Pretty Little Witches

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Chapter 10: Date Night

Cassie comes home after school to of course find her grandmother gone. She walked into the kitchen to find a package sitting on the table with a note on it. "Cassie, this came for you this morning after you left. I'm not going to be home until late. Leftovers are in the refrigerator. Don't wait up" Cassie read putting the note down and looking at the box. She wondered what was in it as she opened it.

Inside was a container filled with what looked like ashes, a picture of Ali, and a note. Cassie had a feeling she knew who this was from but opened the note anyway.

"Poor Cassie,

Friend is dead and not coming back to protect you. You did need her to protect you from all those bullies. Mommy is ashes and you don't even cared who murdered her.

A"

Cassie ripped up the note and threw it away tears in her eyes. She could feel herself going to that place. The place she didn't want to go. The place where she had to cut. She knew she should call Diana and ask Diana to come over, but she couldn't bring herself to do that. Instead she found her self in the bathroom razor in hand. If she only did it a little Diana would never notice.

It wasn't Cassie's day though as Diana had decided to stop by and had let herself in. She found Cassie in the bathroom ready to cut and used her magic to throw the razor out of her hand. Cassie jumped and turned around. "What are you doing here?"

"Apparently stopping you from nearly killing yourself again," Diana said.

"I was going to kill myself." Cassie mumbled. "Went too far last time. I'm usually more careful." Diana very nearly banged her head against the wall as Cassie said this but took a deep breath. She knew yelling at Cassie wouldn't do anything.

"Just tell me why this time. You know I'm here for you whenever you need me. You're not alone. Why not just call me?"

Cassie looked down. The truth was she was alone. She couldn't tell Diana about A. she couldn't tell anyone but her friends back home. "I didn't want to get in the way if you were spending the afternoon with Faye," Cassie said the first excuse that came to her head.

"Cassie, me and Faye change nothing between us. I'm still here for you no matter what. You got that?" Diana asked and Cassie nodded. "Cassie, please say you understand because if you continue this I'm going to have to tell your grandma."

"You can't. You promised," Cassie, said tears coming down her eyes. Diana realized she said the wrong thing.

She went over and pulled Cassie into a hug. "I'm sorry. That was stupid to say. I won't tell anyone." Diana said with Cassie as Cassie put her head on Diana's shoulder. "Hey, I have my first official date with Faye tonight and I was hoping you would help me get ready."

Cassie nodded. "Sure, I helped Emily get ready for her first official date with Maya."

"I thought Emily's girlfriend was Samara," Diana said confused.

"Yeah now it is. Her first girlfriend was Maya who kind of got sent away to drug rehab camp thing because Emily's mom couldn't take the fact that Emily was with a girl. Long story there. Her second girlfriend, well sort of second was Paige, who tried to drown her because she was too afraid to come out of the closet. That girl was a little crazy. Samara is actually the best of Em's girl choices." Cassie said and then noticed the look Diana was giving her. "And none of this is making you feel better about coming out. Sorry."

"No it's fine. Besides I have Faye and I don't see any of those troubles with her," Diana said. "How about we go to your room and start getting ready." Cassie nodded and walked out. Diana looked at the razor on the floor where her magic had thrown it and put it away. The truth was Diana was very worried about Cassie and she didn't know how long she could keep this secret.

-TSC/PLL-

"Remind me again why this concerns me?" A rather irate Faye snapped at Diana.

"Because she helped us, and we should only return the favor."

The two girls were enjoying a movie night at Faye's, curled up on the couch with Ruby in the Smoke, popcorn, and a bag of mints that Faye was hogging. Diana had brought up the subject of Cassie.

Faye sighed wearily. "Diana, you're too much of a do-good-er."

"Faye…"

"You are!"

Diana settled her head on Faye's shoulder, making her eyes huge and unblinking.

"Fayeeeee…."

"She annoys me." Faye whined, casting her eyes away from Diana's attempt at a puppy face. "And how am I supposed to know what would make her happy? She's all… emo and blond. Such a strange combination, might I add?"

Diana fished a mint out of the bag, ignoring Faye's glare. "Well I think maybe if she was as happy as I am while I'm with you it would help. Maybe she needs a guy to keep everything off of her mind."

"Ah, you're thinking along the lines of a stripper, I assume?"

"Faye!" Diana whacked her arm lightly. "I'm serious. I think she needs a boyfriend. Or, you know, someone hot enough that she won't care much about whatever's got her so scared."

