Note: I do not own 'The Covenant' but do own my character. If wondering, it's pronounced the word 'are' with an 'n' on the end of it. I do take liberties throughout the story. Enjoy!

When I came to, I was lying in front of the fire, wrapped in a blanket. I don't know what they did but I was more furious now than what I was before. I flung the blanket off of me and tiptoed past everyone's bodies on the floor. I got to the entryway before someone woke up.

"Where do you think you're going?" Tyler asked.

"Leave me alone. It's my life and I'm out of here."

I ran to the front foyer before Caleb yelled for me to stop.

"What made you the ruler of my life? Who cares who I talk to? You read my messages from Kellen so you know he's not a bad guy. Are you worried that he'll break my heart? I'm 18. I've had my heart broken before. I've gotten used to rejection and now that a guy is actually interested in me, you're going to try to keep me from him. No. There's nothing that you can say or do that will keep me here."

I tried to take a step forward but I was frozen to the floor. I tried with all my might but I wasn't moving. Not on my own accord, I was turned to face them and brought closer. Caleb's eyes were black.

"You will stay here and listen to what I have to say," he demanded.

"What the fuck is going on?"

His eyes went back to normal and I was able to move. He motioned for me to go back to the other room but instead, I ran to the door. As soon as I touched it, I was frozen again.

"Jesus fucking Christ. Let me go."

As my body remained rigid, I was moved from the foyer to the other room. Sarah and Kate were sitting on chairs waiting for us. I was put on the couch and even though, I tried I still couldn't move.

"Tyler's going to keep you there while I explain some things," Caleb said, sitting at the bottom of the couch next to my feet.

"Kellen is not who you think he is. His real name is Chase Collins and he's the one who's responsible for everything that's happened. We believe he was the one on the road that night. He's the one who took your bag and bracelet. I described him to Mother and she said he's the one who returned it. He's the one who put the school ID into your bag at the mall. It was meant to be found and warn us."

"He's really bad. He's done things that you can't imagine."

"Oh, don't I know it," I crudely suggested.

"We know," Pogue said.

"Oh, so you all have had mind blowing sex with him? I bet he could teach even Reid a few things."

"Aren, we know because he showed us."

"What?"

"There's another piece of this puzzle that you don't know. Pogue, Reid, Tyler and I are part of a Covenant. On our 13th birthdays, we got a sample of this power. Five years later, on our 18th birthdays, we ascend and get full access to the power. We didn't know the 5th bloodline existed until a couple months ago."

Suddenly, I could remember running down the stairs to the guys who were just coming back from showing Reid his present and they all were banged up.

"Chase attacked us last night but with three of us, who's ascended at least, were able to fight him off."

"No, this can't be right. There isn't a bad bone in Kellen's body. He's mature and cares about me. He's not who you think he is. He's not."

"Was his apartment above a store and had little furniture?" Pogue asked, like he already knew the answer.

"Yeah, but so what? Any apartment above a store is going to be small," I replied.

"Was there a picture above the bed?"

"Who doesn't have something above their bed?"

"Aren, it was my apartment that he took you to. When I say he showed us, he projected what you two were doing to all of us. We saw you on the bed with a scarf over your eyes. It was so you couldn't see his eyes black. That's what happens when one of us uses the power," Pogue stated.

"So you're trying to tell me that the guy I met online isn't Kellen but a guy named Chase. You all possess this magical power, which Tyler is using to keep me frozen here. This Chase has it in for you and is using me to get to you."

"So you understand."

"I understand but I don't know if I believe you. Look. I'm really tired. If I promise not to run, may I go upstairs to bed?"

"Sure. We'll be taking shifts watching over you tonight, just in case you try to leave."

Tyler stopped doing whatever he was doing because I was able to get up and move by myself. I was walking out of the room when my hands started to shake. Soon the shakiness moved into my arms, like I was cold and shivering.

"Aren, what's going on?" Sarah said, getting up from the chair.

I backed up to the wall and slid down to the floor. This wasn't good.

"My bag. I need my bag."

Somehow my bag appeared in my hands. With shaking hands, I reached in and pulled out a black bag. Everyone was crowding around me. I lost my grip on the bag and it fell into my lap.

"I can't do this. I need someone's help."

They all reached down to get the bag but Reid got to it first.

"What do you need?"

"Inside, there's a small canister with a syringe in it. I need you to inject it into my ass."

"Finally, I get to see it in person," he joked.

"Reid, it's not the time to be joking," Kate said.

Reid pulled out the syringe and asked me what to do. I told him how to prime it and to make sure there was no air in it. I turned onto my side and pointed to my butt with one of my hands.

"Don't worry about hurting me. Just inject it. All of it. Now."

Reid poked the needle into my exposed butt but with care. When the syringe was empty, he pulled it out and recapped it. I sat back up against the wall. Within a minute or two, my hands stopped shaking and I could stand up.

"Sorry to freak you out. I must have done too much insulin after dinner so I went low. This is what happens when I go really low. The shakes, then passing out, and then a coma."

I sat down on a chair and checked my blood glucose level. After the injection, my reading was in the mid 3.0s so I still needed to get it up. I popped a glucose tablet into my mouth and asked for some juice. Tyler ran to the kitchen and brought me a glass of orange juice.

"I guess I'm not going to sleep any time soon. I think I'm just going to go upstairs and listen to music."

I took the glass of juice from Tyler and took a sip. With both of my bags in hand, I went upstairs. I changed out of the dress into underwear and my pajamas. I plugged my laptop back in. Absent mindedly, I took the CD that Kellen/Chase gave me and put it in. The soft music started to play and I sat on the bed, leaning against the wall. By the second song, my eyelids were getting heavy and I fell asleep.