I am so so so sorry that I haven’t posted in a while. I had mid-terms last week and this week had so much homework. But I’m back and chapters should be up regularly again. :)
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Don’t you dare look out your window, Darling, everything’s on fire. The war outside our door keeps raging on…
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Last Time on Safe and Sound:

_It’s over. The soccer game is over. It ended 2 hours ago. We won 21-13. Alek and Kristine aren’t back yet. They’ve been gone for over 3 hours. Justin stayed with me for a little while, but had to go home for dinner and Julianna’s mom picked her up right after the game. Man I really wish I had Alek or Kristine’s number right now. Where were they? What happened to them? I’m freaking out mentally right now. Suddenly I see two figures coming towards me.

“Alek? Kristine?” I asked to the darkness.

“It’s us,” I heard Kristine’s voice.

When the finally come into the light, I can’t believe what I see, Alek is limping and holding onto Kristine for support. He’s got a black eye, swollen lip, and he’s all bloody. Kristine looks like she’s in pain, and her left wrist looks swollen, she’s holding the camera. She tossed it to me and and I caught it easily.

“What the hell happened to you two?” I asked, afraid of the answer.
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“He got away” Alek said

I walked over to them and helped them over to the bleachers so they could sit down.

“So it was a he?” I ask still holding the camera.

“Yeah,” Kristine said.

“It’s really late, let’s go to my house. You guys can stay over and get cleaned up,” I said.

“Good idea,” Kristine agreed.

“Your parents aren’t going to flip out when they see us are they?” She asked me.

“Nah my mom is on a business trip for the week and my dad left when I was three,” I told her.

“Oh, I’m sorry,” She said.

“Nah it’s fine. He left ages ago,” I replied.
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We got to my house in 20 minutes. I changed into my PJ’s and gave Kristine something to change into after she took a shower. Alek is sitting on my living room couch still as bloody as can be. I walked in the living room with some ice, a wet towel, and band-aids.

“You okay?” I asked sitting next to him, setting the stuff on the little table in the middle of the living room.

“I’ve been better,” he said looking at me.

“What happened?”

“We ran after him and into an alley. We tried talking to him, but that didn’t work out to well,”

“What did he do?”

“He came at us, he push Kristine out of the way and rammed into me,”

“Oh my God,”

“Yeah, it went down hill from there. Did you look at the camera yet?”

“No, to be honest I’m afraid to see what’s on there,” I said while picking up the wet towel and start wiping the blood off of his face.
“Don’t you wanna know what’s on there?” he winces.

“Sorry,” I say “Well yeah, but then I don’t want to know” I put the towel back on the table.

“We’ll look at it together,”

I sighed, “Okay,” I handed him some ice in a bag and grabbed the camera. It’s not a normal kind of digital camera, it’s more like a pap camera. I turned it on and switched over to view images

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“That’s creepy,” was all I could say. There was pictures of me with my cousin, my friends, with my dog, my horse, the time I went jet-skiing, and visited the dolphins.

“Unbelievable,” Alek said.

“Do you have any idea who he was and why he was stalking me?” I asked

“He was defiantly a member of The Oder, but I don’t understand why they are onto you. They only attack when we attack,”

“But they didn’t attack,” I said.

“No, but you better be extremely careful. You don’t know who is who or what they’re capable of,” Alek warned me.

“Got it,” I said.
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“Hey Juliette” Julianna said to me the next day at school.

“Hey,” I said.

“What’s up with you?”

“Long story,”

“Well you can tell me at lunch. Do you wanna to see a movie tonight?” Julianna asked.

“Yeah sounds like fun. What movie?”

“One for the Money”

“Awesome,”

“Oh and Paul, Justin, Ryan and Chaz are coming,” she informed me

“Okay, see you later,” I said before heading to English.
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I got to the movie theater at around 7:45pm, movie starts at 8. Julianna was already there.

“Hey,” I said walking over to her.

“Hey,”

“Where’s everyone else?” I asked her.

“On their way,” She to me.

“Okay, since when did you talk to Justin, Ryan, and Chaz?”

“Since I found out they were in my cooking class,”

“Nice,”

“Here they are,” Julianna said waving the guys over.

“Hey,” Justin said.

“Hi,” I smiled at him.

“So what movie are we seeing?”

“One for the Money” I told him.

“Cool,”

“So, I’ll go get the tickets and you guys go get your snacks. Juli can you get me a small popcorn and a coke?” I asked.

“Yeah sure,”

“Thanks,” I took everyone’s money and headed over to the ticket booth.

“six tickets to One for the Money please,” I tell the guy.

“$66” the guy says while handing me my tickets.

I gave him the money and took the tickets.

As I was walking back over to everyone, I saw Alek standing outside the movie theater watching me. I let out an aggravated sigh and went outside.

“What are you doing here?” I asked him.

“I told you not to get involved with them,” he said glaring at me.

“It’s just a movie, and you can’t stop me from living my life,” I shot back at him.

“I’m just warning you, after the guy with the camera you have to be careful,”

“I know Alek, you don’t have to remind me every 5 minutes. I get it,” I retorted.

“I’m just saying, The Tenth Blade is everywhere,”

“Whatever Alek” and with that I walked back inside and into the theater.
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The movie was amazing. Hilarious and if you haven’t see it you totally should.

“Well, I gotta get home,” I said to everyone.

“You want me to walk you home?” Justin asked.

“Thanks, but I’ll be fine. It’s only a 10 minute walk,” I said.

“Okay, see you around then” he said.

“Yeah,” I smiled.

I turned around and started walking home. I really don’t know why I chose to walk, it’s really dark out here and I have the weirdest feeling that I’m being followed. I stop walking for a second when I hear the crack-snap of a tree branch breaking. That’s when I go into a full on sprint. At least I know not to go home, and head over to Coit Tower. I run inside and start running up the stairs. If you don’t know what Coit Tower looks like it’s a giant concrete tower, that just has a spiral staircase going up until the top, where it’s an open area.

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I make it up to the very top and stop to catch my breath. I think I lost them, when I head footsteps behind me. I whirl around. The man in black from the soccer game it back and walks toward me. I back up get closer and closer to the edge. He keeps coming toward me until I can no longer back up.
When the man in black get close to me, I slice the left side of his face with my claws. He grabs his face with his right hand and with his left, he pushes me out of the opening and I fall 210 feet into the town of San Fransisco…
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Again I am so so so sorry that I haven’t posted in a while. I hope you liked this chapter. :) Chapters should be up on weekends for now on.

Can we get:

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for the next chapter???

Okay, I have two questions this time:

Q1: Are you watching the Super Bowl?

A. Yes! Go GIANTS!!!
B. Yes! Go Patriots!!
C. Not Really
D. No, not a fan of football.

Well, in my house the TV has been on since the pre-game show started and I have to say I’m with the Giants. (even though we’re losing at the moment)

Q2: Did anyone go see Chronicle, Man on a Ledge, or Big Miracle? If you did let me know what you thought of it. Thanks!

~Juli