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Athena rested her head on Riley's shoulder in exhaustion from the previous nights 'adventures', both sides were in a mood about the pair, and now they basically only had each other to hang around.

Alisha had apparently imprinted on Jasper, which was a problem as their family's had just had a massive clash over territory. But, Riley had hope for the pair of them, and even (secretly) offered to help Alisha.

As she knew that the imprint bond was important to wolves, from the tales and the stories from both the book and Sarah.

"My body aches" Athena groans as she reaches into her bag to take out her coffee flask, and Riley remained silent as she watched everyone moving around in the school car park, the Cullen's avoiding looking at them. "This Beloved bond is killing the crap out of me, not helping the fact that my magic is weak"

"I wish I could help" Riley frowns, her cousin had been hurting from not seeing Emmett, and from over-using her magic.

"You might be able too, but you might feel weak after" Athena hummed as she took a sip of her coffee, before she held it in both her hands to heat her up. "I can draw life from living things, but it would take a bigger toll on you cause your human"

"But, I'm related to you and Bella" Riley concluded as she held her hand out to Athena, who stared at it in confusion. "You guys have proven your strength so many times, the most I can do is be smart and help you guys. You need your magic if Victoria is around"

"If you're sure" Athena let out lowly, before taking her cousins hand and lifting her head off Riley's shoulder with a gasp, her eyes seemed to glow unnaturally as Riley let out a small seething sound, feeling the energy literally drain out of her and transferring over to Athena. But she didn't mind the pain of it helped Athena.

Riley's eyebrows furrowed up as she let her head fall down to hide her hurt expression, but it soon stopped as Athena pulled her hand away quickly, and it was Riley's turn to rest her head on her cousins shoulder.

"Oh wow, that was weird" Athena mused, before she looked down slightly to see Riley had fallen asleep, maybe she had taken too much energy. "Riles?"

"I'm awake" Riley mumbled, lifting her head up to send her cousin a smile. "I'm fine, it wasn't that bad"

"Alright, well, I have to get to Math. Can you make it to History without passing out?" Athena questioned, worry etched into her face as she saw Riley's face, but the girl smiled brightly.

"You sound like me, don't be worried Athena. I though I was the worried one"

Riley only seemed to get worse as the day went on, the stress of school and Bella's confusion only seemed to add to her tiredness. Jasper couldn't look away from her in History, having sensed that something was off with her—but he still didn't say anything as they had fallen out the other day.

Bella didn't know what had happened during the weekend and it stressed Riley out, why wouldn't Edward tell Bella that the red headed vampire was after her for revenge? Or even Jake for that matter? Jake had an imprint, that's true. But, he still cared.

By the end of the day, she managed to drag her limbs into the car park, wanting to get to bed as soon as possible. What she didn't expect to see is Edward, Bella and Jake all stood together.

Jake was telling Bella, is what Riley had concluded as she observed the trio.

She gulped when Bella had snapped her head over to her sister, Jake had told Bella that she was there, that wasn't good. She not on her lip as she watches Bella turn her head back to Jake, talking to him quickly before she seemed to storm over to where Riley was, who went to turn away—only for Bella to turn her back.

"Riley, you could have died" Bella started off, she was looking over her younger sister with worry. "Or hurt, you don't understand what you just threw yourself into, she knows who you are now and now you're in danger"

"I can handle myself Bella" Riley responded, "and Athena and I had it covered. I worked out where the red head would be within fifteen minutes, the others had to use their smells or Alice's ability to see the future. And she still got away"

"This isn't your problem Riley" Bella pushed it all away, her sister was her main concern right now. "Riley, I know I wasn't the best sister last year and I'm owning up to that. But you are not getting involved in this battle. I promised mom I'd look after you, and I'm not breaking that promise"

Riley crossed her arms over as she refused to meet Bella's eyes, the older sister just let out a scoff before she spun around to walk back to where she had left Edward and Jake, who had watched the whole ordeal go down.

No matter what Bella had said, Riley was going to help, because it was her sister that was in trouble.