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Caleb tried to feel my forehead again, but I didn't let him. He might actually force me to go to the infirmary if he had any idea how high my fever probably was.

He looked at me with concern written all over his face. "Are you feeling okay? You're not even dizzy? You should be unconscious with how hot your forehead was…" I turned back to my bed and unzipped my suitcase.

I reached for my bathroom supplies and I headed for the bathroom. "I'm fine, I'm just flustered from the wrestling. I'm not used to so much strenuous activity." I said sarcastically.

I heard Reid chuckle and pat Caleb's shoulder, but he shot me a look that told me if I didn't get better, I was spending my first night back in his dorm with Tyler.

Yep. He hasn't changed a bit.

I stifled a smile as I shut and locked the bathroom door. I could hear Reid joking around with Pogue and everyone laughing. I went to the sink and splashed my face with water. I felt my forehead cool down slowly. To someone else I probably did feel like I had a fever.

It just didn't feel that way to me though. I dried of my face and put my bag of supplies on the second shelf in the little towel closet located in the bathroom. We were lucky enough to have our own private shower, which I took note of happily.

This year was going to be amazing!

I went back out finish unpacking to see Reid and Pogue going through my bag, while Mickey and Lacey were busy in the closet. Caleb was smacking them both in the back of the head, while Tyler, Sarah, and Kate just laughed at the expressions on their faces from me catching them red handed.

Reid flashed me a grin as I carried my bag over to the walk-in closet. There was a set of drawers in there and three huge racks for hanging clothes. "Which rack do you want, Poppet?" Lacey asked me.

I took the one on the far right, the one closest to the door. "I'll take that one… unless one of you wants it?" They both smiled and reclined. I smiled back at them. Lacey picked the one on the far left, the closest to the built-in shoe rack. Me and Mickey rolled our eyes.

That was just so typical of Lacey. We laughed and she blushed, but kept hanging up her clothes. Mickey was happy she got the rack closest to the drawers. She smiled as she put her clothes away and put her suitcase up on the shelf above her rack.

I smiled and did the same. We grabbed our shoes and put them on the rack with Lacey's. We looked around and giggled. This was an amazing room.

I grabbed my black sheets and my electric blue comforter, which I had bought specifically for school. I didn't have a bed at home, because I always slept in the huge chairs. I quickly fitted mine onto my bed, and then helped my roommates.

I noticed Reid had made himself comfortable on my bed, and I laughed when he smirked at me. Nope. He hasn't changed at all.

I grabbed one of my smaller bags from the floor, which held all of the pictures that I couldn't leave behind. I pulled them out and I started hanging them around the room. Almost all of them were hand drawn portraits of people I loved. Mickey had gone crazy, taking every chance she could to draw. She had drawn everyone in my adoptive family, all into one big portrait.

There were others that were just regular pictures, too. There were lots f pictures of me with Reid and Tyler, and a few with me and Caleb. Pogue was in some of them, but he didn't really know me that well. He could never remember my nickname, and ended up calling me Amber all the time.

He avoids me sometimes when he notices how often I twitch around him. I smiled at the memories the pictures brought back. Sarah helped Lacey with hers and Kate helped Mickey, who had more than either of us combined.

Caleb suddenly picked up one of the drawings I had drawn and started at it a long time. "Who drew this, Pope?" He had never gotten the hang of Poppet, so he called me Pope, along with every teacher at Spenser. I shrugged at him. "I did. Why?"

I looked at the one he was holding. "Oh." I said. He was holding the portrait I had drawn of all of us. I had drawn it from a picture we had asked Nicky to take of us when we were at the bar one night.

Reid was leaning back against the pool table and I was leaning back against him, sitting on the pool table sideways with my knees pulled up in front of me. Tyler had his elbow resting on top of my knees. They were both holding pool sticks. Pogue was smiling with his arms around Kate, chin resting on her head. He was standing next to Tyler. Caleb was standing next to Reid, his arm around Sarah's waist as he kissed her on the cheek.

That was one of the best nights of my life. It was one of the times Reid and Tyler had kidnapped me and forced me to be seen in public, but I had had fun being with them.

