Disclaimer: I do not owe the Covenant. Rayna is the only character that is mine.
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Chapter 3: Oh Shit, Cat's out of the bag
We spent a good two or three hours shopping, the girls and I dragged Chase to almost every store in town. Kate, Chase and I decided to catch the new Brad Pitt flick while Sarah left with Caleb to help him with some errands. We all decided to meet up at Nicky's after.
"Wow, this place had not changed one bit." I said as I looked around at the dive bar. Nicky's was the local hangout in Ipswich. Pool tables, Foosball, Jukebox, and Karaoke on Wednesday Nights were some of the attractions. I spotted Caleb and Sarah sitting at a table laughing and smiling at each other. At the other side of the room, Tyler and Reid were playing pool. "I'll be with Tyler and Reid, if you need me." I said before walking over. They had just finished a game when they saw me.
"Rayna, good to see you." Tyler gave me a hug.
"Couldn't stay away could you?" Reid said playfully. Sneaky devil, you keep on tempting me.
"What can I say? I couldn't resist beating you in a game of pool." I took the pool cue from him. "Rake them up. Just you and me." I gave him a smirk right back at him.
"Alright Princess but I play for money or favors." His eyes trailed my body as he got the game set up.
"$100 enough for you?" I set the money on the table. Tyler gave Reid a raised eyebrow.
"I'll match that, but I must admit. I'm a little disappointed." Reid got the money out of his pocket. I slid my hand by him, my body getting dangerously close to his and picked up the money.
"We need an honest person to hold on to this." I handed Tyler the money.
"This is going to be interesting." Tyler said as he put the money in his pocket.
"Your break, Sweetheart." Reid smirked at me as I moved into position. I broke, instantly sending colors around the table. I was solids. I put in three more before missing one.
"Your turn, Reid." I said as I backed away from the table.
"You got better when you were away." He lined up his shot and made it in.
"Just one of the many things I learned in California." I said as he made another shot.
"What else did you learn?" Tyler asked curiously.
"I got better at guitar and piano. Finally, started singing and did a bit of dancing."
"Singing? Dancing? Instruments? You gonna become the next Katy Perry?" Reid asked after missing a shot.
"Hopefully, way better than her." I said before laughing. "You two learn anything since I've been gone?" I made a shot.
"Not really. Things have been boring since you left." Tyler answered, not taking his eyes off the game. Reid however, couldn't take his eyes off me.
"Didn't know I was the life of the party." I missed my next shot.
"You certainly had a way of making things interesting." Reid commented getting close to me as he moved by me.
"Like when you put dye in Kira's hair conditioner, her hair was blue for a week." Tyler recalled.
"Or when you locked Tyler in a room with Bridgette Turner." Reid brought up another instance.
"I had to think of some way for him to talk to her." I smiled at them.
"That was so awkward though." Tyler had always been the shy one out of the group.
"You got your very first kiss didn't you? So it worked. You shouldn't complain." I giggled at the memory.
"True but still. Your methodology was different." Tyler tried explaining.
"He means weird." Reid teased.
"I will gladly take weird over boring any day." I said as Pogue entered Nicky's. He headed over to Kate and the others. I lined up a shot and made it. I only had one more before the eight ball. Pogue hit the bar before joining us.
"Tyler, Reid, Rayna. What's up?" Pogue said giving us all a quick hug.
"Just kicking Reid's ass in a game of pool." I said lining my next shot.
"You ain't kicking my ass Princess." Reid defended himself.
"Okay, if I make this shot. You stop calling me Princess and Sweetheart okay?" I hated nicknames.
"Fine, but you're not going to make it." He seemed so sure of himself. I lined up my shot and hit. The ball bounced off the edge and knocked one of his in.
"What the fuck!" I yelled. The guys started laughing.
"Guess the nicknames stay, Cupcake." Reid smirked as he walked by me, he shot the remaining balls in then the eight ball. "Tyler, the money." Tyler handed it to him.
"How the hell did I miss that? It was a perfect shot." I huffed.
"Go easy on yourself, Princess. You were just up against a pro." Reid had a smirk on his face as he made his last few shots. He won the game. I glared at him.
"Still a sore loser, I see." Tyler commented as he put an arm around me.
"Shut up, Ty." I elbowed his side.
"I'm up." Aaron Abbott said putting money on the table.
"Let's have some fun." Reid put some money down as well. The game seemed to move fast. Reid wasn't lying when he said he was a pro. He walked around confident and made cocky comments to get Aaron's blood boiling. I turned my head to see what the rest of our group was doing. Caleb, Chase and Pogue were playing foosball, while Kate and Sarah were talking at the table. Sarah got up and walked over to the jukebox. I Love Rock N Roll instantly came on. I couldn't help but start singing and moving my body to the music. Tyler grabbed my hand and spun me around.
"How about a dance, Rayna?" I turned to see Aaron getting too close to me.
"I think you should get back to your game, Aaron. I'm not interested." I said before turning back to Tyler to resume dancing. An arm grabbed me and pulled me back into a body.
"I think you are." Aaron brought his face down to mine to kiss me. I instantly brought my hand up, hitting his cheek hard. His face twisted in anger. "Fucking whore." He said before slapping me across the face. I fell back from the contact. The area erupted into chaos. Reid jumped on Aaron and started punching his face. Tyler grabbed ahold of Aaron's lackeys to keep them away from Reid. Caleb pulled Reid off of Aaron and Pogue grabbed Tyler. They took them out the back. Aaron's lackeys picked him off the floor and carried him out the front.
"Are you okay?" Kate said as she and Sarah ran over to me.
"I'm fine. Wait here, I need to see Reid." I rubbed my sore cheek and headed out the back without the girls. Nicky managed to calm the place down and music started playing again.
