A/n: I am so sorry about the shortness of the chapter, I'm leaving fro Florida tomorrow and I figured I may as well give you guys something. Oh and thanks soo much for the reviews hope you guys like it.

Flashback

Chapter 3: Her

I saw the days passed faster then I first thought, it has been a week since we have moved back. I would love to say that everything was normal and the guys left us alone but they didn't, they hung around us every waking moment.

I sat in class waiting for the bell to ring, it was Friday once again and I needed out of here. Caleb sat beside me glancing up at me every once and a while as if I was going to disappear in a second. I felt over crowded, I just wanted to be alone but I was never allowed far enough away. I closed my eyes and thought of ways I could get away today and I decided I would go off into the woods directly after class; I needed to get a little freedom. So I patiently waited for the bell to ring and as soon as it did I was gone, I took off out of class room and then out of the school to my sanctuary.

I had managed to avoid them all and was satisfied as I sat under a tree thinking about nothing. It was soothing to be alone and just breathe in the forest air, to just clear my head of all my troubles.

"Now what do we have here?" The voice sent chills down my spin as he called out around me, laughing the person was laughing. As I closed my eyes I could feel it once again the power, I was stronger now as if someone was using right next to me. With that I felt it; my body was sent flying into a tree a few feet away. I hit the tree with a sickening thud and I fell to the ground breathless. I opened my eyes and found myself face to face with unfamiliar boy around my age maybe older.

"Poor poor little Mara, hiding from her friends. I wonder how they would feel if I told them." I glared at the boy, his power was strong and now that I could see his eyes were black I could tell he had the power the boys had. But this man's power was stronger, darker almost like someone else's.

"You won't." With a flick of my wrist I sent the boy flying in the opposite direction and I was able to sit up despite the shooting pain I felt in my lower back. I could hear the boy move around and I could feel his power grow stronger and angrier as he approached me. I tried to stand but it didn't matter before I knew it the man was in front of me, he growled at me before he grabbed my by my throat lifting me off the ground. I was so focused on trying to breathe that my power froze up, that was the only problem with my power.

"Wow your definitely as pretty as he described, but I like your little friends Julie better." I started kicking my feet trying to hit the mother fucking. I can't believe he was talking about Julie like that.

"Lea..ve her ." I was chocking as I tried to speak to this loser. He shook his head at me as he smirked.

"Well I have to go now before they find out I'm here, oh and give the boys a message for me. Tell them Chase said hi." With that he sent me flying into another tree, though this time I landed on my wrist, I winced as I heard it crack. I cried out in pain as the boy named Chase laughed before he diapered, it was all too much. I sat on the ground for a good five minutes before I was able to stand up, it was a task within itself but I did it. I limped slowly out of the woods, determined to make it to my room without being seen by anyone, the only good thing was that class had end already and most everyone was in their dorms.

After a long painful walk I arrived at my room and was glad to feel that the boys were not there, slowly I opened the door to see the shocked face of Julie. I didn't let her speak before I turned around locking the door before I fell to the ground from all the pain.

"Julie…" I barley whispered as I leaned against the door, I could see tears forming in the small blonde's eyes as helped me up and sat me on the bed.

"What happened?" I shook my head not answering as Julie took my wrist in her hand, it was broken I could tell from all the pain in one single movement. "You want me to heal it?"

I nodded answering her question as she slowly closed her eyes focusing all her power into my wrist. It hurt as the bones mended back together, I nearly cried out but I was just when it was done. Julie looked at me concerned before she asked what else was hurt, I sighed unbuttoning my shirt taking it off and laid down on my stomach. I heard her gasp as she ran her hand along my lower back, I cried out this time though. I felt the warmth of her power flow through me as a long banging came at our door.

"Julie you in there, we couldn't find her." I flinched and held in my hiss of pain as Julie's hand came down on my back out of her shock.

"Sorry." She whispered before she went back to concentrating on healing me, leaving me to speak to the boys.

"God damn it, I leave for one minute and I get a search party." I heard Reid's laughter through the door and then someone tried to open the door.

"Why is the door locked, can we come in?" Caleb's voice sounded desperate and filled with worry.

"Not right this second hold on." I couldn't understand what was taking so long with my back, what I did know was that it hurt a lot. It was silent for a few minutes before the boys began to knock on the door once more asking to come in multiple times. I guess when hey got no response they thought we were in trouble and decided to bust down our door because just as Julie finished healing me the door was thrown open. Julie jumped back and I stood up facing four boys. Caleb's face was bright red as he cast his eyes in another direction, Pogue and Tyler both averted their eyes shyly while Reid stared opening at my nearly naked chest.

"Shit I told you not to come in." I quickly turned my back on the four boys a blush creeping onto my own cheeks. I walked quickly over to my dresser grabbing a shirt before pulling it over my head.

"Sorry." All the boys spoke at once as I turned around my blush finally fading. "We though you two were in trouble."

I rolled my eyes as I sat on my bed; Julie just looked at me still concerned for my well being. It was silent as the boys stood in our room and looked nervously around the room; it was as if they expected to find something or someone. Had they felt Julie using?

