Okay guys and galls i have finally updated!! woot woot!!! lol but i hope you all like it i worked hard during the amount of time that is was unable to use the internet due to my parents annoying way of parenting (aka i was grounded) but now i am off grounding and i got to update!! so i hope you like this chapter sorry it is kinda a filler chapter. originaly i had planed it to be longer but then decided as i typed it up that i didn't want the whole thing up because i still had to think of a part in the next chapter. so you get this part now and the next part when i can figure out my writing problem (i wish my muse wasn't into 24 the TV show at the moment lol) so i hope you like it!!!

Chapter 4: Forgive me

Jess opened her eyes. She was looking at the ceiling of her dorm room at Spenser Academy. It was a week before her 18th birthday, the day she would ascend into the complete of her powers and she couldn't wait.

Her alarm clock had awakened her, which meant that it was six in the morning and swim practice would begin in thirty minutes. Some days she just wanted to blow up her stupid alarm clock, this Saturday was one of those days. But blowing up the alarm clock would one require her to Use, two she was already partially addicted to Using, three the explosion would wake up her sleeping roommate, Olivia St. James, and four it would leave Jess with a hell of a lot of explaining to do.

Jess reached over and turned off the alarm clock the old fashion way. She threw the covers off of her and jumped up. Then she grabbed her navy blue Speedo one-piece swimsuit and a large fluffy purple towel. Slipping her flip-flops on, she headed out the door.

That is when she saw Alex ambling down the hallway by himself. "Alexandy," (A/N referring to Alexander lol) Jess squealed. There was something off about him walking down the hall without their other two Covenant brothers but Jess pushed it out of her mind.

Alex looked up as her heard Jess's pet name for him. He smiled at her even though he had been pulled out of his thoughts. "Hey ya Jessie-kins."

She ran down the hall towards him giving him a hug like she always did when she greeted any of her three Covenant brothers in the morning. "Where are David and Will?" Jess asked as she linked her arm through Alex's. She would also do this when she walked with just one of them on their own.

"They left early. Will said he wanted to get in a few extra laps before practice started," Alex answered. "And David agreed to go with him down to the pool."

"Interesting. I guess Will is trying to get faster so he can beat me for once." Jess laughed.

Alex smiled down at her. Even though Jess was the oldest of the Ipswich children she was also the shortest by a few inches. "Guess so Jess," he agreed. "Will is going to have to work hard to beat you."

Unlike their fathers before them the newest generation of Covenant kids were good at all the strokes in swimming. Jess was the best because she had started off the swimming trend of more her father, Caleb, had gotten Jess into swimming before Pogue, Reid, or Tyler had gotten David, Will, or Alex into it.

"Let us not keep Will waiting for his daily dose of defeat," Jess declared with a cocky attitude.

Alex like his father was more submissive and less competitive especially when it came to his Covenant siblings. Will on the other hand was the most competitive of the bunch, no matter how many times Jess beat him he always called a rematch. David was also competitive but never when it came to his buddies. He was into racing for fun. He loved to swim and would race Jess and Will to the ends of the earth and back if they asked him to.

When they got tot her swimming area Alex opened the door for Jess in a very gentleman like manor. "Thank you sir," Jess giggled as she walked through the open door. Just as the two walked in David and Will were getting out of the pool. Their muscular bodies glistened with excess water. "Davie, Willy-poo," Jess squeaked when she saw them.

Will rolled his eyes as David laughed. Davie was nothing compared to Willy-poo. "Hey Jessie-kins." David smiled as he grabbed his towel to dry off. The three boys all had the same pet name for her. For their lack of creativeness Jess gave them each the most ridiculous pet names that she could think up at the time.

"David don't dry off you are just going to get wet again after practice." Jess commented in a mother like tone. "I would hug you but you both are all wet."

David nodded understandingly. But Will looked hurt. "Jessie-kins come on give me a hug." He opened his muscular arms in a spread eagle, reveling his toned chest.

Jess screeched, "No, no you stay away you are all wet. Stay away from me. I will push you into the water William Andrew Garwin." Jess ran away from him.

"You wouldn't Use on your Covenant brother now would you Jess?" Will advanced on her.

Jess stopped as if considering the thought. "I don't have to Use to push you into the pool Will." She looked at him skeptically. Then she rushed up to him pushing him into the pool. She then ran into the girl's changing room before he could retaliate.

