The cold January wind was hitting my face and sweat was pouring down from my forehead. I was almost finished with my run, I loved running. No one could ever take running from me, it helped me concentrate. Running helped me take the worries out of my mind. I was always worried but not what other teenagers were worried about, pimples, zits, lovers, cheaters, lies, heartache, friends, and prom. No I was different than that. I didn't have to worry about any of those things, accept for my friends, Sherrie and Tina. They were the best, but only Tina knew of my secret. She was my roommate she had to deal with my secret every time that special day came. No, not my period, every girl has that and it's definitely not a secret when it comes to some of Spenser's girls.

Whenever the full moon hit, Tina was there to take care of me, to help me get to the woods so I can change and she would go back and wait for the next day to come. She was always worried about me when I was in my wolf form. I wasn't like other werewolves, they get bit, and I didn't. I was born with this curse. And that's exactly what it was, a curse. I witch had put a curse on my great great grandfather. He was a very powerful man during the old days of Ipswich. He helped the five families that started Ipswich. He knew their secret too, that's how he helped them, keeping them hidden and started new but because he knew the secret there was consequences. A very powerful witch from Salem had come to his house one evening to get him to tell her the truth of the five families. He refused; he said he didn't know what she was talking about. She threatened him and he still didn't budge, he cared about the families very much. So, she succeeded in her threat and cursed my great great grandfather. That night he was cursed was on a full moon, and ever full moon he would turn into a werewolf and run in the forest. Watch over the witches houses, making sure that the witch that did this to him would not harm them in anyway.

Of course the sons of Ipswich had no idea that I knew that they were witches. It's not one for conversation. I didn't have a clue that they knew what I was but I was always suspicious about that. I always wanted to know if they knew about my families curse. My great great grandfather had hoped that it would not pass on, he already had his three perfect children, but a couple weeks after the curse his wife surprised him saying she was pregnant, with my great grandmother. My great grandmother had only one child, my grandmother, and my grandmother had my mother, Hilary and my Uncle Tony. It didn't get passed to my Uncle Tony, only my mother. I was guessing because the first child of his with the curse was a girl, is why it gets passed down in the woman's genes. Lucky me.

Spenser's was right in front of me now. I slowed to a walk and walked up the stairs and into the building bumping into Tyler Simms, one of the sons.

"Oh, hey Tyler," I said smiling. I was nice to the Ipswich boys, of course I had to be, it was basically in my blood to be nice to them. I was basically their protector from evil doers, but of course I didn't protect them from Chase and I got Hell from my mother and grandmother for that. I didn't want this curse, they did.

"Erica," he said smiling. "Morning run?"

I smiled. "How could you tell?"

"Well, he could tell by the amount of sweat pouring down your head or that sexy sports bra you are wearing right now," said Reid Garwin coming down the stairs. I glared at him. I could barely stand him out of the sons.

"Nice to see you too Garwin," I said and looked back at Tyler.

"You are always running," said Tyler. "Why?"

"Helps me concentrate."

"You know what helps me concentrate?" asked Garwin smirking and crossing his arms across his chest.

"I think everyone knows what helps you concentrate," I said chuckling.

"You should try it sometime."

I rolled my eyes and laughed. "Maybe I will. One of these days, would you like to help me Tyler?"

"What am I chop liver?" asked Reid with his hands in the air.

"No, you are more of a horn dog."

Tyler chuckled and high fived me. Reid didn't seem to like it. "Awe, I'm sorry Garwin. Maybe next time I will allow you to be my sexual partner, once you get checked for STD's."

"Hey, I'm clean! I wear a condom."

I grimaced. "Too much info."

"So, how's Tina?" asked Tyler.

"Pretty good. She needs to get out, she's stressing over her Sociology test tomorrow."

"Well…is she free on Friday?"

I squinted my eyes and smiled. "Awe Tyler, you should have told me that you liked her. I would of hooked you guys up a while ago. She needs to meet a good guy for once."

"Well…"

"Baby boy is shy, ladies are my department," said Reid smiling at me.

I quickly glanced at him and then looked back at Tyler. "I still have your number, it hasn't changed right, because I can text you and tell her what she says."

Tyler went pink and smiled. "You are so cute Tyler." I pinched his cheeks and then kissed his cheek. I started walking up the stairs when I heard Reid.

