He was just a few centimeters away from her lips when she brought her finger in between and pushed him away. “We’re not a real couple and nice try, Zack.” she told him, moving away. “Oh, shoot.” He said, pretending like he was just joking around when he felt a bit hurt on the inside. “You should leave. It’s really late. Your dad could be worried about you.” she told him. “Oh, he knows.” He told her, getting up. She looked at him, surprised. “Your dad is really laid back, huh?” she asked him. “You don’t know half of it.” he told her. “See you tomorrow.”

Zack was outside, wandering around. He would always get bored whenever Lillian wouldn’t be with him. He stopped by a bridge and looked at the water in boredom. His phone buzzed in his pocket. He took it out and saw that he got a message from an unknown number. He opened it and saw Lillian in a restaurant with a guy and he was caressing her face. His hand curled into a tight fist, and then he received the location of the place. He ran to the place. He reached there in a few minutes and saw Lillian having dinner with the guy. Zack went inside and sat down at the table behind her. She didn’t see him because her back was facing him. He eavesdropped on their conversation.

Days passed by and her parents didn’t try to do any more things to her. Her days went by peacefully, which she was glad for.Her contest was only a day away, which made her quite nervous. Alan invited her parents to give Zack and Lillian some confidence boost, but it was mostly for Lillian since Zack was not nervous at all for the contest.Lillian was already at their house and was revising what she learned once more with Zack before her parents and Aurora arrived. They were called for dinner.Lillian saw that Aurora was wearing a dress that revealed her cleavage very well. She was beaming at Zack, and he was fully ignoring her.“You have an admirer.” Lillian teased him in a low tone.

The next morning, Lillian woke up early and got ready. She was glad that she had left a pair of dresses from the last time she stayed here. She was feeling even more nervous now that today was D-day. Alan dropped them both at the school and then Mr. Owen took them to the place where the contest was being held. When they got there, they saw a lot of different students from the elite school and this made her even more anxious. Zack noticed that. “You kid look around for a while, since we’re half an hour early. In the meantime, I’ll get both of your names entered.” he told them and went away. Zack bumped into her shoulder with his, which

“Hurry up! Move!” The police in charge told the men who were getting on the prison bus.Once they were all on the bus, they started to move. Everyone sat in silence while the guards talked with each other.Suddenly, the bus stopped.“Why did you stop?” One guard asked the driver because he knew that they didn’t reach the prison.He pointed out the window.“There is a person standing outside in a weird costume.” The driver told him.The guard looked out and saw a young man standing outside with black bat-like wings attached to his back.