad smile to the sky. Then the girl who's eyes were still red from the tears that she had no doubt just wiped off her face opened up the door and looked at me with those sad eyes.
   I walked right past her into her house. "Okay, I've got pizza- half olive and half pineapple, just how you like it-"
   "Lil-"
   "-two giant bags of Doritos-one nacho cheese and one cool ranch-"
   "Liliana-"
   "-four tubs of Ben&Jerry's Cherry Garcia ice cream, and two boxes of Oreos."
   "That's great, but-"
   "I also stopped by Blockbuster; I got Peter Pan with the real people, Pan's Labyrinth, the first three Indiana Jones movies, and the first four Harry Potters. I know it sounds pretty vigorous, but I think we can watch 'em all if we get right to it. Now come on, get out your sleeping bag, we're going all out sleepover here."
   "Liliana!"
   After finally setting everything down, I looked up at her. "What?"
   "What about school? It's Tuesday. Not only that, but it's still 9 a.m! What are you even doing here? You should be at school!"
   "So should you! And yet you're not. Don't worry about explaining, I already know," I pointed to my head, "I understand why you don't want to go to school, and there's no way in hell I'm leaving you alone. Plus, come on, missing one stupid day isn't going to hurt me. Now do you plan to stand there and just stare at me, or are you going to help me set up the movie and get this sleepover started?"
   Adriana looked at me in amazement for a few moments, as if searching for something to say, but eventually her eyes got watery. She just walked over to me and wrapped her arms around me, crying into my shoulder.
   "I love you, Lil," she said between sobs. I stroked her hair.
   "Love you too Adri."