Lily stiffened, she hated that they were talking about her like she wasn't there. She cleared her throat, and stood, hands on her hips and feet spread "excuse me!
I am here! I'm not just a cute pile of furniture!" She turned to Kristopher, glaring, she poked him in the chest "if you so much as think about selling my information, and that includes my ties with Angelo, you will regret it. I will repay that betrayal three times over and don't think I won't. I don't give a damn about "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" crap. That's just a way of saying that you'll be ready to betray us-but there's two of us and only one of you"

She felt like she was shaking. She knew her heart was beating fast. "I like my life the way it is, and if you ruin it after this mess is cleared up, I won't be happy. And I don't like not being happy" she refused to look away even though it was something she dearly wanted to do.


"I can look after my self! I'm not stupid. I just won't wear my link when I'm not with Angelo. And he didn't hook up with me! He's my friend, just because you can't seem to be able to have a deeper connection with anyone besides what you can get out of them doesn't mean we do! I like having a friend who doesn't think it weird that I'm a year behind in school then I should be, who doesn't think I'm slow or stupid: do you know how hard it is, to make friends when the first thing they want to know is what happened to your parents? So if all you are going to do in this truce is collect information about us, and make snide comments and look for chances to have either one of us fly off the handle, then you can just get lost now, because j won't stand for it!" She said, surprised her voice wasn't shaking,