Chapter Five: Courage

Contrary to the matter

Who you are, you are not

Come with me, I'll show you Saturn

Planets don't quite align You should try not to be so courageous I never said you were a mistake at all

You got it all wrong, you're misunderstanding Traveled far for a lover

Who she was she was not

But honestly it don't matter

Aliens ain't Farmers

You should try not to be so courageous

I never said you were a mistake at all

You got it all wrong, you're misunderstanding

You should try not to be so courageous

These dismal moods have become contagious

You should try not to be so courageous

I never said you were a mistake at all

You got it all wrong, you're misunderstanding

-Alien Ant Farm "Courage"

It's hot. Can't I sleep a bit longer? I mean, I was having this really amazing dream about stomping out of my house (away from Drasculs), finding myself in a club and then in Zander's arms. Then we went to the beach and he almost kissed me...

::BAM::

It wasn't a dream! YAY! I open my eyes to the very gorgeous Zander. Oh, Zeus. He's looking at me like I'm some kind of goddess that fell from the sky or something. Oh, man. OhmanOhmanOhman! What am I gonna do? I have to get out of here. I have to get to my aunt's house. She'll be worried sick about me...

But those eyes...and that smile...I think he's talking to me...what's that?

::3rd POV::
"Oh, umm...sorry. What? I didn't quite hear you."
With a smirk Zander repeats his question, "I asked if you were ready to get up? I thought you might like to get something to eat."
"Oh, yeah. That'd be...that'd be great..."Amanda stuttered.
"Great."
Zander moved to help up the girl that had slept in his arms the entire night.
"So, that was some club, huh?"
Looking down at Amanda, Zander replied "Yeah, some club. It was great until every other specimen of the male gender was staring at you." His eyes widened. "Did I just say that out loud? Oh man, you must think I'm a complete..."
"No," Amanda cut him off with a laugh, "I like to know what you think. It's very important. Even though I've been near you for maybe 24 hours max all together. I don't know that much about you. All I know is that you're an Arun witch and your name is Zander and you're 18. So tell me more. Anything that comes to mind."
"Um...anything? Yeah, all right...uh...I'm currently attending MIT. I'm majoring in linguistics and history and...er...I've got the best grades in my grade."
"Is that all you can think of?" sighed Amanda in an exasperated voice. "How about you family? Where you live? Places you've traveled to? Anything like that? Theories on anything?" Turning to from her light rant, she saw that Zander wasn't paying attention to anything that's she'd just said. "Fine. What are you thinking right now?"
Surprised by the turn of conversation, Zander jolted. His face flushed and he looked down at his feet. "...Are you sure you want to know?"
"Um...yeah. Otherwise I wouldn't have asked. I try to say only the things that I mean..."she trailed off.
"All right...Okay...I can...maybe...um...you."
"What?"
"You. I'm always thinking about you. Ever since I saw you that first time..."
"Oh. I'm sorry. Maybe I can somehow deal with that?"
##RINGRING##
"Oh blasted phone!" Amanda snatched her phone from her jacket pocket. "Yeah?"
"Where in the name of Hades are you? Drasculs, your father and I have been worried sick about you! Don't you know that you have to be here in an hour for your assessment test? If you do well you'll be one of the people in line for the next position! Get here. Get here now and I don't want any attitude from you missy."
##CLICK##
"Okay. Um...hey I gotta go. I've got this test I have to take in an hour and I've gotta get ready." Turning, Amanda rolled her eyes at the sky and sighed.
"Can I come? I mean I don't know what you are. And I'd like to see what kind of place you live in and..."
Amanda grinned. "Yeah. You can come. My parents'll flip, but you can come. You might have to wait a little bit while I get ready and do my test, but then I can show you around."
Taking his hand, closing her eyes and muttering something in old Greek they disappeared in a wild display of light and color.

P.Sthanks so much for reading. For Disclaimer please see other chapters!