Spellbound

Chapter 2

I knew I had to save Cassie from Jake before it was too late. I followed her home. I watched her with Jake at the door. Jake clearly wanted to be invited in, but Cassie gives him a kiss on the cheek and then hurries inside and shuts the door. I watch Jake walk into his own house. I wanted to confront him and demand to know what he had done to her and why he was working with Cassie's dad, but I want to see Cassie more than that. I wait a few minutes and then I walk around Cassie's house and knock on the back door. She is in the kitchen, so I know she will hear me. She peers through the window at me and then opens the door.

"What do you want, Adam?"

I hurry in before she can shut the door in my face. "I want to talk to you."

"We have nothing to talk about."

"Cassie, please. I promise I didn't hurt you. Do you remember anything about us? Anything at all."

Her look softens and she looks sad. "I did this morning, but ever since the dance I can't grasp clear pictures of us together. It's almost like someone has been messing with my head."

She turns to glare at me and I am quick to reassure her. "I swear it is not me. I can't practice magic without someone else or without a crystal. Jake had a crystal at the dance. Do you remember that?"

She looks confused but she hasn't written off what I've said. "I think so."

I grasp at any opening I can get. "Cassie, I think we need to work together to break the spell they have placed on you."

"How?" Her voice is flat, emotionless and it scares the hell out of me.

"I will figure it all out. Until then, if anyone asks you say you never want to see me again and don't tell anyone I came here, ok?"

She nods and I see tears in her eyes. "I want to remember."

I reach out and touch her cheek and she doesn't pull away. Our energy is as strong as ever. "You will, I promise." I run outside and then into Jake's front yard, up to his porch and into his house. I am running up the stairs to his room, the anger fueling me. Jake is laying on his bed, but sits up when I enter the room.

"What are you doing here, Adam?"

"I'm here to talk about Cassie. What did you do to her?"

"Well, I had some help." His grin makes me want to hit him.

"Why? Why would you do this to her?"

I see pain come to his eyes and it is in that moment that I realize he really cares about her.

"She is better off without you. Blackwell told me if she stayed with you it would destroy her. She would get into her black magic and be gone forever."

I need to convince him to help me. "He just wants to use her dark magic to get his powers back. That is all he wants from her."

Jake refuses to believe me because he knows that believing me means he will never get to be with Cassie. "You just want her back."

He is being stubborn and I know that I won't get through to him, not right now.

"Just know, Jake, that if she gets hurt or something happens to her I will kill you with my bare hands."

Jake just stares at me and I know he believes it. No matter what issues we have we both want Cassie. Jake would never intentionally hurt her. I know that. Blackwell has convinced him that it is in her best interest to forget me and he will do whatever he can to help her do that.

"Blackwell told me that Cassie loves me too. You were just using your magic to cloud her judgment so she wouldn't pick me. I am the one who found out about her dark magic! I am the one who was there to help her while you were with Diana. Me. Is it really that difficult for to grasp that she could care for me too?"

I cannot argue this because it is true. When I was with Diana, Jake had been there for her and saved her numerous times. I have always wondered what Cassie feels for Jake. I have been jealous of it for as long as he has been in town. Is it so out there for me to believe she cares for him the same way she cares for me? Yes it is.

"Jake, I know she cares for you. But she is in love with me."

"Oh really? What makes you so sure?"

"Because she made love to me and not to you!"

Jake doesn't have anything to say to that at first. "Making love to you was a curse that almost killed me!"

I don't think I believe that anymore. "I don't think so. I think Blackwell did something to you so that he could get us to drink that potion so things would change between us. I am not sure though, but I am going to find out."

With that I leave Jake with his thoughts, but turn around one more time. "No matter what though, Jake please protect Cassie. I fear that her father is going to use her to get his magic back." Jake nods at me, but doesn't speak. I leave the room and head down the stairs. I stop when I hear Jake on his cell phone.

"Yes, he came over here. He told me that you were going to hurt Cassie. He also doesn't believe in the curse….No, he didn't see Cassie. I made sure that she wouldn't speak to him at the dance…fine…fine. We can talk about it tonight. Meet you at the old house."

I heard all that I needed to hear and decided to get to the old house first and wait for their meeting. I needed to know what was going on here if I ever wanted to get Cassie back.