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..."

scared for you, too," Lori said. "But now,

and took a step back, wiping

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

had no idea," I said. "So

chuckled. "Everyone except for us had their memories altered. To them, it was just another

need to give them

head. "It's already been done," he 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

of us had any idea that my father had sent such powerful witches to accomplish a task that huge, but I was relieved in a way. I supposed that 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 between the Crescents and the

friends remembered. Without their

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 Lori and Jessica before any of this happened. And with the remaining students who didn't remember the events of the semester, who thought

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 as well, and now it was only up to Enzo whether they joined

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