As soon as Isobel's head hit her pillow she was asleep and knocked out for the count, she didn't wake up until well after noon which was nothing new for her as Isobel never got out of bed on a sunday until noon. The events of the last night must have tired Isobel out more than she thought because when she awoke, she felt like she had slept for days instead of getting a solid ten hours sleep like she had. Thankfully the pounding headache she had last night was also gone, however Isobel felt a tickle in her throat no doubt because of all the shouting that she had done last night. Wearily glancing at her phone Isobel saw that she had messages from both Kate and Pogue but she just sighed and tossed her phone to the side, she'd deal with them later. Isobel focused on getting showered and dressed which she did in a rather slow manner and once she had got dressed she didn't make much of an effort with her appearance, simply pulling on a slightly oversized stripy sweater, dark jeans and black boots. Isobel scraped her long dark hair into a messy bun and took in her appearance in the mirror, she had noticeable bags under her eyes which seemed like she hadn't slept at all compared to the ten hours of interrupted sleep she had just had. But there was nothing that Isobel could do about that so she just went down stairs and headed for the kitchen where she found her brother Oliver sitting in the kitchen idly eating a sandwich.

"Hey Ollie…"

"Mornin' Iz." Oliver replied through a mouthful of his sandwich as Isobel went about making herself a very strong cup of coffee. "Late night, huh? Does it have anything to do with what happened last night?"

"And what exactly do you mean by that baby brother?" Isobel questioned as she was surprised that her brother knew about last night given that by the time she had gotten home, both Ollie and their mother had gone up to bed. The only person who had been up was their father and that was because he had sat up waiting for Isobel so he could give her and Pogue a lecture on the dangers of using magic.

"Iz, I'm not stupid… Last night dad, mom and I were all hanging out watching a film and then dad starts wigging out big time. As in rivalling you, he was absolutely fuming not to mention yelling and some swearing before I got sent upstairs. Even then I could still hear dad blowing a gasket and we all known that there is only one reason why dad ever gets that's mad." Oliver quipped as he continued to eat his sandwich and Isobel knew her brother had a point as their father was a pretty easy going and fun guy until the covenant came up and the only times Isobel had ever recalled seeing him lose his temper was when someone was using. Emerson Hembry may call Isobel his little hellion but the big hellion could be just as scary at me at times. "So which one of you guys were using?"

"We all were but I took the blame when dad dragged Pogue in here to have a go at him. You know I get why dad is so mad but I could not sit through another one of those lecture so I said that it was all me…"

"But you were using your powers? Isobel 'the cactus' Hembry who hates magic and hasn't used since her sixteenth birthday is telling me that she's been using… I'll be damned." Oliver stated in surprise and Isobel just rolled her eyes as she didn't see why everyone was making such a big deal about this. Iosbel would prefer if everyone just dropped the subject and moved on with their lives as last night was a one off exception which was never going to be repeated.

"Yeah I know but can everyone stop making a big deal about it? I used my powers but I'm not going the covenant so now I just want to forget it and move on with my sad and miserable life." Isobel retorted as she went about going throughout the kitchen cupboards until she found some poptarts that she could eat. Coffee and poptarts perhaps wasn't the most healthiest breakfast but it wouldn't kill her yet. As Isobel toasted her poptart and took a sip of her coffee she noticed a garment bag hanging off the panty door. "What's in the bag Ollie?"

"Your dress for the fall fest, mom picked it up this morning." Oliver replied and Isobel couldn't help but groan as she had told her mother that she had no intention of going to the annual back to school dance at Spenser.

"Dress? I told mom that I wasn't going to that stupid dance two weeks ago so why on earth has she gone and brought me a dress? What is it with everyone here? It's not like I say things just because I like the sound of my own voice..."

"Mom is hoping you'll change your mind as it is your senior year and it'll be your last ever fall fest if I happened to venture a guess." Oliver quipped and Isobel glared at her brother as he was so no helping in the slightest. But Isobel didn't expect for him to really stick up for her as Oliver never tended to interfere with matters that didn't directly involve him unless he had to.

"What is it with people trying to make me do things that I want to do? First it's Kate with her playing nicely thing, then Aaron with his typical bullshit, I then also have to deal with this covenant rubbish from dad on a constant basis. All of that is hard enough without having do cover for Pogue when it comes to him and the boys using and now I have to deal with mom going behind my back… If everyone thinks that if they kept shoving things down my throat and hoping I'll eventually change my mind then they are sorely mistaken." Isobel retorted as she plucked her pop tart from the toaster before taking a sip of her coffee.

