~Chapter 29~

   Adriana is crying again. But this time it's different. These tears are out of frustration, not sadness. She's screaming and throwing things around her room.
   "Why Caleb, why!?" Why? Why what? "Why would you turn on me!? How!?" Me!? She  turned on me! "I loved you more than anything and you left me! You turned and walked away with HIM! Why!? How could you!? How could you betray me like that!?" I never betrayed anyone! I was betrayed!
   "I HATE YOU!!!"

   "ADRI!!" I sprang up from my bed and then immediately punched the wall next to me, where there was already a dent forming. Damn it!! Another dream! Why!? Why would she show me a dream of her saying she hates me!?
   I was suddenly dizzy and laid back down. Wooziness from sleep, I told myself. It mucks up the mind and makes it unclear. It always does.
   I hate you.
   Adri hates me.
   I...
   Adri, I...
   I sighed.
   I have no idea.
   Why!?
   A wave of anger washed through me. I left because you betrayed me Adri! I never betrayed you, it was you all along!! And now YOU hate ME!?
   No.
   That's not how this kind of thing works.
   You don't have the right to hate me, Adri. That's for me to do.
   If you hate me so much then why are you still contacting me!? Just stop it!
   Just stop it.
   Stop contacting me.
   Stop being connected to me.
   Stop.

~Chapter 28~

   Crap! It must not have worked! I haven't heard anything from Ai saying she'll come help so my mind message must not have reached her! RRRGG! What am I going to do!?

   "Liliana!" I looked up to see Adriana walking toward me. I'd still been sitting down in the trees behind the school, gripping my head in my hands, trying, desperately, to think of something I could do.

   I stood up and tried to smile at her. "Hey Adri." She scowled at me. "Liliana, I know you're only used to keeping stuff from me, but you've got to understand, the Adriana you're talking to now has lived three lifetimes and remembers them all. You can't keep secrets from me anymore." She looked strong, and stubborn, as always, but now I could see the woman that had once been Queen.

   So I took a deep breath. "Caleb is going to try to kill you." Adriana made a face that was similar to a child's face the first time they taste broccoli.

   "What?"

   She took a step back. "Look, I don't know what Kris did, but he somehow made Caleb so mad he wants to kill you, and he's going to try to today."

   "No." Adriana shook her head and took a step back.

   "Wait, Adri, let me-"

   "No! Caleb wouldn't do that!" She stumbled back another couple steps.

   "Adri, I saw it! But-"

   "No! No!!" And she turned tail and fled.

   "No! Adri!" But she was gone.

~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.