be. There were tons of cream, chocolate sauce and biscuits in there, I hardly saw which types of ice cream were in it. Mike had the same.
"Well, we won't get any fat reserves from the ice either." Shane added with a grin.
"Yeah, you know what yeah means?"
"Sure, * kiss my ass *, but we're * yeah * not going back because we're lovely gentlemen, right?" Jake said ironically.
"You know what? Yes, yes!"
The others laughed and I ate up my ice cream, insulted.

We decided to go home, even though it had already taken almost an hour by bus.I agreed, still in a bad mood.
"Hey, that was just a joke, now you don't feel like that.", Shane said and put an encouraging arm around my shoulders.
And so we strolled through town, laughed, fooled around and walked home comfortably.

We were probably only twenty minutes from the house when Jake said softly but urgently:
"Go get out of here and take them away."
Something was there in the small, narrow street, but everyone apart from me seemed to notice. I was a little surprised. Shane, who still had an arm around me, wanted to pull me to the next street, but I freed myself:
"Hey, what's that, what's going on and what the hell is * gone * supposed to mean ?!"
They all looked at me with terrified eyes and then I felt this strange cold. Startled, I widened my eyes too and searched for this invisible threat.
"Yeah, now she's checking it, now when it's too late." Nick muttered, shaking his head.
Something was sliding past me so quickly that if I had blinked at that moment, I would not have noticed it. The four of them were just as fast to me as this strange figure, they had hardly moved, they were already with me, surrounded me. I stood in the middle with the others around with my back turned to me. I was still anxiously looking for this something, but I could only see a black stripe that encircled us, looking for a weak point. I was just stunned by this whole situation.

He wanted me. This thing wanted me.
I didn't know what he wanted or what use I would have for him, but it definitely wanted me.
It was unbelievable how fast I could think, probably it was the adrenaline rush that made countless thoughts shoot through my head in a very short time. My heart was pounding so loud that I couldn't even hear the angry snort of the others. Frozen with fear, I thought: what if they have to die now because of me? What if they get hurt because of me?
I thought of Shane, who had become my dearest friend during that time, of Mike, who always annoyed me and with whom I could still have fun, of Nick, who sometimes treated me like a little child and was still there for me to Jake. Jake, who initially even wanted to send me back to my parents, who almost hated me for whatever, but who is like a big brother to me in spite of everything. All four were like big brothers to me, I loved them like we hadn't just met.