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Chapter 3

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~Cassie pov~

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Cassie froze as if someone had dunked her into a vat of ice water, her face going pale at the sound of Bee's voice. She spun to face him, her eyes wide as she took in his stance as he leaned against the Camaro, arms crossed, one of his blonde brows arched in inquiry.

Shit! How long has he been standing there?! Cassie cursed mentally as she tried to think of anything to say, her mind a complete blank.

"Don't ask me... I was too busy with you..."

Jazz blinked at Crescent. "Ah'm still outta the loop here... Wha's she wantin' ta know?"

"How long he's been standing there." Crescent supplied query.

"Bee's been there da whole time..."

"Well? Are you going to answer me?" Bee's voice brought Cassie's attention from the ghosts.

Cassie's eyes narrowed. "Why do you care? It's not like you don't think I'm crazy with the rest of the general consensus in this household." she said before turning around and heading back to the house.

He grabbed her wrist as he said quietly, "Maybe I don't." She met his eyes with a nervous glance as he leaned in closer. "So tell me who are you talking to?"

"Like you'd believe me." Cassie said as she jerked her hand free.

Bee grinned. "Try me."

"CASSIE!" Judy barged out the door, irritation radiating off her in waves as her gaze narrowed at the girl. "Damn it Cassandra, I am going to have to make it a rule about sneaking out of the house before the sun rises?"

Oh thank god... Cassie slipped away from Bee and made her way nervously to the house as Judy gave Bee a cold look over her niece's shoulder.

Cassie went through her morning motions as the rest of the household had made their way downstairs and on to their own breakfasts. She avoided eye contact with Bee as he eyed her over the table. She knew she was prolonging the inevitable... Especially since Jazz kept pointing it out every five minutes.

"Oh come on... ya could tell 'im the truth... Bee's not one ta judge anyone. Trust meh." Jazz said as she picked up her book bag. Cassie shot him a glare as she bounded back down the stairs. "Catch you later Aunt Judy." she called as she slipped out of the house before her aunt could question why she was leaving before Sam and Bee.

"Ya know he's just goin' ta ask ya until you cave."

"I don't care. I don't need to be treated anymore like a freak than I already am." Cassie growled.

"You are not a freak Cass." Crescent grumbled.

"And normal people see ghosts everyday." Cassie retorted venomously.

A horn beeped as the Camaro rolled up beside her as Sam rolled down the window. "Cassie!"

"Samuel."

"You know my mom just about glitched when she realized that you took off without waiting for me and Bee." Sam said as the car kept up a slow pace beside her.

"Well I decided to walk to school. It's healthier for me." Cassie said trying to ignore the goose bumps on her arms. Bee was staring at her from the corners of his eyes. "Besides I needed some fresh air anyways..."

Crescent snorted. "If you consider your daily intake of exhaust and airborne contaminates fresh air."

Shut up Crescent.

"Look just get in Cassie. Don't make me drag you in to the car." Sam said with a glare.

Cassie stopped and turned to the car as it stopped moving. "I am walking to school. And if you don't want me to tell Aunt Judy and Mikaela about your porn stash in your closet and the smut magazines under your bed then you will keep going and leave me alone if you know what's good for you Sam." She said icily as she spun on her heels and continued walking down the sidewalk, leaving Sam gaping like a fish.

"Now tha' was cold." Jazz commented.

"Blackmail is the best trump card, thanks again for the dirt Crescent." Cassie grinned.

"My pleasure... though I'm going to have to keep digging if you want to keep one ace against Sam." Crescent chirped merrily.

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Cassie was over joyed that Sam and Bee didn't have the same schedule as her, however the same couldn't be said for Trent DeMarco who spent the two classes that she had with him shooting spitballs at her. The highlight of her day? When she ducked and he nailed the teacher in the chest, twice.

Of course she had a minor blessing when Crescent spent the better part of the day quietly conversing with Jazz. Though he had to wonder how much the two could really talk about... When she had asked Crescent what they were talking about Crescent just grinned and replied "Life."

A completely ironic topic for two ghosts to be talking about...

Lunch was... worse. She had managed to find a quiet table in the back of the cafeteria to sit at only for Bee to find her. He had came into the cafeteria and instantly spotted her pointing her out to Sam before the blonde veered off from Sam and Mikaela and made his way over. She promptly glared at her tatter tots and ignored him as he sat down.

