Chapter 5

Kegan had grabbed a book off her desk that afternoon. It was a Thursday and it wasn't raining outside for the first time. She smiled as she breathed in the air of Fall. Even though she hated cold weather, it was always great to breathe the air just after summer. She found that the gazebo behind the trees wasn't occupied. She found herself walking towards it with her book in hand. She sat down on the swing and opened her book.

"Hey there!" Chase poked his head through with a smile on his face.

"Hey!" Kegan replied. "What are you doing?"

"Nothing, I just saw you sitting in here so I thought I would come by and say hi."

Kegan smiled at him. "Would you like to join me?"

"Just for a minute. I have to go to library. I have a paper due Monday."

"I hate those."

"Yeah me too." Chase laughed. Kegan couldn't help but smile at him. His smile always made her happy for some reason. It had been 4 days since her encounter with the boys. She hadn't spoken to any of them, and if she did then it was a short conversation. She was still angry that they all lied to her. "What are you thinking about?" he asked noticing her spacing out.

"Oh, its nothing."

"It has to be something or you wouldn't be looking off into space."

"I'm just thinking about my brother and his friends."

"Oh, his friends."

Kegan looked up at him. "My friends." She corrected herself.

"I met your friends Sarah and Kate, they invited me to go to the store with them later on. Would you like to go?"

"Yeah sure, that sounds good."

"Great, I'll be by your room later on today then."

"Ok, good luck on your paper."

He looked at her and rolled his eyes before smiling. "Have fun reading your book."

She laughed "Thanks." Chase got off the swing and smiled one last time before leaving. She smiled at herself before turning back to her book. A few moments had passed and she heard someone sitting down in front of her. "I guess you just can't stay away from me huh?" she asked looking up with a smile on her face. That was until she saw Pogue, then her smile turned into a frown.

"Hey." He whispered.

"Hi." She looked back down at her book.

"I haven't talked to you in a while."

"There was a reason for that." She spat not even looking up.

"I miss you." He admitted.

She didn't answer him. He scooted closer to her. "Reid misses you."

She looked up from her book for a second. "Is there a reason why you are here?" She rudely asked.

"This isn't like you to be like this towards us."

"It isn't everyday that you get lied to, oh but wait you guys did lie to me everyday."

"Kegan stop."

"Why?"

"Will you just look at me?"

She wouldn't move her eyes from her book. He gently grabbed the book out of her hands and placed it beside him. She glared at him. "Give me back my book." She demanded.

"Not until you talk to me."

"Trust me Pogue, you don't want to talk to you right now."

"I do. I want to know what you are thinking."

"What you cant read my mind and find out yourself."

"I don't want to read your mind. I want you to tell me."

"I don't want to talk about this right now."

"You need to. You have been shutting us out for four days now. We are best friends Kegan. Our friendship means so much to me. That is why I am here and I am not leaving until you talk to me."

"Fine!" she replied. "I'll leave." She got up from the swing and moved out the doorway until Pogue grabbed her arm and wrapped his arms around her body bringing her into a hug. She tried to pull away but he wouldn't let her. "Let me go."

"Can I try to explain to you please? Just listen to me for five minutes. That's all that I want."

"Five minutes?" she asked.

"Yes just five minutes."

"Fine." She moved back into the gazebo and sat down. She wiped her face from the tears that had fallen down. She heard him take in a breath before starting.

"When we were thirteen and your dad was getting sicker and sicker as the day went on, your mom begged us to tell you what was going on. Your dad didn't want you to know because he was afraid you would feel like you weren't part of the family. He wanted you and Caleb to have normal lives together. He's not dead and I know we shouldn't have lied to you about that, but we can't take that back. He is living at an old house that was built a long time ago. He is aging more and more as the day goes on because he had powers and he abused them." He watched as Kegan looked down at her watch then back up to him. "What you saw at the cliffs that night didn't need to happen. A boy was killed there a few nights ago and Caleb saw him."

"Saw him?" she asked looking at him with a look of disbelief.

