Jo spent most of the day mulling over her past, her mom was a witch associated with a small coven out of Scotland, when the witch hunts began people fled south to the Falkland Islands. A group of Islands situated in the South Atlantic that had been colonized by Britain. Her ancestors had then moved up to Massachusetts when they heard that many other witches lived there as well and were living peacefully now that the hunts had died down. When her ancestors had moved up here one of them had spied upon a young man moving things without touching them. The girl had confronted him later and the young man thought that he would have to kill her, but when she began levitating to dodge his attack he knew that it was ok. Both kids introduced their families to others and the Covenant and the Falkland witches had been friends ever since.

The school day had come and gone and Jo was sitting in her room picking out an outfit to wear to the party. She had never been much of a girlie girl, so most of wardrobe consisted of dark colors. She picked out a black tank top with a studded cross in the middle. She picked out her favorite jeans, they were slimming and fit her large hips well; her grandmother had told her one time that she had "birthin'" hips. Then it had irritated Jo but now she didn't really care much about her figure as long as she wasn't unhealthy. Now to say that Jo didn't want guys to look at her would have been a complete lie, she liked attention, but wasn't stuck-up about it; she just enjoyed the company.

She had shoulder length brown hair with light blue streaks in it, something she had convinced her mom to let her do, light tan skin that browned in the sun. She had the look of a Scots alright, brown eyes with a hint of green. A small nose was situated between her eyes with small pink lips just below them. She was proud of her heritage, she had visited her grandfather in Scotland once before when she was 14 and she had made a vow to go back.

Looking at her self in the mirror Jo was pleased with her appearance hopefully it would turn some heads. Kate was going to meet her out front in about 30 minutes, so took this extra time to go to the stable and see her horse, Brogan.

He was a percheron and stood a 6 feet high, whenever Jo rode him it felt like she was riding a table. She fed the huge black horse and apple that she had grabbed from the kitchen. He whinnied contently and scratched his muzzle on her shoulder. Every good thing that had ever happened to Jo had been on this horse.

She was riding hard through the forest; Brogan easily jumped the small fence that separated her families' estate from the Danver's estate. Jo opened her eyes when suddenly Brogan reared back and stopped short of trampling a young boy standing in the path. "What are you doing on our property?" Jo said abruptly. "YOUR property? I think you're a little confused take a look around." Jo looked up and saw the old Danvers house; it's where their weird caretaker Gorman lived. Her mother knew the Danvers family closely and when Jo looked back at the boy she recognized him as Caleb; the Danver's only son. What a pleasant yet unexpected meeting.

After ten minutes in the barn Jo headed up to the front gates to find Kate waiting, she hopped in the car and they headed to the party.

When they got there they had to hike down the side of a cliff. Jo momentarily thanked the day learned to levitate or the fear of falling would have kept her from going to the party. She and Kate had been dancing for a little bit when Jo happened to look up through the clouds and with her enhanced vision, thanks to her sacred animal being a wolf, she saw a blonde boy fall from the cliff. If Jo had been raised in a normal family she would have screamed thinking someone had just fallen off the cliff, but she knew it was just Reid showing off to his friends so she just turned around until she felt a hand on her shoulder and turned around to see blue eyes staring at her.

"Hey Reid nice of you to drop in" Reid took note of the subtle duel meaning.

"Yeah the other guys should be here soon" And as on cue the other three of the motley crew showed up. Kate ran up and hugged her boyfriend Pogue, Jo gave a small hug to Tyler and Reid, and then turned to Caleb. She gave him a longer hug than the others, only Kate took a real notice though.

"Hey Caleb, how's your mom?" She knew it was a touchy subject, but she was hoping their friendship would keep out some of the awkwardness.

"She's doing ok, you should come by I know she'd like to see your mom."

"Alright, I'll tell my mom" The conversation ended abruptly when Aaron showed up trying to harass Jo. He had always liked Jo, but she hated his guts. She sighed when he came to stand behind her.

"Well, when did you get back. I'm so glad to have a gorgeous piece of ass finally going tour school." With a quick turn, Jo had hit him squarely in the nose, which began bleeding profusely. "Ow you fucking bitch, your gonna pay" As he ran at her again, he was grabbed from behind spun around and hit again, he fell to the sand unconscious. A guy with spiky brown hair stepped over him.

"I hate assholes, I hope he wasn't a friend."

"No actually the opposite, Hi I'm Jo." She stuck out her hand to the new guy.

"Hi my names Chase… Chase Collins."

"Well hello Chase, these guys here are Pogue and Kate, then Tyler and Reid, and this is Caleb" Caleb put out his hand for the new guy.

"Hey Chase you new here"

"Yeah, I moved here a little while ago, transferred here, I heard you guys have a swim team." Reid pushed in front of Caleb.

"Yeah, the best around, Caleb here is our best swimmer in the freestyle."

"Sounds good, maybe I'll smoke you sometime" Just when Caleb was about to retort a yell went around saying the cops were headed toward the beach, kids scrambled up the hill to get their cars. Jo was about to hop in Kate's car when she pushed over toward the boys SUV.

"No I'm not getting in trouble again. You go with them coax them into doing something stupid." Next thing Jo knew she Kate was giving the new guy Chase a ride and was speeding away with the other cars. As usual the boys were the last ones up. Reid pushed Pogue over and jumped into the drivers seat.

"Let a man drive you pussy" Jo crawled in back between Pogue and Caleb… Reid took off with the police just behind them.