"What about me?" he asked. "Where's my kiss?"

"On my ass." I turned my head around and smiled at him still walking up the stairs.

"And what a mighty fine ass it is." I stopped and had my mouth open. For once, Reid Garwin had made me speechless.

"Just stating the obvious, Erica." He winked at me and he and Tyler walked out the doors. I stood there staring where he was standing before he left. Was that some weird compliment from Reid Garwin? No…Yeah, probably. What a pig.

I turned back around and walked to my dorm room, another reason why I was on pretty good terms with Tyler, me and Tina had a room next to him and Garwin. Sometimes the nights weren't that peaceful for me and Tina because of Garwin, that pig. Poor Tyler. Sometimes we let him sleep in our room if he knew that Reid was bringing home his slut of the night, or he would just grab his pillow and blanket and knock on our door. We always knew it was Tyler; no one else would knock on our door at 2 in the morning.

I opened my door to have 'Psycho' by Puddle of Mudd blasting in my face.

"Love this song," I said closing the door.

"Is it because it's about you?" asked Tina. She was sitting on her bed with her blond hair pulled up in a pony tail and she was reading 'People' magazine.

"Ha, ha very funny," I said. "Now I'm not going to tell you who asked to see if you were busy on Friday night." I walked into the bathroom grabbing my towel.

"What?! Who?!" she asked running in after me. I splashed some water on my face and then looked up in the mirror to see her dark blue eyes staring straight back at me.

"Nope, I'm a Schizophrenic Psycho remember?" I asked teasingly and smiled at her.

"Oh please, please, please," she begged.

"Maybe."

"Is he cute?"

"Very."

I was stripping in front of her, not like we haven't seen each other's stuff before. We've shared a dorm room for four years now. No damage to each other's eyes. I wrapped the towel around me and headed for the door.

"Please, please, please, just tell me." She was on the floor on her knees following me. I had the door opened and I had only my head sticking through it. I smiled at her. "Tyler Simms." I quickly closed the door and started walking towards the showers when I heard her scream. Thank goodness she was already on the floor or she would have fainted and probably cracked her head open.

I was happy for Tina, Tyler finally asked her out. It's not like he has been crushing on her for a year. I walked into the showers to find Sherrie walking out.

"Ah, done your morning run I see," she said smiling. Sherrie was very pretty for a red head. She had red curls and beautiful green eyes. She was so Irish that if she had an accent you would think she was born in Ireland.

"Yeah, and guess who I ran into," I said and walked into the bathroom because I could feel guys eyes drifting up and down my body. Between me, Sherrie and Tina, I was the one that had the best body. C cups, nice ass (not fat just enough to squeeze), flat stomach (days of working out, even though I'm the biggest garbage disposal people would know) and I am always getting complimented on my eyes. Sherrie had the Irish beauty going on and Tina was very tiny, one of the reasons we call her Teeny, well she's Tiny. She's got a big butt but no chest, and she is very skinny, but a very very pretty face. No wonder Tyler likes her.

"Tyler Simms and Garwin."

"Oh, what did they want?" She grabbed my towel as I just threw it on the ground and stepped into the stall of the shower and started washing the dirt and sweat off me.

"Tyler wanted to know if Teeny was free Friday."

"Oh my goodness, no way!" she yelled.

"Yes, way."

"How did she react?"

"How do you think?" I asked laughing. "I told her, closed the door of our dorm room and I heard her scream."

"She didn't faint did she?" Sherrie laughed.

"If she did she was already on the floor because she was begging me to tell her."

Sherrie was laughing hysterically.

"Oh, yeah and I think Garwin complimented my ass." I stopped the shower and grabbed my towel from her.

She was staring at me with wide eyes and a smile.

"What?"

"What exactly did he say?"

"Well I kissed Tyler on the cheek and Reid asked where his was and I told him on my ass and he said that it was a mighty fine ass." I finished wrapping my towel around me.

"Yeah, that's Reid Garwins way of complimenting someone, in a perverted way, that was a compliment," said Sherrie smiling.

"I figured. So, how's Pogue?"

