Summer was officially over. Daisy Pope couldn't help but smile as she looked around and saw her classmates all celebrating the end of another summer at the annual back to school party that was always thrown the last weekend of summer at the beach before school started up again. This would be Daisy's last ever party at the dells before she would graduate and as she saw her classmates drinking and dancing, she couldn't help feel a bit of nostalgic as she was going to miss all this insanity. Navigating her way through the crowd, Daisy made sure to hold her drink up in the air as to not spill it as she attempted to find her best friend and former roommate Kate Tunney. However it was a little harder than expected for Daisy to find Kate as the party was in full swing and the music was blasting at such a loud level from where she was standing that it would be impossible for her to shout out for Kate and expect her to answer. So Daisy to look for Kate the good old fashioned way which was going to take some time but Daisy was adamant about finding Kate as she hadn't seen her best friend in over six weeks as she had been away for the summer and had only arrived back home in the early hours of the morning. Instead of catching up on sleep like she probably should be doing, Daisy had made it a priority to come to the party to find Kate and attempt to catch up before school started. Walking past her classmates, Daisy offered small waves whenever she caught sight of someone that she recognised and the further she made her way through the crowds she finally caught sight of Kate, or at least Daisy thought it was Kate as she could only see the back of her head. But Daisy was pretty sure that it was Kate and she started to make her way but was forced to stop when she felt a twinge in the back of her head, which was followed by a long tingle and Daisy couldn't help but from. That tingle in the back of her head could only mean one thing; someone was using and Daisy had a pretty good idea of who was using magic. They answered to the surnames of Danvers, Garwin, Parry and Simms. It was the boys.

Looking around Daisy tried to figure out what the hell they had been doing until she caught sight of the cliffs in the distance, she could barely make the cliffs out because of the fog but Daisy had this feeling in her gut that the boys were there and a good idea of what they had been doing. So abandoning her search for Kate, instead Daisy headed off in the direction of the cliffs and halfway there she ran into the four people that she was looking for, walking towards her with their typical carefree attitude. The four errant teenaged boys that Daisy had known every single day of her life, the ones she had taken upon keeping a close and personal eye on because she one their tendency of finding trouble. Her four personal musketeers.

"Hello boys." Daisy began in a stern manner, folding her arms in the same manner that her mother did when she was annoyed and doing her don't question me pose. Daisy wanted them all to know that she knew what they had done and she wasn't impressed. Most of the boys just stood with looks on their faces that resembled guilty school boys, but not Reid. Never Reid, who instead cockily walked over to Daisy and she knew he was going to attempt to sweet talk his way out of the scolding that they all knew was coming their way.

"Hey sweetheart." Reid said with his typical self assured smirk on his face as he pressed a kiss on her cheek and Daisy tried her hardest to keep looking angry but she found her frown turning into a smile against her will and soon enough Daisy knew she was smiling. Because she had missed her annoying little spores during her time away, Daisy decided not to reprimand the four of them on using their powers. This time. Next time Daisy wouldn't let it slide.

"So how'd you know we'd be here?" Pogue questioned and Daisy found herself laughing in bemusement, with him there was no small talk as he wasn't one to beat around the bush, instead Pogue got straight to the point. So Daisy wasn't surprised that Pogue had skipped the greetings and had headed straight for the questions in his typical brash manner.

"It's good to see you too Pogue, I've missed you these last few weeks and I can see you've missed me to… You know I was expecting a better homecoming than this but me here busting your balls over you guys being idiots as per usual makes it seems like I've never left. You guys sure now how to make a girl feel special." Daisy quipped and she watched as Pogue rolled his eyes as he pushed a piece of his long hair back behind his ear before talking a few steps over to Daisy and scooping her into a bear hug and spinning her around before eluting Daisy back down and pressing a kiss to her cheek.

"Hey Daze, it's good to have you home." Pogue said in a warm manner as he slung his arm over Daisy's shoulder.

"Much better."

"We've missed you this summer." Caleb added and Daisy's grin just broadened as this was more of the welcome that she had been expecting from some of her favourite boys.

"Of course you have! As who else keeps you four in line and prevents you from getting into trouble that you can't get yourself out of. I can only imagine what kind of trouble you four have gotten up to in my absence but it couldn't have been too bad as your all here in front of me, seemingly safe and sound. But seriously you guys are as easy to read as Salinger, you might want to find some new ways to entertain yourself. You are all getting very predictable…" Daisy quipped as this wasn't the first time that the boys had done this cliff diving stunt, they had done this many times before and had invited Daisy to join them many times but each time she decline. Daisy got her kicks through other means which were less risky. None of them seemed to question how Daisy knew that they were here after she had fed them the line that they were getting predictable. It was a lie but one the boys believed without batting an eyelid which was good for Daisy. The lying thing wasn't nice, she shouldn't be lying to the people closest to her but for Daisy it was a necessicity and one she had been doing for years, ever since she was thirteen years old.