"So how's it going?"

"..."

Bee's smile didn't fade at her poignant ignoral of his presence. In fact he slid closer on the bench to her. "I hope your day isn't going as dismal as mine is really the education system is rather dumbing it down wouldn't you say?"

Cassie snorted. "That would be giving them a compliment. They have to dumb it down because of the whole NCLB act that was passed a few years ago. Most schools don't like having to tarnish their prestigious reputations with failing marks so they try to set the low bar for the idiots that aren't able to actually put their minds on something besides partying and shopping."

"Hmm..."

"Is there a reason you're bothering me?" she asked looking up from her tray.

"What a bot can't have a nice friendly conversation with you?"

Cassie frowned. "No. I know you're dying to restate your query from this morning. And the answer is no one. I was talking to no one."

"Now we both know that is not the truth. So do you want to try again?"

Cassie opened her mouth to snap at him when there was a set of trays plopped in front to them causing the two of them to jump. "Hey Cassie." Sam said with a glare.

"Samuel."

"You know you could call me Sam like everyone else." he said with a sigh.

"I do." Cassie said as grimaced at the sloppy joes that covered his tray. "Must you eat that in front of me?"

"You only call me Sam when you're pissed at me." he said taking a large bite out of one of his sandwiches.

"When it works it works." Cassie muttered as she looked away from him. She glanced over to Crescent who was listening intently to Jazz. Cassie's brow twitched as she noted that this was probably the longest that Crescent had paid attention to anyone in a long time...

Crescent must have caught the tail end of her train of thought because she turned and stuck her tongue out at her earning a smile from Cassie. Must have been some interesting life Jazz had.

"You have no idea." Crescent grinned. "Did you know that he was the leader of Special Ops in his army?"

Cassie raised a brow. "Yeah right."

"Earth to Cassie come in Cassie..." Sam joked when she turned to him with a dark glare. "Welcome back from lollipop land."

"Jerk." Cassie growled as she bristled from the taunt.

"Hey I can't help it if you're such a space cadet."

"Why that little brat..." Crescent growled.

"Say Mikaela, did Sam ever tall you how he got that faint scar above his eyebrow there?" Cassie said sweetly. She smirked as she noticed Sam's nostrils flared as he got a 'don't you dare' look in his eyes.

Mikaela and Bee both glanced at Sam's face. "Mm no I never noticed it before..."

Her grin widened. "Well he got that the first time he got his first ten speed bike. He wasn't paying attention as he thought he was all big and bad doing stunts, and his price was kissing the stop sign and seven stitches."

"No way."

"Way. Plus he cried-"

Sam cut her off as he spazzed. "I did not cry. There was no crying involved."

"You know just before we started going out he did this awesome crashing back flip on the sidewalk while ridding his mother's bicycle." Mikaela snickered.

Cassie grinned. "Not the pink one."

"Yes!" Mikaela and Cassie crowed with laughter as Sam blushed, his ears turning a deep red as Bee smirked.

"Yeah well if Bee hadn't been acting all weird and creepy I wouldn't have done that." Sam said in his defense.

"Oh yeah blame it on me." Bee chuckled.

The bell sounded and the foursome made their way out to their next classes.

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~Crescent pov~

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Crescent had to admit that it was a nice change of pace talking to someone besides Cassie... Even if the other spirit kind of put her on edge... It wasn't everyday that she came across one that shone that bright... The other spirit was pure energy and it set her on edge ever so slightly... but what had caught her attention the about Jazz was that his aura was similar to that of the Camaro... Similar but not the same...

"Say Jazz... you asked me why I'm still here..."

"Yeah."

"Why are you still here?"

Jazz hmmed as he thought it over. "Ah'm not really sure... Normally when one o my people offline we go to the Well o Allsparks... Ah was kinda surprised ta find mehself stuck 'ere... Primus must have kicked meh out or somethin'."

Crescent raised a brow. "I highly doubt that you were kicked outta heaven."

"Ya neva know... Ah mean how else do ya explain meh still bein' here?"

Crescent frowned and bit her lip. That is a very good question... "Maybe you weren't meant to die? Or perhaps you're tethered to someone that's still alive... Like maybe your soulmate or something..."

