Finally, my seventeenth birthday arrived. Cammie and Alyssa agreed to come over to my house tonight to celebrate. But now as I was concentrating on the components of human cells and chromosomes on my lab table this morning, I sensed a rush of electric wave radiating from someone sliding into the chair near me. I turned to see an angelic face that belonged to no one but Octavia.

"What are you doing here?" I asked surprisingly.

"I'm taking a biology class," she simply said with a smirk. "So how's everything?"

"Still torture," I said truthfully. "But I'm getting better at it now."

"You are," she agreed in a quiet tone....