All five of them were bound by a secret, a huge secret that bound each of their families to a secret covenant for the last three hundred years which Daisy and the boys were introduced to four years ago. The secret coven formed by five of the six founding families of Ipswich to protect themselves from persecution during the witch trials. Despite not being in the original covenant Daisy's family was finally introduced into the covenant in 1705. Since then the Pope family has been part of the covenant except for Daisy, instead she kept a careful distance away from it as Daisy had a secret that she was desperate to keep and that secret was that she was a witch. Just like the boys Daisy had come into her magic on her thirteenth birthday but she differed from them as Daisy was the first born female witch to be born into the covenant and the first witch to be born in the last hundred years. But the boys didn't know about Daisy, she kept her gift a secret, a closely guarded secret that only two people outside of her family knew. As such Daisy had not taken hear family seat within the covenant even though she was the eldest born child and the eldest child always took the seat, however they did tend to be male so Daisy refused the seat in order for her younger brother Eric to take it when he finally came of age.

"Me predictable? Never…" Reid disputed much to everyone's amusement as the one thing they could all say was that Reid Garwin could never be boring.

"How was Italy?" Tyler asked moving things on from the current topic about how great Reid was.

"Great, in fact it was amazing and thanks for asking Ty, how was your summer–"

"–How's the party Daisy?" Reid interrupted and Daisy rolled her eyes in bemusement before taking a sip of her beer, Reid had little to none patient and he was clearly in a rush to get to the party and start enjoying himself.

"You'll see… That is after all why your here, right?" Daisy retorted in a challenging manner which caused Reid to widely grin and before Daisy knew it, the blonde haired imp commonly known as Reid Garwin was pulling her along the beach and back towards the party. Daisy laughed as Reid dragged her about and the boys followed close behind, this would be the last year that all five of them would be attending the back to school party hear at the dells. This was a bittersweet occasion. But Daisy wasn't going to let it get her down, she was going to have fun with her friends and celebrate the fact that summer was over and senior year was just about to start. As she walked with the boys, Daisy couldn't help but pick up on the occasional stares that came their way which didn't surprise her as the boys couldn't help but draw attention no matter where they were. Daisy just laughed as they continued to walk about until she finally spotted Kate, who was standing with some girl who Daisy, for the life of her couldn't recognise. "Kate!"

"Daisy your back! I'm so glad you came tonight I missed you so much! I also kept all of your postcards!" Kate squealed as she ran over to Daisy and enveloped her into tight hug much to Daisy's amusement as she hugged her friend back. It was nice to see that someone had clearly missed her quite a bit during the time that she had been gone.

"I missed you too Kate."

"Hey Kate." Caleb greeted.

"Caleb" Kate replied warmly before walking over to greet Pogue, who just so happened to be her boyfriend. "Your late!"

"I had a thing with the family, so whose your friend?" Pogue stated in a somewhat apologetic manner but Daisy noticed the look that he had shot Reid's way, Daisy wasn't stupid she knew that Pogue hadn't been with his family but instead he was with the boys. Probably doing something silly but right now Daisy didn't care all too much, she'd deal with that all tomorrow as tonight they were here to have fun. "So whose your friend?"

"My new roommate." Kate proudly stated as she pointed to the blonde hair girl who was standing beside her and the girl waved in a friendly manner. Daisy offered a small smile, she very much hoped that this girl was a vast improvement on Kate's roommate from the year before who was as about interesting as watching paint dry. "Sarah, this is Pogue Parry, Tyler Simms and Reid-"

"Garwin! Reid Garwin, good evening." Reid said pushing past Caleb to hold out his hand to Sarah and Daisy glanced over to Tyler and shared a bemused look with him, the two of them knew that what was coming next was going to be interesting to say the least. That much was guaranteed when you were friends with Reid, things were always going to be entertaining in some capacity. Half the time Daisy wasn't sure whether she was laughing at Reid or with him but she still loved her personal blonde haired imp regardless.

"Good evening." Sarah politely replied.

"You know Sarah's my grandmother's name, you kind of remind me of her." Reid said and Daisy and to stop herself from bursting out laughing as that was the worst pick she had ever heard in her entire life. Daisy wasn't sure who she felt more sorry for, Sarah or Reid.

"Caleb Danvers." Caleb introduced, holding his out towards Sarah with a friendly and welcoming smile. "And you don't bring my grandmother to mind in any way."

"Good, I'm Sarah."

"Oh and Sarah this is my good friend who I've been telling you all about, this is Elizabeth Pope also known as the Daughter of Ipswich." Kate hastily added and Daisy rolled her eyes at the fact that Kate had introduced her along wight eh ridiculous title that had been placed on her since the day she was born. It wasn't Kate's fault as the names Garwin, Parry, Simms, Danvers and Pope around Ipswich were pretty famous as they were the families who founded Ipswich and Daisy along with the boys were the descendants of the five remaining families of the original six families who had formed Ispwich. Whilst Daisy was known as the Daughter of Ipswich, the boys were known as the Sons of Ipswich whilst collectively they were known as the Children of Ipswich.

