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to have done what he did. He was more of a monster than I’d ever be.
                  There was still a queue on the landing. Someone was shouting my name, but I ignored them and started to run down the stairs. I just wanted to get out of here. I just wanted to go back to the Prestons.
                  The music was still blaring out, and the hallway was still packed full of people. I shoved my way past them and ran outside, the cold night air hitting me with effect.
                  ‘Celeste,’ a voice I recognised said, causing me to turn around.
                  Leo puffed his way over to me, grinning like everything was fine.
                  ‘I’ve been looking for you,’ he said before taking in my teary eyes, and his grin faltered.
                  ‘No, I was looking for you, but you left with her,’ I sobbed out.
                  ‘What’s happened?’ He lifted up my arm and traced a finger over the red mark Brandon had caused. ‘Who did this to you, Celeste?’
                  ‘No one, okay? Not that it matters. It doesn’t matter because I sorted it.’ I shook his hand off me and walked off up the driveway.
                  ‘Hey, come back!’ He ran after me.
                  ‘Please Leo, I’m okay, really. Go back to your girlfriend.’
                  ‘Why are you being like this?’
                  ‘Because you practically dragged me to this party, and then you ditched me.’
                  ‘It’s a party, you can’t expect me to babysit you.’
                  I felt like someone was repeatedly stabbing at me with a needle. Was I just a nuisance to him? Was he just too nice to tell me when to go? I walked briskly up the road.
                  ‘Celeste, come back. You know I didn’t mean that,’ he shouted, but soon his words dissolved and I was left alone in the dark, and to make it worse, I’d left my jacket in that jerk’s bedroom.
                  I rubbed my arms together as I walked, a confusion of thoughts swirling through my head. Why couldn’t I just be normal, why’d I have to mess everything up? Did our friendship mean anything to Leo, or had he only spoken to me back on my first day at Oakwood because he felt sorry for me?
                  ‘Hey,’ a voice said behind me. As I turned around, I thought that it’d be Leo, and I couldn’t hide my smile.
                  It wasn’t Leo, and my smile fell. Instead, it was a boy with ash blonde hair, a year or two older than me. He was wearing a red zip-up top, and he had his hands in the pockets of his dark blue jeans.
                  ‘I don’t want to scare you or anything, I just want to talk.’
                  ‘Who are you?’
                  ‘Just someone who gets what you’re about. Celeste, I don’t want to frighten you, only help you.’
                  ‘How do you know my name?’ I asked, feeling a mix of caution and intrigue, yet I didn’t turn and run. I wanted to hear what he had to say.
                  ‘I know what you can do, Celeste. I’ve been watching you, and then I saw you in the park.’
                  ‘The boy by the entrance, that was you?’
                  He nodded, and I found myself taking a few steps back.
                  ‘Wait, if you’ve been watching me, then that was you on the school field, wasn’t it?’
                  ‘Yeah, look, I don’t want any trouble.’ He took his hands out of his pockets and held them out in front of him. ‘Please, I can help you.’
                  ‘I don’t need your help.’ I turned and I ran.
                  I didn’t stop running, even when my limbs ached and my breathing became