The Covenant: Hidden Secrets.

Ch.1: Things have changed

2 years ago.

One week after the accident!

Sweating I ran to the ruins of the Putnam barn, looking around at all the ash from the wood. The barn was no more just a big pile of ash and wood. I looked around at all the damage that had come from that night. All the emotions started coming back. After they rushed Tyler to the hospital and shocked his heart back he was fine. Aside from the fact that he now had to take easy with a lot of stuff when it came to his heart, but he was normal. I just stood and stared at it all. How did Chase get out I mean really the barn exploded right after he went in. Something's will never be that same after this night. I turned around to head back to the road and where ever I'd come from but I ran into someone I thought I'd never see again. Chase he grabbed me and started pulling me back towards the ruins.

"Ally!" Tyler said yelling at me trying to get me to wake up.

"NO!" I screamed back before noticing I was dreaming.

"Babe, its fine it was just a dream!" Tyler told me holding my head in his hands. "Everything is fine now!"

"But they never found his body." I said crying into Tyler's shoulder.

"Chase is out of our lives for good." Tyler said holding me tighter. "I promise."

Present!

"Jackson!" I screamed in my nephews face.

"Sissy!" He screamed back at the top his lungs.

"Jackson!" I screamed back before hearing footsteps coming up the stairs. He went to scream back but I put my index finger over my closed lips to show he needed to be quiet.

"What are you two doing?" Pogue asked coming into my room. I was sitting on my bed with Jackson in front of me like we were having a staring contest. "You need me to take him?"

"Nah! I'm good," I told him before getting off my bed and into my computer chair.

"College applications?" he asked looking at my computer.

"Yeah," I told him pulling on the Yale shirt I was wearing.

"Tyler, will get it if you don't go." He told me and I shrugged that was something I wasn't sure about. "When does he get in from New Haven anyway?"

"Umm… a couple of hours." I told him and I think he noticed I didn't seem very happy.

"Alright, want me to take lil man?" he asked me and I shook my head no before looking at the almost two year old on my bed. He was laying down looking at us talking while bopping his head side to side.

"I need to spend all the time I can with him." I told his daddy before he left.

"Daddy gone!" Jackson announced and I laughed. This little boy had been making my days since they've been back.

"I thought you didn't get back till 6?" Reid said hugging Tyler.

"I left earlier than I thought I would." Tyler lied and Reid knew it.

"What's going on?" Reid asked and Tyler shrugged.

"Nothing it's just good to be home for the holidays." He half lied that time.

"Ally?" Reid asking knowing that it already was the truth.

"We haven't had an actual conversation in over a month." Tyler told him while sitting down on Reid's couch. Reid skipped out on his first year of college to stick around Ipswich with Carson. He was now living in his own apartment and working at some place I don't remember the name of.

"It's probably because college applications are due when break is over." Reid announced to him about the big Yale elephant in the room.

"She doesn't have to go to Yale." Tyler said to himself but Reid heard.

"She thinks she does. Dude, you keep sending her Yale sweatshirt and hoodies." Carson kinda yelled at him while coming out of the back bedroom.

"How long have you been back there?" He asked not even looking at her.

"Since last night!" Carson sang before giving Tyler a hug. "It's good seeing you Ty, I take it you haven't seen Ally yet?"

"Yeah, and I take it by the hug she didn't tell you." Tyler said looking at Carson who now had her hands on her hips.

"Tell me what?" She asked looking from Reid to Tyler.

"He cheated." Reid told her and Tyler groaned before getting hit upside the head.

"Are you crazy?" Carson yelled at him and Tyler huffed.

"You don't know the whole story!" Tyler kinda yelled and Carson put her hands up in surrender.

"No, I don't. Ally has been really distant lately to everyone." Carson told him while going and sitting down by Reid. Tyler stood up and started pacing the room.

"What about Murphy MacDonald? Has she been talking to him?" Tyler asked and Carson looked at the ground. "Or your brother?"

"Leave Caleb out of this!" Carson said pointing her finger at Tyler. "You wouldn't be standing here if he didn't care about you."

"But, has he been talking to Ally?" Tyler asked and Carson shrugged.