"Ignore all of what Kate has said Sarah, nobody calls me Elizabeth everyone just calls me Daisy unless they have a death wish like Kate seems to have." Daisy coolly replied with a wave of her hand before begin interrupted when Kira Snyder walked right in front of her, wearing a coat that Daisy was convinced Kira had shot with her bare hands perhaps even strangled maybe. Whatever she did, ti was a hideous coat and just looking at it made Daisy drain the rest of her beer.

"Hey Caleb!" Kira greeted.

"Kira." Caleb responded in a polite manner.

"So how was your summer?" Kira asked trying to strike up a conversation with Caleb when it was beyond obvious that Caleb's attention was all over Sarah, given that he couldn't keep his eyes off her. Finally Kira clued into all of this and turned to face Sarah and made introductions. "Hi I'm Kira…"

"Sarah"

"Oh right, from the Boston public?" Kira questioned and Sarah nodded her head slowly. "Tell me how does one go about getting into Spenser from a public?"

"Really Kira? You've been here for less than a minute and already you are wailing on the new girl? Seriously I don't get any of this, your a pretty girl but are you really that self conscious that you feel the need to put others down to make yourself feel better?" Daisy questioned as this stereotypical mean girl behaviour that Kira displayed was really old and very unnecessary and the new girl didn't deserve it.

"Why don't you give it a rest Pope?" Aaron Abbot asked stepping forward out of nowhere, coming so close to Daisy that she could feel his breath right on her face and Daisy groaned as the last person she wanted to see right now was Aaron and him being here was a sure enough sign of trouble. He hated Daisy and she pretty much hated him since the two of them had broken up in sophomore year.

"If your trying to scare me Abbott it's not working, far from it actually…" Daisy idly replied but before she could finish she felt someone grab her from behind and pull her back from Aaron. Looking behind her Daisy that it had been Tyler who was behind it. "What are you doing?"

"Trying to keep you out of trouble!" Tyler quietly murmured.

"Look we don't want any trouble Aaron." Caleb said trying to diffuse the situation.

"I'm sure you don't." Aaron retorted and Daisy could already see that this problem wasn't going to go away anytime soon as Aaron was looking for a pissing match and probably wouldn't leave until he got said pissing match. Right now Caleb was dealing with this but if this carried on any longer, Reid would probably get involved and when he got involved in things like this, things never didn't go well and often ended up resulting in black eyes and wounded egos.

"You posers make me wanna puke." Aaron's friend Radley sneered.

"Is that right?" Reid questioned stepping forward and getting involved just like Daisy knew he eventually would but Caleb pulled the imp back before the situation escalated to the point where the fists were going to be doing all of the talking.

"I think your little bitch Daisy here owes Kira an apology." Aaron spat and instinctively Daisy reached out and grabbed Reid and Pogue by the back of their jackets to keep them from doing something they wouldn't regret. She knew that the boys wouldn't let that comment fly, Pogue himself took it as a personal insult whenever someone insulted her so him hearing Aaron call her a bitch was going to get him really riled up. Daisy on the other hand? Was less bothered by the name calling as she just found it really immature and petty.

"Actually I think Kira owes Sarah the apology and you need to back off from Daisy before I do something I won't regret or are we going to have a repeat of sophomore year again?" Caleb retorted and Daisy's eyes met Kate's and they both pulled awkward faces at each other as this really wasn't going well.

"Is that right? When are you guys going to stop letting Daisy bust your balls constantly? Oh wait… I forgot, you guys let your little bitch cut off your balls years ago." Aaron sneered and moments later Caleb and Aaron started pushing each other in a little shoving match until a boy who Daisy didn't recognised came in and broke it up. Before turning to Kira and Daisy got a good look at him, he was tall with brown hair and blue eyes and he seemed oddly familiar to Daisy but she didn't know where from.

"You were being kinda bitchy."

Daisy was going to add something but as she opened her mouth, she felt the all familiar tingle in the back of her head and just in time she turned her head to see Radley puke on Aaron. Daisy didn't have to venture a guess as to who was behind it as she looked at Reid who winked at her and she mouthed thank you to him. It was the sweetest yet most disgusting thing that someone had ever done with her even if it did involve Reid using magic yet again. As they all laughed, the sound of the music being cut off all of a sudden got their attention.

"Guys err Guys! Dylan just called, he says he saw three cop cars heading this way on old dell road!" The Dj announced and they all stood there, in what Daisy liked to call the calm before the storm. it was those few moments before the panic set on over the cops arriving and the information finally sunk in. it took a few seconds before it hit.

Daisy turned to Tyler who looked straight back at her and it was clearly what they were both thinking. Shit. This wasn't good.