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A/N: I hope you liked the prologue and are excited for this new chapter! Enjoy!
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Flashback
Thoughts
Phone Conversations
Chapter 1
Mean
You used to hold the door for me, now you can't wait to leave
You used to send me flowers if you ***ked up in my dreams
I used to make you laugh with all the silly **** I did
Now you roll your eyes and walk away and shake your head
When the spark has gone, and the candles are out
When the song is done and there's no more sound
Whispers turn to yelling and I'm thinking
How did we get so mean?
How do we just move on?
How do you feel in the morning when it comes and everything's undone?
Is it cause we wanna be free? Well that's not me
Normally I'm so strong
I just can't wake up on the floor like a thousand times before
Knowing that forever won't be
I'm always sentimental when I think of how it was
When love was sweet and new and we just couldn't get enough
The shower, it reminds me you'd undress me with your eyes
Now you never touch me and you tell me that you're tired
You know, I gets so sad when it all goes bad
And all you think about is all the fun you've had
And all those sorrys ain't never gonna mean a thing, oh
How did we get so mean?
How do we just move on?
How do you feel in the morning when it comes and everything's undone?
Is it cause we wanna be free? Well that's not me
Normally I'm so strong
I just can't wake up on the floor like a thousand times before
Knowing that forever won't be
I know we said some things that we can never take back
It's like a train wreck trying to hit the right track
We opened up the wine and we just let it breathe,
But we should've drank it down while it was still sweet
It all goes bad eventually
Now do we stay together cause we're scared to be alone?
We got so used to this abuse, it kinda feels like home
But, my baby, I just really wanna know, oh,
How did we get so mean?
How do we just move on?
How do you feel in the morning when it comes and everything's undone?
Is it cause we wanna be free? Well that's not me
Normally I'm so strong
I just can't wake up on the floor like a thousand times before
Knowing that forever won't be
How do we just move on?
How do you feel in the morning when it comes and everything's undone?
Is it cause we wanna be free? Well that's not me
Normally I'm so strong
I just can't wake up on the floor like a thousand times before
Knowing that forever won't be
"Caleb! Over Here!"
Caleb Danvers looked around Nicky's as he heard his girlfriend call out to him when he walked in. Sarah sat with Kate and Pogue at their usual table in the corner. Pogue's left leg was propped up on another chair while his crutches leaned up against the wall. The remnants of his accident were slowly fading only the shattered knee was left. Kate's bites had cleared up with in a few weeks and now it was early November almost a full two months since their run in with Chase Collins.
"Hey man, how's it going?" Pogue said getting to his feet with some difficulties to give Caleb a brotherly embrace. Caleb returned it with a grin on his face, "Hey Crippled!" Pogue glared at him, "Ha ha very funny."
"I thought so," answered Caleb as he sat down at the table between Sarah and Pogue. He leaned over and gave Sarah a peck on the cheek. Looking over towards the pool tables he saw Reid and Tyler at their usual table, naturally beating two other guys' asses.
"Looks like Reid and Tyler are waving you guys over," observed Sarah. Indeed the two of them were wildly gesturing with excited looks on their faces.
"Oh go on you two," Kate insisted with a smile. She pushed Pogue on the shoulder, "Go see what they want, leave us girls here to chat for a minute."
"Whatever you say Kate," laughed Caleb. He and Pogue got up to make their way across the room to where Reid and Tyler were. Though Pogue leaned on Caleb a bit considering he had left his crutches by the table.
"Dude! Check out the new hotties," exclaimed Reid as soon as Caleb and Pogue reached him and Tyler's side. He motioned toward four unfamiliar girls standing together by the bar. Their backs were turned to them, but even from the back the four girls looked hot. Two of them had on skirts that showed off amazing legs while the other two had on a pair of skinny jeans and leggings that equally showed off their nice legs. Eagerly Reid slapped down two twenties exclaiming, "20 bucks says that Red's wearing red lace panties and 20 more says Braids' wearing green cotton boy shorts."
"Nah, Red's wearing a blue thong and Braids' has on pink cotton," challenged Tyler putting his money down.
