"It's the shape-shifter! Don't go near her or else she might kill you!" Alice was pained to walk through the corridors with Kaleb, blowing the white strand of hair out of her face to find the crowd parting some ways. This was childish for these students to believe rumors that were meerly made to frighten students and others just to make one life misrable. Kaleb hadn't even responded the the comments, walking Alice through whose eyes glared at others who remained quiet. The weather didn't seem to bother most girls wearing tube tops and shorts near the windows, giving Alice doubt that these girls weren't smart enough to wear a normal attire during cold weather. Everyone wanted to show off to prove that they were greater then Kanni or Alice, everyone wanted to make their name spoken through every piece of gossip handled. To be known of was great, but not for something that was insulted and not exactly true to word.
   Still, Alice walked through the halls fixing her one braid as she did so, passing by the people who seperated themselves from her along with Kaleb. If they didn't want to come near her, fine. It would only take away more problems that Alice would've have to dealt with in the future. Somethings at the moment weren't at its brightest yet it still mattered to the shape-shifter to at least prove once that Remus came and was now gone. It was now a scar that itched to be revealed and told by Alice herself rather than others. Several girls inched away and then stared at Kaleb with wide-eyes, "Isn't he cute? I bet his mother is forcing him to act normal around her just to make that stupid girl stay here than going out and killing..."
   That was it. Alice had lost complete control of herself, spinning on her heel to turn to the girls who squealed, falling against a group of boys that may have been their boyfriends, who where Kaleb's and Premidas's age, yet it didn't matter to the shape shifter who hissed, "Keep talking and it'll only bring you in deeper water! Do you understand that?"
   "Just leave them alone, they did absolutely nothing to you and Kaleb is just hanging out with you to make you stay here other than going out and killing more people!" One boy now stepped in to fill the space between Alice and the girls, only to get a firey answer from Alice, "You stay out of this! Pretending to be the hero isn't going to win you a little love from your damn girl friend! All of them like Kaleb or Premidas anyways, so why pretend you're all that when you're not?"
   "Why you!" His fist then swung at Alice, yet his hand froze in mid-air by Kaleb who waved his finger in several circular directions as the hand twisted behind the boy's back. His eyes were widened to find Kaleb defending Alice, who had spun on her heel to storm down the rest of the corridor. This was too stupid now. Everyone was against her except for her own friends and teachers that she knew. Alice understood why Clarissa didn't want to publish this all into the public, but didn't the shape-shifter have a right to speak up and defend herself to the public that now feared her so much?
   "Don't you have any brains in that head of yours! Once again you pulled yourself into another fight!" groaned Kaleb, shoving his hands into his coat pockets. "And don't believe those kids. Just ignore them and before you know it this will all get boring to them. They all want a reaction from you and knowing you, Alice, you should've known that too!"
   "I can't let them call me Remus's apprentice or whatever the hell they call me these days. I can perfectly understand why I shouldn't go around and brag, but I should have to right to defend myself with what I saw and went through!" Alice hissed back, blowing another strand out of her face with temper. "Remind me to tell whoever is teaching me Defense this year about my evolving powers. It'll be something important to them."
   "How can you not forget that? Isn't it like boiling in your veins every minute?" asked Kaleb, raising his head to look into the lights and then to the portraits who waved with curlers in their head or shaving. "We need to find Premidas and Kanni once more..."
   "Our prey can be left alone for a few minutes. It's not like they're going to go anywhere and cause havic. I'm the one who kills, remember?" snapped Alice, shaking with rage and excitement as she talked while walking down another corridor with Kaleb behind her. "Gabriel should've exchanged me in the first place!"
   "So you can forget about us all forever? Wasn't last year something that we all went through together?" It was Kaleb's turn to become fustrated and snap, feeling the portraits and windows tremble to find Alice glaring back at them. Their walk had come to a brief pause. "It wasn't just you Alice. The whole school couldn't see anything of what was going on and just assumed it all to their needs of believing."
   "Who can't believe that when they have powers that can't be true in other people's worlds? NASA doesn't believe it in, scientists can't explain it, so how do we know that this is reality? How do we know if we're not picturing this all?!" she yelled, paintings began to fall to the floor screeching and wailing.
   "If it were we would've never met and wouldn't even be talking about that possibility! This is real and last year was too. If this never happened then explain your family, your father. Explain Gabriel while you're at it too since he's going to need a long one."
   "Can't you at least listen to me!? Everyone hates and me they're probaly right. You think I'm a freak too, don't you? With this evolving power, being a Verae, having to be possessed by Remus and perhaps will be by more. You hate me, don't you?"
   "Alice, that's not even near to what I've been saying to you!"
   "Oh yeah? Then explain everything last year to be. Who wouldn't be afraid of me? I doubt that you're mom is even grateful for me coming!"
   "Are you stupid enough to believe what everyone is saying? They weren't even there fighting Remus with Kanni like you did! They're not as unique as you Alice! Why can't you understand that Premidas and I are trying to not to remind you but it's hard too and we're giving it our best shot not to bring it up! Are you that presasive to believe what everyone else says?"
   "Maybe I am." And with that the shape-shifter left Kaleb in the corridor marching somewhere quiet without any students whispering. The library would be perfect, hardly anyone was there and it was ideal to fall asleep as you pretended to read. She felt silly now to be arguing with Kaleb. After all her first kiss...No, just because of that didn't mean she'd stand up for what could be true, even if someone retarded told it. Alice took another left after several lefts to enter through the large abony doors and into the library, watching dust collect into the light that shone from above through the glass windows brightly. Snow was coated on the windows, dimming some of the light in certain areas. Other than that it was beautiful how the light cordinated itself.
   Several students were indeed here eating some lunch on the tables and skimming through books but they looked like first-years and paid no attention to Alice, who had walked several book cases to the right to find a narrow chair next to an open window and between two book cases, taking a seat there and kicking her feet up onto the desk, flipping through a book that had been left at the table. It was a text book from a class, Fortune Telling For Dummies. It looked rather large for a text book but it didn't change Alice's idea of skimming through it. There was mostly tea readings, palm readings, crystal reading, star reading, and anything else that a human would ever think of that was connected to fortune telling. Alice stayed there, wishing secertly that Premidas, Kanni, or even Kaleb would soon find her and join her.