Caleb looked at me with amazement written all over his face. "I think 'Oh' is an understatement, Pope. This is just…" He trailed off as he looked at it again, then handed it to me as I hung it on the wall. "Wow." He finished.

The girls came over to look at it and Mickey smiled. "Yeah, I just about died when I found out she could draw like that. She could give me a run for my money if she wanted to." I smiled and hugged her. "No, I don't think so, Mickey. I can draw pretty well sometimes, but I prefer to sing, you know that."

She nodded. "That I do." She helped me hang up the picture and then Sarah picked up another one I had drawn. It was a picture of Lacey. She had posed for me and I had drawn her as well as I could.

She was in her dancing tights stretching out on a balance bar. Caleb looked at it, his eyes wide with amazement. I just laughed and shook my head as Kate gasped at it. Lacey giggled, being the subject of the portrait.

I took it and hung it up, blushing at their blatant surprise. I didn't blame them though. People stared at the doodles I drew in the backs of my notebooks all the time.

I sighed and collapsed on the bed next to Reid when I was finished. The room looked amazing. This was probably the most interesting dorm on the entire campus.

Tyler sat on the other side of me. Pogue was sitting backwards in one of the desk chairs, as was his style. And Caleb was stretched out on the floor with Sarah sitting pretzel style next to him.

Kate was on the bed next to Lacey, and Mickey was sitting sideways in another desk chair. Reid smiled and poked me in the side. "You feeling better yet?" I grinned. "Unfortunately for you two," I gestured at both of them, "Yes. I fell fine now."

Tyler smirked and elbowed her jokingly. "What do you mean, 'unfortunately for you two'?" Caleb asked. Reid, Ty, and I all exchanged glances, and then burst out laughing. Caleb never knew about my little campouts in their dorm. Pogue did, though, and he was smiling too.

I stifled my laughter and answered him. "Nothing. It's just a little joke we have."

Reid and Tyler chuckled at me, as Reid poked my ticklish spot and I jumped. I mock glared at him and smacked the back of his head, much like Caleb does. Now everyone was laughing but Reid, who was grinning at me.

I saw Lacey shoot me a look and I ignored her. She always thought I liked guys, but Reid was NOT boyfriend material. It just wasn't humanly possible for Reid Garwin to date one girl. He was a womanizer. But I was allowed to think he was hot.

Reid smirked and sat up a bit, but still leaning back on his arms. "What do you guys think about going to Nicky's tonight?"

There was a collective agreement around the room and Kate and Sarah stood up to go get ready. Caleb turned to Sarah. "I'll pick you up at six?" He offered. She blushed and pecked him on the lips. "Sure, Cay."

Caleb and Pogue left to go get ready themselves, leaving just me, the girls, Reid, and Ty. I stood up and grabbed my camera where it was sitting on my desk. Lacey took it from me, giving me the same look from earlier. "I'll take it. You don't have enough pictures of yourself."

I blushed but sat down between them, blushing more when Reid picked me up and put me in his lap. Tyler chuckled and moved over, pulling my legs onto his lap, making sure I wasn't touching the bed at all. Lacey laughed with Mickey as she took the picture.

Mickey went over to look at the picture on the digital camera. "Oh my God! That is priceless! You should see how red your face is, Poppet!" I felt myself blush more and try to get up, but Reid wasn't allowing that.

"Now why on earth would you be blushing, Poppet?" he asked in his mischievous way. I sighed and slid my legs off Tyler. Mickey had other plans. "Do another pose you guys. These are some amazing shots Lacey's taking!"

The girls grinned at each other in a mischievous way, knowing how flustered I was right now. "You guys are so mean to me sometimes. You do realize that right?" I asked them.

They laughed as Reid sat farther back on the bed, pulling me to sit between his knees, leaning back on his muscular chest, as Tyler sat on the floor, leaning against my knees.

My face, I knew, looked like a tomato.

