“Yep,” Colin replied without looking up. “Me again.”

“Yay,” murmured Seth.

I sighed. “Did you need something?”

Seth’s attention shifted back to me. “Do I need something to walk over here?”

My fingers curled inward. “Yeah, I think you do.”

“I missed them together,” Deacon said, bending his knees and resting his arms on them. “They’re so warm and fuzzy, don’t you think? So cute.”

Seth ignored them. “I didn’t realize I needed a reason to say hello to my friends.”

“You have friends?” I shot back, and then sort of felt like a bitch immediately afterward.

His eyes narrowed. “Friends as real as yours.”

The very personal dig stung as I shot to my feet with a quickness that surprised us both.

“You’re an ass.” I bent over, picking up my borrowed book. Seth was quick, snatching it out of my hands. “Hey!”

Stepping back, he turned it over in his hands and his brows flew up. “Really? Myth and History 101? Are you reading this for fun?”

“So what if I am?” I made a grab for the book, but he sidestepped me. “Give it back.”

“Maybe I want to read it for fun.”

I stared at him. “Are you twelve or something?”

“I was wondering the same thing,” Luke said, and Seth shot him a droll look. Deacon was grinning like the Mad Hatter.

Seth smirked as he lifted his gaze to mine. “Actually, come to think of it, reading this for fun is practically the lamest—”

“Oh, shit!” Colin shouted, his eyes widening as he stared across the quad.

As Seth and I turned, I reached over and ripped the book from his hands just as I caught sight of the disc of doom winging over the pure. Someone shouted, but it was too late. The Frisbee on steroids slammed into the back of a girl’s head with a sickening crack, knocking her over. She hit the ground, red mixing with her blonde hair. The people sitting around her flew to their feet. Several crowded around her. The book slipped from my fingers as the red-headed pure who’d controlled the disc laughed. The guy actually laughed.

One of the halfs from a nearby group stood and hit the ground running at full speed. He was as fast as a cheetah. One second he was by us, and the next, he was tackling the red-headed pure to the ground.

Chaos erupted.

It happened so fast, one side converging on the other, that scuffles broke out everywhere around us within a matter of seconds. Deacon sprung to his feet, right beside Luke just as a pure fell into Colin. They went down in a tangle of punches and kicks.

Oh man, someone was going to end up on fire.

Seth was suddenly in front of me. “You need to go back to the dorm now.” He took hold of my arm and spun me around, toward Deacon. “Make sure she is—”