Jess changed into her swimsuit and pulled her long blond hair into a loose ponytail. She pulled her purple towel out of her locker then closed it. Jess had expected Will to be standing at the door waiting for her to come out so he could pull a prank on her but he wasn't. He was standing talking to David and Alex. Jess walked over to them and hugged David around the shoulders. She walked to Will to give him a real hug but her crossed his arms pouting. She made to hug him but he shrugged her off. "Willy-poo don't be mean." She fluttered her eyelashes at him. Jess lifted her hand to ruffle his blond hair but he flicked her hand away.

"Go away Jessica." Will fumed, "I don't want to talk to you right now." He spoke as if she was nothing more to him than a dog, as if he could order her about whenever he wanted.

"William," Jess said shocked at the way her was acting toward her. "What the hell?"

Will's cocky bad-boy manor was broken. Jess never swore and even saying hell was a big thing for her. "Look Jess I am sorry. I shouldn't have said that." Will looked at her. He uncrossed his arms and went to hug her. Jess backed away. She dropped her towel on the bench by the pool and took a swimming dive in. her powerful arm strokes took her to the middle of the big Olympic sized swimming pool.

Before Will could jump in Jess yelled out, "Try it William and I will throw you against the wall."

While Jess glared at Will, David silently slipped into the pool and quietly swam over to Jess. "Touch me David and I will fling you strait out of the poll." Jess turned around. Her normally bright blue eyes were dangerously dark threatening to go black.

David put his hands up out of the water, "Look Jess you need to calm down. Will was angry that you pushed him into the pool that is all. I mean had Will pushed you into the pool you would have been mad too," David stated calmly. "You also need to consider what you are saying aloud and threatening to Use. The rest of the swim team is coming."

Jess knelt her head submissively. She looked back into David's brown eyes. He noticed hers were almost back to their original blue color but not quite. "I shouldn't have blown up like that," Jess commented. David could tell she was ashamed of herself.

"Are you going to throw me out of the pool if I give you a hug?" David asked with a twinkle in his eyes. Jess laughed and hugged him. They both swam to the edge of the pool.

Will was standing there looking down at Jess, "I am really sorry Jessie-kins. I shouldn't have gotten so mad at you for pushing me into the pool. I guess it was my male pride taking over." He offered her his hands to pull her out.

Jess considered whether she should pull Will into the pool with her or whether she should just let him pull her out. She chose the latter one because of the fact that he had already gotten wet because of her.

Will pulled Jess completely out of the pool, his arm muscles flexing because of the resistance. When her feet were on the cool tile that surrounded the pool Jess jumped into Will's arms giving him a hug and a kiss on the cheek. "I am sorry also. I shouldn't have overreacted like I did. Will you forgive me?"

Will smiled down at her. Jess forehead reached his eye level. "There is nothing to forgive Jess." He hugged her back. "Nothing at all."

David walked up beside them saying "Practice is going to start in a few minutes and if you don't want the whole school to think you two are going out I suggest that you two stop hugging." David said with smile.

Jess looked up at David than at Will and finally at Alex who had joined the three. "Getting jealous Davie?" She smiled brightly. "Besides all the girls at this school think I am going out and cheating on all three of you." Jess laughed. "No matter how many times I tell them that we are just friends and only friends they still think that I am screwing each of you on a weekly biases. They always look at me funny when I flirt with other guys. And it is so funny how they don't think that I can hear them say things like 'god she is so lucky, she has the Ipswich boys locked up and she is getting a new one'. You know the funniest one is when they say 'Her bed must get a workout from all the boys she brings in'. Oh and my personal favorite is 'she must be getting bored with the three Sons of Ipswich guess she needs someone she hasn't slept with yet'. I just laugh and keep flirting." Jess finished. "I guess that is what I get for growing up with three guys, and keeping them as my best friends."

The three boys nodded simultaneously. "Yeah Jess we know. We love ya too. And we are fully aware that you don't like any of us more than just friends, blah, blah, and blah. We have all heard it countless times." Will rolled his eyes. "Now come on I think today is my day. I might actually beat you in free-style today." He pulled her over to the rest of their teammates.

If only he had known what was going to happen on that fateful day he wouldn't have been all into beating her.

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