"I should do it more often, don't you think?" I answered my friend.

"Or spend more time with her boyfriend to see if she changes that poker queen face," she commented.

I laughed at what Remina had said and took a seat facing the table where Zeylan was, Mina started to take out the transparent plastic packages and gave me one with a fork, at that moment I looked at the boy again and noticed that he was still looking at me, his blue eyes were trying to tell me something. "Didn't you notice that Sharin the new girl looks like another one when she is with her boyfriend," said Anetta sitting next to me.

"That's what I say to Mera." Remina spoke.

Netta placed the drinks next to the salads, I saw that the boy got up from the table and said goodbye to his friends, it was my chance to finally ask him for an explanation of what was going on and why he suddenly moved to this university. Remina's phone started ringing and she was excited to see who the call was from.

"Hi Deimos! Not a bad time to talk I'm sure," she waved her hands excitedly.

That's when I saw an opportunity to catch up with Zeylan and be able to talk to him alone without having to wait for another chance to meet him just one day in the halls of the university, I got up from the table.

"You guys excuse me for a minute, I'm going to the powder room to freshen up a bit," I said a little embarrassed to give him credibility.

"Don't worry, we won't leave here." Anetta answered me.

Remina nodded her head when she saw me, I took my bag and made it look like I was going to the restrooms of the cafeteria but I took advantage of the fact that they were distracted to sneak among the other students and get to the door where Zeylan had left, I went through the ceiling of columns that was a corridor to the parking lot but when I got to the place I could not see him in the place, when I was about to go to the other side to look for him I thought I heard his voice behind me, I turned my eyes to where he was coming from.

"Are you looking for someone?" he asked me while I was sitting on the hood of a car with my arms crossed.

"I want the truth, Zeylan, tell me, what are you doing here? Did you order them to watch me?" I said showing my displeasure.

The boy looked at me as if debating whether to tell me what he knew or not, then he came closer.

"In fact our mission is to protect you now, your ability is very powerful and we are in the middle of a war. We fear that those who are behind the attacks of creatures like the one we are facing are after you to make you part of their side," he told me with a serious look on his face.

I remembered that dream with the blonde girl with pale skin, then she was trying to warn me about the intentions of the people who control the noctophages, but also, could it be true that with Zeylan I could defend myself from any of them?

"But if so, who are these people, aren't these creatures only supposed to exist in the midnight realm?" I asked puzzled.

"It is the cult of darkness, a large group of natives that unlike us seek to spread the horrors of nightmares to this reality, somehow they have managed to open accesses that link this world with the Midnight Realm." The boy answered seriously.

"Then I am in danger, how can you ask me to forget what is happening," I claimed frightened.

Zeylan placed his warm hands on my shoulders and rested his eyes on mine, I could feel that I could trust him.

"As long as I am protecting you, nothing bad will happen to you or the people you love," he wiped a tear from my right eye with his index finger, "But please don't get involved in this.

"So this is how you think things should be? You want me to turn a deaf ear to the suffering of others? to go on with my life as if nothing happened? If this is how I should live, I prefer to risk my life for my friends and for those who can't save themselves, I'm tired of being the one who has to run and hide." I claimed to him as I pulled his hand away from my cheek.

"This is something you don't understand, you still don't control your abilities and we don't know when the enemy will attack, you don't know their abilities or who they are, how can you defend yourself if you don't know how to use the power of your dreamcatcher?" he said and then let me see his worried look.

"Then teach me to fight, to use my powers Zeylan so I can protect myself from any attack of those beings," I said encouraged.

The guardian looked away and I noticed that he did not agree with what I was asking him.

"I ask you one last time Mera, stay out of this." he repeated sharply.

I remained silent until I couldn't control my anger, I didn't understand why he insisted on leaving me out of what was happening.

"Well, if that's the way things are with you, I have nothing more to talk to you about, Zeylan Levi!" I told him before running away from there.

"Wait Mera, Mera! " he said to my in the distance.

I didn't know what was this pang in my chest if it was the fact of feeling worthless and that I was somehow feeling like a useless person or somehow being rejected by Zeylan, "Were his friends or allies not like me at one time? Or were all his compliments about my ability empty, I hate you Zeylan Levi."

When I returned to the cafeteria trying to avoid being seen by Kiara, Sharin and Erick and my friends, I took my place where my salad was with the soda that Anetta bought.

"You took a long time, my friend." Remina said hanging up her cell phone.

"Excuse me, I forgot some notes in my locker and I wanted to go pick them up," I replied avoiding to look discouraged.

"Then let's have lunch without further ado, I'm starving." Anetta commented to us very animated.

"Yes, let's eat, girls," I said, looking as cheerful as possible.

Lunch and the other classes passed unnoticed, Sharin and Kiara occupied the same places that Professor Galvan assigned them and so did in the other classrooms, when I wanted to realize the time that passed we were already on our way home, Zeylan's words were again hovering in my mind "I ask you one last time Mera, stay out of this..."

"Idiot... " I said in my mind as I remembered the look on his face.

So Friday passed except for a breakthrough in making conversation with Sharin and an unexpected presentation at the table that Kiara, the redhead girl, Erick and Zeylan occupied, I tried to be indifferent to him imitating my new classmate at the time of greeting him, this made the atmosphere feel tense during lunch.

When classes were over the expected girls' night came and with it my desire to forget about Zeylan, his rejection, the monsters and the Nóctales, that night I wanted to feel like a normal girl again.