Ron lights up the blunt and right before I am about to take a puff from it out of the corner of my eye I see long auburn hair. I could recognize it from anywhere so I shift my position to get a better look. Sitting on the swing, headphones in her ear, is Erika.

"What's wrong man?" Ron asks me curious as to why I wasn't taking a puff.

"I'll be right back." I say as I get up from my spot to head over to Erika.

"Ditching class I see." I say kind of sarcastically.

"I can say the same thing to you as well." She replies bluntly.

"You seem upset, what's wrong?"

"What are you doing out there in the field?" She asks accusingly.

"Nothing." I don't want her to get mad at me for saying I was about to smoke weed.

"It didn't look like nothing."

"Okay yeah I ditched class with Ron to smoke, I am kind of freaking out because every time I touch you I see things and I don't know what it is."

"I understand."

"I have a question."

"What?"

"Would you like to come to Lamar grill with my friends and me after school today?"

"I would love to." She gives a little smile.

"Great, how about we head back to the school."

"Sure." We head on back to the school, forgetting about Ron in the field waiting for me.

Finally the bell rings telling everyone that school is out. I am excited because Erika actually said that she would come to the grill, something I wasn't expecting her to say yes to. I told her to meet me by my car since she didn't have a ride there. I just hope Dean doesn't say anything sarcastic since he knew I had a thing for her, I'm sure everyone knew. As I am walking to my car I hear someone yelling my name, I turn around to see an annoyed looking Ron.

"Hey man what happened at the park, you just left without any notice."

"I got distracted, sorry I forgot you were there waiting for me."

"Not cool." But his smirk tells me he forgives me.

"Hey I have to go now but I'll catch you later at the grill." I say as my car comes to view, Dean and Erika already there talking.

"Hey Bailey." Dean yells as he sees me coming up to me to give me a high-five.

"Bro nice lady you have here. What is she, like your new girlfriend?"

"No bruh she's just a friend."

"She's a pretty one, if you don't want her I do"

"Hey man she's not an object she's a person." I say a little annoyed. He just gives me a look, then calls shotgun, and jumps into the car. For half the ride there everyone is silent, I decide to break it.

"So Erika how do you like Lamar?"

"It's okay; it's so much more small and quieter than the place I was living up in England."

"Why did you have to move here?"

"Long story, maybe I can tell you some other time, I may have to show you."

"Show me?" I say a little confused.

"Whoa man, watch out!" As Dean says that I look on the road to see a driver on the wrong side of the road causing me to have to shift out of the way to the other side of the road where a big semi-truck was coming. Before I was able to move, the car hits passenger the side both where Dean and Erika were sitting. As the car hit us my head hits the steering wheel and everything goes black.

I am coming in and out of consciousness, everything is blurry and I can feel pain shooting down my body everywhere. My car was hit to the side of the road and it was turned upside down. I look outside the window unable to keep conscious, I see long auburn hair and blue eyes come into view and voices around me; voices I am unable to distinguish. They are calling my name but I try to ignore them, I don't want to die. They keep saying "Balies, Balies." Something doesn't feel right but I try to ignore it trying to keep my mind on staying conscious. I turn to look where Dean was sitting; he doesn't look like Dean though. He looks frightened, pale, and there is blood everywhere. Dean was dead, I killed him. I scream but then my body is being lifted and everything goes black once again.

I wake up to the comfort of my own bed and the smell of my mom's cooking. I open my eyes all the way and sit up in my bed. I turn around to see Erika sitting in the spare chair in my room.

"What? Did I get to drunk to drive myself home last night?" I laugh but there is no joy in Erika's face.

"What's wrong?" Erika gets up from her spot and puts her hand up to my head. As she does that the car crash, the way Dean looked disoriented as he was dead, the cold, the darkness, everything comes back to me and it's like I'm reliving the whole thing again. I push her off of me not wanting to see anymore. Erika shouldn't be alive and Dean is not.

"You shouldn't be alive." I say backing away from her.

"Yeah well neither should you so." She says right back

"What did you do?"

"What do you mean what did I do? I saved you; you weren't going to make it I couldn't have let that happen."

"How did you even survive?"

"I saved you."

"I don't get it?"

"I should be telling your mom you're awake." She gets up and starts to head downstairs.

"Wait" I stop her.

"What?"

"Can you tell me everything that happened?"

