For Nevermore Season 1

do.”
    Noella was confused, “No, I can’t do that. I can’t just pretend this never happened. Whatever this is. People over there think I’m crazy. Hell, I thought I was going crazy. But now, here I am, and you’re telling me I’m not, but you won’t tell me what any of this is! Why?”
    “It’s too dangerous,” Dante shook his head. “And the longer you’re here, the more danger you are in. You shouldn’t of come back.”
    “I didn’t choose to come here!” Noella said, “I was walking, then poof, I was out in the middle of nowhere, and then Finn came and found me. Then some weird blimp-like thing with some man came shooting at us. And none of this is making any sense whatsoever.”
    Noella felt tears welling inside, but breathed deep and swallowed them hard so Dante wouldn’t see her cry.
    “You have to tell me something,” she said. “You told me before, the other night, that you’ve known me for hundreds of years. How is that possible?”
    “I shouldn’t have said that,” Dante said. “That was stupid.”
    “Is it true?”
    “It doesn’t matter,” he said. “You have to go back and forget you saw me, or this place. If the queen’s men spotted you, you’re in greater danger than ever.”
    “Danger from what? How can you expect me to just leave?” she asked. “I can’t just forget the weirdest thing that’s ever happened to me! Why did you even save me if you don’t want me here?”
    “I saved you because I want you to live. I’ve been looking out for you for a long time. And that’s the same reason I need you to go back now, and forget. So you can continue to live.”
    “I don’t even know how I got here,” Noella said. “I don’t know how to go back! ”
    Dante shook his head, exasperated, as if she were getting on his last nerve and he didn’t want her in his house. She felt stupid. As stupid as she’d felt for leaving the voicemail on Sam’s phone confessing her love.
    “Just think about the other house. Close your eyes, think of the place, and count backwards from 10 to one.”
    “I can’t,” she said, feeling whiney.
    “You didn’t even try,” Dante said, sounding more annoyed.
    “Fine,” Noella said, closing her eyes and counting, “10, 9, 8, 7...” She imagined Tori’s playroom, but couldn’t picture it without thinking of Dante sitting across from her. She had a million questions, and seeing him in the flesh made her want to spend more time with him. It made her want to know the man from her dreams.
    “3, 2, 1...” she said, then opened her eyes.
    She was still there and Dante was still staring at her.
    “You’re not trying,” he said through gritted teeth, almost growling.
    “Yes I am!” she cried.
    “No, you’re NOT!” Dante stood, then leaned toward Noella, face enraged, eyes suddenly dark, “Go AWAY! You’re not welcome here!”
    Noella closed her eyes and fell back, stumbling to the ground, afraid, suddenly certain he would kill her.
    When she opened her eyes she was no longer in Dante’s house. She was in Tori’s playroom. But she wasn’t alone.
    Tori stared at her, eyes wide, “O.M.G.”

    TO BE CONTINUED…

    The story continues in…
    ForNevermore: Episode 4
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::EPISODE 4::
    CHAPTER ONE

    One moment Noella was arguing with Dante in his room, in some other bizarre world on the opposite side of her own. The next, she was standing in the middle of Tori’s room, staring back at the girl’s saucer-sized eyes and wide-open mouth.
    “O-M-G.” Tori said, perfectly frozen in her spot on the floor.
    Noella didn’t know what to say. The few words she did have were trapped in the back of her throat. If Tori screamed, Jen would come running into the room, first wondering how on Earth Noella got into her house, and then what in the world she was doing there.
    Noella slowly put a finger to her lips and said, “Shhh...” Tori nodded just as the ground began to