"Hi Gwen." She greeted me. "I finally found someone who wanted me to join their team. She's almost as powerful as you. With me added to the equation we can finally beat you. She says that you'll be put in your place. Has anyone ever told you that you are very full of yourself? You are." She told me, sneering. She looked around and noticed Kevin glaring at her. "Oh! Hey you! Have I mentioned that I'm single now? Just let me know when you want to get together. I know how boring Gwen must be." She looked at him sympathetically. That was it. When her back was turned, I shot her right out of the sky. She screamed in surprise and anger. The boys took that as their cue to fight the knights. That left me to face Sunny and Charmcaster. But Sunny was my cousin, leaving my hands tied with her. I couldn't hurt her. I faced Charmcaster and was about to blast her as well when I felt a hand on my wrist, pulling me to the ground. "Not so fast cuz." Sunny mocked. She threw me against a wall and I felt the wind get knocked out of my lungs. I knew that feeling though and it was nothing I couldn't handle. "Sunny. You have to stop. You don't understand. This isn't a game. She wants to destroy earth. She wants to kill people. This isn't you. Please." I tried to convince her as I shot a manna bolt at Charmcaster. Sunny blocked it and threw it back at me. I dodged it neatly and began shooting constantly at Charmcaster while putting up a shield between me and Sunny. "I know! Isn't it great? The only thing that you really want to save taken from you like candy from a baby! I was going to try to do it myself, but this is less work. Besides, I had to make sure she didn't hurt your boyfriend before he came to his senses and got with me." She smirked at Kevin again. I threw a light bolt of manna at her to distract her. Kevin had his hands a little bit too full for my liking. I threw a large manna wave at the group of knights trying to hurt him. He glanced at me and grinned slightly in thanks. I smiled back before getting blasted by Sunny. It hurt like heck. I was getting to the end of my rope with her. "Sunny you have to stop. I'm your cousin. I don't want to hurt you, but I will if you make me." I warned her. "You are the worst cousin ever Gwen. And you don't scare me anymore, I'm stronger than you." She shot back at me. I didn't want to hurt her, but between trying to fight Charmcaster and trying and trying NOT to fight Sunny, I was going to have to hurt her a little. I closed my eyes and remembered a spell I had been working on. I opened my eyes again, shot Charmcaster back a few yards and then recited the words, "Immobulous entictem!" I shouted. Sunny flew back a couple of feet and was knocked out cold. Great, now I only had to worry about Charmcaster. "You killed your own cousin?" she asked in shock. "No, I just stunned her. The same won't be said about you." I warned, anger blinding me. "I want to make something perfectly clear…you don't mess with my family. You don't mess with the people I care about. You can come after me, Ben, or even Kevin if you want." I was cut off by a muffled "Hey!" coming from Ben in protest. I ignored him, "But if you so much as think about getting near one of my loved ones I will END you! Do you understand?" I shouted. She began to look at me like I was growing another head. I realized I was so angry I was converting into my anodite form. Calm, I thought to myself. I felt my feet gently rest back on the ground and I took a deep breath before putting Charmcaster into a manna bubble and throwing her against a building with so much force the ground shook. I felt a pain in my side and I jerked and almost fell. I turned and saw a knight standing with a laser, pointing it at me. "You really shouldn't have done that!" Kevin shouted from behind him. Let's just say that knight wasn't getting up for a while. "You okay?" Kevin asked, wrapping his arms around me. "Yeah…" I groaned. He looked me in the eyes and we laughed a little. "That was fun…" I smiled. His face fell a little, "I'm sorry we didn't listen to you when you were telling us to be quiet." He mumbled. I just rolled my eyes, and put my arm over his shoulders so that he could help me over to Ben. Every step brought an unprecedented amount of pain. "What kind of lasers did they have this time?" I asked. But he didn't have time to answer Ben had already called the Plumbers and they were there to pick up the Forever Knights and Charmcaster. "Don't touch her!" I yelled when one of them tried to handcuff Sunny. "She's my cousin. I'll take her home." I assured them many times that she wasn't going to do anymore damage. After a lot of convincing, they left her with the warning that if she put one toe out of line again, she was going to be arrested no matter what I said. Kevin carried her to one of the benches near the bus stop and sat her down. "What are we going to do with the car?" I asked lightly. I knew Kevin was upset that his "baby" was almost completely destroyed. This was going to take a lot of duct tape to fix. He sighed and threw a longing look at his car. "I'll probably be up all night for a couple of weeks to fix it up." He muttered. I smiled sympathetically at him and took his hand. "I'll pay for it to be towed to your house if you buy me something to eat. I'm starving." I laughed. He rolled his eyes and leaned close to me. "Deal." He murmured. He picked me up and carried me bridal style over to Ben. "I can't believe they found where we were." Ben muttered to himself as we came over. Kevin put me down, and I spoke, "They would have found us no matter what. Also, they had Sunny with them. She would have been able to tell them all of our favorite hangouts…which means that we need to be more careful next time. They could have told others." I turned very serious very fast. They both looked at me solemnly. "Gwen?" I heard a voice from the past break through my thoughts. I turned around and broke into a smile. "Tyler?" I asked. "Yeah. Wow, it's been a long time since I've seen you. How have you been?" he asked, coming closer. His brown hair was mussed up and his blue eyes were shining with excitement. He was as tall and built as Kevin; he was just missing the bad boy thing. He still had a lot of unexplainable charm. I smiled and embraced him, "I'm great, how about you?" He tightened his arms around me and swung me around in a circle. "I'm doing much better now." he smiled and put me down. "You look great." He smiled. I blushed and Kevin cleared his throat loudly. "Oh. How rude of me! Kevin, this is Tyler Reald. Tyler this is Kevin Levin." I introduced. "Nice to meet you." Kevin muttered, shaking Tyler's hand fiercely. "Likewise." Tyler replied. I automatically heard the tones in their voices and I knew this was probably going to blow up in my face later. I really wished I had listened to myself.