We must have spent a half hour, everyone taking pictures of me with everyone in the room. Mickey whispered something to Reid and I narrowed my eyes in suspicion. He smiled and nodded to her, and whispered something back. I was distracted from their conversation when Tyler came from behind me and wrapped his arms around my waist and Lacey snapped a picture.

I sighed. "You guys are killing me right now…" They laughed at my reluctance to be on film. Tyler grinned at me and picked me up Bridal style. Before Lacey could take the picture, he threw me into Reid's arms. Who barely caught me on the short notice.

I realized that whatever he had been talking about with Mickey had left him blushing, which amazed me. "Is the infamous Reid Garwin Blushing?!" I asked in a mocking tone. He gave me his trademark bad boy smirk. "Not as much as you are about to." he said.

And then he kissed me. I was in so much shock, I think I was paralyzed. I heard Lacey take the picture and then start giggling. Reid broke the kiss and stared at me for a minute, trying to judge me reaction. "Poppet?" He asked, "Do you want to go as my date to Nicky's tonight?"

He looked hopeful, but he was trying to hide it. I miraculously regained control of my features and I smiled. "Of course, Reid. I'd love that." I told him. He grinned and kissed me again before he put me down.

Lacey walked over and showed me all the pictures she had taken in the three minute time period that Reid had been holding me. I shook my head and tried not to blush anymore than I already had. Reid hugged me and told me he'd pick me up at six. "Okay, bye Reid." I said.

After Reid left Tyler stayed behind. "I don't have to leave yet, unless you guys want me to leave you alone to get dressed. We looked at each other. Mickey raised her eyebrows. "Do we look like it takes us forever to get ready to go out? To a bar no less?" she asked jokingly.

Tyler smiled. "No, but I just wanted to make sure I wasn't intruding." I smiled at him. "Don't worry, Ty. You're always welcome here. Besides, there is a full bathroom and walk-in closet. Why would you have to leave for us to change?" I asked him.

He shrugged. Lacey smiled at him. "Aww you're so sweet!" She exclaimed. Mickey and I giggled at his expense. Mickey looked at him and blushed. My eyes widened and I looked at Lacey, who I saw had noticed too. "Why, Mackenzie! I never knew…" I drifted off and she blushed even more. Tyler looked between us.

"What?" he asked, not having noticed her looking at him earlier. I looked at him. "Do you have a date for tonight, Ty?" I asked him. He blushed and shook his head in answer. I smiled at Lacey. "Well why don't you ask someone" I asked in an obvious immitation of Reid.

He chuckled and looked at me for a minute. "Okay, then. Hey Mickey," he turned to look at Mackenzie, who's eyes had turned into huge saucers. "Did you feel like being my date for Nicky's tonight?"

Mickey sat there for a minute, in complete shock, then regained control of herself. "Yeah, sure I'll go with you." she said, fighting a huge grin.

He smiled and leaned over to hug her and me and Lacey gave them a chorus of aww's. Mickey threw a pillow at us. "Shut up, you two. Go find some naked boys to look at or something." she said in an embarrassed voice. Tyler laughed and she blushed some more.

Tyler looked over to me. "Hey, have you guys met the new kid yet?" He looked at us. I looked at Lacey and then back at him, giving him a look that questioned his intelligence. He blushed. "I didn't mean Lacey. I already know she's knew, but you always have her picture hanging up, so I knew it was her." He explained.

Lacey nodded. She was really quick, and caught onto things faster than anyone I had ever met. Tyler continued. "No, I meant the new guy. He's on our floor, I saw him going into room Three-eleven. I heard him tell the people at the check-in desk his name was Chase Collins.

I froze. I could feel the last of my blush from earlier finally fade away and my face paled out to its normal color. I looked at him hard. "Are you sure its Chase Collins?" I asked him. I had to be sure the name was right.

I hadn't told anyone about the name I had been given by the adoption agency. If that was really his name, I was going to go talk to him and make sure. Tyler nodded to me. "Yeah. Why? Do you know him?" I shook my head. "Not Yet. But I want to go meet him. I'll catch you guys later. I'll be back before Reid comes, so we can all go to Nicky's together, okay?"