"Yes, he was dead but you see….darklings are what they are called. When someone is using, you can sense it. It's very addicting and Caleb could feel that someone was using a lot that night. He wanted to get it out in the open. You scared Tyler, he didn't know who you were when you were hiding in the woods. Caleb thought it was someone after us. Reid, is so beat up about this that he hardly sleeps. He doesn't hang around us much anymore and I think that he is abusing. Caleb wakes up in cold sweats late at night because he can sense it. We are all connected together in this covenant."

Kegan tried to swallow everything Pogue had just told her. "You act like you guys are on drugs or something."

"It's like a drug. Only it's worse. It's killing us every time we use."

"Then stop using."

"I wish it was that easy, but we can't. It's a part of us." Pogue continued to look at Kegan who was just looking around trying to avoid his eyes. "Will you say something?"

"I wish I hadn't moved back." She softly replied. Pogue squinted, but then nodded his head.

"I understand that you might hate us right now, but please don't leave again."

She saw the hurt in his eyes as her eyes filled up with tears. She softly began to cry. "I don't hate you. I just don't want to be around you right now." Pogue looked away. "This is a lot to take in you know."

"Yeah I know. I'm truly sorry for lying to you."

"Don't worry about it anymore. It's in the past."

He nodded his head. "I'll let you get back to your book." He handed her book back to her and went to leave.

"Pogue." She called out. He turned around and looked at her. "Is Reid ok?"

Pogue shook his head. "He's killing himself and he doesn't even know it."

"What should I do? If you were me and all this happened what would you do?"

"I would try to understand and forgive them." He smiled at her. "Its ok to be mad, but don't hate them."

"I'm mad at you Pogue." She admitted. "But I love you to death." He smiled at her and nodded his head before leaving. She opened her book back up and tried to read. She found herself not being able to focus. She looked outside the gazebo and saw Reid walking into the school. A girl stopped him and was talking to him. He smiled at her before he looked over at the gazebo Kegan was staring at him from. She quickly turned around. Reid bowed his head and walked inside the school. Kegan poked her head back out and saw that he was gone. She sighed before grabbing her book and moved out of the gazebo and headed towards her dorm room. Chase went behind her and grabbed her book out of her hand. "Hmm.what is this?" he asked looking through the book. Kegan laughed trying to grab the book. "You still reading this?"

"It was only like thirty minutes ago that you just saw me reading the same book." She grabbed it again. Chase laughed and put the book above his head. "I'm not going to try to get that."

"I didn't want you too." He was smiling at her.

"Can I please have my book back?" she asked politely.

"Yes, but only because I was coming to get you to go in town." Chase handed her book back to her.

"Oh yeah. Um…let me go put this up. I'll be right back." She ran to her room and soon came back with her jacket. "Ok I'm ready."

He smiled at her. Suddenly Kate and Sarah came around the corner.

"You guys ready?" Kate asked.

"Yep, let's go." Chase replied leading the way.

"He's hot huh?" Kate whispered to Kegan who just laughed.

"Who's Pogue huh?" Kegan asked.

"I can look."

"Sure you can." Kegan laughed again. Sarah was smiling at the two until Chase turned around to look at them. He had smile on his face.

"You know there is thing called whispering. You guys should learn to do it." He replied before turning around again. Kegan couldn't help but die out laughing. Kate put her arm through Kegan's and pulled her ahead.

"Come on!" she replied. As the girls passed, they heard Chase chuckling.

They soon arrived in town. "Alright, I need to go get some things from the grocery store. Do you guys just want to meet me somewhere?" Kate asked.

"Why don't we just all go together. I need some things as well." Kegan suggested.

"Ok, well then let's go." They all began walking to the store. Kegan began walking around until she heard laughing. She walked over to the commotion and saw her brother and Pogue standing with everyone.

"Hey Kegan, look who we found." Kate replied still laughing.

"Great." She replied before walking away.

"Oh yeah you guys this is Chase." Kate replied laughing again as Chase poked his head over her shoulder. Kegan looked at Pogue who was glaring at the two. She laughed before shaking her head. As she turned around she saw Tyler standing by the sunglasses. She turned around to avoid him and ran straight into Reid. "Oh I'm sorry I didn't…" she looked up and saw him.

"Hi." He replied.

"Hi." She wouldn't even look at him. Reid rolled his eyes.

