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something you may not believe, but you have to trust me.” I moved closer, took his hands in mine and searched his eyes. I jumped into his head for just an instant. I accepted as truth that he believed me and wanted to protect me. And that for some reason he felt responsible for introducing me to Natalie. I jumped back out and continued talking. “Natalie is like me. She proved it in the library just now. But she is not a friend of mine, Logan. She has an agenda. And oh yes, she also delivered a message from the Council.”

    “You mean the one your sister told us about last weekend?
    That Council? She’s with the Council?” He darted around with wild eyes.
    “Yes. I need to talk to Elizabeth. I may have just made matters worse.”
    ”Why? What happened?”
    I started to tell Logan. As I relayed the encounter I watched his face change from concern to anger. He could barely contain his rage. “You said she had a message?”
    I suddenly had a fear of telling Logan everything. As much as he wanted to protect me, I wanted to keep him as far away from the craziness of my world as I could. Such goodness and kindness dwelled deep within him; part of me kept thinking it wasn’t fair to expose him to the insanity. Now he had shown himself to be brave as well, ready to take on an opponent he could not even name. But, could it be too late already? Had my feelings for him involved him so much that there was no turning back? Would I even be ready to give those feelings a name? At what point would I surrender to the love that grew daily inside me for this beautiful and innocent, brave boy? Logan gently nudged me from my musings.
    “Serena? What message?” He looked at me, insistent.
    “What? Oh, I don’t remember. She was just so scary and nasty and it surprised me she knew about me. She tried to crush me with dictionaries!” I gave a half-‐-hearted little laugh, hoping to distract Logan from his question. To my relief, it worked. He relaxed too and reached for me with both arms. Soon I was crushed, but by the warm strength of his protective embrace. I melted into his chest and fitted my head into the area between his chin and shoulder. Maybe he couldn’t protect me as well as I could protect myself, but I never felt as safe as I did right at that moment, cutting class, sitting on the baseball bleachers, with my head resting on the chest of my perfect, normal boyfriend.
    “It’s only the beginning, you know Logan. She acted as a messenger. I don’t know why they want me, but they do.”

    He gripped me tighter.
    “I told you before. I’m here. I’m not going anywhere. We’re going to face this together.” He sounded so sure in his resolve.
    “They’re going to have to go through me to get to you. And they’re not going to get through me.”
    I relaxed in spite of everything. Such a typical guy. They all thought they were immortal. Problem though, there happened to be a breed out there that actually was immortal and someone like Logan going against them would never be a fair fight.

Chapter Eight
    LOGAN
    Serena checked with her sister and she said it would be alright for me to drive her home. I skipped baseball practice and waited for her after class in the parking lot. I got to my car first and talked to some of the other kids while I waited for her. I guess Serena and I were becoming something of an item. We were the hot topic. Couldn’t they talk about anything else? Gossip ran rampant in a small school.
    “Hey Logan!” Sully came bounding over. “So, where’ve you been, Buddy? Haven’t seen you for a while.”
    “Hey Sully, ‘sup?” It made me genuinely happy to see Sully.
    He’d been a good friend from the team, and was one of those people who just seemed to be happy all the time. Today he seemed even happier than usual. “Something going on Sul?”
    “Yeah. I bit the bullet and asked Brainless to the dance Friday.” I raised my eyebrows at him in surprise. I didn’t even know he liked Patty. He