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Reid's POV

We walked back to the dorm, well I walked in front of him, but we both knew I was aware of his path that laid, step for step, behind me. As i approached the door, I saw Tyler standing outside Theia's door, getting some air.

"Hey is she there?" I asked hopefully

"No...not yet." He replied searching "You came back?"

"Yeah, I said I would." I said blatantly "What's wrong with you?"

"I just had to keep a girl I really like from having a mental break down dude, I'm pissed at you. That's what wrong with me" I pushed himself off the door frame and turned to walk away but I stopped him as Caleb caught up to me.

"That's no reason to be a dick to me, I'm making amends, alright." I reasoned lowly

"No, not alright, you're unstable." Broke in Caleb "No one does what you did so suddenly and then act like a devoted friend a half hour later. You're insane."

"I already fucking dealt with you. You don't even have a say in this." I shot back

"Don't get on Caleb because you feel guilty. And besides, are you even going to tell Theia before Ashley Stivers tells everyone? Or what about Heidi? Or Pogue? You know after Kate he'd lose all respect for you since she cheated on him. What about us?" he gestured to Caleb, and then himself "I want Heidi to be my girlfriend sometime in the near future and that means Theia is going to be around most of the time and Caleb..." he looked down and then back up at me "...He's probably a better influence on T." My eyes bore into him like he was a mad man but in reality, it turned me into the mad man.

"Tyler..." I spoke with as much poise and conviction as I could, but I knew I had a shit storm building inside me ready to blow "If you really believe that, then I'd rather be on my own. I don't need the god damn covenant. I'm outta here."

"What?" Fumed Caleb "What happened to the "she sees right through me" bull shit? Or "She deserves an apology"? Now you're going to up and dump us and be like Chase? How long is it gonna be until you start murdering people?" he spun me around by my shoulder and picked me up by the collar of my hoodie. And I lost myself.

I got so mad I didn't hold back on Caleb, my eyes went black as I looked at him and used a huge sum of energy that escaped from every pore in my body. His body was torn away from mine and it hit the other side if the wall hard enough to dent the dry wall and cause a huge crunching sound that echoed down the hall.

"Caleb!" shouted Tyler while running to his side "Reid, what have you done?" Caleb was picking himself up off the ground shakingly, he was obviously hurt. But he ignored his own pain, straightened himself up and rolled his shoulders, his snip cracked ominously as students started coming out of their rooms from the noise. Caleb walked right up to me and got in my face with blackened eyes.

"You come near Theia, and I'll kill you." he hissed, and honestly, I was intimidated, but not afraid "You win, be on your own. Don't come back here. You're not a Son of Ipswitch anymore..." He looked me dead in the eye for a long time and Heidi came out of her room.

"What's going on?" She asked sleepily and frantically

"Nothing Hide," Tyler soothed her "We're just talking... and Reidi was just leaving." I broke my glare with Caleb and looked at my lifelong friend.

"Ty..." I said sorrowfully and he rushed Heidi back into her dorm but he stopped shortly to look at me.

"You said that's what you wanted, so go. This isn't even about Theia anymore. I can't trust you if you put Caleb through a wall." He gestured his head to Caleb who was still looking at me and they both walked inside. Leaving me alone, being stared at by the students who had come out of their rooms to watch the show.

"The fuck are you looking at?" I said to them and they all broke their gaping intrigued stares. I walked away quickly to my dorm, grabbed my stuff, got in my car, and left. "He can have her... he can have everything..."

Theia's POV

I got back to the dorm and was greeted by an overly emotional Heidi.

"Oh my god! There you are! It's 2:00am! Where Have you been?" Heidi Surprised me when she fell into my arms,crying her eyes out. Her whole body shook with sobs.

"Hey...What's wrong. I'm sorry I didn't call." I hushed her "I'm so sorry, Heidi." She took her head off my shoulder and gasped. "What?"

"Theia, you're covered in ashes! Where have you been?" I felt my arms and it was true, there was a thick, powdery coating across my skin.

"What?..." I asked in bewilderment "I was just in the stairwell this entire time..."

"No you weren't, we checked every staircase on campus in case you fell..." trailed off Heidi as I heard people stir behind her

"Theia! You're ba-...T, you're filthy, where were you?" I heard Caleb's voice and I reached out my hand for his as I started to get scared

"I-I was just in the stairwell...And a boy was talking to me, he-" Caleb interrupted me

"You're covered in handprints!" he whispered

"A boy... just helped me back to my-my dorm..." he pulled me into his arms and then into the room.

"I'm calling the police, Maybe they can pull a fingerprint off of the marks from whoever was touching you. Sick bastard." I was shocked

"He only touched my hand... an-and my upper arms and that was it-"

"Theia, you have prints all over your body. You were molested." I was shaking and my head was spinning as I could hear him dialing 911

"No... where's Reid? Reid?" I panicked and tried to hear his voice and I reached my hands out to him expecting him to grab me and hold me tight but no one reached out for me. "Where's Reid? Is he still mad at me? I wanna talk to him, I need to apologize to him." I teared up "I need too..."

"Reid... Left. He said he had better things to do." I could feel my face get hot and my nose wrinkled up into a sad whimpering face, my eyes must have been pleading for an answer. "He said he didn't want to be a part of anything too serious." I whimpered and I felt arms around me but they were my size, it smelled like Heidi and I knew it was her.

