I sat there thinking to myself that this was true torture; being integrated by a psycho Witch had nothing on Calculus. The problems on the board were like a foreign language to me. The teacher was mumbling something but I was too far off in dream land to even understand him. You know you're bored when you're wishing you were fighting an army of evil scientist rather than take one more second of math.

I sighed. Maybe it was because it's the last class of the day.

Just then I heard the teacher swear under his breath as he was rummaging through one of his cabinets. "I'm sorry class; it seems my aid took your tests with him. I'll be back in a couple minutes, start your homework and we'll go over your tests when I get back."

The minute the door shut behind him every one in the class room turned to their friends and automatically started talking about their weekend plans. Except me, I could already hear Aunt Lauren complaining when I got home to do my homework. I knew I should get a start on it now. I pulled out my notebook and starred at problem number one for five minutes. My fake glasses slid down my nose, I jammed them back in place, I hated these damn things but I guess they worked for Superman.

Then I felt someone starring at me. My back tensed. Slowly I lifted my head up to nonchalantly tuck my new found long black hair behind my ear. It was the girl in front of me, she had thick red curly hair and so many freckles her skin looked orange. She smiled when we made eye contact.

"You're the new girl right? Chloe Blake?"

"Yea." I smiled back at her friendly. I was so use to lying now that Simon had even suggested that I'd make a better actress than a director or producer.

"I'm Jade. This is Allison, and that's Meghan." She pointed to the girls in the desk surrounding me. Allison had long black hair like me but she had it tied back in a ponytail and Meghan had short brown hair that hung in her brown eyes. They all smiled widely at me. "We noticed you're very shy. Thought we try and make friends."

"Nice to meet you." I said openly. "I wouldn't say I'm shy," I said rolling my pencil in between my fingers. "I'm just quiet. Moving is a lot of stress, you know."

"Where did you move from?" Meghan asked me.

"Europe." I smiled as they looked at me shocked.

"What made you come to such a little town in No where's Ville Missouri?" Allison laughed.

I shrugged my shoulders. "I live with my Aunt, and she's works for the Military so we move a lot. I'm use to it, I suppose." I said leaning back in my chair.

"Cool." Allison said resting her face on her hands. "It must be cool to see so many places. You must not have a lot of friends though, if you're always moving."

"Well yes and no. I still email some of them." I smiled. Not true. Normally when we left a place we didn't have time to explain why. One minute we're there the next we were gone. Leaving no trace behind.

"Well you're in luck then, Chloe!" Jade said completely turning around in her chair and putting her hands on my desk rather confident. "We're going to make your stay here, no matter how short it may be a fantastic one! First off, there's a dance this weekend and were all going." She smiled wide. "Were going to have a sleepover tomorrow night to do a makeover makeup trial run, you'll love it."

I gave her a nervous smile. Tori was more into that kind of thing then me. "That's not really necess-."

"Do you own a nice dress? If not I've got a bunch and you look about my size. My mom likes pageants." Meghan said moving her chair closer to mine. "Your hair is so soft." She said reaching over and patting my hair. "We can try curling it; I bet that would look really nice."

"Oh, but we'll have to find you a date, cause we all have one. Is there anyone here you like?" Jade asked. I blushed at her.

"W-well no but I alr-."

"Well I guess you haven't been here long enough. But you're really pretty I'm surprised no one has come up and asked you yet." Allison looked around. "Oh, how about Jamie?" She said pointing to a boy across the room that was in a football jersey. "He's real cute isn't he?"

I smiled. "We'll yea but he's not really my type and… I already have a boyfriend." They looked at me, and I started to blush even more.

"Is he in Europe? Is it one of those long distant relationships?" Jade asked curious now.

"No, he moved with us. His father works with my Aunt. They've been best friends since they were toddlers so they always find a way to stay together. So his family moved here with us."

"Wow…" Allison said. "Talk about commitment. Does he go here?"

"Yea."

"I want to meet him, what's his name?" Jade said excited.

"Derek Tripp." I said drawing circles with my pencil and not looking at her.

"Oh! Is it that Asian looking boy with the blond hair? He's cute!" Meghan said grabbing my arm.

"No, that's Simon. His brother, Derek's a bit older." I smiled thinking how Simon would've loved to be here. "He's got a sister too, Victoria she's in our grade."

"Cool!" Allison said excited. "Then you'll all set! The dance is going to be so much fun!"

"I don't think he'll want to go-." I started but the bell rang and drained out the rest of the sentence. Our teacher had barely got in the door when it rang.