Faye nodded in contemplative silence. She'd been told about Cassie cutting, by Diana, and promised to keep it a secret. Faye didn't like Cassie much but even she didn't want to see someone suffer like that. "What about Jake?"

"What about him?" Diana had become absorbed by the movie for a moment.

"He can't seem to keep his eyes off Cassie whenever he's in the same room with her. Now, I don't know if his intentions are honorable or not, but either way I think he'll prove to be enough of a distraction."

Despite the way she put it, Diana had to admit that Faye was right. Diana had noticed similar thing about Cassie when she was around Jake. "Okay. Maybe we could double date with them!"

"Oh, perfect." groaned Faye. "I used to date him. That's going to be awkward."

Diana shushed her. "Trying to watch the movie."

And so they sunk into a blissful and mostly quiet silence ("Come on, Diana, you really expect me not to say something mean about that ugly old woman's face?!"), letting themselves get caught up in the movie.

-TSC/PLL-

Faye and Diana were at the Boathouse sitting at a table waiting for Cassie and Jake to show. "You sure Jake is coming?" Diana asked Faye as she nervously tapped her foot.

"Yeah, you sure the little cutter is coming," Faye whispered causing Diana to kick her foot. "Hey."

"Don't call her that. She's my best friend and she can't know you know. I promised not to tell anyone." Diana gave Faye a begging look. She didn't want Cassie to get upset with her for telling Faye. Diana had no idea what would happen if Cassie lost trust in her.

Faye raised one eyebrow. "I'm not your best friend," Faye said with a smirk.

"You're my girlfriend. Cassie's my best friend. Two completely different things," Diana said.

"And how is that?" Faye asked.

"Faye, stop kidding around besides Melissa is your best friend isn't she?" Faye shut up at that comment. "Please Faye, don't tell her you know." Diana saw Cassie walked in. "Please. Remember you owe her. She convinced me to come out."

Faye signed as Cassie started to walk over. Faye had to admit she did owe Cassie. If it hadn't been for her and her gay friend back in Rosewood Diana might have never dumped Adam to be with Faye. "Fine," Faye whispered. "The princess will never know."

"Hey guys. Why did you want me to meet you here?" Cassie said as she took a seat. Before either could answer Jake walked in and over to the table. He froze when he saw Cassie there not expecting her to be there.

"Jake seat," Faye said and Jake obeyed not sure what to do. He had agreed to come so he could get headway on his assignment but now he wished he had said no. Jake and Cassie looked at each other and then looked away real fast. "So guys…." Whatever Faye was about to say was cut short as Adam walked over.

"Well isn't it fitting you four are all together," Adam hissed giving nasty looks to all four of them. Jake raised an eyebrow at this. He hadn't yet heard what had happened between Faye and Diana or that Diana had very publicity broke up with Adam and started dating Faye. "What do you want?"

Diana looked at Adam. "Are you going to let this go anytime soon?" Diana asked Adam kind upset that Adam was acting like this.

"What do you think?" Adam asked. "I'll just get you your normal orders. Not like any of you pay anyway." Adam walked away without another word

"That was harsh considering Mr. Conant gives us the free food," Cassie said.

"Are we sure we should eat here? We are his less favorite people in the world. He might just poison the food." Faye joked around.

"Okay I know why he hates me, but what did you three do to him?" Jake asked now really curious.

"You haven't heard?" Faye asked and Jake shook his head. "Thought everyone in town knew by now. Cassie why don't you tell him?"

"Me?" Cassie asked tapping her fingers on the table and wondering how she could get out of here now. Faye nodded and Diana gave her a smile, so Cassie explained to Jake about how Diana and Faye had liked each other and that Cassie had gotten Diana to dump Adam for Faye. By the end of it Jake was nearly laughing.

He looked between the two and smiled. "You two? I never pictured that especially with the way Faye was with me two years ago."

Faye gave him one of her best bitch stares. "I was finding myself and I guess I have you to thank for that. After what happened with you I realized I just didn't like guys."

Jake smirked. "Glad I could help and you have to admit it was fun while I did." Then Jake looked at Cassie. She wasn't looking at him and Jake wasn't too sure why he felt like he had just said the stupidest thing in the world. "Not like I ever liked you in any other way though, so it's good you now have Diana." Jake added just to cover his stupid line. "And just ignore Conant. The guy was always a fool."

