Disclaimer: The Covenant is not mine… sadly. Oh, the things I could do to those five Sons of Ipswich. Yummy!
Author's Note: I'm trying to update as much as possible right now because next term starts on Tuesday. I don't think anyone will complain that I'm doing so, just try not to get used to it because, as I said, next term starts in two days. Thankfully for you guys, I have a lot of the bits and pieces either written or typed out, so this should go by pretty quickly.
I'm kind of embarrassed about this chapter. Teen movie, much? And its also kind of pointless.
Sarah's eyes lit up as she slid into the seat next to Jane. "Hey," she greeted. "I didn't know you were in this class."
The smaller girl smiled. "Well, I did just come to school a couple days ago. It would be kind of creepy if you did know and you hadn't seen me in class yet or even met me."
"True," Sarah said with a laugh. Her expression changed and it turned almost maniacal. "Are you calling me creepy?"
There was a pause before both girls started laughing.
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After class, Jane and Sarah walked to the Cafeteria, laughing.
"Hey, ladies," a familiar voice said. Reid slid his arms around their shoulders. "You must be talking about me to smile so hard."
Jane nodded. "Of course, Reid," she said enthusiastically. "We weretalking about you." She grinned as the other Sons and Kate fell into step with them. "That's why we were laughing." She and Sarah cackled gleefully alongside the others.
Sarah, still grinning, stepped out from under Reid's arm and walked alongside Caleb and Kate. Each girl was walking hand in hand with her boyfriend.
"Should I be worried?" Kate asked playfully. "I don't want to lose my new best friend to Janie."
Jane snorted behind them, apparently overhearing. "Girl," she said, arms at Reid and Tyler's waists, "don't you know the best things come in threes?" As if on cue, she and the two boys posed.
Caleb laughed. "Actually, they come in fours," he said in reference to the Sons of Ipswich.
"Amen to that," Kate said, making a show of doing the sign of the cross and looking above piously.
"Seriously," Jane agreed, "I've seen you guys in your swimsuits." She fanned herself.
"Hot," declared all three girls simultaneously, separating from their male counterparts and going towards the tables.
"Baby, can you get me some lunch?" Kate called to Pogue without turning around.
Sarah smiled at Caleb. "Me, too, please?"
Jane didn't even bother saying anything and just waved a hand in the air, assuming Tyler and Reid would have her covered.
The three sat down and began talking excitedly.
The four warlocks gave each other quizzical looks, unsure what to say.
Tyler, surprisingly, seemed to have the answer: "I think we should be afraid – very, very afraid."
"Amen to that," the other three replied, doing the sign of the cross. The only difference between their actions and Kate's was the fact that the Sons were serious.
As the walked towards the line, they heard the three girls laughing. They exchanged looks that said they almost rather be facing Chase again.
The four glanced back to see the three girls smiling in their direction.
Almost.
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"So," Kate said leaning forward, "you weren't actually running away from Reid holding you in his arms."
"Arm," Jane corrected. "Sarah had his other arm – I really am heartbroken about that Sarah. I can't believe you're trying to steal my man." She gave a theatrically sigh, placing one arm against her forehead, looking away. "We may just not be able to be BFFs after all. You can have her Kate."
Kate grimaced. "I don't want your leftovers."
Sarah shook her head. "I love it when people talk like I'm not here."
Jane looked around in confusion. "Did you hear something, Kate?"
Sarah pouted as the other two girls laugh.
"But, seriously, you two are so cute together," Kate said.
Jane shrugged. "I really don't know what you're talking about. And didn't I tell you nothing has or ever will happen?"
Sarah scoffed. "You must've known our conversation yesterday could've only appeased Kate for like an hour."
"Well, yeah," Jane admitted.
Kate made an offended noise.
The two girls gave her the same immovable look.
"Well, yeah," Kate parroted, conceding.
"And I agree with Kate," Sarah said. "You two are really cute together."
Jane gave them a skeptical look. "I don't see how I act differently between Reid and Tyler. So, by your reasoning, I should be in love with Tyler as well."
"Oh my God," Sarah said, "you should be so lucky. If a girl were actually able to, you know, ensnare both of them she'd never leave their bed. I know I wouldn't."
Kate and Jane gave her an odd look.
Sarah's smile fell off her face. "You haven't thought of this? Slash it up a bit? Not even a little?"
"What?" Jane asked. "What the fuck are you talking about?"
Sarah dropped her voice an octave lower, and all three girls leaned forward conspiratorially. "Neither of you have pictured Reid and Tyler together?"
"Oh my God," Jane cried. "You're a freak!" She looked around and made as if to get up. "I got to congratulate Caleb because I know he has got to be happy in the bedroom."
Sarah pulled her back down. "Don't you dare," she warned the other girl.
Kate nudged her. "So, you're not saying you're a kinky little slut? Answer truthfully."
Both girls scrutinized her. "Well," Sarah drawled.
"I knew it!" Jane crowed triumphantly, ignoring the looks being thrown her way for being so loud. "I knew it and now I will never be able to look at you the same way ever again." She smirked. "By the way, I have thought about it."
"Me, too," Kate said without hesitation.
Sarah gaped at them. "Then, why did you guys give me such a hard time?"
They shrugged.
"Oh my God," she said, crossing her arms. "I hate you guys!"
"Thank God," Reid said plopping next to Jane and sliding her a tray of food. He nodded to the other guys. "We can call off the evacuation now; the apocalypse has successfully been averted. What were you guys talking about?"
"Nothing!" the three girls yelled, making a show of eyeing their food.
Pogue sighed. "Better start planning for that evacuation right now." He handed Kate her salad.
"I'll be sure to round up a pair of each species of animals," Tyler said, biting into his pizza.
"Remember: gopher-wood," Caleb said, looking at his sandwich thoughtfully. He picked out the pickles with distaste and Sarah popped them in her mouth, crunching them happily.
"Fuck that shit, we're building a plane," Reid said.
Pogue gave him a strange look. "That uses gas, dumb ass."
"My bad, Billy Shakespeare," Jane said, cutting her food delicately.
"Oh my God, stop," Kate said. "I don't know what the hell you're all talking about but please stop."
Silence and then, "Damn, I didn't know you were going to go all Taming of the Shrew on us."
"Reid!" Kate said in frustration.
Jane started laughing. "Dude, it was clever," she replied to the glare Kate was sending her. She frowned at her food, her arms moving furiously in an attempt to cut it.
Sighing, Tyler set down his pizza and began cutting it for her.
"See?" Jane said to Kate and Sarah. "Exactly the same. So, really, I couldn't love one without the other."
"What are you talking about?" Pogue asked, mouth full of pasta.
"Um," Jane was too surprised by the question to be disgusted by his table manners. She looked at Sarah and Kate for help. "Uh… Forks and spoons? And the mysteries that encompass them."
"You're so weird," Reid and Tyler said at the same time.
Jane picked up her fork and stabbed a piece of food that Tyler had cut for her.
"Whatever, you two love it," she replied, savoring the piece of pot roast.
"Yeah," the two boys said softly, looking at her from the corner of their eyes.
Pogue and Caleb looked at each other from above their girlfriend's heads. With the timeliness that only comes from being best friends all their lives, the boys rolled their eyes at each other, thinking the same thought.
If Reid and Tyler grow a pair of balls soon, they were going to magic the other two some.
TBC.
Author's Note: Yeah, you read that right. Pogue and Caleb know and realize how silly the two other boys are being. I didn't even know that Pogue and Caleb were going to know – it kind of just happened. And, if you think about it, how could they not know? They've known each other all their lives so it would be pretty sad if they didn't know when their best friends were in love. I mean, come on.