"And so what if they have? They were friends, before what happened." Carson reminded him getting pissed.

"You just need to go talk to her." Reid said looking at him. "Dude, please. But take a shower and shave first!" They all laughed while Tyler touched his chin felt all the rough stubble which had been adding up over the past week.

"Jackson!" Kate yelled at him as he started throwing stuff off the table. He wasn't finished eating but all his food was on the floor among other things.

"He's so bad!" I told Pogue who just shook his head.

"I wonder where he get's it." He asked looking at me and smirking.

"I don't know what you're talking about." I lied joking before laughing a bit. Pogue touched my shoulder and I turned around to see Tyler standing there.

"Miss me?" He asked and I dropped the plate I had in my hand.

"Fuck!" I said bending down to get all the broken pieces.

"Fuck!" I heard Jackson repeat me.

"Language around him remember?" Kate yelled and I just rolled my eyes.

"Let me help." And with that Tyler was on the floor with me picking up the glass.

"Can we talk?" He asked and I nodded.

"My room." I told him after we finished picking up the plate.

"I'm so glad you waited to go to college!" Carson said as she lay down with Reid on the couch.

"Me too. I mean I love Ally and Tyler, but they're too worried about their relationship." Reid said before eating some popcorn.

"What time did Caleb say he was getting home?" Carson asked and Reid shrugged. About then there was a knock on the door.

"Who is it?" Reid yelled at the door to lazy to get up.

"Murphy, what the fuck are you doin' in there?" He asked with that thick Irish accent of his

"Mother fucker." Carson groaned wanting some alone time with Reid. "Tell him to leave!"

"I cant he's at the door." Reid told her using his arms to talk.

"Why doesn't he ever text or call first?" She asked and Reid shrugged.

"He just wants to get drunk." He told her and she scoffed.

"Bullshit, he's always drunk. That's like his personality. Not to mention he always talks about wanting to screw Ally. Why can't you be friends with his brother? At least he's nice!" Carson went on ranting and Reid huffed.

"Enough woman and I don't like his brother because he's into you." With that Reid got off the couch and answered the door finding Murphy leaning up against it.

"Hey!" Reid said before the embraced a man hug.

"How the fuck are you?" Murphy asked while coming in the apartment. "Carson no hug?" Carson got off the couch and hugged him.

"Where's your better half?" She asked and he shrugged.

"How the fuck should I know. The poor bastard was passed out on his bedroom floor last time I saw him." Murphy laughed before sitting down. "What's the plan for tonight?"

"We were watching movies." Carson said sitting down in the only chair Reid had in the living room.

"Fuck that! Let's party huh?" Murphy asked. "Come on Carson, you can call your one friend."

"I think I'm going to go home." Carson said standing up and Reid huffed.

"Stay please its only 7." Reid begged and Murphy jumped in.

"Yes, please Carson?" He begged while Carson rolled her eyes.

"Fine!" She finally gave in.

"Who was she?" I finally asked after we'd been sitting in my room not talking. I was sitting on my bed he was in the computer chair.

"My roommates ex." Tyler told me and just closed my eyes. "It didn't mean anything." He said kneeling down at me trying to get me to look at him.

"Why? Could you not keep your dick in your pants?" I asked getting mad; he just kept trying to get me to look him in his eyes. I was giving in if I looked straight into those baby blues I'd melt.

"I love how you're so judgmental, Mark told me about you and Murphy!" He yelled standing up and pacing.

"That was after the fact, and we didn't sleep together." I told him before huffing. "I can't even be around him anymore because I feel guilty."

"You still cheated!" he yelled at me and I huffed back at him.

"You did first and I just gave him head!" I screamed back getting really angry.

"Can we start over?" Tyler asked and I shrugged.

"You're away from months at a time, how do I not know if you're going to cheat again?" I asked and he shrugged.

"You have faith in me, the same way I'm going to have it in you." He told me staring at me and I huffed.

"We're done; I have no faith in you. You ruined this being gone for only 3 ½ months." I told him before kissing him on the cheek and leaving my room. Those baby blues weren't the same eyes I'd fell in love with two years ago…