"I think you deserve to know, but I don't know what will happen to you." She goes downstairs to tell my mom that am awake but I don't know what she means by she doesn't know what will happen to me. All I can think about is my one of my best friends is dead and so should Erika and I.

"Great you're awake, I made you some soup." My mom says putting a bowl of homemade chicken noodle soup on my nightstand. I sit up further taking the bowl not realizing how hungry I was until now.

"Mom what happened?"

"Oh sweetie your friend Erika, such a sweet girl by the way, she took you home from the bar last night. I guess you were too drunk to function. You really need to stop this Bailey." I look at her confused and then look at Erika as she gives me a glare.

"Oh I guess so, I don't remember much actually."

"Well I guess I will go back downstairs and give you time alone with Erika." My mom says as she heads out of my room back downstairs to her own sorrows.

"Start talking, how come my mom thinks I was drunk?"

"Well at first she knew what happened, I made her forget though."

"What do you mean you made her forget?"

"I compelled her to forget using mind control, something I can't use on you because of what you are."

"What do you mean 'what I am?' How can you use mind control? What the hell!" I ask confused and starting to get creep out.

"You're not ready to know this yet." Erika says

"I think you need to leave, plus I feel tired so I want to sleep." I say more annoyed then I probably should be; but what do you expect? She comes close to telling me and then stops right in the middle of a sentence.

"I understand; I'll leave now. I'll tell your mother you're not feeling well and need your sleep." She says with sadness in her voice.

Once Erika leaves I feel my eyes droop close and I fall into a deep sleep.

I hear my name being called. I open my eyes to see I am in my room.

"Balies, Balies." The voice was almost hypnotic, like sugar sweet. The voice lured me from my bed, urging me to follow it. I walk out my door and around me I could see a field and a small cottage about fifty or so feet away from the field. It was a capacious cottage, but for some reason it looked so familiar. Everything around me looked familiar, this field, and this place. As I reach the field I feel a sharp pain in my chest, so close to my heart. I clutch it, groaning as I fall to the ground.

"Balies, Balies." The voice continues, although there was no one sight. Everything was so dark around me. All of a sudden Dean appears in front of me or more like floating in front of me, he had wings.

"Balies, you're not safe here, stay away from Etekah, you won't like what will come of you, just like all those other times. But be warned when the sun sets on your nineteenth birthday, if you haven't fallen in love with Etekah and her love for you hasn't been returned the curse will lift and Etekah will turn to dust but if you fall in love with her and she returns that love you will be absorbed into her soul, death shall be upon you once again and this time with no return. Come back to the Heavens Balies, beg for forgiveness for I was your only protector and now I am gone."

The pain in my chest eases and I awaken in the park field of Lamar Park. 'Come back to the Heavens?!?' What the heck was that supposed to mean? 'How the hell did I get here? This is all so crazy why does everything that's happening to me seem so familiar?' It was only a dream. I saw Dean, he had wings, and he was dead. But everything I had the visions they always called me Balies and Erika Etekah. I didn't know what any of this meant and obviously Erika knew something, she came so close to telling me I had to get it out of her. Why was falling for her such a dangerous thing? I get up, standing on the squishy grass realizing I was barefoot. I felt a weird tingling pain in the palm of my hand and when I turned it around there was an imprint of an eye on it. I blink thinking I was still in this crazy dream but when I open my eyes it is still there. I had no clue what it was supposed to mean. I run back home and once I get through the door as quietly as possible and run up to my room closing the door. I grab my phone and ring Erika's number.

"Hello." She answers groggily.

"Hey it's Bailey, sorry about this afternoon but I need to talk to you tomorrow at my house as soon as possible." I say very quickly.

"You couldn't wait till morning it's freaking four in the morning." I look at my alarm clock to see she was right it was only four in the morning I thought it was much earlier like only ten since I did fall asleep early.

"I'm sorry I didn't realize the time."

"It's okay, what's the matter?"

"You know how you came so close to telling me about myself well I had a crazy dream about being in a field with a small cottage and then Dean came saying to stay away from you since I was in danger and everything seemed so familiar around me and I know I sound crazy but I then woke up in the field at Lamar Park and looked at my palm to see an eye on it. I have no clue what this means and I thought maybe by the way you were acting this afternoon you may know what's going on."

She sighs into the phone, "I will be there by ten in the morning, I have to tell you something and I will bring the book of Gods."