Power Of Two
5 Drabbles ( Part 1 of 100 Drabbles)
Cadam( Cassie Blake and Adam Conant)
Note : This picks up after the circle has gone up to Faye's Grandfather's lakehouse.
Comfort
Adam Conant
"Last night was nothing more."
That phrase kept repeating its self in my head over and over and over again in my head, the words that had left Diana Meade's lips as we sat in my car after returning from Henry Chamberlain's, Faye's grandfather, lake house. The Circle had spent the night up there after driving up to help Faye check in on her grandfather, we hadn't been prepared to find him dead but sadly more than that I was less prepared for Diana to be serious about this break up. I had convinced myself that I could get her back if we could just talk, that we could work it out. The break up was all my father's fault..him and that stupid story about how the Blakes and the Conants were written in the stars.
He had a thing for Amelia Blake back in highschool and she had chosen some other guy, now her daughter-Cassie had moved back to Chance Harbor. So my dad after one too many drinks as usual started with the story, this time he had told Diana at Nick's wake about it. That Cassie and I were meant to be now, that we were destined to be together. Then Diana had used it to push me away we had barely spoken since except a word or two out of politeness but last night when we were alone in the shed, it had been amazing and then we get home and she tells me it was nothing, that we were over. Three years and it was all over between us like our love didn't matter to her. Fixing us, repairing things , believing in our love was not what she wanted. She didn't want us anymore and had done everything to make it clear it was over for her completely.
So here I was sitting at the counter of The Boathouse Grill, owned and run by my father who was as we speak passed out in the back room. This however was a normal occurrence since my mother had died when I was younger, my father had raised me...if you could call it raising. More accurately I had probably raised myself. As time went on I formed a close bond with Diana, Nick, Melissa and yes even Faye. Although Faye was another story altogether she wasn't what I would call a close friend or too much a trust worthy person, but she was part of The Circle as were Diana, Nick , Melissa and eventually Cassie when she moved here.
I heard the sound of the door behind me," We're closed," I called out, not bothering to turn around. I swore I had locked that door once we had closed for the night.
"I know," her voice answered.
I turned on the seat in front of counter and came face to face with Cassie, she was standing there just a few feet behind me. "Hey," I said surprised," I locked the door..."
"Diana came with me and helped me unlock it," Cassie explained.
Magic. The Circle was a bloodline of six witches and we were capable of using magic as a whole or in groups of a few.
"So now you're breaking and entering with the help of my ex?" I asked.
Diana and Cassie had become friends, and at first it made me happy...it truthfully still did because Diana was a wonderful person but so was Cassie.
Whenever I was near Cassie or looked at her, there was something...this connection that I just couldn't shake. I had no idea what it was or why her, but I did know that we were also friends and that I would do anything to protect her.
"We—um I was worried," Cassie supplied as she walked over to me and took the seat next to mine, she turned her body towards me so we now sat side ways facing each other as I turned slightly to face her.
"Hey isn't that my job?" I asked quietly.
"Adam, I mean it. You've seemed so upset since Diana broke up with you."
I sighed running a hand through my hair," I...I thought up at the lake house that I could get her back."
"What happened?" she asked softly.
"We talked...and she resisted...I wasn't about to let her walk away so I wore her defenses down til she caved in. I thought it meant she was willing to give us another chance, then when we got back home she tells me it meant nothing...that we were over," I choked out.
"Oh Adam, I'm so sorry. I never..."
"Cassie no. This was not your fault," I said softly as my hand reached out to take hers into mine. " She doesn't want me anymore. I don't mean anything to her anymore."
Cassie's attempt to comfort me had some how turned into me comforting her over the same issue...over Diana breaking up with me.
I'm not even sure how it had happened but it had and perhaps we were meant to comfort each other for different reasons. My loss of a love and her guilt over coming between us even though she in no way had done anything to break up my relationship.
We sat and talked quietly and the comfort that surrounded us was enough to make me see that Cassie was even more important to me now.
Glimpse