"Ok! Ok, do problems 1-28 on lesson 3. We'll have to move the review to another day." No one really heard him as they scrambled around him and out the door ready to get the hell out of there. Jade, Meghan and Allison literally attached themselves to me and walked with me down the hall. We talked as we went to each one of ours lockers one at a time. They asked me a whole lot of questions like what my favorite kind of music was, my favorite movies, and celebrities. I smiled. I had gone through this countless times already; the past few years I had gone to so many schools, and changed my identity so many times I was surprised I could remember my real name.

I smiled and recited my pre scripted likes and dislikes. Playing my role like the good little actress I was. My locker turned out to be the last stop. We were still a good distance away when I saw Derek was there waiting for me. Leaning against the wall next to it, he smiled his eyes growing soft when he saw me. I heard Jade giggle and she ran her fingers through her hair making sure it looked good.

I sighed before letting out a small laugh. They waited a bit away like we had been doing when one of us had been getting their backpacks out of their lockers. I trotted up to him and hugged him. He patted my head before kissing it. "What took you so long?" He mumbled.

"I've somehow have found myself with some new friends. And…" I looked back at them as I opened my locker and they all were eyeing him with bright eyes. "It seems you've found a new fan club." He laughed, reaching in my locker to grab my backpack before I could. As I was stuffing my Calculus books into my bag he looked at the three girls behind me and winked at them. I jammed him in the ribs. "Just because all the girls are making goo goo eyes at you doesn't mean you can be so cocky."

"I know, I just like teasing you." He chuckled shutting my locker door. "I have to admit, it's fun." I introduced all of them before we left the school.

We stopped at the exit to the parking lot. "Where's Simon and Tori?" Derek asked looking around.

"Well, see you tomorrow Chloe!" Jade said as she walked away home.

"Yea, bye Chloe. Bye Derek." Allison and Meghan laughed.

Derek smiled and waved. I smiled up at him. These past years had helped him become warmer towards others. At least he didn't grouch 24 seven anymore, he knew how to play his part too. I buried my face in his shirt. He still wore baggy shirts which was a crime considering how good he looked without one. I even tried to throw out all his sweatshirts once just so he'd be forced to wear a tight t-shirt or two. He always thwarted my evil plans though. That manipulative bastard.

"You ok?" He asked worried.

"M'fine." I said through his shirt.

"Hmm really?" He said wrapping his arm around my shoulders. I wrapped my arms around his waist and hooked my thumbs in two of his back belt loops.

"I guess I'm just stressed from acting normal all day." I chuckled. Normal was over stretching it. There were at least two ghosts on the school grounds. One was a little old lunch lady from the fifties who could care less that I could see her. And the other was a seventeen year old boy who had died in a car wreck. Whenever I saw him he was playing soccer alone and without a ball on the school's football field. The past two years had taught me control and patience. I knew how to deal finally with seeing dead people. The tragedy still hit me some times but I always had Derek, Simon and Tori to help me over come occasional panic attacks.

"I can sympathize; being normal can be hard on the nerves." He said running his hand through my hair. Did I mention how I love his hands in my hair? Well I did. "I heard your dad called you yesterday. Is he doing okay?"

"Yup." My dad was keeping a good distance from me. It was for the best even though I knew that it worried him being so far away. He emailed me and called every now a then to check up on me. Hopefully soon we could see each other, maybe when he finally got enough vacation time.

"Good."

"Hey there lovebirds." Simon shouted coming out of the school doors, Tori right behind him. We didn't separate till they caught up to us. "How was your day?"

"Good, made friends, learned valuable lessons that will help me prosper in life. You know the usual. " Derek said scratching his neck.

"Ha I hear ya." Simon laughed making his way towards our new house. Derek and him walked ahead of me and Tori who wanted to talk just to me.

"I think I'm going to stay with you and Lauren for a while. Those two idiots are driving me crazy!" She said rubbing her forehead. I guess no one adjusted to having two teenage brothers, no matter how long the fact had to sink in.

"Brothers will be brothers." I laughed. "You're welcome to stay in my room for a while, if you want."

"Yea right, the couch sounds just fine. " Tori said smiling and rolling her eyes. "Are you going to the dance? I just got asked out by a football player. Four days at this school and the boy's are all over me."

"O boy, you hit the jackpot. But isn't it a little early to jump on social bandwagon here? Maybe we should pace ourselves."I teased.

"Hell no! We've got a good six months before we have to uproot and disappear; I'm going to enjoy myself. And it gives me an excuse to make Kit buy me new cloths. Want to go dress shopping together?" Tori laughed pushing me playfully.

"I don't think so. I'm pretty sure Derek isn't in a dancing mood; I think he's pushing his chances now. He might need to change soon." I said smiling.