"... Ah jus' don't know..."

Crescent noted the sad and resigned tone in Jazz's voice and decided to switch the topic with, "So.. what kind of music do you like?"

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~Cassie's pov~

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Cassie bolted for the door as the last bell rang. She made no time in making her way to her locker as she kept a wary eye out for Bee. She did not want to get caught by either him or Sam before she could get halfway home. More importantly not having to ride in that Camaro...

She made it halfway across the parking lot before a hand came down on her shoulder. Cassie let out a sigh and turned to find Trent standing there. "Going somewhere Cooper?"

"Oh dear he can learn names. What other tricks can you do?" Cassie glared at him. She pulled herself from his grasp and glared up at him. Crescent turned from her current conversation with Jazz to glare in their direction at her tone.

"What does he want?"

"How about the fact that I read your files..." He grinned as he held up a folder. Cassie recognized the file... it was the same one her Aunt Judy had given Sam to give to the secretary...

"Where did you get that?" She hissed, her face paling slightly...

"That bastard..." Crescent glared at the jock with full hatred in her aura as she made her way over to Cassie.

"Oh I have my ways... Now... What would you do to get these back?" He grinned.

"How about I not slice your dick off with a blunt butter knife?" Crescent growled through Cassie's lips before she could stop her.

"Pity." Trent said holding up his phone. "I was so hoping you'd say anything else... But.. Oh well..." his thumb pressed a button. "No hiding how crazy are now bitch."

Cassie and Crescent let out a growl as she flung herself at Trent...

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~Sam pov~

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Sam sighed as they gave up searching for Cassie in the school. "My mom is so going to rip me a new one if we don't find her..."

"Cheer up, it could be worse Sam... It's not like Cassie doesn't know her way to the house." Bee pointed out.

"Yeah, well..." His phone beeped and incoming text. Thinking it was Mikaela texting him about finding Cassie he pulled it out of his pocket and stared at the file. "Oh no..."

Bee poked his head over Sam's shoulder as he read the file... "Oh slag..."

"We've gotta find Cassie."

Bee's eyes flickered for a second. "There's some sort of commotion going on at the front of the school... If I had to guess..."

"There's no guessing come on Bee." Sam said as he took off at a run.

"Sam!" Mikaela met up with them as they managed to get out of the building. "Did you get this text about-"

"Yeah If I had to guess the whole school did." Sam said as he spotted the large mass of bodies near the street. Teachers were beginning to make their way through group yelling at kids that shoved them back. The chirping sound of a squad car broke through the roar of the enmassed teens, which scattered upon hearing the siren.

Sam, Bee, and Mikaela froze upon hearing the police car, only moving forward as Bee confirmed that it was not Barricade. The crowd had dispersed enough for them to catch sight of the teachers pulling a somewhat battered Cassie off of a somewhat bloodied Trent DeMarco.

Claw marks bled prominently on the jocks face as well as his bright shiners to match. Blood was also trickling out of his mouth and his swollen lips were most likely from her getting a couple jawline hits in. His left ear was bleeding from bite marks... There was also a few lines from the girl's nails on his arms.

Cassie was screaming curses at the jock as the teachers separated them. Sam could see the start of a black eye on his cousin's face, a bloody nose, and the bruises on her arms and legs from where Trent had fought back.

"Cassie!" Sam called as he tried to get around the teachers.

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~Cassie Pov~

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"-ich! I swear to god I've known dirty cops with more integrity than you... you spineless ape! If you ever talk to me again I will rip your trachea out with my bare hands!" Crescent screamed from Cassie's lips as hand pulled her away from the boy. She struggled against the hands holding her.

"Cassie!" Sam's voice brought her back to reality.

Cassie blinked as their anger faltered and Crescent lost her grip on her twin. She blinked through her painful black eye as the adrenaline left her, and the pain from bruises that were beginning to form hit her.

"Oh god Cassie I'm so sorry..."

It's my own fault Crescent... Cassie thought as she let the teachers drag her away.

"Cassie." Sam said as he caught up to her. "I called my mom."

Cassie smiled weakly at Sam. "Judy's going to kill me..." she said as the teachers led her back into the school.