The Host

Chapter 12

"So this is the famous girl? Another O'Shea in the family," Kyle says, looking at my baby girl.
"Can we go?" Mike asks.
"Yeah," I say.
The eleven of us leave the building quickly and I get in a truck with Mike, Kyle and another girl.

"How's Ian, Kyle?" I ask.
"Worried, like all of us," he says.
"Everyone was worried about me? But I have a Soul in me."
"We've gotten past that," Mike says.
"Were you shot?" the girl asks me.
"No," I say.

"Jared, Ian and Logan said they heard a gun shot and you scream," she says.
"Oh, because they shot someone that looked like my brother in the back, but it wasn't," I say.
"I'm Zoe."
"Wanda."
"I know who you are."

"Oh right, it would make sense if you were rescuing me and knew my name," I say.
"Yeah," she says.
"Do you have any family here?"
"Only Mike, he's my dad. Do you?"
"I have an older brother, Logan."
"Sara's boyfriend?"
"Yeah, how did you know?"

"Sara is my best friend," she says.
"She's nice," I say.
"Yeah. I wasn't suprised when she over looked that Logan has a Soul in him."
"That was really nice of her to do that."
"Yeah."
"Well, I'm going to go to sleep, wake me up when we get there."

I fall asleep.

* * *

Someone kisses me awake. When he pulls away, I see my true love, Ian. I kiss him back and notice that our kid wasn't im my arms, like she was before. I pull away.
"Don't worry, Zoe has her," he says.
"Where is she?"
"Behind me."

Ian helps me out of the car and I see Zoe holding our baby, looking down at her. I still don't know what we could name my little gem...gem...her eyes are like Sapphires. Could her name be Sapphire (middle name) O'Shea.
"Do you have a name for her?" Ian asks.
"Sapphire, you can give her her middle name," I say.

"Marie," he says.
"Sapphire Marie O'Shea, I like it," I say.
"Yeah, it's all great. But can I hold Sapphire now?"
Ian turns to Zoe and she hands Sapphire to him. And I'm not surprised, Ian is really good with her.

"Guys, we need to get inside," Jeb says.
We go inside and I follow Ian into his room, he's still holding our baby. When we get to his room, he hands me Sapphire.

There's something wrong with him, he's not the same.