My Secret, My Bully, My Mates

We walk inside to a grand entrance and I am immediately wrapped in a hug. I can't see anything around the soft material covering my whole head, burying my face in a chest.

"You have no idea how good it is to see you. I thought we were all going to go crazy not being able to check in or see you at all this summer."

Xander releases me from the stranglehold he has on me and holds me out at arms distance, giving me a once over clearly checking for lasting damage.

"Xander, I'm okay." I pat his arm awkwardly, his tight grip on my shoulders making it difficult to do anything. "I promise Doc Sylvia and Doc Ganon patched me up and cleared me for training."

banquet hall. But got no better look at it before he had me flying up the grand set of stairs to the balcony overlook. Just

going, Xander? Are you trying to rip my arm off?" I

in and out of hallways and doorways, up stairways and every other kind of 'ways' you could think of in the humongous

in a little alcove in who knows what part of the castle. Then he spins me around and grabs my shoulders again.

like that? No friend asks a question like that. You have been hanging around Cameron, Dakota and Oliver a little too long, I think." I'm angry now. I was so excited to see my friend and the first thing he

a new me, I'm away from all of that for just a little while. I want to pretend that the whole situation doesn't exist. I closed