"Poor bloke." Tori sighed. "All we have to do is worry about being irritable for one week every month. He's got to worry about ripping out of his skin, growing a tail and walking on all fours. Must be hell."

I didn't answer her. I just starred at Derek's back as him and Simon joked around. I knew he could hear everything we were saying, but he acted like he couldn't. He had gotten use to turning furry every month. He told me though; the pain was something he could never get use to. Tori noticed the change in my mood almost instantly. We had been through so much together, even though Tori still acted like she didn't like me. Me and her were closer than if we had been real sisters.

"We'll see you at dinner then!" Tori laughed running forward and slapping Derek on the back hard before grabbing Simon by the backpack and dragging him away. Derek stopped to watch Simon kick and shout.

"Leave me alone, woman!" Simon screamed as Tori rushed him away down the country lane.

Derek looked back at me one of his eyebrows cocked. I shook my head and shrugged my shoulders.

"I think I saw an Ice Cream shop down the road when we drove up here. Hungry?" Derek asked. I ran up and grabbed his hand smiling.

"If you're paying? Starving."

"So what do you think of Missouri so far?" I asked him licking my vanilla ice cream cone. I know I'm plain like that.

"It's okay." He said already on his second fudge bar.

"The school?" I said ready to hand him another bar.

"Hmm? It's okay, if you don't put into account the fact that I'm smarter than half the teachers." He chuckled. Tossing the Popsicle stick in the trash next to him and taking the one in my hand and opening it. "But maybe it's just me."

"Yea maybe." I smiled. "Soo…" I played with words in my head. Trying to test them out, but they all seemed silly I didn't know how to put it.

"Soo what?" He smiled leaning forward.

"If you're not busy this weekend do you want go Dancing? Tori is going and I bet Simon is too." The words came out in a rush that I hadn't intended to do.

"Dancing? Are you asking me to the school dance? Isn't that what the guy does?" He asked looking at me with a smug look on his face. I shrugged. "Doesn't a school dance just seem too normal for us?" He said looking at his Ice Cream bar thinking. "Hmm, It does seem that we never have time for the school stuff. I don't think we've ever been able to have the luxury of planning on dances. It seems that our moving always coincides with them … what the hell, it'll be worth it to see you in a dress."

I blushed at him. He raised an eye brow.

"It's weird," He mused, "How only a short time ago we were battling witches, wizards, half demons and werewolves. And now were sitting here eating ice cream after a long day at a cornfield high school."

"It's a hard price being supernatural." I smiled leaning my head on his shoulder. "But you know what?"

"What?"

"All that we've been through, from the very beginning at the Lyle house, to now in cornfield Missouri. All the pain and fear, all of it…" I said looking up at him.

"Yea?" He said already understanding where I was going and reached up and took my fake glasses off. I got up on my tip toes to wrap my free hand around his neck. He leaned in to kiss me but I was too quick for him and I jammed what was left of my ice cream cone in nose and mouth. He laughed as I tried to help him get it all off his face. Of course I got too close so he was able to kiss me like he had intended, although his face was now all sticky.

"I wouldn't change it for the world." I laughed.

We were all safe, Rae and her mom, me and Aunt Lauren, Derek, Simon, Tori and Kit. It had taken a lot effort and scarifies for me learn what I really needed in life. What I was truly missing were these people, this family, and this life. My father was safe and he still loved me, but not just me, the new me.

All the friends we had were safe and happy. As a matter of fact Reilly and Jason's wedding was two months away. If they didn't change their minds and elope to Vegas by that time anyway. Which was more likely, in my opinion. Leslie and the girls were doing just fine in Europe with their grandmother. Andrew and Janet seemed to always be together in some odd place or another. The last postcard we had gotten from them was from the Himalayas.

William came and visited whenever he was in town. Derek had told me that the offer still stood to join the pack. Also that he had immunity to attacks from other wolf packs because of his relation to him. Derek confided in me that he might take William up on his offer after he finished school. And I confided in him that if he left I would hunt him down. He'd just smiled and said, "No way would I leave you behind, anyway."

But it was as perfect as our supernatural lives could be. I had my family and friends, the perfect guy and a life of adventure and excitement. Every day was filled with new possibilities. And like I had said;

I wouldn't have it any other way.

DO NOT OWN DARKEST POWERS

I wasn't going to upload this and just end it with ch.19 but a friend of mine who read it told me it completed the story better. And I just like the fact of Chloe thinking that Calculus was more painful than real torture. WHICH IT IS!

Anyway,

*Cue Looney-Toon's theme song*

D-D-D-Dats all FOLKS!

Thanks soo much for reading!