"Yes, because the last time we played truth or dare it turned out great," Adam muttered under his breath.

I didn't respond; I knew that once Faye set her mind to something it was going to happen regardless. I just cupped more fireflies in my hands and played with them.

"Hey airhead, do you want to play or not?" Faye shouted over at me. "I mean feel free to play with the bugs instead of playing with Adam."

I felt my cheek stain red and I instantly looked at my feet. I knew that she was only joking but it still seemed harsh considering Diana was still in the room. Speaking of Diana, when I looked up I saw that she was glaring at me with hate in her eyes.

This made my stubborn streak come out. If she was going to hate me then I was going to give her a reason to. "If you put it that way, I'd love to play."

Faye's eyebrows hit her hair line and she said, "Okay then, Cassie's on board. What about you two; do you want to play?"

"Yeah, I'll be disappointed if it's just Faye, Melissa, and I playing," I said, sticking out my bottom lip lightly. Then I locked eyes with Adam and whimpered, "Please?"

His eyes widened as he tried to figure out what I was doing. He seemed to give up and said, "I'll play." Then he sat in the floor across from me with a smirk planted on his face.

I sat down and crossed my legs Indian style. I took off my jacket and leaned back on my hands. I knew Diana was staring a hole into my body when I stretched back and my stomach showed.

"Fine I'll play, it's not like I have anything better to do," she said, sitting down next to Adam, a little closer than an ex should be.

"Okay then, let the games begin," Faye said, clapping her hands.

We were about three questions in and I didn't have on a top anymore. Faye thought it would be cute to reuse a dare that she'd used on Diana. By the look on Adam's face, it was helping me more than Faye could ever know.

"Okay Cassie, it's your turn again. Truth or dare," Melissa said, a smile finding its way onto her lips for the first time in a long time.

"I think I'm going to go with truth this time," I said, playing with the pillow sitting in my lap. "I can't lose any other clothing; I might get cold or something…"

Faye let out a laugh and said, "Judging by the way your arms are crossed you're already cold. Or you're embarrassed, but I don't think that's it."

I ignored her and turned back to Melissa, "I chose truth, hit me with your best shot. Let's see what you got."

She smiled at me but what came out of her mouth had me frowning. "Cassie, what was going on with you and Jake before he left? Were you two together or were you just crushing on him?"

I sucked in a deep breath and looked at her. Out of all of the things that she could've asked me she picked something that I had locked away? How was that even fair?

"Can I pick to pass a question?" I asked, picking at the stitching on the pillow. When she shook her head I said, "It's complicated. He was the reason that we were all almost killed but he was also one of the reasons that I wasn't taken away. I'm just really conflicted with everything going on right now, too conflicted to even think about my feelings for him."

I thought about holding back some of my inner turmoil but everything ended up pouring out of my mouth instead. But I made sure to keep out the fact that I was pretty sure I was falling in love with Adam. Now I just wanted to go home and lay in my bed looking up at the stars on my ceiling.

"I think I'm going to go home now," I said, standing up and pulling on my top. "You guys have fun though."

I got out the door barely before the first wave of tears hit. They made it hard to see but I continued to stumble through the woods blindly. I suddenly heard crunching sounds behind me and froze trying to figure out which spell I could do that would stop them from coming any closer.

"It's me Cassie, don't hurt me. I just didn't want you to get lost at here," Adam said from behind me. Did I detect a little bit of sadness in his voice?

"Thanks, I guess. I was just going to walk around a while and clear my mind," I said. I tried to keep my voice steady but it broke on the last word.

I felt his hands on my shoulders and soon they were turning me around to face him. I tried to make it look like I hadn't been crying but I knew that I had failed by the look on his face.

He wiped some of the tears off of my cheeks, "Cassie, what's wrong? Did something happen that I didn't catch in there?"

I thought about lying to him but I was to sad to even think about it. "No you didn't, I just hate everything right now. I hate that Jake is off god knows where with a boat full of witch hunters after he saved me from them. I hate that Diana won't even look at me without a hate in her eyes. But I think I hate the fact that I'm falling in love with you the most."

I saw his head jerk up when I said this. A mixture of emotions played out across his face before he finally spoke. "You're still into Jake after he almost gave you over to witch hunters twice? Are you seriously one of those girls? I thought you were stronger than that. Hell, I thought that you were smarter than that, Cassie. Why do you care so much about him?" I noticed that he left out the part of me being in love with him.

"Because he loves me! He told me before I was taken by those other men. He actually loves me without having to think about if he's hurting other people or not. He can love me without there being complications," I shouted at him, tears falling down my face even harder now.

The words hit him like a slap in the face. He locked gazes with her when he said, "He said that he loved you? Did you honestly believe him? He was just trying to get in your pants, Cassie. You're just too naïve to see it."

"I'm obviously naïve because I thought that I was actually falling in love with you. I thought you were this great, pure guy but you're not. You're just like everyone else," I shouted back before running off deeper into the forest.

I didn't want to deal with those beautiful green eyes staring at me with the same hate that Diana had for me. I just wanted to disappear and see if it made things easier on anyone.

Yep, I'm an awful person. I hope you're not too mad at me for updating randomly. Review?