Did I forget to mention that Sherrie and Pogue were going out? Well, after Kate freaked out after she found out the boys little secret she kind of left school and transferred to a different school. Sherrie transferred here and took Kate's dorm with Sarah, Caleb Danvers girlfriend. Sarah is pretty nice; she is always hanging out with Caleb. I've had conversations here and there with her, but I can tell she is head over heels in love with Caleb and vice versa. Anyway, well Caleb and Pogue went to get Sarah one day to go to Nicky's, Sherrie opened the door and met eyes with Pogue and after that its history. Love at first sight? Lucky bastards.

"He's great," she said, she grew pink.

"Great huh?" I smiled and winked at her as we walked out of the showers.

"Hey you two," said a voice. We looked down the hall to see Pogue.

"Speak of the devil," I said smiling and Sherrie pinched me. I slapped her, she kicked, I punched…and, "This isn't WWE Monday Night Raw," said Pogue laughing. "Even though this would be a great fight to see can it be bra and panties match?" He grinned from ear to ear while rubbing his hands together.

Me and Sherrie glared at him looked at each other and then both slapped him playfully on both arms.
"Ouch," he said rubbing his arms.

"Garwin wearing off on you Pogue?" I asked.

"A little," he confessed. He was smiling at Sherrie and she was smiling at him. I took this as a hint to leave.

"See you guys later," I started walking back to my dorm and walked in to find Tina still on the floor.

"Teeny, get up!" I kicked her in the foot and closed the door. I turned around to find her in my personal bubble.

"Tell me everything!"

"Oh my," I walked over to my bed and sat down. "Well first is this a yes or a no to Tyler's question?"

"A Yes! Duh!"

I took out my phone that was in my purse and texted Tyler.

'The ship has sailed Tyler. U R IN!!!'

I looked up at her and she was bright red. "He just wanted to know if you were free and I told him I'll ask you. There are no details."

She squealed and landed on her bed. I smiled at her and started getting dress. I put on gray sweats and a wife beater. I wasn't going anywhere special. It's a Sunday and it's 11 in the morning.

I heard this strange buzzing noise and looked to see my phone.

"Ohhhh, it's Tyler," I said smiling at Teeny.

She sat up quickly and impatiently waited for me to read it aloud.

'Cool. Tell Tina I'll pick her up 8, 2 go 2 Nicky's. Every1 will B there. Hope she doesn't mind'

"I don't mind! I don't mind! I don't mind!" she was screaming.

"Ok ok ok, calm down." I laughed.

'She is excited. Hope you 2 have fun!'

I went into the bathroom and starting brushing my hair.

"You're coming right?" she asked standing in the doorway.

"What?" I looked at her in the mirror.

"Well, if everyone's going to be there, then Pogue will be there and if Pogues there then that means Sherrie will be there, Caleb and Sarah and Reid."

"I don't know because Thursday is a full moon and you know I get really tired the day after."

"Oh, please," she started begging again.

Oh my goodness she was worse than a three year old!

"Ok, I'll drive there on my own, be there for an hour, chill, talk, socialize, do whatever, then I'm leaving."

"YAY!!!!" She yelled and hugged my tightly.

I felt my phone buzzing and picked it up it was a number that I didn't know. I flipped my phone open to see 'Hey sexy'

'Who is this?' I texted back.

I waited a couple minutes and figured it was a wrong number. I finished brushing my hair and walked over to my bed. I put my sexy teacher glasses on and put my hair in a bun and started going over some of my Trig notes for the quiz tomorrow when my phone started going off again.

'Guess???'

'Grrr…im not good at guessing games. Do I know u?'

Two seconds later my phone goes off again.

'Of course u no me. I'm the best thing that has ever happened to u.'

That sounded so cocky. Now who do I know that is cocky?

'GARWIN! How did u get this #?!?!?!'

'I'm with Tyler n I was texting for him while he drove. Don't text and drive now. ;)'

'Smart ass! Leave me alone I'm trying to study. I have a trig quiz tomorrow.'

'I will be texting u later babe. Count on it'

I rolled my eyes and stuck my phone on my end table. I breathed in and out a deep breath. He irritated me.

"Who keeps texting you?" I could tell she was hoping it was Tyler.

"Garwin got my number from Tyler's phone."

Why do I have a feeling that now that he has my number my bill is going over the roof? I knew I should have gotten the unlimited texting plan. Stupid Jerk.