My Secret, My Bully, My Mates by Miss L

"I think you're right. There are still a lot of pieces missing from our puzzle. But we can focus on the pentagram and the elements that are powering it. We need to know how to blow out the flame and get rid of the plants making the pentagram and I'm sure it's not as easy as throwing some dirt on the fire to snuff it out and dig up the plants."

"You're probably right. Let's see if Mateo and Jena have surfaced and then fill everyone in. Someone might have an idea of what to do before we bother Gentry." Sierra says, and I feel a little better having some knowledge even if we don't have anything to put into action yet. We talk a little more about the plants and what they look like so everyone in the room is aware and on the lookout for them, because Sierra is convinced there are probably protection spells around the patches of plants to keep people from

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"Hey, I heard there's a team meeting. What did you find out?"

"Who told you there was a team meeting?" Nathaniel asked, laughing. "The three of us are here, Wyatt is running, and Jena is practicing procreation." The three of us laugh at his joke. He doesn't talk a lot and jokes really aren't his thing, but when he does it's usually hilarious and at the expense of

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one of us and he will never let us live it down. Everyone else in the room looks at us like we are stupid, but we don't care. We passed a lot of boring, uncomfortable nights like this.

"If you must know, Lenny told me Sierra came into the school raving like a banshee, and it was important."

I let Nathaniel fill her in on the Cliff's notes version of the details.

flame and all

ton of work to me. Can we repurpose

protect the pack? Has anyone asked Elena or

all just stare at her. It didn't

in our favor. That was one of the first things Elena taught me. Magic isn't good or bad, it's the caster

us for our own purposes, but it looked complicated as hell." Oliver

all in, cause we can't feel a thing. Bring it on 'Big Guy." She uses my nickname for

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I have been when other girls throw themselves at him. I am actually comforted that all of my friends seem to be really getting along

talk to Elena tonight. She is going to

us all and we really need to be there for her. I

go his own way. Then I feel irritated with myself because I still care how they feel. If I am being honest I never stopped. Even if they were under a spell, they didn't or couldn't fight hard enough to just choose me when their backs were against the wall and this is what hurts the most.

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day." Sam beats his chest and just like that my negative

with every question we could all come up with for Elena and hopefully Gentry, whenever we get the chance to ask. Once we are done we decide we need to have as much information as we can for the witches to work with. We divided up the task of documenting the plants that make up the pentagram tips making sure to note anything unusual along the way. As we are leaving, Mateo and Jena