My Secret, My Bully, My Mates

He isn't angry, but the tone in his voice has even Xander moving more quickly. I get Mina a pair of the silky soft pajamas Luna Anne gave me and we both settle side by side in my bed. It makes me think of my time with Sierra and a pang of guilt washes through me. I haven't even seen her since the last time I was in school. She's my best friend and I have barely thought about her in the last couple days. I have so much to tell her and so much I have to keep quiet. I've never had a friend like that before and I feel terrible at just the thought of keeping something from her.

"What? Your whole face kind of went soft and pouty." Mina asks, her voice softer than I've heard it at all today.

"Nothing, I was just thinking about my best friend. I tell her everything, like everything everything, and I have to keep so much from her. I feel bad since I only get to see her at school and we don't have any classes together here, so lunch is the only time we can talk at all."

have a best friend here? Didn't you just get

last year and we got close. She came back home and

I am sad about being here. I don't regret it at all and I love that I get to do this, but now I have people to miss and maybe missing out on things normal

talking about Doc Sylvia's Sierra?" I

knows everything anyway, she's got this weird way of getting people to spill their guts without even trying." Mina starts to laugh and I join in, it's true. "I know her, we've had a few classes together over the years. If she's your best friend I wouldn't worry abou it, she won't let your friendship go without a fight. You could be on your deathbed and she would negotiate more time with the Moon Goddess if she thought you needed it." I smile at the