For a while it was Adam-bashing time as Jake told a story about playing a prank on him when they were younger. He had apparently even gotten Nick to join in on it. Faye told about the time when they were kids and Dawn had taken Adam for the weekend because Ethan was doing something, to this day Faye didn't know what or why Dawn ended up with Adam. Dawn had taken the kids up to the lake house and the dog Faye's grandfather owned at the time had for some reason not liked Adam and had chased him up a tree. Diana told about when they were dating and Adam had taken her out on a boat but had fallen overboard.

"Okay, aren't we being a little mean to him?" Cassie said, but she couldn't stop giggling. She found herself very thankful that Ethan had brought their food to them and Adam seemed to be nowhere in sight.

"Okay, you tell us a story," Diana said.

"About?" Cassie asked.

"Something you and your friends did in Rosewood. I mean you guys are a tight group. You must have done something fun," Diana said wanting to hear more about Cassie's friend.

Cassie thought it over. Her and her Circle had done a lot of things. There were the fun little magic things that they had done. There were the spells and learning how to be witches. Then, there was the experimenting with group magic after bounding the Circle. She couldn't tell any of those stories with Jake here. She tried to think when they were friends before Ali told them about magic or anything that didn't have to do with magic. There were many trips. They had gone up to Spencer's lake house and gone swimming. They had been brought into her families club. There were the school pranks and yes Cassie would say it the bullying. Then she remembered something with pranks.

"The Halloween party," Cassie said out loud and then told the three about how they went to this party and about how Ali had played a prank on them. Actually Cassie realized that party wasn't long before Ali had told them they were witches. Cassie remembered Ali's word saying now she knew that they would have her back no matter what. Was that day some type of test to show they were worthy enough of being her Circle?

Jake looked at her. "This girl was your friend and she did that to you?"

Cassie smiled. "Ali was a unique person. Being friends with her was a blessing and a curse." Cassie said thinking about all the good memories and bad memories with Ali. She knew Ali had been a bitch. She knew being friends with Ali was causing her more problems now then it ever was, but she wouldn't go back and changed things for anything. She loved being friends with Ali back then and now she still has four really great friends back in Rosewood. She wouldn't give that up for anything.

"I got friends like that," Jake said thinking about the witch hunters. They were sort of a blessing and a curse, more a curse at this point though. Jake and Cassie looked at each other and smiled. Neither said anything but stared at each other for a while.

Faye gave Diana a smirk and Diana smiled and kissed Faye on the cheek. "You can do better then that," Faye whispered.

"Later," Diana said.

"Well this was fun," Faye said after they were finished. "We should double date more often." As she said this Jake was taking spit of his drink and nearly choked on it. Cassie herself had frozen.

"Double date?" Jake said. He hadn't even realized this had been a date and then it made sense. Faye and Diana were dating. "Um… yeah sure. This was fun." Jake meant what he said. He had a really good time. "I have to go." Jake left the Boathouse.

"Diana, we need to talk privately," Cassie said getting up and looking at her.

"We kind of have plans after this," Faye said.

"You can have her later Faye," Cassie told the girl.

"Faye it's fine. I'll come by your house in an hour," Diana told her girlfriend and got up giving Faye a good-bye kiss.

"If your not I'm coming to the princesses castle to find you." Faye called out as the two left.

"Princesses castle?" Cassie asked confused.

"Yeah Faye seems to have nicknamed you the princess. I don't know if I should be jealous or not." Diana said. "So you have fun?"

"Yes, but why are you trying to set me up with Jake?" Cassie asked concerned. "I don't need a boyfriend."

"Cassie, having a boyfriend would do you some good and you like Jake. I can see that. What's holding you back?"

"Because…." Cassie started and then paused. "Because…" Cassie stopped again.

"Because why?" Diana asked. "I don't think you have a good reason."

Cassie bites the inside of her lip. She had a good reason to not want a boyfriend. She had A very good reason not to want a boyfriend. Boyfriends and A just didn't go well together. A always did something that messed things up. Broke the girls hearts or hurt the boys, but Cassie couldn't tell Diana that. She just had to let it drop and let Diana set her up with Jake. Cassie wanted to not want that. She wanted not to want Jake, but she did. She did like him.

AN: Okay end of chapter 10. I hope you guys like and remember to please REVIEW.