"Sorry I got in your way." He replied before walking away. Kegan went to say something back but he was already gone. She let out a groan throwing her head back causing Tyler to look up.

"What's up with you?" he asked.

"Nothing, just life."

"Tell me about it. I just lost one of my best friends. You wouldn't happen to know her would you? She's very beautiful, she has these gorgeous green eyes, my best friend Reid is in love with her. If you ever see her will you tell her that she needs to come to her senses about everything and just grow up."

Kegan glared at him. "Yeah ill also tell her that Tyler Simms is a complete asshole!" she spat before walking away. She walked over to where everyone was standing. Pogue was gone, but Caleb was still talking to Sarah. He saw Kegan coming with a pissed look on her face. "Can we please leave. I know longer have the desire of being here."

"What happened?" Kate asked.

"Assholes!" Kegan spat before turning to the door. She stormed out to see Pogue, Tyler, and Reid leaning against Caleb's mustang. She looked at them, before storming over to Chase's BMW. Soon everyone followed. She watched as her brother and Sarah said their goodbyes, with smiles on their faces. Soon the smile left Caleb's face as he looked at Kegan in the car. She just turned her head.

The next morning Kegan walked alone to her Literature class. As she walked into the classroom she saw that the seat next to Reid was open again, but she didn't want to sit there. She moved over to a girl she knew. "Hey, listen I was wondering if you could switch seats with me for today. I didn't bring my glasses." She lied. The girl nodded her head with a smile. Kegan sat down at the seat and looked over at Caleb and Pogue who were staring at her. She quickly turned around towards the professor.

"Alright let's get started." The professor yelled to calm the class down. "Let's open our books to page 110 and get started on Steven King."

"Dream catcher was the shit!" Reid yelled with a smirk on his face. Kegan turned around and looked at him. His smirk faded and he just stared at her.

"Thank you for that Mr. Garwin." The professor replied, while everyone laughed. Kegan slowly turned around. She opened her notebook to keep her occupied from drifting her thoughts to Reid or her brother. Every now and then she would find herself staring into space.

"Ok, next time, we have a quiz. Remember to read the chapter." The professor slammed his book shut causing Kegan to snap out of her trance. She looked around and saw that everyone was moving. She saw Caleb staring at her, that's when she noticed that she had tears streaming down her face. She quickly grabbed her things and rushed out of the classroom. This definitely wasn't starting off to being a good day for her. She ran straight into Aaron who caught her in his arms.

"Hey, slow down sweetheart." He replied catching her.

Kegan pulled away from him. "Sorry, I wasn't watching where I was going."

"Its ok." He replied softly. "You ok?"

"Yeah I'm fine."

"If you were fine then you wouldn't be crying right now. Did something happen?"

"No Aaron, everything is fine ok."

"Listen I was just trying to help."

"Oh yeah I am sure that you were just trying to help."

"Whatever." He threw his hands up in the air and walked away. She sighed and wiped her eyes before hugging her arms to her chest. Everything suddenly became cold, like she was alone in the world. She could feel her tears coming to the surface again. She quickened her pace until she found herself running out the door of the school. She ran all the way to the woods. She stopped herself on a tree to catch her breath. She heard a noise behind her. She quickly turned around but no one was there. She heard it again and turned the other way. "Is someone out there?" she asked. But no one answered. "Hello." She called out again, but still no one answered. She wrapped her arms around her body and moved in towards the cliffs. She heard a noise again. "Hello!" she yelled. No one came out. "This isn't funny who every this is. You can stop now." She felt chills go up her the back of her neck. She quickly turned around putting her hand to her neck. "Who's out there?" She shook her body before turning back to the school.

"Kegan…." She turned around to hear the sound her voice being called in a creepy whisper.

"Who's out there?" she asked again. Still no one answered. She let go of her body and took off into a sprint towards the school. As she was running she looked back and tripped over a stump causing her to fall to the ground. She scrapped her knee on the ground. She tried to lift herself off the ground, but she couldn't. The wind had picked up, and she felt little droplets of water hitting her face. She groaned and wiped the leaves off her skirt. She looked down at her knee that was pouring blood, until the sound of leaves crackling caught her attention. "Just leave me alone!" she yelled. "Please!" she begged, but the sound kept coming closer and closer. "STOP!" she screamed covering her face. She felt a pair of hands grab her shoulders. "No!" she began fighting them.

