Claude's POV

'So you're just gonna come drop by or something?' Dominic made sure on the other and if the phone.

'Yeah,' I assure.

'Then I don't see why you can't come.' He tells me through the phone 'Do you want us to pick you guys up?'

'Well it ain't we got a car or anything to drive all the way.' I remind him. I had gotten a driver's license when I was 17 but I never actually got a car after that. Where would I even go? It wasn't like I had places to go. Everything  I needed was within waking range and if it wasn't then I'd just take the bus or train.

'Fine, we'll pick you up at 3.' he answered before hanging up. I sit there on the bed until I hear Raven coming into the room as well.

'So what did he say?' she asked with a hopeful look.

'He said no.' I say with a straight face, making her excited face immediately change to a frown 'I'm only joking!' I finally say. and then she stops frowning and her excited face comes back on again. I love that face; every detail of it is so perfect from her smile to the way she blinks her eyes when she's like that. She leans closer to me and rests her head on me. I can smell the sweetness of her perfume, I breath it in.

'Thanks for doing this for me,' she whispers when we're at our closest 'Even if it isn't safe for us to go anywhere.' I want to tell her. I want to tell her so badly. She lets go and walks towards the closet 'I'm gonna change into something nice.'

'I'll go downstairs,' I add a smile and make my way out of the room. She quickly strides towards me and kisses my cheek in this sort of flirty way 'Seriously?' I smirk and all she does is smirk back and close the door in my face. I slowly walk down the stairs still smiling.

It was nice that we were going out somewhere. I knew Raven gates being cooped up in here the whole time. I could feel it. I could feel the loneliness spilling out of her like forgerting to close a tap and it floods the whole room. Sometimes I wonder if she felt the same sort of feeling spilling out of me when we were younger. I doubt she could. Her demon powers were still dormant. I think, anyway. She could have been a demon long before we knew and she just hadn't used her powers yet. We'll never know.

I feel guilty for keeping her here when she clearly wants to leave. Dominic said that he had erased everyone's memory about Raven murdering that demin Hunter. So technically, the case against us was closed and we can come out of hiding.

But I don't want to.

Things seem so much easier with Raven without everyone else in the way. Without everyone there to stop me or beat me to get.

Of course,  Raven doesn't know that we're free to leave any time; she has no clue. And if I keep it like that, I might just be getting in my own way.

God, I'm so hoplessly terrible.

There's no cure for it. I was born terrible and I'll (probably) die that way. I still don't know if demons can die; I mean, we can get killed if someone is something is strong enough to do that but I don't think we can just die of old age or something.

Raven finally comes down wearing a pleated grey skirt and a baby blue polo shirt like she'a wearing some private school uniform. But she still looks cute. She always looks cute. I used to hate it so much when I was 15. Because she was so damn compelling. And not because she flirted with me or anything; she did nothing at all. But the way she looked, the way she acted- it drew me in like a moth to light.

And we all no what happens to the moth if it gets too close.

'You sure you aren't going to feel cold?' I ask her, walking to open the door for her because we see a car driving through the iron gates into the huge, empty stone driveway.

'No.' She shook here head 'I don't feel the cold anymore.'

'You stopped feeling it?' I raise my eyebrow.

'Why?' She sounds worried now 'Can you still feel it? Is this not normal?'

'No,' I start laughing because it's so funny when she starts blabbering like this 'I can't feel it. I'm just glad you can't feel now it, either...'

'It makes you feel like it's a normal thing now, doesn't it?' She adds. I nod and we leave through the door, Virgil closing it after we've left.