A/N: Hey lovelies,

Hope you guys enjoy this chapter, I sort of wrote it in about 30 minutes so I'm sorry if it's short and crappy.

Love,

DreamerGirl x

Nick's POV:

Cassie and I sat, talking with the others, "Guys, Cass and I are moving in together." I blurted out.

"When was this decided?" Chris asked. I looked around the room, pretty much everybody was stunned. "Umm, walking back from getting my book of shadows. We noticed how empty my house is and how I was living alone and how it was dangerous and Nick offered to move in with me, you know, to keep me safe." Cassie smiled to herself.

"Yeah, to keep you safe." Doug said sarcastically, a prominent smirk on his face.

"Ugh, shut up you pervert." Cassie said, nuzzling her head into my chest, I wrapped my arms protectively around her.

"They're so cute together!" Laurel cooed.

"Imagine what their kids would be like! They'd be so adorable!"

"Okay, guys, this is a little too far here." Cassie warned. "I really do not want to be thinking about what mine and Nick's kids would look like at this young age."

"You guys are ruining her innocence." I laughed.

"No, Nick, we think you've already done that." Doug looked at me very seriously.

"Doug, for the love of all that's holy please shut up!" Cassie groaned.

"Make me," Doug sent a suggestive wink her way.

"Can we please stop this? Dude, that's my girlfriend." I moaned.

"Aww, do I have to, Nick? I'm havin' fun here." He laughed I rolled my eyes and clung to Cassie harder. She leaned her head on my shoulder.

"Anyone found anything?" Diana asked, trying to break the awkward silence that the room had fallen into.

"We probably would've found something, if these dumbasses hadn't been messing about." Deb ruffled my hair.

"Right, we really need to start looking." Melanie spoke up, "We need to find out what's happening, otherwise we can't do anything about it and more innocent people might get hurt." She shot Cassie an apologetic look, evidently thinking of her mother. I leaned my head against hers, seeking comfort in her warm touch.

"Right, let's get down to business." Diana sighed, and I sat next to Cassie as she scanned over her book of shadows, everyone else in the room doing the same. I read over her shoulder and as far as I was concerned we didn't find anything, but then again, I wasn't entirely sure what we were looking for. Did anyone know? If anyone did I'm sure it would be Cassie or Diana, sometimes it feels like they're the only ones in this group with their heads screwed on straight, I mean, look at us, we're hardly normal, just a bunch of kids from dysfunctional homes and parents who got involved with a man trying to play God. How are we meant to help anyone? Oh, lord help us.

Cassie's POV:

Nick was deep in thought about God knows what, he doesn't exactly look at ease, though. "What's up?" I asked, keeping my voice low.

"Nothing, just thinking, babe." Nick told me.

"Yeah, I can see that." I chuckled, "I mean what's on your mind?"

"It doesn't matter." He said quickly.

"Nick," I whined, giving him puppy dog eyes, "Tell. Me."

"Nope." He said.

"Please?" He shook his head, chuckling. I pecked his lips. "Well, the least you could do is be helpful and look through this book with me. I'm not getting anywhere at all." He nodded.

"What exactly are we looking for?" He asked.

"I honestly have no clue." I told him truthfully. He chuckled. "Anyone have any idea what we're looking for here?" I asked the group, they all looked up at me with blank looks on their faces.

"You're the leader." Chris told me.

"Thank you, wise one," I said, "that tells me nothing, I don't know what I'm doing! I told you this wouldn't be a good idea! Diana! Be leader again! Please? I'm going to run this group into the ground, I don't know what to do." Oh, God, I was stressing too much, wasn't I? Nick was rubbing soothing circles into my back and I leaned into him for support.

"Cassie, we can't just do the whole leadership thing again! You're our leader, now do something and take charge, for God's sake!" Doug moaned.

"Dude, leave her alone. She's freaking out and she's not sure what to do, she doesn't need this right now." Nick stood up for me. I sighed, the group didn't need this, I tried to pull myself together, but I'm not the strong Cassie I thought I was. I feel like the weak Cassie I used to be, when I knew Portia, when she practically bullied me, I pushed those thoughts aside, thinking about all I've done since I was that Cassie, thinking about everything we've been through, I should be stronger than this, I need to be strong, for Nick, for myself, for the coven.

"We're all freaking out," Doug said, "But she's our leader for a reason, she's meant to be good at this! She's meant to be able to take charge and do something productive! Not stare at that book like it's going to give her any answers, because it won't! It hasn't told us anything so far, none of our books have, but staring at these books! They're not going to get us anywhere, we need to figure this out and fast, we don't have much time left and lives are at stake, who knows what they'll stop at!"

He's right, what kind of a leader am I? I should be strong when my coven needs me, not fall apart. I'm a disgrace of a leader. "Diana, can I talk to you?" I asked, Diana nodded, standing up and taking my hand, pulling me out of the room.

"Cassie, what's up?"

"I'm not me, anymore, Diana. I feel weak, I feel like the girl who used to be pushed around and bullied, I can't feel anything! I don't know what to do, I feel like I'm falling apart but I don't even know why?" I cried out in anguish. "I can't be leader, I can't take it, Di, please take over for me? I can't cope with everyone looking up to me, what if I do something wrong? What if someone gets hurt and it's all my fault? What if I hurt Nick? I just… I don't know what I'm doing anymore." I sighed, sitting down on the stairs. "Can you help me? Please?" Diana sat down next to me, I felt like I was sitting next to my own personal piece of sunshine.

"Cassie, I can't just take over for you, things don't work that way, but I can help you. I promise I'll help you as much as I can, when I can." She gave me a weak smile and I returned it, I wasn't sure what was going to happen, but I think with Diana and Nick by my side, I might just make it.

A/N: Wow, can you spell filler? I don't know what's going on with this story, guys, I don't even have a plan for it anymore, I'm just writing, so I'm sorry if my writings a bit crappy whilst I'm trying to sort things out, I'm just trying to update and stuff and I have like 3 other stories on various websites. I just don't know where this story is going, I'm also sorry if I don't update for a while now, I'm trying to balance school and homework and friends and this and everything.

Thanks for the support and for being the best readers ever.

Love,

DreamerGirl x