"Boys, C'mon Red's not wearing anything at all and Braids' is wearing black silk." Pogue said with determination placing his own bets.
"Man you three are childish, I can't believe you're playing that game again," chided Caleb.
"Oh C'mon Caleb, a little fun never hurt anyone," Reid complained. Caleb sighed and threw down two twenties, "Fine…Red's wearing a green g-string while Braids' in white lace."
The four of them all glanced at the girls as Reid made a slight movement of his hand as his eyes went black making a wind blow past the girls, lifting their skirts up.
Pogue, Tyler and Caleb collectively groaned as Reid won this round. Collecting his winnings with glee neither Reid nor the others noticed the redhead turn to look in their direction then stalk toward them, murder in her eyes.
"Hey! Garwin! Did you get a good view?" she yelled loudly. Looking up, Reid visibly paled in shock at the sound of her voice. One of the few people he never thought he'd see again was heading straight for him, hellfire in her eyes.
"Oh HOLY SHIT! SOPHIE!" Reid turned to try and run but the fiery redhead pounced on him and knocked him to the ground.
"Oh no you don't! How dare you! You Slimy! Dirty! Pig!" She beat on Reid with her fists. "You better fork over that cash! That's mine and Eden's for collateral damage!"
Reid looked aghast for a minute but then a smirk formed on his lips, "Not until you give me those hot red panties."
Sophie glared at him and screeched, "Not on your life!" She slapped him across the face once more and stole the money out of his hands. Then after she stood and let Reid stand she hugged him affectionately.
The other three girls casually joined them, Eden throwing herself into Tyler's arms, "Baby Boy!"
"EDIE!" he swung her around in a circle as Lily moved to embrace Caleb in a similar fashion. Piper on the other hand, hung back avoiding looking into Pogue's eyes.
"What the hell are you doing here?!" Pogue asked finally. His harsh tone and angry scowl caused Piper to noticeably flinch.
"We're back….permanently," explained Lily, quickly jumping into the conversation, "We're finishing our senior year at Spencer's."
"That's all well and good Lil," answered Pogue, his eyes though were still on Piper, "But what I meant was what Is She Doing Here?" The nasty tone of voice was back as well as the angry, hurtful glare. The others all watched with held breaths waiting to see what would happen next. Caleb, Reid, Tyler and even Pogue expected Piper to argue back with Pogue, having seen her usually lose her temper on more than one occasion, but the four of them were in for a rather big surprise when Piper's eyes widened with hurt and she bolted out the door. Everyone seemed to freeze in place as Pogue took a step back in a sort of shock.
"Damnit! Good going Pogue!" snapped Lily as she rounded on him. Her eyes flashed with anger, "You've set her off and now we have no idea where she ran off to!"
"How the hell was I supposed to know she was going to do that?" Pogue argued back. "What the hell was that anyway? She's never acted like that before."
Eden answered quietly, "Well no, the Piper you knew died the moment she walked—"
"Oh wow look at who the cat dragged in," came a feminine voice from behind where Pogue and Caleb stood. Kate and Sarah had made their way over and Kate was now almost scowling at the girls as they stood in a circle together.
"Long time no see Kate. Still a bitch as always I assume?" Sophie asked sarcastically. Kate smiled sweetly and replied, "I kind of gave that up considering Pogue's last girlfriend was such a mega one."
"Well that's thoughtful of you," noted Sophie. She, Eden and Lily all shot Pogue dirty looks when Kate turned away with a smug look on her face. The girls now noticed Sarah standing by Caleb.
"And you are…?" asked Lily. She had moved away from Caleb to yell at Pogue and now was facing Sarah straight on.
"Oh, I'm Caleb's girlfriend Sarah Wenham." answered Sarah. She stuck out her hand which each of them shook dutifully.
"It's a pleasure to meet you Sarah, and nice catching up with you Kate but do you mind if we steal the boys for the rest of the night, we kind of want to catch up on the two and a half years we've been away," explained Eden the genuine sweetness in her voice clearing up the tense air. Sarah nodded her head eagerly as Kate scowled even more. "Sure Kate and I haven't had a girl night in a while and I'm sure you guys want to catch up, Caleb told me about you once."
