I don't own Secret Circle. Here is chapter 2. Enjoy.

Chapter 2

Cassie's POV

I froze and million thoughts come to my mind. If he was the guy I had dreamed, the dream was prophetic. And that means that all that happened at the dream are actually going to happen or they symbolize events that are going to happen. Either way I don't think that me bursting into flames will be good. I stopped my internal babbling because I realized he was still looking me expecting an answer.

"No" I mumbled. I didn't know if he heard my response or he sat anyway.

"So" he said when the lesson had already started "What's your name?"

"Cassie" I replied. I thought that if I replied him with answers of one word, he might stop talking to me. Well, that didn't actually work.

"Cassie is a beautiful name." He paused for a moment. "I'm Daniel. I just moved here from California."

"California? I spent fifteen years there. What made you leave sunny California for New Salem?" I asked.

"What do you mean? New Salem isn't that bad." He replied

"Seriously? I mean don't take me wrong I like New Salem." I thought the circle and Adam. "But California is actually mentioned to a map"

He laughed "Well, what can I say. I like the mystery of it. Besides, it has really beautiful girls." He said.

When I was about to reply to his compliment, Ms Lanning said "Cassie and Daniel, sorry I am interrupting your chat but you're in class and not in a chat room."

All eyes turned to us. Great. "Sorry, Ms Lanning" She turned and continued the lesson. My phone beamed in my pocket. I opened it and read the message. It was from Faye: Already flirting with the new guy? I simply rolled my eyes and tried to focus to the lesson.

...

I was heading to the back room, when Adam put his arm around me and asked "How was your day so far?"

"Good. I met the new guy, Daniel." I replied him giving him a quick kiss.

"Oh. Is he as hot as every girl think?" he asked me playfully.

"Are you asking me if I like Daniel?" I said with the same playful tone.

"Maybe." he replied. When he saw that I wasn't replying, he said "So?"

"Mmm..." I told him "Let me think for a moment... I think he's hot, but he isn't as hot as my boyfriend."

Then he opened the door of the back room and we got in. There were Diana, Laurel and Melanie talking about the Valentine's Day dance, Suzan and Faye talking to Daniel and the Henderson brothers and Sean about a new rock group.

"Daniel, that's Cassie, as you already know, and that's Adam, Cassie's boyfriend." Faye said with her husky voice emphasizing the word boyfriend.

"Nice to meet you, Adam." Daniel told Adam.

"Nice to meet you, too. So, Daniel, are you new in town?" he asked.

"Yeah, I just moved here from California." he answered.

"What do you think of New Salem?"

"I really like it. I believe it's a very mysterious town. It is said that New Salem was founded by the witches who survived the witch hunt at Salem." he said looking straight into Adam's blue eyes and then he added "A very amusing myth, don't you think?"

"Yeah, sure." Adam replied squeezing my hand.

"Oh, I totally forgot. Cassie, Ms Lanning said that we should present a project about Shakespeare until the end of this week." he said shifting his eyes from Adam's to mine giving me a dazzling smile.

"Okay, can you meet me after school at my house to start working on it?" I asked him.

"Sure. Where do you live?"

"I live in Crowhaven Road, Number twelve."

"Okay, see you later." he said and left the room.

"Am I the only one who caught the thing he said about the witches?" Sean asked us.

"No, Sean. But probably he doesn't know anything." Laurel answered him.

"Can we be so sure about that?" Melanie, who is the brain of the circle, said.

"I think Melanie has a point. We must be careful." Adam agreed.

"Whatever, Adam." said Faye "You're being paranoid or you are just jealous because Daniel was flirting with Cassie."

"He wasn't." I said. Or was he?

"Yeah. Even a ten-year-old kid could understand he was flirting with you." she said sarcastically. I just rolled my eyes.

"I am not jealous." Adam said defending himself. "Besides, Melanie agreed with me"

"Melanie is just Melanie, always suspicious." Faye said.

"What does that mean?" Melanie said interrupting Faye's husky voice.

"It means that..."

"Faye, enough" Diana said with a loud voice. "We are going to talk about Daniel in the meeting"

After that everyone kept quiet and finished their lunch. I was thinking about what Adam and Melanie said. After all, Daniel did mention the word witches, but New Salem is known for this myth.

...

After we had finished the lunch, I decided that I should talk to Diana. "Diana, can I talk to you?" I asked her.

She hesitated for some moments, but in the end she agreed. We were walking outdoors when I started talking "Diana, I know we haven't talked for weeks, but I really wanted to talk to you. Diana, I'm really... really sorry about Adam. I don't know what to say. Well, I suppose... that I should thank you , but I know that will not actually help you. So... I wanted to tell you that despite the things that happened between us, I would like to still be your friend. If you want of course…." I stopped my babbling and looked straight into her emerald green eyes.

She hugged me and burst into tears. I hugged her back and whispered "Diana, I'm so so sorry."

When she finished, she looked me with these clear green eyes and said "Cassie, it's okay. I know that wasn't your fault and I want you to be my friend, too. Cassie, you're my best friend and nothing can change that."

Now, I had tears in my eyes and I hugged her "Oh Diana, thank you so much."

"I think we should get to class, now." Diana replied hugging me back.

"Okay." I said wiping my eyes and went to class.