"Its ok, its ok." Pogue tried to calm her down. "You're ok."

She looked up at her friend who was staring at with concerned eyes. "Pogue, someone's out there."

"It's ok. You're safe now."

"No, someone was following me." She sobbed. He tried to lift her up.

"Owe!" she yelled. "My knee, I scrapped it."

"What happened to you?" he asked looking down at her knee. "Did someone do this to you?"

"I don't know. I kept hearing these noises and then something touched me. I heard my name, I swear I heard my name being called. I took off running and tripped over a stump. It hurts really bad."

"Here, let me help you." He picked her up in his arms. "You're going to be ok."

"Pogue, I swear someone was out there. It was like they were watching me."

"Well they aren't there anymore."

"What are you doing out here?" she asked looking at him.

"I saw that you were crying in class today to I followed you. You know you should try out for track or something because you are fast. I lost you for moment, but I knew where you would be going so I was going into the woods when I heard you yelling."

"I'm so scared Pogue."

"Don't worry I got you. No one is going to hurt you."

She laid her head down on his shoulder as he carried her to the school. Caleb was waiting on the steps. He ran to Pogue when he saw that he had Kegan in his arms. "What happened?" he asked.

"She fell." Pogue replied setting her down on the steps.

"How?"

"She said someone was after her. She kept hearing noises and someone calling her name." Pogue answered for her.

"Are you alright?"

Kegan slowly nodded her head. "She's just a little shaken up I think. Let me go get something for your knee." Pogue got up and went into the school. Caleb moved closer to his shaking sister and laid a hand on her shoulder, fearing she would start yelling at him. Instead she started crying more and moved over to him. "Caleb, someone was out there. I felt them. I felt someone breathing on me." Caleb grabbed his sister and hugged her tightly to him. "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry for going crazy on you. I was just scared of what was happening. I never thought in a million years that you would be some sort of witch. It just scared me."

"You don't have to explain yourself Kegan. I would have been scared too. We should have never kept this from you in the first place."

"I lost Reid over it."

"You can get him back."

"Do you want me too?"

"Personally…No, but I know he likes you a lot and I know that you like him. I shouldn't come between that." Kegan couldn't help but smile. She heard someone opening the door, hoping it was Pogue, but she saw Chase.

"What happened?" he asked kneeling down beside her.

"I just fell out in the woods."

"I told you stay away from there." He replied with a smile.

"Well I'll take your advice from now on."

"How did you do this?" he asked examining her knee.

"I heard noises and someone calling my name."

"Like yesterday?" he asked.

"This happened yesterday?" Caleb asked.

"Yeah, well I mean sort of. I was in my room and I saw a shadow behind me then when I turned around no one was there. Then I felt someone breathing on me. I don't know it was freaky."

Caleb just looked at her. Chase a smile on his face. "I think she's crazy." He replied. Kegan couldn't help but smile. Caleb couldn't find this funny.

"Yeah." Caleb replied. Suddenly the door opened and Pogue walked out with peroxide and cotton balls. He stopped in his tracks when he saw Chase kneeling down beside Kegan.

"I guess I should be leaving. Hope your knee feels better." Chase replied getting up. He smirked at Pogue before walking inside. Pogue glared at him, before kneeling down again.

"What's that about?" Kegan asked noticing Pogue's mood change.

"I don't like him." He admitted.

"Why?"

"Because…I just don't."

"Right." Kegan a smile on her face. "Is this about Kate?" Suddenly Pogue poured the peroxide straight on her knee. Kegan squinted and tensed up.

"You were saying?" he asked looking at her. Kegan glared at him.

"Nothing." She replied. Caleb smiled at this, while Pogue started patting the cotton balls absorbing all the blood onto them. "Do you think someone was out there with me?" she finally asked. They both looked at her.

"I don't know. It could be a possibility, but do me a favor and don't go out there alone anymore. With that kid being dead, you never know what could happen." Caleb replied.

