Prologue: Where Are They Now?
Monday, June 2nd
morning
disclaimer -- Laurel, Melanie, Diana, Cassie Blake, Adam, Nick, Chris Henderson, Doug Henderson, Suzan Whittier, Deborah, Faye Chamberlain, Sean, Kori, and any others you recognize are creative property of L.J. Smith. All others are of my personal creation and thereby mine.

Laurel smiled, and pulled the curtain back over the window. The adorable little scene that Cassie and Adam were creating on Diana's front lawn was really none of her business, and she didn't think Diana would want to see it at all. It was summer break, the first time that the whole coven had been together since a day or two over spring break. College had really torn them all apart, almost literally from coast to coast of the United States.
Cassie, Sean and Laurel had graduated a year early (thanks to their "persuasion" of some of the teachers) and Cassie was attending Boston College, with Laurel. They were both studying mediaeval history, and having a wonderful time doing it. Diana had gone to some liberal arts school in Connecticut to get a degree in English literature, and Adam was up at Cornell, working on a doctorate. Cassie had hoped to go to the adjoining Ithaca college, and work with music, but, she wasn't accepted there. Faye was studying drama (as though she needed to work on that) in New York City. Deborah, Susan, Chris, Doug and Sean (most of whom had scoffed at the whole school after high school thing) were staying on the island, taking courses at a community college. Or, so they said. Melanie and Nick had been the real surprises of the group, though, both venturing out to the same college. A college which was Stanford. And everyone had thought that Adam getting into Cornell was amazing...
Their spring breaks hadn't all coincided, and there was only two days in March when they had all been back at the island. Those two days were so crammed full of action that Laurel remembered little more than a blur of motion and sound and people. Now, though, they had a full three months to do what they would with. Cassie, Diana, Faye, Melanie, Deborah, Suzan, Adam, Nick, Sean, Doug and Chris. Together again, on New Salem Island. Things were going to get downright wild