Chapter 5: Cursed

"Come on guys. The library is over here." I led Tyler and Reid down the brightly lit hallway. When we came to the large doors that lead to the library I turned towards them. "Okay so here are the rules. Don't hurt the books. Don't piss anyone off, chance are they can kick your ass. And for your own sake don't wander off. We are here to do research not to raise hell, despite how amazing we are at that."

"What do you mean they can kick our ass?" Reid asked as if to say that he would like to see them try.

"Reid, we are in Magic School. They train people how to use their magic everyday here. They don't just read it from a book. This is where I graduated from and look at me, I can kick your ass without even trying." I turned and pulled one of the doors open.

They both gasped as they walked inside.

Xoxox Flashback xoxox

Since Tyler and I have started going out everything seems to have calmed down. Henry, Tim and I were still waiting for Cole to surface again before we alerted the family.

Tyler and I were sitting in his dorm room when Reid, Caleb and Pogue burst in.

"Reid, I told you this already, it's going to kill you if you don't stop using like you are now." Caleb scolded.

"I'm not stupid Caleb, I know all of this." Reid yelled back.

"Wait, hold on a sec. What is killing Reid?" I asked.

Caleb and Reid were still glaring daggers at each other so Pogue told me. "When we use we become addicted and it becomes our life. It kills our body the more we use."

"Oh that sounds overly pleasant." I responded. Then I thought about it. "Is it a curse?" I asked him.

"We really don't know. We know only as far back as the Book of Damnation goes, and the addiction began long before that." Pogue came and sat down on Tyler's bed with us.

"Well it sounds like your family is cursed to me." I paused for a second to think. "If we could figure out who cursed your family and how then we could probably reverse it."

"And how do we figure that out?" Tyler asked. "It's not like we can just walk into a library and find a book that list who cursed who and how…"

Xoxox End Flashback xoxox

"I may have been wrong." Tyler whispered in my ear. I laughed. The library at Magic School is enormous. If there wasn't something here to help us I don't know where it would be.

"Melinda?"

I turned around and saw my aunt, oh crap. "Hi, Aunt Paige."

"What are you doing here?" She asked. She came over to the three of us and pulled me into a hug. I hugged her back; to be honest I miss most of my family. "And who are your friends?"

"This is Tyler Simms and Reid Garwin. They are witches that go to Spencer as well." I told her.

"Well it is nice to meet you. Now what are you at Magic School for?"

"Well, actually they are our innocents." I told her.

"Alright, well then I guess we should start with 'what is after them?'" She asked.

"Nothing. The problem is their power."

"Then why are you here?" She asked. "There is a power stripping potion in the Book of Shadows, use that."

"See that is the problem, their power is cursed. When they turn thirteen they get some, but when they turn eighteen they 'Ascend.' The power becomes their life, take away the power, and take away their life. And every time they use their power after they ascend it kills them a little more."

"You are the Sons of Ipswich." She stated. They both nodded.

"Well then, I suggest you look search under Coven. I have done a lot of history on our family and theirs comes up more than once. There isn't anything in The Book but there is a lot of information here. Just holler if you need anything."

"Alright, and thanks Aunt Paige." She turned and left for her office. I turned back to the boys.

"Okay, so lets get to work." We headed over to where Aunt Paige had pointed us and got to it.

Xoxox

It was three hours later when I looked up from another book that told the same history of The Sons, the only thing new that we learned from this one was that Melinda Warren live in Ipswich when she was killed and made the prophecy that set my families history in motion.

I looked over at Tyler and saw that he was deep in a book. I looked next to him and furrowed my brow. "Where is Reid?"

"Huh?" Tyler looked up from the tome.

"Reid. Short, loud, blond flirts with anything with two legs, annoying. Reid, where is he?"

"No idea." He looked back down at the book. That was helpful.

"Alright well I am going to go and find him. I'll be back." I sighed. Damn it Reid, why couldn't you follow directions for once in your life?

I to the middle of the library and didn't see him. I continued to search until I heard a soft moan. What?

I followed the noise and came upon two students in the heat of passion. I turned to leave and give them their privacy when I turned back around and gaped.

Pinning the girl up against the bookshelves with her legs around his waist was a short blond, not in uniform. I looked up and saw that holding the girls hands above her head were two hands both covered in fingerless gloves. Then I noticed something else.

On the wrist of the girl being pinned was a tattoo. Nice Billie, real nice.

The tattoo was the Roman numeral four in twined with the infinity symbol. (Picture of tattoo in my profile.) Now you may be thinking, okay so what your friend from Magic School is making out with Reid, chill. No. That tattoo told me one thing and that is that if Reid does not get off my baby sister pronto then I am cutting his little friends off.

"REID! GET OFF OF HER!" I yelled as I stomped over to them. They both turned.

"Hey Lin." She said as she unwrapped her legs from around Reid's waist.

"Hey B, give me one sec. K?" I reached over and pulled Reid off of her by the back of his pants. Then in the spirit of high schoolness I pulled his boxers up his ass as well, giving him a rather large wedgie.

He whimpered then turned around. I kicked him in the ass. "What was that for?" He asked.

"That was for breaking the rules I gave you so that you wouldn't get your ass kicked and the wedgie was for devouring my sister you whore."

"Lin, you can't really get mad at either of them can you? I mean you are dating me." Tyler came over and slung an arm around my waist.

"Oh yes I can. I just had to witness Reid trying to eat my sisters face, it was repulsive." I shivered at the thought.

"Oh bite me!" B snapped back. "It was not repulsive it was fucking fantastic."

"Oh don't tempt me, you know I will."

After that I got over the whole Billie Reid thing. Yeah she is younger than him but she graduates Magic School right after Thanksgiving and then she picks where she is going to be stationed. If she can pick that I think she can pick whom to date. That is, as the boys don't find out that is.

We went back over to the book and continued research. Well, Tyler and I did, B and Reid just flirted the entire time. Nothing got done.

I was looking at the same line that I had been for the last twenty minutes when words began to appear in the margin of the page. "Billie, stop defacing the books." I scolded her but continued to read.

"What am I doing to the books?" She asked. She came up behind me and looked over my shoulder.

"Beware the ides of March. They will get what they want. Fight or else fall to the senate floor." Okay, no way that is B. She doesn't really do Shakespeare. "I don't get it?" See?

"'Beware the ides of March' is from Julius Creaser. So is the reference to dying on the senate floor. The middle seems rather straightforward." Tyler told her.

"Do you remember anything in The Book about demons who could write like this?" I asked B.

"No. It could be the elders, or the ancestors. They both like to fuck with our minds on a daily basis." She has a point.

"Alright, as much as I hate to say this, I think it is time to call Dad."

AN: All right here it is. And here is Billie. Hope you liked it. Thanks for reading. Please Review.