Pretty Little Witches

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Chapter 8: Pictures

Diana and Cassie were sitting in Cassie's room. Diana had been doing her best to spend as much time with Cassie as possible since Cassie said her depression came when she was lonely. "What the hell is with these blinds," Diana said moving the blinds away to let some sunlight in the room. She looked out the window and saw Jake in the room across the way. "So I hear Jake has taken over that room again kicking Nick out." Diana knew Cassie had a bit of a crush on Jake and thought Cassie getting a boyfriend would be a good idea, but Cassie seemed to be avoiding it.

"Yep," Cassie said getting off her bed and closing the blinds again. "Let's keep those closed." Even though Ian was dead and gone and she was across the country from anyone back in Rosewood the fact that she was video taped in her room without knowing still kind of creeped her out. Cassie now liked keeping windows covered.

Diana gave Cassie a look. "Why?"

"Just something me and my friends found out back home. It's nothing," Cassie said sitting back on her bed.

"You know you've talked about them some, but I've never seen any pictures of them." Diana looked around the room, but Cassie hadn't changed much from when she moved in. Her mother old pictures were still up on the wall.

"You want to?" Cassie asked and Diana nodded. Cassie pulled out her laptop and turned it on. Diana sat down on the bed next to Cassie as they waited for the computer to start up. Once it was on Cassie went into her photos and clicked a picture.

"That's Aria," Cassie said a small smile on her face as she looked at the picture of her best friend. "Me and Aria were kind of friends before Ali, but became even better friends after Ali started our group. She's my closest friend and I'm going to be staying at her house this summer. I might even stay with her next year and go back to Rosewood High." Cassie didn't see the look on Diana's face when Cassie mentioned moving again. Personally Diana didn't want Cassie to go. Cassie had quickly become her best friend and Diana didn't want to lose her, but Diana saw the smile that came on Cassie's face any time Cassie mentioned her Circle. Diana knew they made Cassie really happy and she belonged with them. It didn't mean Diana had to like the fact that Cassie was most likely going to be leaving her.

Cassie clicked on another picture. Diana realized it was the same girl, Aria, but younger with pink hair and a blonde girl next to her. "This is Aria and Ali." Cassie's eyes lingered on the dead girl before she went past the picture to another blonde girl. "This is Hanna. Would you believe she used to be really fat?" Diana looked at the picture and no she didn't believe it. The girl was really thin. "She lost like a lot of weight when Ali disappeared. I think she used magic to help, but I'm not hundred percent sure. After Ali disappeared we kind of drifted a part for a while."

"What got you back together?" Diana asked. This was the most Cassie had talked about her past and Diana wanted to know more. She noticed Cassie's nervous look and she fidgeted a bit.

"When Ali's body was found I guess we just came back together." Cassie answered and moved on to anther picture. "This is Spencer. She is by far the smartest girl I know.' Cassie moved on to another picture. It was of two girls. One had darker hair and the other was blonde. "That's Emily." Cassie said pointing at the one with dark hair. "She's been on the swim team since we were little."

"Who's the blonde?" Diana asked realizing it was none of the other friends.

"Oh that's Samara Emily's girlfriend." Diana jumped off the bed when Cassie said that and had a weird look on her face. Cassie didn't seem to notice. "The cool thing about Samara is she's a witch and when I get back to Rosewood we're going to have a full Circle again. I don't think we're going to bound together again but six witches doing spells always make them stronger bound or not."

Cassie turned to look at Diana finally realizing that Diana seemed to be really nervous about something. She had a weird look on her face and was hopping from one foot to the other. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah...um... I got to go... Finish my history paper."

"I'm in your history class. We don't have a paper." Cassie said but Diana was already out the door. Cassie had no idea what just happened. She couldn't help but think she did something. That didn't make any sense. Everything was fine between them. Diana was completely fine until Cassie had taken out the picture of Emily and Samara.

Cassie looked at the picture hoping it just magically talk to her and tell her what happened. "Okay think Cassie," Cassie said out loud. "I took out the picture explained who Emily was and then explained that Samara was her girlfriend and a witch who would complete our Circle. Is she upset because I'm going to get a complete Circle and she's not?" Cassie then shook her head. That didn't make sense. Diana wasn't that pity over power. Maybe Faye was...

Cassie mind suddenly went blank there. Faye. Cassie thought back to everything that had happened between Diana and Faye since she got here. Faye always seemed to be flirting with Diana and making weird comments. Diana seemed to freak out very easily and avoid things. Also Diana and Adam's relationship seemed a lot like Emily and Ben's was before Emily realized she was gay.

Cassie shook her head. "No it can't be. Can it?" Cassie asked herself and then took out her cellphone. She needed to call the only person she knew who would be able to clear things up.

-TSC/PLL-

"Hey, Cassie." Emily greeted her friend as soon as she heard Cassie's voice at the other end of the phone. "What's up?"

"it's just…. Diana was acting really funny." Cassie said. "I wasn't sure who to talk about, because…. well, it's complicated."

"I can do complicated." Emily told her. "Come on, what is it?"

"Well…" Cassie wasn't sure where to start. "She's just been acting so odd. She's always fighting with Faye, and then I showed her a picture of you and Samara. It was so strange. She got all tense, and then made a lame excuse and walked out of the room."

"Really?" already Emily had an idea of what was going on, but she wanted to see if Cassie understood.

Cassie sighed heavily, flopping onto her bed and facing the ceiling. "Yeah. I mean… I really hope that it's what I think it is. Because Faye definitely looks at Diana like that, but I don't know about Diana. I think maybe she's homophobic, but I really hope not. That would be awful!"

Emily groaned. "Cassie…. Remember what I told you about Paige?"

"The girl who tried to drown you? Yeah. Why?"

"She liked me, even though we fought and were really competitive." Emily prompted.

"Yeah…"

"Cassie, come on, it's not that hard to figure out."

'What?" Cassie was genuinely confused.

"DIANA LIKES FAYE!" Emily yelled, trying to get the message across. "They fight all the time. Duh, Cassie, it's so obvious."

"Oh." Cassie blinked, a little stunned. She thought of all the meaningful touches and loaded glances and every single time Diana called Faye out for being reckless—but of course, that was just concern! How had she not noticed? "Okay. Should I talk to her about it?"

"Yes." Emily answered right away. "Paige was hurting a lot when she was still in the closet, and the sooner Diana is out, the better. You don't want her to do anything rash." Cassie nodded to herself and then continued to talk to Emily about nothing really.

AN: okay what do you guys think. BTW the next chapter is done it just needs some touch up work done on it. If I get enough people reviewing wanting me to update I might just update it later today or tomorrow, so REVIEW if you want me to update faster.