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Chapter 8 In which Tyler takes advantage/Cassie lets her hair down
The next morning found both Alexis and Cassie back in the secret room combing the books for information on the effects the Coven of Ipswich had on their family, why Cassie had been sent to 'watch over them' and hints as to how to control Cassie's developing powers.
They spent the morning re-reading their Grandmother and Great Aunt's diaries and after several discussions and a review of Cassie's own diary they decided that none of the warning signs of the 'crazies' were present, with relief they turned their focus to other, less pressing maters, where were these new gifts coming from?
After much theorizing they decided they were not going to get any further without more information, it was time to call Grandma. Having argued about who should make the call for a good half hour they decided perhaps it would be best just to wait for thanksgiving in two weeks and address it then, provided things didn't get worse that is.
They broke for lunch, calling for take out pizza and Chinese in preparation for the major energy burn Cassie would be experiencing that afternoon. Locking themselves back in the secret room after lunch they worked for several hours honing her new found telekinetic abilities. By the early evening Cassie had eaten two large pizza's a quart of Ben and Jerry's and two packets of Oreo's, she had also managed to alphabetize the entire magical library, without touching any of the books. They had improved both her control and precision and it seemed worked out how to reduce and do 'damage limitation' on any telekinetic storms that might occur.
Giving up for the day, they collapsed on the couch in the living room, Cassie turned on the charm, batting her eyelashes and using her best little sister voice. "Alexis, I came all this way to see you and we've barely left the apartment."
"You came all this way for the book's, I'm just the bonus, What do you want?"
Giggling Cassie said "I want to go dancing, I want to be a teenage girl without responsibilities, without consequences, I can never do that back at school you know that" At the look on her brothers face Cassie knew she was going to win, but she needed to give him just a little push to tip it over the edge "Please Lex, you know how much I love you and how good I've been, please"
"Well that's debatable you have revealed yourself to one son, and have been spending quite a lot of time with another, I'm not sure that can be classified as good."
"Come on Lex, pretty please"
"Ok, but if they ask for ID, we come straight back and watch movies"
"Fine, fine" Cassie rolled her eyes, jumping up to get ready she called over her shoulder "I wouldn't count on them carding tonight. I 'forsee' a carding free night with much dancing, and maybe a couple of margaritas."
Groaning in defeat Alexis rolled off the couch to go and get ready. It seemed he would be looking after his little sister. He guessed the evening would involve running off guys, intercepting as many of the cocktails as he could and getting her home safe before she collapsed from exhaustion.
Thirty minutes later Cassie waltzed back into the living room where Lex had been sitting waiting for nearly twenty minutes. Standing with hands on her hips one shoulder jutting forward she demanded, "So how do I look, will I do?"
Lex opened his mouth to respond, glancing up from the magazine in his hands his cursory response dying as he quickly shut his mouth with a snap.
Cassie, his baby sister Cassie was standing there in skin tight blue jeans, tucked into long stiletto heeled boots and a fitted blue and purple pinstripe vest, her hair tumbling about her shoulders in natural waves. This wasn't the little sister he knew, for once he was glad of the constraints life at Spencer Academy had forced upon her. At least then he could be sure she wasn't constantly fighting off unwanted attentions without him there to protect her.
Shaking his head abruptly to halt those images before they became more graphic and upset him further Alexis stood up, "Yeah, Cass you look beautiful, different sure, but really beautiful. I'm guessing I'll be the one beating the boys off with a stick tonight."
Laughing Cassie tossed her hair over her shoulder "Nah, why would you want to fight them off. If I'm really lucky I might be able to collect some phone numbers for next year when I'll be here with you."
"As long as phone numbers is all you collect" Alexis mumbled to himself grabbing a jacket and heading for the door.
"I can hear you, you know!" Cassie sung at him, following him down the stairwell "and you don't need to worry, I'm a good girl at heart, well mostly. Anyway you'll be watching over me all night, I can tell, you have that look in your eye."
"What look?" Lex tossed over his shoulder as he turned onto the last flight of stairs.
"The look that say's 'that's my baby sister and no one is ever going to throw sand in her hair on my watch ever again!' you know, the look you developed after that time when I was in first grade in the school yard."
"I remember, and it's true, not mater how big you get you will always be my baby sister, it's just something you have to learn to live with."
Sighing Cassie knew she would never win this argument, she also knew that tonight she was going to have a fantastic time, she just had this feeling. One thing she had learnt growing up, you never underestimate your gut.
An hour and a half later Cassie was half way through her second cocktail, this one was blue and had a cherry still on a stalk floating in it. She was prepared to admit, if only to herself that she was just a little bit giddy with the alcohol, but she wasn't going to let that stop her. The dance floor was filled with people moving in time with the music and Cassie for the first time in months was going to join them.
