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    The art academy came into view, and Shayna thought of Melina.
    What am I doing?Shayna wondered if she should tell her sister how she was feeling about Cain. She wondered if Melina would even care, because she ‘saw him first’. The rule didn’t apply to the twins, but Melina could be pretty selfish sometimes.
    She tried to tell herself that she shouldn’t pursue Cain. When she thought of Melina upset with her over a boy, she felt embarrassed. She couldn’t betray her sister, even if the two twins barely knew each other anymore. But, as student after student passed her on the side walk in front of the school, she found herself searching for his face amongst them.
    First period felt like it dragged on. She could not wait to get out of there, she had to talk to Noah about Cain. She hoped he knew something, anything about him. She decided in class to tell Melina that she had an attraction to Cain. She didn’t know what would happen. She didn’t care. For God’s sake, neither one of them even knew him!
    When the bell rang she darted out of the biology lab, and went for the stairs, almost running into Derrick Jones at the top. He grabbed her as she stumbled backwards.
    “Sorry,” she smiled apologetically, “In a hurry.”
    Derrick laughed, “Yeah, I can see that.”
    Shayna pushed passed him and contiuned down the hall. Derrick had been Melina’s last victim. He was a nice good looking boy, but not someone Shayna saw her sister with anyway. Shayna felt sorry for Derrick though. He had been new in the fall, and Melina played her little ‘Welcome Wagon’ game, as always, and they had hooked up, but Melina dropped him like a bad habit, right after Christmas, when she found out about Cain moving to Interlochen. Melina disappointed her sister sometimes, Shayna knew that she would never find love and happiness, that way.
    Shayna had sent Noah a message telling him to meet her in class early. She walked into the Calculus room, and Noah was there waiting for her. She saw him and smiled.
    “What’s up?” he asked her. Shayna wanted a chance to talk to him before class. She sat down.
    “You meet the new guy?” she asked.
    “Yeah, he seems cool,” Noah said and leaned back in his chair. Shayna loved being around him. He made her laugh, he never tried to impress people either, he refused to care about what people thought. He was a lot more sociable than Shayna though. Sitting there with a fedora on his head, and Converses on his feet, she couldn’t help but laugh.
    “What?” he didn’t get it.
    “Nothing,” she said, pulling all of  her long curls around her neck to one side, “What do you know about him?”
    “What do you want to know?” he asked her in a joking tone, and then realized, that, Shayna wants to know about a guy! “Wait what?” he demanded suspiciously.
    She couldn’t make eye contact with him, and turned her head away, “I’m curious, is all”
    Noah leaned closer to her, and caught her face and turned it towards his, “Cut the crap, Shayna, you are never curious about anyone,” he narrowed his eyes, “What’s really going on?”
    She looked at him and raised her eyebrow, to say, ‘Like you don’t know’ .
    “No,” he sarcastically gasped, “No way!”
    “I can’t stop thinking about him,” she confessed, “I get butterflies in my stomach when I see him,” she couldn’t hold it back, “He was even in my dream—.”
    “What about the other guy?” Noah asked.
    “He was there too, I’ll tell you about the dream later,” she leaned even closer to him, the other students were beginning to shuffle in, “What’s worse,” she began to whisper, “Is that Melina saw him first.”
    “So,” Noah said annoyed, “That rule doesn’t apply to you, and who cares, you saw him yesterday morning, before he walked into the school, remember?” he raised one eyebrow toward her,”You saw him first.”
    “You’re right,” Shayna knew that the rule didn’t apply to her, and