"Oh, okay," said Lily, a bit surprised, "Well we'll wait out front for you guys. Maybe Piper just went out front." She, Sophie and Eden headed for the door.
"Wait up Lily, Baby Boy and I are coming with." Reid called after them. He and Tyler headed out after them.
Once they stood outside Nicky's the five of them looked around for any sign of Piper. But Piper had disappeared completely; she was nowhere to be seen. Caleb followed closely by Pogue soon joined them in front.
"So whose driving with who?" asked Reid.
"Well why don't I go with Caleb, Tyler and Eden can take Asshole and you can ride with Sophie!" suggested Lily she threw another dirty look at Pogue. But Pogue didn't even notice his mind was on other things.
"Sounds good to me," agreed Caleb. The others all seemed to nod in agreement with the exception of Reid who looked horrified at the thought of riding with Sophie.
"The old colony house?" asked Tyler as he and Eden helped Pogue into his hummer. Caleb gave him a nod as he and Lily got into his car and Reid and Sophie got into the girls' Ford Escape.
"So what's the deal? What's up with Piper?" demanded Pogue as soon as they were on the road. Eden didn't answer him right away; instead she looked off into the distance out the window. In a gentler tone Pogue said softly, "Edie?"
"When we left two years ago it was because we were apparently in danger. Something evil was after us. We just didn't know what. Gram decided to move us to the most secure of our family homes….in Scotland." She began. "You have to understand Pogue, none of us had any idea Gram had decided this until the day of." She turned in her seat to look at Pogue, "Piper was so upset that day when she told you she was leaving… she didn't speak to Gram for two months and spoke very little to us. She started not eating a lot and losing weight and becoming distant. She stopped riding as well and wouldn't go near a bike let alone her own gear." Pogue seemed to wince as he listened to the story with growing dread. Eden continued a distant look on her face. "But then Piper started to become really, really sick as if she was almost dying, it was scary. Her whole appearance changed, you probably didn't notice while you saw her briefly but she's gone really down hill since we left."
At this news Pogue's face paled in color and he seemed like he was going to be sick himself. But Eden wasn't finished, "The worst part was that we had no idea why she was so sick until she pulled out that jacket you gave her a while back."
Pogue remembered the jacket. It had been his old motorcycle jacket the one that had been his favorite. He'd given it to Piper to keep warm one night and then let her keep it after. She had been wearing it the night she left.
"And then what happened after that?" he asked hoarsely, afraid of what might be the answer.
"She had put in on and suddenly started looking and feeling better. And every time she pulled it out after that she started looking better. We still didn't have a clue what was going on but we knew it was somehow tied to you. It wasn't until we looked in our book of shadows did we fully understand what was going on. Piper had subconsciously tied her soul to you."
Pogue turned a bit green, "And what does that mean?"
"It means Pogue, that without you…" Eden gazed meaningfully into Pogue's bewildered eyes, "Piper might very well die."
Letting this sink in Eden turned back to the front tears glistening in her eyes. Tyler reached out and grasped her hand in comfort. The two of them were always so in tune to each, they always seemed to know how the other felt. It was sort of creepy actually. The three of them remained in an awkward silence for the rest of the ride to the colony house.
But as soon as they got there, meeting up with everyone else, Pogue asked Tyler if he could have his keys. Tyler gave him a look of surprise, "Why?"
"I have a feeling I know where Piper is." Pogue murmured. Tyler nodded, understanding that Pogue needed to work things out with Piper before things got any worse. He silently handed the keys over without another word. And before anyone else could say anything else he sped off down the road.
They watched him go and Caleb asked, "Where's Pogue going?"
Tyler's only reply was, "To save Piper."
A/N: That was chapter one and yes it was a cliff hanger as usual. Thoug I must give myself kudos for the updating I've been douing recently. Some of you may have noticed that I have changed some details such as the girls names...that was done on purpose as was the change in title name. Hope you guys review and I'll be sure to try and update as quickly as possible, also if you have any questions or concerns please please please include them in your reviews!
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