Adeline gets up from sitting in the crowd of girls who are going home. A large smile is gleaming off her face and when she goes to Amber, they started to giggle in each other's ear. "The girls who are going home, please go back to your dorms and pack your things. Later we will take you home. As in for the six girls who got chosen, you all will follow me to the emergency room where the boys are." Fiona says before guiding the six girls out of the dining room. I am going home. It's all over. The rest of the girls who aren't chosen get up slowly and start to mutter stuff besides each other. I quietly follow the exit stairs and up to my dorm hall. I go to my dorm and before I can slam the door, someone grabs it open. "Adeline, wait." Mr. Hansel says, walking inside and quickly closing the door. "What." I reply back to him, taking my luggage out once again. "I just want to let you know that I am proud of you." I spin my body around to face him. "Proud of me? Really? I know you aren't proud of me. You would have been proud of me if I got chosen." "Either way it doesn't matter." His voice is trying to be smooth and mellow. "You didn't sound like that yesterday at the party when you called me stubborn." His body stiffens at my words when I snap back at him. I slowly turn back at packing my things away. "I didn't mean to call you stubborn, I was just annoyed that you didn't even try." "Well you know what? I am happy that I am going home. Back to finish school, maybe even go to college if they still want me. I can go out-" I'm cut off by Mr. Hansel who lunges towards me. I didn't realize what he was doing because my back was facing him. He spins me around so I'm facing him and he places his hands against my temples. "Get off of me." I snap but he is too strong to push away. He stares in my eyes while I stare back, my body going rigid. His hands are shaking that are pressed against my head. Suddenly he pulls away while breathing deeply. I rest my body on the bed when a sickening wave of nausea hits me. "What did you do?" I cried while he gets up. "I went through your head, to your emotions." "What?" I follow his motion of getting up. "You heard me, stop lying Adeline. You aren't happy that you are going home. You are afraid. You don't know how it's going to be when you get back to the human world. Whether your adoptive parents want you or if I'm going to live with you for now on. You wanted to get chosen. You wanted to stay here and see where your real family originated. Hell with it, you have something for that Blackwell boy too. You wanted Evan to pick you. Even though you were denying it this whole time, you wanted to get chosen." He finishes and I stare at him with my mouth agape. "No, I can't do this." "Do what? That you are so out of your mind that you don't know what's right from wrong?" "Shut up!" I scream at the top of my lungs and Mr. Hansel takes a step back from me. "I don't have feelings for anyone!" "Oh really? That's not what your mind said." "Why did you go through my thoughts? That is not right." I cry again and Mr. Hansel purses his lips into a thin line. "I did it because in the outside, you are a girl in the ruins. You want to be in danger and see how it feels. But in the inside you are darkness, you don't know what's coming next and you fear it." He comes up next to me and places his hand in mine. "I know what you are feeling. Confusion. I was a goner when I was slowly getting older and realizing that my parents are dead for good." I furrow my eyebrows. "How are you a vampire then? If your dad died, no one could turn you." He sighs, motioning me to sit besides him. "Both of my parents were human and they died human. We lived in the human world. No one is suppose to know this but Fiona isn't really my aunt. Demons were in the human world and they attacked my parents. Fiona was in the human world also because she usually goes once in a while and that was the night my parents died. She saved me and brought me to the vampire world. I was human while growing up and I had the decision when I was mature enough to go back to the human world or be turned." My heart stopped when his voice died down. "So I made Fiona turn me." "Why." "Why wouldn't I? Knowing that my parents were killed by demons and I could be next. I can have the strength now to avenge their deaths." "You cannot do that." "I tried when your parents almost died." "And you got that scar on your face to resemble that you can't win." He looks away from me and I bite my bottom lip. "That's why Fiona doesn't want you to go to the human world with me. It's too much for you, so much danger." He nods his head and I sigh. "Listen, I assigned to do this. I decided to be your guardian and to watch you over the years. I'm probably the first vampire to go to the human world so many times in these seventeen years. I came to your sport games, I went to your elementary and middle school graduation. I went to your award ceremonies but you never knew who I was." "And I'm kind of pissed about that." He grins while looking down at me. "It was better that way." "How so?" "Because if you knew earlier about my existence or about vampires you'd want to know more. You are a curious cat." "Sure am." I sigh, running my hands through my hair. Silence consumes us until he gets up from sitting next to me. "Okay, finish packing and when you are done come meet me in my room so we can leave." He heads to the door until I stop him. "Where are the boys?" I ask. "In the emergency room probably unconscious. They were bitten earlier by their fathers. It's going to be about another hour until they wake up." Oh we'll be gone by then unless I take my time. "Why?" He asks and I bite my bottom lip. "I wanted to see if I could say bye to Evan." He frowns before walking out of my room and not saying another word.