"It's just one little dance Izzy, can't you just suck it up for one night and go just to make mom happy." Oliver questioned with a sigh.

"At the expense of my unhappiness?"

"Iz…"

"Ollie we know that I don't respond well to people telling what to do or how to live my life. Although it doesn't make sense to anyone but there's a reason why I do the things the way that I do and instead of accepting the choices I make, people instead question them as if I can't make my own decisions. But I can; I'm doing what is best for me and I can't make people happy if I'm not happy myself." Isobel wearily admitted as she took a bite of her pop tart before sighing. To the outside world it seemed like she lived the easiest life but in reality Isobel's world was the furthest thing from being easy and she just wanted to escape. She wanted to have no more school, boys, covenant, magic. Isobel just wanted to be Isobel Hembry.

"What will make you happy?" Oliver questioned and Isobel didn't say anything at first as she wasn't sure if it was a question that she could really answer.

"Where's mom and dad?" Isobel asked quickly changing the subject to something else entirely as she didn't want to talk about any of this anymore. Yet Isobel had brought up her parents who had played a big part in the big rant she had just had. Isobel blamed it on the fact that her coffee hadn't kicked in yet.

"Out."

"Clearly." Isobel replied sarcastically as her brother wasn't being helpful by stating the obvious.

"You didn't answer my question." Oliver pointed out as Isobel took a long sip of her coffee and just shrugged her shoulders. She didn't know what to say and because of that she wasn't going to answer her brother's question.

"Look I've got to run as Kate wants me to meet her in town for some reason, will you be okay here until mom and dad get back?" Isobel questioned as she took her coffee over to the kitchen sink and poured the remaining contents of it down the sink. With her purse hanging off her shoulder Isobel picked up her pop tart and waved to her brother as she gave him a wave before walking out of the kitchen,

"I'm a warlock Iz, I think I'll be fine in my own house for a few hours! And you still didn't answer my question Isobel." Oliver called out and Isobel barely heard her brother as she continued to make her way out of the family home, she just wanted to get to town and spend some time with Kate and then come back home. School was starting back up tomorrow and after everything that happened last year, Isobel needed to start the year off on a good foot. Walking out of her front door and beginning to make her way down the driveway to where her car was parked Isobel inadvertently crashed into Tyler who was apparently making his way towards er front door at the same time which causing Isobel to land flat her my ass.

"Great just how I wanted to start my day… Being harassed by two of the Sons of Ipswich." Isobel began before looking round Tyler's legs to see where Reid was and to her surprise she couldn't see him which was plain odd. "Where's the imp?

Tyler looked at Isobel as if she had lost her lost mind- which wasn't anything new to her - as he held out his hand for Isobel to take to allow him to help her back onto her feet. "Who?"

"Reid… You know that blonde haired rather annoying boy who you're usually attached to the hip with and insist on being friends with him for some unknown and frankly bizarre reason?" Isobel explained as she took Tyler's hand and allowed him to help her up, hoping that her explanation rang a bell for the usually shy and quiet Tyler who for some reason has decided to brave her temper so early in the morning. But then Isobel realised that Tyler wasn't here to see her as no one came to Isobel's house to see her, well except for Pogue but that was different as he walked in and out of the house like he lived there. Which he practically did.

"I don't know, we don't go everywhere together Izzy." Tyler eventually replied.

"Right… Well my dad isn't in right now as he's out with my mom somewhere but Ollie is in the kitchen and this is me going and I actually have things to be doing." Isobel hastily stated as she walked away and continued to head in the direction of her car. "I'm not here to see your dad, I'm here to see you Iz."

"Me? Why on earth did you want to come see me?" Isobel asked turning around in surprise, either this was a joke or Isobel was still dreaming either way this wasn't the reality that she lived in. Because there was no way in hell that any of the boys would willingly seek me out. "Lemme guess, you found blood in the back of your truck from the nosebleed I had last night and now you want me to pay to the back seats of your car reupholstered? Sure, whatever I'll get my dad to write you a check as soon as he gets back so don't get your panties in a twist about it Tyler…"

"Iz that's not why I'm here, I came to talk to you about this." Tyler said as he handed Isobel the morning newspaper and taking the paper, Isobel's attention was immediately grabbed by the front headline which was about the death of a student from Spencer from an apparent drugs overdose.

"Oh shit!" Isobel quietly murmured as this was not good in the slightest.

