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she had begged him to tell her why she was here.
    She glanced at him from the corner of her eye. He kept his eyes firmly on the road and they didn’t stray once. His shaggy silver-blond hair was swept out of his eyes and every few seconds they flashed in the passing streetlights. Right now he looked like a stone cold killer. The thought made Luna wonder just what he was capable of. She shuddered and tried to curl herself closer to the window, away from him. In just a few minutes she’d be home and this would all be just an unpleasant memory.
    As she looked at him she thought again of how strange he looked. Then she sighed; all she had to do was survive until she got home. Suddenly, she felt the truck slow and looked out the window. She recognized the street beyond, she was home. Luna felt relief at the sight.
    She opened the door as quickly as possible and climbed out. She circled around the truck so that she was out of the street and heading home. Behind her, Chance hadn’t gotten out, and she was glad. She glanced at him over her shoulder and his face was as blank as it had been hours ago. Luna wondered if he had even noticed that she had left.
    “Hey!” he called suddenly turning to look at her.
    Luna winced at the sound of his voice before she turned to look at him. “Yeah?”
    “You’re not gonna give me a good night kiss?” he asked teasingly.
    Luna groaned and turned back towards her house. His sarcasm was back, so much for the silence.
    “Sometimes killing is necessary,” he called suddenly out the window and without waiting for a response, he sped off into the night.
    Luna turned to stare at his ink black truck in horror wondering if he she had really heard him say that.
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    Luna went inside the house and into the kitchen. She headed towards the refrigerator and pulled out a gallon of water. She took a sip from it before she put it back and sighed loudly.
    “Aren’t you going to tell me how it went?” David called from his usual spot in the living room.
    Luna sighed. Why did it matter?
    “Yeah, it was a long drive to some fancy place, we ate, he killed a bird and we came home,” she said as she stomped over to the table. “Nothing worth discussing.”
    “Was the food any good?” he asked ignoring her agitation.
    “It was all right,” Luna said shrugging. The food was the least memorable part of the evening. “I’m just glad the whole thing’s over and done with.”
    “Now, Luna is that any way to act after someone so nicely took you out to eat?” he asked.
    “No, it’s not,” she said sighing.
    In the other room she heard the squeak of the couch springs as David stood up and she guessed he wasn’t through chastising her yet. He appeared in the kitchen suddenly and stood looking at her unhappily.
    “You should be nicer to him from now on,” he scolded. “He’s really going out of his way and you don’t seem to notice.”
    “Yeah, I’ll remember that,” Luna said. Nothing he said could ever get her to be nice to Chance.
    “Good,” David said looking at her.
    She sighed again as he moved back into the living room to sit back down in front of the TV. They fell silent and she stared absently at the wall. She was considering going to bed and putting the horrid day to rest, what else was there to do?
    “Luna, doesn’t she go to your school?” David called suddenly breaking into her thoughts.
    Luna turned towards the living room, what was he talking about? She got up and stepped into the darkened room before looking at the TV. David was watching the news and on it was a picture of Kate Red. Luna stared at it in disbelief.
    “Yeah, she does,” Luna finally answered him, not taking her eyes off of the screen as she remembered that Kate had just insulted her the other day.
    “Well, she’s missing, says she’s been missing since