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This is set Pre-FAYZ. Most chapters will be flashbacks through Diana's perspectives.

I remember sitting on the bench, staring at Dekka as she stood next to a girl I didn't recognize, watching her talk.

She had it. She had the power. I had felt it when I 'accidentally' brushed my hand against hers. I smirked to myself, remembering how much my touch had made her blush. It was remarkable people didn't realize she was as straight as Ellen DeGeneres.

I sighed, flexing my hand that had measured her power. She was at least a two bar, at most a three. Either way, she was powerful compared to the general Coates population.

I wished Caine hadn't asked me to read her. She wasn't a mean girl; she hadn't ever done anything to get on my nerves. I didn't exactly want to exploit her to him and Drake. Who knew what they would eventually do with all the poor souls I turned in to them.

It's not that I felt that bad about revealing kids' powers- I didn't. I knew whatever eventually happened wouldn't be my fault. I was just doing it to protect myself. Weird things were happening and I needed to stick by someone powerful. That 'someone powerful' was Caine and I had to do something useful for him to earn his protection. I knew that seducing him wouldn't be enough to last me an indefinite amount of time. So, I had offered him my own power. I would read every person he asked me to and he would take their names down, just in case he'd ever need them. Whatever happened in the future wasn't my doing. I did whatever I could to protect myself. I was a survivor, and I would always be.

But there was something about Dekka that made me feel sorry for her. Behind the entire tough exterior she loved to wear, she was scared and broken and I could very easily tell how lost she felt. Some deep, deep part of me knew I would feel horrible for turning her in. So, when I saw Caine staring at me from across the gym room, waiting for me to reveal whether or not Dekka had power. I shrugged, as if to say that I hadn't had the chance to grab her hand yet.

What could I say? I was a sucker when it came to weaklings.

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