"Yeah that's exactly how I reacted when I saw it.." Tyler replied and Isobel frowned at him as now Tyler's surprise visit now made complete sense. He thought that she was behind this nonsense. Isobel should have known.

"–Wait, you think I'm responsible for this? That rumour about me being on drugs is complete bullshit and I have enough crap in my life to be dealing with instead of making high school kids overdose on drugs. Most importantly my parents would kill me if I was ever stupid enough to take drugs. But if you looking for someone stupid and reckless enough to place the blame on that I suggest that you look at Reid, after all those are his only qualities…" Isobel retorted as she handed Tyler back the newspaper.

"Iz, why are you so defensive about everything? I never said anything about thinking that you were involved and I know that those rumours were bogus and that you'd never do drugs." Tyler demanded and now Isobel felt slightly bad for naturally assuming the worse about Tyler's intentions. But Isobel also knew she couldn't leave the conversation open for an apology on her part so saying nothing wasn't an option, nor was deny everything, as it was the truth. Which left making counter accusations.

"Then why are you here? I'm not exactly the first person people chose to seek out."

"I was worried about you."

"Excuse me?"

Tyler sighed and Isobel wasn't exactly sure where this was going. "You didn't exactly have the best of nights Izm first the argument with Pogue and then that whole thing with Aaron. Then you were upset with Pogue and Kate for making us take you home, not to mention the whole cops, Marblehead and nosebleed thing. I was worried about you and then I saw the paper this morning and so I figured I'd come and check on up on you and see how your doing…"

"Why?" Isobel blurted out.

"What do you mean why not? We're friends." Tyler stated and now Isobel was positive that she was dreaming because the word 'friends' had never been nor was it ever to be used to refer to the 'relationship/connection' she had with the boys.

"We're not friends, Tyler in fact we are the furthest thing from friends."

"Iz you may not see yourself as being my friend but I see you as being my friend."

"Don't you remember what Kira said to me last night, I'm poor little Isobel Hembry the weird loner girl who only has one friend which is Kate. And she's right, Kate is the only friend that I have ever had." Isobel pointed out, purposely leaving Pogue out of it as whilst he was her best friend and vice versa, they didn't see each other as friends nor did they refer to each other as friends. So Isobel saying that she only had one friend was true.

"Iz we have always wanted to be your friends–" Tyler began.

"Spare me the pretence Tyler as I have made it clear that I am a big girl and as such I can be treated like such. I have always been the outsider to everyone because of how you and the other boys were raised, the covenant practically being an all boys club with you all carefully watching me over the years to see if I displayed any powers. Once I was thirteen the only reason why you wanted to have anything to do with me is because you all wanted to me to join the covenant so you could all look at me as if I was some prized exhibit. This has never been about me, just plain Isobel Hembry. It is always about Isobel Hembry, the daughter of Ipswich and the first female witch born into the founding families and Ipswich!"

Tyler doesn't say anything for a few moments; instead he looks at Isobel until he decided to speak up. "It never mattered to me but if it has ever seemed like that than I'm sorry Izzy. I would never intentionally make you feel like we only wanted to be your friends just because you had powers."

"Why are you doing this Tyler? I'm not a nice person, you shouldn't want to be my friend…" Isobel wearily said forcing herself to swallow the mother of all lumps in her throat as she was certain that she was going to end up crying if Tyler kept going on like this, I had always know that Tyler was sweet but I had never know that he was this sweet. Isobel put it down to the universe needing to balance out someone like Reid with someone like Tyler

"Yes you are Isobel."

"What are you talking about? I insult you constantly, I almost got you suspended last years just to state the most recent things." Isobel began to list.

"Not to mention that you nag us about using our powers even more than all our dads put together." Tyler adds and the two of them laugh. "At first it was annoying but I realized that it was your way of coping. I honestly can't imagine how you deal with being the first female born into all of this especially having powers and not knowing anything about them and having to figure it out all by yourself whilst we all looked at you as if you were some animal at a zoo."

"Scary and lonely are the best words I'd use to describe all of this." Isobel allowed herself to admit as it it seemed like Tyler got it, like he somehow understood everything that I was going through, in a weird way even though he would never truly understand. "There's no one I can talk to about this; there's no one here who possibly understand what I'm going through. I always feel like I'm alone and a constant outsider…"

"You don't have to be alone Izzy, I know that I probably don't understand half of what you're going through but I understand some. You can always come to me." Tyler assured Isobel and she allowed herself to wearily smile.

"You make it sound so easy."

"Well maybe it can be."