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I didn’t think Eddie would use her last wish on Kian, but Wedderburn did. Kian's fate was sealed, Wedderburn found how he had stolen files and ultimately called upon him. By the time Eddie awoke Kian was gone, only a note left for her. "you've behaved exactly as I predicted you would. A handsome boy, a forbidden romance . . . well." And I quote making a disappointment on his end, but also performing beautifully.

"I fell into a fitful sleep, plagued by nightmares of the thin man... I woke with a start, but I wasn't in my bed. Instead I stood in the kitchen, a knife in my right hand. A thin trickle of blood spilled from my abdomen" She was alone, she could call no one, not even Kian. Eddie had no memory of getting there, and this wasn't some sick sleepwalk that caused her to do this. She looked in the mirror, the cut was-

I finally found out what was so bad that sent her over the edge. The Teflon Crew spikes Edies drink, they took her, strapped a collar to her neck and made her bark, eat dog food and then posted it for the world to see. And all that was given after was, “Come on, Eat-It. It’s just a joke. Not like we raped you.” Leaving her behind the school as she threw up everything.

“Two creepy children stood on either side, their eyes cast upward, all black and unblinking.” Is she hallucinating? Or is it really something trying to bring her back to death. Each time the creatures ask for permission to come in, just like vampires, if they didn’t life would get ugly real fast. Edie believes them to be nightmares, hallucinations but, what if they are real? What if something IS staring right back

The guilt Eddie holds, wondering if she’s the reason for Brittany's passing. I mean, what else could it be? “...I saw so much blood, blood everywhere, staining her gown, her sheets, pouring from her mouth in a river of red. …” All she saw before the nurses rushed in, Davina and Jen right by, all the closure she gets before Brittany’s mother gets the news of her daughter. Dead.

I knew Wedderburn was powerful. I knew he could pull the strings on anything in and out of the game. Anyone you're close to or like at all. What I didn’t think was that he’d use Edie’s friends against her, at least not yet. “‘... for the last three nights, I’ve dreamed the same thing.’ … ‘... this ice man watching me but I’m frozen solid… and then when he touches me, I crack into a thousand pieces.’” --

“...a tall, gaunt man with pallid, oddly blurred features and thinning hair… ‘The dead walk. You’re one of them. There’s a hole, a hole in the world, and things crawl through. They crawl.’ His breath was a blast of graveyard rot, …” Kian told her not to trust anyone, he said she could be in danger. Is this what he was talking about? This man grabbed her wrist, said something that chilled her to the bone and then-

With just how the story seems to be going, the events happening, the secrecy, the hiding. It seems like in the near future something IS going to happen, someone is going to be after her. “What I’m extrapolating is that I could be in danger?” … “I’m sorry, Edie. I wish I could guarantee your safety.” Nothing is guaranteed if she doesn’t go down the right path, if not, she’ll be enslaved to Wedderburn just like Kian.