Charles Meade was standing behind me with Dawn Chamberlin. I honestly didn't understand what was going on so I stood up slowly. They had this presence about them that sort of scared me. I wouldn't say this out loud, but I had my suspensions that they knew more than they were letting on.

"Cassie, why are you out here this late?" Mrs. Chamberlin asked, placing a hand on my shoulder. "It's not safe to be outside at this time, especially in the middle of town."

A chill ran down my spine when I said, "Isn't it safer to be in town than it is to be out in the woods? There's more of a chance someone will see me out here if something did happen."

Mrs. Chamberlin shrugged her shoulders and said, "Charles and I were just curious if you've saw our daughters. They haven't been home since this morning and you seem to be close with both of them."

I swallowed before I felt hands on my waist. I relaxed when I heard Adam say, "They're on their way home right now. We were hanging out and time got away from us. We were all goofing off and Cassie got scared so she bolted. I came after her and they thought she'd be fine so they just left."

Mrs. Chamberlin didn't seem convinced but nodded anyway, "Thank you, Adam. I'll see you two in school on Monday. Have a nice night."

After they walked away, I sagged against Adam and tried to catch my breath. He pulled me down onto the bench and held my hands in his, rubbing his thumbs over my knuckles in an offhand manner.

"I'm sorry for what I did. I'm just so messed up with all of the feelings I have right now," he said, keeping eye contact with me. "I love Diana but I have these feelings for you that just won't go away. Ever since you've been here I haven't know what to do with myself."

My breath caught in my throat as I stared at him. "You have feelings for me?"

He let out a laugh and squeezed my hands before he let them go. I instantly missed the warmth and scrambled to grab them back. He smiled at me and said, "It's when you do things like that. Or it's when you're a complete badass. Hell, sometimes all you have to do is breath and my stomach does flips."

Speaking of stomach flips there was gymnastics meet going on inside of mine. I tried to look away from his intense gaze but his green orbs held mine. I was leaning in and I saw that he was too. His hands took my face and he slid his fingers into my hair. As I closed my eyes I saw him smirk at me as his slid closed too.

When his lips touched mine I heard the street lights around us bursting but I didn't pull away. I felt his smirk turn into smile against my lips as a car alarm went off in the distance. Suddenly a fire hydrant burst and we were both soaked.

"Oh my God!" I shouted as I jumped away from the water. That inadvertently landed me in Adam's lap, yeah not the best place for me right now.

"Well that's new; we can make it rain," he said, wrapping his arms around my waist. "That never happened with Diana."

Her name burst my bubble; I was still just a rebound for him. Thinking this I pushed up from his lap and started walking to my house. I felt him breathing down my neck as he followed me. I didn't turn around until I was at my door and he was still behind me.

I whirled around to tell him off but he wasn't behind me. He was standing down on the sidewalk staring up at me. I stomped my way down to him and tried my best to intimidate him. Seeing as I'm a shortie I didn't do very well at it.

"Why did you follow me? Wait, I have a better question to ask than that. How did you make me feel your breath on the back of my neck when you weren't behind me?" I asked, putting my hands on my hips.

"I just thought about you and how much I wanted to apologize. I guess I sort of astral projected myself to you," he said, rubbing the back of his neck.

I thought about this for a moment. Was it possible to astral project? If you would have asked me six months ago I would have told you no but now I had no clue what was real. "Is it even possible to astral project yourself?"

"When did you start feeling my breath on your neck?" He asked.

"As soon as I started to walk away. Don't tell me, you didn't start following me until I got on the porch," I said, rolling my eyes.

He shrugged his shoulders. "Don't believe me, I honestly don't care. I just know that we're connected Cassie, you know it too. Even if I still have feelings for Diana, I can't deny that I have feelings for you too."

After he said that he started to walk away. I felt my phone vibrating in my pocket and by the look of things, Adam's went off too. He stopped and pulled it out of his pocket.

Sleepover at the old house tonight. Bring your Book of Shadows. -Faye.

I sighed and shouted to Adam, "Do you want to wait on me and walk back together? I need to go grab my Book of Shadows. I mean go on if you want to, but I don't really want to walk back alone."

He nodded and walked back up to me. Once I was inside I felt him walking up the steps with me but I didn't stop him. I pulled the book out of its little compartment and grabbed my backpack.

"Do you have to go pick up anything from your house or anything?" I asked as I locked the house up. Grandma was out for the weekend so I was home alone.

"No, I have clothes at the old house. Most of us do, we stay there from time to time," Adam said, sliding his hands into his pockets.

I nodded and we walked in silence. When we made it to the house and there weren't any lights on anywhere inside the house. I felt a shiver run through my body but I brushed it off.

"Did you feel that? The 'something's not right' feeling?" Adam whispered to me, taking my hand in his. "Because I did."

I nodded and threaded our fingers together. I don't know why but his hand in mine made me feel stronger. We walked up to the house quietly and stood just outside the door. I saw shadows bouncing off the walls in the candlelight but it was deadly silent inside.

"I want you to walk in behind me and focus, okay?" Adam asked, pulling me behind me and shielding me with his body.

"Yeah, I understand."

We walked slowly inside and were shocked at what we saw. Diana, Melissa, and Faye were sitting cross legged on the floor and they had an Ouija board in front of them. I could've cried in relief that there weren't witch hunters inside waiting to kill us.

"Is there anyone here who wants to speak with us tonight?" Melissa asked in a dreamy voice. "If so then please make contact."

I bit my lip to hold in my giggles. I looked at Adam and saw that he was doing the same thing. We nodded and creeped up behind them and counted to three.

"Boo!" We shouted and I grabbed Diana and Melissa's shoulders as he grabbed Faye's.

They each jumped a foot in the air and screamed. When they saw that it was us Melissa whined, "You guys, you scared the spirits away. We were trying to contact the dead and you ruined it."

Adam rolled his eyes and said, "I don't think you can speak to the dead too well with a toy from Parker Brothers. Just saying."

I couldn't hold in my laughter this time, it spilled out of me. I saw Adam start to laugh along with me and soon enough everyone was joining in on it. It ended up with us all on the floor and tears running down our faces.

"That was a truthful statement. I didn't really think about that," Diana said, sitting back up and wiping her eyes. "I don't think that Parker Brothers are secretly mediums."

"What possessed you guys to try an Ouija board? You know they don't really work, right?" I asked, pulling my knees up to my chest. "It's a piece of wood and plastic."

Melissa scoffed, "I think that it works just fine. At least it did until you two came in and decided to ruin it."

"Do you have any tarot cards? I can tell you your future with them," I said, pushing my hair behind my ears.

She nodded eagerly and tore through her bag. Once she found them she let out an excited cheer and handed them to me. I shook my head and shuffled the deck.

"Cut the deck for me and lay them in three piles," I said, handing her the deck.

When she was finished I flipped over the top card of each deck and let out a gasp. The ones that were flipped were Death, Lovers, and the Devil. That wasn't going to end well for her.

I realize how cliche the end of this chapter and part of the next one is going to be so I apologize in advance for anyone that doesn't like that.

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