I wake the next morning feeling like I hadn't gotten much sleep at all because I woke up so many times through out the night from nightmares of Jake/Slyder. I moan as I get out of bed. Thankful this is Friday so it's the last day of school for a whole weekend. I rub my eyes and yawn. I literally feel like I have only gotten two hours of sleep if that much. I roll over trying to push Abigail but end up falling face down on her mint colored carpet. What the-I some how find the strength to open my eyes and look up at the bed to see that Abigail isn't there. I look around the room, she isn't there. I look in the bathroom, she isn't there. She must be downstairs.

I trudge into the bathroom and splash my face with water. Relishing the feeling of cold water on my sweaty face. Then I brush my teeth using my toothbrush and toothpaste. Abigail and I are at each other's house so much that we leave an extra toothbrush and toothpaste at each other's house along with a shaver, brush, and an extra outfit just in case. Yes, that's how much we go to each other's houses.

After that I slip on my extra outfit which is a maroon shirt tucked into a light blue and black skirt with little designs on it, a silver necklace, black pantyhose, black clunky shoes, and a blue cardigan. Not my cutest outfit, but I couldn't care less.

I quickly throw my hair into a messy bun on top of my hair not bothering to style it. Then I stumble down the stairs and into the kitchen where I find Abigail sitting at the table eating bacon and pancakes, and someone I never ever thought I'd see making them.

Jake.

"What the hell are you doing here?" I yell grabbing a frypan and holding it up, preparing myself to attack him if he takes a step near me or Abigail. Jake looks back at me and gives me a warm smile "Hey Princess, I was just making some breakfast for my girl Abigail. Would you like some?" He asks. I whip my head over to Abigail to see her looking at me with wide eyes "what are you doing with that Beth? Put it down!" She exclaims. What is she talking about? Why is she sitting here in the kitchen eating the food that Jake AKA Slyder made her even after I had just got done telling her everything? And why did Jake say 'my girl' "Abigail what is going on? Is he forcing you to eat this? Did he put a gun to you?" Jake laughs and I jerk the pan over to him. He just smiles again. Abigail stands up and walks over to me. She slowly grabs the pan from my hand and sets it down. "Beth, we obviously need to talk. Come on." She says grabbing my wrist and pulling me up the stairs.

"We'll be right back bae" she tells Jake. Bae?!

Once we're in her room she shuts the door and sits down cross legged on the bed. My mind is reeling with what could possibly be going on. Did Jake put a gun to her? Is this a Abigail clone? Did Abigail somehow forget everything I told her? Abigail smiles at me and pats the bed. I can tell by her face that's she's excited. I sit down and watch her nervously.

"I hope you don't mind but me and Jake are dating." She says and watches my reaction which I'm sure is showing the sheer terror that I'm feeling so she quickly explains "I woke up this morning from the doorbell ringing. I went downstairs to see Jake at the door. I was...angry at him for something I think. But then he walked in and grabbed my hands or something like that I don't know I don't really remember, I guess I'm just too happy with love!" She exclaims with a giggle. "So after staring into my eyes while holding my hands in his for a while, he said that I'm truly a fantastic person and that he'd like to get know me better. Then, get this, he asked me if I'd please be his girlfriend! I of course automatically agreed because have you seen his face? Woohwee. But anyways he started making me breakfast and my oh my he can make some good pancakes." Abigail stops talking as she waits for me to speak back. Even after everything she had told me all I could think about was that first part, where she said that she was angry for 'some reason' and that he held her hands and stared in her eyes or something like that because she can't remember.

I try listening to her thoughts to see what had happened during that moment that she seems to have forgotten but I can't find anything. And that's when I'm sure. He erased her memory. What the hell is his problem? He thinks he can just erase my best friend's memory and that's okay? That's not okay, that's her brain he's messing with. This isn't just a game, this is somebody's life that he's messing with. I'm furious.