Setting aside the remainder of her drink she dove into the heaving masses, finding herself a space amongst the crowd she began swaying her hips in time with the beat after a few minutes her arms and legs joined her hips and Cassie closed her eyes ignoring everyone and everything around her save the pulsing beat of the music. Later she would admit that could have been her first mistake, but at the time Cassie was far too enamored with the little irresponsibility she had been allowed for this one night. She threw herself into the music immersing herself totally, until she felt a pair of strong hands on her hips and a warm body behind her moving in time with the beat of her body.
If Cassie had been completely sober and on her guard she would have recognized the voice that whispered in her ear to keep her eyes closed when she turned into that same warm body. That was her second mistake. At the time however Cassie didn't even consider it strange she allowed her arms to encircle the guy's neck as his wound around her back pulling her body flush against his, she thought nothing of his warm breath caressing her neck and it was only as his lips met hers and an electric current ran through her body that Cassie even realized what she was doing. At that point even though her rational mind was putting up a good fight the alcohol and her teenage hormones would not be denied.
In the middle of the dance floor Cassie gave in to the sweet desire, allowing herself to be swept along by the most amazing kiss she had ever experienced. As the passion built, hands began to roam and she met his tongue with her own, something changed. At first it was a small change, but then it grew, until Cassie was able to identify it as something, a feeling of oneness the likes of which she had only ever felt before with her brother. With that sense, other things began to filter into Cassie's consciousness. The first of which seemed to be his mind. The fishes flitting about in the ever changing currents of his mind, the electricity that seemed to zing along her body from every place they touched. At that moment Cassie pulled back needing air, opening her eyes as she did so.
Cassie found herself staring into a pair of deep blue eyes, familiar blue eyes. Set in a very familiar handsome face. Cassie was standing in the middle of the dance floor of a Cambridge nightclub, her body tightly wrapped around that of one Tyler Simms. The same Tyler Simms that she had spent the last six years running and hiding from. The guy who's tongue had just moments before been down her throat. The only guy to have ever made her feel alive and one of the only guy's she could never have. All of this rushed through her head in mere seconds as she stared in shock at the boy who may just have condemned her to a life of mental instability he leaned forward and whispered in her ear "I've been wanting to do that with you since we were thirteen, but every time I tried to get near you, you ran a mile, Why?"
"Y, you, you shouldn't be here, you should be back in Ipswich. I gotta go, I gotta find Lex" And with that completely inarticulate sentence Cassie turned on her heel and fled. Barreling through party-goers left and right as she made her way to the place she had last seen her brother. When she got there he was grinning "Having fun there sis? He looked like a nice one." But one look in his sisters' eyes and Alexis stopped his teasing; leaping onto his feet "What did he do to you? I'll kill him"
Shaking her head Cassie guided her brother out of the back door "He didn't, well not anything I didn't want, but he, that." Pausing to gather her thoughts Cassie didn't notice that she had been followed. Taking a deep breath she continued "That, that was Tyler Simms, as in Son of Ipswich Tyler, as in fire and black eyes Tyler, as in I can do anything I want, provided I don't mind aging a few years Tyler Simms!"
"What?" Alexis roared "What were you thinking, letting him kiss you, letting him even touch you, Cassie I swear if this lands you in a mental asylum god help me I'll kill every last one of them!"
"We've, got to go, like now, I can't I mean I, I" Cassie burst into tears, all the trials of the past few weeks finally becoming too much for her she began to sob uncontrollably. Alexis wrapped his sister in his arms doing his best to soothe and comfort her, knowing that right then there was nothing else he could do.
As Cassie and Alexis made their way to his car and back to his apartment a pair of deep blue eyes watched them go. Deep blue eyes clouded with confusion. Tyler was unsure he had heard correctly, did his girl, the one he had been crushing on for years and had finally gotten to kiss just run away from him? Had she justified her reason for running to this other guy was his status as a Son of Ipswich? Did she just out the Covenant to that Guy? How did she even know about the Covenant?
Tyler's first instinct was to chase after them and find out what they knew and how they knew it. Some part of his mind over road that instinct. What if they were like Chase? That guy was defiantly over 18 and Tyler was months off being able to face that kind of challenge. Should he call Caleb? Even as he thought it he was reaching for his phone, then he remembered her eyes, his girl was gentle, kind, he couldn't believe she would expose him. The fact that she had brought her friend out here before she spoke, that he already seemed to know and that both of them seemed far more concerned with his girl, no Cassie, being landed in an asylum from kissing him. Tyler didn't understand and with that thought he made the decision he would wait and try to speak to her in person before telling Caleb and getting him and the other boys all worked up over what could be nothing. With that decided Tyler returned to the club and his cousin and their friends.
Authors note: Ok this chapter was the hardest to write so far, I wanted to get a balance between fun and responsibility, then there was the kiss, my first attempt at romance on paper. So yeah. I'm really nervous about this one, please let me know what you think.