"I'm heading out." I yelled to my mom as I walked out the door. "Have fun. Stay safe!" she yelled back. I smiled. This had been her parting line since I had fought Sunny two days ago. Sunny was still on total lockdown in the spare room. I mean, my mom stayed in the room all day and my dad stayed there all night to make sure she didn't leave. I pitied her sometimes, but then I see the ugly scar on my side that keeps hurting. I haven't showed it to anyone yet, I don't want Kevin or my parents to worry any more than they already do. I smiled, when I saw Tyler's car pull up to the curb and he rolled down the window to smile at me. He stepped out of the car and caught me in a huge hug. "You look wonderful." He whispered in my ear. I blushed and smiled as he let go of me. "Well, I guess we should go get your cousin and Kevin." He sighed. I walked around the car to the passenger seat, but he beat me there and opened the door for me. I was surprised for a few seconds; I wasn't used to being treated like a lady. I climb into the car and within 30 seconds, we were on our way to the fair grounds. "Thank you for picking us up and taking us. Kevin's car was destroyed and…well you know." I grinned at him. He laughed, "I guess they should have listened to you huh?" he laughed. "Yeah…that's usually a good idea. Sometimes when a friend tells you not to jump into the lake…you shouldn't jump into the lake." I smirked knowingly at him. "Hey! That was a one-time thing. Besides, Markus dared me to." He protested, laughing. I giggled and rolled my eyes as we pulled up to Kevin's house. He was waiting on the front steps with a scowl. Tyler got out of the car, and made his way over to Kevin. They shook hands, and I thought I saw Kevin glance at me protectively. I got out of the car so that I could greet Kevin. When our eyes met, it was just us…like it always was. I kissed him lightly and he smiled beneath my lips. Kevin took my hand and led me to the car. But he didn't open the door for me. He just let go of my hand and got in the front seat. I smiled, that was so Kevin. Although I was fine with the way Kevin was being, I could see that Tyler was appalled. He looked at Kevin with a scowl when I opened the back door and got into the car. He just didn't understand the way that Kevin operated. He wasn't a gentleman the way that Tyler was. He was just…Kevin. There was no other way to explain him. But Tyler didn't say anything when he got into the car; he just glanced at me in the rear-view mirror with a questioning look. I just smiled and shook my head to indicate he shouldn't ask. "Ben called. He said Julie was taking him. It's just us." Kevin broke the silence. "Same old Ben, always changing the plan. Do you remember the time when we were all going to go to the movies and Ben decided he wanted to go bowling instead?" Tyler asked, laughing. I started laughing too, "And we ended up spending the whole time at Mr. Smoothie. And then when we were driving home, the car broke down. We were like four miles from my house and right in front of Bens. When you were walking me home, it started to rain…" I trailed off as I realized the significance of that night. Tyler continued to talk, "We talked about everything, and then you got cold. I gave you my jacket. You looked so beautiful with your big green eyes looking up at me. I couldn't help myself, I kissed you." Tyler finished the story with an air of longing. I thought Kevin was going to explode. His face was red and his fists were clenched in anger. "We ended up just finding a good place to sleep by the lake." He added offhandedly. There was a long silence as I remembered how happy I was when I woke up that morning in Tyler's arms. We hadn't done anything bad, but Kevin didn't know that. And I could hardly tell him right now with Tyler in the car. I sighed; this was going to be a long night.
A/N: Okay…thank you guys so much for the great reviews, they make me smile. I'm not sure if this is going to remain Gwevin the entire story, but I promise to make it good. I realized when I clicked on my story that it's very hard to read with the text being so close together. I'm not sure how to format very well, so I'm going to try double spacing this chapter. Once again, thank you so much for the reviews and thank you for reading. You rock.