“Stop!” someone called after me as I left. For the sake not wanting to be this dramatic in the first place, I stopped running when I slid against the gravel outside. A flash of light appeared and then I was face-to-face with Demi. “You can’t just run away from this.”
“Not with ya’ll’s super speed I can’t,” I mumbled. The corners of her lips turned up, but mine did not. “I don’t need to be here anymore than Mickie does, so I’m leaving.”
All she did was shake her head slowly.
“Don’t you see what you did back there—why all this is happening?” she asked with amazement in her voice. “It doesn’t matter if what happened happened because of you or not, but you need to be here for this.”
“I don’t think you understand,” I told her, slowly, which is what they should actually be telling me. Oh, he