"Did he really?" I cried and she was crying too

"I asked him to stay and... he came back but-but he left again... I'm sorry!" we cried for a long time and Caleb pulled Heidi off of me

"Theia, I need you to stop crying, the tears are streaking the hand prints and heidi hugging you is wiping them away. I don't want anyone to touch you until the police get here with the ambulance." I nodded and felt dirty and alone as I sat on my bed, I could feel everyone staring at me and I tried my best to choke back my tears but reid wasn't there, I couldn't cry, and none of my friends could touch me. I felt like a was marred with some ugly disfigurement instead of my invisible handicap.

"H-How long ago d-id Reid leave?" I hiccupped shakingly

"About twenty-" started Heidi and Caleb interrupted her

"A while ago. He's long gone by now." My face must have twisted into a distrusting look and he snapped at me "What?"

"Did anyone check his room?" I asked slowly

"Yes," asserted Caleb "I did." I didn't feel like he was telling me the truth in the slightest.

"Tyler?" I asked

"Yeah?" He sounded sad, borderline depressed even.

"What happened while I was gone? Why would Reid leave?" I asked and there was a knock on the door. I sprang up and listened as hard as I could for the sound of Reid's voice or tried the pick up his scent but there was none.

"Wait," I said out loud "I can't smell the ashes." I said as caleb opened the door and Pogue walked in. " Could smell Pogue before Caleb opened the door and I can't smell the ashes."

"So, what does that mean?" I shook my head

"I don't know, are they really there, are you sure? It's not just be being crazy?" I asked sincerely "Because I feel like I'm losing my mind."

"Yes they're there." Exclaimed Caleb "You were molested Theia."

"I don't think I was-" I tried but was cut off

"Yeah, you were. I can see the handprints all over your body. It's obvious." He informed me, rudely.

"What did you just say to me?" I snapped and stood up strongly. Caleb quickly realized his mistake.

"Oh my god Theia I'm so s-" I held up one hand to signal him to stop talking.

"...Sorry? Is that the word you're looking for? Because I could find other words for you right now." I hissed at him

"I didn't mean to-" I interrupted him this time.

"Yeah Caleb, you did mean to. You meant to make it seem like there was no use trying to talk to Reid. You meant to make me believe that you know more about me and my body just because I can't see. And you meant to ditch me for Sarah. And I don't think Reid left of his own free will." I had finished my backlash there was another knock on the door

"Police, we're responding to a call made by a Caleb Danvers." Came a voice from the door

"I got it." Said Pogue as me rose to his feet

The police came and I told them what happened, they took me down to the station in the ambulance with Heidi and the boys all drove together in Caleb's car. They checked my blood pressure while trying not to disturb the marks on my fair skin. After it was clear that I hadn't been attacked and they pulled a set of prints, some from my arms, the others from my neck and face. It was mortifing haveing people look at you, being covered in marks from another person, and not remember ever being touched.

"So, tell us again, did he ever say his name?" Asked a police officer, he seemed like an older man and I pictured him to look something like an exmilitary veterian from the fifties, but I was using my imagination to try and check out of reality, and I very much so needed to be real right now.

"No... he didn;t really say anything-except when he mentioned why he was there in the first place. He said his friends, his exfriends, 'screwed him over' and he said it exactly like that, they 'screwed him over'."

"I see, did he have any characteristics that you can recall? I know you can't give us a description but-"

"Yes, his voice, if you find him and I can hear him speak, I can tell you exactly who it is." I reported proudly

"That's a very good adapation you have there little lady," I smiled "Now is there anything else he said, any thing that may hint on where he may be?" I thought for a brief second

"He said... he said his friends had forgotten about him and that he... he was going to make them remember with 'a big comeback'." I paused to think, and be sure that's what he said.

"Is that exactly what he said." The old man asked

"Exactly. 'A big comeback'." I nodded

"Alright, well," someone came in and spoke to the policeman and then left quickly afterward. "It seems we found a match for the prints in our criminal database..."

"Who was it?" asked Caleb hurriedly

"It seems to have been one Chase Collins." said the policeman "But unfortunately he went missing from Spencer Private School last year, did he not?"

"Oh my god," whispered Pogue and Caleb got up out of the room to wait outside

"I have to make a phone call." he muttered on his way out, it was confusing, but I continued to talk to the officer.

"Yes, I remember hearing about it. His fingerprints were pulled of my arms?" I asked

"No, there were a few different people that came up in your screening. The other two were Colbie Lougphry and David Lucas. Both of them... passed away last year around the time that Chase had gone missing. I believe this could be some sort of prank by the students but if you feel unsafe at school then we can surely call your father and you can ask the Deans to have homeschooling and the station will support you, sweetie." He soothed me. I nodded but my head straightened up a little.

"Officer, what ever I was covered in didn't smell familiar, I mean it smelled like ash but, it didn't... do you know what it was?" I was curious about the substance and had been for a few hours.

"Huh...You know it's late sweetheart and-" I stopped him

"Please, I'd like to know." I almost begged him and he sighed

"Theia is it?" he asked

"Yes..."

"You don't want to know, it's not good and-" he started to ramble

"Please!" I implored

"Yes, it was ash." He said stoically "But not from burning wood of paper. It was the remains of someone who had been cremated." I was shocked, I'd been covered in the dust of a deadman. I was appalled and disgusted.

"Wh... whose ashes were they?" I asked, half not wanting to hear the answer

"Well, the ashes of a woman had been stolen yesterday night so we think that's who's they are." He explained but he ended his thought there.

"What was her name?" I beseeched and I heard his breath hitch like it was stolen from him.

"Her name...… was Cosette Dainan." My eyes widened and tears poured down my face in agony.

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Cosette Dainan was my mother's name.

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