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Another step.

The another.

Willow and Charlie kept walking.

I smiled.

I knew.

I fucking knew.

I finally looked over my shoulder.

Him.

Mask and all.

Tall frame.

He stood there at the end of the alley.

I stopped walking.

So did he.

My friends made it another few feet before realizing I wasn’t beside them.

“Raven?”

I ignored them.

The masked man took one step forward.

I stepped backward.

Another one.

I matched him.

My smile only grew.

His head tilted.

There it was.

That stupid fucking head tilt I’d thought about for an entire year.

“Oh.” I whispered.

He took another step.

I laughed.

“We’re doing this again?”

He started walking faster.

“Raven?”