Jinxed (Completed)

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"Where can we go?" I ask.

"That's the question, isn't it?" asks Cassie. She shakes her head. "Damn, these demons really want you."

"Why is that? Isn't it enough that our lives are hell?" Dylan asks.

"Evidently, no," says Cassie. "They want you for some reason. We just gotta figure out what that reason is."

"Could it be because we're getting close to finding a way to break our curses?" I ask.

Or you think you're close.

When you're really nowhere near.

I ignore the whispers in my mind. I turn and look at Dylan again. He looks at me, his brown eyes never leaving mine in the light from the dashboard.

"We're getting close? How?" he asks.

"Well, this only just started happening. And we gotta think about what was happening before then, you know? So maybe this is one of those things where it's because we are so close to finding out how to break them."

"What all had happened around this, though?" asks Maya.

"Well, for one thing, we did just start dating," Dylan points out.  "So maybe it's something to do with that."

"Hmm," Maya mumbles. "Maybe."

"Also, we started to come together, the four of us," I say. "So maybe we break both of our curses using both of those types of methods."

"Okay, so why don't you two kiss?" Cassie asks.

Heat blooms in my cheeks. "Um ..."

"Well if it could save you," she says pointedly.

"We might as well give it a shot," says Dylan.

"Okay," I say.

He leans over and then we kiss. For a first kiss, it was pretty damn amazing. Our lips touch and I feel heat burning up my chest as he gently touches my jaw, bringing his hand up into my hair.

We pull apart. But nothing has changed, magick wise. There is still this omnipresent feeling. This weird sensation of those people, those dead people that I am forced to hear. And somehow, I know that when the sun rises again, Dylan will change into an animal.

"Nothing happened," says Cassie. "Right?"

"Well, I don't know about nothing," Dylan says. "I just know that magickally, nothing happened."

"So it wasn't true love's kiss," says Maya.

"Or maybe it is, and they ... oh. Sorry," Cassie adds.

"We'll figure something out," I say, trying to assure everybody. I know we will, we have to be able to find a way around these curses. Dylan and I will figure out what is happening and we will figure out this whole thing later.

We have to. Right?