"Would it matter if I approve?" I ask and Abigail frowns "why wouldn't you approve?" She asks. Oh I don't know, maybe because he's Slyder! Nope can't say that. Um hm, why would I not approve? "because he has a girlfriend" I say. Abigail shakes her head no "Cassandra and him broke up, he told me" she says. Well that didn't work. "Because I don't trust him" I tell her honestly. "Well you're not the one dating him, I am. You don't have to worry about me Beth. I'll be careful, I'm not gonna fall for him or anything. We've already talked about this before. Anyways we only have eight minutes to get to a school that's seven minutes away so let's go" she says and standing up. For her this isn't a big deal, for me, this is everything. She's literally dating a Necrif (whatever the fudge that is) shape shifting, torturing, serial killer. What oh what am I going to do?

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Today Brandon is back to normal. When he first saw me he just watched me with a nervous look on his face, I wasn't really paying attention though I was focused on thinking about what to do about Abigail and Jake. Suddenly he was on my lips kissing me happily though, I was trying to focus on kissing him back, but I'm not going to lie, my mind was on Jake and Abigail the whole time.

School goes by as normal but I swear I wasn't paying attention in any of my classes, not even on my math test which means I totally failed, of course I always get low grades on math tests anyways. I hate math, there is not a single thing in math I like. I mean in first, second, and third grade I was at the top of my class every single year in math, but then fourth grade came, and we started learning about prime numbers, and factors, and geometry formulas, and perimeters and areas and all of that crazy confusing junk. And since then it's only gotten more confusing, I seriously hate math. Anyways, after I totally failed my test and went through the rest of my classes and lunch, it was time for my last class of the day, my very least favorite, the one with my future murderer in it, the one where I used to love, the one that used to be my favorite, you guessed it, Grammar!

I walk into class and see Jake talking to Mr Ampler. When Mr Ampler sees me he calls me over. I'm nervous, so so nervous of standing this close to Slyder. My heart is beating so hard it actually hurts and I'm start to sweat I'm so nervous. Mr Ampler gives me a strange look "Bethany calm yourself down right this instant! No need to flip out so much over a silly little thing like a lie detecter, Jake already told me the questions he'll be asking. He gets ten questions, they're simple things like your favorite color, unimportant things." Mr Ampler says. I had completely forgotten that tomorrow he gets to hook me up to a lie detecter test and ask me whatever he wants. I gulp loudly at the thought. They both look over at me, Mr Ampler looks annoyed, like he thinks I'm a dramatic baby, and Jake smirks creepily, and then-get this-winks. A literal shiver runs down my spine, and trust me, not the good kind. I nod my head a little too fast before quickly walking back to my seat.

Jake comes walking up confidently and falls into the seat. "I know what you did to Abigail" I tell him somehow getting the courage to speak. I figure I already know he's going to kill me, I might as well say what I want before he does.

Jake gives me a innocent smile "I'm sorry, I have no idea what you mean. Are you talking about me making her pancakes?" He asks using a overly innocent voice that aggravates the hell out of me

"you know exactly what I'm talking about. Erasing my best friends memory and then asking her out? Seriously? I understand your beef with me, and you can go ahead and torture and kill me, but what the hell is wrong with you going after my best friend first? There's no way in hell that I'm ever going to let you hurt her in anyway do you understand?" I threaten him giving him the most angry and deathly stare I can. He watches me for a moment, with what looks like confusion before laughing "look princess-" he starts to say but I cut him off "my name is Bethany" I tell him seriously annoyed "sure it is" he says simply.

Ugh he's so infuriating. "As I was saying" he paused for a moment to give me a annoyed look that says 'before you interrupted' "you aren't in any position to threaten me princess" of course he still called me princess. Ugh. "I'm far more powerful than you'll ever know" he brags giving me a deadly smile "yeah but I read all about you Slyder, you little Shape Shifting psycho. I know that you attack potential powerful beings in the Eron world, which means that I'm powerful, so why would you want to kill me? Because you fear me" I snap smiling in a 'eat that' sorta way.

He gives me a condescending smile (yes there is such a thing. The first time I've ever seen it, but still) "I'm scared of your potential power, but princess, you'll be dead before you learn your potential" he deadpans. "Enough talking, more learning" Mr Ampler warns me. I look away from Jake at the same time that he looks away from me. Of course my mind is nowhere near Grammar today, I'm so scared I don't even know how to do anything but think about the different ways he'll torture me.

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