Caleb's P.o.V

I decided it would be the best course of action to force open the door, what if the girls were in trouble. I knew we all felt the power radiating beyond the door, it was something none of us had felt before. So a slight amount of power I shoved the door open, instantly regretting it as I saw Maria in her bra. I could feel my face heat up as I cast my eyes away quickly, that was more than I had wished to see. She quickly turned around putting on a shirt .

"Sorry." We all said at the same time before we went and sat around their room. "We though you two were in trouble."

Mira rolled her eyes while we looked around the room, I could have sworn I felt magic coming from this room. Sighing I took a seat at the desk looking around the room while everyone else sat. I watched Maria as she talked to everyone, every moved she made reminded me of Mara. I wasn't the only one either all of the boys had come up to me saying how much seeing this girl made them think of Mara, think of all the mistakes we made. Reid sat next to Maria openly flirting with the girl and I had to admit it made me angry it brought up memories of him with another girl.

I walked slowly down the hall to my girlfriend's dorm anxious to see her. I loved my girlfriend more than anything in the world and I was about to give her the best birthday gift ever. When I reached her dorm I could hear muffled sounds coming from inside but I figured it was probably just her and her roommate so I slowly opened the door.

"Reid, maybe we shouldn't." But it didn't matter he kissed her again just as I walked in. Mara my girlfriend since we were thirteen was kissing my best friend.

"MARA?!" Her head whipped toward me and I could see the sorrow etched on her features.

"Caleb, its not." But I didn't even give her a chance to explain; I dropped the box with her gift and walked out.

I didn't even know Maria it was just everything about her except some small features reminded me of Mara. The way she laughed and the way her blue eyes light up when she smiles, god. Reid was trying way too hard with this girl, he had a girlfriend so why the hell was he flirting with her.

"Reid seriously lay off you have a girl and im not into you." Maria's voice was cocky as she patted the blonde boy on the shoulder. I suppressed my laugh as Reid look down at the ground defeated.

"Oh come on Mara." Reid said back now smiling at the girl but the smile faded quickly as he caught his mistake. The boys and I all exchanged looks while the girls looked on confused.

"Sorry I meant Maria…HAhaha." Reid tried to cover up the slip but it failed. Neither of the girls said a word though they just went on with their conversations as usual. I watched Maria again out of the corner of my eye, it was so crazy how two girls could look so much alike. As I watched her talk, she turned to me locking her blue eyes with my brown ones. A small smile formed on her lips as she closed her as for a moment and then I felt it. It was small but it was burst of power but it disappeared as soon as it came. Who could be using power, it was like nothing I had ever felt before it was raw, and untouched. I looked around the room to see if anyone else had felt it but they acted as if nothing happened.

"You know what we're going camping this weekend you guys should come?" Tyler smiled over at Julie; uh oh Tyler had a crush. Julie smiled back while Maria looked utterly petrified at the thought.

"We would love to." Julie replied while Maria glared at her with vengeance. I could only guess that Julie disliked camping.

"That's great; Reid and I will pick you two up at like 7 in the morning." Tyler didn't let Maria argue because before she could open her mouth, he and Reid were gone leaving Pogue and I with the girls.

"Why did you agree you know how I feel about nature?" Maria sighed getting up and walking into the small bathroom, Julie just sat there smiling. Pogue and I exchanged glancing figuring it was time for us to make an exit.

"Well glad your both okay. We are going home but Reid and Tyler are not far if you need anything." Pogue told Julie as I just stood at the door waiting; there was something I had to door before we went home I just hoped Pogue would agree. Julie said her goodbyes before she ushered us out of her room. Pogue and I made a silent walk out of the droms but instead of going to the car I made my way over to administrations.

"Caleb no, not this time." Pogue said as he walked beside me. I laughed. Last time we did this we found out the new kid was actually part of the covenant of silence.

"I know I just felt something." I confessed as I hopped the gate, with a reluctant Pogue behind me.

"What do you really expect to find Caleb? What do want to find, do you really want to believe that these girls are the cause of the power?" I sighed, I didn't even know. I just wanted to be sure after chase I wasn't willing to take a chance. Or maybe I just wanted to confirm that Maria wasn't Mara, I needed to know for sure. Quietly we walked over to the filing cabinet looking for both girls names, Julie's was easy to find. We read over it finding nothing out of the ordinary, both parents died a few years ago in car crash nothing too major.

"See, Caleb your being paranoid." I nodded and went in search of Maria's file but there was a problem. There were no Maria Willow's on file at our school.

"Caleb, maybe it's a mix up." Pogue whispered as he began to look with me. Why wouldn't her file be in there but that's when something else caught my eye as I looked through other files. There in clean black ink it read 'Lewis, Mara'. My heart stopped in my chest as I pulled out the file.

"Maybe it's her old one." I said to myself but Pogue wouldn't agree. He took the file and placed on the filing cabinet searching trough it, and on the first page was a very recent picture of Mara with her older brother.

"Caleb it's her. Maria is Mara." At that very moment all I could think was why.