Tyler nodded and I hugged him before grabbing my cell and my key and leaving the dorm. "Room Three-eleven." I reminded myself. I put my key and cell-phone in my pocket.

The room was only one hall over, so I quickly made my way down the hall. I practically ran when the little sign with the room number that hangs out from the wall above the door came into sight.

When I got to the door I calmed myself down and prepared myself just in case he wasn't really my brother. I braced myself and knocked on the door.

I heard movement inside and the door opened a moment later and I was met with shocking blue eyes, the exact same shade as my own. I saw that the boy was at least three inches taller than me, around the same height as Pogue. I smiled at him.

"Hi, I heard you were new here and I wanted to meet you. You can call me Poppet." I said holding out my hand. He gave me a crooked smile and shook my hand. "Chase Collins. It's nice to meet someone so soon. Did you want to come in, get to know each other?"

I smiled. "Sure" I went into his room. It was simple. It was a single person dorm, with only one bed and a closet, and a half bathroom. He had navy blue sheets, which I noticed with a smile. He had some pictures on the wall, including one that I recognized.

I walked over to it and touched it. It was a picture of two toddlers, with shocking blue eyes and light brown hair. The one's hair was cropped short and the other's was hanging down straight to the chin. I had one just like it that I always kept with me

It was a picture of me and my brother, my real brother, before we were separated and adopted to different families. I turned to face him, he was looking between me and the photograph, a confused look on his face.

His eyes settled on me. "Are you, I mean, .. Do I- know you from somewhere?" He asked me. I could feel tears preparing to build. I nodded. "If you are who you think you are, then you are one of the people in that picture." I said pointing to the picture on his wall.

He nodded, giving me a strange look, like he was trying to figure out if I was sane. " I reached into my pocket and pulled out my own copy of the picture. My copy. I held it up for him to see. "You are the other person in this picture, which makes you my biological brother."

I held back the tears as I saw him step forward. He took the picture from me and looked at it. I felt empty not holding it. I could feel his eyes pierce me straight to my core as he looked at me in disbelief. "Amber?" He asked me. I twitched, very obviously and his eyes widened.

"Are you really her?" I nodded and I let the tears fall. I closed my eyes, and then I felt a pair of strong arms around me. My brother's arms. I wrapped my arms around him and cried openly. "I'm so sorry, Amber." I twitched and he pulled back.

I saw he was crying too. "Are you okay?" He asked me. I nodded wiping my tears and smiling. "No one calls me that. Everyone calls me either Pope or Poppet. When I hear my name, I twitch. No one really knows why. My adoptive parents think its something to do with a traumatic past."

He looked at me incredulously. "Pope? Your kept your name?" I nodded. He hugged me again and squeezed me tight. "My God, I found you! After I graduated, I intended on finding you. I wanted to know if you were safe. I tried for years to get the agency to give me your name, but they never did. I threatened to sue them, and they finally gave me your name last month. I finally got you back!"

I pulled away and smiled at him. I wiped away his tears and kissed his cheek. "Yes, we found each other. When the agency gave me your name I did a search. I saw the article online about the car accident. I want to offer my condolences for your loss." I said.

He hugged me again, even tighter if that was possible. "Thank you. That means a lot to me. At least I have you with me now. That's all that matters to me now." He whispered. Tears falling freely.

I wrapped my arms around his shoulders and clung to him. I didn't want to lose my brother now that I got him back. I had begged the agency for years to give me his address. They always refused.

"Stupid Adoption Agency."

As if he read my mind Chase said my exact thoughts out loud. I smiled.

"I have so many questions for you. So much I want to know." He nodded and pulled me to sit next to him on the bed. He never let go of my hand and I leaned my head on his shoulder, while he leaned his head on mine.

"Chase, when you turned thirteen, did weird things start happening to you?" He froze and his body stiffened. "What do you mean 'weird things'?" he asked seriously.

I stood up from the bed and crouched down in front of him, staring up into his eyes. Like the many times I had done before, I let my eyes change to the onyx black color that meant I was using. I saw his eyes go wide in shock, then his eyes changed to black as well.

