Previously…

"What is it," he asked, sensing her worry.

"My parents called."

"Wait, your parents called you? Why didn't you or Tyler tell me sooner," he asked.

"Because Tyler doesn't know," she sighed. "It's not my birth parents, Caleb. It's my adoptive parents. They want me to come back to New York."

"What," he repeated in disbelief. "Why do they want you back? I mean, it's the middle of our senior year. Aren't they going to let you finish up at Spencer?"

"They won't let me. They're worried about me being here and around Tyler and my real parents. They never wanted me to come back to Ipswich."

"You promised you wouldn't leave," he whispered.

"I don't know what I'm going to do," she cried. "I couldn't be anywhere without you."

Caleb held her close, "We'll think of something Ash. I won't let anything take you away from me."

"Promise," she asked.

"I promise," he told her.

Ashlyn had snuck back to the dorms before curfew the night before and was now being woken up by a loud knocking on her door.

"Alright, alright I'm coming," she growled under her breath. Ashlyn climbed out of her bed, still in her pajamas, and opened the door. "Oh my-," she let out.

And now...

"Ashlyn honey," her mother smiled meekly. Glen Simms and his wife should there, waiting to be allowed into their daughter's dorm room.

"What are you doing here," she asked, more surprised than anything else.

"Y-you parents called the house," her father chocked out. "They were asking for you?"

"Yeah, and then they called here when they couldn't find me. So what do you want," she asked, not seeing their point.

"They said you were going back to New York," her mother continued.

"That's what they want," she answered dryly.

"Ummm...are you planning on going," her father asked.

"Okay, I give up," Ashlyn interrupted. "Why do you people even care? You abandoned me."

"No," Rosalind sobbed. "We didn't abandon you. We just wanted to give you a better life."

"What do you mean," Ashlyn asked.

"We didn't know what would happen when you turned thirteen," he father began to explain. "In the end you ended up getting the power just like the sons but we didn't want you to have to go through what we did. You were my little girl. I couldn't stand back and watch you fight the addiction. So we decided to bind them. That way, you would have been safe but you ran."

"Evelyn wouldn't tell us a thing," her mother cut in. "You father and I eventually found you in New York but you had already been adopted and you had a normal family-something we never could have given you so we let you go. We thought you would be better off with the Kennedys."

"But when I can back you guys acted like I was the plague or something," Ashlyn argued.

"We just didn't want to interfere in your life but your father and I have always loved you. We just wanted to protect you," her mother explained.

"This is a lot to take in," Ashlyn sighed, plopping down on her bed. "I need time to think but don't worry. I'm not leaving any time soon yet."

"Alright sweetie," her father said, giving her a small half smile. "Whatever you want. Your mother and I will be back at the house." With that both of them left the teen in her room.

"I can't believe that just happened," Ashlyn almost laughed.

"You can say that again but at least we don't have to worry about your parents anytime soon," Caleb said.

Ashlyn screamed in surprise as her eyes went black. Then she noticed it was only Caleb. "Oh my God, Caleb. Scared me to death, why don't you!"

"Sorry," he innocently grinned. "I just wanted to check on you."

"Uh huh, so how much of that did you hear," Ashlyn asked.

"Ummm, pretty much all of it," he admitted. "Well, at least we don't have to deal with your parents."

"Yeah, now all we have to deal with is Chase," she said.

"Right," Caleb agree. "So...you're really not going?"

"No, of course not. I could never leave you," Ashlyn said, rolling her eyes.

Caleb pulled is girlfriend up so that she was standing and held her close.