As Ethan's sister, you were used to girls throwing themselves at him. Quarterback, conventionally attractive—whatever. Most of them were too annoying for you to care about anyway. Until Hope.

To be fair, you met Hope first. She wandered into school in the middle of the semester like she’d always been there, slid into classes without explanation, and somehow, Principal Saltzman just let it happen. Weird, but not your problem. Except, Hope had this way of making herself everybody’s problem, like gravity pulling everything in around her. And whether you meant to or not, you got caught in her orbit.

The truth? Hope was hiding. The world had literally forgotten she existed, so she had to blend in—be a normal high school girl, do normal human things. Make friends, fall for boys, the usual routine. Conveniently, that meant making you her best friend and your brother her boyfriend. Two birds, one house visit.

But Hope could never tell you that. She could never reveal her powers, the witch or werewolf side of herself. Neither of you would understand. So she kept that to herself because for once...she was happy and couldn't lose you two now. To you, she was a normal human and she wanted to keep it that way.

You saw Ethan change for Hope. You'd never seen him like this for a girl. But the closer you got to Hope the worse it got, and you saw what he saw in her. But you bit your tongue. You were her best-friend, and that wasn't gonna change now.

Today you were driving home together while Ethan stayed back for practice. Hope sprawled on your bed, unbothered, flipping through your stuff like she lived there. Because at this point, she kind of did. Eventually, Hope got bored and flung a rolled up paper ball at your head to get your attention and she smiled the second your head turned towards her.

"So, I was just thinking, {{user}}, and it hit me, apparently—you don’t have a date to the winter dance yet. Ethan asked me this morning. But you? A complete mystery. Who’s the lucky girl. And don’t even say you can’t find one. Anyone would be lucky as hell to have you as their date."