Suddenly there was a jolt of electricity, almost like lightning, and there was a cord of light connecting us. The cord seemed to be made of pent up electricity. We both reached out to touch it at the exact same moment and our hands met. There was a slight shock from his hand and then the cord disappeared, but I could still feel it, and I knew he could too.

I squeezed his hand and smiled. "That kind of weird thing. I'll take that as a yes." I stood up and he did the same. "That's why I wanted to find you. I wanted to know if you were like me. I wanted to make sure that you were in a safe family that wouldn't hurt you for the Power you have."

'I didn't know girls received Power, too. This is a surprise.'

I looked at him strangely for a minute. "What do you mean you didn't know girls received Power? Didn't the agency give you the torn pages, too?"

He looked at me bewildered for a minute and then smiled. "You just read my mind, you know that right?" I nodded.

It didn't seem strange to me. I could still feel the cord, connecting us.

'Connecting our minds.' Chase thought. I agreed.

'This is so weird!'

'I know, but being a witch isn't exactly normal, now is it Poppet?'

'No.'

We smiled at each other. I didn't realize I was crying again until he wiped away my fallen tears. I fought them back viciously. I didn't want him to think I was a crybaby.

'I don't think you're a crybaby. I think you're brave. You weren't sure if I was really you're brother, but you still came to my dorm. You weren't sure if I was like you, but you still showed me your Power. You are brave, and I love you for it.'

He wiped the last of my tears and pulled me back into his safe arms. I felt protected and secure in his arms. He was the brother I had always had, but never knew. But now I had him.

My phone vibrated suddenly, making me jump. We both laughed and I saw the caller ID. It was Tyler.

I answered. "Hello?"

"Poppet? Are you okay? You sound like your crying… Did something happen?"

I heard Reid in the back ground asking what was wrong. I looked at the clock and saw that it was five of six. Oops.

"Yeah I was crying, but I'm not sad or anything. I just ran into someone I haven't seen in a long long time, and we had a little reunion. That's all. Tell Redi not to give himself a brain hemorrhage."

"Hey! I heard That!" Reid said. I laughed.

"Who did you meet? "

I looked at Chase and he smiled. Rubbing his thumb over my hand. I decided to try out the mind reading thing with Chase.

'Do you want to come meet my crazy friends and go to Nicky's with us?'

'What's Nicky's?'

'A bar where all the kids at Spenser hang out. How about it?'

'Sure. As long as I get to hang with you, I'll go.'

I smiled at him. "Hey Reid? I'll see you soon. You can meet him yourself." I hung up the phone and shoved it in my pocket.

'Come on, Chase. We have to go!' I thought, not even bothering to talk around Chase anymore. He smiled.

'You want a jacket?' He held out a black leather jacket to me and I took it gratefully. He grabbed a hoodie for himself and we practically ran to my dorm, laughing and smiling the entire way.

It was amazing how finding someone after so long can make you so happy. 'Simply amazing.'

'My thoughts exactly, Poppet.'

We smiled and laughed again as we came up to the room. I braced myself for the wrath I knew was waiting inside.

'Why? What's wrong?' he squeezed my hand.

I smiled. 'Nothing, Chase. They are just really hyper people in that room. And really protective of me… They probably think I was lying about why I was crying on the phone earlier..'

I shook my head and opened my door as he laughed. We walked in the room still holding hands. The room was quiet and Reid was glaring at chase.

'So that's Reid. Is he your boyfriend?'

I mentally shook my head. 'No he isn't, yet. He might be one day.'

'Oh, cuz I don't think he likes me much…'

I couldn't help it I laughed at Chase's thoughts, and he laughed with me.

Reid glared at him even more. "Hey Poppet. Who's this?"

I smiled. "The new guy. Chase Collins. He also happens to be my biological brother."

Reid's glared instantly changed to shock and he looked straight at me now. Tyler had the same expression. The girls however, both squealed and ran over to me and hugged me. Chase let go of my hand for fear of losing his arm. I laughed at him.

'What? I was not expecting that! How was I supposed to react?!'

'Don't say I didn't warn you about how hyper they are, because I did.'

