Katie's POV It was one of those days—which was almost every—that I didn't really want to face school. Usually, I have to mentally prepare myself to face it all. The bully, obvious side talks that are usually loud enough for me to hear, and the taunting on some intense days. I was ready for them all but today, I was far from ready. I was drained from the whole escapade with Joanna and Donald, and I knew it wasn't going to end there. Whenever they don't immediately lash out at me for the opposition, they always had something planned that was way worse than my move.I was already ten minutes past my usual time of getting up. I could hear the bells ringing out and calling for me to get up before no bone in my body corresponded. I ended up just laying there until I heard some steps aiming down my hallway before throwing myself out of bed and into the shower. In the same spot, I brushed my teeth and washed my hair. I picked my most comfortable and most worn sweatshirt, a beanie, and headed

Katie's POVI have never been so happy at someone's arrival like I was right now as Prof Evan opened the door. I grabbed my backpack off the desk and ran to the door and into his arms. He held me with a hand while looking above my head at The art teacher.“I was looking for you.” He said to me,“I had detention and—” The rest of the words just logged there in my throat. I didn't know exactly how I could word them without it being used against me.“I am just glad you are here.” I let him go soon as I realized it was also another compromising position. I cleared my throat and it broke their silent stare off.“I will take it from here.” Evan told him and closed the door behind him. “Did he touch you?” Evan asked in a grave deep voice that sounded a lot like a death threat. I shook my head, biting down on my bottom lips so the tears pricking my eyes wouldn't fall and prove otherwise.“No. He didn't but he got so close I actually thought—'' He held my shoulder in a strong grasp. “Shush…not

Katie's POV“And Katie?”“Yeah??”“Come with the witch, we would need him.”The line goes dead. I'm clutching my phone in my right hand. The view of the pack, though beautiful, doesn't register in my head as it played his last instruction like a broken record.‘Come with the witch, we would need him..’Did I really need to tell him? I turned on my phone. At least he was right about one thing, it was already damn late. Some more minutes and It would be 10 PM. That is already late enough for the Whitlock household, plus it would seem weird that both of them would be coming in at the same time. I shook my head, the cold air slapping both sides of my face with a kind of vigor I didn't like, it was definitely a sign that I had been standing out here for a longer time than necessary.I walked back to the Jeep parking point which you could easily call our cluster point. Everyone was positioned just around the Jeep with Judy Ryan seated on the bonnet, he jumped down and walked towards me.“He

Katie's POV “You make a great aunt.” She smiled genuinely, her eyes twinkling like the less evil version of her mother.“Yeah yeah…”A text came in. The notification bell was set to the lowest sound that my ears could pick up, so I had reached for it so fast while startling Jessica in the process.“Dude! What the hell?!” She clutched her chest and truly, I could hear the rapid sound of her organ beating against her ribcage. I didn't feel bad yet, whatever was inside her wouldn't cry and kick just yet, so In my own point of view, she would be fine. “I swear If I gave myself a heart attack and I died, my mother would perform an autopsy on me and find this child inside of me…I will come back from the dead just to kill you…”“Interesting…” I muttered, swiping to the right with the call that began vibrating her phone, “Now hold your tits, this call is important.” Something about swiftly sliding out of the chair and walking into the aisle of books made me feel safer. Killian's voice came

Killian's POVI dropped the call with Katie, a sigh escaping from my lips. I clutched the steering wheel tight enough to watch my knuckles go bland white before letting go.“Fuck!” I groaned out to the comfort of the walls of my car, the harshness in my voice came echoing back to me in a hundred folds.Coming from Stephen's place straight to Katie's school had jiggled up all of my emotions and now, I felt like I owed people so much more than I have dished out to them. *flashback*It was a few minutes past noon and I had just exited the elevator that sat at the end of his hall. A smile comes to my face as I see the old woman, his neighbor. She was in workout clothes despite her old age and slightly hunched back, she managed to look fit and kind of cute. I found walking old women cute, their push at life motivated me.Knowing I had definitely forgotten her name, I went with, “Hey there…”She smiled a bit, her eyes sq