"You need to calm down. You could've lost control in there. You could've exposed us!" I stopped at the sound of Caleb's voice.
"Aaron deserved it. You saw what he did. He hit her! Am I supposed to sit by and let that happen?!" Reid's voice yelled at Caleb. I opened the door and stepped out just in time to see Reid go flying through the air into crates of empty bottles. He stood up, eyes pure black until they met my blue ones.
"Fuck." His voice was soft. Just loud enough for the other guys to hear. They followed his stare to see me. I closed the door and stood there, staring at each of them. A minute went by, no one seemed to not know what to say.
"Rayna, I can explain." Reid attempted to move towards me. I put a hand up to stop him.
"How long?" I asked.
"How long what?" Caleb asked, confusion on his face.
"How long have you all been witches?" I asked as I moved away from the door.
"You know about witches?" Pogue questioned, all the guys now had confusion running across their faces.
"Yes. Did you get your powers when you were 13?"
"How did you know?" Tyler took a step towards me.
"Because," My eyes turned black, causing a look of surprise now. "I'm one as well." My eyes turned back to blue. "Now answer my questions."
"Rayna, since when? None of us ever suspected that you were a –"
"A witch? Well, that's the point isn't it? Keeping the secret?" I cut Tyler off.
"So, can you sense when others use?" Pogue questioned.
"Yeah, if it's enough power and close by."
"So it's you that woke us up last night." Caleb commented.
"It wasn't me. I assumed it was you." I corrected.
"Reid, it was you wasn't it? How many times did I tell you how addictive it is?" Caleb's face was so stern.
"It wasn't me! I didn't use later." Reid got in Caleb's face. I got between them.
"There's got to be someone else then. If it wasn't you guys or me, then there's another witch in Ipswich. We'll need to find out who before they expose us all." I said keeping them apart.
"How do we really know it wasn't you?" Pogue added an angry tone.
"I guess, you will just have to take my word on it. You had no problem believing me when you thought I was a normal girl. Now, you are gonna have an issue with it? You all could be lying to me as well but I'm choosing to trust you, all of you." I looked at each of them. "I have known all of you since I was five years old. Do you blame me for not sharing a major family secret that could have made you all scared of me? I'm sure that was the reason that you all didn't tell me. We need to stick together. If it really wasn't any of us who used, then there is someone else. We have no idea if they are a friend or enemy but we need to trust each other."
"She's right, guys." Tyler joined in, he laid a hand on my shoulder. "We need to stick together. We're best friends after all." I smiled at Tyler's words.
"I trust you. But we need to know more about each other. Do you know anything about your family's history?" Caleb commented.
"Not too much, my grandmother didn't share with me a whole lot of family history. -"
"Is everything okay?" Sarah's voice came from the doorway.
"Yeah, we'll be in a minute." Caleb gave her a smile. She went back inside.
"We can't talk about this here. We will meet up tomorrow after swim practice. Reid and Tyler, you two should bring Rayna to the colonial house. Rayna, if your family has any books, are you willing to show us?" Caleb continued. I nodded at his question. "Bring them tomorrow with you. No one uses until then, agreed? If there is someone else, we don't need to confuse our magic with theirs."
"Yes, oh great leader." Reid teased. I rolled my eyes at him before all of us headed back inside. Reid grabbed my hand, "How is it that you got even more amazing?" He brought his lips close to my ear.
"I was always amazing. You just couldn't see all of it." I whispered in his. He smiled.
"Well, I'm liking what I see." He ran his hand through my hair, lust instantly went through my body. I stopped his hand.
"Don't do this to me, Reid." Surprise went through his face. "I appreciate what you did. But now that you know my secret, I don't need you to be my knight in shining armor."
"Can't I get one kiss as a thank you?" A sneaky grin on his face. I turned to his cheek and gave him a kiss on it, then walked away from him. I went over to the rest of the group and joined in with the conversation. I tried to put him in the back of my mind but with failure. I found myself stealing glances with him. We would lock eye contact for a moment then turn away when someone would talk to one of us.
"Why don't you go over there and just kiss him? It will be a lot faster than making googling eyes at each other." Pogue's words teased.
"I'm not going to do that. If he wants me back, he has to show me that he changed. All I've been seeing is just a flirtier and more experienced Reid." I said before taking a drink of my coke. "I can't go risking my heart again to someone who is just gonna break it."
"Hey, I get it but you don't know, he might change." Sarah tried to give me hope.
"By the way he's talking to that red head over there, I'd say not." I motioned over to Reid talking very closely with a busty red head. She was pushing herself onto him. Kate and the others saw what was happening before turning to me with looks of disappointment for Reid. "I wasn't holding high hopes on that anyway. Besides, I came back for friends not ex-boyfriends." I said as I finished my drink and got up for a refill. I ordered a burger and fries from Nicky as well.
"You gonna be okay?" I looked over my shoulder and saw Chase.
"I'm fine, it takes a lot more to hurt me." I smiled at him. Maybe if I said the words enough, I'll start to believe them myself.
"Here you go." Nicky put the food on the counter and took the money out of held out hand. I fumbled for a moment trying to carry the food.
"Here, let me help." Chase said grabbing the plates.
"Thanks, I was having a hard time with that." I said as we walked back to the table.
He set the food down next to me and took some of my fries, "Your payment for my help." He smiled. We spent the next couple of hours talking and laughing. Sarah and Caleb were getting closer by the minute. And Chase was starting to take more of an interest in me. I had to admit he was cute but something about him felt off. Chase, Kate and Sarah rode back to the dorm with me. And I spent the rest of the night alone, going through my grandmother's books looking up more on the Sons of Ipswich.