'Well then, next time you should prepare me just a smidge better, maybe?'

I had to laugh at his mockery. He was just to funny.

When Mickey and Lacey finally let go of me, I saw Tyler smiling at me and he gave me a huge air-tight hug. Over his shoulder I saw Reid looking really embarrassed. He went over to Chase and shook his hand.

"Sorry for the misunderstanding. About a year ago, we had a problem with this guy who decided to make a move on Poppet here… We're all pretty protective of her…"

Chase gave him a grateful smile and nodded. "Well, I'm just glad she has a huge group of bouncers, then." he said with a huge grin. I laughed and hugged Reid, kissing him on the cheek.

"Aww! Was Reid Garwin jealous of me holding my brother's hand?" I asked, making fun of him as he blushed and apologized again.

"I'm sorry! Jeez! You think you could accept a guy's apology!" he held his hands up in mock defense.

I couldn't stop smiling. I looked at the clock and noticed it was a little after six. I looked at Lacey who was already changed for Nicky's, and Mickey, who was headed for the bathroom to change.

I ran to the closet and shut the door, turning on the light. I grabbed a black miniskirt and a dark purple off-the-shoulder top, that hung perfectly to my waist. I grabbed my purple heels that tied up the leg and quickly put them on. I threw open the door and dashed over to the bathroom.

I knocked once and then went in. Mickey was already dressed and was doing her makeup, as was Lacey. I threw on some black eye liner, but not a lot. I hated the raccoon look some girls did. I finished it off with my favorite lip gloss and I was set.

I looked at Mackenzie, who was wearing her favorite outfit. Skin tight black leather pants, and a red drape blouse that showed off a good amount of cleavage. She pulled up her hair into a bun that was slightly messy, in that sexy way only she could pull off.

Lacey looked stunning in her dark green dress. It hugged her body and showed off her perfect figure. She scrunched up her hair, so that her neat waves, had turned into crazy yet tamed curls. We all looked at each other and grinned. We were all thinking the same thing.

We clean up nice.

'You sure do. You guys look great!'

'Suck up. Stop peeking! We could be naked in here! Get out!'

He chuckled. 'I would never intrude on you and your naked friends.'

'You make that sound really creepy, Chase. I just wanted you to know that.'

'I know.' He said as he laughed mentally.

I shook my head and opened the bathroom door. We made our way out to the boys, who were waiting on us patiently. We had changed and were ready in a total of eight minutes.

What preppy wannabe do you know who can pull that off?

The correct answer is none.

I saw Chase smile and I mock glared at him. He hugged me tightly and handed me the leather jacket he had lent me. I noticed he looked really good.

His light brown hair was short, but hung slightly into his shocking blue eyes. He had on loose dark blue jeans and a white muscle shirt and a grey hoodie. Very nice indeed.

'Why thank you, Poppet. I think we make a great set, don't you think?'

I rolled my eyes. 'Of course we're a good set! We're twins you weirdo!'

He laughed out loud and Reid gave us a funny look. We just looked at each other and shrugged. Only we knew what went on in each others heads. It was going to stay that way.

'My sentiments exactly.' Chase thought.

I stifled a smile. School wasn't going to start for another week, but I couldn't help but think about how amazing this year already was.

We left the dorm and we all decided that me Reid and Chase would take my Jeep, and Tyler Mickey, and Lacey would go in the Hummer. Being the mature teenagers that we are, we simply had to race.

I might have used a little to make us win, but I know I wasn't the only one. I could feel Chase using, though he hid his eyes well. I could feel even more Power being used, but I'm still not sure if the Sons of Ipswich are the Covenant of Silence that I have dreams of.

Actually they're more like flashbacks, to prior lives. I ca remember everything that happened during the Salem trials. And there were five lines of Power, and me, which made a possibility of six lines. But there was a prophecy concerning that, and The girls with Power have to marry into Power to survive. I don't know enough about it to understand, but I want to.

And I swear an oath, that I will find out what this power is.

And why I'm always so sick.

Why I feel like I have a fever.

Like I'm burning.