"Do you guys have healing powers?" she asked looking down at her knee. Caleb started laughing.

"No, we aren't doctors."

"Well I mean, you guys can do everything else. The least you can do is heal my knee."

Pogue rubbed the top of her head messing her hair up. "Thanks babe." She replied trying to fix back. Pogue held out his hand and helped her to her feet.

"Let's get you inside before you freeze to death from being wet." Pogue replied.

"Yes daddy." She replied with a smile but quickly stopped and looked at Caleb. "Dad?"

"I'll take you, but right now you need to get off that knee and put some ice on it." Caleb replied.

She softly smiled at him before putting arm around Pogue's neck. He helped her hop to her room. "What happened?" Kate asked rushing over to her.

"Pogue pushed me down." Kegan replied smiling. Pogue let go of her arm. "Hey!" she yelled. He turned around and smirked at her.

"Have a good night Kegan." He replied before walking away. Kegan couldn't help but laugh.

"You too." She yelled back after them.

"I guess ill see you later on. Ice!" Caleb demanded. He turned to Sarah. She was smiling at him. Kegan smiled, before she opened her door. It felt cold and as soon as she stepped through she knew someone was in there with her. She stopped in her tracks and looked around the room, no one was there. She sighed before moving all the way in. "Goodnight you guys. I'll see you tomorrow." She leaned her head out the door. Caleb smiled at her before kissing her on the top of the head. She smiled at him before shutting her door. She put her pajamas on before climbing into bed. This was odd to Kegan, it was only 4:30 in the afternoon and she was going to bed. She laughed at herself, but laying her head down. A few minutes passed and she heard a soft tap on the door. Not wanting to get up she yelled. "Its open!" Slowly the door opened. "Reid!" she replied.

"Caleb said you got hurt so I came to see if you were ok." He replied.

"I fell down." She admitted.

"Yeah he told me. I was worried about you. I'll leave if you want me too."

"Its ok." She replied. "I needed some company. I'm still a little shaken up." Reid moved into the room and shut the door.

"I'm sorry." He randomly replied.

"For what? Its not your fault that I fell. I just wasn't paying attention to…"

"No, I'm sorry for lying to you." He interrupted her. She bowed her head. "I never meant for it turn out this way."

"I didn't mean for it to be like this either."

"Kegan…"

"Reid I love you." She interrupted him. Reid looked up at her. "I didn't like you at the time, but I have always loved you."

"But Chase?"

"Who told you about Chase?"

"Tyler."

"We are just friends. I swear. He helped me out that night I freaked out on you guys."

Reid nodded his head. "So nothing is going on?"

"I told him I had a boyfriend." She smiled at him. He looked at her and began smiling.

"Did you now?" he asked.

"Yeah, but you see I never see him anymore. You wouldnt have happened to see him. He has blonde hair, gorgeous blue eyes, he thinks he's God's gift to the earth, and I think maybe he might be the hottest guy in Spencer Academy?" she asked smirking at him.

"I think I saw him a couple of days ago. Very good looking."

Kegan nodded her head. "Very." She replied. Reid moved closer to the bed as Kegan began to giggle.

"And this girlfriend of his is she hot?" he asked.

"Smoking."

"Hm…sounds interesting." He was inches from Kegan's face.

"Yeah it does."

"Yeah I don't know who you are talking about." Reid replied backing away. Kegan grabbed her pillow and threw it at him. Reid grabbed the pillow and tackled her onto the bed.

"LEG!" she yelled laughing. Reid eased up on her but remained on the bed. He slowly leaned down and kissed her on the lips. She pulled away and smiled at him. "I think I found him." She whispered. Reid smiled at her before kissing her again.

"Me too."

Author: So yeah I yet again have another test tomorrow, but I am writing this story because I had another idea so I decided to write it down. You guys let me know if you liked this chapter or not. I sort of didn't but you never know, you guys might! Thank you guys sooo much for reviewing! It means soo much to me! The next chapter will be getting back into the movie sequence, I know that some of this chapter was from the movie, but the next few will be from the bar scene and on. So I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter! REVIEW!

PS Let me know if Reid is too OOC!