Chapter 0438

Nina

When we came out on the other side of the portal, we found ourselves standing in the middle of the athletic field where we had last gone through. The campus was alive with activity, and I could see students rushing around as they packed up their vehicles to go home for winter break.

The war was mostly over, after all. The Crescents had retreated to the place where they had set up their headquarters, and as Enzo and I walked back to campus with my father's guards at our heels, I quickly began to realize that it was safe enough outside of Mountainview for people to go home. Since the end of the semester had come around, it seemed as though many people were itching to get home to their families, who were no doubt worried about them.

As Enzo and I walked across the quad, however, I started to notice something else: people were giving us and our guards odd looks, as though they were completely confused as to why we had guards with us. I looked up at Enzo, who seemed just as baffled as I felt.

"Why does everyone seem so confused?" I asked quietly as I looked around. "It's like they don't have any idea..." Suddenly, I heard a voice coming from behind me.

*They don't remember," Jessica's voice said. Enzo and I whipped around to see Jessica and Lori standing behind us, along with Matt and Luke. Before anything else was said, before I even thought to ask what she meant, all of us hugged tightly. I felt tears well up in my eyes as I hugged my friends.

"I'm so glad it's over," I whimpered as I hugged Lori and Jessica tightly. "I was so scared for you two..."

too," Lori said. "But now, we don't need to be

wiping my eyes. "What

remember," Jessica repeated.

of us had heard a single peep about anything that involved people's memories. I felt initially worried that the Crescents had done something bad, but none of my friends seemed concerned about it. Both of us shook our heads, and Jessica laughed. "I guess the news didn't make it to you somehow," she said. "I'm assuming that Enzo was glued to your side while you slept, so maybe he didn't get the news from your dad. But your dad sent a few witches with us. Really powerful ones. They wiped everyone's

had no idea," I said. "So everyone doesn't remember

memories altered. To them, it was just

feeling even more confused. "We still need to give them

said. "We gave most of the recruits the antidote as soon as we returned. Although some decided that they wanted to stay as werewolves and join the pack... I told them that they'd have to talk to our Alpha, of course, but they promised not to mention everything that happened to anyone who did have

it was within my dad's best interests to keep the werewolf realm a secret; after all, it had always been that way for the most part. In fact, now that I thought about it, it made sense that no one except for Enzo and the other werewolves remembered the last fight

friends remembered. Without their support, I wouldn't know what to do with

staying in the cabins along with the men that my dad had sent with them, built a massive bonfire that practically reached up to the treetops. Copious amounts of food and alcohol were brought by everyone, and soon enough it was just like the parties that I used to attend with

still the issue of initiating new people into our little pack. As it turned out, several of the recruits did in fact refuse the antidote. Jason and his team wanted to join

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