Tyler stormed through the halls of the dormitory, hands balled into fists, his nails digging into the palms of his hands to the point where they bled. He had rage in his eyes, and was almost twitching. He scanned the numbers printed on the doors quickly as he walked by, stopping dead in his tracks when he reached a certain one. He slammed his right fist once on the door hard. When no one answered, he did it again. Finally, after a few moments, someone opened the door.
If Tyler had been less angry he would have noticed the blue dress that had been thrown to the floor behind him. He also would have noticed that she was very beautiful tonight, and that this was the first time he had seen her wearing makeup. And that she looked terribly sad. But he didn't notice.
When she had opened the door and seen him standing there, all dressed up, a flicker of hope flashed through her grey eyes, before she registered the rage printed on his face. Once she noticed it, her expression darkened.
"What do you want?" Maddie asked softly.
"What the hell is your problem?" Tyler screamed. Maddie winced and took a step back. "Who the fuck do you think you are, thinking that you can go and just ruin people's lives like that? By lying, cheating, hurting people? For no fucking reason else than to satisfy your offended ego? You-"
"What did I do?" Maddie asked, just as calmly.
"You ruined everything between me and Clea! I don't know what the fuck you did to her, but whatever it is it makes you a total bitch! And a liar, and…"
And he went on rambling about her being a bitch for another three minutes, and Maddie just leaned against the doorframe and listened, absent-mindedly, as she stared at the hallway floor. After a certain point she got fed up, took a step back and slammed the door in Tyler's face.
He stood there in shock for a moment, staring at the wooden door, before his anger came back full force. His eyes flashed black and he blew the door away.
"Don't you fucking dare run away from me! I wont let you sleep, I wont let you eat, I wont let you do anything before you fix this, you dirty liar!"
"Fix what?"
"Whatever you did to Clea!"
Tyler took a few steps forward, stepping on the blue dress as he approached Maddie.
"Got it?" He hissed once they were face to face. Maddie started shaking.
"Get out." She whispered. Tyler didn't reply. "Get out!" she screamed, and shoved Tyler's chest. He stumbled a few steps back. "Get the fuck out of my room, right now, Tyler! I don't know what the hell you're talking about and I honestly don't care, so just get out and leave me alone!"
"No." Tyler said menacingly.
"Get out!"
"Not until you fix this!"
"I didn't do anything!" She screamed, shoving him in the chest hard. Tyler growled, raised his arm and hit her, hard. Maddie gasped and stumbled back. She raised her shaky hand to her cheek, where he had hit her, and felt the stream of blood dripping from her mouth. She looked back up at Tyler, horrified.
"You deserve it." He mumbled.
Maddie started crying, a steady flow of tears dripping down her cheeks and mixing with the trickle of blood that leaked from the side of her lip. She started talking, in a shaky, hiccupy voice, starting calmly but getting louder at every end of phrase, crying more and more until at the end she was screaming and sobbing almost hysterically.
"You are a horrible person! Don't you ever care about anyone else than yourself? You think that the world will always bend to your need and everyone will always do what you say! And you're too stupid to realize all the little things that are so easy to see that make things what they are! You're like a child! No, you're no child, because when I was a kid the children I knew weren't as mean, they didn't concentrate their lives on hurting you and pouring salt on The fresh wounds they made! No child ever hurts purposely, no, when I was a child I was happy because the world was and there was no cruelty! And then you start blaming me for the curse? You think I wanted to be able to see everyone I know die in front of my eyes? You think I deserve it? That I like it? Well I don't and when it started I died!"
And then she stormed past him, grabbed her coat and ran out the door. Tyler didn't even bother calling after her to let her know he had seen through her disguise, and that soon the world would know what a terrible person she was. He smirked to himself.
Now the only thing left to do was to find Clea and get that kiss.
"Hey, Ty!"
Reid ran to catch up to the brunette that had hurriedly exited his truck.
"Caleb needs to talk to us." The blonde explained when he had stopped his friend. The two other members of the covenant walked up beside them.
"Well can you do it fast?" Tyler said to Caleb. "I sorta have something to do. Soon."
"Tyler!" "Relax, Pogue. I can do this fast. First, let me remind all of you about a certain blonde girl that we met a while ago with particular gifts-"
"Oh, I dealt with that already." Tyler said, unfazed. Caleb looked at him in utter shock.
"What?" he blurted out. "Yeah. That curse stuff? Total bull. Confronted her like five minutes ago. She went off crying, like a drama queen, I don't think she'll be messing with us any time soon-"
"Bull?" Caleb interrupted.
"Yeah. Bullshit. Lies. Make-believe. C'mon Cale, don't tell me you believed it?"
"Its not a question of whether I believe it or not. It's a question of facts, and that said facts totally rule out your little theory of 'total bull.' Maddie's a descendant of the witch hunter from Salem… the one that our ancestors had cursed for wreaking havoc. And the curse was passed down from generation to generation until… voila. Second-sight Madeline."
Tyler stood there, gaping, in total shock.
"Shit." He hissed.
His mind working overdrive, he compiled the events of the past weeks and analyzed them in his head. Clea working so hard to convince him that Maddie was lying, and making her seem like a total bitch. Clea accusing Maddie of sabotaging their 'relationship'. Maddie being utterly confused when he attacked her. Maddie still saying she was cursed even though Tyler had repeated that he knew she was lying. Somewhere in between he had defined Maddie as evil, and Clea as good, when now it was clear it was the other way around.
"Shit!" he said louder. He spun around, hopped into his truck and drove off to who knows where.
"Tyler!" Caleb yelled after him. "Come on, we need to follow him, I'm not done yet…"
And the three remaining sons of Ipswich headed to Caleb's car to follow the dark blue truck that was disappearing into the night.
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um, no important author's note this time. just the usual, review!!!