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stopped again. Everyone had stopped what they were doing and watched me give this girl a piece of my mind. “You know Kelly you really screwed things up, not only have you once again made a fool of yourself by causing a ridiculous scene, but you just showed everyone here your true colors. You don’t care about anything or anyone. The one person who actually really liked you and for the love of God I have no idea why just took off. In case you missed the writing on the wall Kelly, his name is Pete, you know the guy you just had your tongue down his throat, in that pathetic attempt at making me jealous. Which by the way did not work. The only reason I came over here was to stop you from breaking my best friend’s heart, which you did anyway by unceremoniously tossing him to the side the minute you saw me walking over here.” Everyone was watching the scene that played out before them, I was hoping that Willa was listening to every word I was saying. “For the record, I have never slept with, kissed, made out, or touched Kelly in the past 12 years” I announced as I looked around the fire at all the students who had gathered there. I started to walk away to go find Pete but Kelly had other plans.
      “Johnathan Stokes I don’t know who you think you are, but no one walks away from me, no one!” Kelly screamed. I kept walking.
       “Funny Kelly I’m pretty sure I just did.” I walked off into the night.  I had half expected to see my best friend sitting in my car. He wasn’t there. “Damn it Pete where are you” I asked to no one in particular.
       “He walked past the cars down the road towards the town.” It was the most beautiful voice I had ever heard. The accent was beyond perfect. I turned to see Willa walking up behind me. I hadn’t heard anyone walking behind me in the loose rocks. She startled me. Mostly because I wasn’t prepared to meet her like this and secondly because I really hadn’t heard her walking behind me.
       “Oh…Um thank you.” That was all I could manage to say. She stopped right in front of me. She was even more beautiful up close. She smiled up at me. I couldn’t breathe.
       “You are most welcome Johnathan.”
       “How do you know my name?” I asked.
    She laughed at me. Great she thinks I’m stupid or something. “That crazy girl back there shouted it pretty loudly, I doubt that even the wild creatures in the mountain tops did not hear her. Is she always so crazy or is it just you that makes her so” she asked.
       I looked at her for a moment before I could form a single coherent sentence. “Oh, Kelly? No. I mean yes, yes she is always crazy, and mean. Most of all yes, for some odd reason I am her kryptonite and I apparently make her go out of her mind crazy.”
       “I do not think it odd” she replied.
      “Huh?”
       “I can see why you would make her crazy.” Willa laughed softly then walked past me into the night. I stood there dumbfounded that she had basically just said she thought I was good looking. My heart was beating so fast, I could barely believe it.
       I got into my car and left the party. Half way back to town it dawned on me I had forgot Pete, “Shit”.  I hadn’t seen him while I was driving. I seriously doubted that he could have gotten much farther on foot, not unless he was hiking down the mountain. Oh damn. He was seriously pissed enough he would pull a crazy stunt like that. Living in the mountains you learn to hike early on in life, but the one golden rule about living up here was you never hike at night. It was a sure fire way to get yourself hurt or worse killed.
       I slowed the car to a snail’s pace searching the dark for my friend. When I had made it all the way back in to town without finding him I was in a serious panic. I pulled into the gas station parking lot and tried calling his cell phone. It went straight to voice mail. I sent him a text asking him if he was ok. I got no reply. Damn it where the