It felt like my head was being repeatedly hit by a hammer. I have never experienced anything like this in all my twenty seven years of living. It was f*****g terrible. A groan tore through my mouth as I gripped my hair tighter like that would somehow stop the pain. My head felt like my brain was melting—like every vein in my brain was folding. But then I heard a voice that felt like an anchor in the pain. “Xander! Xander!" I blinked, my eyes coming back to focus as my eyes met Raven's panicked ones. I was breathing hard as I looked at her and for a moment everything was blank before I remembered where we were and what we were doing. “You're okay, I'm here with you," she whispered, like speaking too loudly might affect me. “Are you okay? You scared me," she said and without warning

